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Prisiones e Internados: Una Comparación de los Establecimientos Penales en América del Norte y América Latina (Prisons and Internment: A Comparison of Penal Facilities in North America and Latin America) (2010)
Journal Article
America). Caderno CRH (Impresso), 23(58), 129-149

The recent use of expressions such as
“warehouse prison” in the U.S. and “concentration
camp” in Latin America would seem to indicate
that conditions of deprivation of freedom in both
regions look more and more alike. The analysis
presented here... Read More about Prisiones e Internados: Una Comparación de los Establecimientos Penales en América del Norte y América Latina (Prisons and Internment: A Comparison of Penal Facilities in North America and Latin America).

Improving quality of life for adolescents with psychosis (2010)
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Hunter, A., Grealish, A., & Dowling, M. (2010). Improving quality of life for adolescents with psychosis. Mental Health Practice, 13(7), 30-33

Psychosis is a symptom of serious mental illness that is usually associated with adult life, but a significant group of people develop it in adolescence. Psychosis in adolescence is more complicated than in adults because of the young person’s maturi... Read More about Improving quality of life for adolescents with psychosis.

Social work students : stress, support and well-being (2010)
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Collins, S., Coffey, M., & Morris, L. (2010). Social work students : stress, support and well-being. British Journal of Social Work, 40(3), 963-982. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcn148

This appears to be the first piece of research in the UK to focus exclusively on stress, support and well-being of social work students. The findings of a postal questionnaire
indicated no statistically significant differences related to gender, age... Read More about Social work students : stress, support and well-being.

Talent management as a management fashion in HRD: towards a research agenda (2010)
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research agenda. Human Resource Development International, 13(2), 125-145. https://doi.org/10.1080/13678861003703666

HRD practitioners have long shown concerns about the status and legitimacy of
the occupation, and, arguably, this has not been unconnected to the range of titles
HRD has been given over the years. Has there been an element of ‘management
fashion’... Read More about Talent management as a management fashion in HRD: towards a research agenda.

On the empirical performance of (T, s, S) heuristics (2010)
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Babai, M., Syntetos, A., & Teunter, R. (2010). On the empirical performance of (T, s, S) heuristics. European Journal of Operational Research, 202(2), 466-472. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2009.05.030

The periodic ðT; s; SÞ policies have received considerable attention from the academic literature. Determination
of the optimal parameters is computationally prohibitive, and a number of heuristic procedures have been put forward. However, these heu... Read More about On the empirical performance of (T, s, S) heuristics.

Reliability of physical examination tests used in the assessment of patients with shoulder problems: A systematic review (2010)
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May, S., Chance-Larsen, K., Littlewood, C., Lomas, D., & Saad, M. (2010). Reliability of physical examination tests used in the assessment of patients with shoulder problems: A systematic review. Physiotherapy, 96(3), 179-190. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physio.2009.12.002

Background: Shoulder pain is a common clinical problem, and numerous tests are used to diagnose structural pathology.

Objectives: To systematically review the reliability of physical examination procedures used in the clinical examination of pati... Read More about Reliability of physical examination tests used in the assessment of patients with shoulder problems: A systematic review.

Minerva's owl. A response to John Houghton and Charles Oppenheim's 'The economic implications of alternative publishing models' (2010)
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Hall, M. (2010). Minerva's owl. A response to John Houghton and Charles Oppenheim's 'The economic implications of alternative publishing models'. Prometheus, 28(1), 61-71. https://doi.org/10.1080/08109021003676375

Like Hegel’s owl of Minerva, scholars are arriving at the realization of the existence of the knowledge economy after dusk. (Drahos and Braithwaite, 2002, p. 39)

Houghton and Oppenheim’s cost–benefit analysis of different forms of scholarly publis... Read More about Minerva's owl. A response to John Houghton and Charles Oppenheim's 'The economic implications of alternative publishing models'.

Examination of issues affecting the teaching and learning of large cohorts within practical-based subjects (2010)
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The aim of this work is to advance the teaching and learning of practical-based subjects in the higher education (HE) sector. Part of the study involved the development of a model that enhanced the teaching and learning of textiles within large group... Read More about Examination of issues affecting the teaching and learning of large cohorts within practical-based subjects.

A women's worker in court: a more appropriate service for women defendants with mental health issues? (2010)
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Hean, S., Heaslip, V., Warr, J., Bell, H., & Staddon, S. (2010). A women's worker in court: a more appropriate service for women defendants with mental health issues?. Perspectives in Public Health, 130(2), https://doi.org/10.1177/1757913909360455

Aims: Court liaison services aim to reduce mental illness in prison through early treatment and/or diversion into care of defendants negotiating their court proceedings. However, liaison services may inadvertently contribute to gender inequalities in... Read More about A women's worker in court: a more appropriate service for women defendants with mental health issues?.

Tweaking, bombing, dabbing and stockpiling : the emergence of mephedrone and the perversity of prohibition (2010)
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Measham, F., Moore, K., & Newcombe, R. (2010). Tweaking, bombing, dabbing and stockpiling : the emergence of mephedrone and the perversity of prohibition. Drugs and Alcohol Today, 10(1), 14-21. https://doi.org/10.5042/daat.2010.0123

Significant changes in British recreational drug use were seen throughout 2009, with the emergence and rapid growth in the availability and use of substituted cathinones or ‘M‐Cats’ (most notably mephedrone and methylone), a group of psychoactive dru... Read More about Tweaking, bombing, dabbing and stockpiling : the emergence of mephedrone and the perversity of prohibition.

Isolation of 1,4-Li2-C6H4 and its reaction with [(Ph3P)AuCl] (2010)
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Flower, K., Mcgown, A., Miles, P., Pritchard, R., & Warren, J. (2010). Isolation of 1,4-Li2-C6H4 and its reaction with [(Ph3P)AuCl]. Dalton Transactions, 39(14), 3509-3520. https://doi.org/10.1039/b925355f

The difficulty in generating 1,4-Li2-C6H4 utilising the lithium halogen exchange reaction on 1,4-Br2-C6H4, 1,4-I2-C6H4 and 1-Br-4-I-C6H4 is revisited and only on treatment of 1,4-I2-C6H4 with 2 molar equivalents of n-BuLi can 1,4-Li2-C6H4 1 be isolat... Read More about Isolation of 1,4-Li2-C6H4 and its reaction with [(Ph3P)AuCl].

Property and the Law of Finders (2010)
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Carn, M. (2010). Property and the Law of Finders. Trust law international, 24(4), 255-257

Publication review.

Legitimation crisis and the Greek explosion (2010)
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Bratsis, P. (2010). Legitimation crisis and the Greek explosion. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 34(1), 190-196. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2427.2010.00947.x

The political 'explosion' that took place in Greece was a symptom of a systemic and deep-rooted legitimation crisis of the Greek state. This essay examines some of the causes of this crisis, how the political space in which this explosion occurred wa... Read More about Legitimation crisis and the Greek explosion.

Measuring the quality of peer-reviewed publications in social work : impact factors - liberation or liability (2010)
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Blyth, E., Shardlow, S., Masson, H., Lyons, K., Shaw, I., & White, S. (2010). Measuring the quality of peer-reviewed publications in social work : impact factors - liberation or liability. Social Work Education, 29(2), 120-136. https://doi.org/10.1080/02615470902856705

Systems for measuring the quality of publications in peer-reviewed academic journals have achieved importance in the 'audit culture' to which academia worldwide has become increasingly subjected. In the United Kingdom this debate has focused on gover... Read More about Measuring the quality of peer-reviewed publications in social work : impact factors - liberation or liability.

Making biodiversity measures accessible to non-specialists: An innovative method for rapid assessment of urban biodiversity (2010)
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Tzoulas, K., & James, P. (2010). Making biodiversity measures accessible to non-specialists: An innovative method for rapid assessment of urban biodiversity. Urban Ecosystems, 13(1), 113-127. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11252-009-0107-x

Urban biodiversity studies provide important inputs to studying the interactions between human societies and ecological systems. However, existing urban biodiversity methods are time intensive and/or too complex for the purposes of rapid biodiversity... Read More about Making biodiversity measures accessible to non-specialists: An innovative method for rapid assessment of urban biodiversity.