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'I needed to be told that I hadn't failed': Experiences of violence against probation staff and of agency support
(1997-04)
The research presented in this article was undertaken to establish the extent of victimization of various groups of staff in the county of Hertfordshire's Probation Service. In particular, it aimed to examine issues of ...
Cunning-folk in England and Wales during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
(1997-04)
In a recent article Willem de Blécourt highlighted how little we really know about cunning-folk in the context of European witchcraft, and stressed the need for further substantial research. The study of English cunning-folk ...
Why don’t I just Throw it in the Bin? : Evaluation and Self-esteem
(1997-04)
Work in design and technology can provide a unique insight into quality through the process of evaluation. However, this is a two-edged sword in that evaluation can expose children's work to the perceived cold, hard light ...
A superscalar architecture to exploit instruction level parallelism
(1997-03-17)
If a high-performance superscalar processor is to realise its full potential, the compiler must re-order or schedule the object code at compile time. This scheduling creates groups of adjacent instructions that are independent ...
Luckiness, competition, and performance on a psi task
(1997-03)
This paper briefly reviews previous research on luck and psi, and presents a study on luckiness, competition, and performance on a psi task from an ongoing research project into the psychology and parapsychology of luck ...
Effects of long term storage and above normal temperatures on spore adhesion of Pasteuria penetrans and infection of the root-knot nematode Meloidogyne javanica
(1997-03)
The effects of storage and temperature on the attachment and infection of root-knot nematodes by the parasite Pasteuria penetrans were investigated. Storage for 11 years did not reduce the ability of P. penetrans to attach ...
Pharmacists' quality of learning in a diploma/MSc course in pharmacy practice
(1997-03)
A rapid expansion of postgraduate courses in pharmacy practice has raised the issue of quality. An understanding of how pharmacists approach their learning is one factor that influences learning outcomes. It would, therefore, ...
Evaluating travel agents' provision of health advice to travellers
(1997-03-01)
This paper examines the growing interest in the emergent field of travellers' health as evidenced throughout the expanding interdisciplinary literature on travel medicine. It examines the role of travel agents in the tourism ...
Managerialism and Professionalism in the Cinderella Service
(1997-03-01)
As a result of the process of incorporation following the Further and Higher Education Act of 1992, Cityshire College, a large further education college left the jurisdiction of the local authority and gained greater ...
Sm-144-alpha optical potential at astrophysically relevant energies derived from Sm-144(alpha,alpha) Sm-144 elastic scattering
(1997-03)
For the determination of the Sm-144-alpha optical potential we measured the angular distribution bf Sm-144(alpha, alpha)Sm-144 scattering at the energy E(lab)=20 MeV with high accuracy. Using the known systematics pf ...