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Investigation into Single Scattering Properties of Airborne Saharan Dust Particles
(2008)The phase functions of single mineral dust particles levitated in an electrodynamic balance have been measured. Normalized phase functions and the asymmetry parameter could be determined because nearly the full range of ... -
An investigation into solvent-membrane interactions when assessing drug release from organic vehicles using regenerated cellulose membranes
(2008-09)The influence of organic solvents on artificial membranes when assessing drug release from topical formulations is, generally, poorly characterised yet current guidelines require no characterisation of the membrane before, ... -
An Investigation into Teachers' Professional Autonomy in England: Implications for Policy and Practice
(2013-04-09)The current coalition government in England has expressed its commitment to establishing an autonomous teaching profession. This study argues that such autonomy cannot exist in a system that is ideologically driven by ... -
An investigation into the age and origin of Suranga in the foothills of the Western Ghats of India
(2015-09-30)This paper presents the evidence for determining the age and origin of suranga irrigation found mainly in southern Karnataka and northern Kerala in the foothills of the Western Ghats of south India. It draws on on-going ... -
An investigation into the alleged haunting of Hampton Court Palace : Psychological variables and magnetic fields
(2002)Hampton Court Palace is reputed to be one of the most haunted places in England, with both staff and visitors reporting unusual phenomena in many areas of the building. This investigation aimed to discover the extent to ... -
An investigation into the associations between psychological skills, anaerobic fitness, and aerobic fitness in elite Iranian taekwondo athletes
(2023-07-07)This study investigated the relationship between psychological skills and fitness levels among elite taekwondo athletes. A total of ten Iranian male elite taekwondo athletes (mean age of 20.6±2 years, BMI 18.78±0.62 kg/m2, ... -
An investigation into the changing educational needs of community nurses with regard to needs assessment and quality of care in the context of the NHS and Community Care Act, 1990
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An investigation into the effect of ageing on expert memory with CHREST
(2007)CHREST is a cognitive architecture that models human perception, learning, memory, and problem solving, and which has successfully simulated numerous human experimental data on chess. In this paper, we describe an investigation ... -
Investigation into the effect of language on performance in a multimedia food studies application
(University of Hertfordshire, 1999)An investigation into how performance in a multimedia learning application was related to the level of language support available is reported. Teachers from a College of Further Education, National Vocation Qualification ... -
An investigation into the effects of different warm-up modalities on specific motor skills related to soccer performance
(2010-08)Fletcher, IM and Monte-Colombo, MM. An investigation into the effects of different warm-up modalities on specific motor skills related to soccer performance. J Strength Cond Res 24(8): 2096-2101, 2010-The aim of this study ... -
Investigation into the functionality of controlled drug denaturing/destruction kits
(2015-03)Context: Throughout the UK a large amount of unwanted, expired or patient returned controlled drugs are disposed of every day, in community and hospital pharmacies, veterinary surgeries, hospices, private hospitals and ... -
An Investigation into the Impact of Childhood Abuse and Care-giver Invalidation on Psychological Inflexibility in Clinical and Subclinical Eating Disorders
(University of Hertfordshire, 2014-09-30)As a whole, eating disorders have been characterised as having the following key features: a persistent over concern with body size and shape; and weight control behaviours such as fasting, exercise, and self-induced ... -
An investigation into the in vivo performance variability of pH responsive polymers for ileo-colonic drug delivery using gamma scintigraphy in humans
(2006-12)Gastrointestinal performance of tablets coated with pH responsive acrylic polymers (Eudragit) was investigated in human volunteers. Tablet cores were coated with Eudragit S dissolved in ethanol (organic), Eudragit S aqueous ... -
An investigation into the influence of binary drug solutions upon diffusion and partition processes in model membranes
(2008-12)Few studies have assessed the impact of binary systems on the fundamental mathematical models that describe drug permeation. The aim of this work was to determine the influence of varying the proportions of prilocaine and ... -
An investigation into the measurement of notations used in software modelling
(University of Hertfordshire, 1996)Measurement systems for software abound in the literature as do those for models in specification languages. This report applies measurement to the formal notations themselves making use of the principle of model-based ... -
Investigation into the Motives and Perceptions of Implementing Blended Teaching in a Chinese Higher Education Context
(2023-12-18)As a pedagogical approach in practice, blended teaching is generating unprecedented opportunities in higher education, but also poses new challenges. Whether teachers’ application of blended education can achieve steady ... -
An investigation into the nutritional composition and cost of gluten-free versus regular food products in the UK
(2018-02-01)Background: The gluten-free (GF) food market has expanded considerably, although there is limited comparative evidence for the nutritional quality and cost of GF food products. The present study aims to compare the nutrient ... -
An investigation into the performance and representation of a stochastic evolutionary neural tree
(Springer Nature, 1997)The Stochastic Competitive Evolutionary Neural Tree (SCENT) is a new unsupervised neural net that dynamically evolves a representational structure in response to its training data. Uniquely SCENT requires no initial parameter ... -
An investigation into the public health roles of community learning disability nurses.
(2015-03)International studies have shown poor uptake of public health initiatives by people with learning disabilities. In addition, studies have shown that people with learning disabilities experience poor access to public health ...