Research publications: Recent submissions
Now showing items 481-500 of 9764
-
Final report on the standardized data collection tool for the audit of acupuncture treatment for low back pain
(2014-04-01)This paper summarizes the process of developing and piloting of a standardized data collection (SDC) tool for the audit of acupuncture treatment for low back pain, and presents the main findings. A total of 37 completed ... -
Trends in self-rated health in European and North-American adolescents from 2002 to 2010 in 32 countries
(2015-04-01)Background: Self-rated health (SRH) in adolescence is known to be associated with health outcomes in later life. We carried out a trend analysis on data coming from three waves of data collected in 32 countries (mostly ... -
Trends in life satisfaction in European and North-American adolescents from 2002 to 2010 in over 30 countries
(2015-04-01)Background: Life satisfaction (LS) is an indicator which is widely used for assessing the perception of a child’s feeling about his life. Methods: LS is assessed in Health Behaviour in School-aged Children via the Cantril ... -
Remuneration Consultants: Benchmarking and its effect on pay
(2015-11-09)Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the factors that remuneration consultants consider when selecting comparator groups for executive remuneration benchmarking. It explores how the different factors ... -
The Pregnant Woman in Prison
(2014-06-30)There are currently 4200 women in prison, many of whom are pregnant or already mothers. Pregnant prisoners have unique and complex physical and psychological needs. The need for a ‘one-stop shop’ for health care was ... -
Exploring flying faculty teaching experiences : motivations, challenges and opportunities
(2014-01-02)‘Flying faculty’ models of teaching represent an important aspect of the internationalisation agenda. As short-term sojourners, these overseas visits provide academics with disorientating dilemmas that can stimulate ... -
Section editorial - Regulatory and toxicology
(2014-04-14) -
Section Editorial - Cosmeceuticals
(2014-04-14) -
Narrative self-shaping : a modest proposal
(2016-03-31)Decoupling a modestly construed Narrative Self Shaping Hypothesis (or NSSH) from Strong Narrativism this paper attempts to motivate devoting our intellectual energies to the former. Section one briefly introduces the notions ... -
Cognitive-behavioural therapy for the symptoms of schizophrenia : systematic review and meta-analysis with examination of potential bias
(2014-01-31)BACKGROUND: Cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) is considered to be effective for the symptoms of schizophrenia. However, this view is based mainly on meta-analysis, whose findings can be influenced by failure to consider ... -
Country Walks: A multimedia and cloud computing approach to navigating short country walks
(2016)This research involved the production of a sample website which demonstrates that an open source Content Management System (CMS) can be developed in order to bring together a number of different cloud computing resources ... -
Creatinine reduction ratio : a useful marker to identify medium and high-risk renal transplants
(2010-01-15)INTRODUCTION: Delayed graft function (DGF) has a major impact on long-term renal transplant survival. However, it is a diagnosis made retrospectively with little opportunity to modify treatment protocols. A classification ... -
Energy metabolism, body composition, and urea generation rate in hemodialysis patients
(2013-10-01)Hemodialysis (HD) adequacy is currently assessed using normalized urea clearance (Kt/V), although scaling based on Watson volume (V) may disadvantage women and men with low body weight. Alternative scaling factors such as ... -
Removal and rebound kinetics of cystatin C in high-flux hemodialysis and hemodiafiltration
(2014-07-07)BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Cystatin C is a 13.3 kD middle molecule of similar size to β2-microglobulin and a marker of GFR in CKD. This study aimed to determine cystatin C kinetics in hemodialysis to understand whether ... -
Experimental Investigation On the Operating Characteristics of a Dual Compensation Chamber Loop Heat Pipe Subjected to Acceleration Field
(2015-04-25)High power and high local heat flux electronic devices employed in aircraft and spacecraft sustain the high acceleration condition in maneuvers and take-off stage. Loop heat pipe (LHP) are promising in dissipating high ... -
Experimental Investigation on the Energy and Exergy Performance of a Coiled Tube Solar Receiver
(2015-10-15)In this article, an experimental investigation is carried out to examine the heat transfer characteristics of a coil type solar dish receiver under actual concentrate solar radiation conditions. During the test, the ... -
Experimental Study on a Coiled Tube Solar Receiver under Variable Solar Radiation Condition
(2015-12-01)This article presents an experimental investigation of the heat transfer characteristics as well as energy and exergy performance for a coil type solar dish receiver under variable solar radiation conditions. During a 4.5 ... -
Facilitating values awareness through the education of health professionals: Can web based decision making technology help?
(2016-03-01)Recent events in the health care landscape have focused nursing's collective mind on the role of values in health care delivery. For example, in England, the government has issued a mandate to health educators that places ... -
Artificial Neural Network Nonlinear Equalizer for Coherent Optical OFDM
(2015-02-15)We propose a novel low-complexity artificial neural network (ANN)-based nonlinear equalizer (NLE) for coherent optical orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (CO-OFDM) and compare it with the recent inverse Volterra-series ...