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Cultural Influences on the Antecedents of Trust in B2B Relationships : A Study of Financial Services in the United Arab Emirates
(2014-09)
This study investigates the impact of cultural values on trust in the corporate banking industry in the United Arab Emirates. A substantial literature exists concerning trust in inter-firm relationships, and considerable ...
A Knowledge Transfer Partnership - the development of a Bespoke Enterprise Resource Planning System in the UK
(IACSIT Press, 2014-09)
Abstract. A Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP) is a UK-wide programme designed to enable businesses to improve their competitiveness, productivity and performance. A KTP achieves this through the forming of a Partnership ...
Living in Uncertain Times: trajectories to death in residential care homes
(2014-09-01)
Abstract Background Older people living in care homes often have limited life expectancy. Practitioners and policymakers are increasingly questioning the appropriateness of many acute hospital admissions and the quality ...
Dean flow focusing and separation of small microspheres within a narrow size range.
(2014-09-01)
Rapid, selective particle separation and concentration within the bacterial size range (1–3 μm) in clinical or environmental samples promises significant improvements in detection of pathogenic microorganisms in areas ...
A Traditional Approach to 3D Printing
(2014-09)
Product Design has, since the 1980’s, developed beyond the remit of the traditional realisation of the object or product. That is Design is seen as a problem identification and solution methodology which can be applied to ...
Deep NIR photometry of HI galaxies in the Zone of Avoidance
(2014-09-01)
Current studies of the peculiar velocity flow field in the Local Universe are limited by either the lack of detection or accurate photometry for galaxies at low Galactic latitudes. The contribution to the dynamics of the ...
Supportive care in advanced kidney disease : Patient attitudes and expectations
(2014-09)
Treatment with dialysis has benefitted large numbers of patients with advanced kidney disease. It is though highly intrusive and demanding and some elderly, frail patients may tolerate it poorly. Some of these patients who ...
Juicy Salif Lemon Squeezer, Italy/France (Philippe Starck, 1990)
(Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014-09-01)
If iconicity is about being recognizable, then Philippe Starck’s Juicy Salif lemon squeezer is a quintessentially iconic design. Its unique shape has not been seen before or since, even though it is imbued with multiple ...
Animals and the Capacity for Love
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2014-09)
A recurring assumption in analytic work on the philosophy of love is that love is best understood through an exploration of our human responsiveness to other humans. However, this plausible methodological preference has ...