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Tricyclic antidepressant self poisoning and admission for acute care (2011)
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Marland, G., Snowden, A., McNay, L., McCaig, M., & Boyd, G. (2011). Tricyclic antidepressant self poisoning and admission for acute care. British Journal of Cardiac Nursing, 6, 589-596. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjca.2011.6.12.589

Self-poisoning by ingestion of antidepressants is a common method of suicide. Although tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs) are no longer the first choice treatment for depression they are still commonly taken in overdose causing poisoning and admission... Read More about Tricyclic antidepressant self poisoning and admission for acute care.

Medicine-taking and recovery-focused mental health practice (2011)
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Marland, G., McNay, L., McCaig, M., & Snowden, A. (2011). Medicine-taking and recovery-focused mental health practice. British Journal of Wellbeing, 2, 21-25. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjow.2011.2.2.21

This article was inspired by the need to revisit medicine-taking within the context of recovery-focused practice in mental health. Practice based on compliance is unlikely to succeed and is not resonant with the principles of recovery. Mental wellbei... Read More about Medicine-taking and recovery-focused mental health practice.

Representations and evolutionary operators for the scheduling of pump operations in water distribution networks. (2011)
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Lopez-Ibanez, M., Tumula, P., & Paechter, B. (2011). Representations and evolutionary operators for the scheduling of pump operations in water distribution networks. Evolutionary Computation, 19, 429-467. https://doi.org/10.1162/EVCO_a_00035

Reducing the energy consumption of water distribution networks has never had more significance. The greatest energy savings can be obtained by carefully scheduling the operations of pumps. Schedules can be defined either implicitly, in terms of other... Read More about Representations and evolutionary operators for the scheduling of pump operations in water distribution networks..

Shadow factories, shallow skills? an analysis of work organisation in the aircraft industry in the Second World War (2011)
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Little, S. E., & Grieco, M. (2011). Shadow factories, shallow skills? an analysis of work organisation in the aircraft industry in the Second World War. Labor History, 52, 193-216. https://doi.org/10.1080/0023656X.2011.571476

The relationship between design and the determination of social and skill practices has been under-considered within the literature. This paper investigates the relationship between design and skill transmission in the context of the Second World War... Read More about Shadow factories, shallow skills? an analysis of work organisation in the aircraft industry in the Second World War.

Promoting Healthy Routes Back to Work? Boundary Spanning Health Professionals and Employability Programmes in Great Britain (2011)
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Lindsay, C., & Dutton, M. (2011). Promoting Healthy Routes Back to Work? Boundary Spanning Health Professionals and Employability Programmes in Great Britain. Social policy & administration,

Between 2003 and 2011, the Pathways to Work (PtW) initiative was established across Great Britain, as policymakers sought to address the ‘health-related, personal and external barriers’ faced by people who were out of work and claiming incapacity ben... Read More about Promoting Healthy Routes Back to Work? Boundary Spanning Health Professionals and Employability Programmes in Great Britain.

Market Orientation and Innovators' Success: an Exploration of the Influence of Customer and Competitor Orientation (2011)
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Lewrick, M., Omar, M., & Williams, J. (2011). Market Orientation and Innovators' Success: an Exploration of the Influence of Customer and Competitor Orientation. Journal of technology management & innovation, 6, 48-62. https://doi.org/10.4067/S0718-27242011000300004

The concepts of market orientation and innovation and their interrelationship with business success have been explored from a number of perspectives. However, research in this area has not explored the differences between start-up and mature compan... Read More about Market Orientation and Innovators' Success: an Exploration of the Influence of Customer and Competitor Orientation.

Generation Y: opportunity or challenge – strategies to engage Generation Y in the UK attractions’ sector (2011)
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Leask, A., Fyall, A., & Barron, P. (2011). Generation Y: opportunity or challenge – strategies to engage Generation Y in the UK attractions’ sector. Current Issues in Tourism, 1-30. https://doi.org/10.1080/13683500.2011.642856

This study examines the extent to which Generation Y (Gen Y) serves as an opportunity or challenge for visitor attractions in the UK and the corresponding strategies adopted to seek engagement with this generational segment. A multiple-case study des... Read More about Generation Y: opportunity or challenge – strategies to engage Generation Y in the UK attractions’ sector.

Childhood disadvantage and emergency admission rates for common presentations in London: an exploratory analysis (2011)
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Kyle, R. G., Kukanova, M., Campbell, M., Wolfe, I., Powell, P., & Callery, P. (2011). Childhood disadvantage and emergency admission rates for common presentations in London: an exploratory analysis. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 96, 221-226. https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.2009.180125

Aim: To determine whether emergency hospital admission rates (EAR) for common paediatric conditions in Greater London are associated with measures of child well-being and deprivation. Design: Retrospective analysis of hospital episode statistics and... Read More about Childhood disadvantage and emergency admission rates for common presentations in London: an exploratory analysis.

Vocational rehabilitation services for patients with cancer: design of a feasibility study incorporating a pilot randomised controlled trial among women with breast cancer following surgery (2011)
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Kyle, R. G., Culbard, B., Evans, J., Gray, N. M., Ayansina, D., & Hubbard, G. (2011). Vocational rehabilitation services for patients with cancer: design of a feasibility study incorporating a pilot randomised controlled trial among women with breast cancer following surgery. Trials, 12, 89. https://doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-12-89

Background: Due to improvements in cancer survival the number of people of working age living with cancer across Europe is likely to increase. UK governments have made commitments to reduce the number of working days lost to ill-health and to improve... Read More about Vocational rehabilitation services for patients with cancer: design of a feasibility study incorporating a pilot randomised controlled trial among women with breast cancer following surgery.

Minimising collateral damage: privacy-preserving Investigative data acquisition platform. (2011)
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Kwecka, Z., Buchanan, W. J., & Spiers, D. A. (2011). Minimising collateral damage: privacy-preserving Investigative data acquisition platform. International Journal of Information Technologies and Systems Approach, 4, 12-31. https://doi.org/10.4018/jitsa.2011070102

Investigators define invasion of privacy during their operations as collateral damage. Inquiries that require gathering data about potential suspects from third parties, such as banks, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) or employers are likely to impa... Read More about Minimising collateral damage: privacy-preserving Investigative data acquisition platform..

Investigating the contribution of community nurses to anticipatory care: a qualitative exploratory study (2011)
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Kennedy, C., Harbison, J., Mahoney, C. M., Jarvis, A., & Veitch, L. (2011). Investigating the contribution of community nurses to anticipatory care: a qualitative exploratory study. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 67, 1558-1567. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2648.2010.05589.x

Aims.  To investigate how one aspect of anticipatory care is understood and delivered in practice. ‘Anticipatory care’ in this context can be understood as proactive care, which is oriented towards prevention of adverse events. Background.  Scotla... Read More about Investigating the contribution of community nurses to anticipatory care: a qualitative exploratory study.

The complexities of trust in the delivery of childhood vaccines in Scotland: A qualitative study (2011)
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Kennedy, C., & Gray Brunton, C. (2011). The complexities of trust in the delivery of childhood vaccines in Scotland: A qualitative study. Psychology and Health, 26, https://doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2011.617182

Background: The objective was to explore the challenges for health professionals in delivering controversial vaccines, the Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR) vaccine, and newly introduced vaccines, the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) and Influenzae H1N1 vac... Read More about The complexities of trust in the delivery of childhood vaccines in Scotland: A qualitative study.

Desynchronizing effects of lightning strike disturbances on cyclic forest dynamics in mangrove plantations. (2011)
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Kautz, M., Berger, U., Stoyan, D., Vogt, J., Khan, N. I., Diele, K., …Nam, V. N. (2011). Desynchronizing effects of lightning strike disturbances on cyclic forest dynamics in mangrove plantations. Aquatic Botany, 95, 173-181. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquabot.2011.05.005

Plantations released from management are vulnerable to transient oscillations until cohort dynamics are broken and the vertical and horizontal structures of the plantation are transformed to those of more natural forests. Cohort-desynchronizing facto... Read More about Desynchronizing effects of lightning strike disturbances on cyclic forest dynamics in mangrove plantations..

Predicting outcome of face-to-face and telephone counselling for occupational stress (2011)
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Karatzias, T., Chouliara, Z., Power, K., & Kilfedder, C. (2011). Predicting outcome of face-to-face and telephone counselling for occupational stress. British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 39, 197-208. https://doi.org/10.1080/03069885.2011.552599

The aim of the present study was to investigate predictors of outcome of counselling, using mean change scores of three outcome measures, at treatment completion and at 4-months follow-up, in a randomised trial of face-to-face (n=30) versus telephone... Read More about Predicting outcome of face-to-face and telephone counselling for occupational stress.

Research directions in data wrangling: Visualizations and transformations for usable and credible data (2011)
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Kandel, S., Heer, J., Plaisant, C., Kennedy, J., Ham, F. V., Riche, N. H., …Buono, P. (2011). Research directions in data wrangling: Visualizations and transformations for usable and credible data. Information Visualization, Octobe, 271-288. https://doi.org/10.1177/1473871611415994

In spite of advances in technologies for working with data, analysts still spend an inordinate amount of time diagnosing data quality issues and manipulating data into a usable form. This process of ‘data wrangling’ often constitutes the most tedious... Read More about Research directions in data wrangling: Visualizations and transformations for usable and credible data.

Impact of the talent development environment on achievement goals and life aspirations in Singapore (2011)
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John Wang, C. K., Sproule, J., McNeill, M., Martindale, R. J. J., & Lee, K. S. (2011). Impact of the talent development environment on achievement goals and life aspirations in Singapore. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 23, 263-276. https://doi.org/10.1080/10413200.2010.543120

Producing successful athletes in Singapore is a high priority, and the financial rewards for those that make it are great. In light of such an extrinsically motivated structure, the purpose of the current study was to examine the impact of the talent... Read More about Impact of the talent development environment on achievement goals and life aspirations in Singapore.

Capture and analysis of racing gameplay metrics (2011)
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Jimenez, E., Mitchell, K., & Seron, F. (2011). Capture and analysis of racing gameplay metrics. IEEE Software, 28, 46-52. https://doi.org/10.1109/MS.2011.71

This article presents a flexible, extendable system called Tracktivity that can capture gameplay metrics in any type of leaderboard-based video game. This system incorporates novel visualizations, including a dynamic competition balancing (DCB) measu... Read More about Capture and analysis of racing gameplay metrics.

Do We Eat Too Much? The current economic crisis as a result of overconsumption (2011)
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Jaworski, P. M., & Weber, J. (2011). Do We Eat Too Much? The current economic crisis as a result of overconsumption. Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, 23, 223-238. https://doi.org/10.1177/02601079X11002300302

Over the past 15 years, a fairly synchronised and steady increase of the current account deficits of the US and the UK has been witnessed, while at the same time real house prices and real wages in these two economies increased sharply. We analyse th... Read More about Do We Eat Too Much? The current economic crisis as a result of overconsumption.