UH Research Archive: Recent submissions
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The experience of working with refugees : counsellors in primary care
(2007)The provision of counselling services for refugee and asylum-seeking patients is relatively new in the UK and their complex needs may present considerable challenges within primary care, where access to specialist support ... -
Cognitive Assessment Instrument of Obsessions and Compulsions (CAIOC-13) : A new 13-item scale for evaluating functional impairment associated with OCD
(2010)The Cognitive Assessment Instrument of Obsessions and Compulsions (CAIOC) was designed as a novel instrument for clinicians to assess the main cognitive and executive impairments that are hypothesized to underpin the impact ... -
Obsessive-compulsive disorder in UK clozapine-treated schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder : a cause for clinical concern
(2009)The association between schizophrenia and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is complex. This study systematically examined a UK cohort of clozapine-treated individuals with schizophrenia/schizoaffective disorder. Fourteen ... -
Thinking in action
(2010)While computers can be used to model human competencies, formalization has its limits. Sensori-motor dynamics are probably necessary to intelligence. Applied to language, verbal patterns become constraints or, in Elman’s ... -
Reduction in left supplementary motor area grey matter in adult female fibromyalgia sufferers with marked fatigue and without affective disorder : a pilot controlled 3-T magnetic resonance imaging voxel-based morphometry study
(2010)This study aimed to test the hypothesis that structural grey matter brain changes might occur in the chronic intractable pain disorder fibromyalgia when this is associated with marked fatigue in the absence of a DSM-IV-TR ... -
Risk assessment in mental health : staff attitudes and an estimate of time cost
(2010)Background : Risk assessment is a routine part of mental health services, with professionals being required to complete a risk assessment proforma (RAP) for every patient under their care. Aims : This study was designed ... -
Pressure ulcers and incontinence-associated dermatitis : effectiveness of the pressure ulcer classification education tool on classification by nurses
(2010)Context : Previous studies report that pressure ulcer classification and differentiation from incontinence associated dermatitis are difficult. Incorrect classification and differentiation result in incorrect prevention ... -
Excessive daytime sleepiness in psychiatric disorders : prevalence, correlates and clinical significance
(2010)This study examined the prevalence of excessive daytime sleepiness, as measured by the Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS), in a cohort of adult psychiatric patients. A total of 300 psychiatric outpatients and an additional 300 ... -
ADHD symptom presentation and trajectory in adults with borderline and mild intellectual disability
(2010)Background : This study examined symptoms and lifetime course of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in adults with borderline and mild Intellectual Disability (ID). Method : A total of 48 adults with ID and ... -
An Historical Atlas of Hertfordshire
(University of Hertfordshire Press, 2011)The publication of this new historical atlas brings Hertfordshire into the relatively small group of English counties that have anatomised their history using cartography. With over eighty maps and accompanying articles ... -
Reconfiguring Academic Identities: the Experience of Business Facing Academics in a UK University
(2011-05-19)The university sector at the beginning of the 21st Century is shifting in response to national and global changes in the role and purpose of Higher Education. Some universities, including the University of Hertfordshire, ... -
The effects of 9-tetrahydrocannabinol and cannabidiol alone and in combination on damage, inflammation and in vitro motility disturbances in rat colitis
(2010)Background and purpose : Cannabis is taken as self-medication by patients with inflammatory bowel disease for symptomatic relief. Cannabinoid receptor agonists decrease inflammation in animal models of colitis, but their ... -
Design of Body Assemblies with Distributed Tasks Under the Support of Parametric Associative Design (PAD)
(2011-05-18)This investigation identifies how CAD models of typical automotive body assemblies could be defined to allow a continuous optimisation of the number of iterations required for the final design and the number of variants ... -
Independent associations of body-size adjusted fat mass and fat-free mass with the metabolic syndrome in Chinese
(2009)Background: Excess fat leads to adverse health outcomes. Most previous studies investigating body fatness using BMI or fat percentage, which contain both fat mass and fat-free mass, were not able to differentiate the ... -
Thermal diffusivity of Ni–Ti SMAs
(2009)In this paper thermal diffusivity dependence on temperature of NiTi SMAs alloy in the range from 300 K up to 1500 K is reported and the experimental–numerical approach adopted for this scope is described. The experimental ... -
Income and happiness across Europe : do reference values matter?
(2009)Using cross-sectional data from the first two rounds of the European Social Survey (ESS), we examine the relationship between income, relative income and happiness across 19 European countries. We find that a positive and ... -
Turing’s imitation game : still an impossible challenge for all machines and some judges
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Hypermobility, injury rate and rehabilitation in a professional football squad – a preliminary study
(2009)To determine if joint hypermobility is a risk factor for injury in a professional football squad. Primary objectives were to estimate the prevalence of hypermobility amongst a professional football squad and to undertake ... -
Dynamic assessment of learning ability improves outcome prediction following acquired brain injury
(2009)Primary purpose: There is a need to improve the prediction of outcome following acquired brain injury. The previous focus has been on specifying the relative contribution of such variables as pre-morbid intellectual ability, ... -
What does the driving and riding avoidance scale (DRAS) measure?
(2009)Driving anxiety can have a significant impact on everyday functioning and usually results in some kind of avoidance behaviour. The Driving and Riding Avoidance Scale (DRAS; Stewart, A. E., & St. Peter, C. C. (2004). Driving ...