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‘Les Magistrates’ courts: Un Modèle de Justice de Proximité? (1996)
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Dadomo, C., & Bell, B. (1996). ‘Les Magistrates’ courts: Un Modèle de Justice de Proximité?. Revue de Science Criminelle et de Droit Penal Compare, 3, 607-618

This article analyses whether English Magistrates' courts could serve as a model for French lower criminal courts. The article concludes that, if it is not possible to simply transfer this model of criminal courts into the French judiciary, many of t... Read More about ‘Les Magistrates’ courts: Un Modèle de Justice de Proximité?.

factors associated with inappropriate emergency hospital admission in the UK (1996)
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Inglis, A., Coast, J., Peters, T. J., & Sabey, A. (1996). factors associated with inappropriate emergency hospital admission in the UK. International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 8(1), 31-39. https://doi.org/10.1093/intqhc/8.1.31

This paper reports an attempt to assess the factors associated with inappropriate acute hospital admission using the technique of logistic regression. Data were obtained from two separate studies of acute hospital utilization in south-west England, c... Read More about factors associated with inappropriate emergency hospital admission in the UK.

Stories and metaphors: Talking about the past in a psychotherapy group for people with dementia (1996)
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Cheston, R. (1996). Stories and metaphors: Talking about the past in a psychotherapy group for people with dementia. Ageing and Society, 16(5), 579-602

Social constructionist approaches to the talk of older adults diagnosed as suffering from a dementing illness have emphasised the importance of analysing such talk in terms of its social function. Drawing on this work together with the increasing cli... Read More about Stories and metaphors: Talking about the past in a psychotherapy group for people with dementia.

Evolutionary computing in multi-agent environments: Speciation and symbiogenesis (1996)
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Bull, L., Bull, L., & Fogarty, T. C. (1996). Evolutionary computing in multi-agent environments: Speciation and symbiogenesis. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 1141, 12-21. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-61723-X_965

© 1996, Springer-Verlag. All rights reserved. In this paper we introduce two macro-level operators to enhance the use of population-based evolutionary computing techniques in multiagent environments: speciation and symbiogenesis. We describe their us... Read More about Evolutionary computing in multi-agent environments: Speciation and symbiogenesis.

Evidence for the growth of Plasmodiophora brassicae in vitro (1996)
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Arnold, D. L., Arnold, D. L., Blakesley, D., & Clarkson, J. M. (1996). Evidence for the growth of Plasmodiophora brassicae in vitro. Mycological Research, 100(5), 535-540. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0953-7562%2896%2980005-0

Plasmodiophora brassicae is a root-invading pathogen that causes club root disease of brassica crops. Although generally regarded as an obligate biotroph, a number of reports over the last century have suggested that the organism may have a free livi... Read More about Evidence for the growth of Plasmodiophora brassicae in vitro.

Specific oligonucleotide primers for the identification of Pseudomonas syringae pv. pisi yield one of two possible DNA fragments by PCR amplification: evidence for phylogenetic divergence (1996)
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Vivian, A., Taylor, J. D., Arnold, D. L., Arnold, D. L., Athey-Pollard, A., Gibbon, M. J., …Vivian, A. (1996). Specific oligonucleotide primers for the identification of Pseudomonas syringae pv. pisi yield one of two possible DNA fragments by PCR amplification: evidence for phylogenetic divergence. Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology, 49(4), 233-245. https://doi.org/10.1006/pmpp.1996.0051

Two unique DNA fragments, generated by RAPD-PCR, were used as probes against dot-blots of representative isolates of the seven races of pseudomonas syringae pv. pisi. DNA from each isolate hybridized only to one of the two probes. Fragments identifie... Read More about Specific oligonucleotide primers for the identification of Pseudomonas syringae pv. pisi yield one of two possible DNA fragments by PCR amplification: evidence for phylogenetic divergence.

Mature maternity: Long term associations in first children born to older mothers in 1970 in the UK (1996)
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Pollock, J. I., & Pollock, J. (1996). Mature maternity: Long term associations in first children born to older mothers in 1970 in the UK. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 50(4), 429-435. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech.50.4.429

Study objectives - To identify the physical, behavioural, medical, and educational outcomes in first children born to women aged 30 or more compared with those born to younger women. Design - Longitudinal cohort study design employing logistic regres... Read More about Mature maternity: Long term associations in first children born to older mothers in 1970 in the UK.

Do they mean us? (1996)
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Miers, M. (1996). Do they mean us?. Nursing Standard, 10(15), 20-21

From 'special needs' housing to independent living? (1996)
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Means, R. (1996). From 'special needs' housing to independent living?. Housing Studies, 11(2), 207-231. https://doi.org/10.1080/02673039608720853

How best to combine housing and support services for frail elderly people and for people with learning difficulties, mental health problems and physical disabilities is a long established debate in most industrialised countries. This debate occurs in... Read More about From 'special needs' housing to independent living?.

Money 'handling', financial abuse and elderly people with dementia: Implications for welfare professionals (1996)
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Means, R., & Langan, J. (1996). Money 'handling', financial abuse and elderly people with dementia: Implications for welfare professionals. Health and Social Care in the Community, 4(6), 353-358. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2524.1996.tb00082.x

The ageing of the elderly population will mean an increase in the numbers of people with dementia and the thrust of the community care reforms suggest that many of these will continue to live in mainstream and sheltered housing. This article draws up... Read More about Money 'handling', financial abuse and elderly people with dementia: Implications for welfare professionals.

Standardising the elimination of unnecessary data from interview transcripts for the purposes of knowledge-based systems - A case study (1996)
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Jones, S., Miles, J. C., & Read, M. W. (1996). Standardising the elimination of unnecessary data from interview transcripts for the purposes of knowledge-based systems - A case study. Expert Systems, 13(1), 3-13. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0394.1996.tb00279.x

Although knowledge elicitation, the process of extracting knowledge from human experts to be incorporated into a knowledge-based system, has been the subject of some notable studies, less attention has been paid to the methods of analysing the raw da... Read More about Standardising the elimination of unnecessary data from interview transcripts for the purposes of knowledge-based systems - A case study.

Reflective practice: Reviewing the issues and refocusing the debate (1996)
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James, C., James, C. R., Kelly, J., & Clarke, B. (1996). Reflective practice: Reviewing the issues and refocusing the debate. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 33(2), 171-180. https://doi.org/10.1016/0020-7489%2895%2900045-3

Reflective practice has emerged in the U.K. and beyond as an important issue not just in nursing but in many other professions. However, it remains problematic; it is difficult to conceptualize and many aspects of it are open to debate. Reflective pr... Read More about Reflective practice: Reviewing the issues and refocusing the debate.