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Ultrastructural localization of sulfated and unsulfated keratan sulfate in normal and macular corneal dystrophy type I (2000)
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Keratan sulfate (KS) proteoglycans are of importance for the maintenance of corneal transparency as evidenced in the condition macular corneal dystrophy type I (MCD I), a disorder involving the absence of KS sulfation, in which the cornea becomes opa... Read More about Ultrastructural localization of sulfated and unsulfated keratan sulfate in normal and macular corneal dystrophy type I.

Learning how to learn: A selective review of the literature (2000)
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With the current emphasis on Continuing Professional Development within the healthcare professions, many of us need to rediscover, or improve, our ability to learn. The continuously changing nature of modem technology and the employee's typical movem... Read More about Learning how to learn: A selective review of the literature.

Evolution and Learning in Neural Networks: Dynamic Correlation, Relearning and Thresholding (2000)
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This contribution revisits an earlier discovered observation that the average performance of a pop ulation of neural networks that are evolved to solve one task is improved by lifetime learning on a different task. Two extant, and very different, exp... Read More about Evolution and Learning in Neural Networks: Dynamic Correlation, Relearning and Thresholding.

Fit for practice: Project 2000 student nurses' views on how well the curriculum prepares them for clinical practice (2000)
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This paper presents the findings from a small study, which compared student nurses' views on how well they felt the Project 2000 curriculum had prepared them for their first clinical placements. The views of two student nurse cohorts were obtained us... Read More about Fit for practice: Project 2000 student nurses' views on how well the curriculum prepares them for clinical practice.

Women in the construction professions: Achieving critical mass (2000)
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This article addresses the question of whether an increased number of women entering the construction professions is resulting in the build-up of critical mass, with associated changes in the culture of the construction industry, and thus in its orga... Read More about Women in the construction professions: Achieving critical mass.

Worlds apart: Students' experiences of learning introductory accounting (2000)
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This paper argues that, whilst a substantial amount of educational research has been conducted within the introductory accounting curriculum, there is scope for alternative research founded on a particular view of learning, that of social constructiv... Read More about Worlds apart: Students' experiences of learning introductory accounting.

'I might as well give up': Self-esteem and mature students' feelings about feedback on assignments (2000)
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Lecturers working with adult students balance the need to provide feedback and assess students' work with a concern to protect vulnerable students. This article is based on a small-scale quantitative research project that looked at Access students' r... Read More about 'I might as well give up': Self-esteem and mature students' feelings about feedback on assignments.

"I would rather be size 10 than have straight A's": A focus group study of adolescent girls' wish to be thinner (2000)
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The study aimed to investigate the body concerns of adolescent girls, together with the underlying motivations for the wish to be thinner. Focus group methodology was employed in order to access participants' experience in their own language. Altoget... Read More about "I would rather be size 10 than have straight A's": A focus group study of adolescent girls' wish to be thinner.

The Upside of the Downside: How Utilizing Defensive Dynamics Can Support Learning in Groups (2000)
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In this paper we suggest that it is important in management education to work with the defensive dynamics in learning groups. Through a consideration of the dynamics within complex systems, we argue that the ways in which these defensive dynamics are... Read More about The Upside of the Downside: How Utilizing Defensive Dynamics Can Support Learning in Groups.

Assessing the employment implications of a sustainable energy system: A methodological overview (2000)
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The traditional economic view of environmental protection acting against the interests of employment is now challenged as outdated and false, with studies in environmental economic literature increasingly promoting the positive links between the two.... Read More about Assessing the employment implications of a sustainable energy system: A methodological overview.

Masculinity, gender, and rural policy (2000)
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This paper explores the operation of gender relations in the context of rural policy. Framed by debates on new rural governance, it considers how both the content and the culture of recent rural regeneration policy reflect highly masculine values and... Read More about Masculinity, gender, and rural policy.