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Visual search in Alzheimer's disease: A deficiency in processing conjunctions of features (2002)
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Human vision often needs to encode multiple characteristics of many elements of the visual field, for example their lightness and orientation. The paradigm of visual search allows a quantitative assessment of the function of the underlying mechanisms... Read More about Visual search in Alzheimer's disease: A deficiency in processing conjunctions of features.

Prediction of lobe growth and decay in centreless grinding based on geometric considerations (2002)
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The growth and decay of lobes during centreless grinding have been studied by previous researchers using physical tests, time-domain simulation and identification of the roots of the Laplace transform of the characteristic equation. In this paper, th... Read More about Prediction of lobe growth and decay in centreless grinding based on geometric considerations.

No end to the racial wage hierarchy in South Africa? (2002)
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The South African apartheid system formally ended with the election of the African National Congress at the first all-race elections held in 1994. As a result, racist policies such as color barring, that particularly hindered the advancement of black... Read More about No end to the racial wage hierarchy in South Africa?.

Crystal structures of human mitochondrial branched chain aminotransferase reaction intermediates: Ketimine and pyridoxamine phosphate forms (2002)
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The three-dimensional structures of the isoleucine ketimine and the pyridoxamine phosphate forms of human mitochondrial branched chain aminotransferase (hBCATm) have been determined crystallographically at 1.9 Å resolution. The hBCATm-catalyzed trans... Read More about Crystal structures of human mitochondrial branched chain aminotransferase reaction intermediates: Ketimine and pyridoxamine phosphate forms.

Evolution of management theory: the case of production management in construction (2002)
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In the past 100 years production management has evolved from a set of heuristic ideas to a portfolio of somewhat developed concepts and principles. “Justintime” and “total quality management” integrate most of the modern concepts and principles in... Read More about Evolution of management theory: the case of production management in construction.

The factors influencing bid mark-up decisions of large- and medium-size contractors in Singapore (2002)
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The construction industry in Singapore is dominated by a competitive business environment that is being driven by a lowest cost mentality. The pressure on contractors' profit margins has further increased after a prolonged recession in this sector, w... Read More about The factors influencing bid mark-up decisions of large- and medium-size contractors in Singapore.

Process improvement in facilities management: The SPICE approach (2002)
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Considers the application of structured process improvement for construction environments (SPICE) as a process improvement technique and its extension into the context of facilities management (FM). SPICE is a research project that developed a step-w... Read More about Process improvement in facilities management: The SPICE approach.

The development of a nurse-led angina management programme (2002)
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The anxiety caused by living with angina can be very debilitating and affects patients' quality of life. In one trust an angina management programme was set up to provide educational and psychosocial support, with an emphasis on cardiac risk factor m... Read More about The development of a nurse-led angina management programme.

Respecting the individual: Implications of the Code of Professional Conduct (2002)
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Tourism attraction systems: Exploring cultural behavior (2002)
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Attractions are vital sub-elements in all whole tourism systems, and yet their study suffers from lack of theoretical depth and empirical foundation. This paper presents an empirical exploration of the attraction system model, based on a survey of ov... Read More about Tourism attraction systems: Exploring cultural behavior.

Special edition editorial (2002)
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Historical context perspectives of the development of children's nursing in the United Kingdom: The picture tells the story (2002)
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Developing an understanding of gender sensitive care: Exploring concepts and knowledge (2002)
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Background. In the United Kingdom (UK), concern about inequalities in health and health care has led to interest in gender sensitivity in health policy and practice. Aim. To develop an understanding of possibilities for gender sensitive care through... Read More about Developing an understanding of gender sensitive care: Exploring concepts and knowledge.

Internet: Investigating new technology's evolving role, nature and effects on transport (2002)
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In the space of only a few years the Internet has emerged as a mainstream communications medium providing a growing proportion of the population with virtual access to goods, people, opportunities and services. Against a backdrop of highlighting how... Read More about Internet: Investigating new technology's evolving role, nature and effects on transport.

Might less be more in the teaching of social policy? (2002)
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Antimicrobial properties of milk: Dependence on presence of xanthine oxidase and nitrite (2002)
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Human and bovine milk inhibited the metabolic activity of Escherichia coli, as shown by luminescence monitoring of constructs expressing the luxCDABE genes. Inhibition was dependent on both xanthine oxidase (XO) activity and on the presence of nitrit... Read More about Antimicrobial properties of milk: Dependence on presence of xanthine oxidase and nitrite.

The evolving role of the CT radiographer (2002)
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Developing a multi-disciplinary public health specialist workforce: Training implications of current UK policy (2002)
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Leadership and negative capability (2002)
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Our aim in this article is to explore and explain the concept of 'negative capability', in the context of the current resurgence of interest in organizational leadership. We suggest that negative capability can create an intermediate space that enabl... Read More about Leadership and negative capability.

Toward a self-regulatory form of accountability in the voluntary sector (2002)
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Non-profit organisations are private self-regulating bodies. As their social welfare role expands so the need for greater public transparency and accountability increases. This article concentrates on the relationship between the sector and those sta... Read More about Toward a self-regulatory form of accountability in the voluntary sector.