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Are they ‘worth their weight in gold’? Sport for older adults: benefits and barriers of their participation for sporting organisations
(2016-11-01)The ageing global population has led to an increased focus on health for older adults. However, older adults have not been a specific priority for some sporting organisations (SOs). Thus, there is an emerging opportunity ... -
Are undegraduate healthcare students learning about each other from multiprofessional scenario-based simulation training?
(2008)Introduction: During initial training, students have few opportunities to practise alongside students from other disciplines other than in a classroom setting (1). Simulation offers an ideal context to provide clinical ... -
Are undergraduate students studying smart? Insights into study strategies and habits across a programme of study
(2022-04-08)The approach that students take in their studies at university is critical not only for their academic success but is equally important in life-long learning for their career and professional development. Heutagogy is the ... -
Are we prepared for high standards of trauma care?
(2016-09-12)For some years emergency nurses have speculated about what a competent standard of emergency nursing should look like. This is particularly important when managing complex trauma cases. The Trauma Quality Improvement Network ... -
Are You Impressed? An Exploration of the Pressure to Perform and Impress from the Perspective of an Organisational Development Consultant
(2021-03-10)Consultants are under pressure to perform and project an image of themselves as competent and credible within the practice of organisational development. Wanting to create a good impression is inherent in most human ... -
The area I’m from is very rough’: drug users’ views on the role of social and economic factors in their experiences of drug-related harm
(2023-03-06)Over the last thirty-five years, academic researchers in Ireland have consistently demonstrated the relationship between social deprivation and the most severe instances of drug-related harm. More recently, researchers ... -
Area-wide traffic calming for preventing traffic related injuries
(2003)Background: It is estimated that by 2020 road traffic crashes will have moved from ninth to third in the world disease burden ranking, as measured in disability adjusted life years, and to second in developing countries. ... -
Areas of Design Practice as an Alternative Research Paradigm
(2009)The view of the world from different subjects is quite distinct, resulting in a different view of what it is to know, and what it is that is known about. Scientists are stereotypically Realists who seek objective facts ... -
The Arecibo Galaxy Environment Survey (AGES) : XI. The expanded Abell 1367 field: Data catalogue and Hi census over the surveyed volume
(2022-09-23)Context. Many galaxy properties are known to correlate with the environment in which the galaxies are embedded. Their cold, neutral gas content, which is usually assessed through 21 cm H I observations, is related to many ... -
Arene-fused 1,2-oxazole N-oxides and derivatives. The impact of the N-O dipole and substitution on their aromatic character and reactivity profile. Can it be a useful structure in synthesis? A theoretical insight
(2014-12-01)DFT calculations have shown that the N-O dipole of benzene- and naphthalene-fused 1,2-oxazole N-oxides causes a distortion of their σ and π frame, concentrated on the 1,2-oxazole ring, such that it increases its susceptibility ... -
An Argument From Silence? The Implications of Xu Xiake's Description of the Miju River in 1639
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Arhaus Walks On Water
(2017-02-01)Arhaus Walks on Water forms part of The Arhaus European Capital of Culture 2017 launch and was presented in the forms of a new trans-media festival for creative industries held on the Dokk1 Harbour Front Aarhus. This ... -
Arm and Interarm star formation in spiral galaxies
(2001)We present an outline of our study of the effects of star formation on the different components of the interstellar medium in the discs of spiral galaxies, both globally and as a function of arm and interarm environment. ... -
An aromatherapy massage intervention on sleep in the ICU: a randomised feasibility study
(2023-08-02)We conducted a feasibility randomised controlled trial exploring the effect of aromatherapy massage on sleep in critically ill patients. Patients were randomised to receive aromatherapy massage or usual care, and feasibility ... -
Aromatic compounds from the liverwort Plagiochila spinulosa
(1999-04-10)Two known and five novel 9,10-dihydrophenanthrene derivatives, two orsellinic acid derivatives and a lunularic acid derivative have been isolated from the liverwort Plagiochila spinulosa and identified following NMR studies. ... -
Arousal regulation and affective adaptation to human responsiveness by a robot that explores and learns a novel environment
(2014-05-14)In the context of our work in developmental robotics regarding robot-human caregiver interactions, in this paper we investigate how a "baby" robot that explores and learns novel environments can adapt its affective regulatory ... -
Arquitetura: projeto, pesquisa e ensino, um percurso
(FAU-Mackenzie, 2009)O grupo de pesquisa "Arquitetura: Projeto & Pesquisa & Ensino", da Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie - composto pelos professores Rafael Perrone (líder), Ana Gabriela Godinho Lima ... -
Arrange and average algorithm for the retrieval of aerosol parameters from multiwavelength high-spectral-resolution lidar/Raman lidar data
(2014-10-23)We present the results of a feasibility study in which a simple, automated, and unsupervised algorithm, which we call the arrange and average algorithm, is used to infer microphysical parameters (complex refractive index, ...