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Service users' perceptions of quality of life measurement in psychiatry
(2011)This article describes the concept of quality of life (QoL) as applied to mental health. It also outlines relevant tools for measuring QoL, both generic and health-specific, and explains their approaches and purposes. These ... -
Seshat: The Global History Databank
(2015)The vast amount of knowledge about past human societies has not been systematically organized and, therefore, remains inaccessible for empirically testing theories about cultural evolution and historical dynamics. For ... -
A set of high quality colour images with Spanish norms for seven relevant psycholinguistic variables: The Nombela naming test
(2011)This paper presents a new corpus of 140 high quality colour images belonging to 14 subcategories and covering a range of naming difficulty. One hundred and six Spanish speakers named the items and provided data for several ... -
Set-shifting related basal ganglia deformation as a novel familial marker of obsessive-compulsive disorder
(2021-04-21)The symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) are suggestive of cognitive rigidity, and previous work identified impaired flexible responding on set-shifting tasks in such patients. The basal ganglia are central to ... -
Sets of universal sequences for the symmetric group and analogous semigroups
(2020-01-28)A universal sequence for a group or semigroup S is a sequence of words w1,w2,… such that for any sequence s1,s2,…∈S, the equations wi=si, i∈N, can be solved simultaneously in S. For example, Galvin showed that the sequence ... -
Setting Conditions for Productive Debriefing
(2015-04-22)Background. Debriefing is a fundamental step in simulation, particularly in the medical field. Simulation sometimes even serves as a pretext for debriefing. Most often, debriefing takes place easily, producing a qualitative ... -
Setting priorities to inform assessment of care homes’ readiness to participate in healthcare innovation: a systematic mapping review and consensus process
(2020-02-05)Organisational context is known to impact on the successful implementation of healthcare initiatives in care homes. We undertook a systematic mapping review to examine whether researchers have considered organisational ... -
Setting research priorities for management and treatment of hyperhidrosis: the results of the James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership
(2022-03-04)Summary: Background: Hyperhidrosis is a common skin condition characterized by excessive sweating, which can negatively impact on quality of life. It is under‐researched compared with other conditions of similar prevalence. ... -
Setting up an acupuncture knee clinic under Practice Based Commissioning
(2008)This paper outlines the setting up of a new service in primary care offering acupuncture to patients with severe osteoarthritis of the knee. The high volume clinic is funded under the Practice Based Commissioning initiative ... -
Settler colonialism and the consolidation of Canada in the twentieth century
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2016-11-20)From the mid-nineteenth century to the present, settler colonialism in Canada has been characterized by the ongoing consolidation of state sovereignty around its assertion of radical underlying title to Indigenous lands. ... -
Settler: Identity and Colonialism in 21st Century Canada
(Fernwood Publishing, 2016-10-01)Canada has never had an “Indian problem”— but it does have a Settler problem. But what does it mean to be Settler? And why does it matter? Through an engaging, and sometimes enraging, look at the relationships between ... -
SEVA: A Smart Electronic Voting Application Using Blockchain Technology
(2021-12-08)The development of electronic voting applications remains an active area of research and this has led to the proposal and implementation of many models based on blockchains. However, most of the proposed models are partially ... -
Seven lesser known myths of formal methods : uncovering the psychology of formal specification
(University of Hertfordshire, 1996)Psychological research has shown that people are prone to systematic errors when reasoning about logical statements in natural language. The Human Cognition and Formal Methods research project aims to test whether people ... -
Severe conjunctivochalasis in association with classic type Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
(2012-09-03)Background: Inferior conjunctivochalasis is common, but is rarely severe enough to require conjunctival excision. This report describes a patient with severe conjunctivochalasis who was subsequently diagnosed with Ehlers ... -
Severe mental illness and type 2 diabetes: : using theory and research evidence to develop complex behaviour change interventions
(2016-06-16)This paper provides a critical review of the litera-ture on severe mental illness (SMI) and type 2diabetes and presents an argument for the develop-ment of theory-based interventions tailored specifi-cally for people with ... -
Sex and the City : The Finales
(Syracuse University Press, 2018-10-13)This chapter looks at the finales of the globally successful HBO series 'Sex and The City'. While the original series ended in 2004, in 2006 three more endings surfaced on Youtube and, of course, there were two more endings ... -
Sex differences in cognitive impairment in Alzheimer's disease
(2016-03-22)Sex differences in neurocognitive abilities have been extensively explored both in the healthy population and in many disorders. Until recently, however, little work has examined such differences in people with Alzheimer's ... -
Sex differences in lexical size across semantic categories
(2004)Recent studies have reported that males show better naming of nonliving things than females, while females show better naming of living things than males. Such effects may reflect sex differences in the size of lexicons ...