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'I'm just going to wash you down': Sanitizing the vaginal examination (2005)
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Aim. This paper reports findings from an ongoing study exploring the qualitative experiences of midwives and women in relation to vaginal examination in labour, focusing on how vaginal examination is discussed and on the wash-down procedure used by s... Read More about 'I'm just going to wash you down': Sanitizing the vaginal examination.

Guest editorial - Evidence-based practice: Panacea or meaningless sound bite? (2005)
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Online giving: What lessons can we learn? (2005)
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Proteomic identification of glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase as an inhibitory target of hydrogen peroxide in Arabidopsis (2005)
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Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is now recognised as a key signalling molecule in eukaryotes. In plants, H2O2 is involved in regulating stomatal closure, gravitropic responses, gene expression and programmed cell death. Although several kinases, such as oxi... Read More about Proteomic identification of glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase as an inhibitory target of hydrogen peroxide in Arabidopsis.

Understanding pain, part 2: Pain management (2005)
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Understanding pain, part 1: Physiology of pain (2005)
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Front line or all fronts? Women's trade union activism in retail services (2005)
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This article draws on data from a case study of a trade union campaign to organize part-time women workers in a large supermarket chain. The data indicate that combining paid work, work in the home and increased trade union participation means that t... Read More about Front line or all fronts? Women's trade union activism in retail services.

Protecting the public - from me (2005)
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Dynamic photometric stereo - A new technique for moving surface analysis (2005)
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This paper describes a novel approach for two- and three-dimensional surface data capture from moving surfaces based upon an evolution of the existing photometric stereo (PS) technique. Limitations in current methods are described, together with the... Read More about Dynamic photometric stereo - A new technique for moving surface analysis.

Out with the old and in with the new? A critical analysis of contemporary policy towards the development of credit unions in Great Britain (2005)
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The role of self-improvement and self-evaluation motives in social comparisons with idealised female bodies in the media (2005)
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This study investigates the effect of social comparisons with media models on women's body image based on either self-evaluation or self-improvement motives. Ninety-eight women, for whom appearance was a relevant comparison dimension, viewed advertis... Read More about The role of self-improvement and self-evaluation motives in social comparisons with idealised female bodies in the media.

Inclusivity, process and product in writing for European social work education (2005)
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Non-financial performance measurement in manufacturing companies (2005)
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The contemporary manufacturing environment is characterised by increased worker responsibility coupled with the measurement and reporting of numerous aspects of performance. At shop-floor level much of this performance measurement and reporting is no... Read More about Non-financial performance measurement in manufacturing companies.

Book review - Natural Assets: Democratizing environmental ownership (2005)
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This is a Book Review on Natural Assets: Democratizing Environmental Ownership by James K. Boyce, Barry G Shelley (eds.), Island Press, 2003.

The endogenous cannabinoid, anandamide, induces cell death in colorectal carcinoma cells: A possible role for cyclooxygenase 2 (2005)
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Background and aims: Cyclooxygenase 2 (COX-2) is upregulated in most colorectal cancers and is responsible for metabolism of the endogenous cannabinoid, anandamide, into prostaglandin-ethanolamides (PG-EAs). The aims of this study were to determine w... Read More about The endogenous cannabinoid, anandamide, induces cell death in colorectal carcinoma cells: A possible role for cyclooxygenase 2.

The poetry of origins and the origins of poetry: Norman O. Brown's Giambattista Vico and James Joyce (2005)
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Accounting for e-commerce: Abstractions, virtualism and the cultural circuit of capital (2005)
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This paper considers the phenomenon of e-commerce as an achievement of serial acts of representation and re-representation. Drawing upon the concepts of virtualism and the cultural circuit of capital, we attempt to demonstrate the material consequenc... Read More about Accounting for e-commerce: Abstractions, virtualism and the cultural circuit of capital.

Brussels French une fois: Transfer-induced innovation or system-internal development? (2005)
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In language contact studies, specific features of the contact languages are often seen to be the result of transfer (interference), but it remains difficult to disentangle the role of intra-systemic and inter-systemic factors. We propose to unravel t... Read More about Brussels French une fois: Transfer-induced innovation or system-internal development?.

Professional influences on the provision of mental health care for older people within a general hospital ward (2005)
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Recent policy initiatives within the United Kingdom have recognized that effective care for older people can only be achieved if health care staff are willing and skilled enough to address patient needs in a holistic way. The preliminary stages of th... Read More about Professional influences on the provision of mental health care for older people within a general hospital ward.

Children’s student nurses’ knowledge of spirituality and its implications for educational practice (2005)
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