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An index of fame: critical identifications of fame in the 'social laboratory' (2004)
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Fletcher, G. (2004). An index of fame: critical identifications of fame in the 'social laboratory'

This paper discusses the presentation of fame that can be identified through popular search terms. These terms reveal how the rapidly shifting interest in individual identities of ‘fame’ are cast against a continuous sequence of expected and unexpect... Read More about An index of fame: critical identifications of fame in the 'social laboratory'.

Was there a 'Boney' Fuller after the Second World War? Major-General J.F.C.Fuller as military theorist and commentator, 1945-1966 (2004)
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Searle, D. (2004). Was there a 'Boney' Fuller after the Second World War? Major-General J.F.C.Fuller as military theorist and commentator, 1945-1966. War in History, 11(3), 327-357. https://doi.org/10.1191/0968344504wh303oa

The historiography to date on Major-General J.F.C. Fuller has created the impression that his career as a military theorist gradually petered out in the latter half of the 1930s, and that after the Second World War the former enfant terrible devoted... Read More about Was there a 'Boney' Fuller after the Second World War? Major-General J.F.C.Fuller as military theorist and commentator, 1945-1966.

Research into the second language acquisition of French: Achievements and challenges (2004)
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Towell, R. (2004). Research into the second language acquisition of French: Achievements and challenges. Journal of French Language Studies, 14(3), 357-375. https://doi.org/10.1017/S095926950400184X

This final article re-examines the approaches outlined in the other articles in this Special Issue in order to evaluate the contribution which each one has brought to the study of the second language acquisition of French. The final section identifie... Read More about Research into the second language acquisition of French: Achievements and challenges.

Excavating the iconic: The rediscovery of the Fairbottom Bobs Colliery pumping engine (2004)
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Nevell, M., Roberts, J., & Champness, B. (2004). Excavating the iconic: The rediscovery of the Fairbottom Bobs Colliery pumping engine. Industrial Archaeology Review, XXVI(2), 83-93

Steam engines were one of the first machine-types to attract the attention of antiquarians and later Industrial Archaeologists. From the first Newcomen engine in 1712 to the 20th-century steam turbine, these objects still exert a fascination for arc... Read More about Excavating the iconic: The rediscovery of the Fairbottom Bobs Colliery pumping engine.

Stormwater quality associated with a full silt trap discharging into an urban watercourse (2004)
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Scholz, M., & Zettel, S. (2004). Stormwater quality associated with a full silt trap discharging into an urban watercourse. Water and Environment Journal, 18(4), 226-229. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-6593.2004.tb00538.x

The aim of this project was to assess the influence of a full silt trap on the quality of stormwater which was discharged into an urban watercourse. The average SS concentrations of the outflow were 2.0 and 34.1 mg/l during dry-weather and wet-weathe... Read More about Stormwater quality associated with a full silt trap discharging into an urban watercourse.

Interpretive approaches and the study of Italian politics (2004)
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Newell, J. (2004). Interpretive approaches and the study of Italian politics. Modern Italy, 9(2), 247-261. https://doi.org/10.1080/1353294042000304983

This article asks why, despite their doubtful utility, the categories used in accounts of contemporary Italian politics are almost universally negative in character. It is suggested that at least part of the explanation has to do with the ontological... Read More about Interpretive approaches and the study of Italian politics.

Quantification of disease activity in patients undergoing leucocyte scintigraphy for suspected inflammatory bowel disease (2004)
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Cheow, H., Voutnis, D., Evans, J., Szczepura, K., Swift, E., Bird, N., …Peters, A. (2005). Quantification of disease activity in patients undergoing leucocyte scintigraphy for suspected inflammatory bowel disease. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, 32(3), 329-337. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-004-1617-7

Purpose Whole-body gamma camera counting is an alternative to faecal 111In collection for quantifying disease activity in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) but requires administration of imaging activities of 111In. The aim of this study was to explo... Read More about Quantification of disease activity in patients undergoing leucocyte scintigraphy for suspected inflammatory bowel disease.

Channel hydraulics and geomorphic effects of an extreme flood event on the Sabie River, South Africa. (2004)
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Heritage, G., Large, A., Moon, B., & Jewitt, G. (2004). Channel hydraulics and geomorphic effects of an extreme flood event on the Sabie River, South Africa. CATENA, 58(2), 151-181. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2004.03.004

The effects of the February 2000 extreme flood (6000–7000 m3 s−1, 200 year return period flow) on channel morphology are examined over 108 km of the semiarid bedrock-influenced Sabie River, South Africa. The river is incised into bedrock forming a ma... Read More about Channel hydraulics and geomorphic effects of an extreme flood event on the Sabie River, South Africa..

Dietary pattern of self-care among Asian and Caucasian diabetic patients (2004)
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Meetoo, D. (2004). Dietary pattern of self-care among Asian and Caucasian diabetic patients. British Journal of Nursing, 13(18), 1074-1078

Diabetes mellitus is a growing pandemic and its self-care management rests primarily with the individual. This qualitative case study investigated the self-care dietary pattern among a group of 25 Asians and 24 Caucasians diagnosed with type 1 or typ... Read More about Dietary pattern of self-care among Asian and Caucasian diabetic patients.

Damage profiles of ultrashallow B implants in Si and the Kinchin-Pease relationship (2004)
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van den Berg, J., Carter, G., Armour, D., Werner, M., Goldberg, R., Collart, E., …Noakes, T. (2004). Damage profiles of ultrashallow B implants in Si and the Kinchin-Pease relationship. Applied Physics Letters, 85(15), 3074-3076. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1801671

Damage distributions resulting from 0.1-2 keV B+ implantation at room temperature into Si(100) to doses ranging from 1×1014 to 2×1016 cm-2 have been determined using high-depth-resolution medium-energy-ion scattering in the double alignment mode. For... Read More about Damage profiles of ultrashallow B implants in Si and the Kinchin-Pease relationship.

On reliability criteria and the implied cost of failure for a maintained component (2004)
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Scarf, P., Dwight, R., & Al-Musrati, A. (2004). On reliability criteria and the implied cost of failure for a maintained component. Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 89(2), 199-207. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ress.2004.08.019

This paper considers age-based replacement and block replacement when reliability is also a decision criterion. We describe how specification of the operational reliability of component function determines the replacement policy, and that setting a... Read More about On reliability criteria and the implied cost of failure for a maintained component.

Task force on chronic interstitial lung disease in immunocompetent children (2004)
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Clement, A. (2004). Task force on chronic interstitial lung disease in immunocompetent children. European Respiratory Journal, 24(4), 686-697. https://doi.org/10.1183/09031936.04.00089803

Chronic interstitial lung diseases in children represent a heterogeneous group of disorders of both known and unknown causes that share common histological features. Despite many efforts these diseases continue to present clinical management dilemmas... Read More about Task force on chronic interstitial lung disease in immunocompetent children.

Developing an environmental management system for a UK hospital trust (2004)
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Douglas, C., & Meltzer, M. (2004). Developing an environmental management system for a UK hospital trust. International Journal of Environmental Technology and Management, 4(4), 273-290. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJETM.2004.005717

This paper discusses the approach to tackling environmental issues in the hospital sector. It considers the emphasis placed on environmental issues within the sector, the problems encountered and the opportunities realised during the process of devel... Read More about Developing an environmental management system for a UK hospital trust.

Emotion and performance: prison officers and the presentation of self in prisons (2004)
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Crawley, E. (2004). Emotion and performance: prison officers and the presentation of self in prisons. https://doi.org/10.1177/1462474504046121

This article explores how prison officers manage and perform emotion on a day-to-day basis. Although the performance of emotion is invariably highlighted when things ‘go wrong’ in prison - perhaps particularly during prison disturbances - the emotion... Read More about Emotion and performance: prison officers and the presentation of self in prisons.

Love, honour, and duty in James Thomson's Tancred and Sigismunda (1745) (2004)
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Jung, S. (2004). Love, honour, and duty in James Thomson's Tancred and Sigismunda (1745). https://doi.org/10.2307/3738502

James Thomson's Tancred and Sigismunda juxtaposes notions of heroic drama with the mid-eighteenth-century sentimentalism of individuality and self-determination. The tragedy centres on the conflict between Siffredi, the late King's adviser, and Tancr... Read More about Love, honour, and duty in James Thomson's Tancred and Sigismunda (1745).

Moving on - beyond lean thinking (2004)
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Koskela, L. (2004). Moving on - beyond lean thinking. Lean construction journal, 1(1), 24-37

Lean Thinking is currently often positioned as the underlying theory of lean production among practitioners and academics, although its originators, Womack and Jones, seem not to have presented it as a theory. This paper endeavors to analyze whether... Read More about Moving on - beyond lean thinking.

Water quality characteristics of vegetated groundwater-fed ditches in a riparian peatland (2004)
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Scholz, M., & Trepel, M. (2004). Water quality characteristics of vegetated groundwater-fed ditches in a riparian peatland. Science of the Total Environment, 332(1-3), 109-122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2004.02.001

The Environmental Ministry of Schleswig–Holstein (Northern Germany) has implemented a novel peatland rehabilitation programme to utilise the high denitrification potential of degenerated, minerotrophic peatlands for the reduction of nitrate input int... Read More about Water quality characteristics of vegetated groundwater-fed ditches in a riparian peatland.