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Interventions, productions and collaborations: the relationship between RAI and visual artists. (2015)
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LEUZZI, L. 2015. Interventions, productions and collaborations: the relationship between RAI and visual artists. Journal of Italian cinema and media studies [online], 3(1-2), pages 155-170. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1386/jicms.3.1-2.155_1

On 17 May 1952, before RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana Studios began their regular broadcast from Milan, the Spatialist painter and sculptor Lucio Fontana broadcast his own experimental 'artwork' on Italian television, beginning a fruitful relationship... Read More about Interventions, productions and collaborations: the relationship between RAI and visual artists..

Mental health service users' experiences of mental health care: an integrative literature review. (2015)
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NEWMAN, D., O'REILLY, P., LEE, S.H. and KENNEDY, C. 2015. Mental health service users' experiences of mental health care: an integrative literature review. Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing [online], 22(3), pages 171-182. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/jpm.12202

The aim of this integrative literature review was to identify mental health service users' experiences of services. The rationale for this review was based on the growing emphasis and requirements for health services to deliver care and support, whic... Read More about Mental health service users' experiences of mental health care: an integrative literature review..

Relationship problems: employer's liability for marital discrimination? (2015)
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MIDDLEMISS, S. 2015. Relationship problems: employer's liability for marital discrimination? Common law world review, 44(1), pages 51-70. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/1473779514564560

This paper involves analysis of the law covering discrimination in the workplace against workers who have entered into a formal marriage or a civil partnership, referred to here as marital discrimination. It also looks at the law dealing with discrim... Read More about Relationship problems: employer's liability for marital discrimination?.

Mind the implementation gap? Police reform and local policing in the Netherlands and Scotland. (2015)
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TERPSTRA, J. and FYFE, N.R. 2015. Mind the implementation gap? Police reform and local policing in the Netherlands and Scotland. Criminology and criminal justice [online], 15(5), pages 527-544. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/1748895815572162

In 2013 the governments of the Netherlands and Scotland established national police forces, replacing a tradition of largely autonomous regional police organizations. In both jurisdictions, these radical reforms have raised concerns about the consequ... Read More about Mind the implementation gap? Police reform and local policing in the Netherlands and Scotland..

An exploratory study of the views of community pharmacy staff on the management of patients with undiagnosed skin problems. (2015)
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TUCKER, R. and STEWART, D. 2015. An exploratory study of the views of community pharmacy staff on the management of patients with undiagnosed skin problems. International journal of pharmacy practice [online], 23(6), pages 390-398. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/IJPP.12179

Objective: The aim of this study was to explore pharmacist and medicine counter assistant (MCA) perceptions of community pharmacy management of patients presenting with symptomatic skin problems. Methods: The study involved semi-structured telephone... Read More about An exploratory study of the views of community pharmacy staff on the management of patients with undiagnosed skin problems..

Rescaling the governance of renewable energy: lessons from the UK devolution experience. (2015)
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COWELL, R., ELLIS, G., SHERRY-BRENNAN, F., STRACHAN, P.A. and TOKE, D. 2015. Rescaling the governance of renewable energy: lessons from the UK devolution experience. Journal of environmental policy and planning [online], 19(5), pages 480-502. Available from: https://doi.org./10.1080/1523908X.2015.1008437

Efforts to rescale governance arrangements to foster sustainable development are rarely simple in their consequences, an out-turn examined in this paper through an analysis of how the governance of renewable energy in the UK has been impacted by the... Read More about Rescaling the governance of renewable energy: lessons from the UK devolution experience..

Access to medicines in remote and rural areas: a survey of residents in the Scottish Highlands and Western Isles. (2015)
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RUSHWORTH, G.F., DIACK, L., MACROBBIE, A., MUNOZ, S.-A., PFLEGER, S., STEWART, D. 2015. Access to medicines in remote and rural areas: a survey of residents in the Scottish Highlands and Western Isles. Public health [online], 129(3), pages 244-251. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2015.01.005

Objectives: Sparsely populated areas are potentially predisposed to health inequalities due to limited access to services. This study aimed to explore and describe issues of access to medicines and related advice experienced by residents of the Scott... Read More about Access to medicines in remote and rural areas: a survey of residents in the Scottish Highlands and Western Isles..

A study on temporal trends and estimates of fate of Bisphenol A in agricultural soils after sewage sludge amendment. (2015)
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ZHANG, Z., LE VELLY, M., RHIND, S.M., KYLE, C.E., HOUGH, R.L., DUFF, E.I. and MCKENZIE, C. 2015. A study on temporal trends and estimates of fate of Bisphenol A in agricultural soils after sewage sludge amendment. Science of the total environment [online], 515-516, pages 1-11. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.01.053

Temporal concentration trends of BPA in soils were investigated following sewage sludge application to pasture (study 1: short term sludge application; study 2: long term multiple applications over 13years). The background levels of BPA in control so... Read More about A study on temporal trends and estimates of fate of Bisphenol A in agricultural soils after sewage sludge amendment..

Competencies for the multi-disciplinary team caring for severely obese patients undergoing bariatric surgery: a systematic review. (2015)
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STEPHEN, A., BRUCE, D. and KIRKPATRICK, P. 2015. Competencies for the multi-disciplinary team caring for severely obese patients undergoing bariatric surgery: a systematic review. Appetite [online], 87, page 385. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2014.12.146

Bariatric surgery is the only intervention leading to sustained weight reduction for severely obese individuals. However, there is variability across the UK in organisation of bariatric services, and perceptions of how to develop and deliver optimum... Read More about Competencies for the multi-disciplinary team caring for severely obese patients undergoing bariatric surgery: a systematic review..

Conceptualising entrepreneurship as economic 'explanation' and the consequent loss of 'understanding'. (2015)
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ANDERSON, A.R. 2015. Conceptualising entrepreneurship as economic 'explanation' and the consequent loss of 'understanding'. International journal of business and globalisation [online], 14(2), pages 145-157. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1504/IJBG.2015.067432

This paper examines how entrepreneurship has become conceptualised as an economic phenomenon. We explain how the outcomes, the admirable results of entrepreneurship, have led to this position. An understandable concern for the economic benefits from... Read More about Conceptualising entrepreneurship as economic 'explanation' and the consequent loss of 'understanding'..

The culture of trilogues. (2015)
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ROEDERER-RYNNING, C. and GREENWOOD, J. 2015. The culture of trilogues. Journal of European public policy [online], 22(8), pages 1148-1165. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2014.992934

There is surprisingly little knowledge about the informal 'trilogues' that play a pivotal role in almost 90 per cent of European Union legislation. This article maps out previously uncharted practices and explores their role in constituting the Parli... Read More about The culture of trilogues..

Patient related factors affecting adherence to antimalarial medication in an urban estate in Ghana. (2015)
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AMPONSAH, A.O., VOSPER, H. and MARFO, A.F.A., 2015. Patient related factors affecting adherence to antimalarial medication in an urban estate in Ghana. Malaria research and treatment [online], 2015, Article ID 452539. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/452539

Our aim was to measure the adherence to Artemisinin based Combination Therapy and to determine patient related factors that affect adherence. Three hundred (300) patients receiving ACT treatment dispensed from the community pharmacy were randomly sel... Read More about Patient related factors affecting adherence to antimalarial medication in an urban estate in Ghana..

Deferiprone, a non-toxic reagent for determination of iron in samples via sequential injection analysis. (2015)
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PRAGOURPUN, K., SAKEE, U., FERNANDEZ, C. and KRUANETR, S. 2015. Deferiprone, a non-toxic reagent for determination of iron in samples via sequential injection analysis. Spectrochimica acta, part A: molecular and biomolecular spectroscopy [online], 142, pages 110-117. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.saa.2015.01.081

We present for the first time the use of deferiprone as a non-toxic complexing agent for the determination of iron by sequential injection analysis in pharmaceuticals and food samples. The method was based on the reaction of Fe(III) and deferiprone i... Read More about Deferiprone, a non-toxic reagent for determination of iron in samples via sequential injection analysis..

The dark side of the rural idyll: stories of illegal/illicit economic activity in the UK countryside. (2015)
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SOMERVILLE, P., SMITH, R. and MCELWEE, G. 2015. The dark side of the rural idyll: stories of illegal/illicit economic activity in the UK countryside. Journal of rural studies [online], 39, pages 219-228. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2014.12.001

In rural sociology and rural studies, rurality in many countries is commonly constructed as an idyllic space in which crime is perceived as an urban problem. In other countries, however, rurality is constructed as a place where the individual is vuln... Read More about The dark side of the rural idyll: stories of illegal/illicit economic activity in the UK countryside..

The devolution of social security benefits in Scotland: the Smith Commission. (2015)
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SPICKER, P. 2015. The devolution of social security benefits in Scotland: the Smith Commission. Journal of poverty and social justice [online], 23(1), pages 17-28. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1332/175982715X14226074788880

The United Kingdom is a unitary state, and social security benefits are some of the most centralised services in it. The powers of the Scottish Parliament in relation to benefits have been heavily restricted, to the point where they have fewer formal... Read More about The devolution of social security benefits in Scotland: the Smith Commission..

Home from home: UK civilising offensives in residential childcare. (2015)
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VERTIGANS, S. 2015. Home from home: UK civilising offensives in residential childcare. Human figurations [online], 4(1), article number 4. Available from: https://doi.org/2027/spo.11217607.0004.104

Approaches to residential childcare within the United Kingdom incorporate processes that are ostensibly types of civilising offensives. The offensives are determined by political and media groups in an attempt to alter the behaviour of problematic se... Read More about Home from home: UK civilising offensives in residential childcare..

All of your co-workers are gone: story, substance, and the empathic puzzler. (2015)
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HERON, M.J. and BELFORD, P.H. 2015. All of your co-workers are gone: story, substance, and the empathic puzzler. Journal of games criticism [online], 2(1). Available at: http://www.gamescriticism.org/articles/heronbelford-2-1

Narrative games such as The Walking Dead, Gone Home, Dear Esther and The Stanley Parable are difficult to situate into the general framework of game genres that are popularly, albeit informally, understood by mainstream audiences. They are too unabas... Read More about All of your co-workers are gone: story, substance, and the empathic puzzler..

The economic cost of bereavement in Scotland. (2015)
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STEPHEN, A.I., MACDUFF, C., PETRIE, D.J., TSENG, F.-M., SCHUT, H., SKAR, S., CORDEN, A., BIRRELL, J., WANG, S., NEWSOM, C. and WILSON, S. 2015. The economic cost of bereavement in Scotland. Death studies [online], 39(3), pages 151-157. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2014.920435

Aspects of the socioeconomic costs of bereavement in Scotland were estimated using 3 sets of data. Spousal bereavement was associated with increased mortality and longer hospital stays, with additional annual cost of around {pound}20 million. Cost of... Read More about The economic cost of bereavement in Scotland..

Policy translation: a reply. (2015)
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SPICKER, P. 2016. Policy translation: a reply. Global discourse: an interdisciplinary journal of current affairs and applied contemporary thought [online], 6(1-2), pages 116-118. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/23269995.2015.1004251

The purpose of this paper is explained as being to enhance the analysis of processes of movement of ideas between multiple actors and in the process of implementation of social policies. The core argument made by Latour is, as I read it, that network... Read More about Policy translation: a reply..

Conductance studies of aqueous ionic liquids solutions [emim][BF4] and [bmim][BF4] at temperatures from (283.15 to 318.15) K. (2015)
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BORUŃ, A., FERNANDEZ, C. and BALD, A. 2015. Conductance studies of aqueous ionic liquids solutions [emim][BF4] and [bmim][BF4] at temperatures from 283.15 to 318.15 K. International journal of electrochemical science [online], 10(3), pages 2120-2129. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/S1452-3981(23)04834-4

We present for the first time the determination of molar conductances, Lambda, of ionic liquids solutions (ILs) such as 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate [emim][BF4] and 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate [bmim][BF4] as a funct... Read More about Conductance studies of aqueous ionic liquids solutions [emim][BF4] and [bmim][BF4] at temperatures from (283.15 to 318.15) K..