All Outputs (29)

Innovation and corporate failure: Cyril Lord in U.K. textiles, 1945-1968 (2006)
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This article is a response to Patrick Fridenson's call for more research into the life cycle of enterprises and especially into business failure. Its subject is the textile group established in 1945 by Cyril Lord, which went on to encompass merchanti... Read More about Innovation and corporate failure: Cyril Lord in U.K. textiles, 1945-1968.

An evaluative case study of the dilemmas experienced in designing a self-assessment strategy for community nursing students (2006)
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The Dearing Report's (1997) radical proposals challenged lecturers in higher education to develop innovative assessment strategies. This paper explores the dilemmas experienced by one teaching team in designing and implementing a student self-assessm... Read More about An evaluative case study of the dilemmas experienced in designing a self-assessment strategy for community nursing students.

Integrated exercise and self-management programmes in osteoarthritis of the hip and knee: a systematic review of effectiveness (2006)
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© 2006 Maney Publishing. The aim of this systematic review was to investigate the clinical effects of integrated exercise and self-management programmes on pain and function in patients with hip and knee osteoarthritis, and to determine the cost-effe... Read More about Integrated exercise and self-management programmes in osteoarthritis of the hip and knee: a systematic review of effectiveness.

Clinical practice with anti-dementia drugs: A consensus statement from British Association for Psychopharmacology (2006)
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The British Association for Psychopharmacology (BAP) coordinated a meeting of experts to review the evidence on the drug treatment for dementia. The level of evidence (types) was rated using a standard system: Types 1a and 1b (evidence from meta-anal... Read More about Clinical practice with anti-dementia drugs: A consensus statement from British Association for Psychopharmacology.

'All my worldly goods I share with you'? Managing money at the transition to heterosexual marriage (2006)
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Studies in the 1980s and 1990s revealed that financial arrangements in marriage tended to disadvantage women, especially those with young children. However, much of that research focused upon relatively well-established married (or remarried) couples... Read More about 'All my worldly goods I share with you'? Managing money at the transition to heterosexual marriage.

Professional researcher or a 'good guest'? Ethical dilemmas involved in researching children and families in the home setting (2006)
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In this article we explore our experiences of researching children and families in the home setting. We trace the impact of the home setting on some ethical and methodological issues which arose in the course of conducting our field work and consider... Read More about Professional researcher or a 'good guest'? Ethical dilemmas involved in researching children and families in the home setting.

A comparison of interprofessional perceptions and working relationships among health and social care students: The results of a 3-year intervention (2006)
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A longitudinal quantitative study in an English faculty of health and social care explored the effects of a pre-qualifying interprofessional curriculum for students from 10 professional programmes. Students on the interprofessional curriculum complet... Read More about A comparison of interprofessional perceptions and working relationships among health and social care students: The results of a 3-year intervention.

Children's 'funds of knowledge' and their real life activities: Two minority ethnic children learning in out-of-school contexts in the UK (2006)
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In this paper we explore the concept of 'funds of knowledge' used by Moll and Greenberg (1990) in the US to recognize and value expertise located within minority ethnic communities and apply it to the out-of-school learning engaged in by two primary... Read More about Children's 'funds of knowledge' and their real life activities: Two minority ethnic children learning in out-of-school contexts in the UK.

Lifelong learning and the knowledge economy: Those that know and those that do not - The discourse of the European Union (2006)
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This article is based on a textual analysis of European Commission documents that, from 1993 to 2006, construct the discourses of lifelong learning and the knowledge economy. Exploring an apparent conceptual laxity, it finds absolute consistency in t... Read More about Lifelong learning and the knowledge economy: Those that know and those that do not - The discourse of the European Union.

Working with parentification: Implications for clients and counselling psychologists (2006)
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This paper concerns the concept of parentification, whereby children take on inappropriate parental roles. A brief theoretical overview is presented, showing that parentification has important implications for understanding both clients' and counsell... Read More about Working with parentification: Implications for clients and counselling psychologists.

What is good qualitative research? A first step towards a comprehensive approach to judging rigour/quality (2006)
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Qualitative research has an enormous amount to contribute to the fields of health, medicine and public health but readers and reviewers from these fields have little understanding of how to judge its quality. Work to date accurately reflects the comp... Read More about What is good qualitative research? A first step towards a comprehensive approach to judging rigour/quality.

'We do not use the word "crisis" lightly...': Sexual health policy in the United Kingdom (2006)
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At the turn of the twenty-first century, health professionals, the media and politicians identified 'sexual health' as a policy problem in the UK. Despite publication in 2001 of a National Strategy for Sexual Health and HIV for England, in 2003 the H... Read More about 'We do not use the word "crisis" lightly...': Sexual health policy in the United Kingdom.

The impact of formal education and training on urodynamic practice in the United Kingdom: A survey (2006)
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Aim: A previous survey of personnel performing urodynamics had shown that half of the respondents thought that their training had been inadequate. In order to address this the outcome of a 4-day practical course for teaching urodynamics, which has be... Read More about The impact of formal education and training on urodynamic practice in the United Kingdom: A survey.

Patients and professionals as research partners: Challenges, practicalities, and benefits (2006)
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Organizational learning, tacit information, and e-learning: A review (2006)
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Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to introduce and develop the argument that e-learning technologies and techniques can play a pivotal role in encouraging and facilitating organizational learning, by transforming tacit knowledge into explicit kn... Read More about Organizational learning, tacit information, and e-learning: A review.

Spirituality at the beginning of life (2006)
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Aim. The aim of this paper was to explore the issues surrounding the spirit of the unborn child. Background. Pregnancy and birth have been recognised to have a spiritual nature by women and health professionals caring for them. Midwives and nurses ar... Read More about Spirituality at the beginning of life.

Cell biology: Ran, mitosis and the cancer connection (2006)
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The small GTPase Ran has been shown to regulate HURP, a protein that interacts with several mitotic spindle assembly factors. This discovery sheds new light on the role of Ran in the fidelity of mitosis and in cancer. © 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights... Read More about Cell biology: Ran, mitosis and the cancer connection.

Gene expression profiling in the brains of human cocaine abusers (2006)
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Chronic cocaine abuse induces long-term neurochemical, structural and behavioural changes thought to result from altered gene expression within the nucleus accumbens and other brain regions playing a critical role in addiction. Recent methodological... Read More about Gene expression profiling in the brains of human cocaine abusers.

Institutional and conceptual barriers to the adoption of gender mainstreaming within spatial planning departments in England (2006)
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Local authority planning departments within the United Kingdom are required to undertake gender mainstreaming as a result of European Union and domestic government requirements. However, research undertaken for the Royal Town Planning Institute demon... Read More about Institutional and conceptual barriers to the adoption of gender mainstreaming within spatial planning departments in England.

City/culture discourses: Evidence from the competition to select the European Capital of Culture 2008 (2006)
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In the current era of globalization, manufacturing decline and place marketing, many cities have turned to culture as a favoured means of gaining competitive advantage. The European Capital of Culture (ECOC) programme has been a significant catalyst... Read More about City/culture discourses: Evidence from the competition to select the European Capital of Culture 2008.