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Call centres and incapacity benefit claimants in the North West of England: a study from the Greater Manchester area. (2008)
Journal Article
Cabras, I. (2008). Call centres and incapacity benefit claimants in the North West of England: a study from the Greater Manchester area. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 29, 249-273. https://doi.org/10.1177/0143831X07088543

During the last decade, several initiatives have been undertaken by the British government in an attempt to reduce the number of incapacity benefit claimants. The principal objective is to encourage long-term economically inactive people to enter int... Read More about Call centres and incapacity benefit claimants in the North West of England: a study from the Greater Manchester area..

Social network analysis as a tool to evaluate the effectiveness of EC funded networks of excellence: the case of DEMO-net (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Buckner, K., & Cruickshank, P. (2008, January). Social network analysis as a tool to evaluate the effectiveness of EC funded networks of excellence: the case of DEMO-net

The European Commission, through its framework programme aims to stimulate the development of sustained collaborative research networks across Europe. Social network analysis (SNA) has previously been used to evaluate collaboration between projects a... Read More about Social network analysis as a tool to evaluate the effectiveness of EC funded networks of excellence: the case of DEMO-net.

What are the factors underlying unintended pregnancy in young women in Hull? (2008)
Report
Brown, S., & Thornton-Jones, H. (2008). What are the factors underlying unintended pregnancy in young women in Hull?

The recent public health white paper “Choosing Health” (2004) made significant commitments to sexual health and in particular the reduction of unintended teenage pregnancies, especially in areas with high teenage conception rates. Despite a strong lo... Read More about What are the factors underlying unintended pregnancy in young women in Hull?.

Out-of-area placements in Scotland and people with learning disabilities: a preliminary population study. (2008)
Journal Article
Brown, M., & Paterson, D. (2008). Out-of-area placements in Scotland and people with learning disabilities: a preliminary population study. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 15, 278-286. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2850.2007.01223.x

People with learning disabilities have a different pattern of disease from the general population and high health needs that are frequently unidentified and unmet. Many require responses from general and specialist health services. A picture is emerg... Read More about Out-of-area placements in Scotland and people with learning disabilities: a preliminary population study..

Students as consultants - adding value to the small and medium enterprise. (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Brodie, J., Douglas, T., & Laing, S. (2008). Students as consultants - adding value to the small and medium enterprise.

The purpose of this paper is to document and critically examine an innovative undergraduate student consultancy module taught at the Centre for Entrepreneurship at Napier University, Edinburgh. The paper discusses how this module is delivered to stud... Read More about Students as consultants - adding value to the small and medium enterprise..

Mangrove production and carbon sinks: A revision of global budget estimates. (2008)
Journal Article
Bouillon, S., Borges, A. V., Castañeda-Moya, E., Diele, K., Dittmar, T., Duke, N. C., …Twilley, R. R. (2008). Mangrove production and carbon sinks: A revision of global budget estimates. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 22, https://doi.org/10.1029/2007GB003052

Mangrove forests are highly productive but globally threatened coastal ecosystems, whose role in the carbon budget of the coastal zone has long been debated. Here we provide a comprehensive synthesis of the available data on carbon fluxes in mangrove... Read More about Mangrove production and carbon sinks: A revision of global budget estimates..

Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) in Poland: further evidence for the changing epidemiology of MRSA. (2008)
Journal Article
Bogut, A., Kozioł-Montewka, M., Baranowicz, I., Józ’wiak, L., Al-Doori, Z., Morrison, D., …Ksia˛z’ek, A. (2007). Community-acquired methicillin-resistant
Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) in Poland:
further evidence for the changing epidemiology
of MRSA. The new microbiologica. 31. . 229-234. . ISSN 1121-7138.

This study reports the isolation of CA-MRSA strain which was found to colonize the nasal mucosa of a patient undergoing haemodialysis treatment. The MRSA was subjected to molecular analysis by Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis (PFGE), multiplex PCR as... Read More about Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) in Poland: further evidence for the changing epidemiology of MRSA..

Using electronic surveying to assess psychological distress within the UK university student population: a multi-site pilot investigation. (2008)
Journal Article
Bewick, B. M., Gill, J. S., Mulhern, B., Barkham, M., & Hill, A. J. (2008). Using electronic surveying to assess psychological distress within the UK university student population: a multi-site pilot investigation. E-journal of applied psychology clinical and social issues, 4, 1-5. doi:10.7790/ejap.v4i2.120

This paper describes the level of psychological distress within
university students participating in an evaluation of a web-based
intervention for alcohol use. Data was collected from 1129
students from four UK universities. Psychological distress... Read More about Using electronic surveying to assess psychological distress within the UK university student population: a multi-site pilot investigation..

Landscaping personification technologies: from interactions to relationships (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Benyon, D., & Mival, O. (2008, April). Landscaping personification technologies: from interactions to relationships. Presented at Proceeding of the twenty-sixth annual CHI conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems - CHI '08

Personification technologies are technologies that encourage people to anthropomorphize. These technologies try to get people to form relationships with them rather than simply interact with them. They may do this through having behaviours that encou... Read More about Landscaping personification technologies: from interactions to relationships.

Attacker-defender models and road network vulnerability (2008)
Journal Article
Bell, M. G. H., Kanturska, U., Schmocker, J. D., & Fonzone, A. (2008). Attacker-defender models and road network vulnerability. Philosophical Transactions A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 366, 1893-1906. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2008.0019

The reliability of road networks depends directly on their vulnerability to disruptive incidents, ranging in severity from minor disruptions to terrorist attacks. This paper presents a game theoretic approach to the analysis of road network vulnerabi... Read More about Attacker-defender models and road network vulnerability.

Creative Futures: Building the Creative Economy through Universities. (2008)
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Atton, C., McCleery, A., Mabweazara, H., & Ward, S. (2008). Creative Futures: Building the Creative Economy through Universities. Edinburgh, Scotland: Million+

The creative industries are founded on innovation. They are responsive, multifaceted and evolving and have developed new models of business in order to adapt and contribute to a world in economic, social and cultural flux.

Over the past two decad... Read More about Creative Futures: Building the Creative Economy through Universities..

Underground Press. (2008)
Book Chapter
Atton, C. (2008). Underground Press. In W. Donsbach (Ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Communication (5215-5216). Wiley-Blackwell

The “underground press” typically refers to those → Newspapers and → magazines produced by the counterculture that emerged in the mid-1960s and continued until the early 1970s. The counterculture was concerned with establishing an alternative society... Read More about Underground Press..

Citizen journalism. (2008)
Book Chapter
Atton, C. (2008). Citizen journalism. In W. Donsbach (Ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Communication (487-490). Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1111/b.9781405131995.2008.x

Citizen journalism refers to journalism produced not by professionals but by those outside mainstream media organizations. Citizen journalists typically have little or no training or professional qualifications, but write and report as citizens, memb... Read More about Citizen journalism..