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Assessing deprescribing tools for implementation in care homes: A qualitative study of the views of care home staff
(2023-12-16)BACKGROUND: Care home residents often experience polypharmacy (defined as taking five or more regular medicines). Therefore, we need to ensure that residents only take the medications that are appropriate or provide value ... -
Assessing Fairtrade Marketing Drivers and Market Prospects for Commodity Producers in Developing Countries
(2013-05-14)Fairtrade has received considerable research attention but little is known about marketing factors driving sales and its potential implications for sustained market access for commodity producers. To provide objective ... -
Assessing Forensic Ballistics Three-Dimensionally through Graphical Reconstruction and Immersive VR Observation
(2022-10-21)A crime scene can provide valuable evidence critical to explain reason and modality of the occurred crime, and it can also lead to the arrest of criminals. The type of evidence collected by crime scene investigators or by ... -
Assessing human reactions to different robot attachment profiles
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2009)Emotional regulation is believed to be crucial for a balanced emotional and cognitive development in infants. Furthermore, during the first year of a child's life, the mother is playing a central role in shaping the ... -
Assessing Hypersensitivity to Difference in Autistic and Non-Autistic Adults
(2024-03-28)Current literature on autism has tended to examine individual traits and characteristics, or the link between two or three traits. This thesis will outline previous literature on the cognitive and perceptual theories of ... -
Assessing Identity Theft in the Internet of Things
(2014-03-01)In the Internet of Things everything is interconnected. In the same context that “man-made fire” got the party started for human civilisation, “man-made TCP” enabled computing devices to participate in our lives. Today we ... -
Assessing lidar-based classification schemes for polar stratospheric clouds based on 16 years of measurements at Esrange, Sweden
(2014-02-16)Lidar measurements of polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs) are commonly analyzed in classification schemes that apply the backscatter ratio and the particle depolarization ratio. This similarity of input data suggests comparable ... -
Assessing Moral Injury and its Clinical Associations in a UK Secure Care Population
(2023-08-24)Introduction: Moral Injury (MI) represents a type of trauma that can manifest after committing or witnessing transgressions which result in feelings of shame, guilt, and inner turmoil. Although originally conceived and ... -
Assessing mucoadhesion in polymer gels : The effect of method type and instrument variables
(2018-03-01)The process of mucoadhesion has been widely studied using a wide variety of methods, which are influenced by instrumental variables and experiment design, making the comparison between the results of different studies ... -
Assessing on-farm productivity of Miscanthus crops by combining soil mapping, yield modelling and remote sensing
(2016-02-29)Biomass from agricultural land is a key component of any sustainable bioenergy strategy, and 2nd generation, ligno-cellulosic feedstocks are part of the UK government policy to meet the target of reduced CO2 emission. ... -
Assessing pain
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Assessing patients' participation and quality of decision-making: insights from a study of routine practice in diverse settings
(2004)In the context of a qualitative study exploring patients’ participation in decision-making, we investigated how people interpret and respond to structured questions about decision-making about their health care. Seventy-four ... -
Assessing perceived voice similarity using multidimensional scaling for the construction of voice parades
(2013)In recent years forensic phoneticians, in consultation with psychologists and law enforcement officers, have put considerable effort into devising and refining procedures for preparing and conducting fair voice parades. ... -
Assessing population needs in primary health care : the problem of GP attachment
(1993-01)Recent government policy has emphasised the benefits of assessing need at a local level, For Health Authorities operating a system of strict GP attachment, attempting to do this for localities within districts is not ... -
Assessing prevalence, knowledge and use of cognitive enhancers among university students in the United Arab Emirates: A quantitative study
(2022-01-26)BACKGROUND: Cognitive enhancers (CE) are often used to improve memory, alertness and cognitive capacity. These products are commercially and pharmaceutically available. Due to high academic pressure, university students ... -
Assessing problematic use of social media: where do we stand and what can be improved?
(2022-06-01)The increased popularity of social media has brought clinicians and researchers to question the potential problematic outcomes of such Internet-based applications. Over the past two decades, an increasing number of studies ... -
Assessing quantitative resistance against Leptosphaeria maculans (phoma stem canker) in Brassica napus (oilseed rape) in young plants : Assessing quantitative resistance to Leptosphaeria maculans
(2014-01-15)Quantitative resistance against Leptosphaeria maculans in Brassica napus is difficult to assess in young plants due to the long period of symptomless growth of the pathogen from the appearance of leaf lesions to the ... -
Assessing Requirements Process Strengths and Weaknesses: A first step to prioritising requirements process implementation
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Assessing Supermarket Food Shopper Reaction to Horsemeat Scandal in the UK
(2014)Consumer reaction to food scares has been given considerable research attention but insights into specific shopper segments’ reactions to food scares, especially those that do not pose direct health risk to the public is ... -
Assessing the 2004-2018 fentanyl misusing issues reported to an international range of adverse reporting systems
(2019-02-01)Objective: A recent, global, increase in the use of opioids including the prescribing, highly potent, fentanyl has been recorded. Due its current popularity and the potential lethal consequences of its intake, we aimed ...