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Prescriptive and Holistic Contextualism: Emerging Variants of Modern Contract Interpretation
Debate over the proper approach to modern contract interpretation continues even in this era of modern contract interpretation where context is always considered. This paper identifies and contrasts two rival approaches ...
Making sense of flipping data
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to detail the approach used in a project that worked with journal publication, subscription and article processing charges (APC) data. The project aim was to test if the resources ...
What protects against pre-diabetes progressing to diabetes? Observational study of integrated health and social data
Aims
To examine the incidence of type 2 diabetes in people with newly diagnosed prediabetes and the factors that protect against this progression.
Methods
The study population was 14,043 adults with pre-diabetes ...
Identifying residential daily electricity-use profiles through time-segmented regression analysis
In many countries the residential sector contributes significantly to peak demand. Some of the promising approaches to reduce these peaks, such as energy efficiency and demand-side management (DSM) programmes, currently ...
The Universal Precautionary Principle: New Pillars and Pathways for Environmental, Sociocultural, and Economic Resilience
Global environmental degradation is linked to a worldwide erosion of ethnic identity and cultural diversity, as well as market disruption. Cultures rely heavily on the local environment around them, and local communities ...
Energy-saving behaviour as a demand-side management strategy in the developing world: the case of Bangladesh
Although demand-side management (DSM) needs to be more customer centred, either with or without smart technologies (e.g. smart grid), less attention has been paid to the developing world in relation to DSM strategy ...
Social sustainability indicators as performance
We are living in an era of the audit. Sustainability indicators are used to ensure that industries are behaving responsibly. The audits are well elaborated in their environmental requirements, but they are often less ...
Professional identity and the adoption of learning management systems
Universities implement Learning Management Systems (LMSs) with the aspiration of improving educational practice. However, LMS adoption by academics within universities vary and frequently falls short of institutional ...
Listening and learning: myths and misperceptions about postgraduate students and library support
Purpose
The University of Otago Library conducted a review of its postgraduate support program in 2018. The purpose of this paper is to report on the findings of a questionnaire and follow up focus group undertaken as ...
Crucificação e abuso sexual
Este artigo recorre à hermenêutica da libertação latino-americana para ler as narrativas dos evangelhos sobre a crucificação à luz dos relatos de tortura na América Latina. As práticas de tortura empregadas por regimes ...