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Lawrence, Leavis and culture
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Lawrence, Leavis and Culture
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Laxative use in care homes
(2010)Aim. This paper is a report of an investigation into the factors associated with laxative-taking by older people in care homes. Background. Constipation is a common source of discomfort, pain and morbidity for care home ... -
Lay activism and activism intentions in a faculty union : An exploratory study
(2011-12-01)Prior conceptual work on union renewal places activism in a central role. Understanding of activism's antecedents, however, remains limited. This study uses a sample of faculty union members at a large public university, ... -
Lay and practitioner perspectives and experiences of obesity
(2012-09)Causes of obesity are known to be complex and multi-factorial. An increasing prevalence of obesity is of global concern. There is a need to fi nd effective obesity management and public health programmes. This paper draws ... -
Lay perspectives on lay health worker roles, boundaries and participation within three UK community-based health promotion projects
(2012)This paper examines lay interpretations of lay health worker roles within three UK community-based health promotion projects. It argues that understanding lay health worker roles requires critical analysis of the complex ... -
Layer-by-layer coating of alginate matrices with chitosan-alginate for the improved survival and targeted delivery of probiotic bacteria after oral administration
(2013-01-07)The oral administration of probiotic bacteria has shown potential in clinical trials for the alleviation of specific disorders of the gastrointestinal tract. However, cells must be alive in order to exert these benefits. ... -
Layered Polyelectrolyte Films as Selective, Ultrathin Barriers for Anion Transport
(2000-06-23)Synthesis of high-flux composite membranes requires methods for deposition of ultrathin, defect-free films on highly permeable supports. Layer-by-layer deposition of polyelectrolytes on porous alumina (0.02 µm pore diameter) ... -
A Lazy Bailout Approach for Dual-Criticality Systems on Uniprocessor Platforms
(2019-02-01)A challenge in the design of cyber-physical systems is to integrate the scheduling of tasks of different criticality, while still providing service guarantees for the higher critical tasks in case of resource-shortages ... -
LBP-CA: A Short-term Scheduler with Criticality Arithmetic
(University of Hertfordshire, 2022-11-04)In safety-critical systems a smooth degradation of services is a way to deal with resource shortages. Criticality arithmetic is a technique to implement services of higher criticality by several tasks of lower criticality. ... -
LC-MS/MS Confirms That COX-1 Drives Vascular Prostacyclin Whilst Gene Expression Pattern Reveals Non-Vascular Sites of COX-2 Expression
(2013-07-09)There are two schools of thought regarding the cyclooxygenase (COX) isoform active in the vasculature. Using urinary prostacyclin markers some groups have proposed that vascular COX-2 drives prostacyclin release. In contrast, ... -
The LCES HIRES/Keck Precision Radial Velocity Exoplanet Survey
(2017-04-13)We describe a 20-year survey carried out by the Lick-Carnegie Exoplanet Survey Team (LCES), using precision radial velocities from HIRES on the Keck-I telescope to find and characterize extrasolar planetary systems orbiting ... -
Le projet européen FOOTPRINT – vers des outils d'évaluation et de gestion du risque pesticides à différentes échelles
(2006)FOOTPRINT was a research project in the 6th Framework Programme which developed a suite of three pesticide risk prediction and management tools, for use by three different end-user communities: - farmers and extension ... -
Leaders without answers? Strategising in a context of continuous socio-economic decline
(2014-09-10)Context and rationale for the paper The mainstream strategic management literature is based on notions of ‘development’ and assumptions that there are always opportunities to improve the status quo, provided organisations ... -
Leaders, followers and problem solving in organisations
(University of Hertfordshire, 2002)The distinction between management style and leadership style has been confirmed in this research by examining the working relationships between leaders and followers in 6 separate sites of a computer systems organisation. ... -
Leadership and Organisational Structure in the Co-production of Government Funded Services
(2012-11-22)We propose a conceptual framework from a critical relatioal perspective to better understand the process of co-production. The argument advanced here is twofold: First, that leadership must be shared to some extend for ... -
Leadership and structure in the co-production of public services
(University of Hertfordshire, 2012-09-15)This paper aims to initiate a debate about the utility of the concept of co-production in developing a better understanding of contemporary challenges to leadership and management in the provision of public services. The ... -
Leadership Development as Reflexive Practice
(2012-09-06)This thesis examines Leadership Development in both a corporate setting and an expedition-based setting. The assumptions that are the foundations of current Leadership Development originate, and are informed by, aspects ...