Outsourcing in Sandy Springs and Other US Cities: Insights for Other Countries by Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko, Stephen J. Bailey, Pekka Valkama

“…This city has been referred to in the literature as a special case not applicable to other countries, such as the UK, because of their very different contexts. However, there is now a public sector austerity context within which to reassess Sandy Springs’ use of turnkey outsourcing to achieve significant cost savings and improve services. …”
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Financial technology and regulation: the competitive impact of open banking by Oscar Borgogno, Antonio Manganelli

“…In this regard, the on-going UK Open Banking market investigation remedy shows how the antitrust enforcement can be deployed to complement the regulatory toolkit …”
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SPATIAL ANALYSIS OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COVID-19 CASES AND GLOBALISATION IN EUROPE by Yılmaz Toktaş

“…According to the LISA analysis results, it was found that the UK, the Netherlands, France, and Belgium not only have a higher number of Covid-19 cases, but also have been affected by the countries with a number of cases above the European mean. …”
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Regional variety preferences by teachers in USA by Angela George, Anne Hoffman-González

“…Spanish teachers in the UK found Caribbean Spanish difficult to comprehend (Bárkányi & Fuerte Gutiérrez, 2019) and Spanish teachers in the USA preferred Peninsular Spanish over other varieties (Martínez-Franco, 2019), similar to Spanish teachers in Australia (Ortiz-Jiménez, 2019). …”
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Knowledge and smart sensing for an accessible city. Experimenting on the territory of Friuli Venezia Giulia by Mickeal Milocco Borlini, Christina Conti

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A Case of Lenvatinib-Induced Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) in Metastatic Medullary Thyroid Cancer by Kathryn Fleming, James McGuinness, David Kipgen, Hilary Glen, Pavlina Spiliopoulou

“…Lenvatinib was a novel experimental agent at the time the treatment took place; however, its recent licensing for the treatment of thyroid malignancies in the UK makes reporting of these adverse effects all the more important now.…”
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Love and anger in Amazonia and in academia: a disciple’s account of Joanna Overing’s oeuvre and teachings by Carlos D. Londoño Sulkin

“…In the Caquetá, Colombia, in 1995, I asked an Englishman who was doing fieldwork for his Ph.D. at Oxford for advice about graduate studies in the UK. “Maybe consider going to Joanna Overing,” he recommended. …”
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Sex-Change Chemicals and their Influence on the Brain by Catherine A. Harris

“…It has, nevertheless, been acknowledged that many wildlife populations are exhibiting reproductive and/or developmental abnormalities such as intersex gonads in wild roach populations in the U.K.[1] and various reproductive disorders in alligators in Lake Apopka, Florida[2]. …”
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Strategic Interests of Germany in the Balkans at the Turn of 20-21 Centuries by A. Latkov

“…Constantly competing with its allies (mainly the U.S. and UK), Germany was trying to build its foreign policy strategy in the way of increasing its influence in the strategically important region.…”
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Exploring leadership on Instagram: A visual model for online leadership analysis by Michele Martini

“…To demonstrate, the LVPM will be employed to investigate the Instagram activity of Jeremy Corbyn and Boris Johnson during the 2019 UK General Election. Findings show how the LVPM indicators enable us to highlight differences in leadership style, compare them and employ them to build a typology. …”
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Power at play in paranormal history by Christine Ferguson

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On the Zhang-power series distributions with application to lifetime modeling by Hamideh Memarbashi, Javad Etminan, Majid Chahkandi

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Cinema as Testimony and Discourse for History: Film Cityscapes in Autobiographical Documentaries by Iván Villarmea Álvarez

“…This paradigm shift explains why memory and identity are two of the main topics of post-modern documentaries, such as some “urban autobiographies” that recall the emotional experience of missing cityscapes: Roger and Me (Michael Moore, USA, 1989), My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin, Canada, 2007) and Of Time and the City (Terence Davies, UK, 2008). These films share a similar subjective approach to portraying the decline of industrial towns through personal memories, despite their belonging to three different subgenres: the performative political documentary, the essay film and the self-fiction. …”
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A Robot who could not dance: Generating performative presence among performer, text, and audience through exploring and performing stories by children by Linda Lorenza, Persephone Sextou

“… A cyclic performance project enabled Australian tertiary drama students and primary school students to connect through stories written by children in hospital in the UK. University drama students undertook a semester of puppetry and created performances of children’s stories from Sextou’s book. …”
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Researching in prison education-spaces: Thinking-with Posthuman, Post Qualitative, Feminist Materialism ‘beings’ to disentangle methodology. by Lucy Harding

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Staying at home : between care, (social) housing and health care by Marion Ille-Roussel

“…Social housing providers in France, the UK and Germany participate in the definition of staying at home as housing stakeholders who plan to continue building and managing housing. …”
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The perspectives of STEM faculty toward undergraduate mentorship - A case study by Pamela Martínez Oquendo, Morgan D. Vogel

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A call to invest in post-TB lung disease to halt TB transmission in communities by P. M. Mbelele, F. J. Mtei, F. Thobias, K. S. Msaji, L. Løchting, L. M. Subi, D. Bwana, R. M. Kisonga, P. Neema, P. Howlett, M. Drage, S. K. Heysell, S. G. Mpagama

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THE CANDIDATE ENGINEERING ACADEMIC DEGREE REQUIRED NOW by A. I. Rudskoy, A. I. Borovkov, P. I. Romanov, K. N. Kiseleva

“…When improving the domestic system of training personnel of higher qualification it may be useful to analyze an experience ofprofessional doctorate training in the UK and other Anglo-Saxon countries of the world where professional doctoral programs focus rather on industry or business than on academic sphere.The article analyzes the world experience in implementation the programs of professional doctorate training and gives suggestions for using this experience in Russia by integrating the similar programs into the current system of scientific-pedagogical personnel training in postgraduate study.…”
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Theresa May et l’échec du « meaningful vote » : approche argumentative by Alma-Pierre Bonnet

“…In the meantime, the government agreed to put any EU/ UK deal to the vote in Westminster (the so-called “meaningful vote”). …”
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