All Outputs (64)

An exploration of evidence of deficits and theories of therapy for specific-receptive language impairment in children (2013)
Thesis

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.

Psycho-social perspectives on living and working with violence in distressed and traumatised (dis-) organisations (2013)
Thesis

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

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.

Detection of intracellular ara-C/ara-CTP following treatment with the new anti-leukemic drug elacytarabine using a bioluminescent bacterial biosensor (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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 Contribution

Trainer communication style and training outcomes (2013)
Book Chapter

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

Successful Qualitative Research: A Practical Guide for Beginners (2013)
Book

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.

Issues for consideration by researchers conducting sensitive research with women who have endured domestic violence during pregnancy (2013)
Journal Article

Separation mechanisms in hydrophilic interaction chromatography (2013)
Book Chapter

A randomised trial comparing the cost effectiveness of different emergency department healthcare professionals in soft tissue injury management (2013)
Journal Article

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.

Combining bromocriptine and speech and language therapy in the treatment of a person with aphasia: A clinical study (2013)
Journal Article

Changes in trainees’ motivation to use a learning portfolio: A longitudinal investigation (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Paying the price works: Increasing goal-state access cost improves problem solving and mitigates the effect of interruption (2013)
Journal Article

The aim of this paper was to investigate whether it was possible to induce more internal planning in the four-disk Tower of Hanoi (ToH) in order not only to produce more efficient problem solving but also to make it more resistant to the negative eff... Read More about Paying the price works: Increasing goal-state access cost improves problem solving and mitigates the effect of interruption.

Speech characteristics of 8-year-old children: Findings from a prospective population study (2013)
Journal Article

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.

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

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.

Fundamental deficits of auditory perception in wernicke's aphasia (2013)
Journal Article

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.

Improving the effectiveness of an interruption lag by inducing a memory-based strategy (2013)
Journal Article

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.

Enhancing dissemination in selective eating disorders prevention: An investigation of voluntary participation among female university students (2013)
Journal Article

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

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.

The future of STEM in higher education: HEA discussion paper (2013)
Preprint / Working Paper

The future of STEM education is a topic of national scrutiny and debate. The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee (HLSTC) recently completed an inquiry (HLSTC, 2012)1, in response to the United Kingdom’s (U.K.) government’s ‘Plan for Growt... Read More about The future of STEM in higher education: HEA discussion paper.