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Validating clinical reasoning: A question of perspective, but whose perspective? (2003)
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This paper explores the notion of validity from different perspectives and addresses its integration with clinical reasoning. Whilst valuing the evidence-based practice (EBP) perspective in our quest for validation of practice, the authors posit that... Read More about Validating clinical reasoning: A question of perspective, but whose perspective?.

Patient group directions for antibiotic supply in Walk-in Centres: how legal are they? (2003)
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Until recently antibiotics were only available on prescription. Nurses in NHS Walk-in Centres (WiCs) now supply and administer antibiotics in accordance with patient group directions (PGDs). The aim of this study was to investigate the process of ant... Read More about Patient group directions for antibiotic supply in Walk-in Centres: how legal are they?.

Can the magnocellular pathway read? Evidence from studies of color (2003)
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A review of the neurophysiological literature suggests that the magnocellular pathway has adequate spatial-frequency and contrast sensitivity to perceive text under normal contrast conditions (>10%) and also is suppressed by red light. Results from t... Read More about Can the magnocellular pathway read? Evidence from studies of color.

Searching for autonomy (2003)
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Objective: to gain an understanding of what midwives understand by the term 'autonomy', and to discover whether they consider themselves and their colleagues to be autonomous in practice. Participants: a snowball sample of 27 midwives working in five... Read More about Searching for autonomy.

Constituting 'the public' in public participation (2003)
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The emphasis on public participation in contemporary policy discourse has prompted the development of a wide range of forums within which dialogue takes place between citizens and officials. Often such initiatives are intended to contribute to object... Read More about Constituting 'the public' in public participation.

Social inclusion implications of park-and-ride (2003)
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Park and ride (P&R) schemes are often promoted as an efficient means of extending the effective catchment of public transport networks into car-dependent areas with low population densities, such as rural districts. However, using P&R typically requi... Read More about Social inclusion implications of park-and-ride.

Understanding social exclusion and social inclusion (2003)
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This paper seeks to demonstrate the importance of a clear understanding of the concepts of social exclusion and social inclusion, not only for policy makers, but for all practitioners tasked with the implementation of strategies to reduce/increase ea... Read More about Understanding social exclusion and social inclusion.

Gender mainstreaming within local planning authorities (2003)
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This paper discusses the extent to which EU-derived gender mainstreaming (GM) requirements are being adopted with reference to Royal Town Planning Institute research on the situation in UK local planning authorities (LPAs). Firstly, the problem of a... Read More about Gender mainstreaming within local planning authorities.

Divided care and the Third Way: User involvement in statutory and voluntary sector cancer services (2003)
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In health care, as in much of the public sphere, the voluntary sector is playing an increasingly large role in the funding, provision and delivery of services and nowhere is this more apparent than in cancer care. Simultaneously the growth of privati... Read More about Divided care and the Third Way: User involvement in statutory and voluntary sector cancer services.

More or less meaningful concepts in planning theory (and how to make them more meaningful): A plea for conceptual analysis and precision: An essay in memory of Eric Reade: 1931-2002 (2003)
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An Essay in Memory of Eric Reade: 1931-2002

A rigorous inter-comparison of ground-level ozone predictions (2003)
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Novel statistical approaches to prediction have recently been shown to perform well in several scientific fields but have not, until now, been comprehensively evaluated for predicting air pollution. In this paper we report on a model inter-comparison... Read More about A rigorous inter-comparison of ground-level ozone predictions.

Rapid and direct determination of tryptophan in water using synchronous fluorescence spectroscopy (2003)
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Water samples from lakes situated in and around the area of Tsukuba Science City, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, were analysed using synchronous fluorescence spectroscopy and HPLC. The spectra revealed a major emission peak (λemm) at 340nm corresponding... Read More about Rapid and direct determination of tryptophan in water using synchronous fluorescence spectroscopy.

Changes in vertebral artery blood flow following normal rotation of the cervical spine (2003)
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Background: Extreme rotation of the cervical spine may cause compromised vertebral artery (VA) blood flow. This is of particular interest to manual therapists because of the potential risks associated with these movements. The question is whether the... Read More about Changes in vertebral artery blood flow following normal rotation of the cervical spine.

Screen-printed electrochemical sensors for monitoring metal pollutants (2003)
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This review describes current developments in the design and fabrication of disposable screen-printed sensors for the electrochemical determination of trace metals in biological, environmental and industrial samples. Specific emphasis is placed on se... Read More about Screen-printed electrochemical sensors for monitoring metal pollutants.

A pilot investigation of the hypoalgesic effects of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation upon low back pain in people with multiple sclerosis (2003)
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Objective: To investigate the hypoalgesic effects of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) upon low back pain (LBP) in people with multiple sclerosis (MS). Design: A randomized double-blind placebo controlled clinical pilot study. Subjec... Read More about A pilot investigation of the hypoalgesic effects of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation upon low back pain in people with multiple sclerosis.

Large-eddy simulation of transonic turbulent flow over a bump (2003)
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Transonic turbulent boundary-layer flow over a circular-arc bump has been computed by high-resolution large-eddy simulation of the compressible Navier-Stokes equations. The inflow turbulence was prescribed using a new technique, in which known dynami... Read More about Large-eddy simulation of transonic turbulent flow over a bump.

Legitimacy and the role of UK third sector organizations in the policy process (2003)
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This paper explores the legitimacy of third sector organizations in the policy process in the United Kingdom. It draws on empirical research to examine how legitimacy is defined, both by third sector organizations and by those they target within gove... Read More about Legitimacy and the role of UK third sector organizations in the policy process.

Ideas, bargaining and flexible policy communities: Policy change and the case of the Oxford transport strategy (2003)
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Critiques of policy networks have highlighted particularly the inability of concepts such as policy communities to explain policy change. The established construction of policy community places it chiefly as a metaphor for a relatively stable network... Read More about Ideas, bargaining and flexible policy communities: Policy change and the case of the Oxford transport strategy.

Absence of Chlamydia pneumoniae in brain of vascular dementia patients (2003)
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We recently detected cytomegalovirus (CMV) in brains of 83% of vascular dementia (VaD) patients and 34% of age-matched normal people. Since CMV and also Chlamydia pneumoniae (Cpn) have been found in some studies to be associated with coronary artery... Read More about Absence of Chlamydia pneumoniae in brain of vascular dementia patients.

Topology: A novel method to describe branching patterns in Peronospora viciae colonies (2003)
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Topology provides a novel means to describe branching patterns and has not been applied to fungal colonies previously. For any branched structure, various topologies are possible, and these lie between two extremes, a herringbone pattern (main axis w... Read More about Topology: A novel method to describe branching patterns in Peronospora viciae colonies.