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The construct validity of a rating scale designed to assess spirituality and spiritual care (2002)
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McSherry, W., Draper, P., & Kendrick, D. (2002). The construct validity of a rating scale designed to assess spirituality and spiritual care. International journal of nursing studies, 39(7), 723-734. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0020-7489%2802%2900014-7

A postal survey, containing a questionnaire and covering letter, was distributed to 1029 ward-based nurses, of all grades, in a Large NHS Trust in an attempt to establish how nurses perceived spirituality and spiritual care. A response rate of 55.3%... Read More about The construct validity of a rating scale designed to assess spirituality and spiritual care.

Clinical competence assessment in nursing: a systematic review of the literature (2002)
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Watson, R., Stimpson, A., Topping, A., & Porock, D. (2002). Clinical competence assessment in nursing: a systematic review of the literature. Journal of advanced nursing, 39(5), 421-431. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2648.2002.02307.x

Background. The assessment of clinical competence has returned to centre stage of nurse education. However, there is little evidence to support the use of clinical competence and a wide variety of methods for its use. Research question. The present s... Read More about Clinical competence assessment in nursing: a systematic review of the literature.

mt-DNA sequences and possible invasion pathways of the Chinese mitten crab (2002)
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Hänfling, B., Carvalho, G. R., & Brandl, R. (2002). mt-DNA sequences and possible invasion pathways of the Chinese mitten crab. Marine ecology progress series, 238, 307-310. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps238307

The Chinese mitten crab Eriocheir sinensis is an invasive species that inflicts considerable economical and ecological damage in European and American freshwaters. Sequence variation at the mitochondrial COI gene was investigated from Chinese, Europe... Read More about mt-DNA sequences and possible invasion pathways of the Chinese mitten crab.

Acquisition of superexcitatory properties by an irrelevant background stimulus (2002)
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Williams, D. A., Mehta, R., Poworoznyk, T. M., Orihel, J. S., George, D. N., & Pearce, J. M. (2002). Acquisition of superexcitatory properties by an irrelevant background stimulus. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 28(3), 284-297. https://doi.org/10.1037//0097-7403.28.3.284

Six appetitive conditioning experiments with rats demonstrated that an irrelevant X accompanying a negative patterning discrimination (XA+, XB+, XAB-) acquires extraordinarily high levels of conditioned excitation. Responding to X was similar to that... Read More about Acquisition of superexcitatory properties by an irrelevant background stimulus.

Rectoanal reflex parameters in incontinence and constipation (2002)
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Kaur, G., Gardiner, A., & Duthie, G. S. (2002). Rectoanal reflex parameters in incontinence and constipation. Diseases of the colon & rectum, 45(7), 928-933. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10350-004-6331-9

PURPOSE: The transient relaxation of the internal anal sphincter in response to rectal distention is believed to play an important role in the continence mechanism. Most anorectal physiology laboratories merely report the rectoanal inhibitory reflex... Read More about Rectoanal reflex parameters in incontinence and constipation.

Prevalence of dementia in institutional care (2002)
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Matthews, F. E., & Dening, T. (2002). Prevalence of dementia in institutional care. Lancet, 360(9328), 225-226. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736%2802%2909461-8

Information about dementia prevalence in residential and nursing care homes helps these institutions to meet residents' needs. We combined residential characteristics ascertained at a screening interview in 1991-93 with dementia diagnoses from assess... Read More about Prevalence of dementia in institutional care.

The 'mouse organ' project: A learning approach to promote creativity and motivation (2002)
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Wilkinson, A. J., Miles, R. S., Bateson, A. D., Selke, K. K., & Holley, S. (2002). The 'mouse organ' project: A learning approach to promote creativity and motivation. International journal of electrical engineering education, 39(3), 278-283. https://doi.org/10.7227/IJEEE.39.3.12

This paper describes an approach to the teaching of the design and development of embedded computer systems. Traditional lectures in computer architecture and real time software are complemented by project-based learning with appropriate support sess... Read More about The 'mouse organ' project: A learning approach to promote creativity and motivation.

A Monte Carlo simulation scheme for nonideal dendrimers satisfying detailed balance (2002)
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Giupponi, G., & Buzza, D. M. A. (2002). A Monte Carlo simulation scheme for nonideal dendrimers satisfying detailed balance. Macromolecules, 35(26), 9799-9812. https://doi.org/10.1021/ma0203851

We present a configurational-biased lattice Monte Carlo scheme for simulating nonideal dendrimers that satisfies detailed balance. This corrects an important shortcoming in a previous lattice Monte Carlo scheme by Mansfield and Klushin: in a previous... Read More about A Monte Carlo simulation scheme for nonideal dendrimers satisfying detailed balance.

Recruitment patterns of six species of cyprinid fishes in the lower River Trent, England (2002)
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Nunn, A. D., Cowx, I. G., & Harvey, J. P. (2002). Recruitment patterns of six species of cyprinid fishes in the lower River Trent, England. Ecology of freshwater fish, 11(2), 74-84. https://doi.org/10.1034/j.1600-0633.2002.t01-1-00001.x

Fisheries data were collected for six species of 0-group cyprinid fishes from eight sites in the lower reaches of the River Trent, England, between May and October 1999 inclusive, using a micromesh seine net. Recruitment and growth patterns were obse... Read More about Recruitment patterns of six species of cyprinid fishes in the lower River Trent, England.

Towards a digital economy with Chinese characteristics? (2002)
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Dai, X. (2002). Towards a digital economy with Chinese characteristics?. New Media and Society, 4(2), 141-162. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614440222226316

There are two opposing views when considering economic development strategies in the digital age: some insist that the 'new economy' applies mainly to the industrialized countries and are doubtful that new information and communications technologies... Read More about Towards a digital economy with Chinese characteristics?.

'Negotiating the 'Modern Wilderness of Interests': Bernard Bosanquet on cultural diversity (2002)
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Tyler, C. (2002). 'Negotiating the 'Modern Wilderness of Interests': Bernard Bosanquet on cultural diversity. Contemporary Political Theory, 1(2), 157 - 180. https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.cpt.9300027

This article argues that, despite its reputation as a homogenising and authoritarian system, the political thought of Bernard Bosanquet contains resources with which to develop a robust and culturally sensitive model of liberal multiculturalism. Thro... Read More about 'Negotiating the 'Modern Wilderness of Interests': Bernard Bosanquet on cultural diversity.

TLM models of bending transients and their application to the deformation of thin walled ceramic shapes (2002)
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Newton, H. R., Pulko, S. H., & Wilkinson, A. J. (2002). TLM models of bending transients and their application to the deformation of thin walled ceramic shapes. International journal of numerical modelling, 15(3), 287-301. https://doi.org/10.1002/jnm.444

A transmission line matrix model of viscous bending under gravity is devised. This is initially extended to a two-component, parallel, dashpot-spring model corresponding to a Kelvin solid, and then to a three-component model comprising an initial ela... Read More about TLM models of bending transients and their application to the deformation of thin walled ceramic shapes.

Screening for postnatal depression in Bengali women: preliminary observations from using a translated version of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) (2002)
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Fuggle, P., Glover, L., Khan, F., & Haydon, K. (2002). Screening for postnatal depression in Bengali women: preliminary observations from using a translated version of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS). Journal of reproductive and infant psychology, 20(2), 71-82. https://doi.org/10.1080/02646830220134603

Postnatal depression carries a significant health burden for mothers and their offspring. However, the majority of screening or treatment studies for postnatal depression have been carried out on white or European populations and clinicians have been... Read More about Screening for postnatal depression in Bengali women: preliminary observations from using a translated version of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS).

Summation in autoshaping is affected by the similarity of the visual stimuli to the stimulation they replace. (2002)
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Pearce, J. M., Redhead, E. S., & George, D. N. (2002). Summation in autoshaping is affected by the similarity of the visual stimuli to the stimulation they replace. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 28(2), 175-189. https://doi.org/10.1037/0097-7403.28.2.175

Pigeons received autoshaping with 2 stimuli, A and B, presented in adjacent regions on a television screen. Conditioning with each stimulus was therefore accompanied by stimulation that was displaced from the screen whenever the other stimulus was pr... Read More about Summation in autoshaping is affected by the similarity of the visual stimuli to the stimulation they replace..

TLM representation of the hyperbolic heat conduction equation (2002)
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Pulko, S. H., Wilkinson, A. J., & Saidane, A. (2002). TLM representation of the hyperbolic heat conduction equation. International journal of numerical modelling, 15(3), 303-315. https://doi.org/10.1002/jnm.445

Many heat transfer situations are adequately described by the parabolic thermal diffusion equation. However, in situations in which very rapid heating occurs or in slower heating regimes for particular materials, the hyperbolic heat conduction equati... Read More about TLM representation of the hyperbolic heat conduction equation.

Algorithms for accurate rapid prototyping replication of cancellous bone voxel maps (2002)
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Sisias, G., Phillips, R., Dobson, C., Fagan, M., & Langton, C. (2002). Algorithms for accurate rapid prototyping replication of cancellous bone voxel maps. Rapid Prototyping Journal, 8(1), 6-24. https://doi.org/10.1108/13552540210413266

A set of algorithms has been developed and evaluated for 3D and 21/2D rapid prototyping replication of 3D reconstructions of cancellous bone samples. The algorithms replicate a voxel map without any loss of fidelity, so as to increase the validity of... Read More about Algorithms for accurate rapid prototyping replication of cancellous bone voxel maps.

POSSUM and P-POSSUM overpredict mortality for carotid endarterectomy (2002)
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Kuhan, G., Abidia, A. F., Wijesinghe, L. D., Chetter, I. C., Johnson, B. F., Wilkinson, A. .., Renwick, P. M., & McCollum, P. T. (2002). POSSUM and P-POSSUM overpredict mortality for carotid endarterectomy. European journal of vascular and endovascular surgery : the official journal of the European Society for Vascular Surgery, 23(3), 209-211. https://doi.org/10.1053/ejvs.2001.1557

Objectives: the aim was to test the predictive accuracy of POSSUM and P-POSSUM on patients undergoing CEA. Design: retrospective and prospective study. Materials: 499 CEAs performed by four vascular surgeons from a single unit from 1992-99. The media... Read More about POSSUM and P-POSSUM overpredict mortality for carotid endarterectomy.

The role of boundaries in knowledge processes (2002)
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Merali, Y. (2002). The role of boundaries in knowledge processes. European Journal of Information Systems, 11(1), 47-60. https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave/ejis/3000413

Advances in communications and information technology deliver an increasingly dynamic and interconnected competitive context. To survive and prosper in this environment, organisations must be innovative and adaptive. Intellectual and relational capit... Read More about The role of boundaries in knowledge processes.