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An exploration of the experiences of mothers who breastfeed long-term: What are the issues and why does it matter? (2013)
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Background: The World Health Organization (WHO) promotes breastfeeding for 2 years and beyond. Despite this, only 25% of women in the United Kingdom are breastfeeding at all by 6 months postpartum, with a minority of women breastfeeding beyond the fi... Read More about An exploration of the experiences of mothers who breastfeed long-term: What are the issues and why does it matter?.

Tracing the Democratic Narrative: Big Society, Localism and Civic Engagement (2013)
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This paper engages with recent policy changes in the UK surrounding the government's Big Society and localism agenda. Examining the framework and condition through which these programmes are developing in England, the article traces the conceptual de... Read More about Tracing the Democratic Narrative: Big Society, Localism and Civic Engagement.

Survey of context provisioning middleware (2013)
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In the scope of ubiquitous computing, one of the key issues is the awareness of context, which includes diverse aspects of the user's situation including his activities, physical surroundings, location, emotions and social relations, device and netwo... Read More about Survey of context provisioning middleware.

The Attitudes, Perceptions and Concerns of Pedestrians and Vulnerable Road Users to Shared Space: A Case Study from the UK (2013)
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The concept of shared space is increasingly being incorporated into urban areas in the UK, promoting a major change in the way streets are designed. Shared space is a design feature that aims to encourage pedestrians, cyclists and drivers to share th... Read More about The Attitudes, Perceptions and Concerns of Pedestrians and Vulnerable Road Users to Shared Space: A Case Study from the UK.

Speech characteristics of 8-year-old children with speech difficulties: Findings from a prospective population study (2013)
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Techniques for the inference of mileage rates from MOT data (2013)
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Mathematical and computational techniques are developed for the processing and analysis of annual Ministry of Transport roadworthiness (MOT) test data that the UK Department for Transport has placed in the public domain. First, techniques are given t... Read More about Techniques for the inference of mileage rates from MOT data.

Young people’s perceptions of visible difference (2013)
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Visible facial differences (VFDs) can pose a number of psychosocial challenges for those affected by them. In particular, the experience of being stigmatised may have a harmful effect on the psychological adjustment of the individual concerned. This... Read More about Young people’s perceptions of visible difference.

Extending the role of technology enhanced learning within an undergraduate radiography programme (2013)
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This study was undertaken in 2011, set against a background of increasing pressures to integrate Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL), both in higher education and the NHS. The primary aim of the study was to produce a user-friendly guide for academics... Read More about Extending the role of technology enhanced learning within an undergraduate radiography programme.

Educational achievements in Pierre Robin Sequence (2013)
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The aim of this retrospective population-based study was to determine if there is any significant difference in academic achievement between students with a Pierre Robin Sequence (PRS) compared with the general population of Swedish students at the t... Read More about Educational achievements in Pierre Robin Sequence.

Women's use of complementary and alternative medicine in pregnancy: A journey to normal birth (2013)
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This paper presents some findings of a research study which explored women’s motivations and experiences of use complementary and alternative medicine in pregnancy and childbirth. A narrative approach was chosen as through story telling it is possib... Read More about Women's use of complementary and alternative medicine in pregnancy: A journey to normal birth.

The deep roots of undigified care (2013)
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Leadership Matters: Tensions in Evaluating Leadership Development (2013)
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The Problem. This article explores some of the tensions that required careful management in the design and delivery of a leadership development program. This discussion draws particularly upon a formal evaluation of two cohorts, each comprising appro... Read More about Leadership Matters: Tensions in Evaluating Leadership Development.

The influence of a fluid-porous interface on solar pond stability (2013)
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The linear instability of the gradient zone of a solar pond containing a fluid-porous interface is investigated. It is found that the gradient zone can retain the same stability for lower values of the solute Rayleigh number with the introduction of... Read More about The influence of a fluid-porous interface on solar pond stability.

Searching the Internet for help with pain: Adolescent search, coping, and medication behaviour (2013)
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Objectives To explore a community sample of adolescents for engagement with online pain resources. To assess if the use of the Internet to search for health information correlated with measures of coping, risk taking, catastrophizing about pain, and... Read More about Searching the Internet for help with pain: Adolescent search, coping, and medication behaviour.

A Cultural Approach to Evaluating Leadership Development (2013)
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The Problem. Current thinking around the evaluation of leadership development programs pays insufficient attention to the way that learning to lead becomes embedded and affected by the cultural context within which leaders and leadership operate. The... Read More about A Cultural Approach to Evaluating Leadership Development.

Special Issue on New Paradigms in Evaluating Leadership Development (2013)
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The Problem. Evaluation of leadership development programs has been criticized recently for being based too much on structured evaluation models that do not account for more broad based outcomes and interpretations of leadership development. The Solu... Read More about Special Issue on New Paradigms in Evaluating Leadership Development.

Critical and alternative approaches to leadership learning and development (2013)
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This article is the introduction to the special issue on 'Critical and Alternative Approaches to Leadership Learning and Development'. This article reviews the past approaches to researching and theorising about leadership learning and development an... Read More about Critical and alternative approaches to leadership learning and development.

Manufacturing austerity in the Eurozone (2013)
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Economic forces representing Anglo-America and Germany-Europa find themselves at loggerheads about how to keep European economies afloat. Neoliberal commentators are demanding the European Central Bank (ECB) actively intervene to stave off recession... Read More about Manufacturing austerity in the Eurozone.

Applying valence framing to enhance the effect of information on transport-related carbon dioxide emissions (2013)
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The provision of information about transport-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to the traveler can be seen as an instrument to increase the likelihood of more sustainable choices being made by individuals. However, as transport-related CO2 emiss... Read More about Applying valence framing to enhance the effect of information on transport-related carbon dioxide emissions.

The modelling of blood coagulation using the quartz crystal microbalance (2013)
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Blood is a clinically-important analytical matrix that is routinely selected for disease monitoring. Having a clear understanding of the mechanisms involved in blood coagulation is a key consideration in haemostasis, with modern clinical practices re... Read More about The modelling of blood coagulation using the quartz crystal microbalance.