Matter and thought: Eliot, Lewes, Huxley and the mind/body relationship
(2004)
Journal Article
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Bluebell (2004)
Digital Artefact
This output comprises a six-minute short film 'practice as research output' which extends Crofts published research on Angela Carter's feminist reappropriation of Red Riding Hood in the short story (1979), radio (1980) and film adaptations (1984) of... Read More about Bluebell.
Common mistake: Theoretical justification and remedial inflexibility (2004)
Journal Article
Mistake as to identity and the threads of objectivity (2004)
Journal Article
Trajectories of a DAE near a pseudo-equilibrium (2004)
Journal Article
Violations of expected utility theory in route-choice stated preferences: Certainty effect and inflation of small probabilities (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Common travel-choice models are based on the maximum utility assumption. However, the use of expected utility theory in descriptive models of individual choice has been criticized by behavioral scientists and recently also by transportation researche... Read More about Violations of expected utility theory in route-choice stated preferences: Certainty effect and inflation of small probabilities.
Challenging students in further education: Themes arising from a study of innovative FE provision for excluded and disaffected young people (2004)
Journal Article
The paper draws on a research project on innovative provision in an FE college for excluded and disaffected young people. The college offers places on vocational courses to students who are still of compulsory school age who have been excluded by or... Read More about Challenging students in further education: Themes arising from a study of innovative FE provision for excluded and disaffected young people.
Artefact or reality? Increases in persons notified to the Regional Drug Misuse Database in the South West of England, 1996-2001 (2004)
Journal Article
The incidence of new persons and repeat attenders presenting for treatment for problem drug misuse in the South West of England more than doubled from 1996-1997 to 2000-2001. During this time there was an increase in the number and severity of chroni... Read More about Artefact or reality? Increases in persons notified to the Regional Drug Misuse Database in the South West of England, 1996-2001.
Innovation in education transport: Developments in West Yorkshire (2004)
Journal Article
Education transport has been the Cinderella service of the bus industry. High peak costs and behaviour problems have consorted to make the carriage of school children a low priority for bus operators. On the other hand, education authorities have a d... Read More about Innovation in education transport: Developments in West Yorkshire.
The origins of current nurse education policy and its implication for nurse educators (2004)
Journal Article
The publication of Fitness for Practice [UKCC Commission for Nursing and Midwifery Education, 1999. Fitness for Practice (Chair Sir Leonard Peach). UKCC, London] in the United Kingdom (UK) came at a time when anxiety was being expressed by UK governm... Read More about The origins of current nurse education policy and its implication for nurse educators.
Consultant nurses in mental health: A discussion of the historical and policy context of the role (2004)
Journal Article
This paper provides a platform for the discussion of the recent development of the nursing leadership role of consultant nurse. It focuses on the implementation of this role in mental health. The discussion is partially informed by evidence from pers... Read More about Consultant nurses in mental health: A discussion of the historical and policy context of the role.
High performance work systems and workplace partnership: A case study of aerospace workers (2004)
Journal Article
This article provides case study analysis of the impact of high performance work practices and workplace partnership on skilled workers in the UK's aerospace industry. In contrast to assumptions that such practices increase empowerment and participat... Read More about High performance work systems and workplace partnership: A case study of aerospace workers.
Preparing nurses to initiate thrombolytic therapy for patients with an acute myocardial infarction - Is there a consensus? (2004)
Journal Article
Within cardiac practice, one area that has seen much development involves the nurse assessing, diagnosing, and prescribing thrombolytic therapy for patients with a myocardial infarction. Alongside this, a variety of titles aimed at defining these new... Read More about Preparing nurses to initiate thrombolytic therapy for patients with an acute myocardial infarction - Is there a consensus?.
Creativity: an essential element of critical care nursing practice. (2004)
Journal Article
A sea-change or a swamp? New spaces for voluntary sector engagement in governance in the UK (2004)
Journal Article
In recent years, the emphasis of the New Labour government on partnership and civil renewal has opened up new govemance spaces in the UK. These spaces have provided new opportunities for voluntary and community organisations (VCOs) but also posed new... Read More about A sea-change or a swamp? New spaces for voluntary sector engagement in governance in the UK.
Practitioners' perspectives on the UK cost of capital (2004)
Journal Article
The aims of this study were to determine how UK finance practitioners derive and review the cost of capital, and to ascertain whether the final figure varied with the choice of method. To investigate behaviour in the real world a survey questionnaire... Read More about Practitioners' perspectives on the UK cost of capital.
Can nurses in cardiology areas prepare patients for implantable cardioverter defibrillator implant and life at home? (2004)
Journal Article
This study explored nurses' confidence and competence in preparing patients for having an implantable cardioverter defibrillator implanted and for life at home after discharge. Whilst research has identified various physical and psychosocial effects... Read More about Can nurses in cardiology areas prepare patients for implantable cardioverter defibrillator implant and life at home?.
Finite time extinction in nonlinear diffusion equations (2004)
Journal Article
We consider a class of degenerate diffusion equations where the nonlinearity is assumed to be singular (non-Lipschitz) at zero. It is shown that solutions with compactly supported initial data become identically zero in finite time. Such extinction f... Read More about Finite time extinction in nonlinear diffusion equations.