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Structure-Function Studies of the ORF1 Protein From the Insertion-Site Specific Retroposon M5 Found in Indo-Pakistan Urban Malarial Vector Anopheles stephensi
(2018-07-17)In the 1950s Barbara McClintock inferred the occurrence of transposition: the movement of small segments of DNA - entities known as transposable elements from one position of the genome to another (McClintock, 1950). ... -
Structured perceptual input imposes an egocentric frame of reference - pointing, imagery and spatial self-consciousness
(2005)Perceptual input imposes and maintains an egocentric frame of reference, which enables orientation. When blindfolded, people tended to mistake the assumed intrinsic axes of symmetry of their immediate environment (a room) ... -
Structures far below sub-Planck scale in quantum phase-space through superoscillations
(2017-05-15)In 2001, Zurek derived the generic minimum scale $a_{Z}$ for the area of structures of Wigner's quantum phase distribution. Here we show by construction, using superoscillatory functions, that the Wigner distribution can ... -
The Struggle for Plurality and Politics in School Leadership Practice: Exploring the Importance of Thoughtful Action in Conditions of Uncertainty
(2021-04-16)This thesis draws upon relational explanations of human action to understand the author’s experiences of school leadership in conditions of uncertainty. The central arguments arrived at in this inquiry recognise the ... -
The Struggle to Stay in Relation: How the Dominance of an Ideology of Certainty Marginalises Practical Judgment and Political Action, from the Perspective of a Senior Manager in the NHS
(2023-11-03)In this thesis I explore my everyday work as a director of research in an NHS mental health trust. I use collaborative narrative autoethnography to explore episodes where research activity and evidence is contested, ... -
Student Choice: Blends of Technology beyond the University to support social interaction and social participation in learning.
(Springer Nature, 2016-12-12)This paper presents an overview of a blended collaborative learning design driven by assessment and feedback. To extend class based activities students were provided with a private group space on the university managed ... -
Student diaries: using technology to produce alternative forms of feedback
(University of Hertfordshire, 2007)Students at the University of Hertfordshire are increasingly exposed to e-learning through the extensive use of the Managed Learning Environment (MLE), and the heavy investment in various--technologies for classroom learning. ... -
Student dietitians' attitudes towards research and audit : a comparison with registered dietitians
(2007)Background: Student dietitians’ attitudes towards research and audit are important as they are likely to influence their subsequent involvement in such activities once qualified. The aim of this study was to investigate ... -
Student Leadership, Participation and Democracy
(2011)This article analyses modes of participation which enable schools to develop as democratic communities of learning and leadership. It mines a rich vein of work sustained at Cambridge over many years. Contributors to this ... -
Student life - Your first clinical placement : prepare well and ask for help
(2016-12-14)Your first clinical placement as a nursing student will be an exciting experience, but it may also be somewhat overwhelming. -
Student motivations, opportunities, abilities and self-efficacy : making the case for engagement in event studies
(2014-07-01)The aim of this paper is firstly to examine through a series of four research questions whether the Motivation, Opportunity, Ability (MOA) Model (Hung et al 1999, Jepson et al 2013, 2014) and the self-efficacy component ... -
Student nurses' experiences of incivility and the impact on learning and emotional wellbeing
(2018-04-01)Background: Incivility is the display of intimidating, rude, disruptive or undesirable behaviours. Incivility in nursing has the potential to impact on the learning environment, student wellbeing and patient outcomes. ... -
Student Primacy and the Post Pandemic University
(2021-07-14)According to the noted economist, Joseph Schumpeter, a period of creative destruction ensures long standing market arrangements are destroyed and in doing so resources are freed up to drive innovation. The results of this ... -
Student research projects: the experiences of student dietitians, university faculty members, and collaborators
(2007)Two universities in the United Kingdom made systematic attempts to increase the number of student dietitians' research projects that are supervised by university faculty members in conjunction with external collaborators ... -
Student Stories about Mathematics: A tool to understand more about the teaching and learning of mathematics
(2018-03-15)This qualitative study sets out to explore the experiences of secondary school students while they are learning mathematics in school. By using student stories of learning mathematics as my main data collection method I ... -
A student's experience of nursing care in a Ghanaian hospital.
(2011)This article describes a nursing student’s experience of a four-week placement in a rural hospital in Ghana and compares aspects of the care provided to patients in this hospital with that offered in the UK. -
Student's video clip collusion detection: the next generation of collusion detection
(2007)This paper describes how an offline software tool identifies collusion on assessed video clips. The collusion detection processing is independent of the length, format, frame rate, compression and content--of the video ...