All Outputs (49)

Older People in British Housing Studies: Rediscovery and Emerging Issues for Research (1987)
Journal Article

This paper refers to an increased interest in older people in British housing research and literature. It explains the factors behind this increased interest and illustrates why a gerontological perspective in housing studies is needed. Reference is... Read More about Older People in British Housing Studies: Rediscovery and Emerging Issues for Research.

A review of the methods of obtaining foot loading data during walking (1987)
Journal Article

Langmuir blodgett films (1987)
Patent

Novel Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) films of ABAB structure in which the compounds A and B are different and contain complementary groups which result in non-centrosymmetry of the layer plane. Three types of structure are described (i) in which A and B have... Read More about Langmuir blodgett films.

High technology industry, regional development and defence manufacturing: a case study in the UK Sunbelt. (1987)
Book Chapter

Looks at the supposed success story of Bristol, which is popularly seen as having made a successful accommodation the social and economic changes of the past decade, and of the M4 Corridor of which Bristol is the W extreme. Public investment has play... Read More about High technology industry, regional development and defence manufacturing: a case study in the UK Sunbelt..

Teaching computing to historians at Durham (1987)
Book Chapter

Labouring over productivity estimates: A comment on Hirsch and Hausman's model of coal miners (1987)
Journal Article

Welfare lessons of equine social behaviour (1987)
Journal Article

Management of prosimians in captivity for conservation and research (1987)
Book Chapter

Drugs in perspective (1987)
Book

Problems influencing craftsmen's productivity in Nigeria (1987)
Journal Article

The activity sampling technique was used on seven construction sites in Nigeria to determine how the working day was being utilised by craftsmen in bricklaying, joinery and steel fixing trades. Actual working time was observed to be 51% of the workin... Read More about Problems influencing craftsmen's productivity in Nigeria.

The inner city health project in Bristol one year on (1987)
Journal Article

Vitamin C biosynthesis in prosimians: Evidence for the anthropoid affinity of Tarsius (1987)
Journal Article

This report examines the taxonomic distribution of the in vitro biosynthesis of ascorbic acid in the Prosimii (Order: Primates). Liver and kidney samples of 15 prosimian taxa, including Tarsius bancanus, were quantitatively tested for the enzyme L‐gu... Read More about Vitamin C biosynthesis in prosimians: Evidence for the anthropoid affinity of Tarsius.

Open University part-time staff in the academic labour market (1987)
Report

Public policy and older people: Where are we going? (1987)
Journal Article

During much of the 1960s and 1970s, housing and welfare provision for older people were part of the cinderella services (Means and Smith, 1985) that the majority of both practitioners and social scientists were happy to leave to the remit of a relati... Read More about Public policy and older people: Where are we going?.

Accommodation outcomes in old age: A discussion of trends (1987)
Journal Article

The use of long-term rainfall records for augmenting historic flood series: A case study on the upper Dee, Aberdeenshire, Scotland (1987)
Journal Article

Establishing the magnitude and frequency of floods within upland catchments on the basis of short-term gauged runoff records is crucially dependent upon the extent to which the record is truly representative. In the case of the River Dee, upstream of... Read More about The use of long-term rainfall records for augmenting historic flood series: A case study on the upper Dee, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

Sources for establishing a Historic Flood Chronology (Pre-1940) within Scottish River Catchments (1987)
Journal Article

Gauged river runoff records extend only over limited timespans, mostly commencing post-1940. Historical sources can provide additional material to assist in extending the hydrological record into the nineteenth century and earlier. Such sources vary,... Read More about Sources for establishing a Historic Flood Chronology (Pre-1940) within Scottish River Catchments.

Quality control and quality assurance: Royal College of Arts further education staff college (1987)
Report

Living with asthma (1987)
Journal Article

The South West alcohol education programme: An interim assessment-summary (1987)
Report