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Understanding the role of universities in the European Healthy Cities Programme (2012)
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The WHO Collaborating Centre is a founder member of HAVEN, a European consortium of universities and healthy cities set up to provide academic support to the European Healthy City Network (EHCN). In order to identify which ‘healthy city’ goals and ac... Read More about Understanding the role of universities in the European Healthy Cities Programme.

International perspectives on building capacity for planning and health (2012)
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This paper looks at the integration of health into planning and planning curricula and what we have learnt from international practice in the context of the PLAN-ED (“Educating Planners for the New Challenges of Sustainability, Knowledge and Governan... Read More about International perspectives on building capacity for planning and health.

Income velocity and non-GDP transactions in the UK (2012)
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It is widely reported for many countries, including the UK, that income velocity has been highly variable around a declining trend in recent years. This paper advances the following hypothesis. The demand for credit and hence the broad money stock ar... Read More about Income velocity and non-GDP transactions in the UK.

Tackling ageing continence through theory, tools & technology (TACT3) (2012)
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After dementia, nothing is more feared by older people than the loss of continence. It is often the reason many people enter care facilities and can contribute to the breakdown of caring relationships. This paper reports on a three-year research proj... Read More about Tackling ageing continence through theory, tools & technology (TACT3).

The use of framing to highlight differences between transport-related CO2 amounts (2012)
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Cross-cultural differences in perception of time: Implications for multinational teams (2012)
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Members of multinational teams likely have different perspectives on a variety of factors stemming from their different cultural backgrounds. The use and perception of time is one of the specific cultural values that differ cross- culturally and may... Read More about Cross-cultural differences in perception of time: Implications for multinational teams.

The older I get the less I trust people: Constructing age identities in the workplace (2012)
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Corporate governance: Between instrumentality and institutional drivers (2012)
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Assessment of borehole water quality in Yola-Jimeta Metropolis, Nigeria (2012)
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This study investigates the chemical concentration of borehole water in Yola-Jimeta Metropolis so as to assess their suitability for domestic use. Water samples were collected from twenty-two boreholes, one sample from each of the twenty-two administ... Read More about Assessment of borehole water quality in Yola-Jimeta Metropolis, Nigeria.

Static and dynamic pressure prediction for prosthetic socket fitting assessment utilising an inverse problem approach (2012)
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Objective: It has been recognised in a review of the developments of lower-limb prosthetic socket fitting processes that the future demands new tools to aid in socket fitting. This paper presents the results of research to design and clinically test... Read More about Static and dynamic pressure prediction for prosthetic socket fitting assessment utilising an inverse problem approach.

Sustaining the education workforce in healthcare: Challenges for the future (2012)
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Aim: The aim of the study was to scope education staff capacity to meet the future needs of the healthcare workforce in practice across South West (SW) England. Background: As individual nations come to terms with the impact of the incurred global de... Read More about Sustaining the education workforce in healthcare: Challenges for the future.

Wernicke's aphasia reflects a combination of acoustic-phonological and semantic control deficits: A case-series comparison of Wernicke's aphasia, semantic dementia and semantic aphasia (2012)
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Wernicke's aphasia (WA) is the classical neurological model of comprehension impairment and, as a result, the posterior temporal lobe is assumed to be critical to semantic cognition. This conclusion is potentially confused by (a) the existence of pat... Read More about Wernicke's aphasia reflects a combination of acoustic-phonological and semantic control deficits: A case-series comparison of Wernicke's aphasia, semantic dementia and semantic aphasia.

Revealing and quantifying the impaired phonological analysis underpinning impaired comprehension in Wernicke's aphasia (2012)
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Wernicke's aphasia is a condition which results in severely disrupted language comprehension following a lesion to the left temporo-parietal region. A phonological analysis deficit has traditionally been held to be at the root of the comprehension im... Read More about Revealing and quantifying the impaired phonological analysis underpinning impaired comprehension in Wernicke's aphasia.

Writing essays: Does self-efficacy matter? The relationship between self-efficacy in reading and in writing and undergraduate students' performance in essay writing (2012)
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Self-efficacy beliefs have been identified as associated with students' academic performance. The present research assessed the relationship between two new self-efficacy scales (self-efficacy in reading [SER] and self-efficacy in writing [SEW]) and... Read More about Writing essays: Does self-efficacy matter? The relationship between self-efficacy in reading and in writing and undergraduate students' performance in essay writing.

Servitisation and value co-production in the UK music industry: An empirical study of Consumer Attitudes (2012)
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Since the rise of music on the internet the record industry has reported falling total sales revenues. This has occurred at a time when technology has radically increased choice, availability and the opportunity for the consumer to purchase music. To... Read More about Servitisation and value co-production in the UK music industry: An empirical study of Consumer Attitudes.

Foucault’s technologies of the self: Between control and creativity (2012)
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A future beyond the car? Editorial introduction (2012)
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Clinical evaluation of respiratory motion compensation for anatomical roadmap guided cardiac electrophysiology procedures (2012)
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X-ray fluoroscopically guided cardiac electrophysiological procedures are routinely carried out for diagnosis and treatment of cardiac arrhythmias. X-ray images have poor soft tissue contrast and, for this reason, overlay of static 3-D roadmaps deriv... Read More about Clinical evaluation of respiratory motion compensation for anatomical roadmap guided cardiac electrophysiology procedures.

Made to measure? Assessing feasibility of quality indicators for district nursing (2012)
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Scant empirical information exists regarding the quality of district nursing (DN) services. This article reports the testing of 31 quality indicators (QI) in practice. Method: Twelve DN teams provided patient notes for audit. External auditors c... Read More about Made to measure? Assessing feasibility of quality indicators for district nursing.

Comparing thought suppression and acceptance as coping techniques for food cravings (2012)
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Handling food cravings seems to play a major role in weight management. Many try to simply avoid cravings. However, avoidance based techniques like thought suppression can make attempts to deal with cravings more difficult. Recent research suggests t... Read More about Comparing thought suppression and acceptance as coping techniques for food cravings.