The future of peer-to-peer lending in China by Ding Chen, Anil Savio Kavuri, Alistair Milne

“…This paper reviews the development and assesses the future of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) lending in China. Chinese P2P lending has expanded by a factor of 60 over the four years from 2013 and 2017, becoming much greater, both in absolute terms and relative to the size of the economy, than in any other country. …”
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The business models and economics of peer-to-peer lending by Alistair Milne, Paul Parboteeah

“…P2P lending has developed rapidly in both the US and the UK, but it still represents a small fraction, less than 1%, of the stock of bank lending. …”
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PS14 Lessons from the rise and fall of Chinese peer-to-peer lending by Chen Ding, Anil Savio Kavuri, Alistair Milne

“…Consequently, it is now much greater, both in absolute terms and relative to the size of the economy, than in any other country. The industry though has been plagued by problematic often fraudulent business models in what was, until 2015, effectively a regulatory vacuum. …”
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Evaluating the impact of AI on insurance: The four emerging AI- and data-driven business models [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review] by Alex Zarifis, Christopher P. Holland, Alistair Milne

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Cost and value in the peer-reviewed scholarly digital journal information chain by Leah Halliday

“…The thesis reports research on digital publishing of peer-reviewed, scholarly journals. The aim was: (1) to first describe the activities undertaken by the stakeholders involved in scholarly Journal publishing, a process that is largely uncharted; (2) then to relate those activities to the structure of the scholarly journal publishing chain with reference to various economic or business models that have been tested or proposed; (3) and finally to explain in strategic terms some of the developments observed. …”
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Adaptive multi-view video streaming using side information over peer to peer networks by Cagri Ozcinar, Erhan Ekmekcioglu, Gholamreza Anbarjafari, Ahmet Kondoz

“…To this end, this paper investigates the side information (SI) assisted adaptation algorithm using peer-to-peer (P2P) systems. P2P delivery systems for MVD video can maximize link utilization, preventing the transport of multiple video copies of the same packet for many users. …”
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Joint source / channel coding for WWAN multiview video multicast with cooperative peer-to-peer repair by Zhi Liu, Gene Cheung, Vladan Velisavljevic, Erhan Ekmekcioglu, Yusheng Ji

“…In the interactive multiview video streaming (IMVS) scenario, however, where users can each periodically select one out of many available views for decoding and display, a poor peer may not have a neighboring rich peer watching the same view for packet recovery via CPR. …”
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The influence of peer review on the research assessment exercise by Valerie Bence, Charles Oppenheim

“…The paper concludes that because of the many criticisms of peer review, it is unwise to base funding decisions on second level peer review of articles that have already undergone peer review…”
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Student experiences of peer review marking of team projects by Keith Pond, Dave Coates, Ofelia A. Palermo

“…Peer review or peer assessment of students has been used in many places to motivate and focus students on their own development within a group work setting. …”
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Dynamic CAA and peer supported learning in interactive classrooms by Michael McCabe, Harold Horowitz, Chris Beakes

“…Project LOLA (Live and On-Line Assessment) is a 3-year national teaching fellowship project started in 2001, which has been exploring how one-way group response systems and two-way classroom communication systems can be used most effectively. …”
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The global studio. Incorporating peer-learning into the design curriculum by Aysar Ghassan, Erik Bohemia

“…Global Studio projects are ‘student-led’ and contain explicit opportunities for peer tutoring to ensue. Feedback indicates that learners benefitted from engaging in peer tutoring. …”
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Multi-disciplinary peer-mark moderation of group work by Peter Willmot, Keith Pond

“…Self and peer assessment offers benefits for enhancing student learning. …”
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Peer and friend influences on eating behaviour in school children by Laura Houldcroft

“…While some of the research in this thesis requires replication, the results present many novel and interesting findings. Using longitudinal and experimental data, the research reported on in this thesis highlights the important contributions of friends, peers, parents and individual anxiety and low mood to the eating attitudes and behaviours of preadolescent aged children.…”
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As tall as my peers - similarity in body height between migrants and hosts. by Barry Bogin, Michael Hermanussen, Christiane Scheffler

“…Migrant children tend to assimilate quickly, and soon perceive themselves as peers within their new social networks. Differences exist between growth of first generation and second generation migrants. …”
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Effectiveness of the baby-friendly community initiative in promoting exclusive breastfeeding among HIV negative and positive mothers: a randomized controlled trial in Koibatek Sub-... by Betty Mogesi Samburu, Sera Lewise Young, Frederick Murunga Wekesah, Milkah Njeri Wanjohi, Judith Kimiywe, Peter Muriuki, Paula Griffiths, Stephen T. McGarvey, Nyovani Janet Madise, Elizabeth W. Kimani-Murage

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English and Welsh Police Force Efficiency: Demonstration Project Peer Review Results by Leigh M. Drake, Richard Simper

“…This paper presents abridged results from a Peer Review report on the DP showing that the given data set could indeed produce efficiency bandings and hence facilitate future discussions concerning differential payments of funds to English and Welsh police forces. …”
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Specialist and more-able mathematics students: understanding their engagement with mathematics support by Michael Grove, Sophie Guiry, Tony Croft

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Literature on peer-based community physical activity programmes for mental health service users: A scoping review by Lorna Tweed, Eva Rogers, Florence Kinnafick

“…Regular physical activity participation in community settings yields additional social benefits, such as peer support. This scoping review aimed to explore existing literature that has included peer support as a component of community-based physical activity programmes for MHSU. …”
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“You don’t want to stand out as the bigger one”: exploring how PE and school sport participation is influenced by pupils and their peers by Gareth Wiltshire, Jessica Lee, John Evans

“…Purpose: While the critical literature on health and physical education has been illuminating, few studies explore the role of pupils and their peers. …”
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Students as partners and students as change agents in the context of university mathematics by Francis K. Duah

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UK smart cities present and future: An analysis of British smart cities through current and emerging technologies and practices [version 2; peer review: 3 approved] by William Brown, Melanie King, Yee Goh

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Pedestrian crash risk analysis using extreme value models: New insights and evidence by Ampereza Ankunda, Yasir Ali, Malaya Mohanty

Subjects: “…Transportation, logistics and supply chains…”
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A survey of the reading habits of Turkish high school students and an examination of the efforts to encourage them to read by Veli Kutay

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[2.2.2.2Para]cyclophanetetraenes (PCTs): cyclic structural analogues of poly(p‑phenylene vinylene)s (PPVs) [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] by Matthias Pletzer, Felix Plasser, Martina Rimmele, Martin Heeney, Florian Glöcklhofer

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Stunted growth. Proceedings of the 23rd Aschauer Soiree, held at Aschauhof, Germany, November 7th 2015 by Michael Hermanussen, Josefin Ipsen, Rebekka Mumm, Christian Assmann, Julia Quitmann, Aleksandra Gomula, Andreas Lehmann, Isabelle Jasch, Vincent Tassenaar, Barry Bogin, Takashi Satake, Christiane Scheffler, Javier Nunez, Elena Godina, Rudiger Hardeland, Jesper Boldsen, Mortada El-Shabrawi, Mona Elhusseini, Carmen G. Barbu, Ralucca Pop, Jani Soederhaell, Andrea Merker, James Swanson, Detlef Groth

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Analysing student responses to summative and formative assessments (Generic protocol G20-P3) by Ian Jones

“…Recently we developed a new Comparative Judgement system for peer assessment which is used to assess students' mathematical knowledge, and has the potential to be used for peer assessment across a wide range of higher education disciplines. …”
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Developing a national item bank by Niall Sclater, Mary MacDonald

“…Many people have been involved in the development of the COLA item bank. …”
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Making the most of pre-class assignments by Pablo Ballesteros-Perez, M. Carmen Carmen Gonzalez-Cruz, Adrian Tagg, Daniel Mora-Melia

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Digital platform uses for help and support seeking of parents with children affected by disabilities: scoping review by Oliver Gruebner, Afua van Haasteren, Anna Hug, Suzanne Elayan, Martin Sykora, Emiliano Albanese, John Naslund, Markus Wolf, Marta Fadda, Michael von Rhein

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Designing the infrastructure for a National Item Bank Service by Niall Sclater, Eddie Boyle, Joanna Bull, Clive Church, Patrick Craven, Rowin Cross, Myles Danson, Leah Halliday, Ian Howie, John X. Kelly, Steve Lay, Moira Massey, Mhairi McAlpine, Diane McDonald, Mary MacDonald, Steve Rogers, Su White

“…Item banks (sometimes known as question banks) have been around for many years but are not yet widely used in the UK. …”
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Watch out for bailout: TARP and bank earnings management by Yaoyao Fan, Yichu Huang, Yuxiang Jiang, Hong Liu

“…We study the impact of the recent government bailout, called Trouble Asset Relief Program (TARP), on bank accounting quality. By adopting a difference-in-difference (DID) method, we find a significantly positive impact of TARP on earnings management of recipient banks, compared with their non-recipient peers. …”
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Researchers’ green Open Access practice: a cross-disciplinary analysis by Valerie Spezi, Jenny Fry, Claire Creaser, Stephen Probets, Sonya White

“…The PEER behavioural research project was carried out in two phases, between April and September 2009, and from September 2010 to August 2011. …”
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Marketing strategy and supply chain relations in grocery retailing by Ratula Chakraborty

“…This submission for PhD by publication consists of a portfolio of nine peer reviewed and published papers. The research presented in the portfolio contributes to theory, knowledge and discussion in the area of retail marketing. …”
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Open-access mega-journals: The future of scholarly communication or academic dumping ground? A review by Valerie Spezi, Simon Wakeling, Stephen Pinfield, Claire Creaser, Jenny Fry, Peter Willett

“…Findings: While the academic literature relating specifically to OAMJs is relatively sparse, discussion in other fora is detailed and animated, with debates ranging from the sustainability and ethics of the mega-journal model, to the impact of soundness-only peer review on article quality and discoverability, and the potential for OAMJs to represent a paradigm-shifting development in scholarly publishing. …”
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The role of physical activity/sport in tackling youth disaffection and anti-social behaviour by Rachel Sandford, Rebecca Duncombe, Kathleen Armour

“…The findings suggest that both of these projects have had a positive impact on the behaviour and attendance of large numbers of pupils, and that engagement in lessons and relationships with both teachers and peers have improved and can be sustained. …”
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From labelling weakness to liberatory praxis: a new theory of vulnerability for disaster studies by Jason von Meding, Ksenia Chmutina

“…Purpose - Vulnerability is a label and a concept that is widely used in disaster studies. To date the meaning has been quite limited and implied “weakness”, with criticisms arising periodically but not halting vulnerability's reproduction. …”
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Zinc removal and recovery from industrial wastewater with a microbial fuel cell: Experimental investigation and theoretical prediction by Swee Su Lim, Jean-Marie Fontmorin, Hai The Pham, Edward Milner, Peer Mohamed Abdul, Keith Scott, Ian Head, Eileen Yu

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Supplementary Information files for Zinc removal and recovery from industrial wastewater with a microbial fuel cell: Experimental investigation and theoretical prediction by Swee Su Lim, Jean-Marie Fontmorin, Hai The Pham, Edward Milner, Peer Mohamed Abdul, Keith Scott, Ian Head, Eileen Yu

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The application of discrete event simulation and system dynamics in the logistics and supply chain context by Antuela Tako, Stewart Robinson

“…Our findings suggest that DES has been used more frequently to model supply chains, with the exception of the bullwhip effect, which is mostly modelled using SD. …”
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Tackling antimicrobial resistance in Bangladesh: A scoping review of policy and practice in human, animal and environment sectors by Roksana Hoque, Syed Masud Ahmed, Nahitun Naher, Mohammad Aminul Islam, Emily Rousham, Bushra Zarin Islam, Shaikh Hassan

“…We used Google Scholar, Pubmed, and Biomed Central databases for searching peer-reviewed literature in human, animal and environment sectors during January 2010-August 2019, and Google for grey materials from the institutional and journal websites. …”
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Implementing inter-organisational information systems for the integration of construction supply chains by Mesut Pala

“…Whilst IOIS can be implemented to support various cross-functional business processes (ranging from operational information exchange to pursuing strategic initiatives such as sharing ideas, identifying new market opportunities, and pursing a continuous improvement approach), in the context of this thesis, the purpose of IOIS implementation is to facilitate the inter-firm procurement-related operations with downstream supply chain firms. …”
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Feasibility and effectiveness of the baby friendly community initiative in rural Kenya: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial by Elizabeth W. Kimani-Murage, Judith Kimiywe, Mark Kabue, Frederick Wekesah, Evelyn Matiri, Nelson Muhia, Milka Wanjohi, Peterrock Muriuki, Betty Samburu, James N. Kanyuira, Sera L. Young, Paula Griffiths, Nyovani J. Madise, Stephen T. McGarvey

“…A total of 12 clusters, constituting community units within the government's Community Health Strategy, will be randomized, with half allocated to the intervention and the other half to the control arm. …”
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An investigation of the lived experiences of youth in Jamaica and their response to climate change engagement by Dainalyn Swaby

“…The study highlights fragmented yet encouraging examples of youth’s execution of climate related projects at the community and national level. Nonetheless peer and institutional perspectives endorse youths’ influence, leadership capabilities and adroitness of communication technologies to change the face of climate change communication. …”
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Can we fix it? Archiving and analysing ‘Bob the Builder’: a resources paradigm and research method by Steven Henderson

“…Whilst these archives – or collections of materials do exist, they are archived without any unified, peer reviewed specialist interpretation of the care and organisation of the collections using a taxonomy that reflects the unique aspects of animation production. …”
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Starting a design course with a bang: warming up a new group and ensuring key principles are internalized at the start of an undergraduate programme by Howard G. Denton

“…The paper, whilst descriptive of one event only, has relevance to colleagues involved with teaching on design based courses.…”
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Transitions to adulthood: the experiences of youth with disabilities in Accra, Ghana by Stefanie Gregorius

“…As a consequence, their transitions to adulthood are even more complex, protracted, and uncertain than for their non-disabled peers. Youth with disabilities, however, use a variety of coping strategies to navigate the challenges they face associated with school, work, and social life in their attempts to achieve adulthood. …”
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The tallest person by Jessica Noske-Turner

“…Especially if she’s a single woman, there are many financial challenges. Knowledge is one thing, but accessibility, availability, affordability – there can be so many issues. …”
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CAA as innovation capable of affecting change by Fiona Doubleday

“…Both projects have been successful in their own right, but arguably more significant than that has been the institutional debates that have been triggered by these innovations. …”
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Identifying behavioural barriers and facilitators to engaging men in a community-based lifestyle intervention to improve physical and mental health and well-being by Oliver J Bell, Darren Flynn, Tom Clifford, Daniel West, Emma Stevenson, Leah Avery

“…Thematic analyses generated seven themes: ‘Lifestyle behaviours for both mental health and physical health’; ‘work pressures are barriers to engaging with lifestyle behaviour change’; previous injuries are barriers to engagement in physical activity and exercise’; personal and peer group relationships impact on lifestyle behaviour change’; relationships between body image and self-confidence on mastery of skills for physical activity and exercise’; building motivation and personalised goal setting’; and ‘credible individuals increase uptake and continued engagement with lifestyle behaviour change’. …”
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Correlates of hair cortisol concentrations in disadvantaged young children by Julian G. Simmons, Fran Azpitarte, Fatou Diallo Roost, Eric Dommers, Nicholas B. Allen, Sophie Havighurst, Nick Haslam

“…Children from highly disadvantaged families tend to experience worse health, educational, and job outcomes than less disadvantaged peers. However, the mechanisms underlying these relationships remain to be explicated. …”
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