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Shift work disorder in nurses--assessment, prevalence and related health problems (2012)
Journal Article
(2012). Shift work disorder in nurses--assessment, prevalence and related health problems. PloS one, e33981 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0033981

BACKGROUND: This study investigates the prevalence of symptoms of shift work disorder in a sample of nurses, and its association to individual, health and work variables. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: We investigated three different shift work diso... Read More about Shift work disorder in nurses--assessment, prevalence and related health problems.

Electrochemical performance of Pd and Au-Pd core-shell nanoparticles on surface tailored carbon black as catalyst support (2012)
Journal Article
Plana. (2012). Electrochemical performance of Pd and Au-Pd core-shell nanoparticles on surface tailored carbon black as catalyst support. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 7152 -7160. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2011.12.014

The present work studies the influence of the surface chemistry of carbon supports on the electrochemical behaviour of Pd and Au–Pd core–shell (CS) nanoparticles. Vulcan XC-72R was chemically modified by different acid treatments, inducing changes in... Read More about Electrochemical performance of Pd and Au-Pd core-shell nanoparticles on surface tailored carbon black as catalyst support.

Harm To Future Persons: Non-Identity Problems and Counterpart Solutions (2012)
Journal Article
Wrigley. (2012). Harm To Future Persons: Non-Identity Problems and Counterpart Solutions. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 15, 175 -190. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-011-9280-0

Non-Identity arguments have a pervasive but sometimes counter-intuitive grip on certain key areas in ethics. As a result, there has been limited success in supporting the alternative view that our choices concerning future generations can be consider... Read More about Harm To Future Persons: Non-Identity Problems and Counterpart Solutions.

Global impact of asthma on children and adolescents' daily lives: the room to breathe survey (2012)
Journal Article
(2012). Global impact of asthma on children and adolescents' daily lives: the room to breathe survey. Pediatric Pulmonology, 346-357. https://doi.org/10.1002/ppul.21557

Objective
To establish children and adolescents' perspectives regarding their asthma and its impact upon their daily lives.

Design
A 14-item questionnaire.

Setting
Canada, Greece, Hungary, The Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and South Afric... Read More about Global impact of asthma on children and adolescents' daily lives: the room to breathe survey.

Social Work's New ‘Non-traditional’ Students? Learning from the Experiences of Our Younger Students (2012)
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Holmstrom, C. (2012). Social Work's New ‘Non-traditional’ Students? Learning from the Experiences of Our Younger Students. Social Work Education, 269 - 286. https://doi.org/10.1080/02615479.2011.557430

This paper begins by locating the (controversial) removal of the ‘minimum age at qualification’ regulation in 2003 within the context of wider changes occurring within social work education and the social work profession. This is followed by a report... Read More about Social Work's New ‘Non-traditional’ Students? Learning from the Experiences of Our Younger Students.

Paradoxes of Iranian Messianic Politics: Paradoxes of Iranian Messianic Politics (2012)
Journal Article
Shahi, A. (2012). Paradoxes of Iranian Messianic Politics: Paradoxes of Iranian Messianic Politics. Digest of Middle East Studies, 21(1), 108-125. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1949-3606.2012.00129.x

Shi‘ite Messianism has been accommodated constitutionally and has been portrayed as an indispensable aspect of political culture under the Islamic Republic. If the state is using the concept as a form of legitimacy, the concept is standardized in acc... Read More about Paradoxes of Iranian Messianic Politics: Paradoxes of Iranian Messianic Politics.

Energy Security in the European Union (2012)
Journal Article
Rodríguez-Fernández, L., & Fernández-Martín, R. M. (2012). Energy Security in the European Union. Journal of Energy and Power Engineering, 6(3), https://doi.org/10.17265/1934-8975/2012.03.008

According to the European Commission, the three challenges that Europe must face related to energy are sustainability, security of supply and reaching an effective competitiveness in the internal energy market. To meet these three challenges, the Com... Read More about Energy Security in the European Union.

The role of beliefs about mood swings in determining outcome in bipolar disorder (2012)
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Lobban, F., Solis-Trapala, I., Tyler, E., Chandler, C., Morriss, R. K., & Group, E. (2013). The role of beliefs about mood swings in determining outcome in bipolar disorder. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 37, 51-60. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-012-9452-9

This study explored the impact of beliefs about mood swings on symptomatic outcome in bipolar disorder (BD). Ninety-one people with BD completed a Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire at baseline. Outcome was measured using weekly measures of mood... Read More about The role of beliefs about mood swings in determining outcome in bipolar disorder.

Researching emotions and the emotions of researching: the strange case of Alexithymia in reflexive research (2012)
Journal Article
(2012). Researching emotions and the emotions of researching: the strange case of Alexithymia in reflexive research. International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion, 322 - 339. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJWOE.2011.045969

Despite the recent 'reflexive turn' in fieldwork-based sociology, and its organisational variants, empirical research often seems to ignore the role of the researcher's emotion in the collection of data and the creation of textual representations. Th... Read More about Researching emotions and the emotions of researching: the strange case of Alexithymia in reflexive research.

Comparative genomics of the apicomplexan parasites Toxoplasma gondii and Neospora caninum: Coccidia differing in host range and transmission strategy (2012)
Journal Article
(2012). Comparative genomics of the apicomplexan parasites Toxoplasma gondii and Neospora caninum: Coccidia differing in host range and transmission strategy. PLOS pathogens a peer-reviewed open-access journal published by the Public Library of Science, e1002567 -?. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1002567

Toxoplasma gondii is a zoonotic protozoan parasite which infects nearly one third of the human population and is found in an extraordinary range of vertebrate hosts. Its epidemiology depends heavily on horizontal transmission, especially between rode... Read More about Comparative genomics of the apicomplexan parasites Toxoplasma gondii and Neospora caninum: Coccidia differing in host range and transmission strategy.

Effect of Carbon Supports on Electrocatalytic Reactivity of Au-Pd Core-Shell Nanoparticles (2012)
Journal Article
(2012). Effect of Carbon Supports on Electrocatalytic Reactivity of Au-Pd Core-Shell Nanoparticles. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 6275 -6282. https://doi.org/10.1021/jp211747a

The role of particle-substrate interactions on the reactivity of bimetallic nanostructures is investigated in the case of Au–Pd core–shell nanoparticles supported on Vulcan XC-72R (Vulcan). Core–shell nanostructures (CS) featuring 19 nm Au cores and... Read More about Effect of Carbon Supports on Electrocatalytic Reactivity of Au-Pd Core-Shell Nanoparticles.

Preserved local but disrupted contextual figure-ground influences in an individual with abnormal function of intermediate visual areas (2012)
Journal Article
Brooks. (2012). Preserved local but disrupted contextual figure-ground influences in an individual with abnormal function of intermediate visual areas. Neuropsychologia, 1393 - 1407. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.02.024

Visual perception depends not only on local stimulus features but also on their relationship to the surrounding stimulus context, as evident in both local and contextual influences on figure-ground segmentation. Intermediate visual areas may play a r... Read More about Preserved local but disrupted contextual figure-ground influences in an individual with abnormal function of intermediate visual areas.

Signalling pathways mediating specific synergistic interactions between GDF9 and BMP15 (2012)
Journal Article
(2012). Signalling pathways mediating specific synergistic interactions between GDF9 and BMP15. Molecular Human Reproduction, 121 - 128

Growth differentiation factor 9 (GDF9) and bone morphogenetic protein 15 (BMP15) are two proteins selectively expressed in the oocyte which are essential for normal fertility. Both of these proteins are members of the transforming growth factor beta... Read More about Signalling pathways mediating specific synergistic interactions between GDF9 and BMP15.