There is a limited body of research that focuses on the experiences of families of people with mental distress. While there is research regarding children’s experiences of parents with mental distress, there are few ...

John William Polidori (1795-1821) was appointed as the personal physician to Lord George Noel Gordon, 6th Baron Byron (1788-1824) in April 1816. Byron was not in the best of health, and Polidori was recommended to him by ...

Aim This research sought to understand the experience and perception of relational bullying among young people in England. Background Bullying among young people has been widely acknowledged as a public health concern. ...

Advances in submillimetre astronomy has opened the doors to carrying out surveys and high-resolution imaging of intense star forming galaxies out to and beyond the cosmic star-formation peak (ɀ ≈ 1- 4). The Submillimetre ...

Elements heavier than Fe are formed by neutron capture processes when fusion becomes energetically unfavourable; the slow s-process and site are reasonably well understood, but the rapid r-process site is still a highly ...

In early modern England it was believed that many people possessed the ability to alter and thereby mispresent their bodies. Various texts claimed that they were able to do so by either creating or restoring different ...

This thesis proposes the development of a digital microfluidics (DMF) device using alternative fabrication methods and materials for application in chemical and biological assays. DMF technology which relies on ...

Introduction: In healthcare, stories are an evocative way to educate nurses about the emotional experiences of patients. Little is known however, about the impact of storytelling in neonatal nursing practice and education. ...

Rationale and Aims: Ethnic Identity (EI) refers to the extent to which an individual identifies with their cultural group (Phinney, 2000) and has been widely documented as being beneficial for well-being (Smith and Silva, ...

The peroxisome proliferator activated receptor beta/delta (PPARβ/δ) is a transcription factor ubiquitously expressed in cells, although more highly active in skeletal muscle, arteries and endothelium. Signalling via PPARβ/δ ...