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Understanding learning cultures (2007)
Journal Article

This paper sets out an explanation about the nature of learning cultures and how they work. In so doing, it directly addresses some key weaknesses in current situated learning theoretical writing, by working to overcome unhelpful dualisms, such as th... Read More about Understanding learning cultures.

Natural and anthropogenic contamination of the Fratta-Gorzone river (Veneto, Italy) (2007)
Journal Article

Stream-bed sediment samples were collected in 2001 and 2004 along the Fratta-Gorzone River (Italy) to assess the level of heavy metal contamination. The river stretch most affected by discharges of tannery effluent showed total and pseudo-total Cr le... Read More about Natural and anthropogenic contamination of the Fratta-Gorzone river (Veneto, Italy).

Particle tracking in Taylor-Couette flow (2007)
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The paths of small inertial particles are computed in a steady Taylor vortex background flow. When buoyancy effects are neglected we find that particles denser than the background fluid tend to a limit orbit in the meridional plane. The difference in... Read More about Particle tracking in Taylor-Couette flow.

Conceptions of early leaving: A comparison of the views of teaching staff and students (2007)
Journal Article

Recent synthesizing work on the student retention literature suggests two divergent discourses. The first is a discourse of assimilation which locates the problem in individual students' circumstances or abilities. This is challenged by an emerging d... Read More about Conceptions of early leaving: A comparison of the views of teaching staff and students.

Managing appearance changes resulting from cancer treatment: Resilience in adolescent females (2007)
Journal Article

Typically, adolescence is marked by cognitive and physical developments impacting on self-esteem, independence and sexual awareness, often resulting in increased appearance awareness and dissatisfaction. Adolescents with cancer have the additional bu... Read More about Managing appearance changes resulting from cancer treatment: Resilience in adolescent females.

Influencing cognitive strategy by manipulating information access (2007)
Journal Article

Recent developments in technology have meant that operators of complex systems, such as those found in the modern aircraft cockpit, now have access to an unprecedented volume of information. Significant focus within computer science and engineering h... Read More about Influencing cognitive strategy by manipulating information access.

Improving food security in Swaziland: The transition from subsistence to communally managed cash cropping (2007)
Journal Article

The Komati Downstream Development Project (KDDP), based upon the Maguga Dam has enabled 6,000 hectares of semi-arid lowveld, in a region with low and highly variable rainfall to be converted from subsistence to irrigated commercial farming, mainly of... Read More about Improving food security in Swaziland: The transition from subsistence to communally managed cash cropping.

Ethical issues in social research involving people with dementia (2007)
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Involving people with dementia in research raises many ethical and practical issues for people with dementia, carers and family members, researchers and care professionals. Internationally, the legal, governance and ethical framework for such researc... Read More about Ethical issues in social research involving people with dementia.

Yes! But .. No...But! Untangling the impact of children and young people s participation on health and social care decision making (2007)
Journal Article

Patient dependency in emergency care: Do we have the nurses we need? (2007)
Journal Article

Patient dependency in emergency care: do we have the nurses we need? To use the previously validated Jones Dependency Tool to establish current patterns in the dependency of patients attending the Emergency Department of an inner city teaching hospit... Read More about Patient dependency in emergency care: Do we have the nurses we need?.

The limits of tutor intervention: Understanding improvement in a cultural view of FE learning and teaching (2007)
Journal Article

From its inception, the Transforming Learning Cultures in Further Education (TLC) project included an explicit intention to identify some principles for the enhancement of learning cultures in order to improve student and teacher learning, and a wish... Read More about The limits of tutor intervention: Understanding improvement in a cultural view of FE learning and teaching.

Voltammetric behaviour of p-nitrophenol and its trace determination in human urine by liquid chromatography with a dual reductive mode electrochemical detection system (2007)
Journal Article

The determination of trace p-nitrophenol (PNP) concentrations in human urine has been successfully achieved by high performance liquid chromatography dual electrode detection (LC-DED) in the reduction-reduction mode. Initial cyclic voltammetric studi... Read More about Voltammetric behaviour of p-nitrophenol and its trace determination in human urine by liquid chromatography with a dual reductive mode electrochemical detection system.

“It's certainly been good just to talk” An interpretative phenomenological analysis of coping with myocardial infarction (2007)
Journal Article

Teaching spirituality to student midwives: A creative approach (2007)
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The nature of midwifery both as an art and a science requires methods of teaching students that will enhance this understanding. A philosophy of holistic care of women should underpin education of student midwives and these concepts should be put acr... Read More about Teaching spirituality to student midwives: A creative approach.

The paradox of professionalism in english further education: A TLC project perspective (2007)
Journal Article

This paper examines the shifting nature of Further Education (FE) professionalism through the lenses of the Transforming Learning Cultures in FE (TLC) project. Despite over a decade of market and managerial reform professionalism in FE remains an elu... Read More about The paradox of professionalism in english further education: A TLC project perspective.

Acute exercise effects on smoking withdrawal symptoms and desire to smoke are not related to expectation (2007)
Journal Article

Rationale: Recent research has shown that 10 min of moderate intensity exercise reduce smoking withdrawal symptoms and desire to smoke in acutely abstinent smokers. The aim of the current study was to determine whether the reductions are related to p... Read More about Acute exercise effects on smoking withdrawal symptoms and desire to smoke are not related to expectation.

Tele-education in emergency care (2007)
Journal Article

The use of telemedicine is becoming routine and accepted in certain limited areas such as electrocardiogram and radiograph/computed tomographic scan telemetry. Tele- education has thus far had limited applications although in emergency medicine it ha... Read More about Tele-education in emergency care.

Responding to domestic abuse : A handbook for health professionals (2007)
Journal Article

Planning, developing and writing an effective conference abstract (2007)
Journal Article

'Shattered into a multiplicity of warring functions': synthesis, disintegration and 'distractibility' (2007)
Journal Article

At the centre of this peer-reviewed journal article on distractibility is a detailed investigation of William McDougall's 1920s-1940s adaptation of William James' notion of distraction developed in the 1890s. While the argument concerning the applica... Read More about 'Shattered into a multiplicity of warring functions': synthesis, disintegration and 'distractibility'.