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Prevalence of health anxiety problems in medical clinics (2011)
Journal Article

Objectives: To determine the prevalence of significant health anxiety (hypochondriasis) in patients aged 16-75 in cardiology, respiratory medicine, neurological, endocrine and gastrointestinal clinics in general hospitals in London, Middlesex and Nor... Read More about Prevalence of health anxiety problems in medical clinics.

Girl soldiers and participation in hostilities (2011)
Journal Article

Recently, organisations working with former child soldiers have observed the growing number of girls involved in armed conflicts. While their fate as sexual slaves is well documented, their participation in hostilities is less acknowledged. Girls, li... Read More about Girl soldiers and participation in hostilities.

Experiences of researchers in understanding domestic violence (2011)
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Three members of the Identification and Referral to Improve Safety (IRIS) research team set out the difficulties they faced when attempting to implement a domestic violence initiative in the UK. This article provides background to the study and an in... Read More about Experiences of researchers in understanding domestic violence.

How to implement innovation policies through projects successfully (2011)
Journal Article

This paper investigates the types of policy instruments responsible for the success of policy implementation through projects. Based on evidence from 12 comparative multiple case-studies, the paper provides an analytical insight from real practice on... Read More about How to implement innovation policies through projects successfully.

Bringing the globe into globalization: Models of capacity building and technology transfer (2011)
Journal Article

Legal policy on the global stage has combined with history, nature and economics to create an inherently unequal playing field for states seeking to undertake industrial development or agricultural reform at this point in time. The reasons for this a... Read More about Bringing the globe into globalization: Models of capacity building and technology transfer.

Logistics simulation modelling across construction supply chains (2011)
Journal Article

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to present a logistical analysis of construction supply chains by assessing the impact of varying demand on the performance of builders' merchants' logistics. Design/methodology/approach - Taking into considerat... Read More about Logistics simulation modelling across construction supply chains.

Developing planned giving at the Salvation Army Southern Territory (2011)
Journal Article

The Salvation Army operates internationally and is an evangelical part of the universal church, they
provided help to over 30 million individuals in 2008. Their main focus is to build community, provide
fellowship, rebuild lives, and provide comfor... Read More about Developing planned giving at the Salvation Army Southern Territory.

Synthesis of covalently linked molecular bridges between silicon electrodes in CMOS-based arrays of vertical Si/SiO 2/Si nanogaps (2011)
Journal Article

Silicon nanogaps were bridged in situ by grafting 4-ethynylbenzaldehyde to activate the electrodes and coupling 2,6-diaminoanthra-9,10-quinone to link the coatings. The bridged structures exhibit currents of 11-14 nA at 1 V. The process is reversed b... Read More about Synthesis of covalently linked molecular bridges between silicon electrodes in CMOS-based arrays of vertical Si/SiO 2/Si nanogaps.

The effects of 7.5% carbon dioxide inhalation on task performance in healthy volunteers (2011)
Journal Article

Studies have shown that anxiety can positively or negatively affect performance with respect to focusing of attention or distractibility, subjective workload and effort (Humphreys and Revelle, 1984). The inhalation of carbon dioxide (CO2) is associat... Read More about The effects of 7.5% carbon dioxide inhalation on task performance in healthy volunteers.

Upgrading local economies in central and eastern Europe? the role of business service foreign direct investment in the knowledge economy (2011)
Journal Article

This article introduces the main themes of the special issue on the role of business service foreign investment in Central and Eastern Europe and its propensity to upgrade regions and localities. The debate is firmly set in the context of an increasi... Read More about Upgrading local economies in central and eastern Europe? the role of business service foreign direct investment in the knowledge economy.

Foreign direct investments in business services: Transforming the visegrád four region into a knowledge-based economy? (2011)
Journal Article

Foreign direct investments (FDIs) in the service sector are widely attributed an important role in bringing more skill-intensive activities into the Visegrád Four (V4). This region-comprising Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia-relied he... Read More about Foreign direct investments in business services: Transforming the visegrád four region into a knowledge-based economy?.

Contemporary arguments for a geometry of visual experience (2011)
Journal Article

In this paper I consider recent attempts to establish that the geometry of visual experience is a spherical geometry. These attempts, offered by Gideon Yaffe, James van Cleve and Gordon Belot, follow Thomas Reid in arguing for an equivalency of a geo... Read More about Contemporary arguments for a geometry of visual experience.

New students' psychological well-being and its relation to first year academic performance in a UK university (2011)
Journal Article

Aims: This study (1) profiled the well-being of first year students entering one UK university, and (2) explored whether initial well-being and year end academic performance were correlated. Method: A total of 117 students (mean age 21, 67% female) c... Read More about New students' psychological well-being and its relation to first year academic performance in a UK university.

"Oh yes, robots! people like robots; the robot people should do something": Perspectives and prospects in public engagement with robotics (2011)
Journal Article

Governmental and institutional policy making in a number of countries has embedded public engagement strategies as a primary channel to connect citizens with scientific and technological innovation. Robotics is emerging as a key site for such new tec... Read More about "Oh yes, robots! people like robots; the robot people should do something": Perspectives and prospects in public engagement with robotics.

On Roman, Global and Restrained Domination in Graphs (2011)
Journal Article

In this paper, we present new upper bounds for the global domination and Roman domination numbers and also prove that these results are asymptotically best possible. Moreover, we give upper bounds for the restrained domination and total restrained do... Read More about On Roman, Global and Restrained Domination in Graphs.

Mobility and the smart, green and inclusive Europe (2011)
Journal Article

The article sets out a two-dimensional regional typology combining measures of migration and visiting rates. It argues that forms of mobility are interrelated but that the relationship varies by broad type of region and it argues for a place-based ap... Read More about Mobility and the smart, green and inclusive Europe.

Classic text revisited: Slavery and the Penal System (2011)
Journal Article

In Slavery and the Penal System Thorsten Sellin set out to prove Gustav Radbruch's 1938 thesis that the modern 'criminal law bears the traits of its origin in slave punishments' (cited at p. viii). Within a relatively short book Sellin charts the his... Read More about Classic text revisited: Slavery and the Penal System.

A Multidimensional model for child maltreatment prevention readiness in low- and middle-income countries (2011)
Journal Article

The study's aim was to develop a multidimensional model for the assessment of child maltreatment prevention readiness in low- and middle-income countries. The model was developed based on a conceptual review of relevant existing models and approaches... Read More about A Multidimensional model for child maltreatment prevention readiness in low- and middle-income countries.

An emergent effect of phonemic cueing following relearning in semantic dementia (2011)
Journal Article

Background: Semantic dementia (SD) is a disorder that leads to a gradual but profound breakdown of conceptual knowledge and, as a result, severe anomia that is not alleviated by phonemic cueing. Several studies have shown that practising to name a se... Read More about An emergent effect of phonemic cueing following relearning in semantic dementia.

The classy coach commute (2011)
Journal Article

This paper considers a corporate vision for a coach service between Oxford and London in relation to the experiences and observations made by the author through a series of journeys on the same service. The journey is presented as a whole narrative t... Read More about The classy coach commute.