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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 ... -
Doctor Who and the Terror of the Vorticists : popular fantasy and the cultural inheritance of BLAST
(2014-07)Given the perceived anti-popular temperament of Wyndham Lewis’s work – his satire of ‘the herd’ and antipathy to ‘group rhythms’ – it might seem perverse to trace links between the avant-garde insurgency of the Vorticist ... -
Doctorateness: where should we look for evidence?
(Routledge, 2017-02-14)This chapter considers the possibility of an “institutional theory of artistic research”. It proposes four distinct quadrants in which one might look for evidence for such a theory, which needs to have the capacity to ... -
Doctors in Dilemma
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Doctors' greens
(2006)Everybody knows that doctors wear scarlet, at least on red-letter days. Many are aware that, in addition to scarlet, Henry VIII’s Act lists cloth of the colours mulberry and violet as proper alternatives to black for the ... -
Documents of Performance : the Assignments Book of the Britannia Theatre, Hoxton
(2014-06)Documentary evidence about the financial terms under which nineteenth-century dramatists produced their work is generally available only in piecemeal records that have survived by happenstance. This volume of agreements ... -
Does 'wanting the best' create more stress? : The link between baby sign classes and maternal anxiety
(2011)This study investigated whether gesturing classes (baby sign) affected parental frustration and stress, as advertised by many commercial products. The participants were 178 mother-infant dyads, divided into a gesture group ... -
Does A Loss of Social Credibility Impact Robot Safety?
(IARIA, 2019-03-28)This position paper discusses the safety-related functions performed by assistive robots and explores the relationship between trust and effective safety risk mitigation. We identify a measure of the robot’s social ... -
Does antifungal prophylaxis with daily oral fluconazole reduce the risk of fungal peritonitis in peritoneal dialysis patients? The Pan Thames Renal Audit
(2011)Background and Objectives: Fungal peritonitis increases the risk of transfer to haemodialysis and mortality. Methods: We audited the effect of co-prescription of daily oral fluconazole with antibiotics in the Pan Thames ... -
Does anyone want to talk to me? : Reflections on the use of assistance and companion robots in care homes
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Does autonomic arousal distinguish good and bad decisions? Healthy individuals’ skin conductance reactivity during the Iowa Gambling Task
(2008)The Somatic Marker Hypothesis (SMH) proposes that physiological feedback to the brain influences cognitive appraisal and decision-making; however, the strength of evidence in support of the SMH is equivocal. In this study ... -
Does cancer research focus on areas of importance to patients?
(2016-01-07)The majority of research ideas are proposed by clinicians or scientists and little is currently known about which areas of research patients feel are important. We performed a 4 week pilot patient survey at the Royal Marsden ... -
Does clinical handover promote situation awareness? : Implications for person-centered healthcare
(2012-06)Background: Doctors’ handover has been the subject of investigation since the implementation of the European Working Time Directive in 2004. Little is known regarding handover quality and safety in clinical practice. This ... -
Does Construing relate to Acculturation Attitudes and Psychological Well-being in Polish Immigrants in the U.K?
(University of Hertfordshire, 2014-09-30)There is evidence for increased rates of psychoses and mood disorders in immigrant populations, with some contradictory findings showing that migrants have better mental health outcomes than their native-born counterparts. ... -
Does Empowerment Maximisation Allow for Enactive Artificial Agents?
(MIT Press, 2016-07-01)The enactive AI framework wants to overcome the sense-making limitations of embodied AI by drawing on the bio-systemic foundations of enactive cognitive science. While embodied AI tries to ground meaning in sensorimotor ... -
Does Europe still need a Fourteenth Company Law Directive?
(2005)This paper explores the progression of European Law that may have pre-empted the introduction of the 14th Company Law Directive, a piece of European secondary legislation that has been under discussion for many years as ...