Research publications: Recent submissions
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Word Play Across Languages and Cultures
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Phosphorus and acid phosphatase enzyme activity in leaves of tomato cultivars in relation to zinc supply
(2000)Tomato cultivars Blizzard and Liberto were grown hydroponically in a controlled temperature (C.T.) room for 35 days. The objective was to investigate the relationship between phosphorus (P) concentration and acid phosphatase ... -
Nurse referrals of children to social services
(2001)This literature review examines current referral systems and processes used by community nurses when making referrals of children in need and children in need of protection to social services departments. The problems ... -
Developing Pedagogy : The Role of the Tutor in Enabling Student Learning through the Use of a Wiki
(Emerald Publishing, 2011-01-17)This chapter intends to clarify the role of the tutor in enabling student learning through the use of a Wiki application. Such clarification will firstly establish that there is a clear role for the tutor in establishing ... -
Shaping the future of disability services : Making your views count
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Green Light for Mental Health : Research report on user perspectives for the learning disability partnership board
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Evolutionary economics and the markets-as-networks approach
(2006-10)The paper analyzes the similarities and differences between the markets-as-networks (or IMP) tradition in industrial marketing and evolutionary economics. Five analytical dimensions are used: unit of analysis, methodological ... -
An emotional business : a guide to understanding the motivations of small business decision takers
(2000)Argues that the way in which the UK Government, through its various departments and quangos, approaches designed to approve the effectiveness of the small business sector, is based on a flawed understanding of how small ... -
Management of the market research client/agency relationship
(Emerald Publishing, 2000-01-01)While it is vital that market research information should be accurate, other criteria are also important in evaluating the success of a market research project. Was the information also timely, relevant, and unique? Much ... -
Demarketing - managing demand in the UK National Health Service
(1995)This article explores what demarketing (which seeks to dissuade people from using a service) has to offer for the allocation of resources according to patient and population needs in the NHS. The authors argue that to ... -
Adaptive behavior in buyer-supplier relationships
(1999-09)It is a feature of business-to-business markets that individual buyer-supplier relationships can assume great importance for both the buying and the selling organization. In such relationships both firms, to a greater or ... -
Sophistry, relevance and technology transfer in management research : an IMP perspective
(2002-07)The practical relevance of research to the needs of managers matters to academics, business people, and policy makers. The paper asks whether Industrial Marketing and Purchasing Group (IMP) research has achieved such ... -
What are the highest priorities for research in pre-hospital care? : Results of a review and Delphi consultation exercise
(2008)Background: A recent national review of English ambulance services, Taking Healthcare to the Patient: Transforming NHS Ambulance Services,1 published by the Department of Health, recommended that pre-hospital care research ... -
Can Family Outdoor and Countryside Recreation Help Reconnect Children with the Outdoors? : Affluent Middle Childhood Perspectives of Countryside Recreation in the United Kingdom
(2010)Extant research shows that despite the benefits of contact with nature, children are increasingly becoming disengaged from the outdoors. This study aimed to examine affluent children’s and mothers’ perspectives of countryside ... -
The skin reservoir of sulphur mustard
(2008-09)Studies of the percutaneous reservoir of sulphur mustard (HD) formed during absorption carried out during WWI and WWII are inconclusive. More recent studies have indicated that a significant amount of HD remains in human ...