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Simulated practice in healthcare: technology, resources and educational practice
(2010)
Recently, whether it relates to face to face or distance learning, technology has had an increasing impact on the delivery of education to learners across all disciplines. It is sometimes apparent that the focus is too ...
An international collaboration for the development of a research training course in an emergent academic discipline
(International Association of Technology, Education and Development (IATED), 2010)
In professional areas such as the creative and performing arts and design, the academic model of research has not been clearly articulated. This means that often the values held in advanced professional practice run counter ...
Effects of thought suppression on eating behaviour in restrained and non-restrained eaters
(2010)
Recent research has shown that suppressing food related thoughts can cause a subsequent increase in consumption relative to groups not suppressing, or thinking about food. The present study examined whether the effects of ...
Inhibition of thoughts and actions in obsessive-compulsive disorder: extending the endophenotype?
(2010)
Background: Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) has been associated with impairments in stop-signal inhibition, a measure of motor response suppression. The study used a novel paradigm to examine both thought suppression ...
Using randomised vectors in transcription factor binding site predictions
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2010)
Finding the location of binding sites in DNA is a difficult problem. Although the location of some binding sites have been experimentally identified, other parts of the genome may or may not contain binding sites. This ...
Partial privatization and bank performance : evidence from India
(2010)
This paper examines the impact of partial privatization on performance of state-owned banks using data from the Indian banking industry during the period 1986-2003. We test the hypothesis that privatization leads to ...
Market asymmetries, arbitrage and transition: the case of Russia
(University of Hertfordshire, 2010)
This paper develops the concept of corporate strategy as a process of arbitrage between markets where asymmetries are exploited by corporate managers. From a development position, this article argues that arbitrage is ...
Analysis of leaf appearance, leaf death and phoma leaf spot, caused by Leptosphaeria maculans, on oilseed rape (Brassica napus) cultivars
(2010)
Development of phoma leaf spot (caused by Leptosphaeria maculans) on winter oilseed rape (canola, Brassica napus) was assessed in two experiments at Rothamsted in successive years (2003-04 and 2004-05 growing seasons). ...
The rediscovery and posthumous influence of scepticism
(Cambridge University Press, 2010)
The history of the transmission, recover and posthumous influence of ancient scepticism is a fascinating chapter in the history of ideas. An extraordinary collection of philosophical texts and some of the most challenging ...
Reduced overlap frontier-based exploration with two cooperating mobile robots
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2010)
In this paper, a frontier-based exploration is used with a couple of cooperating mobile robots to explore unknown environments. The aim is to decrease the overlap between the robots to minimize the exploration time. The ...