Workplace health promotion and low paid work project
(1996)
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All Outputs (303)
Self-esteem: A barrier to health promoting behaviour (1996)
Journal Article
Hospital discharge following urological surgery (1996)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Self defence - go for it! (1996)
Report
What is social work: How do we teach and assess it? (1996)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Men and sexual politics (1996)
Journal Article
European taxation and capital investment (1996)
Journal Article
A simulated study is conducted of the relative tax incentives to capital investment in Europe. For 1994 required pre-tax rates of return vary from 8.5% for plant and machinery investments in Spain to l3.8% for commercial property in Ireland. Within i... Read More about European taxation and capital investment.
Citizen health (1996)
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Computer-based model for optimizing the location of a single tower crane (1996)
Journal Article
The application of a quantitative approach to determine optimum crane position is highly desirable for construction site planning. This paper describes a stochastic (random number generation to simulate real-world event sequences) simulation model to... Read More about Computer-based model for optimizing the location of a single tower crane.
Public health medicine in a new era (1996)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
The health service reforms in the United Kingdom have posed significant problems for the carrying out of the public health function. The increasing size of populations for which health authorities are responsible makes the formation and maintenance o... Read More about Public health medicine in a new era.
Validation of the model for evaluating client-generated risk by project consultants (1996)
Journal Article
This paper reports the results of studies in 29 construction consulting firms aimed at validating a model for evaluating client-generated risks (see Kometa et al. 1995a). Validation required quantification of project outcomes in terms of time, cost,... Read More about Validation of the model for evaluating client-generated risk by project consultants.
Nightingale sings the blues. (1996)
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Physicians can't heal themselves (1996)
Journal Article
Women, health, and healing (1996)
Journal Article
Filmic space-time diagrams for video structure representation (1996)
Journal Article
In this paper, we propose a novel approach to computer representation for interactive film editing. We describe a prototype system developed at Lancaster which uses this approach, and show how such a system supports film editing. Our work involves th... Read More about Filmic space-time diagrams for video structure representation.
An evaluation of the impact of social interaction skills training for facially disfigured people (1996)
Journal Article
Facially disfigured people can experience significant psychological problems, commonly relating to difficulties in social interaction. The effect of social interaction, skills workshops on the psychological wellbeing of 64 facially disfigured partici... Read More about An evaluation of the impact of social interaction skills training for facially disfigured people.
An evaluation of transportation systems for high rise concrete construction (1996)
Journal Article
Utilising a model design of a high rise concrete frame and structured questionnaire, the results of an investigation concerning the selection of transportation methods, as perceived by contractors' planning engineers, are presented. Findings reveal t... Read More about An evaluation of transportation systems for high rise concrete construction.
Abstaining and carousing: Substance use among adolescents in the Western Isles of Scotland (1996)
Journal Article
An account is presented of a survey of self-reported substance use among 839 adolescents in the Western Isles (Outer Hebrides) of Scotland. The study group was aged 13-16. The drinking habits of those surveyed were extremely polarised. Results showed... Read More about Abstaining and carousing: Substance use among adolescents in the Western Isles of Scotland.
A survey of constraints on Iranian construction operatives' productivity (1996)
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Construction productivity is rarely analysed in Iran. If productivity is to improve, current weaknesses must be identified. To this end data were collected through a structured questionnaire survey. By utilizing the relative index ranking technique,... Read More about A survey of constraints on Iranian construction operatives' productivity.
Community care as an alternative to state welfare (1996)
Journal Article
This paper challenges prevailing notions of community and community care. It exposes some of the confusions associated with current thinking and offers a more realistic interpretation, drawing upon the roots of the idea of community. By this standard... Read More about Community care as an alternative to state welfare.