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UK Third Sector grant making
Grant-making in the UK is a big industry, worth between £3 and £4bn per annum , consisting of grant-makers who wish to fund worthy causes aligned to their funding objectives, and charities and community groups who depend on...
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UK Third Sector grant making
Grant-making in the UK is a big industry, worth between £3 and £4bn per annum , consisting of grant-makers who wish to fund worthy causes aligned to their funding objectives, and charities and community groups who depend on...
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A standardised nomenclature for long non-coding RNAs.
The HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee (HGNC) is the sole group with the authority to approve symbols for human genes, including long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) genes. Use of approved symbols ensures that publications and biomedical...
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The risks of using unapproved gene symbols.
The use of approved nomenclature in publications is vital to enable effective scientific communication and is particularly crucial when discussing genes of clinical relevance. Here, we discuss several examples of cases where the...
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The importance of being the HGNC.
The HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee (HGNC) has been providing standardized symbols and names for human genes since the late 1970s. As funding agencies change their priorities, finding financial support for critical biomedical...
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Coblation intracapsular tonsillectomy
OBJECTIVES: To identify paediatric intracapsular Coblation tonsillectomy procedures from routine administrative data in England, and determine their safety. DESIGN: Retrospective observational cohort study of four ENT centres...
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Palliative care after stroke
BACKGROUND: Palliative care is an integral aspect of stroke unit care. In 2016, the American Stroke Association published a policy statement on palliative care and stroke. Since then there has been an expansion in the literature...
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E-procurement quality from an internal customer perspective
Alistair Brandon-Jones
Jan 01, 0001
Purpose: Despite significant investment in e-procurement by many organisations, perceived failings in the quality of such technologies and of the support provided to use them – termed here e-procurement quality – continue to...
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Statistical distributions for monthly aggregations of precipitation and streamflow in drought indicator applications
Drought indicators are used as triggers for action and so are the foundation of drought monitoring and early warning. The computation of drought indicators like the standardized precipitation index (SPI) and standardized...
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Statistical distributions for monthly aggregations of precipitation and streamflow in drought indicator applications
Drought indicators are used as triggers for action and so are the foundation of drought monitoring and early warning. The computation of drought indicators like the standardized precipitation index (SPI) and standardized...
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Projection of economic impacts of climate change in sectors of Europe based on bottom up analysis
Paul Watkiss, Alistair Hunt
Jan 01, 0001
This paper scopes a number of the health impacts of climate change in Europe (EU-27) quantitatively, using physical and monetary metrics. Temperature-related mortality effects, salmonellosis and coastal flooding-induced mental...
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The impact of user-perceived e-procurement quality on system and contract compliance

Purpose - Whilst e-procurement has significant potential to reduce the purchasing costs of an organisation, the realisation of these savings requires user compliance. The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent to...

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Impact of e-procurement

The advent of the Internet as a business systems platform has been a catalyst for major changes in the operation and status of organizational procurement. Early e-procurement literature forecast significant improvements in...

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Measuring internal service quality

Purpose - This paper aims to build upon the debate in the service quality literature regarding both the theoretical and practical effectiveness of expectations data in the measurement of internal service quality (ISQ)....

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Algorithmic Decision-Making and the Control Problem
Abstract: The danger of human operators devolving responsibility to machines and failing to detect cases where they fail has been recognised for many years by industrial psychologists and engineers studying the human operators...
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Projection of economic impacts of climate change in sectors of Europe based on bottom up analysis
Paul Watkiss, Alistair Hunt
Jan 01, 0001
This paper scopes a number of the health impacts of climate change in Europe (EU-27) quantitatively, using physical and monetary metrics. Temperature-related mortality effects, salmonellosis and coastal flooding-induced mental...
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Examining the effectiveness of experiential teaching in small and large OM modules
Purpose – This paper aims to examine the preferences of students towards different teaching methods and the perceived effectiveness of experiential teaching methods in different operations management (OM)...
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Trading interactions

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to explore the nature of buyers' attitudes towards the partial consensus surrounding the benefits of buyer-supplier cooperation - the relational exchange perspective.

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Climate change impacts and adaptation in cities
Alistair Hunt, Paul Watkiss
Jan 01, 2011
Many of the decisions relating to future urban development require information on climate change risks to cities This review of the academic and “grey” literature provides an overview assessment of the state of the art in the...
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