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Knowledge, attitude and practice of hospital senior and middle management towards health care quality programs in eastern Saudi Arabia (2007)
Thesis
Al-Ghamdi, M. A. Knowledge, attitude and practice of hospital senior and middle management towards health care quality programs in eastern Saudi Arabia. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4213157

Quality programs are not new to Saudi hospitals. The first known quality program was started in ARAMCO Hospital in 1982. Besides the Ministry of Health, the main provider of health care, more than 15 providers share in the delivery of the health care... Read More about Knowledge, attitude and practice of hospital senior and middle management towards health care quality programs in eastern Saudi Arabia.

The reasons and emotional processes of people who self harm : an exploratory study (2007)
Thesis
Coyne, E. The reasons and emotional processes of people who self harm : an exploratory study. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4212684

People who harm themselves present a number of clinical challenges for staff in managing the risks associated with their behaviours, providing appropriate interventions and preventing repetition.

This research explored the reasons individuals hav... Read More about The reasons and emotional processes of people who self harm : an exploratory study.

The pains of custody: how young men cope through the criminal justice system (2007)
Thesis
Jones, H. L. The pains of custody: how young men cope through the criminal justice system. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4209428

The aim of this study was to examine the hypothesis that ‘the different support needs of young males are not being adequately addressed as they proceed through the criminal justice system, with serious consequences in terms of personal harm’. In orde... Read More about The pains of custody: how young men cope through the criminal justice system.

Institutional investors and director pay: An empirical study of UK companies (2007)
Journal Article
Dong, M., & Ozkan, A. (2008). Institutional investors and director pay: An empirical study of UK companies. Journal of Multinational Financial Management, 18(1), 16-29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mulfin.2007.06.001

This paper empirically examines the determinants of director pay for a sample of listed non-financial firms in the UK by focusing on the effects of institutional ownership on both director pay and pay-performance relationship. Our analysis reveals th... Read More about Institutional investors and director pay: An empirical study of UK companies.

Mannose receptor regulation of macrophage cell migration (2007)
Journal Article
Sturge, J., Todd, S. K., Kogianni, G., McCarthy, A., & Isacke, C. M. (2007). Mannose receptor regulation of macrophage cell migration. Journal of Leukocyte Biology, 82(3), 585-593. https://doi.org/10.1189/jlb.0107053

The migration of macrophages through peripheral tissues is an essential step in the host response to infection, inflammation, and ischemia as well as in tumor progression and tissue repair. The mannose receptor (MR; CD206, previously known as the mac... Read More about Mannose receptor regulation of macrophage cell migration.

Development of a (silent) speech recognition system for patients following laryngectomy (2007)
Journal Article
Fagan, M. J., Ell, S. R., Gilbert, J. M., Sarrazin, E., & Chapman, P. M. (2008). Development of a (silent) speech recognition system for patients following laryngectomy. Medical engineering & physics, 30(4), 419-425. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.medengphy.2007.05.003

Surgical voice restoration post-laryngectomy has a number of limitations and drawbacks. The present gold standard involves the use of a tracheo-oesophageal fistula (TOF) valve to divert air from the lungs into the throat, which vibrates, and from thi... Read More about Development of a (silent) speech recognition system for patients following laryngectomy.

Habitat selection and spatial segregation in three pipefish species (2007)
Journal Article
Malavasi, S., Franco, A., Riccato, F., Valerio, C., Torricelli, P., & Franzoi, P. (2007). Habitat selection and spatial segregation in three pipefish species. Estuarine, coastal and shelf science, 75(1-2), 143-150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2007.02.022

Habitat partitioning was investigated within a guild composed of three sympatric pipefish species, namely Syngnathus typhle, Syngnathus abaster and Nerophis ophidion. Field surveys of patterns of pipefish abundance among different seagrass habitats (... Read More about Habitat selection and spatial segregation in three pipefish species.

Diet, familiarity and shoaling decisions in guppies (2007)
Journal Article
Morrell, L. J., Hunt, K. L., Croft, D. P., & Krause, J. (2007). Diet, familiarity and shoaling decisions in guppies. Animal behaviour, 74(2), 311-319. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.10.021

Animals are known to derive benefits from associating with familiar individuals, and familiarity is important in the structuring of animal groups. In fish, individuals are known to shoal preferentially with others they have previously spent time with... Read More about Diet, familiarity and shoaling decisions in guppies.

The role of iconic gestures in speech disambiguation: ERP evidence (2007)
Journal Article
Holle, H., & Gunter, T. C. (2007). The role of iconic gestures in speech disambiguation: ERP evidence. Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 19(7), 1175-1192. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn.2007.19.7.1175

The present series of experiments explored the extent to which iconic gestures convey information not found in speech. Electroencephalogram (EEG) was recorded as participants watched videos of a person gesturing and speaking simultaneously. The exper... Read More about The role of iconic gestures in speech disambiguation: ERP evidence.

An HI survey of six local group analogs. I. Survey description and the search for high-velocity clouds (2007)
Journal Article
Pisano, D. J., Barnes, D. G., Gibson, B. K., Staveley-Smith, L., Freeman, K. C., & Kilborn, V. A. (2007). An HI survey of six local group analogs. I. Survey description and the search for high-velocity clouds. The Astrophysical journal, 662(2), 959-968. https://doi.org/10.1086/517986

We have conducted an H I 21 cm emission-line survey using the Parkes 20 cm multibeam instrument and the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) of six loose groups of galaxies chosen to be analogs to the Local Group. The goal of this survey is to ma... Read More about An HI survey of six local group analogs. I. Survey description and the search for high-velocity clouds.

Debt maturity structure of Chinese companies (2007)
Journal Article
Cai, K., Fairchild, R., & Guney, Y. (2008). Debt maturity structure of Chinese companies. Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 16(3), 268-297. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pacfin.2007.06.001

Numerous studies have focused on the theoretical and empirical aspects of corporate capital structure since the 1960s. As a new branch of capital structure, however, debt maturity structure has not yet received as much attention as the debt-equity ch... Read More about Debt maturity structure of Chinese companies.

Fish, climate and the Gulf Stream: the influence of abiotic factors on the recruitment success of cyprinid fishes in lowland rivers (2007)
Journal Article
Nunn, A. D., Harvey, J. P., Britton, J. R., Frear, P. A., & Cowx, I. G. (2007). Fish, climate and the Gulf Stream: the influence of abiotic factors on the recruitment success of cyprinid fishes in lowland rivers. Freshwater biology, 52(8), 1576-1586. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2427.2007.01789.x

1. Climatic effects are increasingly being recognised as an important factor causing inter-annual variability in organism abundances in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. This study investigated the relationships between water temperature (cumulativ... Read More about Fish, climate and the Gulf Stream: the influence of abiotic factors on the recruitment success of cyprinid fishes in lowland rivers.

Lesion T2 relaxation times and volumes predict the response of malignant breast lesions to neoadjuvant chemotherapy (2007)
Journal Article
Tan, P. C., Pickles, M. D., Lowry, M., Manton, D. J., & Turnbull, L. W. (2008). Lesion T2 relaxation times and volumes predict the response of malignant breast lesions to neoadjuvant chemotherapy. Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 26(1), 26-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mri.2007.04.002

The aim of this study was to investigate the utility of the water T-2 values of malignant breast lesions in predicting response after the first and second cycles of neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC), both alone and in combination with lesion volumes. Th... Read More about Lesion T2 relaxation times and volumes predict the response of malignant breast lesions to neoadjuvant chemotherapy.