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Global knowledge capitalism, self-woven safety nets, and the crisis of employability (2006)
Journal Article
Moore, P. (2006). Global knowledge capitalism, self-woven safety nets, and the crisis of employability. Global Society, 20(4), 453-473. https://doi.org/10.1080/13600820600929812

In the global economy, workers are increasingly expected to cultivate an unprecedented repertoire of abilities in an immaterial world of work. This signifies a limited shift in capitalist expansion in the post-Fordist world in relation to workers' em... Read More about Global knowledge capitalism, self-woven safety nets, and the crisis of employability.

Shaping the future for primary care education and training project. Best practise in education and training strategies for integrated health and social care: a benchmarking tool (2006)
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Howarth, M., Holland, K., & Hardiker, N. (2006). Shaping the future for primary care education and training project. Best practise in education and training strategies for integrated health and social care: a benchmarking tool

This tool has been designed to encourage the systematic evaluation of current services offered in your organisation in relation to education and training. The aim of the
benchmarking process is to enable your organisation to judge its ability in six... Read More about Shaping the future for primary care education and training project. Best practise in education and training strategies for integrated health and social care: a benchmarking tool.

Shaping the future for primary care education & training project. Education and training needs analysis (ETNA) toolkit: a resource kit and users’ guide (2006)
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a resource kit and users’ guide

The Education and Training Needs Analysis (ETNA) Toolkit
that has been developed as part of an inter university collaboration in the North West of England entitled the
‘Shaping the Future for Primary Care Education and Training’ project. The tool h... Read More about Shaping the future for primary care education & training project. Education and training needs analysis (ETNA) toolkit: a resource kit and users’ guide.

Shaping the future for primary care education and training project. Finding the evidence for education & training to deliver integrated health and social care: the primary care workforce perspective (2006)
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Warne, A., King, M., Street, C., & McAlonan, C. (2006). Shaping the future for primary care education and training project. Finding the evidence for education & training to deliver integrated health and social care: the primary care workforce perspective

This report is one of a series of outputs from the Shaping the Future in Primary Care Education and Training project (www.pcet.org.uk) funded by the North West Development Agency (NWDA). It is the result of a collaborative initiative between the NWDA... Read More about Shaping the future for primary care education and training project. Finding the evidence for education & training to deliver integrated health and social care: the primary care workforce perspective.

Shaping the future for primary care education and training project. Education and Training Needs Analysis (ETNA) for integrated health and social care: the development of a toolkit (2006)
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for integrated health and social care: the development of a toolkit

This report charts the development of an Education and Training Needs Analysis (ETNA) Toolkit. The Toolkit
aims to enable agencies to identify the knowledge and skills required of participants to work effectively within
integrated health and social... Read More about Shaping the future for primary care education and training project. Education and Training Needs Analysis (ETNA) for integrated health and social care: the development of a toolkit.

Shaping the future for primary care education and training project. Best practise in education and training strategies for integrated health and social care: development of a benchmarking tool (2006)
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Howarth, M., Holland, K., Lunt, H., & Cosgrove, P. (2006). Shaping the future for primary care education and training project. Best practise in education and training strategies for integrated health and social care: development of a benchmarking tool

Collaboration and partnership working between Higher Education and the NHS is an essential requirement for
effective delivery of care (Universities UK 2003). The North West Universities Association (NWUA) and the North
West Development Agency (NWDA... Read More about Shaping the future for primary care education and training project. Best practise in education and training strategies for integrated health and social care: development of a benchmarking tool.

Shaping the future for primary care education and training project. Integrated health and social care: the perspectives of people using services: a mixed methods analysis (2006)
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of people using services: a mixed methods analysis

The aim of this study was to explore service users' perspectives concerning integrated health & social care, and
to identify the perceived strengths and weaknesses associated with the current workforce and services provided. The findings will be use... Read More about Shaping the future for primary care education and training project. Integrated health and social care: the perspectives of people using services: a mixed methods analysis.

Shaping the future for primary care education and training project. Education and training provision to deliver integrated health & social care: course finder (2006)
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integrated health & social care: course finder

Within the Shaping the Future for Primary Care Education and Training Project, the literature review concerning integrated health and social care identified a number of
implications or recommendations for service and education. For education, these... Read More about Shaping the future for primary care education and training project. Education and training provision to deliver integrated health & social care: course finder.

An evaluation of educational preparation for cancer and palliative care nursing for children and adolescents : issues in the assessment of practice (2006)
Journal Article
Hale, C., Long, T., Sanderson, L., Tomlinson, P., & Carr, K. (2006). An evaluation of educational preparation for cancer and palliative care nursing for children and adolescents : issues in the assessment of practice. Nurse Education Today, 26(7), 528-537. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2006.01.007

This paper reports on findings from an externally funded research study designed to map and analyse the educational preparation for cancer and palliative care nursing for children and adolescents. The courses reviewed in the whole study, were the Eng... Read More about An evaluation of educational preparation for cancer and palliative care nursing for children and adolescents : issues in the assessment of practice.

Comparing the impact of conventional pesticide and use of a transgenic pest-resistant crop on the beneficial carabid beetle Pterostichus melanarius (2006)
Journal Article
Mulligan, E., Ferry, N., Jouanin, L., Walters, K., Port, G., & Gatehouse, A. (2006). Comparing the impact of conventional pesticide and use of a transgenic pest-resistant crop on the beneficial carabid beetle Pterostichus melanarius. Pest Management Science, 62(10), 999-1012. https://doi.org/10.1002/ps.1276

The potential impact of a chemical pesticide control method has been compared with that of transgenic plants expressing a protease inhibitor conferring insect resistance by utilising a tritrophic system comprising the crop plant Brassica napus (L.) (... Read More about Comparing the impact of conventional pesticide and use of a transgenic pest-resistant crop on the beneficial carabid beetle Pterostichus melanarius.

Direct effects of snowdrop lectin (GNA) on larvae of three aphid predators and fate of GNA after ingestion (2006)
Journal Article
Hogervorst, P., Ferry, N., Gatehouse, A., Wäckers, F., & Romeis, J. (2006). Direct effects of snowdrop lectin (GNA) on larvae of three aphid predators and fate of GNA after ingestion. Journal of Insect Physiology, 52(6), 614-24. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinsphys.2006.02.011

Plants genetically modified to express Galanthus nivalis agglutinin (GNA) have been found to confer partial resistance to homopteran pests. Laboratory experiments were conducted to investigate direct effects of GNA on larvae of three species of aphid... Read More about Direct effects of snowdrop lectin (GNA) on larvae of three aphid predators and fate of GNA after ingestion.

Alkylpurine-DNA-N-glycosylase excision of 7-(hydroxymethyl)-1,N6-ethenoadenine, a glycidaldehyde-derived DNA adduct (2006)
Journal Article
Wang, P., Guliaev, A., Elder, R., & Hang, B. (2006). Alkylpurine-DNA-N-glycosylase excision of 7-(hydroxymethyl)-1,N6-ethenoadenine, a glycidaldehyde-derived DNA adduct. DNA Repair, 5(1), 23-31. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dnarep.2005.07.013

Glycidaldehyde (GDA) is a bifunctional alkylating agent that has been shown to be mutagenic in vitro and carcinogenic in rodents. However, the molecular mechanism by which it exerts these effects is not established. GDA is capable of forming exocycli... Read More about Alkylpurine-DNA-N-glycosylase excision of 7-(hydroxymethyl)-1,N6-ethenoadenine, a glycidaldehyde-derived DNA adduct.

Developing and evaluating an interactive information skills tutorial (2006)
Journal Article
Grant, M., & Brettle, A. (2006). Developing and evaluating an interactive information skills tutorial. Health Information and Libraries Journal, 23, 79-86. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-1842.2006.00655.x

Objective:  To develop and evaluate a web-based interactive information skills tutorial integrated into the curriculum. To determine whether the tutorial was acceptable to students and explore the use of a skills assessment tool in identifying whethe... Read More about Developing and evaluating an interactive information skills tutorial.

Role of regulatory T cells in allergy: implications for therapeutic strategy (2006)
Journal Article
Elkord, E. (2006). Role of regulatory T cells in allergy: implications for therapeutic strategy. Inflammation and Allergy - Drug Targets, 5(4), 211-217. https://doi.org/10.2174/187152806779010945

The interest in regulatory T cells (Tregs) has been revived following the discovery of developing multiorgan autoimmune diseases as a result of depleting CD4+CD25+ T cells from mice. The importance of Tregs is being recognized in various clinical fie... Read More about Role of regulatory T cells in allergy: implications for therapeutic strategy.

Correlation between CD8+ T cells specific for prostate-specific antigen and level of disease in patients with prostate cancer (2006)
Journal Article
Elkord, E., Rowbottom, A., Kynaston, H., & Wiiliams, P. (2006). Correlation between CD8+ T cells specific for prostate-specific antigen and level of disease in patients with prostate cancer. Clinical Immunology, 120(1), 91-98. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clim.2005.12.008

Modest work has been performed to improve the sensitivity of residual disease detection or investigate the contribution that the immune system makes in controlling metastatic tumor growth, in particular, the frequency and biological actions of peptid... Read More about Correlation between CD8+ T cells specific for prostate-specific antigen and level of disease in patients with prostate cancer.

Improving similarity search in time series using wavelets (2006)
Journal Article
Liabotis, I., Theodoulidis, B., & Saraee, M. (2006). Improving similarity search in time series using wavelets. International Journal of Data Warehousing and Mining, 2(2), 1116-1137. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-951-9.ch064

Sequences constitute a large portion of data stored in databases. Data mining applications require the ability to process similarity queries over a large amount of time series data. The query processing performance is an important factor that needs t... Read More about Improving similarity search in time series using wavelets.