This article examines strategic change and value creation in UK technology, industrial, and
communications buyouts. Over recent years, the UK has been the largest European private …

This thesis comprises three chapters with the enforcement of intellectual property rights as a
central theme. The first chapter explores the effect of patent ‘thickets’ on litigation propensity. …

Telling a riveting true story of the emergence and development of an American icon, this
book traces swing dancing from its origins to its status as a modern-day art form. From its …

Climate warming is a major disruptor of fish community structure globally. We use large-scale
geospatial analyses of 447,077 Canadian Arctic lakes to predict how climate change …

… Using a technique we developed (Steven, Minns and Thomas, 1974) to produce chemically
pure elastin from bovine ligamentum nuchae, mechanical tests were conducted on pig aorta …

The shift from discrete innovation processes to processes that increasingly rely on the
recombination of knowledge across technological boundaries, has resulted in the emergence of …

Strips of bovine ligamentum nuchae were (a) stretched to twice their length and then
released, (b) stretched until they ruptured, while a third series (c) were not subjected to either …

The fibrous components of the human aorta, situated on the intimal surface, in the media
and on the adventitial surface have been examined by scanning electron microscopy after …

… This collagenase attacks monomeric tropocollagen very much more rapidly than cross-linked
molecules infibrils and mature collagen fibres(Steven, 1976a). Thus the functions of the …

Plugs of fresh post mortem human patellar subchondral bone were soaked for three weeks
in an organic solvent (ethanol) which contained a chelating agent (EDTA). This technique …