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How much poverty could HIPC reduce
(University of Hertfordshire, 2001)This paper reviews the development of the HIPC Initiative, then considers how much poverty could be reduced through debt relief. Using a simple distribution function and measures of inequality, US one dollar a day poverty ... -
How music benefits children
(2017-02-17)This article considers the notion of cognitive, behavioural and socio-emotional transfer effects of musical learning. It recaps past findings and adds a short summary of my recent PhD thesis findings supporting a beneficial ... -
How online learning, during COVID-19, has affected compassion in teaching and subsequently impacted student satisfaction
(2022-04-30)Goetz et al (2010) defines compassion as ‘the ability to notice physical or social distress in others and take action to address it’, with active listening, empathy, desire to help, inclusivity, understanding emotions, ... -
‘How people from Chinese backgrounds make sense of and respond to experiences of mental distress: Thematic analysis
(2017-09-05)Introduction: Late presentation and low utilisation of mental health services are common among Chinese populations. An understanding of their journey towards mental health care helps to identify timely and appropriate ... -
How pharmaceutical and diagnostic stakeholders construct policy solutions to a public health ‘crisis’: an analysis of submissions to a United Kingdom House of Commons inquiry into antimicrobial resistance
(2022-01-24)Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is often characterised as a ‘crisis’, requiring action by public, private, and third-sector stakeholders to achieve strategic change. Crisis narratives are powerful and may be co-opted to ... -
How Quality Improvement Collaboratives Work to Improve Healthcare in Care Homes: A Realist Evaluation
(2021-02-16)Background Quality Improvement Collaboratives (QICs) bring together multidisciplinary teams in a structured process to improve care quality. How QICs can be used to support healthcare improvement in care homes is not fully ... -
How reliable is internet-based self-reported identity, socio-demographic and obesity measures in European adults?
(2015-09)In e-health intervention studies, there are concerns about the reliability of internet-based, self-reported (SR) data and about the potential for identity fraud. This study introduced and tested a novel procedure for ... -
How Robust Is the 'Surprise Question' in Predicting Short-Term Mortality Risk in Haemodialysis Patients?
(2013-08-06)Background/Aims: The 'surprise question' (SQ) may aid timely identification of patients with end-of-life care needs. We assessed its prognostic value and variability among clinicians caring for a cohort of haemodialysis ... -
How should we conduct ourselves? Critical realism and Aristotelian teleology : a framework for the development of virtues in pedagogy and curriculum
(2018-06-19)Faced with the marketization of Higher Education in England, pedagogy is under pressure in ways that often undermine lecturers’ deeply held values. For instance, this pressure results in the reduction of significant aspects ... -
How sickle cell disease patients experience, understand and explain their pain : An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis study
(2016-01-08)Objectives Sickle cell disease (SCD) is the UK's most common blood disorder causing sickle shaped red blood cells to block small blood vessels inducing both acute and chronic pain. A crucial factor in determining quality ... -
How the amyloid-β peptide and membranes affect each other : An extensive simulation study
(2013-02)The etiology of Alzheimer's disease is thought to be linked to interactions between amyloid-β (Aβ) and neural cell membranes, causing membrane disruption and increased ion conductance. The effects of Aβ on lipid behavior ... -
How the constraints on English compound production might be learnt from the linguistic input : evidence from 4 connectionist models
(2003)Native English speakers include irregular plurals in English noun-noun compounds (e.g. mice chaser) more frequently than regular plurals (e.g. *rats chaser) (Gordon, 1985). This dissociation in inflectional morphology has ... -
How the health-seeking behaviour of pregnant women affects neonatal outcomes: findings of system dynamics modelling in Pakistan
(2019-03-30)Background Limited studies have explored how health seeking behaviour during pregnancy through to delivery affect neonatal outcomes. We modelled health-seeking behaviour across urban and rural settings in Pakistan, where ... -
How the Rural Dimension Helps Student Progression After School
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How the spectral energy distribution and galaxy morphology constrain each other, with application to morphological selection using galaxy colours
(2022-03-01)We introduce an empirical methodology to study how the spectral energy distribution (SED) and galaxy morphology constrain each other and implement this on 8000 galaxies from the HST CANDELS survey in the GOODS-South field. ... -
How the sugar beet crop grew in 2011
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How the sugar beet crop grew in 2012
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How to develop web-based decision support interventions for patients : a process map
(2011)Significant advances have been made in the development of decision support interventions, also called decision aids, for patients facing difficult or uncertain decisions. However, challenges related to the definition, the ...