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Manifestations of Social Class and Agency in Cultural Capital Development Processes: An Empirical Study of Turkish Migrant Women Entrepreneurs in Sweden
(Article)Purpose While migrant women entrepreneurs (MWE) have been studied extensively through the lenses of gender and ethnicity, social class, as an axis of difference, received scant attention in entrepreneurship and migrant ... -
Behind the rainbow, "Tongqi" wives of men who have sex with men in China: a systematic review
(Article)Background: Due to the restrictions and stigmatization of homosexuality in China, there has emerged the “Tongqi,” or the wives of men who have sex with men (MSM). There are around 14 million Tongqi wives whose needs for ... -
Optimization of mechanical mixing of anaerobic digesters using computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
(Thesis or dissertation / Masters / MPhil)To keep biogas production competitive against alternatives in the energy sector, reducing the operating costs is a major challenge for biogas applications. Up to 50 % of the energy consumption in biogas plants is ... -
Assessment of non-adherence to cardiovascular medications in Iraq by 8-items Morisky Medication Adherence Scale and analysis of dried blood spots
(Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)Medication non-adherence is common in chronic conditions such as cardiovascular diseases (CVD). According to the WHO, over 50% of patients are non-adherent to CVD medications, which results in poor health outcomes, hospital ... -
Long-term effects of thermal variation on the performance of Balanced Twisted Pair Cabling
(Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)Remote powering over the Ethernet (including PoE, PoE+ and PoE++) is currently trending as a cost-effective option to power networked devices using balanced twisted pair cabling. As technology advances and Ethernet penetration ... -
Shared leadership: a place-based leadership analysis of voluntary organisations
(Conference)Positivistic and neo-positivistic approaches to research have dominated the way leadership is studied. It has been argued that leadership is a relational concept (Vallance et al, 2019; Bouden and Liddle, 2018) and the ... -
Towards Energy Efficient Buildings in Nigeria: Challenges and Opportunities
(Article)The need to enhance people’s wellbeing by reducing CO2 emission has necessitated global efforts towards reducing energy consumption by buildings, which is responsible for nearly 45% of world’s energy consumption. Energy ... -
Disturbance at the Dinner Table: Exploring mothers’ experiences of mealtimes when caring for their son or daughter with anorexia nervosa
(Article)This study examined mothers’ (n=9) mealtime experiences when caring for their son or daughter with anorexia nervosa (AN) through semi-structured interviews. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis identified three themes: ... -
'When one doesn’t even exist': Europeanization, trans* subjectivities, and agency in Cyprus
(Article)In the context of Europeanization, transnational LGBTI rights and politics discourses and paradigms interact with local ones. However, the effects of this interaction on trans* people in the margins of ‘Europe’ have received ... -
Characterisation and energy assessment of fats, oils and greases (FOG) waste at catchment level
(Article)Several of the waste materials that have a negative impact on the sewer system are produced by fats, oils and greases (FOG) discharged from commercial and domestic kitchens. These materials accumulate at different points ... -
Democratic innovations and the policy process
(Book chapter)This chapter situates democratic innovation within broader processes of institutional change in public administration and develops the argument that they have vulnerable potential to act as a democratising force, through ... -
Understanding the effects of a polymer on the surface dissolution of pharmaceutical cocrystals using combined experimental and molecular dynamics simulation approaches
(Article)The molecular interactions between the surfaces of cocrystals [i.e., flufenamic acid and theophylline (FFA-TP), flufenamic acid and nicotinamide (FFA-NIC), and carbamazepine and nicotinamide (CBZ-NIC)] and the polymers ... -
Dry anaerobic digestion of organic waste: A review of operational parameters and their impact on process performance.
(Article)Dry digestion is a suitable technology for treating organic wastes with varying composition such as the organic fraction of municipal solids waste. Yet, there is a need for further research to overcome some of the ... -
No Woman’s Land - Walking as a Dramaturgical device in performance of maternal migration
(Other)In reference to Zoo Indigo’s autobiographical production No Woman’s Land (2016), this chapter discusses the performance walk as a methodology towards a dramaturgy of migration. Rosie Garton and Ildiko Rippel (Zoo Indigo) ... -
A balancing act: Agency and constraints in university students’ understanding of and responses to sexual violence in the night-time economy
(Article)This paper extends our understanding of how university students make sense of, and respond to, sexual violence in the night-time economy (NTE). Based on semi-structured interviews with 26 students in a city in England, we ... -
Representing the Unrepresentable: The Army of Crime and Biopic Generic Conventions of Identity
(Book chapter)In his poetry, Irving Feldman enacts the breakdown of language, representation and history in the face of the Holocaust, and the inability to represent the unrepresentable. While cinema has prolifically sought to represent ... -
'"The Film Gone Male:" women and the transition to sound in the British film industry 1929-1932'
(Article)Taking its cue from Dorothy Richardson’s essay, ‘The Film Gone Male’ written for the critical, Left-wing British film publication Close Up in 1932, this article looks at women working in the British film industry during ... -
Lefebvre and Law: social justice, new technologies and the spatial imaginary
(Book chapter)As the fluidity of contemporary social life has accelerated due to an ongoing process of social and technological transformation, there has been increasing interest in the work of Henri Lefebvre on the production of space ... -
Factors influencing the utilisation of free-standing and alongside midwifery units in England: A Qualitative Research Study
(Article)Objective: To identify factors influencing the provision, utilisation and sustainability of midwifery units (MUs) in England Design: Case studies, using individual interviews and focus groups, in six NHS Trust maternity ... -
Evaluation of the Rule of Law as a Pre-requisite to the Right to Development in Africa
(Article)Africa faces myriads of challenges one of which is the need for development; as a result, development is a critical issue in Africa. The apparent disparity and inequity of the global economic system in the aspect of ...