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Design and Management of Higher Education Trans-National Education (TNE) Provision: Ten Lessons from an Action Research Project (2017)
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(2017). Design and Management of Higher Education Trans-National Education (TNE) Provision: Ten Lessons from an Action Research Project. The Journal of Academic Development and Education, https://doi.org/10.21252/KEELE-0000015

The purpose of this paper is to provide insight for the design and management of university Trans-National Education (TNE) provision. The guidance is experientially based and generated from an action research study utilising empirical survey findings... Read More about Design and Management of Higher Education Trans-National Education (TNE) Provision: Ten Lessons from an Action Research Project.

A case study in large-scale video recording using Opencast (2017)
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(2017). A case study in large-scale video recording using Opencast. The Journal of Academic Development and Education, https://doi.org/10.21252/KEELE-0000014

Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (UPV) is a 35000 students’ higher educational institution in Spain, which has been interested for quite a long time in the application of technology into learning. Following that path, UPV applied as a member of th... Read More about A case study in large-scale video recording using Opencast.

Interconnected motions: agency of information in culture and learning (Virtual Mythology) (2017)
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(2017). Interconnected motions: agency of information in culture and learning (Virtual Mythology). The Journal of Academic Development and Education, 9-16. https://doi.org/10.21252/KEELE-0000016

The aim of this paper is to begin to explore and understand the agency and mythology of the objectification of information in culture and learning within the digital domain. Georg Simmel (1910-11) defines the nature of culture as "the cultivation of... Read More about Interconnected motions: agency of information in culture and learning (Virtual Mythology).

Academic Tribalism and Subject Specialists as a Challenge to Teaching and Learning in Dual Honours Systems; a Qualitative Perspective From the School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, Keele University, UK. (2017)
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Rogers, S., & Cage, A. (2017). Academic Tribalism and Subject Specialists as a Challenge to Teaching and Learning in Dual Honours Systems; a Qualitative Perspective From the School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, Keele University, UK. The Journal of Academic Development and Education, https://doi.org/10.21252/KEELE-0000020

Here we give an account of our experiences teaching within a tight cognate group (Earth Sciences) and our perception of academic tribalism within a dual honours teaching and learning environment. We pose the question whether academic tribalism repres... Read More about Academic Tribalism and Subject Specialists as a Challenge to Teaching and Learning in Dual Honours Systems; a Qualitative Perspective From the School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, Keele University, UK..

Spontaneous mutation rate is a plastic trait associated with population density across domains of life. (2017)
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Aston, E., McBain, A., Knight, C., Krašovec, R., Richards, H., Hatcher, C., …Gifford, D. (2017). Spontaneous mutation rate is a plastic trait associated with population density across domains of life. PLoS Biology, e2002731 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2002731

Rates of random, spontaneous mutation can vary plastically, dependent upon the environment. Such plasticity affects evolutionary trajectories and may be adaptive. We recently identified an inverse plastic association between mutation rate and populat... Read More about Spontaneous mutation rate is a plastic trait associated with population density across domains of life..

Validity of the Visual Trajectories Questionnaire for Pain (2017)
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Dunn, K. M., Campbell, P., & Jordan, K. P. (2017). Validity of the Visual Trajectories Questionnaire for Pain. The Journal of Pain, 1451-1458. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpain.2017.07.011

Researchers have identified trajectories of pain derived using statistical techniques on longitudinal data. These trajectories have potential to be of use clinically but the repeated data collection required is currently impractical for such situatio... Read More about Validity of the Visual Trajectories Questionnaire for Pain.

The Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Framework: a viable procurement option for developing states? (2017)
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(2017). The Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Framework: a viable procurement option for developing states?. Medical Law International, 227-248. https://doi.org/10.1177/0968533217723683

In this article, I argue that the Pandemic Influenza Preparedness (PIP) Framework is unlikely to have a significant impact on procurement of pandemic influenza vaccines by developing states during the next pandemic. I argue this on the basis that the... Read More about The Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Framework: a viable procurement option for developing states?.

The Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Framework: a viable procurement option for developing states? (2017)
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Eccleston-Turner, M. (2017). The Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Framework: a viable procurement option for developing states?. Medical Law International, 17(4),

In this article, I argue that the Pandemic Influenza Preparedness (PIP) Framework is unlikely to have a significant impact on procurement of pandemic influenza vaccines by developing states during the next pandemic. I argue this on the basis that the... Read More about The Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Framework: a viable procurement option for developing states?.

What is the impact of giant cell arteritis on patients’ lives? A UK qualitative study (2017)
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Liddle, J., Bartlam, R., Mallen, C. D., Mackie, S. L., Prior, J. A., Helliwell, T., & Richardson, J. C. (2017). What is the impact of giant cell arteritis on patients’ lives? A UK qualitative study. BMJ Open, 7(8), e017073 -?. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-017073

OBJECTIVES: Clinical management of giant cell arteritis (GCA) involves balancing the risks and burdens arising from the disease with those arising from treatment, but there is little research on the nature of those burdens. We aimed to explore the im... Read More about What is the impact of giant cell arteritis on patients’ lives? A UK qualitative study.

Behaviour change and self-management interventions in peristent low back pain (2017)
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(2017). Behaviour change and self-management interventions in peristent low back pain. Best Practice and Research: Clinical Rheumatology, 994-1002. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.berh.2017.07.004

Self-management interventions for persistent low back pain (LBP) promote active involvement of the patient in managing their condition. Such interventions can be characterised as behaviour change interventions, in that they are designed to help the p... Read More about Behaviour change and self-management interventions in peristent low back pain.

The political economy of dive tourism: precarity at the periphery in Malaysia (2017)
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Hampton, M. P., Jeyacheya, J., & Lee, D. (2018). The political economy of dive tourism: precarity at the periphery in Malaysia. Tourism Geographies, 20(1), 107-126. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2017.1357141

Using a critical political economy approach and the concept of labour precarity, the international dive tourism industry in Sabah, Malaysia and its workers’ vulnerabilities are interrogated. Fieldwork data highlights dive tourism's socio-economic imp... Read More about The political economy of dive tourism: precarity at the periphery in Malaysia.

Asymptotic analysis of solutions to transmission problems in solids with many inclusions (2017)
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Nieves. (2017). Asymptotic analysis of solutions to transmission problems in solids with many inclusions. SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, 1417 - 1443. https://doi.org/10.1137/16M1102586

We construct an asymptotic approximation to the solution of a transmission problem for a body containing a region occupied by many small inclusions. The cluster of inclusions is characterized by two small parameters that determine the nominal diamete... Read More about Asymptotic analysis of solutions to transmission problems in solids with many inclusions.

Rome’s singular path to modernism: Innocenzo Sabbatini and the ‘rooted’ architecture of the Istituto Case Popolari (ICP), 1925-1930 (2017)
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Kallis. (2017). Rome’s singular path to modernism: Innocenzo Sabbatini and the ‘rooted’ architecture of the Istituto Case Popolari (ICP), 1925-1930. Papers of the British School at Rome, 269-301. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068246217000083

This article traces the extraordinary architectural production of the Roman branch of the Istituto Case Popolari (Institute of Public Housing, ICP) during the period between 1925 and 1930. This was the most prolific and creative period in the history... Read More about Rome’s singular path to modernism: Innocenzo Sabbatini and the ‘rooted’ architecture of the Istituto Case Popolari (ICP), 1925-1930.

First‐line uterotonics for treating postpartum haemorrhage: a systematic review and network meta‐analysis (2017)
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Parry Smith, W. R., Gallos, I. D., Williams, H. M., Widmer, M., Angolkar, M., Tobias, A., …Coomarasamy, A. (2017). First‐line uterotonics for treating postpartum haemorrhage: a systematic review and network meta‐analysis. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD012754

This is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (Intervention). The objectives are as follows: Primary To assess the relative effectiveness and produce a clinically meaningful hierarchy of first‐line uterotonic drugs for the treatment of postpartum ha... Read More about First‐line uterotonics for treating postpartum haemorrhage: a systematic review and network meta‐analysis.

Increasing Student Engagement in Pharmacy Law (2017)
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Slater, N., & Micallef, R. Increasing Student Engagement in Pharmacy Law. New Directions in the Teaching of Physical Sciences, 12, https://doi.org/10.29311/ndtps.v0i12.844

To enhance student engagement and learning, the use of a social medial platform, Snapchat, was introduced into a cohort of second year pharmacy students (n=160). This study aims to evaluate student perception of this intervention which was used in a... Read More about Increasing Student Engagement in Pharmacy Law.

Schooling in England, 1660 to 1850– Part I: introduction ‘a noiseless revolution’ and Part II: the gazetteer of English schools, by John Cannon (2017)
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Howlett, J. (2018). Schooling in England, 1660 to 1850– Part I: introduction ‘a noiseless revolution’ and Part II: the gazetteer of English schools, by John Cannon. History of Education, 47(3), 436-438. https://doi.org/10.1080/0046760x.2017.1356381

The subtitle of this work – the ‘noiseless revolution’ – comes from the historian Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859) who argued that many of the more fundamental cultural revolutions in taste, manners and mores were distant from the processes and... Read More about Schooling in England, 1660 to 1850– Part I: introduction ‘a noiseless revolution’ and Part II: the gazetteer of English schools, by John Cannon.

Characterization and structural determination of a new anti-MET function-blocking antibody with binding epitope distinct from the ligand binding domain. (2017)
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DiCara, D. M., Chirgadze, D. Y., Pope, A. R., Karatt-Vellatt, A., Winter, A., Slavny, P., …McCafferty, J. (2017). Characterization and structural determination of a new anti-MET function-blocking antibody with binding epitope distinct from the ligand binding domain. Scientific reports, 9000 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-09460-2

The growth and motility factor Hepatocyte Growth Factor/Scatter Factor (HGF/SF) and its receptor, the product of the MET proto-oncogene, promote invasion and metastasis of tumor cells and have been considered potential targets for cancer therapy. We... Read More about Characterization and structural determination of a new anti-MET function-blocking antibody with binding epitope distinct from the ligand binding domain..