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The magnetic environments of young stellar objects
(2004)We report on early results of submillimetre polarimetric measurements towards a sample of young stellar objects. The results allow us to infer the magnetic field structure and show a variety of configurations, providing ... -
Hα and Hel emission in the jets of pre-main sequence stars : implications for the heating mechanisms
(2003)Jets and winds in pre-main sequence (PMS) stars are often heated and ionized, and understanding their heating mechanism is desired to compare UV-to-IR spectral signatures with models and thus investigate their driving ... -
The formation of stars
(2005)We review the process of star formation, detailing the theories underlying the stability of molecular clouds and their collapse to protostars, and discussing the empirical evidence and models which inform them. We give ... -
Working in film : employment in a project-based industry
(2001)Currently the “creative industries”, especially the British film industry, are receiving much popular attention. The aim of this paper is to present a description and evaluation of employment in the film industry, and ... -
Networks of value, commodities and regions : reworking divisions of labour in macro-regional economies
(2002)The aim of this paper is to explore a theoretical framework that can assist in under-standing the extent to which the increased integration of macro-regional economies (such as the European and North American) and the ... -
Should commercial companies provide practitioner education?
(2003)In April, a group of practitioners, facilitated by Coloplast, discussed the role of the commercial sector in providing wound-care education. Jacqui Fletcher and Irene Anderson from the University of Hertfordshire summarise ... -
Use of high-intensity statin therapy with simvastatin 80 mg and atorvastatin 80 mg in primary care
(2011)Aims: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the most common cause of death worldwide. Pharmaceutical risk reduction with high-intensity statin therapy is advisable for high-risk patients. Clinicians face a conflict between ... -
Women and IT contracting work : a testing process
(2004)This paper explores the career and work experiences of a little researched group: highly skilled women IT contractors. It considers their reasons for entering the IT field, including the decision to become contractors. It ... -
Age, working memory and the Tower of London task
(2003)The current study explores the role of three components of working memory in age differences in an executive task, the Tower of London (TOL). The TOL task is sensitive to frontal lobe damage, and is widely used to measure ... -
A systematic overview - a decade of research : The information and counselling needs of people with epilepsy
(2001)This paper explores the background to epilepsy in terms of medical impact and psychosocial effects. The argument that information and counselling may be central to the person with epilepsy is explored. The evidence from ... -
Intellectual differences between schizophrenic patients and normal controls across the adult lifespan
(2003)A debate persists about whether IQ declines during the duration of schizophrenia or whether an early deficit remains static across the lifespan. To examine this, we measured estimated current IQ (Quick Test Revised: QTR) ... -
Visual object processing in schizophrenia : evidence for an associative agnosic deficit
(2002)Early studies suggested visual form perception impairment in schizophrenia. To re-examine this claim and characterise the deficit neuropsychologically, 41 schizophrenic patients were administered tests sensitive to different ... -
Loss of stored knowledge of object structure : implications for "category-specific" deficits
(2000)Following a right-hemisphere lesion, the patient SM had impaired object recognition, with good elementary visual abilities, and could derive information about object structure. He was also impaired on all tasks tapping ... -
An attenuation of the 'normal' category effect in patients with Alzheimer's disease : A review and bootstrap analysis
(2007)There is a consensus that Alzheimer’s disease (AD) impairs semantic information, with one of the first markers being anomia i.e. an impaired ability to name items. Doubts remain, however, about whether this naming impairment ... -
Testing for a deficit in single-case studies : Effects of departures from normality
(2006)In neuropsychological single-case research inferences concerning a patient's cognitive status are often based on referring the patient's test score to those obtained from a modestly sized control sample. Two methods of ... -
Sex differences in lexical size across semantic categories
(2004)Recent studies have reported that males show better naming of nonliving things than females, while females show better naming of living things than males. Such effects may reflect sex differences in the size of lexicons ... -
Category deficits and paradoxical dissociations in Alzheimer's disease and Herpes Simplex Encephalitis
(2005)Most studies examining category specificity are single-case studies of patients with living or nonliving deficits. Nevertheless, no explicit or agreed criteria exist for establishing category-specific deficits in single ... -
Repeated treatment with cholecystokinin octapeptide improves maze performance in aged Fischer 344 rats
(2001)Previous studies have shown that sulfated cholecystokinin octapeptide (CCK-8S) can improve learning in adult rodents when administered systemically or into the central nucleus of amygdala. Here we analyzed the effect of ... -
Foreign Accent Syndrome: in the ear of the beholder?
(2006)Background: The identification of accent type in patients with acquired accent change following brain damage (Foreign Accent Syndrome; FAS), may vary depending on the judge. Aims: This experiment tests the accent identification ... -
The Modern matron's role in influencing safe practice
(2005)The 'Modern Matron' is one of the prominent nursing roles to emerge from the NHS Plan. The underpinning principle is to have a professional leader who is accountable for co-ordinating safe, high-quality care to improve ...