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Involving parents in school-based programmes to prevent and reduce bullying: What effect does it have?
(2015-01-01)© Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to describe how and why school-based programmes to prevent or reduce bullying involve parents, and what impact involving parents has on bullying. ... -
Irregular wave runup statistics on plane beaches: application of a Boussinesq-type model incorporating a generating-absorbing sponge layer and second-order wave generation
(Elsevier, 2016-08-01)Efficient absorption of reflected waves at the offshore boundary is a prerequisite for the accurate physical or theoretical modelling of long-duration irregular wave runup statistics at uniform, gently sloped beaches. ... -
Isolation and characterization of Clostridioides difficile spores from contaminated single-used surgical gowns
(Belfast. UK, 2019-04-10)Clostridium difficile is the primary cause of antibiotic associated diarrhoea globally. In the UK there has been a decline in the prevalence of C. difficile due to implementation of surveillance and infection control ... -
Isotopic evidence for long term warmth in the Mesozoic.
(England, 2013-03-13)Atmospheric CO2 concentrations appear to have been considerably higher than modern levels during much of the Phanerozoic and it has hence been proposed that surface temperatures were also higher. Some studies have, however, ... -
“It was amazing to see our projects come to life!” Developing affective learning during geography fieldwork through tropophilia
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'It's all a question of business': Investment identities, networks and decision-making in the cleantech economy
(2014-01-01)© 2014 Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography. Cleantech has emerged in the last decade as a major new investment sector at the forefront of the green economy. It responds to the need for innovative technologies ... -
"It's that law that's the problem": everyday with copyright
(FIL OnlineUnited Kingdom: Portsmouth: Best Western Royal Beach Hotel, 2016-07-25)Powerpoint Presentation. This paper outlines the basic principles of UK Copyright Law as applicable to librarians and document delivery staff and provides guidance based on everyday practice questions submitted by Forum ... -
Jography: Exploring meanings, experiences and spatialities of recreational road-running
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Joint Determination of Demand for Inputs and Choice of Rice Varieties: A Meta-Production Function Approach
(1993-07-05)Fierce competition in the already thin world rice market for low quality rice exports raised concerns on the future of rice production in Thailand for its increasing labor wages and production costs and its exporting ... -
Juvenile king scallop, Pecten maximus, is potentially tolerant to low levels of ocean acidification when food is unrestricted.
(United States, 2013)The decline in ocean water pH and changes in carbonate saturation states through anthropogenically mediated increases in atmospheric CO2 levels may pose a hazard to marine organisms. This may be particularly acute for ... -
Keeping patients with epilepsy safe: a surmountable challenge?
(England, 2015)This quality improvement project was inspired as an answer to a problem that intellectual disability teams have been struggling to manage whilst caring for people with epilepsy (PWE). The issue was that despite guidance ... -
King's Parkinson's disease pain scale, the first scale for pain in PD: An international validation
(Wiley, 2015-10-16)Pain is a key unmet need and a major aspect of non‐motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD). No specific validated scales exist to identify and grade the various types of pain in PD. We report an international, ... -
Knowledge, agency and collective action as barriers to energy-saving behaviour
(Taylor and Francis, 2015-05-20)Energy saving is becoming a rising priority as a response to climate change and fossil fuel depletion in recent years. However, despite energy-related behaviour change being an important part of many environmental education ...
