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Prevalence of somatisation as a determinant of burnout amongst staff working in drug and alcohol services (2017)
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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the prevalence of somatisation as a determinant of burnout amongst drug and alcohol staff in the UK.

Design/methodology/approach: The study employed a cross-sectional design utilising a self-comple... Read More about Prevalence of somatisation as a determinant of burnout amongst staff working in drug and alcohol services.

Perioperative passport: empowering people with diabetes along their surgical journey (2017)
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© 2017 Diabetes UK Aim: To determine whether a handheld ‘perioperative passport’ could improve the experience of perioperative care for people with diabetes and overcome some of the communication issues commonly identified in inpatient extracts. Meth... Read More about Perioperative passport: empowering people with diabetes along their surgical journey.

Educators' perspectives on facilitating computer-assisted speech intervention in early childhood settings (2017)
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© SAGE Publications. Early childhood educators are frequently called on to support preschool-aged children with speech sound disorders and to engage these children in activities that target their speech production. This study explored factors that ac... Read More about Educators' perspectives on facilitating computer-assisted speech intervention in early childhood settings.

Science Hunters: Science learning through Minecraft (2017)
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Science Hunters is an outreach project based at Lancaster University. The project aims to engage children, particularly those who may face such barriers to accessing Higher Education, with science learning and university research.

Validation of the Body Concealment Scale for Scleroderma (BCSS): Replication in the Scleroderma Patient-centered Intervention Network (SPIN) Cohort (2017)
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© 2016 Elsevier Ltd Body concealment is an important component of appearance distress for individuals with disfiguring conditions, including scleroderma. The objective was to replicate the validation study of the Body Concealment Scale for Scleroderm... Read More about Validation of the Body Concealment Scale for Scleroderma (BCSS): Replication in the Scleroderma Patient-centered Intervention Network (SPIN) Cohort.

Profile of Australian preschool children with speech sound disorders at risk for literacy difficulties (2017)
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© 2017 Learning Difficulties Australia. Speech sound disorders are a common communication difficulty in preschool children. Teachers indicate difficulty identifying and supporting these children. The aim of this research was to describe speech and la... Read More about Profile of Australian preschool children with speech sound disorders at risk for literacy difficulties.

Using Minecraft to engage children with science learning (2017)
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Minecraft is beloved of thousands of teens and pre-teens across the country, but it seems to have a particular fascination for young people who have Asperger's and similar conditions.

The power of Minecraft is now being harnessed to help children... Read More about Using Minecraft to engage children with science learning.

Science Hunters: Minecraft as an outreach tool (2017)
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BIG STEM Communicators Network newsletter article. Edited from Hobbs, L., Stevens, C. and Hartley, J., 2017. Science Hunters: science learning through Minecraft. Education in Science, 268, 20-21.

Support needs and experiences of family members of wounded, injured or sick UK service personnel (2017)
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© Article author(s) (or their employer(s) unless otherwise stated in the text of the article) 2017. All rights reserved. Introduction When a service person has been wounded, injured or sick (WIS), family members may provide care during their recovery... Read More about Support needs and experiences of family members of wounded, injured or sick UK service personnel.

Clinical measures of static foot posture do not agree (2016)
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© 2016 The Author(s). Background: The aim of this study was to determine the level of agreement between common clinical foot classification measures. Methods: Static foot assessment was undertaken using the Foot Posture Index (FPI-6), rearfoot angle... Read More about Clinical measures of static foot posture do not agree.

Book review: Whiteness and White Privilege in Psychotherapy (2016)
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Andrea L. Dottolo and Ellyn Kaschak: Routledge, 2016, 203 pp.

Desperate father or murderous fool? The genesis of one migratory legend of poverty, fecundity and multiple birth (2016)
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© 2016, © The Society for Folk Life Studies 2016. This study explores attitudes expressed in one specific Devon legend, concerning the multiple birth of seven children, as it was told in early seventeenth-century England. A diachronic study of relate... Read More about Desperate father or murderous fool? The genesis of one migratory legend of poverty, fecundity and multiple birth.

Examination of the association of sex and race/ethnicity with appearance concerns: A Scleroderma Patient-centered Intervention Network (SPIN) cohort study (2016)
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Objective: Appearance concerns are common in systemic sclerosis (SSc) and have been linked to younger age and more severe disease. No study has examined their association with sex or race/ethnicity.

Methods: SSc patients were sampled from the Scl... Read More about Examination of the association of sex and race/ethnicity with appearance concerns: A Scleroderma Patient-centered Intervention Network (SPIN) cohort study.

Dual Action Additives for Jet A-1: Fuel Dehydrating Icing Inhibitors (2016)
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© 2016 American Chemical Society. A novel approach for protecting jet fuel against the effects of water contamination based upon Fuel Dehydrating Icing Inhibitors (FDII) is presented. This dual-action strategy is predicated on the addition of a fuel-... Read More about Dual Action Additives for Jet A-1: Fuel Dehydrating Icing Inhibitors.

Book review: The crime of all crimes: Towards a criminology of genocide (2016)
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A book review of "The Crime of All Crimes: Towards a Criminology of Genocide" (Rafter, 2016)

Labels, identity and narratives in children with primary speech and language impairments (2016)
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© 2016 The Speech Pathology Association of Australia Limited. Purpose: There has been debate about labels in relation to speech and language impairments. However, children’s views are missing from this debate, which is risky considering that labels w... Read More about Labels, identity and narratives in children with primary speech and language impairments.

Prevalence and predictors of persistent speech sound disorder at eight years old: Findings from a population cohort study (2016)
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© 2016 The Authors. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine prevalence and predictors of persistent speech sound disorder (SSD) in children aged 8 years after disregarding children presenting solely with common clinical distortions (i.e.,... Read More about Prevalence and predictors of persistent speech sound disorder at eight years old: Findings from a population cohort study.

Corrado Alvaro and the Calabrian mafia: A critical case study of the use of literary and journalistic texts in research on Italian organized crime (2016)
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The Calabrian mafia, or ‘Ndrangheta, is a hugely powerful international crime syndicate, with origins that can be traced back to the late nineteenth century. By far the least studied of Italy’s ‘big three’ mafias, socio-historical research on the ear... Read More about Corrado Alvaro and the Calabrian mafia: A critical case study of the use of literary and journalistic texts in research on Italian organized crime.

Increasing survival after admission to UK critical care units following cardiopulmonary resuscitation (2016)
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© 2016 The Author(s). Background: In recent years there have been many developments in post-resuscitation care. We have investigated trends in patient characteristics and outcome following admission to UK critical care units following cardiopulmonary... Read More about Increasing survival after admission to UK critical care units following cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

Volcano experiments (2016)
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Guest Post - Volcano Experiments by Laura Hobbs