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Resistance to change : the organisation dimension (2013)
Journal Article
Stonehouse, D. (2013). Resistance to change : the organisation dimension. British Journal of Healthcare Assistants, 7(3), 150-151. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjha.2013.7.3.150

The author will examine how change within an organisation can
be faced with resistance from the organisation itself. By ‘the
organisation’ we do not mean the physical building, hospital or
even trust, but more the culture, policies and procedures—... Read More about Resistance to change : the organisation dimension.

Clinical governance : it's all about quality (2013)
Journal Article
Stonehouse, D. (2013). Clinical governance : it's all about quality. British Journal of Healthcare Assistants, 7(2), 94-97. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjha.2013.7.2.94

Within this article the author will examine what clinical
governance is. It will discuss some of the many different, but
interlinked, components, which, when all working together, help
to ensure the quality of care that individual support workers... Read More about Clinical governance : it's all about quality.

Support workers as leaders : yes, you can … (2013)
Journal Article
Stonehouse, D. (2013). Support workers as leaders : yes, you can …. British Journal of Healthcare Assistants, 7(1), 44-45. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjha.2013.7.1.44

This is an article written following a presentation given at a
national conference on the ‘Progression and Development in the
Role of Support Workers’ in November 2012. Within this article,
the author will highlight the important leadership role t... Read More about Support workers as leaders : yes, you can ….

Applying research to practice: exploring the barriers (2013)
Journal Article
Hewitt-Taylor, J., Heaslip, V., & Rowe, N. (2013). Applying research to practice: exploring the barriers. British Journal of Nursing, 21(6), 356-359. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2012.21.6.356

Nurses are not averse to applying research findings to their clinical practice; however, there appears to be a number of barriers to achieving this. Generally, barriers include lack of time and the need to provide more education surrounding the use o... Read More about Applying research to practice: exploring the barriers.

Reflecting on nurses' views on using research in practice (2013)
Journal Article
Heaslip, V., Hewitt-Taylor, J., & Rowe, N. (2013). Reflecting on nurses' views on using research in practice. British Journal of Nursing, 21(22), https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2012.21.22.1341

This paper follows a previous paper (Hewitt-Taylor et al, 2012) in which the authors summarised their reflections on the literature relating to the application of research in practice. This paper builds on these reflections and reports on the finding... Read More about Reflecting on nurses' views on using research in practice.

Silicon photonics plasma-modulators with advanced transmission line design (2013)
Journal Article
Merget, F., Azadeh, S., Mueller, J., Shen, B., Nezhad, M., Hauck, J., & Witzens, J. (2013). Silicon photonics plasma-modulators with advanced transmission line design. Optics Express, 21(17), 19593-19607. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.21.019593

We have investigated two novel concepts for the design of transmission lines in travelling wave Mach-Zehnder interferometer based Silicon Photonics depletion modulators overcoming the analog bandwidth limitations arising from cross-talk between signa... Read More about Silicon photonics plasma-modulators with advanced transmission line design.

Comportamento de caça da coruja buraqueira, Athene cunicularia (Molina, 1782) (Aves: Strigiformes) em ambiente urbano em Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brasil (2013)
Journal Article
Specht, G. V. A., Gonçalves, G. L., & Young, R. J. (2013). Comportamento de caça da coruja buraqueira, Athene cunicularia (Molina, 1782) (Aves: Strigiformes) em ambiente urbano em Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brasil. #Journal not on list, 11(1), 17-20. https://doi.org/10.35699/2675-5327.2013.23835

The burrowing-owl, Athene cunicularia (Molina, 1782) has a wide distribution, which extends from western North America to southern South America. They are an opportunistic plunderer species preying on insects and small mammals. Data on hunting tactic... Read More about Comportamento de caça da coruja buraqueira, Athene cunicularia (Molina, 1782) (Aves: Strigiformes) em ambiente urbano em Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brasil.

Dis-identification in organizations and its role in the workplace (2013)
Journal Article
Chang, K., Kuo, C., Su, M., & Taylor, J. (2013). Dis-identification in organizations and its role in the workplace. Industrial Relations, 68(3), 479-506

This research seeks to augment contemporary theories of employee dis-identification in organizations (DiO) and its importance in the workplace. An anonymous questionnaire survey was conducted, 304 employees were recruited across eight organizations i... Read More about Dis-identification in organizations and its role in the workplace.

Notes on William Blake’s paper makers, c. 1789–1795 (2013)
Journal Article
Yates, M. (2013). Notes on William Blake’s paper makers, c. 1789–1795. ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, 26(3), 169-179. https://doi.org/10.1080/0895769X.2013.796548

This study investigates the connections between Blake’s uses of papers and the paper makers
who manufactured these media between c. 1789 and 1795. Relating the papers’ countermarks and
watermarks to particular paper-making firms, I introduce a seri... Read More about Notes on William Blake’s paper makers, c. 1789–1795.

Demonstrating compliance with protection objectives for non-human biota within post-closure safety cases for radioactive waste repositories (2013)
Journal Article
Jackson, D., Smith, K., & Wood, M. (2013). Demonstrating compliance with protection objectives for non-human biota within post-closure safety cases for radioactive waste repositories. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 133, 60-68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2013.07.005

Over recent years, a number of approaches have been developed that enable the calculation of dose rates to animals and plants following the release of radioactivity to the environment. These approaches can be used to assess the potential impacts of a... Read More about Demonstrating compliance with protection objectives for non-human biota within post-closure safety cases for radioactive waste repositories.

The central nervous system - An additional consideration in 'rotator cuff tendinopathy' and a potential basis for understanding response to loaded therapeutic exercise (2013)
Journal Article
Littlewood, C., Malliaras, P., Bateman, M., Stace, R., May, S., & Walters, S. (2013). The central nervous system - An additional consideration in 'rotator cuff tendinopathy' and a potential basis for understanding response to loaded therapeutic exercise. Manual Therapy, 18(6), 468-472. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.math.2013.07.005

Tendinopathy is a term used to describe a painful tendon disorder but despite being a well-recognised clinical presentation, a definitive understanding of the pathoaetiology of rotator cuff tendinopathy remains elusive. Current explanatory models, wh... Read More about The central nervous system - An additional consideration in 'rotator cuff tendinopathy' and a potential basis for understanding response to loaded therapeutic exercise.

Rollover footwear affects lower limb biomechanics during walking (2013)
Journal Article
Forghany, S., Nester, C., Richards, B., Hatton, A., & Liu, A. (2014). Rollover footwear affects lower limb biomechanics during walking. Gait & Posture, 39(1), 205-212. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gaitpost.2013.07.009

Aim
To investigate the effect of rollover footwear on walking speed, metabolic cost of gait, lower limb kinematics, kinetics, EMG muscle activity and plantar pressure.

Methods
Twenty subjects (mean age-33.1 years, height-1.71 m, body mass-68.9 k... Read More about Rollover footwear affects lower limb biomechanics during walking.

Web-based social movements contesting marketing strategy: The mobilisation of multiple actors and rhetorical strategies (2013)
Journal Article

Previous studies suggest that marketing strategy is developed and used to mobilise and configure the actions of firm actors, creating a set of stabilising activities focused on the firm–customer dyad. Destabilising forces precipitated by the Internet... Read More about Web-based social movements contesting marketing strategy: The mobilisation of multiple actors and rhetorical strategies.

A bistatic sodar for precision wind profiling in complex terrain (2013)
Journal Article
Bradley, S., von Hünerbein, S., & Mikkelsen, T. (2013). A bistatic sodar for precision wind profiling in complex terrain. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 29(8), 1052-1061. https://doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-11-00035.1

A new ground-based wind profiling technology—a scanned bistatic sodar—is described. The motivation for this design is to obtain a “mastlike” wind vector profile in a single atmospheric column extending from the ground to heights of more than 200 m. T... Read More about A bistatic sodar for precision wind profiling in complex terrain.

Fact or fiction : an analysis of the 10 kVp ‘rule’ in computed radiography (2013)
Journal Article
radiography. Radiography, 19(3), 223-227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radi.2013.05.003

Purpose: To determine whether increasing the tube voltage by 10 kVp whilst reducing the tube current by
50% (10 kVp ‘rule’) produces similar perceptual image quality.
Method: 391 matched pairs of anthropomorphic chest phantom X-ray images were pro... Read More about Fact or fiction : an analysis of the 10 kVp ‘rule’ in computed radiography.

The power and the pain : mammographic compression research from the service-users’ perspective (2013)
Journal Article
Robinson, L., Hogg, P., & Newton-Hughes, A. (2013). The power and the pain : mammographic compression research from the service-users’ perspective. Radiography, 19(3), 190-195. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radi.2013.04.005

Purpose: to explore the value service-users can add to our understanding of inter-practitioner
compression variability in mammography. Imaging of the breast for the screening and detection of
breast carcinoma is generally carried out by mammographi... Read More about The power and the pain : mammographic compression research from the service-users’ perspective.

All the world's a screen featuring the seven stages of man (2013)
Journal Article
Gould, C., & Sermon, P. (2013). All the world's a screen featuring the seven stages of man. International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, 9(2), 231-246. https://doi.org/10.1386/padm.9.2.231_1

Charlotte Gould and Paul Sermon developed and presented this collaborative new artwork entitled All the World’s a Screen, a live interactive telecommunications performance, to link public audiences in Manchester and Barcelona. On the evening of Satur... Read More about All the world's a screen featuring the seven stages of man.

Commentary: is digital health technology empowering patients? (2013)
Journal Article
Robinson, L. (2013). Commentary: is digital health technology empowering patients?. Journal of Medical Radiation Sciences, 60(3), 79-80. https://doi.org/10.1002/jmrs.20

This brief commentary explores how Web 2.0 technology is leading to a new kind of digital health technology. It considers what this might mean for the patient–practitioner encounter; whether practitioners are signed up to the notion of shared decisio... Read More about Commentary: is digital health technology empowering patients?.

Semiparametric smooth-coefficient stochastic frontier model (2013)
Journal Article
Sun, K., & Kumbhakar, S. (2013). Semiparametric smooth-coefficient stochastic frontier model. Economics Letters, 120(2), 305-309. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2013.05.001

This paper proposes a semiparametric smooth-coefficient (SPSC) stochastic production frontier model where regression coefficients are unknown smooth functions of environmental factors (Z). Technical inefficiency is specified in the form of a parametr... Read More about Semiparametric smooth-coefficient stochastic frontier model.

Derivation of marginal effects of determinants of technical inefficiency (2013)
Journal Article
Kumbhakar, S., & Sun, K. (2013). Derivation of marginal effects of determinants of technical inefficiency. Economics Letters, 120(2), 249-253. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2013.04.041

In efficiency studies using the stochastic frontier approach, the main focus is to explain inefficiency in terms of some exogenous variables and computation of marginal effects of each of these determinants. Although inefficiency is estimated by its... Read More about Derivation of marginal effects of determinants of technical inefficiency.