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Developing compassion in pre-registration education (2014)
Journal Article

Compassion is a fundamental aspect of nursing and student nurses have to be able to demonstrate compassion in practice. Nurse educators in higher education institutions and clinical settings need to work together to prepare and support student nurses... Read More about Developing compassion in pre-registration education.

Beyond reason: The philosophy and politics of immigration (2014)
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In this paper, I critically address the role of arbitrary and contingent features in philosophical debates about migration. These features play a central role, and display the importance of unreason in the debate and the limits of rational criticism.... Read More about Beyond reason: The philosophy and politics of immigration.

Appearance concerns and psychosocial adjustment following head and neck cancer: A cross-sectional study and nine-month follow-up (2014)
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Psychosocial difficulties have been reported in head and neck cancer (HNC) patients, yet only few studies have assessed the impact of altered appearance following HNC treatment using theoretically selected measures of appearance-related distress. Thi... Read More about Appearance concerns and psychosocial adjustment following head and neck cancer: A cross-sectional study and nine-month follow-up.

Towards a needs analysis of why students in a Ghanaian university fail the academic writing course (2014)
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In the last two and half decades, academic literacy has received considerable attention in tertiary education in several English-medium universities. Consequently, English for Academic Purposes (EAP) and analogous writing programs have constantly bee... Read More about Towards a needs analysis of why students in a Ghanaian university fail the academic writing course.

Material approximation of data smoothing and spline curves inspired by slime mould (2014)
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The giant single-celled slime mould Physarum polycephalum is known to approximate a number of network problems via growth and adaptation of its protoplasmic transport network and can serve as an inspiration towards unconventional, material-based comp... Read More about Material approximation of data smoothing and spline curves inspired by slime mould.

An anthropomorphic design for a minimally invasive surgical system based on a survey of surgical technologies, techniques and training (2014)
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© 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Background: Over the past century, abdominal surgery has seen a rapid transition from open procedures to less invasive methods, such as robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery (MIS). This study aimed to investigate... Read More about An anthropomorphic design for a minimally invasive surgical system based on a survey of surgical technologies, techniques and training.

Culture clash: Appearance concerns in black and minority ethnic groups (2014)
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Around the world, men and women of all cultures and ethnicities are being exposed to Western appearance ideals. Paired with a lack of representation of black and minority ethnic (BME) men and women in the mainstream media, the public's appreciation o... Read More about Culture clash: Appearance concerns in black and minority ethnic groups.

Predatory lending and white collar crime: A critical reflection (2014)
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The objective of this article is to review the relationship between white collar crime, in particular fraud, and predatory lending. The article critically considers whether fraud and predatory lending can be classified as a “related factor” that c... Read More about Predatory lending and white collar crime: A critical reflection.

UK counselling psychology training placements: Where are we now? (2014)
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Background: Quality training placements are crucial to producing professional practitioner psychologists. However, as in other professions, accessing high-quality placements remains a struggle for trainee counselling psychologists. There is also a la... Read More about UK counselling psychology training placements: Where are we now?.

Book review: 'Treatise on Money' by J. A. Schumpeter (2014)
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Understanding student attendance in business schools: An exploratory study (2014)
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© 2014 Elsevier Ltd. There is considerable literature indicating that class attendance is positively related to academic performance. However, the narrative on what influences students' decisions to attend class is scant. This article examines why st... Read More about Understanding student attendance in business schools: An exploratory study.

All change for next generation transport (2014)
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We are in transition between the motor age and the digital age and heading for a very different world.

Further developments in the 3D printing of self-glazing single fire ceramic materials (2014)
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David Huson and Katie Vaughan at the Centre for Fine Print Research at the University of the West of England are continuing their research into the 3D printing of ceramic bodies by investigating the possibilities of using techniques developed by the... Read More about Further developments in the 3D printing of self-glazing single fire ceramic materials.

Issues of tacit knowledge within 3D printing for artists, designers and makers (2014)
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The creative industries are directly interfacing with 3D printing technology and how it is changing the practices of many artists and designers across the globe. However for the creative community it is not possible to take on a new manufacturing tec... Read More about Issues of tacit knowledge within 3D printing for artists, designers and makers.

Digital creation of hand engraved copper plates to secure a historic process (2014)
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Underglaze tissue ceramic transfer printing was first developed circa 1750 and involved the use of engraved or etched copper plates, from which a wet strength tissue paper was printed with an oxide (commonly cobalt for blue colour) the famous ‘Will... Read More about Digital creation of hand engraved copper plates to secure a historic process.

Improving coherence of ecosystem service provision between scales (2014)
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© 2014 Elsevier B.V. High-level consensus about safeguarding ecosystem services for optimal benefits to society is not yet matched by transposition to field scale. Various 'societal levers' - markets, statutory legislation, common/civil law, market-b... Read More about Improving coherence of ecosystem service provision between scales.

The ‘slippery’ concept of ‘culture’ in projects: Towards alternative theoretical possibilities embedded in project practice (2014)
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The geometry of r-adaptive meshes generated using optimal transport methods (2014)
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The principles of mesh equidistribution and alignment play a fundamental role in the design of adaptive methods, and a metric tensor M and mesh metric are useful theoretical tools for understanding a methods level of mesh alignment, or anisotropy. We... Read More about The geometry of r-adaptive meshes generated using optimal transport methods.

Remembering Sir Francis Drake: Travel, commemoration and national identity in the work of Henry Robarts (2014)
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© Manchester University Press. Henry Robarts is a little-known writer whose work includes prose romances, records of state entertainments, and commendatory pamphlets on travel. This article pays particular attention to his celebrations of Sir Francis... Read More about Remembering Sir Francis Drake: Travel, commemoration and national identity in the work of Henry Robarts.

An ERP knowledge transfer framework for strategic decisions in knowledge management in organization (2014)
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Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system implementation requires wide range of knowledge from various parties and transferring the right amount of knowledge between individuals during implementation is of paramount importance. Hence, ERP knowledge t... Read More about An ERP knowledge transfer framework for strategic decisions in knowledge management in organization.