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Translation and validation of the Nepalese version of Derriford appearance scale (DAS-59) (2013)
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Objectives: To establish a valid and reliable translated version of Derriford Appearance Scale (DAS 59) for Nepali population. Methods: A standard translation-back-translation procedure was used followed by evaluation of semantic, conceptual and soc... Read More about Translation and validation of the Nepalese version of Derriford appearance scale (DAS-59).

Exploring perceptions of listening, empathy and summarising in the health visitor–parent relationship (2013)
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The ability of health visitors and their teams to engage and build effective relationships with families is fundamental in working together to reduce health inequalities and achieving positive outcomes for children and their families. In order to int... Read More about Exploring perceptions of listening, empathy and summarising in the health visitor–parent relationship.

A comparison of GP, pharmacist and nurse prescriber responses to patients' emotional cues and concerns in primary care consultations (2013)
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Objective: Recognising patients' cues and concerns is an important part of patient centred care. With nurses and pharmacists now able to prescribe in the UK, this study compared the frequency, nature, and professionals' responses to patient cues and... Read More about A comparison of GP, pharmacist and nurse prescriber responses to patients' emotional cues and concerns in primary care consultations.

Convergence to equilibrium in degenerate parabolic equations with delay (2013)
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© 2012 Elsevier Ltd In [11], Busenberg & Huang (1996) showed that small positive equilibria can undergo supercritical Hopf bifurcation in a delay-logistic reaction–diffusion equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions. Consequently, stable spatially... Read More about Convergence to equilibrium in degenerate parabolic equations with delay.

Electrochemical detection of extracellular hydrogen peroxide in Arabidopsis thaliana: A real-time marker of oxidative stress (2013)
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An electrochemical approach to directly measure the dynamic process of H2O2 release from cultures of Arabidopsis thaliana cells is reported. This approach is based on H2O2 oxidation on a Pt electrode in conjunction with continuous measurement of samp... Read More about Electrochemical detection of extracellular hydrogen peroxide in Arabidopsis thaliana: A real-time marker of oxidative stress.

The return of political risk: Foreign-owned banks in Eastern Europe (2013)
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Political risk—risk that investments are damaged by policy action of authorities—increased during the financial crisis due to controversies about the distribution of accumulated losses among stakeholders. Authorities interconnected by cross-border ba... Read More about The return of political risk: Foreign-owned banks in Eastern Europe.

Cole's from Newcastle (2013)
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Cheryl Cole – ex-judge of UK TV’s The X-Factor, ex-WAG of Chelsea and England footballer Ashley Cole, celebrated Geordie, sometime singer, fulltime ‘style icon’ and possessor of aspirational hair - represents a prime example of a hegemonic performanc... Read More about Cole's from Newcastle.

A Comment on Tobias Kronenberg's "Construction of Regional Input-Output Tables Using Nonsurvey Methods: The Role of Cross-Hauling" (2013)
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This article examines the effectiveness of a new non-survey regionalization method: Kronenberg's Cross-Hauling Adjusted Regionalization Method (CHARM). This aims to take into account the fact that regions typically both import and export most commodi... Read More about A Comment on Tobias Kronenberg's "Construction of Regional Input-Output Tables Using Nonsurvey Methods: The Role of Cross-Hauling".

Below the surface: An exporation of the challenges of establishing collaborative research projects (2013)
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La diffusion de l’ideal des cites-jardins autour du monde (2013)
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En faisant un voyage autour du monde, le concept de ‘cité-jardin’ a pris de nombreuses formes, peut-être pas toutes capable d’être instantanément reconnues par Ebenezer Howard l'homme le plus souvent considéré comme créateur de cette forme idéalisée... Read More about La diffusion de l’ideal des cites-jardins autour du monde.

Editorial: The Invasion of Grenada 30 Years on-A Retrospective (2013)
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A survey of the supportive care needs of informal caregivers of adult bone marrow transplant patients (2013)
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Purpose: This study aims to describe the supportive care needs of informal caregivers (ICG) of adult bone marrow transplant (BMT) patients. In addition, we explored relationships between levels of unmet need, psychological morbidity and patient and I... Read More about A survey of the supportive care needs of informal caregivers of adult bone marrow transplant patients.

Association between glenohumeral subluxation and hemiplegic shoulder pain in patients with stroke (2013)
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© 2013, © W. S. Maney & Son Ltd 2013. Background: Glenohumeral subluxation (GHS) and hemiplegic shoulder pain (HSP) are the most common musculoskeletal complications reported in patients with stroke. These secondary problems present considerable ch... Read More about Association between glenohumeral subluxation and hemiplegic shoulder pain in patients with stroke.

The Brand Equity of the Liberal Democrats in the 2010 General Election: A National and Local Perspective (2013)
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This paper considers the Liberal Democrat party as a brand, using appropriate branding concepts to analyze the fortunes of the party during the 2010 General Election. It explains Nick Clegg as a key influence on the brand's image nationally (the part... Read More about The Brand Equity of the Liberal Democrats in the 2010 General Election: A National and Local Perspective.

Adapting scientific workflow structures using multi-objective optimization strategies (2013)
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Scientific workflows have become the primary mechanism for conducting analyses on distributed computing infrastructures such as grids and clouds. In recent years, the focus of optimization within scientific workflows has primarily been on computation... Read More about Adapting scientific workflow structures using multi-objective optimization strategies.

Viscount Hastings: Radical aristocrat (2013)
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Computation and universality: Class IV versus Class III cellular automata (2013)
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This paper examines the claim that cellular automata (CA) belonging to Class III (in Wolfram’s classification) are capable of (Turing universal) computation. We explore some chaotic CA (believed to belong to Class III) reported over the course of the... Read More about Computation and universality: Class IV versus Class III cellular automata.

Parenting interventions for the prevention of unintentional injuries in childhood (2013)
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© 2013 The Cochrane Collaboration. Background: Parent education and training programmes can improve maternal psychosocial health, child behavioural problems and parenting practices. This review assesses the effects of parenting interventions for redu... Read More about Parenting interventions for the prevention of unintentional injuries in childhood.

A concurrent-choice analysis of amount-dependent temporal discounting (2013)
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Amount-dependent temporal discounting refers to the differential rates at which the values of large and small rewards are discounted over time. A lower rate of discounting of larger rewards is known as the magnitude effect. The present study aimed to... Read More about A concurrent-choice analysis of amount-dependent temporal discounting.

The accuracy of students' predictions of their GCSE grades (2013)
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The paper reports a study that investigated the relationship between students' self-predicted and actual General Certificate of Secondary Education results in order to establish the extent of over- and under-prediction and whether this varies by subj... Read More about The accuracy of students' predictions of their GCSE grades.