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Behaviour modification and gentle teaching workshops: management of children with learning disabilities exhibiting challenging behaviour and implications for learning disability nursing. (2001)
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Gates, B., Newell, R., & Wray, J. (2001). Behaviour modification and gentle teaching workshops: management of children with learning disabilities exhibiting challenging behaviour and implications for learning disability nursing. Journal of advanced nursing, 34(1), 86-95. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2648.2001.3411730.x

BACKGROUND: Challenging behaviours (behaviour difficulties) represent a problem of considerable clinical significance for learning disability nurses, and a source of much human distress. Gentle teaching is a relatively new approach to dealing with be... Read More about Behaviour modification and gentle teaching workshops: management of children with learning disabilities exhibiting challenging behaviour and implications for learning disability nursing..

Fibrin monomer and fibrinopeptide B act additively to increase DNA synthesis in smooth muscle cells cultured from human saphenous vein (2001)
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Sturge, J., Carey, N., Davies, A. H., & Powell, J. T. (2001). Fibrin monomer and fibrinopeptide B act additively to increase DNA synthesis in smooth muscle cells cultured from human saphenous vein. Journal of vascular surgery, 33(4), 847-853. https://doi.org/10.1067/mva.2001.111984

Purpose: We investigated the hypothesis that fibrinogen increased DNA synthesis (and cell proliferation) of smooth muscle cells (SMCs) cultured from human saphenous vein and that the increased DNA synthesis was attenuated when cells were cultured on... Read More about Fibrin monomer and fibrinopeptide B act additively to increase DNA synthesis in smooth muscle cells cultured from human saphenous vein.

Health and ill-health in the older population in England and Wales (2001)
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Brayne, C., Matthews, F. E., McGee, M. A., & Jagger, C. (2001). Health and ill-health in the older population in England and Wales. Age and ageing, 30(1), 53-62. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/30.1.53

Objective: to provide a profile of disorders and disabilities in the older population. Design: the MRC CFAS drew population samples of people aged 64 years and over from Family Health Service Authority lists at five sites and asked participants about... Read More about Health and ill-health in the older population in England and Wales.

Factors associated with unfavourable birth outcomes in Kenya (2001)
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Magadi, M., Madise, N., & Diamond, I. (2001). Factors associated with unfavourable birth outcomes in Kenya. Journal of biosocial science, 33(2), 199-225. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021932001001997

Studies addressing factors associated with adverse birth outcomes have almost exclusively been based on hospital statistics. This is a serious limitation in developing countries where the majority of births do not occur within health facilities. This... Read More about Factors associated with unfavourable birth outcomes in Kenya.

The intelligent technology of CMM (2001)
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Zhao, Y., Li, Z., Zhang, G., Liu, S., Wang, J., & Ma, X. (2001). The intelligent technology of CMM. Ji liang xue bao = Acta metrologica Sinica, 22(3), 164-167. https://doi.org/10.3321/j.issn%3A1000-1158.2001.03.002

The key technologies of intelligent CMM, including extracting the measuring information of a part from its CAD files, deciding measuring strategies, making algorithms of object-oriented error compensation, accuracy optimization, and collision-free me... Read More about The intelligent technology of CMM.

Phenotypic variation in Fucus spiralis (Phaeophyceae): morphology, chemical phenotype and their relationship to the environment (2001)
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Scott, G., Hull, S., Hornby, S., Hardy, F. G., & Owens, N. (2001). Phenotypic variation in Fucus spiralis (Phaeophyceae): morphology, chemical phenotype and their relationship to the environment. European Journal of Phycology, 36(1), 43-50. https://doi.org/10.1080/09670260110001735188

Phenotypic Variation of Fucus spiralis was examined in terms of morphology and chemical composition, as determined by pyrolysis mass spectrometry (PyMS). After discriminant analysis both techniques revealed the existence of two morphotypes which were... Read More about Phenotypic variation in Fucus spiralis (Phaeophyceae): morphology, chemical phenotype and their relationship to the environment.

An investigation of the genetic variation in four fucales species using cellulose acetate electrophoresis (2001)
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Johnson, L. J., Scott, G. W., & Hull, S. L. (2001). An investigation of the genetic variation in four fucales species using cellulose acetate electrophoresis. Botanica Marina, 44(2), 119 - 123. https://doi.org/10.1515/bot.2001.016

A cellulose acetate electrophoresis method was used to examine allozyme variation both within and between three members of the genus Fucus: F. spiralis, F. vesiculosus and F. serratus and Ascophyllum nodosum. Samples of algae were collected from two... Read More about An investigation of the genetic variation in four fucales species using cellulose acetate electrophoresis.

Semiquantitative analysis of collagen types in the hypertrophied left ventricle (2001)
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Seymour, A. (2001). Semiquantitative analysis of collagen types in the hypertrophied left ventricle. Journal of anatomy, 198(1), 83 - 92

Cardiac fibrosis is a characteristic feature of left ventricular hypertrophy. The aim of this study was to develop a simple and accurate method to analyse collagen accumulation, taking into account the variation in cardiac muscle fibre orientation an... Read More about Semiquantitative analysis of collagen types in the hypertrophied left ventricle.

Discrimination of structure: I. Implications for connectionist theories of discrimination learning. (2001)
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George, D. N., Ward-Robinson, J., & Pearce, J. M. (2001). Discrimination of structure: I. Implications for connectionist theories of discrimination learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 27(3), 206-218. https://doi.org/10.1037/0097-7403.27.3.206

In each of 4 experiments animals were given a structural discrimination task that involved visual patterns composed of identical features, but the spatial relations among the features were different for reinforced and nonreinforced trials. In Experim... Read More about Discrimination of structure: I. Implications for connectionist theories of discrimination learning..

Working within practice boundaries : developing a parent information leaflet in order to enhance the neonatal discharge examination. (2001)
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Lee, A. (2001). Working within practice boundaries : developing a parent information leaflet in order to enhance the neonatal discharge examination. Journal of Neonatal Nursing, 7(4), 120 - 124

Explores the value of the NDE as a screening tool. Methods of evaluating written information provided to parents. development of an information leaflet to enhance caregiving and information delivery.

Meeting Disadvantaged Young People’s Needs: An integrated approach (2001)
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Wilkinson, M. (2001). Meeting Disadvantaged Young People’s Needs: An integrated approach. Research, policy and planning : the journal of the Social Services Research Group, 19(3), 11-22

The growth of young homelessness throughout the 1980s and 1990s has been a worrying social phenomenon within the UK. Responses to this trend have varied and some have been more effective than others. In the 1990s, the idea of Foyers – initially dev... Read More about Meeting Disadvantaged Young People’s Needs: An integrated approach.

Numerical determination of the Titchmarsh-Weyl m-coefficient (2000)
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(2000). Numerical determination of the Titchmarsh-Weyl m-coefficient. Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Physics / Zhurnal Vychislitel'noi Matematiki i Matematicheskoi Fiziki, 40(1), 108-117

A numerical method for calculating the Titchmarsh-Weyl mα(λ)-coefficient for the differential equation d2y/dx2+ [1 - q(x)]y = 0 is tested for the cases q(x) = x and x2, for which mα(λ) has a known analytic form in terms of special functions. An indep... Read More about Numerical determination of the Titchmarsh-Weyl m-coefficient.

Staff factors associated with perception of behaviour as 'challenging’ in residential and nursing homes (2000)
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Moniz-Cook, E., Woods, R., & Gardiner, E. (2000). Staff factors associated with perception of behaviour as 'challenging’ in residential and nursing homes. Aging and Mental Health, 4(1), 48-54. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607860055973

Three hundred and twenty-six staff, working in 14 residential and nursing homes across England, were asked to rate their ‘ease of management’ on 14 vignettes of challenging resident behaviour. Multiple regression was used to examine the correlates of... Read More about Staff factors associated with perception of behaviour as 'challenging’ in residential and nursing homes.