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NPS: Medical Consequences Associated with Their Intake
(Springer Nature Link, 2016-06-07)Over the last decade, the 'traditional' drug scene has been supplemented - but not replaced - by the emergence of a range of novel psychoactive substances (NPS), which are either newly created or existing drugs, including ... -
Effects of Oxidative Stress on the Expression and Function of Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase in Cultured Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells
(2017-02-28)The role of inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) and/or nitric oxide (NO) in atherosclerosis remains elusive. Several researchers argued whether iNOS and/or NO are pathogenic or cardio protective. The pathogenesis of ... -
Ideologies of Arab Media and Politics: a Critical Discourse Analysis of Al Jazeera Debates on the Yemeni Revolution
(2017-02-28)Critical discourse analysis investigates the ways in which discourse is to abuse power relationships. Political debates constitute discourses that mirror certain aspects of ideologies. This study aimed to uncover the ... -
Smart Tourism Challenges
(2016-01-01)This paper defines smart tourism as tourism supported by integrated efforts at a destination to find innovative ways to collect and aggregate/harness data derived from physical infrastructure, social connections, ... -
Exploring the shared meaning of being at one’s best in work
(2017-02-27)This research takes an iterative multiple case study approach and seeks new insight from common language in the workplace – specifically exploring what we mean when we say that we’re at our best in work. Being at your best ... -
A Beam Tracing Model for Electromagnetic Scattering by Atmospheric Ice Crystals
(2017-02-27)While exact methods, such as DDA or T-matrix, can be applied to particles withsizes comparable to the wavelength, computational demands mean that they are size limited. For particles much larger than the wavelength, the ... -
Ice Particle Size and Roughness from Novel Techniques - In Situ Measurements and Validation
(2017-02-24)The roughness of ice crystals, defined by small-scale surface roughness and large scale complexity, in high-altitude cloud, has been studied due to its important influence on the radiative properties of ice cloud. The Small ... -
Thriving Families: Evaluation of School Nurse Project 2014-15, commissioned report for Hertfordshire County Council Thriving Families.
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Meaning-Making in the Voice-Hearing Experience: the Narratives of African-Caribbean Men who have Heard Voices
(2017-02-10)There is a paucity of literature into the first-person account of hearing voices (HV)1, particularly from diverse cultural groups. This research aimed to explore the meaning-making of African-Caribbean men who have heard ... -
Imports, Mechanisation and the Decline of the English Plaiting Industry: The View from the Hatters' Gazette, Luton 1873 - 1900
(2017-02-10)Between 1870 and 1900, the straw plaiting industry changed from being one that substantially contributed to local rural and family economies, to one in irrevocable decline. Researching the reasons for this decline is ... -
Endothelial TRPV4 Dysfunction in a Streptozotocin-Diabetic Rat Model
(2017-02-09)Diabetes mellitus is a complex disease characterised by chronic hyperglycaemia due to compromised insulin synthesis and secretion, or decreased tissue sensitivity to insulin, if not all three conditions. Endothelial ... -
Spectral Ageing in the Most Powerful Radio Galaxies
(2017-02-08)Radio-loud AGN represent the most energetic and influential large-scale structures in the Universe. Through physical processes such as AGN feedback, they are suggested to play a major role in the evolution of galaxies. ... -
Democratic Roots: Feeding the Multiple Dimensions of Leadership-as-Practice
(Routledge, 2016-02-16)This chapter argues that the leadership as practice (L-A-P) perspective on leadership should see itself as having a root in democratic values. The chapter also introduces the notion of “multiple distributions” of leadership ... -
The Politics of Software Testing
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Bilinguale Kindergärten: Der Einfluss des Zweitspracherwerbs auf den Erstspracherwerb Deutsch bei Kindern im Vorschulalter
(Narr, 2016-10-24)This particular study assesses the level of German in a group of 64 children who regularly attend a bilingual preschool. The assessment involves a standardised test that is normed on a group of monolingual German children ... -
Comparing the Views of Students, Parents, and Teachers on the Emerging Notions of Relevance of Education
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Narratives of Young People Living with a Diagnosis of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME)
(2017-02-06)CFS/ME (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis) is a distressing and potentially debilitating condition. It can also be understood as a contested condition, surrounded by controversy about its nature, causes ... -
Seeking to Control Enterprise with Architecture: the Limits and Value of an Engineering Approach From the Perspective of an Enterprise Architect
(2017-02-02)In this thesis, I challenge assumptions underlying my discipline of enterprise architecture that led to two choices facing practitioners: either to work with tools and techniques which predict and control changes towards ... -
Too Cavellian a Wittgenstein : Wittgenstein's Certainty, Cavell's Scepticism
(Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017-01-26)My aim in this chapter is to show that Cavell's modernist Wittgenstein is too Cavellian. Wittgenstein's philosophy is not – as Cavell claims it is – permeated with (1) a nostalgia for metaphysics; (2) a dissatisfaction ...