UH Research Archive: Recent submissions
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Listening to Voices of Children and Learning with Them: Action Research in a Primary School
(2010-02-08)This dissertation presents an action research project carried out in a primary school to address the issue of ‘pupil voice’. Consulting with stakeholders has risen in prominence in the political context of schools. A number ... -
The Change Academy and institutional transformation
(The Higher Education Academy, 2009)This chapter presents a case study of institutional change. The University of Hertfordshire participated in the Higher Education Academy/JISC pilot e-Learning Benchmarking project in 2005–06 and a subsequent pilot Pathfinder ... -
The hard x-ray view of reflection, absorption and the disk-jet connection in the radio-loud AGN 3C 33
(2010)We present results from Suzaku and Swift observations of the nearby radio galaxy 3C 33, and investigate the nature of absorption, reflection, and jet production in this source. We model the 0.5-100 keV nuclear continuum ... -
Agenda 21, Education for Sustainabliity and School partnerships : Gardening a case study
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Education for Sustainable Development and Citizenship through Outdoor Education : Gardening as a Focus
(Register of Research in Primary Geography, 2004) -
School gardens and cultivating learning
(2008)A strong positive link has been established between children’s learning and out of class activities (Bloomfield, P. 2000 & 2001; Humphries, S., Rowe, S. 2004; Palmer J, 1998). In this paper we aim to bring together key ... -
Excellence in the Teaching of Geography
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Bone Mineral Density at the Hip Predicts Mortality in Elderly Men
(2001)Low bone density as assessed by calcaneal ultrasound has been associated with mortality in elderly men and women. We examined the relationship between bone density measured at the hip and all cause and cardiovascular ... -
The Impact of Encouraging Infants to Gesture on Their Language Development
(2010-02-01)Infants’ gestures feature prominently in early language. The observation that accomplishments in gesture presage verbal milestones prompted the question of whether encouraging infants to gesture would bring on language ... -
Nurses need more training to ensure effective compression therapy for venous leg ulcers
(2009)Effective compression therapy is key to healing venous leg ulcers. However, practitioners must be properly trained and assessed as competent in applying compression bandages to ensure the treatment is effective and safe. -
Vintage bit cryptography. (Transcript of discussion)
(2009)This may be a highly controversial talk, because this is an area where things are periodically rediscovered. But in the process of reinventing it, I think we’ve found a few interesting protocol issues, and a few interesting ... -
The dress of the people: everyday fashion in eighteenth-century England
(Yale University Press, 2007)The material lives of ordinary English men and women were transformed in the years following the restoration of Charles II in 1660... But it was in their clothing that ordinary people enjoyed the greatest change in their ... -
Coming to an Understanding: Mainstream Pupils' Perceptions of Mental Health Problems
(2010-01-25)With the introduction of the UK Government’s inclusive ideology in the late 20th century, increased pressure was put on schools serving adolescent psychiatric units to support their pupils to return to mainstream education. ... -
IR imaging surveys of AGB stars in the Magellanic Clouds
(2010)AGB stars are ideal IR targets because they are cool and bright. Most of them escaped detection in optical or shallow IR surveys in the eighties contributing to the puzzling missing number of AGB stars with respect to ... -
Clinical Studies in Diabetic Vasculopathy to Assess Interactions Between Blood, Bone and Kidney
(2010-01-25)Diabetic vasculopathy (DV) is the most important consequence of chronic hyperglycemia in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM). This thesis explores the interaction of blood, bone and kidney in the pathogenesis of DV by i) ... -
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, ...