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A Framework for Key Account Management and Revenue Management Integration
(2014-10-31)
Key Account Management (KAM) and Revenue Management (RevM) have been widely practiced in the service industries for more than three decades, but the effects of RevM on KAM remain largely unknown. This paper addresses this ...
Using volunteer-employed photography to inform tourism planning decisions : A study of St David's Peninsula, Wales
(2014-10-31)
More effective tools are needed to empower stakeholder participation in tourism planning processes, and volunteer-employed photography (VEP) is a promising option. This paper discusses the use of VEP to inform tourism ...
Evaluation of flow characteristics that give higher mixing performance in the 3-D T-mixer versus the typical T-mixer
(2014-10-31)
A 3-D configuration of a T-mixer is evaluated under normal operating conditions of the called convective micromixers. The design has been called 3-D T-mixer in our previous work [1] as it adopts a three-dimensional structure ...
The effects of caffeine on rugby passing accuracy while performing the Reactive Agility Test
(2014-10-31)
Aim.—Caffeine has been observed to improve performance of high-intensity and endurance exercise, but its effects on passing accuracy and reactive agility seen in intermittent high intensity team sports such as rugby and ...
Comorbidity and dementia: a scoping review of the literature
(2014-10-31)
Background: Evidence suggests that amongst people with dementia there is a high prevalence of comorbid medical conditions and related complaints. The presence of dementia may complicate clinical care for other conditions ...
Mixed methods research : The best of both worlds?
(2014-10-31)
Introduction There has been a bias towards quantitative research approaches within manual therapy, which may have resulted in a narrow understanding of manual therapy practice. The aim of this Masterclass is to make a ...
A decision support tool for predicting patients at risk of readmission : a comparison of classification trees, logistic regression, generalized additive models, and multivariate adaptive regression splines
(2014-10-28)
The number of emergency (or unplanned) readmissions in the United Kingdom National Health Service (NHS) has been rising for many years. This trend, which is possibly related to poor patient care, places financial pressures ...
The impact of Cochrane Systematic Reviews : a mixed method evaluation of outputs from Cochrane Review Groups supported by the UK National Institute for Health Research
(2014-10-27)
Background: There has been a growing emphasis on evidence-informed decision making in health care. Systematic reviews, such as those produced by the Cochrane Collaboration, have been a key component of this movement. The ...
Label-free real-time acoustic sensing of microvesicle release from prostate cancer (PC3) cells using a Quartz Crystal Microbalance
(2014-10-24)
Using a Quartz Crystal Microbalance with dissipation monitoring, QCM-D (label-free system) measuring changes in resonant frequency (Δf) that equate to mass deposited on a sensor, we showed the attachment, over a 60 min ...