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Walk Like an Egyptian: Belly Dance past and present practice in England
(Plymouth University, 2015)How Belly Dance practitioners in England construct a sense of self-identity, social-identity and identity-in-practice in a border-crossing Belly Dance ethnoscape is of interest for this research project. What kinds of ... -
Walking as a meaningful leisure occupation: the implications for occupational therapy
(2012)<I>Introduction:</I> In response to growing interest in leisure in occupational therapy and the importance of understanding how occupations maintain, enhance and promote health and wellbeing, a qualitative phenomenological ... -
Walking the Ancient Tea Horse Road: The Rise of the Outdoors and China’s First Long Distance Branded Hiking Trail
(University of Plymouth, 2014)Having made the transition from a life-time acquired skill to something acquired by the casual tourist through a professional operator, outdoor ‘adventure’ tourism is now one of the fastest growing sectors. After having ... -
Walking with technology: understanding mobility-technology assemblages
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WALTER DE MARIA: THE LIGHTNING FIELD
(University of Plymouth, 2009)Walter De Maria (b.1935) is best known for The Lightning Field, a large-scale, remote outdoor work constructed in New Mexico, USA, and completed in 1977. Both De Maria and The Lightning Field have largely been critiqued ... -
WAP four-disulfide core domain protein 2 mediates the proliferation of human ovarian cancer cells through the regulation of growth- and apoptosis-associated genes.
(Greece, 2013-01)The WAP four-disulfide core domain protein 2 (WFDC2) is frequently overexpressed in epithelial ovarian cancer cells and has been proposed as a potential biomarker. The biological function of WFDC2 in tumor progression ... -
WAP four-disulfide core domain protein 2 promotes metastasis of human ovarian cancer by regulation of metastasis-associated genes.
(England, 2017-07-05)BACKGROUND: WAP four-disulfide core domain protein 2 (WFDC2) shows a tumor-restricted upregulated pattern of expression in ovarian cancer. METHODS: In this study, we evaluated the role of WFCD2 in tumor mobility, invasion ... -
War Horse or not? A study of the Dartmoor visitor
(2015-07-01)Rural tourism still defies definition. Due to the nature of rurality, and the process of tourist imagination, rural locations are viewed and consumed through multiple social representations. When a rural location has been ... -
War Machine: Media and Technology during Operation Allied Force
(Taylor and Francis, 2015-12-17)One significant aspect of military interventions is that violence in binary geographies, which have an implied colonial discourse (such as Serbia), often involve the dialectics of construction and erasure, meaning that ... -
Warehouse location decision factors in humanitarian relief logistics
(2013-07-01)The importance of preparedness is emphasised as humanitarian supply chain gets even more sophisticated. Among the different forms of preparedness for disaster relief management, pre-purchasing of stock in a pre-positioned ... -
Water bathing alters the speed-accuracy trade-off of escape flights in European starlings
(2009-10-01)Birds of most species regularly bathe in water, but the function of this behaviour is unknown. We tested the hypothesis that water bathing is important in feather maintenance, and hence should enhance flight performance. ... -
Water bathing alters threat perception in starlings.
(England, 2012-06-23)The majority of bird taxa perform water bathing, but little is known about the adaptive value of this behaviour. If bathing is important for feather maintenance then birds that have not bathed should have poorer feather ... -
Water beetles as models in ecology and evolution
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Water beetles from the Bokkeveld plateau: A semi-arid hotspot of freshwater biodiversity in the Northern Cape of South Africa
(2017-05-16)© 2017 Magnolia Press.The Bokkeveld Plateau in the Northern Cape of South Africa supports a complex transition zone between the fynbos and succulent karoo biomes on the margins of Namaqualand. A combination of regular ... -
Water butts as sustainable (urban) drainage systems (SuDS) devices
(University of Plymouth, 2019)Heightened levels of urban development and population rise, combined with increased precipitation resulting from climatic variations, have escalated runoff rates within urban areas, causing urban flooding and polluting ... -
WATER USE BY PIGS MANAGED UNDER VARIOUS CONDITIONS OF HOUSING, FEEDING, AND NUTRITION
(University of Plymouth, 1989)This study investigated the water use of lactating sows (experiment 1), suckling piglets (experiment 2), weaned piglets (experiments 3, 6 and 8) and growing pigs (experiments 4, 5, 7 and 9), according to 3 specific ... -
THE WATER-SOLUBLE VITAMIN NUTRITION OF THE GILTHEAD SEABREAM (Sparus aurata L.)
(University of Plymouth, 1994)Given the paucity of information with regards the micronutrient requirements of the currently expanding number of cultured marine species, a series of investigations was undertaken to examine the water-soluble vitamin ...
