Browsing by Title
Now showing items 5750-5769 of 24177
-
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 ... -
Does Experimental Philosophy Have a Role to Play in Carnapian Explication?
(2017-05-31)Shepherd and Justus argue that experimental philosophy has an important role to play in the method of Carnapian explication, facilitating the preparatory stage during which the concept to be explicated is clarified. I raise ... -
Does Expression of Grounded Affect in a Hexapod Robot Elicit More Prosocial Responses?
(EPSRC UK-RAS Network, 2020-05-07)We consider how non-humanoid robots can communicate their affective state via bodily forms of communication, and the extent to which this can influence human response. We propose a simple model of grounded affect and kinesic ... -
Does formal coach education work?
(2008)Definitions of formal coach education tend to vary in the now considerable literature related to coach learning and development (Nelson, Cushion, & Potrac, 2006). But we will take it to refer to large-scale programmes ... -
Does gender matter? A cross-national investigation of primary class-room discipline.
(2018-04-06)Fewer than 15% of primary school teachers in both Germany and the UK are male. With the on-going international debate about educational performance highlighting the widening gender achievement gap between girl and boy ... -
Does genotype and equol-production status affect response to isoflavones? : Data from a pan-European study on the effects of isoflavones on cardiovascular risk markers in post-menopausal women
(2006-02)The increase in CVD incidence following the menopause is associated with oestrogen loss. Dietary isoflavones are thought to be cardioprotective via their oestrogenic and oestrogen receptor-independent effects, but evidence ... -
Does image congruence impact the effectiveness of a gain-framed physical activity message?
(2017-03-01)Background: Gain-framed messages can improve processing and physical activity, however inconsistency remains about the merits of using different accompanying images. This study explored whether gain-framed messages alongside ... -
Does Insurance Promote Economic Growth
(2000-12)This article examines the short-and long-run dynamic relationships exhibited between economic growth and growth in the insurance industry for nine OECD countries. This is achieved by conducting a cointegration analysis on ... -
Does integrated governance lead to integrated patient care? : Findings from the innovation forum
(2013-11)Good integration of services that aim to reduce avoidable acute hospital bed use by older people requires frontline staff to be aware of service options and access them in a timely manner. In three localities where closer ... -
“Does it work?” A framework to evaluate the effectiveness of a robotic toy for children with special needs
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2010)To evaluate the performance of a social robot, both the aspects of safety and technical efficiency as well as the effectiveness of the interaction with the robot from the users' points of view need to be considered. The ... -
Does nursing research impact on policy? a case study of health visiting research and UK health policy
(2011)The aim of this study was to critically examine the impact of nursing research on the development of health care policy using UK health visiting research as an example. We used established methods to evaluate research ... -
Does political marketing need the concept of customer value?
(2008-01-01)Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to investigate the feasibility and usefulness of adapting the concept of "customer value" from commercial marketing for use in the field of political marketing. Design/methodology/approach ... -
Does same-sex marriage show Church and state cannot sing from the same hymn sheet?
(University of Hertfordshire, 2013)One important conflict between Church and state in which there is much contemporary interest centres on same-sex marriage. More and more states are reforming marriage law to allow for same-sex marriage in the secular ...