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Directional hearing in a silicon cricket
(2007-02)Phonotaxis is the ability to orient towards or away from sound sources. Crickets can locate conspecifics by phonotaxis to the calling (mating) song they produce, and can evade bats by negative phonotaxis from echolocation ... -
Directors Pay Regulation: One Goal Two Approaches
(2016-05-09)Purpose This paper aims to examine the two different approaches adopted in the UK to regulate directors’ remuneration. The paper also aims to explore the two approaches to understand which one better regulates directors’ ... -
Directors’ Excessive Pay and Shareholder Derivative Action
(2015)Directors’ pay emerged as a contentious issue in the UK in the early 1990s, beginning with the privatisation of some utility companies. The directors of privatised utility companies (e.g. Mr Brown, the then CEO of British ... -
The dirty hand in the latex glove.” A study of hand hygiene compliance when gloves are worn.
(2011-12-01)Background and objective. Wearing of gloves reduces transmission of organisms by healthcare workers’ hands but is not a substitute for hand hygiene. Results of previous studies have varied as to whether hand hygiene is ... -
(Dis)gracefully navigating the challenges of diversity learning and teaching – reflections on the Social Graces as a diversity training tool
(2017-06-01)The Social Graces framework is 25 years old. In this paper we consider the Social Graces as a teaching tool. Roper-Hall, Burnham and their colleagues have created a recognisable and exible tool and have guided us toward ... -
Disadvantage in English seaside resorts : A typology of deprived neighbourhoods
(2018-12-01)Socio-economic disadvantage experienced by residents of English seaside resorts has been growing over the last decade, and academic and practice-based research is providing better insights into the causes, internal dynamics ... -
Disaggregating composite food codes in the UK National Diet and Nutrition Survey food composition databank
(2010-11)Objective: To disaggregate composite food codes used in the UK National Diet and Nutrition Survey (NDNS) into their individual food components in order to provide a more complete estimate of intake at the individual food ... -
The disappearance of the 1667-MHz OH maser in IRAS 17436+5003 (HD 161796)
(2003)We report the diminution of the 1667-MHz OH maser in the post-asymptotic giant branch star IRAS 17436+5003, by a factor of ≳17 over a period of ≲12 yr, from observations with MERLIN. This circumstellar maser was detected ... -
Disappointment as an Evolutionary Force
(2008)An alternative, less abstract approach to standard evolutionary game theory is proposed; it is assumed that evolutionary forces do not necessarily favour expected utility maximising strategies per se, but instead, that ... -
Disaster in London - The LAS case study
(IEEE COMPUTER SOC, 1999)This case study reviews the system and the processes that led to the botched implementation. The London Ambulance Service have spent the best parr of the last fourteen years attempting to computerise their despatch system. ... -
Disc frequencies for brown dwarfs in the Upper Scorpius OB association : implications for brown dwarf formation theories
(2012-03-01)We have investigated the brown dwarf (BD) and stellar disc fractions in the Upper Scorpius OB Association (USco) and compared them with several other young regions. We have compiled the most complete sample of of all ... -
Disc-shaped polyoxyethylene glycol glycerides gel nanoparticles as novel protein delivery vehicles
(2015-12-30)Disc-shaped nanoparticles with high aspect ratios have been reported to show preferential cellular uptake in vitro by mammalian cells. However, engineering and producing such disc-shaped nanoparticles are often complex. ... -
Disciplinary Action Against UK Health Professionals for Sexual Misconduct: A Matter of Reputational Damage or Public Safety?
(2022-02-22)A B S T R A C T: The regulation of health care professionals in the United Kingdom (UK) falls under the authority of one of nine General Councils, each of which has a statutory duty to ensure the fitness to practice of a ... -
Discordant inflammation and pain in early and established rheumatoid arthritis : Latent Class Analysis of Early Rheumatoid Arthritis Network and British Society for Rheumatology Biologics Register data
(2016-12-13)Background: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) disease activity is often measured using the 28-joint Disease Activity Score (DAS28). We aimed to identify and independently verify subgroups of people with RA that may be discordant ... -
Discourse analysis, trust and marketing
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2013-11)This chapter demonstrates the relevance of looking at discursive construction of trust in the marketing context. Consumers and users of goods and services want confidence in the transaction and this can build into ongoing ... -
A discourse of caring: A case study of male nurses’ discourse and identity construction in the United Kingdom and New Zealand
(Routledge, 2020-10-06)Despite aims for gender equality in the workplace, certain occupations continue to be categorized as suitable for one gender or another. This entrenched division of labour is arguably linked to traditional gender roles and ... -
Discourses of ‘equivalence’ in HE and notions of student engagement : resisting the neoliberal university
(2014)There is no shortage of analysis of marketization and the theorizing of the student as consumer/customer and how this impacts on notions of student engagement. This compelling - but largely academic - analysis forms the ... -
Discover – Deepen – Do : a 3D Pedagogical Approach for Developing Newly Qualified Teachers as Professional Learners
(2012)This article presents a strategy for teaching newly qualified teachers (NQTs) during their first year of teaching, developed by teacher educators from the University of Hertfordshire School of Education. The strategy ...