Neuroscience public open days: Evaluating Auckland Brain Day as a communication method
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Involving patients in assessment of students (2011)
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The Nursing and Midwifery Council promotes the idea that patients should contribute to the assessment of preregistration student nurses. In response, staff, mentors and pre-registration student nurses from the University of West of England Bristol an... Read More about Involving patients in assessment of students.
How virtual are virtual economies? An exploration into the legal, social and economic nature of virtual world economies (2011)
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Virtual world economies are undoubtedly increasing in growth, participation and importance. Their macroeconomic impact has already been seen as important in the real world economies; however its governance and jurisdiction is unclear. This paper will... Read More about How virtual are virtual economies? An exploration into the legal, social and economic nature of virtual world economies.
'So what problems bother you and you are not speeding up your work?' problem solving talk at work (2011)
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Problem solving (PbS) can be readily described as one of the key activities regularly performed by professionals in any workplace setting. Despite its importance, however, there is relatively little (socio)linguistic research which looks at the compl... Read More about 'So what problems bother you and you are not speeding up your work?' problem solving talk at work.
From brigade to service: An examination of the role of fire and rescue services in modern local government (2011)
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Over the last ten years, local government modernisation and the growth of community safety agendas have called for change in the public sector at a local level. This has been typified by partnership work, improvement and inspection and community gove... Read More about From brigade to service: An examination of the role of fire and rescue services in modern local government.
Beyond the chains that bind: The political crisis of unions in Western Europe (2011)
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The dynamics of neo-liberal restructuring have generated serious tensions in the institutional alignments between social democratic political parties and labor unions in Western Europe. This article explores the origins,development and consequences o... Read More about Beyond the chains that bind: The political crisis of unions in Western Europe.
Evaluating the potential of new technological tools for safety critical work (2011)
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Defining user requirements of complex human-system interaction technologies and testing the fulfilment of these requirements in the end-product are issues of design practice that are currently not solved in an optimal way. In the current paper severa... Read More about Evaluating the potential of new technological tools for safety critical work.
The Active for Life Year 5 (AFLY5) school based cluster randomised controlled trial: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial (2011)
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Background: Low levels of physical activity, high levels of sedentary behaviour and low levels of fruit and vegetable consumption are common in children and are associated with adverse health outcomes. The aim of this paper is to describe the protoco... Read More about The Active for Life Year 5 (AFLY5) school based cluster randomised controlled trial: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.
Mind the gap: the impertinent predicates (and subjects) of King Rat and Looking for Jake and other stories (2011)
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A critical account of China Miéville’s King Rat and the stories in Looking for Jake, which considers contemporary attempts to anatomise the fantastic and draws on the theorisations of metaphor to open up a new approach to fantastic texts.
Critical band 3 multiprotein complex interactions establish early during human erythropoiesis (2011)
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Band 3, the major anion transport protein of human erythrocytes, forms the core of a multiprotein complex in the erythrocyte membrane. Here we studied the spatiotemporal mechanisms of band 3 multiprotein complex assembly during erythropoiesis. Signif... Read More about Critical band 3 multiprotein complex interactions establish early during human erythropoiesis.
Achieving sustainable mobility - Everyday and leisure-time travel in the EU (2011)
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The serious mental illness health improvement profile [HIP]: Study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial (2011)
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Background: The serious mental illness Health Improvement Profile [HIP] is a brief pragmatic tool, which enables mental health nurses to work together with patients to screen physical health and take evidence-based action when variables are identifie... Read More about The serious mental illness health improvement profile [HIP]: Study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial.
Chronocoulometric determination of urea in human serum using an inkjet printed biosensor (2011)
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A biosensor for the determination of urea in human serum was fabricated using a combination of inkjet printed polyaniline nanoparticles and inkjet printed urease enzyme deposited sequentially onto screen-printed carbon paste electrodes. Chronocoulome... Read More about Chronocoulometric determination of urea in human serum using an inkjet printed biosensor.
Propriety, process and purpose: Considerations of the use of the telephone interview method in an educational research study (2011)
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While the use of the telephone has increased as a means of collecting research data in a range of areas, there are few examples of studies where telephone interviews have been conducted to collect qualitative data. The field of educational research i... Read More about Propriety, process and purpose: Considerations of the use of the telephone interview method in an educational research study.
Public procurement of innovations, diffusion and endogenous institutions (2011)
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Purpose: Public procurement has been increasingly seen as an important innovation policy tool. One neglected aspect of the public procurement of innovation is, however, diffusion. The purpose of this paper is to counter this neglect by exploring how... Read More about Public procurement of innovations, diffusion and endogenous institutions.
Early voting and informed voters in America (2011)
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'All they lack is a chain': Lean and the new performance management in the British civil service (2011)
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The adaptation of lean techniques in public services is viewed as an innovative managerialist response to government demands for more efficient services amidst large reductions in public spending. This paper explores workers' experiences of the impac... Read More about 'All they lack is a chain': Lean and the new performance management in the British civil service.
Critical buckling of delaminated composite plates using exact stiffness analysis (2011)
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The critical buckling of composite plates with through-the-length delaminations is studied using exact stiffness analysis and the Wittrick-Williams algorithm. Computational efficiency is achieved by avoiding discretisation into elements, making the m... Read More about Critical buckling of delaminated composite plates using exact stiffness analysis.
Children aged 9-14 living in disadvantaged areas in England: Opportunities and barriers for cycling (2011)
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The aim of this paper is to take a holistic perspective to explore levels of cycling and opportunities and barriers to increase children's safer cycling in disadvantaged areas in England. The study was one part of a larger study which explored the fa... Read More about Children aged 9-14 living in disadvantaged areas in England: Opportunities and barriers for cycling.
Vesicle computers: Approximating a Voronoi diagram using Voronoi automata (2011)
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Irregular arrangements of vesicles filled with excitable and precipitating chemical systems are imitated by Voronoi automata - finite-state machines defined on a planar Voronoi diagram. Every Voronoi cell takes four states: resting, excited, refracto... Read More about Vesicle computers: Approximating a Voronoi diagram using Voronoi automata.