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After critical care : patient support after critical care. A mixed method longitudinal study using email interviews and questionnaires
(2015-08-01)PURPOSE: To explore experiences and needs over time, of patients discharged from ICU using the Intensive Care Experience (ICE-q) questionnaire, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) and EuroQoL (EQ-5D), associated ... -
Negotiating Transitions : Involvement of Critical Care Outreach Teams in End-of-Life Decision Making
(2015-05-01)BACKGROUND: Little research has examined the involvement of critical care outreach teams in end-of-life decision making. OBJECTIVE: To establish how much time critical care outreach teams spend with patients who are ... -
Sociodemographics of Pet Ownership among Adolescents in Great Britain: Findings from the HBSC Study in England, Scotland, and Wales
(2016-12-30)The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of pet ownership among adolescents in Great Britain and identify any sociodemographic differences between pet owners and non-pet owners. A total of 14,328 11-to 15-year-old ... -
Bullying victimization prevalence and its effects on psychosomatic complaints : Can sense of coherence make a difference?
(2014-08-25)BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to examine the prevalence of bullying victimization and its impact on physical and psychological complaints in a representative sample of adolescents and to explore the role of sense ... -
Obtaining a Hierarchy of Contextual Factors in Shaping the SOC of Male and Female Adolescents
(2014-12-03)Sense of coherence (SOC) is an important predictor of health and subjective well-being, but research on the factors that shape SOC development is scarce. Using structural equation modeling, this study obtained a hierarchy ... -
Mind Navigators of Chemicals' Experimenters? A Web-Based Description of E-Psychonauts
(2015-05-12)Within online drug fora communities, there are some "educated and informed" users who can somehow provide reliable information on psychoactive compounds and combinations. These users, also called "e-psychonauts," may possess ... -
Reduced tillage improves energy efficiency in winter sown combinable crops
(NIAB - TAG, 2016-04-15)NIAB TAG’s New Farming Systems (NFS) research programme, currently in year nine and based at Morley in Norfolk, consists of several long-term field trials aiming to develop bio-sustainable cropping systems for conventional ... -
Governance, social control and legal reform in China : Community sanctions and measures
(Palgrave, 2018-02-21)This book outlines how community sentences and early release options are administered in China. Chen provides empirical insights into the emerging community sector of the Chinese penal system, and illustrates how Chinese ... -
Empire and its Aftermath in Four (Post)Colonial Settings
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2017-03-28)This chapter explores the history of prison tourism and its various contemporary manifestations in four colonial and postcolonial settings associated with the British Empire: Fremantle (Walyalup) and Rottnest Island ... -
Mobility, Migration and Modern Memory
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AWARE-AWAreness during REsuscitation-A prospective study
(2014-12-01)Background: Cardiac arrest (CA) survivors experience cognitive deficits including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). It is unclear whether these are related to cognitive/mental experiences and awareness during CPR. ... -
Assaying Proteasomal Degradation in a Cell-free System in Plants
(2014-03-26)The ubiquitin-proteasome pathway for protein degradation has emerged as one of the most important mechanisms for regulation of a wide spectrum of cellular functions in virtually all eukaryotic organisms. Specifically, in ... -
Assessing perceived voice similarity using multidimensional scaling for the construction of voice parades
(2013)In recent years forensic phoneticians, in consultation with psychologists and law enforcement officers, have put considerable effort into devising and refining procedures for preparing and conducting fair voice parades. ... -
Effects of the telephone on perceived voice similarity: implications for voice line-ups
(2013)This study is relevant to forensic cases where an earwitness claims to be able to remember and identify a voice, and, more generally, to voice recognition. Given that a voice may have been heard over the telephone, it is ... -
The consistency of formant measurements in high quality audio data: the effect of agreeing measurement procedures
(2011)This study examines the inter-analyst robustness of formant frequency (F) measurements before and after agreeing a common measurement procedure. Three laboratories used the latest available version of the same formant ... -
Individual variation in the frication of voiceless plosives in Australian English: a study of twins’ speech.
(2010-04-20)This study is an acoustic–phonetic examination of variation in Australian English consonant production. Group and individual patterns in the rates of frication of the voiceless plosives /p t k/ in Australian English are ... -
The acoustic character of fricated /t/ in Australian English: a comparison with /s/ and /ʃ/
(2009-11-12)Australian English /t/ has a fricative realisation in some contexts. The presence of an additional surface fricative in the language raises questions about potential merger and the maintenance of contrasts. An orthographic ... -
The DyViS database: style-controlled recordings of 100 homogeneous speakers for forensic phonetic research
(2009)The DyViS project (‘Dynamic Variability in Speech: a Forensic Phonetic Study of British English’) at the University of Cambridge has compiled a large-scale database of speech recordings which will be freely available for ... -
Acoustic and perceptual effects of telephone transmission on vowel quality
(2008)This study investigates acoustic and perceptual effects of telephone transmission on the vowels /i:/, /ae/ and /u:/ in Standard Southern British English. The aim of the study was to determine whether the ‘telephone effect’ ... -
Speaker-specific formant dynamics: an experiment on Australian English /aɪ/
(2004)Formant frequency dynamics are relevant to forensic speaker identification since they are determined by the shape and size of a speaker’s vocal tract and the way he or she configures the articulators for speech. This study ...