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Fast Girls, Foreigners and GIs : An Exploration of the Discursive Strategies Through Which the Status of Pre-Marital (Hetero) sexual Ignorance and Restraint Was Upheld During the Second World War
(2009-11-30)
This paper explores contradictions within qualitative data gathered among women and men whose young adulthood coincided with the Second World War. These data were generated as part of an ESRC-funded project which investigated ...
Charity and Poverty in England, c.1680-1820 : Wild and Visionary Schemes
(Manchester University Press, 2009-11-30)
This book explores responses to poverty in eighteenth-century England, with an eye to some of the odder manifestations of charity and poor relief. Whether discussing proposals for vast inland colonies or cosy firesides, ...
Chinese Students' Perception of, Orientation Towards and Identification With English Through Transnational Higher Education
(2009-11-26)
Given the international status and importance of English, English language study has attracted millions of Chinese learners. Apart from those who study abroad, more and more Chinese students are motivated to study in ...
Failure tolerance analysis of a small scale underwater sensor network with RF electromagnetic communications
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2009-11-19)
A small scale wireless sensor network was designed using electromagnetic technology in order to provide an underwater coastal monitoring service. The sensor nodes were deployed manually, which formed a multi-hop static ...
A limit on the variation of the speed of light arising from quantum gravity effects
(2009-11-19)
A cornerstone of Einstein's special relativity is Lorentz invariance-the postulate that all observers measure exactly the same speed of light in vacuum, independent of photon-energy. While special relativity assumes that ...
The Competitiveness of State-Owned Commercial Banks in China
(2009-11-12)
China has undertaken a series of comprehensive economic and banking reform programs over the past three decades. As part of the WTO agreement, the domestic financial sector is fully open to foreign investors from WTO member ...
Natural Selection, Adaptive Evolution and Diversity in Computational Ecosystems
(2009-11-12)
The central goal of this thesis is to provide additional criteria towards implementing open-ended evolution in an artificial system. Methods inspired by biological evolution are frequently applied to generate autonomous ...
The acoustic character of fricated /t/ in Australian English: a comparison with /s/ and /ʃ/
(2009-11-12)
Australian English /t/ has a fricative realisation in some contexts. The presence of an additional surface fricative in the language raises questions about potential merger and the maintenance of contrasts. An orthographic ...
BROWN DWARF DISKS AT AGES OF 5-10 Myr
(2009-11-10)
We present Spitzer/IRAC and MIPS 24 mu m observations for 28 brown dwarfs in the Upper Scorpius (UppSco) region. We find a disk fraction of 10.7%-(+ 8.7%)(3.3%) . One object shows a small excess at 24 mu m but none at ...
The Influence of Surface Detail on Object Identification in Alzheimer's Patients and Healthy Participants
(2009-11-09)
Image format (Laws, Adlington, Gale, Moreno-Martínez, & Sartori, 2007), ceiling effects in controls (Fung et al., 2001; Laws et al., 2005; Moreno-Martínez, & Laws, 2007; 2008), and nuisance variables (Funnell & De Mornay ...