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Critical care paramedics in England: A national survey of ambulance services (2014)
Journal Article

Critical care paramedics (CCPs) have been introduced by individual ambulance trusts in England, but there is a lack of national coordination of training and practice. We conducted an online survey of NHS ambulance services to provide an overview of t... Read More about Critical care paramedics in England: A national survey of ambulance services.

The psychosocial impact of ptosis as a symptom of myasthenia gravis: A qualitative study (2014)
Journal Article

The aim of this qualitative study was to investigate the psychosocial impact of ptosis as a symptom of Myasthenia Gravis (MG). Participants were recruited from a MG patient group on Facebook. 166 participants answered a series of open ended questions... Read More about The psychosocial impact of ptosis as a symptom of myasthenia gravis: A qualitative study.

Experience in judging intent to harm modulates parahippocampal activity: An fMRI study with experienced CCTV operators (2014)
Journal Article

Does visual experience in judging intent to harm change our brain responses? And if it does, what are the mechanisms affected? We addressed these questions by studying the abilities of Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) operators, who must identify the... Read More about Experience in judging intent to harm modulates parahippocampal activity: An fMRI study with experienced CCTV operators.

Parental Power and Prestige Moderate the Relationship Between Perceived Parental Acceptance and Offspring’s Psychological Adjustment: Introduction to the International Father Acceptance–Rejection Project (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014 SAGE Publications. Drawing stimulus from parental acceptance–rejection theory (PARTheory), which postulates a pancultural association between perceptions of parental acceptance–rejection and offspring’s (children’s and adults’) psychological a... Read More about Parental Power and Prestige Moderate the Relationship Between Perceived Parental Acceptance and Offspring’s Psychological Adjustment: Introduction to the International Father Acceptance–Rejection Project.

John Paley's Challenge (2014)
Journal Article

John Paley’s "Heidegger, lived experience and method" (in press, this journal) challenges phenomenologists who rely upon Heidegger for theoretical support and guidance to critically review their grounding assumptions. And, if Paley’s critique ‘holds’... Read More about John Paley's Challenge.

Bisexual women's understandings of social marginalisation: 'The heterosexuals don't understand US but nor do the lesbians' (2014)
Journal Article

Drawing on interviews with 20 self-identified bisexual women, this paper contributes to the limited psychological literature on bisexual women by exploring their experiences of social marginalisation. These (mainly white and middle class) British bis... Read More about Bisexual women's understandings of social marginalisation: 'The heterosexuals don't understand US but nor do the lesbians'.

Chylothorax development in infants and children in the UK (2014)
Journal Article

Aim: To describe the incidence, patient profile, management strategies and outcome for infants and children who developed a chylothorax in the UK. Methods: A prospective study of infants and children ≥24 weeks' gestation - ≤16 years, who developed a... Read More about Chylothorax development in infants and children in the UK.

An investigation into sonography student experiences of simulation teaching and learning in the acquisition of clinical skills (2014)
Journal Article

©, 2014, SAGE Publications Ltd. All rights reserved. Technological developments are impacting on many aspects of life, including education. One particular area of technology where there is growing interest within higher education institutions (HEIs)... Read More about An investigation into sonography student experiences of simulation teaching and learning in the acquisition of clinical skills.

Thinking through non-representational and affective atmospheres in planning theory and practice (2014)
Journal Article

This article engages with recent debates surrounding non-representational theory and the affective turn in the social sciences, arguing that such thinking offers a particularly useful set of concepts for the discipline of planning. This includes a wi... Read More about Thinking through non-representational and affective atmospheres in planning theory and practice.

Learning nursing through simulation: A case study approach towards an expansive model of learning (2014)
Journal Article

This study explores the impact of simulation upon learning for undergraduate nursing students. The study objectives were (a) to explore the experiences of participating in simulation education for a small group of student nurses; and (b) to explore l... Read More about Learning nursing through simulation: A case study approach towards an expansive model of learning.

The challenges facing midwifery educators in sustaining a future education workforce (2014)
Journal Article

Background: national and international trends have identified concerns over the ability of health and social care workforces in meeting the needs of service users. Attention has increasingly been drawn to problems of recruiting and retaining professi... Read More about The challenges facing midwifery educators in sustaining a future education workforce.

Briefing: Towards exploring profession-specific BIM challenges in the UK (2014)
Journal Article

Building information modelling (BIM) has been proposed as an enabler for greater efficiency and effectiveness within the UK construction industry, providing digital management of construction data throughout the project life cycle. The potential bene... Read More about Briefing: Towards exploring profession-specific BIM challenges in the UK.

Democratic Accountability and Metropolitan Governance: The Case of South Hampshire, UK (2014)
Journal Article

© 2013 Urban Studies Journal Limited. This paper examines the notion of democratic accountability through an investigation of metropolitan governance in South Hampshire, UK. The author employs an interpretive approach to trace varying readings of dem... Read More about Democratic Accountability and Metropolitan Governance: The Case of South Hampshire, UK.

The distributed co-evolution of an on-board simulator and controller for swarm robot behaviours (2014)
Journal Article

We investigate the reality gap, specifically the environmental correspondence of an on-board simulator. We describe a novel distributed co-evolutionary approach to improve the transference of controllers that co-evolve with an on-board simulator. A n... Read More about The distributed co-evolution of an on-board simulator and controller for swarm robot behaviours.

Carfree and low-car development (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014 by Emerald Group Publishing Limited All rights of reproduction in any form reserved. Purpose-This chapter defines and describes the different types of carfree and low-car development found in the United Kingdom and continental Europe, analysin... Read More about Carfree and low-car development.

Developing and validating the international consultation on incontinence questionnaire bladder diary (2014)
Journal Article

Background Despite the common use of urinary diaries to assess lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS), a standardised validated diary does not exist. Objective To develop a validated urinary diary, using the psychometric validation protocol used in prev... Read More about Developing and validating the international consultation on incontinence questionnaire bladder diary.

Access to sensitive data: Satisfying objectives rather than constraints (2014)
Journal Article

The argument for access to sensitive unit-level data produced within government is usually framed in terms of risk and the legal responsibility to maintain confidentiality. This article argues that the framing of the question may restrict the set of... Read More about Access to sensitive data: Satisfying objectives rather than constraints.

The effectiveness of therapeutic exercise for joint hypermobility syndrome: A systematic review (2014)
Journal Article

Background: Joint hypermobility syndrome (JHS) is a heritable connective tissue disorder characterised by excessive range of movement at multiple joints accompanied by pain. Exercise is the mainstay of management yet its effectiveness is unclear. Obj... Read More about The effectiveness of therapeutic exercise for joint hypermobility syndrome: A systematic review.

Run-time detection of faults in autonomous mobile robots based on the comparison of simulated and real robot behaviour (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2014 IEEE. This paper presents a novel approach to the run-time detection of faults in autonomous mobile robots, based on simulated predictions of real robot behaviour. We show that although simulation can be used to predict real robot behaviour, d... Read More about Run-time detection of faults in autonomous mobile robots based on the comparison of simulated and real robot behaviour.

Empathy and alteration: The ethical relevance of a phenomenological species concept (2014)
Journal Article

© The Author 2014. Published by Oxford University Press, on behalf of the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy Inc. All rights reserved. The debate over the ethics of radically, technologically altering the capacities and traditional form of the human... Read More about Empathy and alteration: The ethical relevance of a phenomenological species concept.