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Building on solid foundations : establishing criteria for e-learning development
(2003)In recent years, advances in technology and changes in the market place for education and learning have resulted in a rapid growth of interest in e-learning. Early experiments in the area have indicated that e-learning may ... -
Building relational trust and hope: The experiences of counsellors in a service for birth relatives whose children have been adopted or taken into care
(2023-03-24)The profound and lasting impact of losing a child to adoption or foster care has been powerfully described, and the importance of offering therapeutic support to birth relatives is a requirement in most parts of the UK. ... -
Building the Future Students’ Blended Learning Experiences from Current Research Findings
(2010)Between March 2007 and February 2009, the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) funded a Learners’ Journeys project at the University of Hertfordshire. This was part of their second phase of investment in research ... -
Building the Seshat Ontology for a Global History Databank
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Bullying involvement in primary school and common health problems
(2001)To examine the association of direct (e.g. hitting) and relational (e.g. hurtful manipulation of peer relationships) bullying experience with common health problems) -
Bullying isn’t just verbal or physical – it can also be social, and this can have the worst effects
(The Conversation, 2018-01-03)Bullying is a problem for schools worldwide. It is a fairly common behaviour, although it can be difficult to identify the number of young people who have been bullied because of the different ways bullying is measured. ... -
Bullying victimization prevalence and its effects on psychosomatic complaints : Can sense of coherence make a difference?
(2014-08-25)BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to examine the prevalence of bullying victimization and its impact on physical and psychological complaints in a representative sample of adolescents and to explore the role of sense ... -
Bullying victimization: time trends and the overlap between traditional and cyberbullying across countries in Europe and North America
(2020-01)Objectives This study explores recent cross-national trends over time (2002–2014) in the occurrence of victimization by bullying; then it documents the overlap between cybervictimization and traditional bullying in 2014 ... -
'Bundle of fun' or 'bunch of problems'? : Case series of khat-related deaths in the UK
(2011)Twenty million people worldwide use khat (Catha edulis). Previously confined to Eastern Africa and Arabia, consumption is spreading to other regions. Chewing khat leaves releases the stimulants cathinone and cathine. Khat ... -
Buprenorphine mortality, seizures and prescription data in the UK, 1980-2002
(2005)Buprenorphine safety in overdose has been debated recently, but no mortality data related to this compound from the UK have been published. To gather together all of the buprenorphine mortality figures, a number of different ... -
Bupropion perceived as a stimulant by two patients with a previous history of cocaine misuse
(2013-12)Background and objective. Despite animal studies having shown a generalisation of the bupropion cue to cocaine, this drug has been used in cocaine abuse with mixed results. We here aimed at describing two cases which ... -
The Burden of Comorbidity Between Bipolar Spectrum and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in an Italian Community Survey
(2020-03-31)Background: The impact of the comorbidity between Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Bipolar Disorder Spectrum (BDS) remains to be clarified. The objective of this study was to examine the lifetime prevalence of OCD, ... -
The Burden of Disease in Pyruvate Kinase Deficiency: Patients' Perception of the Impact on Health-Related Quality of Life
(2018-12-01)Objectives: This study explored how signs and symptoms of pyruvate kinase (PK) deficiency, a rare hemolytic anemia caused by mutations in the PKLR gene, impacts patients’ health-related quality of life (HRQoL). Methods: ... -
The Burden of Making Good Decisions
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Burden Reduction: An Evaluation of Statutory Instruments in the UK Government's Regulatory Off-setting and Business Impact Target Initiatives 2010-2019
(2023-10-01)This article analyses Statutory Instruments passed between 2010 and 2019 to evaluate the embeddedness of the UK Government’s regulatory off-setting and Business Impact Target initiatives. It begins by outlining the origins ... -
Bureaucratic control of irrigation and labour in late-imperial China: the uses of administrative cartography in the Miju catchment, Yunnan. : Mapping the Miju River
(2013-12)The sequence of twelve woodblock maps presented here from the mid-nineteenth-century gazetteer for the department of Dengchuan in southwest China shows the Miju river and the irrigation system that lay at the heart of its ... -
Burnout in early course psychosis caregivers: : the role of illness beliefs and coping styles
(2017-05-21)Aims In occupational settings, burnout is a common response to chronic exposure stressors and has been frequently documented in formal caregivers (i.e. paid psychiatric staff). However, the literature is limited on reports ... -
Burnout, coping and job satisfaction in service staff treating opioid addicts : from Athens to Zurich
(2010)The Treatment-systems Research on European Addiction Treatment study (TREAT-project) is a longitudinal multicenter study on predominantly opioid-dependent patients and their health-care system in six European cities. As ... -
Burnout: Caring for critically ill and end-of-life patients with cancer
(2019-07-22)Background Critical care and palliative care professionals treat and support seriously ill patients on a daily basis, and the possibility of burnout may be high. The consequences of burnout can include moral injury and ...