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... Recently scholars have started to consider the persistence of peripheries in relation to how they are represented by others outside of the region. Drawing on Foucauldian knowledge/power processes and forms of ‘internal colonialism’, powerful core regions construct and reconstruct knowledge about peripheries as a weaker ‘other’. However this denies agency to passive, peripheral ‘victims’, compromis ...
... The primary aims of fingermark detection research are to improve the quality and increase the rate of detection of identifiable impressions. This is usually performed through the development of new methods and technologies to provide alternatives to or improve current procedures. While research of this nature is important to pursue, it fails to address the underlying question related to the factor ...
UnitedKingdom, etc ; data collection; environmental indicators; monitoring; species richness; Show all 5 Subjects
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... The purpose of this paper is to identify whether sub-sampling methods such as the Generalised Visual Fast Count can provide adequate inferences from video data. This is done by comparing the results from sub-sampling video data on species counts from the Fladen Grounds, U.K. with those results from the full data set. We show that the GVFC method can provide complete information on species richness ...
UnitedKingdom, etc ; preschool children; risk factors; snacks; vegetable consumption; vegetables; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Children's vegetable consumption in the UK remains lower than national recommendations, presenting potential long-term health risks. It is known that repeated exposure promotes intake of novel vegetables and that offering children variety and choice can also encourage intake. The current study aimed to compare the impact of offering variety over simple repeated exposure as a strategy for increasin ...
UnitedKingdom, etc ; infrastructure; interviews; stakeholders; Show all 4 Subjects
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... This paper includes the findings of MMI Thornton Tomasetti’s investigation into the measurement of resilience within infrastructure using systems thinking and focussed on value delivery. This paper provides a review of current practise across critical infrastructure sectors, based on a series of interviews undertaken with stakeholders from various UK infrastructure organisations. Gaps and opportun ...
UnitedKingdom, etc ; energy; life cycle costing; turbines; wind farms; wind power; Show all 6 Subjects
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... In order to reduce the cost of energy per MWh in wind energy sector and support investment decisions, an optimisation methodology is developed and applied on Round 3 offshore zones, which are specific sites released by the Crown Estate for offshore wind farm deployments, and for each zone individually in the UK. The 8-objective optimisation problem includes five techno-economic Life Cycle Cost fac ...
... The growing British waste management sector has consistently voiced the need to improve the quality of waste streams and thus the value of secondary resources produced, in order to achieve higher reprocessing rates. Mismanagement of wastes that may lead to contamination and degradation of the recyclate feedstock constitutes one of the main barriers in the pathway to a circular economy. The sector ...
UnitedKingdom, etc ; European Union; coastal zone management; fisheries; fisheries law; Spain; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Spain's accession to the European Union on 1 January 1986 meant the incorporation into its domestic law of the Union's acquis and, therefore, of the rules related to the Common Fisheries Policy. This was preceded by tough accession negotiations and the inclusion of a long transitional period with regard to fisheries that particularly affected the Galician fisheries sector, which has had to adapt t ...
UnitedKingdom, etc ; discount rate; electricity generation; energy costs; fuels; inflation; models; uncertainty; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Although widely accepted as a measure of the comparative lifetime costs of electricity generation alternatives, levelised cost of energy (LCOE) lacks a theoretical foundation in the academic literature and encompasses a number of areas where caution is important. Therefore, this paper seeks to provide a theoretical foundation by comparing the metric with alternative cost of energy metrics and by u ...
UnitedKingdom, etc ; databases; engineering; issues and policy; microscopy; social networks; Brazil; Germany; Portugal; Spain; United States; Show all 11 Subjects
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... Understanding how a technology is introduced and shared in a society has a strategic value for the planning of technological development and assessing new market opportunities. Among other technologies, microscopy has had a significant role in advancing different fields of science. In Brazil, its use spans from biomedical to engineering areas. Here, we used social network analysis (SNA) to map and ...
UnitedKingdom, etc ; adults; attitudes and opinions; bites and stings; clothing; dogs; hospitals; research projects; teeth; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Dog bites are frequently reported in the media, hospital and other official data, and scientific literature. But what exactly constitutes a dog bite? Most dog bites reported through hospital admissions are likely to result in a relatively severe injury, but many more dog bites go unreported. Dog bites are rarely defined and little research has investigated what people mean by “dog bite”, especiall ...
UnitedKingdom, etc ; education; emotions; gender; income; odors; restaurants; summer; surveys; wines; Australia; United States; Show all 12 Subjects
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... It is still not fully clear how particular aromas in wine may affect consumers’ liking and emotional responses, and whether these change in different contexts and seasons. Therefore, a study was conducted with 3000 regular wine consumers from Australia, UK and USA using an online survey that assessed liking for 59 wine aromas, and from which 9 aromas, selected as representatives of groups of simil ...
UnitedKingdom, etc ; industry; interviews; landscapes; markets; Show all 5 Subjects
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... This paper reports on the current state of Demand Side Response (DSR) in the UK – an early adoptor amongst advanced economies – and the role of the end user in determining its future. Through 21 expert interviews we establish the current state of DSR, and expectations for its development. Whilst non-domestic DSR appears healthy, if fragile, domestic DSR is considered to be currently unviable, it's ...
UnitedKingdom, etc ; interviews; land use; stakeholders; Show all 4 Subjects
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... The concept of ‘Sustainable Intensification’ (SI) has been promoted as a potential solution to the many contemporary challenges facing agriculture, but has also received widespread criticism for being too narrow in scope and failing to address all aspects of sustainability. Despite this, there are few suggestions in the literature as to what a holistic, broad-based approach to SI should comprise a ...
... Although there are many studies of determinants of vegetarianism and veganism, there have been no previous studies of how their rates in a population jointly change over time. In this paper, we present a flexible model of vegetarian and vegan dietary choices, and derive the joint dynamics of rates of consumption. We fit our model to a pseudo-panel with 23 years of U.K. household data, and find tha ...
UnitedKingdom, etc ; electricity; energy; issues and policy; Show all 4 Subjects
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... The Cost of Energy Review by Professor Dieter Helm, published in October 2017, is a remarkable achievement, if only for the speed of its production. Written in little over two months, it nonetheless provides a clear overview of the UK electricity sector, along with radical proposals for reforming the system. However, it is not clear whether it will in practice provide a blueprint for the future. T ...
UnitedKingdom, etc ; aesthetics; anthropology; rural communities; villages; Show all 5 Subjects
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... This paper reports on a qualitative ethnographic study undertaken on a small rural village community in Cornwall, UK with a significant population of local surfers. It focuses on these local surfers' interactions with the wider rural community they co-exist with, and in which ways this group might contribute to the formation, maintenance and identity of that broader rural community. The analysis p ...
UnitedKingdom, etc ; cultural heritage; landscapes; open space; Show all 4 Subjects
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... This paper explores the spatial dimensions of a northern landscape – the Flodden battlefield. This is the focal site of the Flodden 1513 Ecomuseum; the centre to a network of 40 other sites around the United Kingdom which together interpret the Flodden story. However, this distributed network does not fit easily with the foundational ecomuseum concept of ‘territory’ as the boundary around a shared ...
... In the second of our series of articles celebrating peer reviewers, we talk to Robert Lowe, who is a Lecturer in computational biology at Queen Mary University of London, UK, and a valued reviewer for Genome Biology. ...