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A prospective study of patients with chronic back pain randomised to group exercise, physiotherapy or osteopathy
(2008)Objective: To investigate the difference in outcome between patients treated with group exercise, physiotherapy or osteopathy. Design: Prospective study of patients referred at random to one of three treatments, with ... -
An early marker for semantic memory impairment in patients with schizophrenia
(2004)Introduction: Semantic memory impairment is now a well-documented phenomenon in patients with schizophrenia. Nevertheless, the characteristics of this deficit and any early markers remain contentious. Methods: In this ... -
Depressive realism and the effect of intertrial interval on judgements of zero, positive, and negative contingencies
(2007)In three experiments we tested how the spacing of trials during acquisition of zero, positive, and negative response-outcome contingencies differentially affected depressed and nondepressed students' judgements. Experiment ... -
Lagrangian modelling of plume chemistry for secondary pollutants in large industrial plumes
(2008)Industrial sources of nitrogen oxides range from boilers and metal furnaces to fossil fuel power stations. Current UK regulatory practice for these plumes adopts a fixed proportion of nitrogen dioxide, as a simple and ... -
Taxonomizing the relationship between biology and economics : a very long engagement
(2007)This paper taxonomizes the possible types of linkage between the two disciplines of economics and biology. The most fundamental division is between, on the one hand, theories of the causal interaction between social and ... -
Construing the construction processses of serial killers and violent offenders 2 : the limits of credulity
(2007)This article presents a categorization of pathways to violence and homicide, including serial killing, in terms of personal construct theory. Violent offenders' reactions to their offences are considered in relation to the ... -
Comparison of neurokinin SP with diazepam in effects on memory and fear parameters in the elevated T-maze free exploration paradigm
(2001)The elevated T-maze was combined with a free exploration protocol, which, in contrast to the conventional procedure, dispenses with handling of the animals during the experimental sessions. This allows measurement of fear ... -
Public sector reform and women's work in Poland: working for juice, coffee and cheap cosmetics
(2005)The debate on the transformation of work in east central Europe has concentrated on the restructuring of employment in manufacturing to the detriment of any discussion of the transformation of work in the service and public ... -
Careers and destinations of radiography students from the University of Hertfordshire
(2005)Purpose: Vacancy rates have increased for diagnostic and therapeutic radiography over the past two years with the three-month rates standing at 5.5% and 8.8% in March 2002 for both disciplines. Anecdotal evidence suggests ... -
Adapting to european enlargement: Spain and cohesion policy
(2005)Spain has enjoyed large net inflows of public funds from the European Union (EU) since accession in 1986. These funds have contributed to a strong growth performance, a largely successful economic transition, and economic ... -
A new business model? The capital market and the new economy
(2001)This paper uses the concepts of business model and financial ecosystem to analyse the relation between the US capital market and corporate business. Under a capital market double standard, from 1995 to 2000, new companies ... -
Simulating others : the basis of human cognition?
(2004)The paper critiques the argument of Michael Tomasello’s Cultural Origins of Human Cognition (1999). This culture-first theory is judged to be a good sketch of how nature predisposes humans for talk. Above all, this is ... -
Narrative, expression and mental substance
(2005)This paper starts from the debate between proponents of a neo-Lockean psychological continuity view of personal identity, and defenders of the idea that we are simple mental substances. Each party has valid criticisms of ... -
Contralateral increase in thigmotactic scanning following unilateral cryogenic barrel-cortex lesion in mice
(2005)Adult C57BL/6 mice received uni- or bilateral cryogenic or sham-lesions over the barrel field and their exploratory behaviour was assessed in an open field between 1 and 7 days post-lesion. Bilateral cortical lesions ... -
Longterm developmental outcome of very prematurely born infants
(2001)Background: Interactional models of the development of neonatally at risk infants propose that a good social environment provides protection against longterm adverse developmental outcome. Using data from the Bavarian ... -
Bending workplace institutions in transforming economies : foreign investment in Poland
(2006)This article examines the way in which foreign investment in the transforming economies of Central and Eastern Europe has been deeply concerned with shifting informal collective and individual understandings about economic ... -
Evidence for distinct contribution of form and motion information to the recognition of emotions from body gestures
(2007)The importance of kinematics in emotion perception from body movement has been widely demonstrated. Evidence also suggests that the perception of biological motion relies to some extent on information about spatial and ... -
On the use of discrete adjoints in goal error estimation for shallow water equations
(2010)Goal oriented dual weight error estimation has been used in context of computational fluid dynamics for several years. The adaptation of this method to geophysical models is the subject of this paper. A differentiation-enabled ... -
Rebuilding Local Governance in post-communist economies : the case of Wroclaw, Poland
(2004)At the beginning of the transformation process in Poland in 1990, local and regional governance structures were practically non-existent. The ‘voivodship’ was the regional administrative centre, which simply acted as a ... -
The use of a co-operative student model of learner characteristics to configure a multimedia application
(2002)This paper describes an investigation into the ways in which learning using a multimedia application can be supported and enhanced by means of a simple co-operative student model of learner characteristics. This paper ...