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Constructing a common EU policy vis-à-vis the East : managing identity, normativity, morality and interests in talk
(University of St Andrews, 2011) - ThesisIn order to appreciate the wider implication of EU foreign policy and the role of the EU as a global actor, it is essential to consider how constructions of EU foreign policy are accounted for, by practitioners, within ... -
Constructing a global counterterrorist legislation database: dilemmas, procedures, and preliminary analyses
(Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, University of St Andrews, 2011-11-11) - Journal articleCounterterrorist legislation is one of the main ways in which countries, particularly democracies, respond to terror attacks. Yet, there is to date no comprehensive cross-national database of counterterrorist legislation. ... -
Constructing active architectures in the ArchWare ADL
(University of St Andrews, 2003) - ReportSoftware that cannot change is condemned to atrophy: it cannot accommodate the constant revision and re-negotiation of its business goals nor intercept the potential of new technology. To accommodate change in such systems ... -
Constructing flag-transitive, point-imprimitive designs
(2016-05-04) - Journal articleWe give a construction of a family of designs with a specified point-partition and determine the subgroup of automorphisms leaving invariant the point-partition. We give necessary and sufficient conditions for a design in ... -
Constructing more informative plant-pollinator networks : visitation and pollen deposition networks in a heathland plant community
(2015-09-02) - Journal articleInteraction networks are widely used as tools to understand plant–pollinator communities, and to examine potential threats to plant diversity and food security if the ecosystem service provided by pollinating animals ... -
Constructing the retail investor : performativity and power in the market for investment services
(2013-06) - Conference paperThis paper examines retail investment as a practice performed by marketing knowledge and highlights the power effects of market devices. Using a qualitative study of retail investors in the United Kingdom, it considers the ... -
Construction and performance of a dilution-refrigerator based spectroscopic-imaging scanning tunneling microscope
(2013-01-30) - Journal articleWe report on the set-up and performance of a dilution-refrigerator based spectroscopic imaging scanning tunneling microscope. It operates at temperatures below 10 mK and in magnetic fields up to 14T. The system allows for ... -
Construction and representation of identities in football museums: a comparative study
(University of St Andrews, 2015-06) - ThesisThis thesis aims at providing a cross-cultural study of how football museums represent and construct identities, both collective and personal. The research is based on a multi-sited ethnography at selected football museums ... -
Construction of an internally B3N3-doped nanographene molecule
(2015-07-06) - Journal articleThe synthesis of a hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene (HBC) with a central borazine core is described. The solid state structure of this BN doped HBC (BN-HBC) is isotypic with that of parent HBC. Scanning tunneling microscopy ... -
Consultation on developing the annual health check in 2006/2007 : response from the Sustainable Development Commission
(Sustainable Development Commission, 2006-06-05) - ReportSustainable Development Commission response to the Healthcare Commission’s proposals for assessing the performance of healthcare organisations in England as set out in 'Developing the annual health check in 2006/2007'. -
Consultation on ‘Local Strategic Partnerships : shaping their future’ : response from the Sustainable Development Commission
(Sustainable Development Commission, 2006-03) - ReportSustainable Development Commission Response to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister’s consultation paper on the future of Local Strategic Partnerships entitled ‘Local Strategic Partnerships : shaping their future’. -
Consumer acceptability of interventions to reduce Campylobacter in the poultry food chain
(2014-01) - Journal articleReducing human Campylobacter cases has become a priority for the UK Government. However the public’s views on acceptability of interventions to reduce Campylobacter in poultry production are poorly understood in the UK and ... -
Consumer behaviour in a social context : implications for environmental policy
(University of St Andrews, 2014-01-01) - Working or discussion paperIn this paper we summarise some of our recent work on consumer behaviour, drawing on recent developments in behavioural economics, in which consumers are embedded in a social context, so their behaviour is shaped by their ... -
Consumer behaviour with environmental and social externalities : implications for analysis and policy
(2015) - Journal articleIn this paper we summarise some of our recent work on consumer behaviour, drawing on recent developments in behavioural economics, particularly linked to sociology as much as psychology, in which consumers are embedded in ... -
Consuming democracy : local agencies and liberal peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo
(University of St Andrews, 2012-05-07) - ThesisThis thesis focuses on liberal peace building in the DRC. The thesis takes a critical approach which emphasises local agencies and their engagements with liberal peace building. However, it seeks to bring this critique ... -
Consuming the jihad : an enquiry into the subculture of internet jihadism
(University of St Andrews, 2011) - ThesisRecent years have seen a great deal of interest in phenomena such as Al Qaida ‘terrorism’, Islamic ‘radicalism’ or, increasingly, ‘jihadism’ - on the Internet. However, as I argue in this thesis, much work in these areas ... -
Consumption decisions when people value conformity
(University of St Andrews, 2014-10-01) - Working or discussion paperIn this paper we assume that for some commodities individuals may wish to adjust their levels of consumption from their normal Marshallian levels so as to match the consumption levels of a group of other individuals, in ... -
Consumption inequality and discount rate heterogeneity
(University of St Andrews, 2013-03) - Working or discussion paperAlthough standard incomplete market models can account for the magnitude of the rise in consumption inequality over the life cycle, they generate unrealistically concave age profiles of consumption inequality and unrealistically ... -
Contact-free experimental determination of the static flexural spring constant of cantilever sensors using a microfluidic force tool
(2016-03-30) - Journal articleMicro- and nanocantilevers are employed in atomic force microscopy (AFM) and in micro- and nanoelectromechanical systems (MEMS and NEMS) as sensing elements. They enable nanomechanical measurements, are essential for the ... -
Container-based Cloud Virtual Machine benchmarking
(IEEE Computer Society, 2016-04-04) - Conference itemWith the availability of a wide range of cloud Virtual Machines (VMs) it is difficult to determine which VMs can maximise the performance of an application. Benchmarking is commonly used to this end for capturing the ...