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The effects of adult aging and induced positive and negative mood on planning
(2002)Changes in executive functions have been found in older adults and also in young adults experiencing positive or negative mood states. The current study investigated the hypothesis that older adults would show greater ... -
Visuospatial and verbal working memory in the five disc Tower of London task: an individual-differences approach
(2002)This paper reports a study of the roles of visuo-spatial and verbal working memory capacities in solving a planning task - the five-disc Tower of London (TOL) task. An individual differences approach was taken. Sixty adult ... -
End of life care for community dwelling older people with dementia: an integrated review
(2010)Objective: To review the evidence for end-of-life care for community dwelling older people with dementia (including those resident in care homes). Design: An integrated review synthesised the qualitative and quantitative ... -
Attention mechanisms and component-based face detection.
(IEEE, 2009)Locating and identifying complex objects in a visual scene is a typical problem within the areas of computer vision and image analysis. One technique to minimise the size of image to be identified is to base the classification ... -
Depression in End-Stage Renal Disease : Current Advances and Research
(2010)Depression or the presence of significant depressive symptoms remains common in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). It is thought that 20–30% of ESRD patients have significant depressive symptoms, although there ... -
Historical Memory and the Expulsion of Ethnic Germans in Europe, 1944 - 1947
(2010-04-22)As the Second World War in Europe came to an end the Russians advanced from the east towards Berlin. German occupation of Poland and Czechoslovakia had been particularly brutal. Both of these countries, products of German ... -
Information Technology, US Union Organizing and Union Effectiveness
(2002)This paper examines the effects of information technology (IT) on organizing and union effectiveness in US national unions. Original survey data and data from government and independent sources are combined to model outcomes ... -
The Invisible Professionals : English School Nursery Nurses talk about their jobs
(2001)Views of 110 school nursery nurses working in an English midlands county were studied to discover how they assess the nature and demands of their jobs. Two specific questions were asked: a) From nursery nurses' viewpoint, ... -
Under-Construction or Facing Demolition? : Contrasting Views on English Teacher Professionalism from across a Professional Association
(2002)The effects of legislated change on teacher professionalism were researched with members of the Association for the Study of Primary Education (ASPE). Results from a survey and semi-structured interview suggest that many ... -
Lessons of the Holocaust : A response to the critics
(2003)The Holocaust currently forms part of the National Curriculum in England and Wales and is mandatory in several other countries. Its teaching is frequently justified on the grounds of providing a range of important lessons. ... -
The Role of Education in Jewish Continuity : A response to Jonathan Sacks
(2005)Contrasting explanations of Jewish survival form the backdrop to this article. For Jonathan Sacks (1994) the crucial factor has been the role played by Jewish education; indeed, he claims that the demographic threat currently ... -
Faith schools and indoctrination : A response to Michael Hand
(2003)Michael Hand has recently advocated the abolition of faith schools on the grounds that they may indoctrinate their pupils. In this rejoinder, I aim to show that the assumptions underpinning his thesis are seriously flawed. ... -
Faith-based schools : A threat to social cohesion?
(2002)The British government recently announced its willingness to expand the number of state–funded faith schools. It was a decision that aroused considerable controversy, with much of the unease centring around the allegedly ... -
Views of nursing staff on the use of physical restraint
(2003)A postal questionnaire survey was employed in regional secure and psychiatric intensive care units in England and Wales, in respect of mental health nurses' training in the use of physical restraint. The nurses' views were ... -
The workforce in health and social care services to older people : developing an education and training strategy
(2004)Planning workforce development across the health and social care services for older people presents a formidable challenge. In England, Workforce Development Confederations are responsible for commissioning the education ... -
Pregnancy, illness and the concept of career
(2003)This paper explores a neglected area of women's reproductive experience, namely major illness during pregnancy. It draws on a qualitative study of 15 women who had either a pre-existing illness or developed a major health ... -
Like Me? - Measures of Correspondence and Imitation
(2001)Imitation is a powerful mechanism for efficient learning of novel behaviors that both supports and takes advantage of sociality. A fundamental problem for imitation is to create an appropriate (partial) mapping between the ... -
Specifying Multiple Time Granularities in Interactive Systems
(2001)Time plays an important role in interactive systems, but can be difficult to specify, particularly where temporal properties exist at several different time granularities. The relationship between different time granularities ... -
The Cognitive Dimensions of an Artifact vis-a-vis Individual Human Users : Studies with Notations for the Temporal
(2001)Cognitive Technology explores ways in which the cognitive fit between people and technology may be optimized. If this goal is to be achieved we will require methods of assessing tools and information arftifacts in order ... -
Cognitive Dimensions of Notations: Design Tools for Cognitive Technology
(2001)The Cognitive Dimensions of Notations framework has been created to assist the designers of notational systems and information artifacts to evaluate their designs with respect to the impact that they will have on the users ...