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Shared decision-making for people living with dementia in extended care settings: protocol for a systematic review
(2016-11-01)Introduction Approximately 450 000 people in the UK are living in care homes, 70% of whom are thought to have dementia or significant memory problems. This means that they may need support with day-to-day decisions about ... -
Shared decision-making for psychiatric medication : A mixed-methods evaluation of a UK training programme for service users and clinicians
(2017-12-01)Background: Shared decision making (SDM) is recognised as a promising strategy to enhance good collaboration between clinicians and service users, yet it is not practised regularly in mental health. Aims: Develop and ... -
Shared decision-making in medication management : Development of a training intervention
(2017-08-01)Shared decision-making is a collaborative process in which clinicians and patients make treatment decisions together. Although it is considered essential to patient-centred care, the adoption of shared decision-making into ... -
Shared Garments and Forced Choreography
(2012)Fashion is often described as asserting or reinforcing social or professional bonds, but rarely is such a fixed bond established as when garments physically link one body to another. We may be familiar with shared garments ... -
Shared leadership and group identification in healthcare: : The leadership beliefs of clinicians working in interprofessional teams
(2017-05-04)Despite the proposed benefits of applying shared and distributed leadership models in healthcare, few studies have explored the leadership beliefs of clinicians and ascertained whether differences exist between professions. ... -
Shareholder Remedies in China and England : Are they Comparable
(2013)A great amount of research has been published on the comparison of shareholder remedies in the United Kingdom and China. It has been invariably argued that shareholder remedies in China are inadequate in protecting the ... -
Shareholder Value and Financialization : Consultancy Promises, Management Moves
(Routledge, 2005)Although shareholder value is the mantra that jumps out from the pages of the daily financial press, it is often a loosely defined and rhetorical concept, subject to little empirical study. It is also a powerful concept, ... -
Sharia Law and Digital Forensics in Saudi Arabia
(2018-12-19)These days, digital crime is one of the main challenges for law enforcement and the judicial system. Many of the laws which are used to protect the users of current technologies were derived from legislation and laws that ... -
Sharing memories: an experimental investigation with multiple autonomous autobiographic agents
(IOS Press, 2004)The overall aim of our work is to develop a generic adaptive control architecture for autonomous intelligent agents. In our previous work we showed how a single agent's survival can benefit from autobiographic memory. In ... -
Sharing spaces with robots in a home scenario - anthropomorphic attributions and their effect on proxemic expectations and evaluations in a live HRI trial
(AAAI, 2008)This paper presents results from an HRI study that involved participants interacting with robots of different appearances. The particular focus of this paper is how anthropomorphic attributions impacted the proxemic ... -
Sharing spaces, sharing lives - The impact of robot mobility on user perception of a home companion robot
(Springer Nature, 2013-12)This paper examines the role of spatial behaviours in building human-robot relationships. A group of 8 participants, involved in a long-term HRI study, interacted with an artificial agent using different embodiments over ... -
Sharing storage using dirty vectors
(Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM Press), 1996)Consider a computation F with n inputs (independent variables) and m outputs (dependent variables) and suppose that we wish to evaluate the Jacobian of F. Automatic differentiation commonly performs this evaluation by ... -
Shattered Narratives and the Search for Meaning: The Experiences of Parents Whose Child Sustains Traumatic Brain Injury
(2009-08-05)This study looked in detail at the parental experience of having a child sustain traumatic brain injury (TBI); beginning with the child sustaining the injury, through the acute and chronic stages of rehabilitation, to the ... -
Shear strength recovery of sand with self-healing polymeric capsules
(2024-03-23)Self-healing approaches are increasingly being explored in various fields as a potential method to recover damaged material properties. By self-recovering without external intervention, self-healing techniques emerge as a ... -
Shear-induced global thrombosis test of native blood: Pivotal role of ADP allows monitoring of P2Y12 antagonist therapy
(2009)Background: It is claimed that in shear-induced platelet function tests, shear-stress is the sole agonist causing platelet activation and resultant thrombosis. However, the fact that red blood cells (RBC) are essential to ... -
Sheath Brown Rot Disease of Rice Caused by Pseudomonas fuscovaginae in the Peninsular Malaysia
(2009)Relative to the established and well known rice diseases, sheath brown rot caused by Pseudomonas fuscovaginae can be considered new but getting widespread and serious all over the world. Our research was aimed to monitor ... -
Sheathed fixation improves BASHTI technique in an anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction
(2023-03-30)Bone and Site Hold Tendon Inside (BASHTI) technique is an implant-less surgical methodology used for anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction. It has some clinical advantages, such as speeding up the healing process. ... -
Sheconomics : why more women on boards boosts company performance
(2011)How many women does it take to make a company more profitable? Just three. Karen Pine finds a remarkable statistic that is being ignored in city boardrooms worldwide. -
Shell effects in neutron capture on Pb
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Shells, Bubbles and Holes: the Porosity of the Interstellar Medium in Galaxies
(2012-10-08)We present an analysis of the properties of HI holes detected in 20 galaxies that are part of “The HI Nearby Galaxy Survey” (THINGS). We detected more than 1000 holes in total in the sampled galaxies. Where they can be ...