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Internationalising teachers and teaching
(Nexus Strategic Partnerships, 2009)Internationalisation could be seen as the defining feature of human society today. Modern travel, ease of communication, and economic and environmental interdependence, make it vitally important that teacher educators ... -
Future scenarios for a depressed region of England : The role of education in creating alternative futures
(2011-10-01)Purpose: This paper seeks to outline four scenarios developed for the future of the South West Midlands region of England. Like many depressed regions in the UK, the foundation industries that initially developed the region ... -
Leadership of uncertainty
(Open University Press, 2011)The time we are living in has been described as ‘an age of uncertainty’ ( Barnett 2007: 136). While it has always been impossible to predict the future, it seems that the world is becoming more uncertain and this relates ... -
The application and limitations of mathematical modelling in the prediction of permeability across mammalian skin and polydimethylsiloxane membranes
(2011-11)Objectives: Predicting the rate of percutaneous absorption of a drug is an important issue with the increasing use of the skin as a means of moderating and controlling drug delivery. One key feature of this problem domain ... -
Dynamic in-situ eutectic formation for topical drug delivery
(2011-11)Objectives: The relationship between the solution-state chemistry of eutectic systems and their transmembrane transport characteristics is difficult to define as these mixtures are sensitive to delivery vehicle-induced ... -
Personal Constructs and Adjustment in Secondary Hypothyroidism
(2011-11-18)Secondary hypothyroidism is caused by treatment for hyperthyroidism and is a chronic condition. After adequate treatment, people can continue to experience persistent physical and depressive symptoms. There is a lack of ... -
Contextual Factors Associated with Psychological Inflexibility and Distress in Adults
(2011-11-18)It is widely accepted in the literature that adverse experiences in childhood, such as abuse and emotional invalidation, pose a major risk factor for the development of psychopathology later in life. What is less known, ... -
The Experiences of Primary Caregivers of People with Learning Disabilities who have Committed an Offence: a Narrative Study
(2011-11-18)Background and aims: The experiences of primary caregivers of adults with learning disabilities who have committed an offence is a largely neglected area within current literature. However, primary caregivers have an ... -
Ileal endometriosis masquerading as Crohn's ileitis
(1997)Endometriosis is usually confined to the pelvis but may involve distant organs. When the small bowel is affected, endometriosis has a propensity to develop in the distal ileum, which may lead to fibrosis and stricture ... -
Bloody diarrhoea : A rare presentation of a systemic disease
(2003)Bloody diarrhoea in adolescents is usually due to enteric infection or inflammatory bowel disease. We describe a patient with bloody diarrhoea and endoscopic features of colitis in association with a systemic vasculitis. ... -
A discussion of the British Society of Gastroenterology survey of emergency gastroenterology workload
(2007)An electronic survey of 188 acute NHS hospitals was carried out to assess the provision of out-of-hours services for gastrointestinal emergencies in England. The response rate was 167/188 (89%) for the main questionnaire ... -
NHS psychiatry : The need for constructive debate. Invited commentary on... The trouble with NHS psychiatry in England
(2009-08-01)Two recent articles, 'The trouble with NHS psychiatry in England' and 'Wake-up call for British psychiatry' have levelled severe criticisms against the NHS provider systems for people with mental disorders. In response, ... -
Professional competence of pharmacists in recommending Flomax relief MR (tamsulosin) to men with lower urinary tract symptoms
(2011)This paper aimed to determine the role of a pharmacy tool, the symptoms-check questionnaire, in supporting pharmacists' recommendations for treatment with Flomax Relief MR (tamsulosin) and to assess its acceptability to ... -
Is there a synergetic link among coops? : Investigating the relationship between financial and non-financial cooperatives
(2010)Using Italian data for the period spanning from 1995 up to 2003, this paper empirically assesses whether a more diffused local presence of cooperative credit banks entails that a larger amount of bank credit is granted to ... -
Development of a new wound assessment form
(2010-03-01)Wound assessment is a routine component of caring for patients with any type of wound. To date, there is little agreement about how assessment is carried out and recorded and several published audits have identified that ... -
A review of nanoparticle functionality and toxicity on the central nervous system
(2010-08-06)Although nanoparticles have tremendous potential for a host of applications, their adverse effects on living cells have raised serious concerns recently for their use in the healthcare and consumer sectors. As regards the ... -
An investigation into the effects of different warm-up modalities on specific motor skills related to soccer performance
(2010-08)Fletcher, IM and Monte-Colombo, MM. An investigation into the effects of different warm-up modalities on specific motor skills related to soccer performance. J Strength Cond Res 24(8): 2096-2101, 2010-The aim of this study ... -
Smarter working in social and health care : Professional perspectives on a new technology for risk appraisal with older people
(2010-09)There is growing emphasis on prevention, personalisation and self-care or active citizenship in England. This paper reports on the Smarter Working in Social care & Health (SWISH) study of the development of an information ... -
Identifying risk : Clinical judgement versus risk assessment tools (RATs)
(2010-12-01)Pressure ulcer risk assessment is a central component of clinical practice aimed at identifying patients who are at the highest risk in order to target and make best use of limited resources (both in terms of personnel and ...