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Comparing linear and circular supply chains: A case study from the construction industry
(2017-01-01)
In the last decades, green and sustainable supply chain management practices have been developed in efforts to try and reduce the negative consequences of production and consumption processes on the environment. In parallel ...
Health care organisation and delivery for people with dementia and comorbidity: a qualitative study exploring the views of patients, carers and professionals
(2017-01-01)
Objectives People living with dementia (PLWD) have a high prevalence of comorbidty. The aim of this study was to explore the impact of dementia on access to non-dementia services and identify ways of improving service ...
A Hybrid Spam Detection Method Based on Unstructured Datasets
(2017-01-01)
The identification of non-genuine or malicious messages poses a variety of challenges due to the continuous changes in the techniques utilised by cyber-criminals. In this article, we propose a hybrid detection method based ...
Smoke and Mirrors: U.K. Newspaper Representations of Intimate Partner Domestic Violence
(2017-01-01)
News media are in a position to project certain perspectives on domestic violence while marginalizing others, which has implications for public understanding and policy development. This study applies discourse analysis ...
Trophic consequences of non-native pumpkinseed Lepomis gibbosus for native pond fishes
(2017-01-01)
Introduced non-native fishes can cause considerable adverse impacts on freshwater ecosystems. The pumpkinseed Lepomis gibbosus, a North American centrarchid, is one of the most widely distributed non-native fishes in Europe, ...
Breastfeeding Duration and its Relation to Weight Gain, Eating Behaviours and Positive Maternal Feeding Practices in Infancy
(2017-01-01)
Research examining the relationship between breastfeeding and infant weight has generated conflicting results. Few studies account for significant covariates and many suffer methodological problems such as retrospective ...
Accumulated Oxygen Deficit During Exercise to Exhaustion Determined at Different Supramaximal Work-Rates.
(2017-01-01)
Purpose: The aim of the study was to determine the effect of supramaximal exercise intensity during constant work-rate cycling to exhaustion on the accumulated oxygen deficit (AOD) and to determine the test–retest reliability ...
Host pathogen interactions in relation to management of light leaf spot disease (caused by Pyrenopeziza brassicae) on Brassica species
(2017)
Light leaf spot, caused by Pyrenopeziza brassicae, is currently the most damaging disease problem in oilseed rape in the UK. According to recent survey data, the severity of epidemics has increased progressively across the ...
Universal Grammar: Wittgenstein versus Chomsky
(Springer Nature, 2017-01-01)
The motivations for the claim that language is innate are, for many, quite straightforward. The innateness of language is seen as the only way to solve the so-called 'logical problem of language acquisition': the mismatch ...