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Creative documentary : theory and practice (2011)
Book
de Jong, W., Knudsen, E., & Rothwell, J. (2011). Creative documentary : theory and practice. Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315834115

Key features: • Five sections covering creativity and creative documentary and the contemporary creative industries: strategies for developing documentary ideas; the art of documentary narrative; digital production methods; new documentary forms; dis... Read More about Creative documentary : theory and practice.

Disordered metabolic evaluation in renal stone recurrence : a data mining approach (2011)
Journal Article
Saraee, M., Givchi, A., Taghi Adl, S., & Eshraghi, A. (2011). Disordered metabolic evaluation in renal stone recurrence : a data mining approach. Journal of Applied Computer Science & Mathematics (Suceava. Online), 5(11), 64-68

Nephrolithiasis is a disease with a high and even rising incidence. It has a high morbidity, generates high costs and has a high recurrence rate. Metabolic evaluation in renal stone formers allows the identification and quantification of risk factors... Read More about Disordered metabolic evaluation in renal stone recurrence : a data mining approach.

Time and resource management for support workers (2011)
Journal Article
Stonehouse, D. (2011). Time and resource management for support workers. British Journal of Healthcare Assistants, 5(12), 608-610. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjha.2011.5.12.608

The importance for support workers of managing both the resources within the workplace and importantly their own time will be considered in this article. Identifying resources as and planning how these can be managed successfully will be discusse... Read More about Time and resource management for support workers.

Conflict at work : how support staff can handle it (2011)
Journal Article
Stonehouse, D. (2011). Conflict at work : how support staff can handle it. British Journal of Healthcare Assistants, 5(11), 557-559. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjha.2011.5.11.557

Within our working lives, and in our relationships with colleagues, patients, and stakeholders, our interactions will not always be harmonious. However, support workers should not shy away from conflict, but recognize it as an opportunity to devel... Read More about Conflict at work : how support staff can handle it.

Gaining consent and protecting the rights of patients (2011)
Journal Article
Stonehouse, D. (2011). Gaining consent and protecting the rights of patients. British Journal of Healthcare Assistants, 5(9), 457-458. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjha.2011.5.9.457

Consent is not just an issue of concern for senior staff members within a health or social care setting. It is equally important for support workers and all other personnel involved in delivering day-to-day care. Consent therefore needs to be cons... Read More about Gaining consent and protecting the rights of patients.

Teamwork, support workers and conduct at work (2011)
Journal Article
Stonehouse, D. (2011). Teamwork, support workers and conduct at work. British Journal of Healthcare Assistants, 5(7), 350-354. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjha.2011.5.7.350

This article examines the importance of teamwork within professional settings and what is meant by being in a team or group. It focuses in particular on how support workers may understand good teamwork within the context of local or national code... Read More about Teamwork, support workers and conduct at work.

Using reflective practice to ensure high standards of care (2011)
Journal Article
Stonehouse, D. (2011). Using reflective practice to ensure high standards of care. British Journal of Healthcare Assistants, 5(6), 299-302. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjha.2011.5.6.299

Some support workers mistakenly believe that reflective practice is difficult to undertake or is only performed by staff members who are engaged in written assignments. This article aims to encourage all support workers to adopt reflective practic... Read More about Using reflective practice to ensure high standards of care.

Management and leadership for support workers (2011)
Journal Article
Stonehouse, D. (2011). Management and leadership for support workers. British Journal of Healthcare Assistants, 5(10), 507-510. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjha.2011.5.10.507

In this article, the two important roles of manager and leader within the workplace will be examined. The differences between the two terms will be discussed, and it will be demonstrated that everyone, no matter their official job role, can be a l... Read More about Management and leadership for support workers.

A model for flexible tools used in minimally invasive medical virtual environments (2011)
Journal Article
Soler, F., Luzon, M., Pop, S., Hughes, C., John, N., & Torres, J. (2011). A model for flexible tools used in minimally invasive medical virtual environments. https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-60750-706-2-594

Within the limits of current technology, many applications of a virtual environment will trade-off accuracy for speed. This is not an acceptable compromise in a medical training application where both are essential. Efficient algorithms must therefor... Read More about A model for flexible tools used in minimally invasive medical virtual environments.

A conceptual analysis of the role of human action theory in Sub-Saharan Africa urban land use planning (2011)
Journal Article
Gyau, K., Hammond, F., Booth, C., Lamond, J., Proverbs, D., & Bloch, R. (2011). A conceptual analysis of the role of human action theory in Sub-Saharan Africa urban land use planning. Journal of International Real Estate and Construction Studies, 1(2), 147-165

Urban land use planning literature is rife with research based evidence on the exceptional failings of institutional urban land use planning in sub-Saharan Africa. These failings reflect weaknesses of the conceptual foundations of sub-Saharan Afric... Read More about A conceptual analysis of the role of human action theory in Sub-Saharan Africa urban land use planning.

Neoliberalism and privatization : from the theoretical framework to the Italian case. An analysis for the interpretation of the socio-spatial impacts (2011)
Journal Article
De Sanctis, F., Fois, F., & Polizzi, E. (2011). Neoliberalism and privatization : from the theoretical framework to the Italian case. An analysis for the interpretation of the socio-spatial impacts. Annali del Dipartimento di metodi e modelli per l'economia, il territorio e la finanza ... (Online), 13, 57-92

The present contribution aims at introducing the theoretical reference frame to historically and conceptually contextualize privatization, putting it in the wider context of neoliberal policies. In the first part the paper analyses some of the key... Read More about Neoliberalism and privatization : from the theoretical framework to the Italian case. An analysis for the interpretation of the socio-spatial impacts.

Pensar el cine blockbuster : el rol de la educación y el conocimiento en Indiana Jones y el Reino de la Calavera de Cristal (2011)
Journal Article
Ferreras Rodríguez, J., & Hernandez Perez, M. (2011). Pensar el cine blockbuster : el rol de la educación y el conocimiento en Indiana Jones y el Reino de la Calavera de Cristal. Comunicación (Sevilla. Internet), 1(9), 175-188

The Indiana Jones series is on the foundation of the so called «blockbuster» phenomenon, a cinema that represents huge financial investments for the studios every year but is usually disregarded by scholars as empty. Despite that, it would be fair to... Read More about Pensar el cine blockbuster : el rol de la educación y el conocimiento en Indiana Jones y el Reino de la Calavera de Cristal.

The Irish in Middlesbrough : a part of Middlesbrough's community or apart from it? (2011)
Thesis
Willis, J. The Irish in Middlesbrough : a part of Middlesbrough's community or apart from it?. (Thesis). University of Salford

Victorian Middlesbrough was a 'new town' and, as a consequence, all its inhabitants were immigrants. Thus, how the Irish came to Middlesbrough is of interest. However, the main aims of this research are to examine the spatial, demographic, social... Read More about The Irish in Middlesbrough : a part of Middlesbrough's community or apart from it?.

Exposure-response relationships from railway noise in the presence of vibration (2011)
Thesis
Koziel, Z. Exposure-response relationships from railway noise in the presence of vibration. (Dissertation). University of Salford

The main aim of this thesis is to develop exposure-response relationships for noise, vibration, and combined effects from noise and vibration. Examinations of nonacoustical factors such as noise sensitivity, noise acceptance, gender, age, and sleep... Read More about Exposure-response relationships from railway noise in the presence of vibration.

Investigating patient centered care in an acute older adult ward - a qualitative study (2011)
Thesis
Ball, J. Investigating patient centered care in an acute older adult ward - a qualitative study. (Dissertation). University of Salford

This project investigates patient centred care on an acute older persons' unit in a NHS Trust in the UK. It uses a method based on grounded theory, integrated with an ethnographic approach to examine the knowledge, beliefs and behaviour of staff w... Read More about Investigating patient centered care in an acute older adult ward - a qualitative study.

Using mixed model research to evaluate the outcomes of a lean approach to the transformation of an orthopaedic radiology service (2011)
Thesis
Martin, A. Using mixed model research to evaluate the outcomes of a lean approach to the transformation of an orthopaedic radiology service. (Thesis). University of Salford

The purpose of the study was to explore the proposition that lean is an effective methodology for service improvement within a healthcare setting by evaluating the changes brought about by the application of lean tools to an orthopaedic radiology... Read More about Using mixed model research to evaluate the outcomes of a lean approach to the transformation of an orthopaedic radiology service.

Structure and floristic composition of one of the last forest fragments containing the critically endangered Northern Muriqui (Brachyteles Hypoxanthus, Primates) (2011)
Journal Article
Boubli, J., Couto-Santos, F., & Strier, K. (2011). Structure and floristic composition of one of the last forest fragments containing the critically endangered Northern Muriqui (Brachyteles Hypoxanthus, Primates). Ecotropica (Bonn), 17(2), 53-69

This study presents results from the first systematic botanical investigation of the RPPN Feliciano Miguel Abdala (RPPN-FMA, formerly Caratinga Biological Station), a semi-deciduous forest fragment in southeastern Brazil that supports nearly a thir... Read More about Structure and floristic composition of one of the last forest fragments containing the critically endangered Northern Muriqui (Brachyteles Hypoxanthus, Primates).