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The attitudes of health care staff to information technology: A comprehensive review of the research literature (2008)
Journal Article

Objectives: What does the publicly available literature tell us about the attitudes of health care staff to the development of information technology in practice, including the factors which influence them and the factors which may be used to change... Read More about The attitudes of health care staff to information technology: A comprehensive review of the research literature.

The experiences of counselling for persons with ME (2008)
Journal Article

British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy A number of studies have evaluated counselling interventions for people with myalgic encephalitis, but few report client perceptions in any detail. This study seeks to explore client perceptions u... Read More about The experiences of counselling for persons with ME.

The governance of networks: Heuristic or formal analysis? A reply to Rachel Parker (2008)
Journal Article

Rachel Parker, in her article 'Networked Governance or Just Networks?' in this journal, has dealt with a very challenging question on the relevance of network interaction to governance outcomes. Her use of network concepts, however, appears to employ... Read More about The governance of networks: Heuristic or formal analysis? A reply to Rachel Parker.

The role of alcohol in women's lives: A review of issues and responses (2008)
Journal Article

This review addresses some of the issues related to women's drinking at a time when this is extremely topical. Evidence suggests that there has been a marked increase in alcohol consumption amongst young women in the United Kingdom (UK). Teenage girl... Read More about The role of alcohol in women's lives: A review of issues and responses.

Revisiting knowledge warehousing: Theoretical foundations (2008)
Journal Article

Ever since the late 1990s, different research communities have used the term 'knowledge warehousing' to refer to several types of IT-based tools. An extensive review of the literature on this topic revealed that existing approaches to knowledge wareh... Read More about Revisiting knowledge warehousing: Theoretical foundations.

Child health promotion in the United Kingdom: Does health visitors' practice follow policy? (2008)
Journal Article

Title. Child health promotion in the United Kingdom: does health visitors' practice follow policy? Aim. This paper is a report of a study to assess to what extent national child health promotion policy is reflected in health visitors' practice across... Read More about Child health promotion in the United Kingdom: Does health visitors' practice follow policy?.

Identification of Campylobacter infection in chickens from volatile faecal emissions (2008)
Journal Article

Volatile organic compounds from chicken faeces were investigated as biomarkers for Campylobacter infection. Campylobacter are major poultry-borne zoonotic pathogens, colonizing the avian intestinal tract. Chicken faeces are the principal source of co... Read More about Identification of Campylobacter infection in chickens from volatile faecal emissions.

The social and cultural uses of ketamine (2008)
Journal Article

Rethinking archives: History, media, memory (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A series of four interdisciplinary workshops held at Arnolfini, Bristol for participants selected from relevant institutions and invited members of Arnolfini’s audience. These workshops set out to bridge archival theory and practice, and looked in pa... Read More about Rethinking archives: History, media, memory.

Shared meanings or missed opportunities? The implications of functional health literacy for social marketing interventions (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Interactive learning or technology transfer as a way to catch-up? Analysing the wind energy industry in Denmark and India (2008)
Journal Article

This paper uses sectoral systems of innovation framework to examine the relationship between technology policy and industrial development by comparing the emergence of the wind energy industry in Denmark and India. Since the late 1970s Denmark has le... Read More about Interactive learning or technology transfer as a way to catch-up? Analysing the wind energy industry in Denmark and India.

Promoting integration of the health and built environment agendas through a workforce development initiative (2008)
Journal Article

There is a renewed and growing recognition of the links between public health and the built environment, which has underlined the need for improved joint working between public health and built environment professionals. However, currently there is l... Read More about Promoting integration of the health and built environment agendas through a workforce development initiative.

Transmission of cocoa swollen shoot virus by seeds (2008)
Journal Article

A study was undertaken to determine whether cocoa swollen shoot virus is transmitted by seeds, to improve the robustness of quarantine procedures for international exchange and long term conservation of cocoa germplasm. PCR/capillary electrophoresis,... Read More about Transmission of cocoa swollen shoot virus by seeds.

Ketamine: The divisive dissociative. A discourse analysis of the constructions of ketamine by participants of a free party (rave) scene (2008)
Journal Article

This article examines the multiple and contradictory understandings that participants of a free party (rave) scene in the South West of England drew upon when talking about ketamine, and the role of these understandings in identity and consumption pr... Read More about Ketamine: The divisive dissociative. A discourse analysis of the constructions of ketamine by participants of a free party (rave) scene.

Gender neutrality, rape and trial talk (2008)
Journal Article

This article examines the notion of gender neutrality in rape, its meaning and why rape definitions that include females and males as potential victims of rape have become influential in those jurisdictions that have engaged in significant levels of... Read More about Gender neutrality, rape and trial talk.

Credit Union legislative frameworks in the United States of America and the United Kingdom - A flexible friend or a step towards the dark side? (2008)
Journal Article

This article questions the findings of several studies which have concluded that the Credit Unions Act 1979 was a factor limiting the growth of credit unions in the United Kingdom (UK). The author's conclusions are based upon an analysis of the amend... Read More about Credit Union legislative frameworks in the United States of America and the United Kingdom - A flexible friend or a step towards the dark side?.

Book Review - The Oxford Handbook of International Environmental Law (2008)
Journal Article

This is a book review on The Oxford Handbook of International Environmental Law by D.Bodansky, J. Brunnee and E. Hey (eds), Oxford, 2008.

A real-time multi-channel monitoring system for stem cell culture process (2008)
Journal Article

A novel, up to 128 channels, multi-parametric physiological measurement system suitable for monitoring hematopoietic stem cell culture processes and cell cultures in general is presented in this paper. The system aims to measure in real-time the most... Read More about A real-time multi-channel monitoring system for stem cell culture process.

Estimation of the extent of the water-rich layer associated with the silica surface in hydrophilic interaction chromatography (2008)
Journal Article

The possible presence of a mobile phase layer rich in water on the surface of silica columns used under conditions typical in hydrophilic interaction chromatography was investigated by the injection of a small hydrophobic solute (benzene) using aceto... Read More about Estimation of the extent of the water-rich layer associated with the silica surface in hydrophilic interaction chromatography.

Transferability and contagiousness - how to ensure your project continues after the funding runs out (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution