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Psycho-social perspectives on living and working with violence in distressed and traumatised (dis-) organisations (2013)
Thesis
Scanlon, C. Psycho-social perspectives on living and working with violence in distressed and traumatised (dis-) organisations. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/932501

The published work presented in this submission examines the nature and form of psychosocial processes that lead towards and away from mental health, social security and community and organisational cohesion. It demonstrates the application of psycho... Read More about Psycho-social perspectives on living and working with violence in distressed and traumatised (dis-) organisations.

The long and winding road to achieving professional registration for sonographers (2013)
Journal Article
Gibbs, V. (2013). The long and winding road to achieving professional registration for sonographers. Radiography, 19(2), 164-167. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radi.2012.11.003

The rapid growth in the use of ultrasound as a diagnostic imaging technology over the past forty years, has led to a demand for a workforce with the appropriate skills to perform and interpret the scans. In the UK, ultrasound investigations now compr... Read More about The long and winding road to achieving professional registration for sonographers.

An exploration of evidence of deficits and theories of therapy for specific-receptive language impairment in children (2013)
Thesis
Morgan, L. An exploration of evidence of deficits and theories of therapy for specific-receptive language impairment in children. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/932133

Children with specific receptive language impairments (SRLI) have been found to be vulnerable to negative outcomes later in life, in terms of mental health, behaviour and literacy. Currently there is little evidence of the efficacy of speech and lang... Read More about An exploration of evidence of deficits and theories of therapy for specific-receptive language impairment in children.

Detection of intracellular ara-C/ara-CTP following treatment with the new anti-leukemic drug elacytarabine using a bioluminescent bacterial biosensor (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Robinson, G. M., Anderson, E., Salisbury, V., Mehta, P., Sandvold, M., & Reynolds, D. M. (2013, April). Detection of intracellular ara-C/ara-CTP following treatment with the new anti-leukemic drug elacytarabine using a bioluminescent bacterial biosensor. Poster presented at American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., USA

Cytarabine (ara-C) is an analogue of deoxycytidine with an established role in treating AML. Cytarabine depends on the human equilibrative nucleoside transporter-1 (hENT-1) for cellular entry (1). Loss of hENT-1 function in vitro has been shown to re... Read More about Detection of intracellular ara-C/ara-CTP following treatment with the new anti-leukemic drug elacytarabine using a bioluminescent bacterial biosensor.

Some advantages in delaying information access cost at an interface (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Morgan, P., Patrick, J., Smy, V., Tiley, L., & Seeby, H. (2013, April). Some advantages in delaying information access cost at an interface. Poster presented at Aerospace, Defence and Security Launch Conference, Cardiff University, UK

Trainer communication style and training outcomes (2013)
Book Chapter
Towler, A., & Arman, G. (2013). Trainer communication style and training outcomes. In M. A. Paludi (Ed.), Psychology for Business Success (103-114). Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger

The chapter summarizes key issues in trainer communication style for improving training outcomes

Successful Qualitative Research: A Practical Guide for Beginners (2013)
Book
Clarke, V., & Braun, V. (2013). Successful Qualitative Research: A Practical Guide for Beginners. London: Sage

PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS NOT THE FULL BOOK TEXT - PUBLISHER POLICY ONLY ALLOWS ACCESS TO AN EXTRACT OF THIS BOOK IN THE UWE BRISTOL RESEARCH REPOSITORY For Chapter 1: This chapter introduces qualitative research to a reader new to the area, and sets t... Read More about Successful Qualitative Research: A Practical Guide for Beginners.

A randomised trial comparing the cost effectiveness of different emergency department healthcare professionals in soft tissue injury management (2013)
Journal Article
Benger, J. R., Cramp, F., McClellan, C. M., McClellan, C., Cramp, F. (., Powell, J., & Benger, J. (2013). A randomised trial comparing the cost effectiveness of different emergency department healthcare professionals in soft tissue injury management. BMJ Open, 3(1), https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2012-001116

Objectives: To evaluate the cost effectiveness of soft tissue injury management by emergency nurse practitioners (ENPs) and extended scope physiotherapists (ESPs) compared with the routine care provided by doctors in an emergency department (ED). Des... Read More about A randomised trial comparing the cost effectiveness of different emergency department healthcare professionals in soft tissue injury management.

Enhancing dissemination in selective eating disorders prevention: An investigation of voluntary participation among female university students (2013)
Journal Article
Atkinson, M. J., & Wade, T. D. (2013). Enhancing dissemination in selective eating disorders prevention: An investigation of voluntary participation among female university students. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 51(12), 806-816. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2013.09.012

Maximising dissemination of efficacious psychological interventions is an important undertaking, particularly in prevention work where the target population may not be seeking help. Consequently, the current study investigated voluntary participation... Read More about Enhancing dissemination in selective eating disorders prevention: An investigation of voluntary participation among female university students.

Rationality, religion and refusal of treatment in an ambulance revisited (2013)
Journal Article
McMahon-Parkes, K. (2013). Rationality, religion and refusal of treatment in an ambulance revisited. Journal of Medical Ethics, 39(9), 587-590. https://doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2011-100079

In their recent article, Erbay et al considered whether a seriously injured patient should be able to refuse treatment if the refusal was based on a (mis) interpretation of religious doctrine. They argued that in such a case 'what is important...is w... Read More about Rationality, religion and refusal of treatment in an ambulance revisited.

Fundamental deficits of auditory perception in wernicke's aphasia (2013)
Journal Article
Robson, H., Grube, M., Griffiths, T. D., Lambon Ralph, M. A., & Sage, K. (2013). Fundamental deficits of auditory perception in wernicke's aphasia. Cortex, 49(7), 1808-1822. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2012.11.012

Objective: This work investigates the nature of the comprehension impairment in Wernicke's aphasia (WA), by examining the relationship between deficits in auditory processing of fundamental, non-verbal acoustic stimuli and auditory comprehension. WA,... Read More about Fundamental deficits of auditory perception in wernicke's aphasia.

Creating a learning environment to promote food sustainability issues in primary schools? Staff perceptions of implementing the food for life partnership programme (2013)
Journal Article
Jones, M., Weitkamp, E., Jones, M., Salmon, D., Kimberlee, R., & Orme, J. (2013). Creating a learning environment to promote food sustainability issues in primary schools? Staff perceptions of implementing the food for life partnership programme. Sustainability, 5(3), 1128-1140. https://doi.org/10.3390/su5031128

There is increasing interest in the role that schools can play in promoting education for sustainable development (ESD), and evidence is emerging that schools can be influential in the emerging agenda around the ecological, ethical and social aspects... Read More about Creating a learning environment to promote food sustainability issues in primary schools? Staff perceptions of implementing the food for life partnership programme.

Smoking prevalence amongst UK Armed Forces recruits: Changes in behaviour after 3 years follow-up and factors affecting smoking behaviour (2013)
Journal Article
Bray, I., Richardson, P., & Harrison, K. (2013). Smoking prevalence amongst UK Armed Forces recruits: Changes in behaviour after 3 years follow-up and factors affecting smoking behaviour. Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, 159(1), 44-50. https://doi.org/10.1136/jramc-2013-000009

Objectives The purpose of this study was to investigate smoking prevalence of Tri-Service recruits, and changes in smoking behaviour at 3-year follow-up, by trade group and gender. Associations with educational attainment and deprivation were also as... Read More about Smoking prevalence amongst UK Armed Forces recruits: Changes in behaviour after 3 years follow-up and factors affecting smoking behaviour.

Improving the effectiveness of an interruption lag by inducing a memory-based strategy (2013)
Journal Article
Morgan, P. L., Morgan, P., Patrick, J., & Tiley, L. (2013). Improving the effectiveness of an interruption lag by inducing a memory-based strategy. Acta Psychologica, 142(1), 87-95. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2012.09.003

The memory for goals model (Altmann & Trafton, 2002) posits the importance of a short delay (the 'interruption lag') before an interrupting task to encode suspended goals for retrieval post-interruption. Two experiments used the theory of soft constr... Read More about Improving the effectiveness of an interruption lag by inducing a memory-based strategy.

Survey of the use of therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest in UK paediatric emergency departments (2013)
Journal Article
Duncan, H. P., Lyttle, M. D., Scholefield, B. R., Scholefield, B. R., Lyttle, M., Berry, K., …Morris, K. P. (2013). Survey of the use of therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest in UK paediatric emergency departments. Emergency Medicine Journal, 30(1), 24-27. https://doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2011-200348

Objectives: To ascertain current use of therapeutic hypothermia (TH) after paediatric cardiac arrest in UK emergency departments (EDs), and views on participating in a UK randomised controlled trial (RCT) incorporating early induction of TH in ED. De... Read More about Survey of the use of therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest in UK paediatric emergency departments.

Speech characteristics of 8-year-old children: Findings from a prospective population study (2013)
Journal Article
Miller, L. L., Wren, Y., McLeod, S., White, P., Miller, L., & Roulstone, S. (2013). Speech characteristics of 8-year-old children: Findings from a prospective population study. Journal of Communication Disorders, 46(1), 53-69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcomdis.2012.08.008

Speech disorder that continues into middle childhood is rarely studied compared with speech disorder in the early years. Speech production in single words, connected speech and nonword repetition was assessed for 7390 eight-year-old children within t... Read More about Speech characteristics of 8-year-old children: Findings from a prospective population study.

Special issue: Special feature: Inside/out: lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans appearance and embodiment (2013)
Journal Article
Clarke, V. (2013). Special issue: Special feature: Inside/out: lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans appearance and embodiment

The three papers in this special feature all make important contributions to the psychology of LGB appearance and embodiment and extend and develop the existing literature in exciting ways. First, Caroline Huxley contributes to the literature on sexu... Read More about Special issue: Special feature: Inside/out: lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans appearance and embodiment.