All Outputs (1329)

The impact of global economic crisis on remittances in the commonwealth of independent states (2009)
Journal Article

Two European geographers and an economist analyze the impact of the 2008-2009 global economic recession on remittances in the Commonwealth of Independent States. Drawing on balance-of-payments data as well as information on money transfers to and fro... Read More about The impact of global economic crisis on remittances in the commonwealth of independent states.

Often overlooked: formative evaluation in the development of ScienceComics (2009)
Journal Article

Formative evaluation should play a key role in the development of a science communication project or initiative. Such research is vital to understanding the needs and interests of the audience or participants; meeting these needs and interests helps... Read More about Often overlooked: formative evaluation in the development of ScienceComics.

Feminine boundaries: Adolesence, witchcraft and the supernatural in new gothic cinema and television (2009)
Book Chapter

The 'new gothic' film and television text addressed to a largely female audience such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Twilight and True Blood, has become an important genre for the staging and testing out of ideas about adolesent femininity, sexuality... Read More about Feminine boundaries: Adolesence, witchcraft and the supernatural in new gothic cinema and television.

Pre-hospital resuscitation using the iGEL (2009)
Journal Article

We report our findings on the use of the iGEL (Intersurgical: Wokingham, UK) as an airway device during pre-hospital resuscitation.

Research leading to social marketing solutions to encourage breastfeeding amongst teenage mothers in hard to reach communities: report prepared for Bristol PCT, September 2009 (2009)
Report

An investigation of the aerodynamic admittances and aerodynamic weighting functions of trains (2009)
Journal Article

Increasing train speeds combined with the predicted reduction in the weight of new trains ensure that the effect of crosswinds on train stability is of continued interest to the rail industry. Changes in the approaching wind velocity can in turn lead... Read More about An investigation of the aerodynamic admittances and aerodynamic weighting functions of trains.

Somerset PCT insights: smokefree homes. Report for Somerset PCT (2009)
Report

Pedal back the years: Social marketing analysis. Report for Cornwall and Isles of Scilly PCT (2009)
Report

Building donor loyalty: Lessons from research (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Real-time monitoring of river water quality using in-line continuous acquisition of fluorescence excitation and emission matrices (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Birmingham, UK. River water was diverted to a portable laboratory via a continuous flow pump and filter system. Fluorescence excitation-emission matrices data was recorded every 3 minutes using a flow cell (1cm pathlength) coupled to a fiber optic pr... Read More about Real-time monitoring of river water quality using in-line continuous acquisition of fluorescence excitation and emission matrices.

Urban World Heritage Sites and the problem of authenticity (2009)
Journal Article

Teaching Public Health Networks in England: An innovative approach to building public health capacity and capability (2009)
Journal Article

This paper examines the development and achievements of the Teaching Public Health Networks (TPHNs) in England; an initiative that aimed to catalyse collaborative working between the public health workforce and further and higher education, to enhanc... Read More about Teaching Public Health Networks in England: An innovative approach to building public health capacity and capability.

The influence of negligence, intention, and outcome on children's moral judgments (2009)
Journal Article

Piaget (1932) and subsequent researchers have reported that young children's moral judgments are based more on the outcomes of actions than on the agents' intentions. The current study investigated whether negligence might also influence these judgme... Read More about The influence of negligence, intention, and outcome on children's moral judgments.

Futures markets and coffee prices (2009)
Thesis

This thesis constitutes an empirical critique of neoclassical economic theory as applied to the study of commodity markets. It is argued that the liberalisation of coffee marketing systems in producing countries, the collapse of the International Cof... Read More about Futures markets and coffee prices.

Economics for the modern built environment: book review (2009)
Journal Article

Improving Memory after Interruption: Exploiting Soft Constraints and Manipulating Information Access Cost (2009)
Journal Article

Forgetting what one was doing prior to interruption is an everyday problem. The recent soft constraints hypothesis (Gray, Sims, Fu, & Schoelles, 2006) emphasizes the strategic adaptation of information processing strategy to the task environment. It... Read More about Improving Memory after Interruption: Exploiting Soft Constraints and Manipulating Information Access Cost.

'No matter what I did I would still end up in the same position': Age as a factor defining older women's experience of labour market participation (2009)
Journal Article

This article explores age as a factor defining the labour market experience of older women. Drawing upon work histories it argues that discrimination on the grounds of age is bound up with gender, race and class. Older women described how all three c... Read More about 'No matter what I did I would still end up in the same position': Age as a factor defining older women's experience of labour market participation.

Risky business or safety net? Trainee perceptions of personal therapy: A qualitative thematic analysis (2009)
Journal Article

Participation in personal therapy during training is required by British accreditation bodies for counselling psychology as well as by most psychotherapy trainings. By contrast, trainee clinical psychologists are not required to undertake personal th... Read More about Risky business or safety net? Trainee perceptions of personal therapy: A qualitative thematic analysis.

Learning to work together: Health and social care students' learning from interprofessional modules (2009)
Journal Article

This paper reports on a study of student learning about collaboration and discusses the effectiveness of different forms of assessment in facilitating learning. The study was conducted in a large health and social care faculty in which all students o... Read More about Learning to work together: Health and social care students' learning from interprofessional modules.

'A woyage o' diskivery': Thomas J. Williams' The Peep-Show Man (1868) and the victorian performative text (2009)
Journal Article

This article focuses upon the variant manuscripts of a play concerning a travelling peep-show man. The evidence reveals that like the hero, the text travels widely and undergoes significant textual changes according to the medium in which it appears.