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A controlled trial of personal construct psychotherapy for deliberate self-harm
(2007)Evidence for the effectiveness of psychological therapies for people who self-harm is limited. Personal construct theory provides a model of self-harm and a framework for therapeutic intervention, which was evaluated in ... -
Controlling barrier penetration via exothermic iron oxidation
(2011-02-14)Exothermic iron oxidation is an elegant means to generate heat, with the potential to modulate barrier penetration if reaction kinetics can be controlled. This aim of this study was to gain a fundamental understanding of ... -
Controlling chaos on safe side-effects in data-parallel operations
(ACM Press, 2009)With the rising variety of hardware designs for multi-core systems, the effectiveness in exploiting implicit concurrency of programs plays a more vital role for programming such systems than ever before. We believe that a ... -
Controlling crop disease contributes to both food security and climate change mitigation
(2009)Global food security is threatened by crop diseases that account for average yield losses of 16 per cent, with the greatest losses experienced by subsistence farmers in the developing world. Climate change is exacerbating ... -
Controlling crop disease to mitigate climate change
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Controlling strawberry powdery mildew with reduced number of fungicide sprays
(2021-05-01)Strawberry powdery mildew (Podosphaera aphanis) is the most feared disease of strawberry under protection, environmental conditions under polythene are ideal for the growth of the fungi, with temperature and relative ... -
Controversial Catwalk: Comme des Garçons ‘Sleep’ collection, 1995
(Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017)In 1995, Comme des Garçons provoked controversy with a collection featuring distressed fabric that bore faded boot prints, along with loose-fitting loungewear of blue and white striped cotton. Although Rei Kawakubo herself ... -
Controversy and Doxa: Sustainable Food Policy and the English Vegetable Sector
(2021-01-29)Purpose: The authors explore the market agora and the shaping of markets as controversies over the meaning and practices related to sustainability evolved. This study aims to explore what happened in a market-oriented ... -
Convective overshooting and the observed width of the main-sequence band
(Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 1993)For many years we are witnessing a lively debate on the existence and extent of convective overshooting, mainly in the cores of main-sequence stars. This is an important issue, since even a small amount of overshooting ... -
Convenience foods and health in the elderly
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Conventional and Additively Manufactured Stainless Steels: A Review
(2021-06-17)For the last three decades, enormous manufacturing processes have been widely employed in the field of transportation (aviation, automobile and marine) as well as various industrial sectors. Among the invented techniques, ... -
Convergence and divergence in opera and music theatre : supporting thesis for a folio of work
(University of Hertfordshire, 2004)This appraisal presents various musico-dramatic works through the elucidation of source impulse and places them alongside other works in the genre, i and related works by the composer. Four of the works are operatic, in ... -
Convergence of of corporate finance patterns in Europe
(2010)We investigate the pattern of corporate financing through bank loans, bond markets and stock markets in the European Union (EU). Specifically, we examine whether the European economies are converging towards a market-oriented ... -
Convergent and Divergent Trajectories of Corporate Governance
(2020-07-22)This Special Issue revisits the classic question of comparative corporate governance research, namely whether national corporate governance systems are converging. More specifically, it focuses on several ‘convergence ... -
A Conversation with Geoff Hodgson
(Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019-11-29)This article is the introductory chapter to a festschrift in honour of Geoff Hodgson. In work spanning four decades, Geoff Hodgson has made many path-breaking contributions to institutional economics, evolutionary economics, ...