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The challenges of providing palliative care for people with intellectual disabilities: A literature review (2014)
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© 2014 MA Healthcare Ltd. People with intellectual disabilities are often marginalised from mainstream health-care services because of the complexities of their disability. They are under-referred to specialist palliative care owing to a limited unde... Read More about The challenges of providing palliative care for people with intellectual disabilities: A literature review.

Blending moving least squares techniques with NURBS basis functions for nonlinear isogeometric analysis (2014)
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IsoGeometric Analysis (IGA) is increasing its popularity as a new numerical tool for the analysis of structures. IGA provides: (i) the possibility of using higher order polynomials for the basis functions; (ii) the smoothness for contact analysis; (i... Read More about Blending moving least squares techniques with NURBS basis functions for nonlinear isogeometric analysis.

Effect of mental challenge induced by movie clips on action potential duration in normal human subjects independent of heart rate (2014)
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Background-Mental stress and emotion have long been associated with ventricular arrhythmias and sudden death in animal models and humans. The effect of mental challenge on ventricular action potential duration (APD) in conscious healthy humans has no... Read More about Effect of mental challenge induced by movie clips on action potential duration in normal human subjects independent of heart rate.

Practices and perceptions of living apart together (2014)
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© 2014, © 2014 The Author(s). Published by Routledge. This paper examines how people living apart together (LATs) maintain their relationships, and describes how they view this living arrangement. It draws on a 2011 survey on LAT in Britain, suppleme... Read More about Practices and perceptions of living apart together.

A preliminary sustainability assessment of innovative rainwater harvesting for residential properties in the UK (2014)
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Rainwater harvesting (RWH) has yet to see significant uptake in UK households, primarily due to a lack of innovation in residential RWH system types. This paper presents the results of preliminary investigations into a range of traditional and innova... Read More about A preliminary sustainability assessment of innovative rainwater harvesting for residential properties in the UK.

Think about the care in healthcare (2014)
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Soil to plant transfer of radionuclides: Predicting the fate of multiple radioisotopes in plants (2014)
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Predicting soil-to-plant transfer of radionuclides is restricted by the range of species for which concentration ratios (CRs) have been measured. Here the radioecological utility of meta-analyses of phylogenetic effects on alkali earth metals will be... Read More about Soil to plant transfer of radionuclides: Predicting the fate of multiple radioisotopes in plants.

BRECONDA: Development and acceptability of an interactive decisional support tool for women considering breast reconstruction (2014)
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Research report appraisal: How much understanding is enough? (2014)
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When appraising research papers, how much understanding is enough? More specifically, in deciding whether research results can inform practice, do appraisers need to substantively understand how findings are derived or is it sufficient simply to gras... Read More about Research report appraisal: How much understanding is enough?.

Modelling conjugate flow and heat transfer in a ventilated room for indoor thermal comfort assessment (2014)
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Conjugate natural and forced convection heat transfers in a domestic model room of finite-thickness walls and a heat source have been numerically studied. A 2-D non-ventilated square model room with a heat source is investigated at first for conditio... Read More about Modelling conjugate flow and heat transfer in a ventilated room for indoor thermal comfort assessment.

The effect of a bilingual learning mode on the establishment of lexical semantic representations in the L2 (2014)
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Deliberate vocabulary learning is common in the L2, however, questions remain about most efficient and effective forms of this learning approach. Bilingual models of L2 word learning and processing can be used to make predictions about outcomes of le... Read More about The effect of a bilingual learning mode on the establishment of lexical semantic representations in the L2.

Female part-time managers: Careers, mentors and role models (2014)
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This paper explores the careers of 27 women employed as part-time managers in a range of UK public, private and not-for-profit sector organizations. Drawing upon semi-structured interviews, the article briefly summarizes the career trajectories of th... Read More about Female part-time managers: Careers, mentors and role models.

Elite social capital and the regional economy (2014)
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© The Author(s) 2012. This article examines elite interaction and its potential to affect local development. A theoretical discussion sets the stage for a systematic exploration of the social capital of regional elites in a comparative study of 12 Eu... Read More about Elite social capital and the regional economy.

Trail laying during tandem-running recruitment in the ant Temnothorax albipennis (2014)
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Tandem running is a recruitment strategy whereby one ant leads a single naïve nest mate to a resource. While tandem running progresses towards the goal, the leader ant and the follower ant maintain contact mainly by tactile signals. In this paper, we... Read More about Trail laying during tandem-running recruitment in the ant Temnothorax albipennis.

'It's like a bag of pick and mix - you don't know what you are going to get': Young people's experience of neurofibromatosis Type 1 (2014)
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Aims: To explore the day-to-day experience of young people living with neurofibromatosis type 1 in the UK, focusing on the role that appearance plays in this experience. Background: neurofibromatosis type 1 is a genetic condition, which is highly var... Read More about 'It's like a bag of pick and mix - you don't know what you are going to get': Young people's experience of neurofibromatosis Type 1.

A statistical method for retrospective cardiac and respiratory motion gating of interventional cardiac x-ray images (2014)
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Purpose: Image-guided cardiac interventions involve the use of fluoroscopic images to guide the insertion and movement of interventional devices. Cardiorespiratory gating can be useful for 3D reconstruction from multiple x-ray views and for reducing... Read More about A statistical method for retrospective cardiac and respiratory motion gating of interventional cardiac x-ray images.

A critical analysis of workforce development research use in the transformation of children’s services (2014)
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Summary: This article is based on a study commissioned to find out how agencies providing children’s services in England used workforce development research in the transformation of children’s services. Workforce development research is primarily abo... Read More about A critical analysis of workforce development research use in the transformation of children’s services.

An inexpensive, fast and sensitive quantitative lateral flow magneto-immunoassay for total prostate specific antigen (2014)
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We describe the detection characteristics of a device the Resonant Coil Magnetometer (RCM) to quantify paramagnetic particles (PMPs) in immunochromatographic (lateral flow) assays. Lateral flow assays were developed using PMPs for the measurement of... Read More about An inexpensive, fast and sensitive quantitative lateral flow magneto-immunoassay for total prostate specific antigen.

Guyana, its Foreign Policy, and the Path to Development (2014)
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© 2014, The Round Table Ltd. Guyana is potentially on the threshold of great change. The growing importance of gold-mining and logging, and the rising hope that sizeable quantities of oil will soon be found should act as a catalyst for a dramatic imp... Read More about Guyana, its Foreign Policy, and the Path to Development.

The Hypomania Checklist (HCL) - Systematic review of its properties to screen for bipolar disorders (2014)
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Objective Bipolar disorders (BDs) are often not recognised with potentially drastic consequences for the individuals and their families. In clinical practice self-reports can be used to screen to enhance recognition. We therefore present a systematic... Read More about The Hypomania Checklist (HCL) - Systematic review of its properties to screen for bipolar disorders.