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Corporate Social and Environmental Reporting: A Survey of Disclosure Practices in Egypt (2008)
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Rizk, R., Dixon, R., & Woodhead, A. (2008). Corporate Social and Environmental Reporting: A Survey of Disclosure Practices in Egypt. Social Responsibility Journal, 4(3), 306-323. https://doi.org/10.1108/17471110810892839

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to survey the corporate social and environmental reporting (CSR) practices of Egyptian corporate entities. It aims at contributing to the body of knowledge on the CSR disclosure phenomenon in developing/transiti... Read More about Corporate Social and Environmental Reporting: A Survey of Disclosure Practices in Egypt.

Financialization and the consumer credit boom (2008)
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Langley, P. (2008). Financialization and the consumer credit boom. Competition & Change, 12(2), 133-147. https://doi.org/10.1179/102452908x289794

Viewed in retrospect, the concept of 'financialization' highlights the massive growth in the issue and trading of ownership claims on all manner of instruments. It has also opened the way for research linking these changes in the financial markets to... Read More about Financialization and the consumer credit boom.

Quenched gas-phase reactions of tetraborane(10), B4H10, with substituted alkynes: new nido-dicarbapentaboranes and arachno-monocarbapentaboranes (2008)
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Fox, M. A., Greatrex, R., & Nikrahi, A. (2008). Quenched gas-phase reactions of tetraborane(10), B4H10, with substituted alkynes: new nido-dicarbapentaboranes and arachno-monocarbapentaboranes. Dalton Transactions, 2008(5), 676-684. https://doi.org/10.1039/b715105e

New alkyl derivatives of the nido-dicarbapentaborane, 1,2-C2B3H7, and arachno-carbapentaborane, 1-CB4H10, have been identified as the main volatile carbaborane products in quenched gas-phase reactions of tetraborane(10), B4H10, with alkyl-substituted... Read More about Quenched gas-phase reactions of tetraborane(10), B4H10, with substituted alkynes: new nido-dicarbapentaboranes and arachno-monocarbapentaboranes.

Postcolonial Bombay: decline of a cosmopolitan city? (2008)
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McFarlane, C. (2008). Postcolonial Bombay: decline of a cosmopolitan city?. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 26(3), 480-499. https://doi.org/10.1068/dcos6

Discussions of cosmopolitanism in Bombay often focus on the rubrics of communal tension, tolerance, and violence, and frequently report the decline of a once cosmopolitan city, especially as a result of the communal riots and bombings that occurred i... Read More about Postcolonial Bombay: decline of a cosmopolitan city?.

Seeing the Wood Despite the Trees? On the Scope of Union Citizenship and its Constitutional Effects (2008)
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Spaventa, E. (2008). Seeing the Wood Despite the Trees? On the Scope of Union Citizenship and its Constitutional Effects. Common Market Law Review, 45(1), 13-45

The article looks at the impact of the introduction of Union citizenship on the scope of application of the Treaty. In particular it considers how the citizenship provisions have affected the personal and the material scope of the Treaty. By virtue o... Read More about Seeing the Wood Despite the Trees? On the Scope of Union Citizenship and its Constitutional Effects.

Police Perception of Migration and Migrants in Greece (2008)
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Tierney, J., Antonopoulos, G., & Webster, C. (2008). Police Perception of Migration and Migrants in Greece. European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, 16(4), 353-378. https://doi.org/10.1163/157181708x373216

The beginning of the 1990s saw a sharp rise in the number of immigrants entering Greece from a variety of contexts. Drawing on notions of ethnicity and immigration, the phenomenon of migration into Greece became a topic of heated debate, and was incr... Read More about Police Perception of Migration and Migrants in Greece.

Three Cheers for the ‘Progressive State': Ben Friedman on the Moral Consequences of Economic Growth (2008)
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Snowdon, B. (2008). Three Cheers for the ‘Progressive State': Ben Friedman on the Moral Consequences of Economic Growth. World economics (Henley-on-Thames. Online), 9(1), 97-146

Ben Friedman is widely recognised as one of the world’s leading macroeconomists. His research and publications have focused on monetary and fiscal policy, and the key role that financial markets play in influencing how macroeconomic policies impact o... Read More about Three Cheers for the ‘Progressive State': Ben Friedman on the Moral Consequences of Economic Growth.

Managing Race Equality in Scottish Local Councils in the Aftermath of the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000 (2008)
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Hussain, A., & Ishaq, M. (2008). Managing Race Equality in Scottish Local Councils in the Aftermath of the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000. International Journal of Public Sector Management, 21(6), 586-610. https://doi.org/10.1108/09513550810896488

Purpose – More than six years have elapsed since the much-heralded Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000 (hereafter also referred to as the “Act”) came into force. The Act had been prompted by concern at the lack of progress made in the sphere of racia... Read More about Managing Race Equality in Scottish Local Councils in the Aftermath of the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000.

Embodiment and visual reproduction in the Neolithic: the case of stamped symbols (2008)
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Skeates, R. (2008). Embodiment and visual reproduction in the Neolithic: the case of stamped symbols. Documenta Praehistorica, 35, 179-184. https://doi.org/10.4312/dp.35.13

This paper explores the cultural and conceptual dimensions of ceramic (and stone) stamps found at Neolithic and Copper Age sites in Western Asia and Southern Europe, dating to between the eighth and third millennia BC. Based upon a recent study of th... Read More about Embodiment and visual reproduction in the Neolithic: the case of stamped symbols.

Sunat for girls in southern Thailand: Its relation to traditional midwifery, male circumcision and other obstetrical practices (2008)
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Merli, C. (2008). Sunat for girls in southern Thailand: Its relation to traditional midwifery, male circumcision and other obstetrical practices. Finnish Journal of Ethnicity and Migration, 3(2), 32-41

Among the Thai- and Malay-speaking Muslims living in southern Thailand, the traditional midwife (alternatively called mootamjae in Thai or bidan in Malay) performs a mild form of female genital cutting (FGC) on baby girls. This article is based on ma... Read More about Sunat for girls in southern Thailand: Its relation to traditional midwifery, male circumcision and other obstetrical practices.

Transport planning in sub-Saharan Africa II: putting gender into mobility and transport planning in Africa (2008)
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Porter, G. (2008). Transport planning in sub-Saharan Africa II: putting gender into mobility and transport planning in Africa. Progress in Development Studies, 8(3), 281-289. https://doi.org/10.1177/146499340800800306

The first progress report in this transport series presented an overview of major current transport research themes and gaps in Sub-Saharan Africa from a social science perspective. This second report is specifically concerned with gender and, in par... Read More about Transport planning in sub-Saharan Africa II: putting gender into mobility and transport planning in Africa.

Overexpression of PPK-1, the Caenorhabditis elegans Type I PIP kinase, inhibits growth cone collapse in the developing nervous system and causes axonal degeneration in adults (2008)
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Weinkove, D., Bastiani, M., Chessa, T., Joshi, D., Hauth, L., Cooke, F., …Schuske, K. (2008). Overexpression of PPK-1, the Caenorhabditis elegans Type I PIP kinase, inhibits growth cone collapse in the developing nervous system and causes axonal degeneration in adults. Developmental Biology, 313(1), 384-397. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ydbio.2007.10.029

The dynamics of strategic information flows in stock markets (2008)
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Seiler, P., & Taub, B. (2008). The dynamics of strategic information flows in stock markets. Finance and Stochastics, 12(1), 43-82. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00780-007-0046-4

We model a stock market with multiple stocks in a dynamic setting. Multiple informed traders receive new and heterogeneous information about the stocks in each period and use this information strategically. We characterize the decay rate of the infor... Read More about The dynamics of strategic information flows in stock markets.

Placing Stories, Performing Places: spatiality in Joyce and Austen (2008)
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Crang, M. (2008). Placing Stories, Performing Places: spatiality in Joyce and Austen. Anglia, 126(2), 312-29. https://doi.org/10.1515/angl.2008.047

This paper examines the role of space in sustaining the action of Austen and Joyce's writings. Using these contrasting textual styles it looks at the different geographies produced and the texts the different geographies enable. It examines the role... Read More about Placing Stories, Performing Places: spatiality in Joyce and Austen.

Conceptual & statistical problems in exploring the relationship among volume, outcome & context in relation to the organisation of secondary & tertiary health provision: An issue of causal inference in non-experimental research (2008)
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Byrne, D., & Yang, K. (2008). Conceptual & statistical problems in exploring the relationship among volume, outcome & context in relation to the organisation of secondary & tertiary health provision: An issue of causal inference in non-experimental research. Radical statistics, 96, 1-14