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Producing a radio show about psychological science: The story of psychological frontiers (2011)
Journal Article

The authors describe the development of a campus-based radio show about psychological science. The authors’ goals in creating the show were to inform the public about the science of psychology and to create a teaching and learning resource for facu... Read More about Producing a radio show about psychological science: The story of psychological frontiers.

A model-driven privacy compliance decision support for medical data sharing in Europe (2011)
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Objectives: Clinical practitioners and medical researchers often have to share health data with other colleagues across Europe. Privacy compliance in this context is very important but challenging. Automated privacy guidelines are a practical way of... Read More about A model-driven privacy compliance decision support for medical data sharing in Europe.

Medicine dosing by weight in the home: Can parents accurately weigh preschool children? A method comparison study (2011)
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Objective: To determine the accuracy with which parents can estimate preschool children's weight using home scales in order to calculate antipyretic dose. Design: Cross-sectional, method comparison study. Setting and participants: 156 preschool child... Read More about Medicine dosing by weight in the home: Can parents accurately weigh preschool children? A method comparison study.

The effectiveness of health appraisal processes currently in addressing health and wellbeing during spatial plan appraisal: A systematic review (2011)
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Background: Spatial planning affects the built environment, which in turn has the potential to have a significant impact on health, for good or ill. One way of ensuring that spatial plans take due account of health is through the inclusion of health... Read More about The effectiveness of health appraisal processes currently in addressing health and wellbeing during spatial plan appraisal: A systematic review.

Wastewater management in a Nigerian leper colony (2011)
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Wastewater from infected leprosy patients is expected to contain considerably higher concentrations of pathogens than standard domestic wastewater and, therefore, is more infectious. Isolation of lepers' is thought to prevent the spread of a wide ran... Read More about Wastewater management in a Nigerian leper colony.

Mosetén and Chimane argument coding: A layered system (2011)
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This paper discusses the argument-coding system of Mosetenan, a small language family spoken in the Bolivian Amazon. While there is no case marking on nouns, all coding of arguments is found in the cross-reference ending of verbs. Intransitive verbs... Read More about Mosetén and Chimane argument coding: A layered system.

Comprehensive distribution network fault location using the distributed parameter model (2011)
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A typical low-or medium-voltage distribution feeder consists of numerous branches as well as laterals and heterogenic conductor lines. The lack of measurement points and the presence of unbalanced loads make it more complicated for the construction o... Read More about Comprehensive distribution network fault location using the distributed parameter model.

Prediction in meningococcal disease:\newline A literature review (2011)
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Meningococcal disease is a global burden with an estimated annual death rate of 170000 worldwide. The disease has an overall mortality greater than 10%. Despite these figures, several studies demonstrate that the management of children with severe me... Read More about Prediction in meningococcal disease:\newline A literature review.

Classic text revisited: Slavery and the Penal System (2011)
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In Slavery and the Penal System Thorsten Sellin set out to prove Gustav Radbruch's 1938 thesis that the modern 'criminal law bears the traits of its origin in slave punishments' (cited at p. viii). Within a relatively short book Sellin charts the his... Read More about Classic text revisited: Slavery and the Penal System.

State-of-the-art sustainability analysis methodologies for efficient decision support in green production operations (2011)
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Over the last three decades, new concepts, strategies, frameworks and systems have been developed to tackle the sustainable development issue. This paper reviews the challenges, perspectives and recent advances in support of sustainable production op... Read More about State-of-the-art sustainability analysis methodologies for efficient decision support in green production operations.

Concepts of community: A framework for contextualizing distributed leadership (2011)
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This review of the literature on community and distributed leadership marks out the potential for a more context-rich understanding of the nature of leadership. We begin by reviewing the literature on distributed leadership, noting a shift from clich... Read More about Concepts of community: A framework for contextualizing distributed leadership.

Utilizing next generation emerging technologies for enabling collective computational intelligence in disaster management (2011)
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Much work is underway within the broad next generation emerging technologies community on issues associated with the development of services to foster synergies and collaboration via the integration of distributed and heterogeneous resources, systems... Read More about Utilizing next generation emerging technologies for enabling collective computational intelligence in disaster management.

Critical parameters influencing value for money variations in PFI projects in the healthcare and transport sectors (2011)
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Achieving good value for money (VFM) is the principal objective of any private finance initiative (PFI) project while sustaining it throughout the contract life is the greatest challenge. Empirical evidence is required to understand uncertainties sur... Read More about Critical parameters influencing value for money variations in PFI projects in the healthcare and transport sectors.

Supported employment for persons with mental illness: Systematic review of the effectiveness of individual placement and support in the UK (2011)
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Background. High levels of unemployment among persons with mental illness are a significant social disability. The individual placement and support (IPS) model of vocational support has been shown to be effective in establishing persons with mental h... Read More about Supported employment for persons with mental illness: Systematic review of the effectiveness of individual placement and support in the UK.

Dismantling the ivory tower: Engaging geographers in University-Community Partnerships (2011)
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University-community partnerships offer synergistic spaces for communities to address difficulties and universities to meet their missions. Geographers are well positioned to participate in these partnerships, owing to the discipline's integrative na... Read More about Dismantling the ivory tower: Engaging geographers in University-Community Partnerships.

Re-framing the geography dissertation: A consideration of alternative, innovative and creative approaches (2011)
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This paper reviews the opportunities and challenges for re-framing the purpose, process, product and assessment of final-year geography dissertations. It argues that the academic centralities of critical thinking, analysis, evaluation, effective comm... Read More about Re-framing the geography dissertation: A consideration of alternative, innovative and creative approaches.

Bacterial genomes: Evolution of pathogenicity (2011)
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Bacterial pathogens continue to pose a major threat to economically important plant resources. Disease outbreaks can occur through rapid evolution of a pathogen to overcome host defences. The advent of genome sequencing, especially next-generation te... Read More about Bacterial genomes: Evolution of pathogenicity.

Anti-money laundering law of Turkey and the EU: An example of convergence? (2011)
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© 2011, Emerald Group Publishing Limited. PurposeThis paper critiques the recent anti-money laundering (AML) legislation in Turkey and the European Union (EU) in order to determine whether there is convergence between them. Given the fact that Turkey... Read More about Anti-money laundering law of Turkey and the EU: An example of convergence?.

Exploiting the brachypodium tool box in cereal and grass research (2011)
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It is now a decade since Brachypodium distachyon (Brachypodium) was suggested as a model species for temperate grasses and cereals. Since then transformation protocols, large expressed sequence tag (EST) databases, tools for forward and reverse genet... Read More about Exploiting the brachypodium tool box in cereal and grass research.

Interactive robots in experimental biology (2011)
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Interactive robots have the potential to revolutionise the study of social behaviour because they provide several methodological advances. In interactions with live animals, the behaviour of robots can be standardised, morphology and behaviour can be... Read More about Interactive robots in experimental biology.