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Lysophosphatidic acid and calcitriol co-operate to promote human osteoblastogenesis: Requirement of albumin-bound LPA (2011)
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Lysophosphatidic acid (LPA), a pleiotropic signalling lipid is assuming growing significance in osteoblast biology. Although committed osteoblasts from several mammalian species are receptive to LPA far less is known about the potential for LPA to in... Read More about Lysophosphatidic acid and calcitriol co-operate to promote human osteoblastogenesis: Requirement of albumin-bound LPA.

Views of (distant) bridges. Displacement and the presences of absences in practices of everyday landscape: An autotopographical account (2011)
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I seek to contribute to recent discussions of absence, landscape, and memory within cultural geography and beyond, adding differing inflections about the ways in which absences can operate. A series of attachments, tensions and disjunctions relating... Read More about Views of (distant) bridges. Displacement and the presences of absences in practices of everyday landscape: An autotopographical account.

Re-framing the geography dissertation: A consideration of alternative, innovative and creative approaches (2011)
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This paper reviews the opportunities and challenges for re-framing the purpose, process, product and assessment of final-year geography dissertations. It argues that the academic centralities of critical thinking, analysis, evaluation, effective comm... Read More about Re-framing the geography dissertation: A consideration of alternative, innovative and creative approaches.

A study of the experiences of participants following attendance at a workshop on methods to prevent or reduce work-related musculoskeletal disorders amongst sonographers (2011)
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A growing number of sonographers are being affected by pain and disability associated with their working practices. Many of these individuals are scanning whilst in considerable discomfort, or having to take sick leave when the pain makes scanning im... Read More about A study of the experiences of participants following attendance at a workshop on methods to prevent or reduce work-related musculoskeletal disorders amongst sonographers.

Neuroscience public open days: Evaluating Auckland Brain Day as a communication method (2011)
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Involving patients in assessment of students (2011)
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The Nursing and Midwifery Council promotes the idea that patients should contribute to the assessment of preregistration student nurses. In response, staff, mentors and pre-registration student nurses from the University of West of England Bristol an... Read More about Involving patients in assessment of students.

How virtual are virtual economies? An exploration into the legal, social and economic nature of virtual world economies (2011)
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Virtual world economies are undoubtedly increasing in growth, participation and importance. Their macroeconomic impact has already been seen as important in the real world economies; however its governance and jurisdiction is unclear. This paper will... Read More about How virtual are virtual economies? An exploration into the legal, social and economic nature of virtual world economies.

'So what problems bother you and you are not speeding up your work?' problem solving talk at work (2011)
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Problem solving (PbS) can be readily described as one of the key activities regularly performed by professionals in any workplace setting. Despite its importance, however, there is relatively little (socio)linguistic research which looks at the compl... Read More about 'So what problems bother you and you are not speeding up your work?' problem solving talk at work.

Bacterial genomes: Evolution of pathogenicity (2011)
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Bacterial pathogens continue to pose a major threat to economically important plant resources. Disease outbreaks can occur through rapid evolution of a pathogen to overcome host defences. The advent of genome sequencing, especially next-generation te... Read More about Bacterial genomes: Evolution of pathogenicity.

From brigade to service: An examination of the role of fire and rescue services in modern local government (2011)
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Over the last ten years, local government modernisation and the growth of community safety agendas have called for change in the public sector at a local level. This has been typified by partnership work, improvement and inspection and community gove... Read More about From brigade to service: An examination of the role of fire and rescue services in modern local government.

Beyond the chains that bind: The political crisis of unions in Western Europe (2011)
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The dynamics of neo-liberal restructuring have generated serious tensions in the institutional alignments between social democratic political parties and labor unions in Western Europe. This article explores the origins,development and consequences o... Read More about Beyond the chains that bind: The political crisis of unions in Western Europe.

Evaluating the potential of new technological tools for safety critical work (2011)
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Defining user requirements of complex human-system interaction technologies and testing the fulfilment of these requirements in the end-product are issues of design practice that are currently not solved in an optimal way. In the current paper severa... Read More about Evaluating the potential of new technological tools for safety critical work.

The Active for Life Year 5 (AFLY5) school based cluster randomised controlled trial: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial (2011)
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Background: Low levels of physical activity, high levels of sedentary behaviour and low levels of fruit and vegetable consumption are common in children and are associated with adverse health outcomes. The aim of this paper is to describe the protoco... Read More about The Active for Life Year 5 (AFLY5) school based cluster randomised controlled trial: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.

Anti-money laundering law of Turkey and the EU: An example of convergence? (2011)
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© 2011, Emerald Group Publishing Limited. PurposeThis paper critiques the recent anti-money laundering (AML) legislation in Turkey and the European Union (EU) in order to determine whether there is convergence between them. Given the fact that Turkey... Read More about Anti-money laundering law of Turkey and the EU: An example of convergence?.

Mind the gap: the impertinent predicates (and subjects) of King Rat and Looking for Jake and other stories (2011)
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A critical account of China Miéville’s King Rat and the stories in Looking for Jake, which considers contemporary attempts to anatomise the fantastic and draws on the theorisations of metaphor to open up a new approach to fantastic texts.

Critical band 3 multiprotein complex interactions establish early during human erythropoiesis (2011)
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Band 3, the major anion transport protein of human erythrocytes, forms the core of a multiprotein complex in the erythrocyte membrane. Here we studied the spatiotemporal mechanisms of band 3 multiprotein complex assembly during erythropoiesis. Signif... Read More about Critical band 3 multiprotein complex interactions establish early during human erythropoiesis.

Achieving sustainable mobility - Everyday and leisure-time travel in the EU (2011)
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The serious mental illness health improvement profile [HIP]: Study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial (2011)
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Background: The serious mental illness Health Improvement Profile [HIP] is a brief pragmatic tool, which enables mental health nurses to work together with patients to screen physical health and take evidence-based action when variables are identifie... Read More about The serious mental illness health improvement profile [HIP]: Study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial.

Chronocoulometric determination of urea in human serum using an inkjet printed biosensor (2011)
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A biosensor for the determination of urea in human serum was fabricated using a combination of inkjet printed polyaniline nanoparticles and inkjet printed urease enzyme deposited sequentially onto screen-printed carbon paste electrodes. Chronocoulome... Read More about Chronocoulometric determination of urea in human serum using an inkjet printed biosensor.

Propriety, process and purpose: Considerations of the use of the telephone interview method in an educational research study (2011)
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While the use of the telephone has increased as a means of collecting research data in a range of areas, there are few examples of studies where telephone interviews have been conducted to collect qualitative data. The field of educational research i... Read More about Propriety, process and purpose: Considerations of the use of the telephone interview method in an educational research study.