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Food security and food sustainability : reformulating the debate
(2012-12)
The notion of food security has an important history as a key concept for 20th-century policymakers. Two overarching perspectives on food security are identified. One centred on raising production as the core answer to ...
Creating, documenting and sharing network models
(2012-12)
As computational neuroscience matures, many simulation environments are available that are useful for neuronal network modeling. However, methods for successfully documenting models for publication and for exchanging models ...
Bank Competition, Lending Relationships and Firm Default Risk : An Investigation of Italian SMEs
(2012-12)
Building on the literature relating to bank market structure and on the research analysing costs and benefits of concentrated credit relationships, this article aims to empirically assess whether, and to what extent, local ...
Big data and their epistemological challenge [editor letter]
(2012-12)
It is estimated that humanity accumulated 180 EB of data between the invention of writing and 2006. Between 2006 and 2011, the total grew ten times and reached 1,600 EB. This figure is now expected to grow fourfold ...
Market Place : Food Quarters, Design and Urban Renewal in London
(Cambridge Scholars Publishing (CSP), 2012-12)
The book explores the revitalisation of food market centred space in social process and urban design terms in contemporary London
The properties of the star-forming interstellar medium at z=0.8-2.2 from HiZELS II : star formation and clump scaling laws in gas-rich, turbulent disks
(2012-12-01)
We present adaptive optics assisted integral field spectroscopy of nine Ha-selected galaxies at z = 0.84-2.23 drawn from the HiZELS narrowband survey. Our observations map the kinematics of these star-forming galaxies on ...
J-band variability of M dwarfs in the WFCAM Transit Survey
(2012-12)
We present an analysis of the photometric variability of M dwarfs in the Wide Field Camera (WFCAM) Transit Survey. Although periodic light-curve variability in low mass stars is generally dominated by photospheric star ...
Integration in European retail banking : Evidence from savings and lending rates to non-financial corporations
(2012-12)
The aim of this paper is to investigate the integration process in the European Union retail banking sector during the period 2003–2011, by analysing deposit and lending rates to non-financial corporations. An important ...
Trade union responses to migrant workers from the 'new Europe' : a three sector comparison in Norway, Germany and the UK
(2012-12)
This article compares trade union strategies towards migrant workers from the ‘new Europe’. The analysis focuses on three sectors in the UK, Norway and Germany. We conclude that trade union responses to these migrant workers ...
An exploration of individuals’ experiences of dietary changes made as a result of a head and neck cancer diagnosis
(2012-11-30)
There has been much research concentrated on the physical aspects associated with head and neck cancer such as weight loss and dysphagia (Kubrak et al, 2010). However, there is little published research exploring patients’ ...