Publishing research supported by the tobacco industry: BMJ should come off the fence
(1996)
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Promise or progress: Women and planning (1996)
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Planned construction times and labour utilization — a comparison of UK and French contractors (1996)
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The results of a model based survey of contractors' planning engineers in France and the UK suggest that planned completion times for constructing an identical high-rise in situ concrete framed structure are significantly and dramatically lower in Fr... Read More about Planned construction times and labour utilization — a comparison of UK and French contractors.
Can the S-S problem-solving method help to win the World Cup? (1996)
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Although in practice it is commonly found that there are several antecedents relevant to a particular problem, only one specific event represents its real cause. Analysis of the potential causes and the identification of the single cause that ultimat... Read More about Can the S-S problem-solving method help to win the World Cup?.
Audit of antenatal corticosteroid treatment in the South West (1996)
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A multidistrict audit was conducted in seven hospitals to examine the proportion of preterm births in which antenatal corticosteroids were given. Of the 550 births examined, corticosteroids had been given in 301(64%), ranging from 49–76% in different... Read More about Audit of antenatal corticosteroid treatment in the South West.
The trouble with teams: Team midwifery and postnatal care (1996)
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An evaluation of the keratoconic cornea using computerised corneal mapping and ultrasonic measurements of corneal thickness (1996)
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Reports indicate the presence of up to three independent cone shapes in keratoconus (round/oval/global) but the preponderance of one cone over another is unclear. This work evaluates keratoconic corneal topography and corneal thickness using videoker... Read More about An evaluation of the keratoconic cornea using computerised corneal mapping and ultrasonic measurements of corneal thickness.
Sentencing for male rape (1996)
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Chilrden with cancer: The needs of siblings (1996)
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Alternatives to hospital care: What are they and who should decide? (1996)
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Objective: To examine potential for alternatives to care in hospitals for acute admissions, and to compare the decisions about these alternatives made by clinicians with different backgrounds. Design: Standardised tool was used to identify patients w... Read More about Alternatives to hospital care: What are they and who should decide?.
The sensitivity of bricklayers' output to changes in skill (1996)
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This paper examines the influence of skill on bricklayers' ouput. Time utilization in 25 working day activities by 157 bricklayers on 11 sites in the U.K. were surveyed using a computerized activity sampling package. Using Stepwise regression techniq... Read More about The sensitivity of bricklayers' output to changes in skill.
Why teach ethics to nurses? (1996)
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The Project 2000 diploma course has established ethics as a core component of the nursing curriculum. As a consequence there has been a plethora of nursing ethics books which justify their existence on the notion that nurses are recognizing the ethic... Read More about Why teach ethics to nurses?.
Novel composite organic-inorganic semiconductor sensors for the quantitative detection of target organic vapours (1996)
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Composites of tin dioxide (an n-type semiconductor) and derivatives of the conducting polymer polypyrrole (a p-type semiconductor) gave reversible changes in electrical resistance at room temperature when exposed to a range of organic vapours. The op... Read More about Novel composite organic-inorganic semiconductor sensors for the quantitative detection of target organic vapours.
Reproductive technology: A step too far? (1996)
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Reconciling scientific and religious discourse about madness during the age of reason: Lessons for today? (1996)
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This paper argues that the secularization of madness, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, occurred as a consequence of cultural change that accompanied the social upheavals of the age. In examining the reconciliation of competing explana... Read More about Reconciling scientific and religious discourse about madness during the age of reason: Lessons for today?.
Assessing patient satisfaction. Part 2. Findings: Nursing, the hospital and patients' concerns (1996)
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• Part 1 of this article discussed the process of evaluating patient satisfaction by means of unstructured, in-depth interviews. • In this part, the content of interviews will be presented and the analytic domains derived from the research will be de... Read More about Assessing patient satisfaction. Part 2. Findings: Nursing, the hospital and patients' concerns.
Electrorheological properties of polypyrrole prepared by the action of mineral acids on pyrrole (1996)
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Polypyrrole was prepared in high yield by the polymerisation of pyrrole in strongly acidic conditions using hydrofluoric, hydrochloric (at 20°C and 100°C), hydrobromic, nitric and orthophosphoric acids. The polymer products incorporated significant a... Read More about Electrorheological properties of polypyrrole prepared by the action of mineral acids on pyrrole.
The use of brand management tools in charity fundraising (1996)
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Charity brands: a qualitative study of current practice (1996)
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