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ATR-FTIR spectroscopy and spectroscopic imaging of solvent and permeant diffusion across model membranes
(2010-02)The uptake and diffusion of solvents across polymer membranes is important in controlled drug delivery, effects on drug uptake into, for example, infusion bags and containers, as well as transport across. protective clothing. ... -
Attachment and perceived parental treatment reported by siblings discordant for eating disorder pathology
(University of Hertfordshire, 2003)THESIS :- Title - Attachment and perceived parental treatment reported by sisters discordant for eating disorder pathology Hypotheses - The study tested theoretical predictions that attachment status would differ between ... -
Attachment of stem cells to scaffold particles for intra-cerebral transplantation
(2009)Cell-replacement therapy and tissue regeneration using stem cells are of great interest to recover histological damage caused by neuro-degenerative disease or traumatic insults to the brain. To date, the main intra-cerebral ... -
Attachment Security, Self-Concept Clarity and Beliefs in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
(2007-10-05)Cognitive models of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) suggest that an ambivalent self-concept and dysfunctional beliefs play an important role in the pathogenesis of OCD. Early attachment experience is argued to be the ... -
Attachment style moderates partner presence effects on pain : A laser-evoked potentials study
(2015-08)Social support is crucial for psychological and physical well-being. Yet, in experimental and clinical pain research, the presence of others has been found to both attenuate and intensify pain. To investigate the factors ... -
Attachment styles of dermatological patients in europe : A multicentre study in 13 countries
(2017-07-01)Attachment styles of dermatological outpatients and satisfaction with their dermatologists were investigated within the framework of a multicentre study conducted in 13 European countries, organized by the European Society ... -
Attachment tests of Pasteuria penetrans to the cuticle of plant and animal parasitic nematodes, free living nematodes and srf mutants of Caenorhabditis elegans
(1999-03)Populations of Pasteuria penetrans isolated from root-knot nematodes (Meloidogyne spp.) and cyst nematodes (Heterodeua spp.) were tested for their ability to adhere to a limited selection of sheathed and exsheathed animal ... -
Attachment, Sustainability, and Control over Natural Resources
(2021-07-28)In this paper, we discuss Armstrong’s account of attachment-based claims to natural resources, the kind of rights that follow from attachment-based claims, and the limits we should impose on such claims. We hope to clarify ... -
Attacking The Bounds of Cognition
(2006)Recently internalists have mounted a counter-attack on the attempt to redefine the bounds of cognition. The counter-attack is aimed at a radical project which I call “cognitive integration,” which is the view that internal ... -
Attempted versus successful avoidance : associations with distress, symptoms, and strategies for mental control
(2002-10-19)The most widely used measures of avoidance strategies following stressful or traumatic experiences are unidimensional. However, recent work has emphasised the multifactorial nature of avoidance: One intriguing and as yet ... -
Attending to individual students: how student modelling can be used in designing personalised blended learning objects
(2006)This paper reports on research carried out at the University of Hertfordshire over the past ten years relating to how the experience of learning can be personalised for individual learners. This work relates primarily to ... -
Attending to political conflict in social work today and in the near future : Focus on European social work
(2021-04-30)This paper is aimed at looking at how social workers in Europe tackle the inevitable political issues embedded in their work as intermediaries between political authorities (governments and local authorities) and social ... -
Attention and executive function in people with schizophrenia: Relationship with social skills and quality of life
(2008)Executive function and attention are highly complex cognitive constructs that typically reveal evidence of impairment in people with schizophrenia. Studies in this area have traditionally utilised abstract tests of cognitive ... -
Attention bands: Some implications for categorical judgement
(1980-05-01)It is shown that results of categorical judgement experiments cannot simultaneously conform to a single process signal detectability model and to the recently proposed two process attention band model. Since there is ... -
Attention mechanisms and component-based face detection.
(IEEE, 2009)Locating and identifying complex objects in a visual scene is a typical problem within the areas of computer vision and image analysis. One technique to minimise the size of image to be identified is to base the classification ... -
Attention Mechanisms in the CHREST Cognitive Architecture
(2009)In this paper, we describe the attention mechanisms in CHREST, a computational architecture of human visual expertise. CHREST organises information acquired by direct experience from the world in the form of chunks. These ... -
Attentional bias for negative expressions depends on previous target location: replicable effect but unreliable measures
(2020-08-12)Observability of threat-related spatial attentional biases may require previous-trial responses associated with threat-related locations. This carryover effect might affect reliability and correlations. In Study 1, a ... -
Attenuated effect of tungsten carbide nanoparticles on voltage-gated sodium current of hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons
(2013-02)Nanomaterials and relevant products are now being widely used in the world, and their safety becomes a great concern for the general public. Tungsten carbide nanoparticles (nano-WC) are widely used in metallurgy, aeronautics ... -
An attenuation of the 'normal' category effect in patients with Alzheimer's disease : A review and bootstrap analysis
(2007)There is a consensus that Alzheimer’s disease (AD) impairs semantic information, with one of the first markers being anomia i.e. an impaired ability to name items. Doubts remain, however, about whether this naming impairment ... -
The attitudes and beliefs of healthcare professionals on the causes and reporting of medication errors in a UK Intensive care unit
(2007)Our aim was to explore the attitudes and beliefs of healthcare professionals relating to the causes and reporting of medication errors in a UK intensive care unit. Medication errors were identified by the unit pharmacist ...