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End of life care
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Better partnership between care homes and the NHS : Findings from the My Home Life programme
(2008)Partnership between healthcare and social services agencies has been a major theme of government policy for the last ten years and the potential for care homes to contribute significantly to health and social care planning ... -
The role of law in public health
(Ashgate Publishing, 2009)Is there anything which law can contribute to the improvement of public health? We already have a profession of public health practitioners from a wide range of disciplines, epidemiologists, statisticians, doctors, ... -
Comparative national public health legislation
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Law and public health policy
(Elsevier, 2008)Two of the most important tools that assist states in protecting their populations against threats to health are public health policy and public health law. Policy can exist without recourse to law, but where policy has ... -
The business of a woman: The journalism and political writings of Delarivier Manley
(University of Delaware Press, 2003)In 1714 Delarivier Manley declared that "Politicks is not the Business of a Woman." It is hard to take this statement at face value. If there was any woman who had made politics her business during the previous decade, it ... -
Enigmatic gender in Delarivier Manley's New Atalantis
(University of Bucknell Press, 2001)When the second volume of Delarivier Manley's 'The New Atalantis' appeared in October 1709, it caused a sensation. It was perhaps to be expected that a Tory roman a clef that made risque suggestions about the intimate ... -
Contradictions in “reputation management”
(2006)“Reputation management” is widely used as a rationale for public relations, although the public relations practice has problems with its own reputation. Public relations is presented in textbooks as a mature management ... -
The Segmentation of Speech and its Implications for the Emergence of Language Structure
(2003)This paper reports a phenomenon supporting the hypothesis that the emergence of structure in the evolution of language was a staged process. To develop a grammatical structure it seems necessary to first have discrete ... -
Towards Robot Cultures? Learning to imitate in a robotic arm test-bed with dissimilarly embodied agents
(2004)The study of imitation and other mechanisms of social learning is an exciting area of research for all those interested in understanding the origin and the nature of animal learning in a social context. Moreover, imitation ... -
Robot-mediated joint attention in children with autism : A case study in robot-human interaction
(2004)Interactive robots are used increasingly not only in entertainment and service robotics, but also in rehabilitation, therapy and education. The work presented in this paper is part of the Aurora project, rooted in assistive ... -
Uncertainty under MRP-planned manufacture: review and categorization
(2002)Extensive research can be found in coping with uncertainty under Material Requirements Planning (MRP)-planned manufacture, but the under-performance of many manufacturing enterprises is still reported. To examine the ... -
Routine examination of the newborn: the EMREN study. Evaluation of an extension of the midwife role including a randomised controlled trial of appropriately trained midwives and paediatric senior house officers
(2004)To assess the implications and cost-effectiveness of extending the role of midwives to include the routine (24-hour) examination of the healthy newborn usually carried out by junior doctors.