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Body dissatisfaction: Can a short media literacy message reduce negative media exposure effects amongst adolescent girls? (2011)
Journal Article

Objectives. This experimental study examined whether a brief video intervention identifying the artificial nature of media images could protect adolescent girls from negative media exposure effects and body dissatisfaction. Design. A 2 (intervention... Read More about Body dissatisfaction: Can a short media literacy message reduce negative media exposure effects amongst adolescent girls?.

Towards a transdisciplinary pedagogy for postgraduate arts students: The project dialogue experiment (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Great expectations and hard times: The paradoxical experience of the engineer as project manager (2011)
Journal Article

While tensions between technical and management functions in organisations have long been recognised, very little research examines this relationship empirically in light of the emergence of project management as an (apparently) attractive career rou... Read More about Great expectations and hard times: The paradoxical experience of the engineer as project manager.

Five feet high and rising: Cities and flooding in the 21st Century (2011)
Other

Urban flooding is an increasingly important issue. Disaster statistics appear to show flood events are becoming more frequent, with medium-scale events increasing fastest. The impact of flooding is driven by a combination of natural and human-ind... Read More about Five feet high and rising: Cities and flooding in the 21st Century.

Handbook of gender, work and organization (2011)
Book

Reliability and validity of ultrasonographic measurements of acromion-greater tuberosity distance in post-stroke hemiplegia (2011)
Journal Article

Reliability and validity of ultrasonographic measurements of acromion-greater tuberosity distance in poststroke hemiplegia (2011)
Journal Article

Objectives The primary aim of this study was to assess the intrarater reliability of ultrasonographic measurements of acromion-greater tuberosity (AGT) distance in patients with stroke using portable ultrasound. A secondary aim was to determine the d... Read More about Reliability and validity of ultrasonographic measurements of acromion-greater tuberosity distance in poststroke hemiplegia.

Gender Mainstreaming - Hidden Leadership? (2011)
Journal Article

This article intends to open a discussion of what it might mean to lead gender equality mainstreaming in the context of significant changes in equality legislation and in the governance of the public services. The research data are drawn from two sou... Read More about Gender Mainstreaming - Hidden Leadership?.

Psychological predictors of resilience and distress (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Optimal military spending in the US: A time series analysis (2011)
Journal Article

This paper extends previous work on the optimal size of government spending by including nested functional decompositions of military spending into consumption and investment. Post World War II US data are then used to estimate nested non-linear grow... Read More about Optimal military spending in the US: A time series analysis.

The effectiveness of nurse-led care in people with rheumatoid arthritis: A systematic review (2011)
Journal Article

Objectives: The objective of this systematic review was to determine the effectiveness of nurse-led care in rheumatoid arthritis. Design: Systematic review of effectiveness. Data sources: Electronic databases (AMED, CENTRAL, CINAHL, EMBASE, HMIC, HTA... Read More about The effectiveness of nurse-led care in people with rheumatoid arthritis: A systematic review.

Self-reported quality of life in children and young people with chronic kidney disease (2011)
Journal Article

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) would be expected to impact upon the quality of life (QoL) of children and young people; therefore, it is important that they are given the means to express their opinions about how they perceive their own QoL. We used th... Read More about Self-reported quality of life in children and young people with chronic kidney disease.

Student perceptions of staff in the Information Commons: A survey at the University of Sheffield (2011)
Journal Article

Purpose: Technology has transformed teaching and learning environments in tertiary education, introducing new collaborative library spaces and developing the roles and skills of library staff. Academic libraries need continually to re-examine their s... Read More about Student perceptions of staff in the Information Commons: A survey at the University of Sheffield.

Modelling the dynamics of bus use in a changing travel environment using panel data (2011)
Journal Article

Panel data offers the potential to represent the influence on travel choices of changing circumstances, past history and persistent individual differences (unobserved heterogeneity). A four-wave panel survey collected data on the travel choices of re... Read More about Modelling the dynamics of bus use in a changing travel environment using panel data.

European League Against Rheumatism recommendations for the inclusion of patient representatives in scientific projects (2011)
Journal Article

Objective: To develop recommendations to enable successful inclusion of the patient perspective in European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR)-funded scientific research projects. Methods: The EULAR standardised operational procedures for guideline de... Read More about European League Against Rheumatism recommendations for the inclusion of patient representatives in scientific projects.

Cost-effectiveness of point-of-care biomarker assessment for suspected myocardial infarction: The randomized assessment of treatment using panel assay of cardiac markers (RATPAC) trial (2011)
Journal Article

Objectives: Chest pain due to suspected myocardial infarction (MI) is responsible for many hospital admissions and consumes substantial health care resources. The Randomized Assessment of Treatment using Panel Assay of Cardiac markers (RATPAC) trial... Read More about Cost-effectiveness of point-of-care biomarker assessment for suspected myocardial infarction: The randomized assessment of treatment using panel assay of cardiac markers (RATPAC) trial.

Overactive, overwrought or overdrawn? the role of personality in undergraduate financial knowledge, decision-making and debt (2011)
Journal Article

The financial situation of undergraduate students remains a high-profile issue within the UK higher education sector, not least due to its perceived relationship with retention, well-being and success. This article probes this question from a new dir... Read More about Overactive, overwrought or overdrawn? the role of personality in undergraduate financial knowledge, decision-making and debt.

Investigating the contribution of procedural and declarative memory to the acquisition of past tense morphology: Evidence from Finnish (2011)
Journal Article

The present paper reports on a study that investigated the role of procedural and declarative memory in the acquisition of Finnish past tense morphology. Two competing models were tested. Ullman's (2004) declarative/procedural model predicts that pro... Read More about Investigating the contribution of procedural and declarative memory to the acquisition of past tense morphology: Evidence from Finnish.

Dealing with social desirability bias: An application to charitable giving (2011)
Journal Article

Purpose: This paper aims to address the issue of survey distortion caused by one of the most common and pervasive sources of bias, namely social desirability bias (SDB). Despite 50 years of research, there are still many unanswered questions about it... Read More about Dealing with social desirability bias: An application to charitable giving.

Mosquito age and susceptibility to insecticides (2011)
Journal Article

Insecticides play a crucial role in controlling the transmission of mosquito-borne diseases and the development and spread of insecticide resistance is a major threat to sustainable control. Guidelines developed by the WHO to monitor for insecticide... Read More about Mosquito age and susceptibility to insecticides.