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A review of termination of pregnancy: prevalent health care professional attitudes and ways of influencing them
No full textAim. To review the literature on attitudes of health care professionals to termination of pregnancy and draw out underlying themes. Background. The controversy surrounding therapeutic abortion is unremitting with public opinion often polemic and unyielding. Nurses and midwives are at the centre
Integrating the teaching of introductory management accounting and information technology: a case study
No full text“High Rise"
No full textResearch ContextThe turn of the century brought a renewed interest and confidence in constructing high-rise buildings in a number of major cities around the world. It has become the corporate building type for an increasingly global industry and global architecture. Although many projects slowed, ground to a halt, or were scrapped altogether as a direct result of the worldwide economic downturn, others continued at a pace. This body of work, comprising of 3 integrated parts, looks in detail at these constructions using a combination of both interior and exterior still images and video.Research ImperativesBobby tackles questions about the relationship of high-rise buildings to the city below, the nature of the view, the significance that is culturally placed on the ownership of or access we have to these privileged viewpoints, the activities that take place within them, the companies that demand them and their cultural significance.Project MethodsThe work explores the discourse surrounding notions of power through architectural theory and the observation of a number of architectural/design techniques as well as addressing ideas of representation and spectatorship
“Comic Battle”
No full textResearch ContextCommon Culture critically manipulate the conventions of popular forms of British culture for their art. Comic Battle interrogates the stand-up comedy routine that serves as a familiar device for the reflection upon and analysis of human relationships. Delivered as a popular form of entertainment, the comics’ observations are driven by their own social experience; informed by a sense of who they are and how they relate to a world they share with their audience. Their local views on the big issues of sexuality, race, class and politics, mark their stories as funny and potentially insightful. Research ImperativesIn Comic Battle, three individual British comedians are each filmed by separate cameras competing against each other in a ‘stand- up’ battle. Delivering their routine in an ambiguous performance space, each of the three comics simultaneously presents their act to camera. The comics’ routines are determined by a list of topics given to them by Common Culture, each performer delivering his own version of a joke, battling to out do the other performers. The interest in British comedians centres on the raw competition between them and the way humour is able to construct particular cultural identities through the articulation of global and local issues.The work was commissioned and funded by EV+A
Poiseuille flow of a smectic a liquid crystal
No full textThis article considers the dynamics of smectic A liquid crystals subjected to Poiseuille flow. Linearised governing equations are constructed using a recent dynamic theory for Smectic A [1]. These equations are solved analytically and the consequent solutions are then calculated for some typical experimental data in order to determine the explicit flow behaviour. Stability of flow and layer structure solutions are proved. Results show how the response time for small perturbations to the smectic layers depends upon the permeation constant and the layer compression modulus. [1] I.W. Stewart, Dynamic theory for smectic A liquid crystals, Continuum Mech. Thermodyn. 18 (2007) 343–360
The heresy of the 'recent' reference
No full textIt would appear that a heresy has developed in nurse education that only very recent references should be used in writing – indeed the more recent, the better. Quite where this thinking has come from is unclear; however this apparent obsession with up-to-date references is, rguably, naive, limiting and just, plain wrong. Clearly, from a research point of view...
Metabolic implications of resistive force selection for oxidative stress and markers of muscle damage during 30 s of high-intensity exercise
No full textBroken Men: Shell Shock, Treatment and Recovery in Britain, 1914-1930
No full textShell shock achieved a very high political profile in the years 1919-1922. Publications ranging from "John Bull" to the "Morning Post" insisted that shell-shocked men should be treated with respect, and the Minister for Health announced that the government was committed to protecting shell-shocked men from the stigma of lunacy. Yet at the same time, many mentally-wounded veterans were struggling with a pension system which was failing to give them security. It is this conflict between the political rhetoric and the lived experience of many wounded veterans that explains why the government was unable to dispel the negative wartime assessment of official shell-shock treatment. There was also a real conflict between the government's wish to forget shell shock whilst memorialising the war and remembering the war dead. As a result of these contradictions, shell shock was not forgotten, on the contrary, the shell-shocked soldier quickly grew to symbolise the confusions and inconsistencies of the Great War