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Research-rich and informed teaching: what is it, why is it important and what might support its development?
(University of Hertfordshire, 2017-03-10)
This paper, the first in a series focusing on research-rich and informed teaching, explores the nature of and rationale for such teaching and proposes a number of initiatives currently being piloted in the School of Education ...
Neutron capture cross section measurement of 238U at the CERN n_TOF facility in the energy region from 1 eV to 700 keV
(2017-03-10)
The aim of this work is to provide a precise and accurate measurement of the 238U(n,g) reaction cross section in the energy region from 1 eV to 700 keV. This reaction is of fundamental importance for the design calculations ...
Why weight should be the fifth vital sign we check
(2017-03-10)
The disturbing fact that more than 1.9 billion adults across the world are overweight was revealed in the Global Burden of Disease Study in 2013. The study classes more than 600 million of these people as obese, representing ...
International Management
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2017-03-09)
The focus of this chapter is on the multinational corporation (MNC) and, more specifically, on the structures, strategies and processes inherent in the management of the geographically dispersed concern. While more ...
Carbon-Nanodot Solar Cells from Renewable Precursors
(2017-03-09)
It has recently been shown that waste biomass can be converted into a wide range of functional materials, including those with desirable optical and electronic properties, offering the opportunity to find new uses for these ...
Addressing the mental health needs of looked after children in foster care: : the experiences of foster carers
(2017-03-08)
WHAT IS KNOWN ON THE SUBJECT?: In the UK and internationally, the number of looked after children is increasing year on year. Mental health problems among looked after children are significantly higher than in the general ...
Service use of older people who participate in primary care health promotion: a latent class analysis
(2017-03-06)
Abstract Background Recruiting patients to health promotion programmes who will benefit is crucial to success. A key policy driver for health promotion in older people is to reduce health and social care use. Our aim was ...
Development of a digital storytelling resource to support children's nursing students in neonatal care.
(2017-03-06)
A digital storytelling resource focusing on the experience of nursing in neonatal care was developed using the narratives of six undergraduate children's nursing students who had undergone a practice placement on a neonatal ...
Bluetooth low energy for autonomous human-robot interaction
(IEEE Computer Society, 2017-03-06)
This demonstration shows how inexpensive, off-the-shelf, and unobtrusive Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) devices can be utilized for enabling robots to recognize touch gestures, to perceive proximity information, and to distinguish ...
Afterword: Ritual, Emotion and Power
(Palgrave, 2017-03-06)