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Do Grandparents matter? The impact of grandparenting on the well being of children : Summary report
(University of Hertfordshire / Family Matters Institute, 2009)This timely and important report shows the immense value of grandparents in 21st century family life. It reveals a unique relationship that exists between the older generation and the youngest: a relationship of love and ... -
Do Herbig Ae/Be Stars Have Discs
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“Do I dare/Disturb the universe?” Learning the Game of Governance in an Australian Mental Health Non-Governmental Organization (NGO)
(2021-07-27)This thesis explores my participation as a new board director (trustee) in the everyday work of an NGO involved in mental health research in Australia. I have employed collaborative narrative auto-ethnography, which has ... -
Do I need an academic identity?
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Do Interventions Designed to Support Shared Decision-Making Reduce Health Inequalities? : A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
(2014-04-15)Background: Increasing patient engagement in healthcare has become a health policy priority. However, there has been concern that promoting supported shared decision-making could increase health inequalities. Objective: ... -
Do moderate-luminosity active galactic nuclei suppress star formation?
(2009)The growth of supermassive black holes and their host galaxies are thought to be linked, but the precise nature of this symbiotic relationship is still poorly understood. Both observations and simulations of galaxy formation ... -
Do Motifs Reflect Evolved Function? – No Convergent Evolution of Genetic Regulatory Network Subgraph Topologies
(2008-10)Methods that analyse the topological structure of networks have recently become quite popular. Whether motifs (subgraph patterns that occur more often than in randomized networks) have specific functions as elementary ... -
'Do not forget your bit wife': love, marriage and the negotiation of patriarchy in Irish Presbyterian marriages, c. 1780-1850.
(2017-05-04)Drawing on the marital correspondence of Isabella Marshall and William John Campbell Allen, an Ulster Presbyterian couple, alongside a number of other Presbyterian families, this article explores how patriarchy was negotiated ... -
Do optimists plan for retirement? : A behavioural explanation for non-participation in pension schemes
(2014-12)This paper investigates the relationship between financial optimism and non-participation in pension schemes in the UK. We show that financial optimism reduces the probability of employees joining employer run pension ... -
Do people with intellectual disabilities understand their prescription medication? A scoping review
(2019-11-01)Background: People with intellectual disabilities are more likely to experience poor health than the general population and are frequently prescribed multiple medications. Therefore, it is important that people with ... -
Do petrol prices rise faster than they fall? Evidence from the UK retail and wholesale petrol sectors
(2023-11-30)This study investigates the presence of price asymmetries in the UK retail and wholesale petrol sectors over the period of January 2020- July 2022. The scope of this research is to explore whether petrol prices rise faster ... -
Do psychological distress and somatization contribute to misattribution of asthma? A Chilean study
(2007-01)Objective: The aim of this study was to assess the association between asthma and distress by whether symptoms of asthma present alone or are accompanied by atopy or bronchial reactivity to methacholine [bronchial ... -
Do rocker-sole shoes influence postural stability in chronic low back pain? A randomised trial.
(2016-10-19)Background People with chronic low back pain (CLBP) demonstrate greater postural instability compared with asymptomatic individuals. Rocker-sole shoes are inherently unstable and may serve as an effective balance training ... -
Do small farmers’ achievements contradict the nutrient depletion scenarios for Africa?
(2005-01-01)The dominant narrative of soil degradation in sub-Saharan Africa, as expressed in global surveys and policy documents, is compared with long-term data on the productive performance of smallholder farming systems under ... -
Do Something Different : The Journal - 100 Ways to Shake Up Your Life
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Do we still need the system life cycle?
(University of Hertfordshire, 1992)Since the dawn of software systems the development process has been dominated by the traditional system life cycle. This is a route map, onto which a software project fits more or less comfortably, and which prescribes the ... -
Do You See What I See? : Understanding the Challenges of Colour-Blindness in Online Learning
(Academic Conferences Ltd., 2011)In this paper we introduce the 'Hertfordshire Colour-blind Emulator' (HCBE) software application. Currently, our aim is to raise awareness of the challenges that the colour-blind encounter on their learning journey. HCBE ... -
Doctor or drug dealer? International legal provisions for the legitimate handling of drugs of abuse
(2020-02-03)In this paper, we compare how five jurisdictions (the USA; UK; Canada; New Zealand; and Australia) balance the disparate objectives of preventing the misuse of drugs to the detriment of society and allowing their legal for ...