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Remuneration Consultants' advice and its effect on pay
(2015)The purpose of this paper is to investigate the nature of advice that the remuneration consultants offer to the companies on executive pay. It explores how the advice offered affects the level of executive remuneration. ... -
Remuneration Consultants: Benchmarking and its effect on pay
(2015-11-09)Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the factors that remuneration consultants consider when selecting comparator groups for executive remuneration benchmarking. It explores how the different factors ... -
Renal Association Clinical Practice Guideline on Haemodialysis
(2019-10-17)This guideline is written primarily for doctors and nurses working in dialysis units and related areas of medicine in the UK, and is an update of a previous version written in 2009. It aims to provide guidance on how to ... -
Renewal through participation in Global Food Security Governance : implementing the International Food Security and Nutrition Civil Society Mechanism to the Committee on World Food Security
(2012)The food commodity price rises from 2006 to 2008 engendered a period of political renewal and reform in the governance of global food security. The Committee on World Food Security (CFS) was designated as the main international ... -
Renin-angiotensin system gene polymorphisms influence blood pressure and the response to angiotensin converting enzyme inhibition
(1995)Objectives: To investigate the relationship between polymorphisms in the angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE), angiotensinogen (AGT) and type 1 angiotensin-II (AT1R) genes and (1) quantitative variations in blood pressure ... -
Renoir and the half life of Impressionism
(2008)This article sets out to examine some of the traditional components of Renoir's practice as a painter. Modernist views of nineteenth century art history have long clouded our vision of many aspects of artistic practice in ... -
Renoir, la tradizione e l'altra faccia dell'impressionismo
(Skira, 2008-03-08)Like many of his Impressionist peers, Renoir's work and career were subject to careful manipulation. When at the end of the nineteenth century, the French government sought to construct a narrative around the nation's ... -
Repair of ship hull structures of aluminium alloy AMg6 using electrodynamic treatment
(2010)The electrodynamic treatment (EDT) of welded joints from aluminium alloys AMg6 in ship hulls was carried out. The effect of 50...60 % reduction of initial stressed state was obtained at EDT of full-size samples of welded ... -
The repeatability of faecal egg counts, peripheral eosinophil counts, and plasma pepsinogen concentrations during deliberate infections with Ostertagia circumcincta
(1995-03)Faecal egg counts, peripheral blood eosinophil counts and plasma pepsinogen concentrations were monitored during 2 successive, deliberate infections in 24 Scottish Blackface sheep. For all 3 techniques, the repeatability ... -
Repeated treatment with cholecystokinin octapeptide improves maze performance in aged Fischer 344 rats
(2001)Previous studies have shown that sulfated cholecystokinin octapeptide (CCK-8S) can improve learning in adult rodents when administered systemically or into the central nucleus of amygdala. Here we analyzed the effect of ... -
A Repertory Grid Study Investigating Factors Associated With Treating People Diagnosed With Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD): the Construct of Illness and the Therapeutic Relationship
(2016-05-17)People diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) have been subjected to stigma and told that their difficulties are untreatable. Although recovery is now understood to be possible for this client group, much ... -
Repertory grid technique as a group psychotherapy research instrument
(1992)This article provides a brief description of repertory grid technique and the measures which can be derived from it which may be of value to the investigator of group therapy. It reviews the technique's application in this ... -
Repertory grid technique as a psychotherapy research measure
(2003-03)Repertory grid technique (RGT) has received scant mention in such psychotherapy research texts as the Handbook of Psychotherapy and Behavior Change, even though its flexibility renders it, in many respects, an ideal ... -
Repertory grid technique in the evaluation of therapeutic outcome.
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Repetition and Ritual Logic in Videogames
(2012-03-02)By moving away from a model of ritual that focuses on magic and fantasy worlds, this article seeks to broaden the discussion of ritual actions, performances, and objects in first- and third-person video games. Ritual will ... -
Repetition learning in the immediate serial recall of visual and auditory materials
(2006)In five experiments a Hebb repetition effect, that is, improved immediate serial recall of an (unannounced) repeating list, was demonstrated in the immediate serial recall of visual materials, even when use of phonological ... -
Repetition-spacing and item-overlap effects in the Hebb repetition task
(2013-11)In four experiments using a variation of the Hebb repetition task, we investigated the effects on learning rate, of repetition spacing and of the overlap in experimental items between repeating and nonrepeating lists. In ... -
Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (r-TMS) and Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor-Resistance in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Meta-Analysis and Clinical Implications
(2022-10-31)Introduction: Despite promising results from several randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and meta-analyses, the efficacy of r-TMS as a treatment for OCD remains controversial, at least in part owing to inconsistency in the ... -
Replacement of saturated with unsaturated fats had no impact on vascular function but beneficial effects on lipid biomarkers, E-selectin, and blood pressure results from the randomized, controlled Dietary Intervention and VAScular function (DIVAS) study
(2015-07-31)BACKGROUND: Public health strategies to lower cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk involve reducing dietary saturated fatty acid (SFA) intake to ≤10% of total energy (%TE). However, the optimal type of replacement fat is ...