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Skill Mix In Primary Care : Patient, Professional And Management Perpectives, Christine Branson
Skill Mix In Primary Care : Patient, Professional And Management Perpectives, Christine Branson
Plymouth Business School Theses
Aim: This research is a study into the organisation and management of health services in Torbay Care Trust. It takes an overview of skill mix in primary care, considering the topic from the perspective of service recipients (patients), providers (professionals) and shapers and resourcers (management). The topic focuses on delegation and service diversification involving general practitioners, their directly employed team and community nurses attached to practices. Between and within the groups there are areas of agreement but also divergence of opinions and the key issues to be explored emerge from the literature. Approach: The study takes a combined case study, …
Magnetic Field Sensor Utilizing Magneto Impedance In Thin Film Multi-Layers, Paul Delooze
Magnetic Field Sensor Utilizing Magneto Impedance In Thin Film Multi-Layers, Paul Delooze
Other Faculty of Science and Engineering Theses
Since the discovery of the Magneto Impedance (MI) effect in 1994 there has been a global increase in the research devoted to understanding the effect. In certain magnetic materials, the impedance change, often referred to as the MI ratio, is in the range of 50 to 100% for an excitation current in the MHz frequency range for external magnetic fields of a few Oe. The use of thin film multilayer structures allows the increase of sensitivity and the reduction of size for MI effect to be integrated with micro magnetic sensor technologies. In the present work, we explain the origins …
Effects Of Hyperbaric Oxygen On Oxidative Stress, Angiogenesis Factors And Endothelial Cell Injury, Jianfeng Yuan
Effects Of Hyperbaric Oxygen On Oxidative Stress, Angiogenesis Factors And Endothelial Cell Injury, Jianfeng Yuan
School of Biological and Marine Sciences Theses
Hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) therapy is the administration of 100% oxygen at more than one atmosphere. It greatly improves tissue oxygenation and facilitates mechanisms of wound healing, which in turn benefits some patients with chronic wounds. A prominent fact in therapeutic HBO is the acceleration of neoangiogenesis during granulation tissue formation. Angiogenesis is a highly orchestrated event, a diverse range of cells and angiogenesis factors are involved in the process. The formation of reactive oxidative species (ROS) during HBO has been controversially considered as signalling regulator for angiogenic factors, as well as harmful originator for oxidative stress-induced cyto- and geno-toxicity in …
The Ecology And Conservation Of The Harbour Porpoise (Phocoena Phocoena) Along The West Coast Of The Uk, Lissa Goodwin
The Ecology And Conservation Of The Harbour Porpoise (Phocoena Phocoena) Along The West Coast Of The Uk, Lissa Goodwin
School of Biological and Marine Sciences Theses
Whilst the harbour porpoise {Phocoena phocoena) is the most j&equently observed cetacean in the UK, it. is at risk from habitat degradation, pollution, incidental capture in fishing nets and anthropogenic disturbance. UK, European and International initiatives have highlighted the conservation need to obtain a better understanding of this species. This research, conducted over 5 years (1999-2004) aimed to fiirther the scientific knowledge of the harbour porpoise in order to influence fiiture conservation initiatives. Studies into the relative abundance, density, distribution, habitat use and behaviour were conducted through combinations of shore- and boat-based research. Technical trials of a towed acoustic device …
Characterisation Of Grain Quality Of Syrian Durum Wheat Genotypes Affecting Milling Performance And End-Use Quality, Jihad Samaan
Characterisation Of Grain Quality Of Syrian Durum Wheat Genotypes Affecting Milling Performance And End-Use Quality, Jihad Samaan
School of Biological and Marine Sciences Theses
Durum wheat is a strategic crop in Syria produced in high quantities and used mainly for the production of Arabic bread, bulgur and pasta. This investigation is the first known systematic study relating the grain quality of nine domestic cultivars to milling performance and pasta quality in order to map the Syrian durum wheat characteristics onto the world market requirements and hence determine the potential export development. Furthermore, it examines the influence of environment, genotype and their interaction on the physiochemical characteristics of five durum wheat cultivars grown in five different locations under rainfed and irrigated conditions in Syria. AACC …
Effect-Directed Analysis Of Toxicants In Unresolved Complex Mixtures (Ucms) Of Hydrocarbons From Biodegraded Crude Oils, Alan George Scarlett
Effect-Directed Analysis Of Toxicants In Unresolved Complex Mixtures (Ucms) Of Hydrocarbons From Biodegraded Crude Oils, Alan George Scarlett
School of Biological and Marine Sciences Theses
Contamination of the environment by petrogenic hydrocarbons continues to pose a threat to marine biota. Studies into the effects of hydrocarbon contamination have mainly been directed at a small number of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) that are known to be highly toxic to a wide range of biota. The majority of the hydrocarbons present in sediments and tissues are unresolved by conventional gas chromatography and have received little attention. Studies directed at these unresolved complex mixtures (UCMs) of hydrocarbons have previously identified the monoaromatic fraction as containing toxic UCM compounds. The studies reported herein have explored the toxicity of UCM …
The Ecology And Genetics Of Cirsium Dissectum (L.) Hill In The British Isles And Implications For Its Conservation, Natasha De Vere
The Ecology And Genetics Of Cirsium Dissectum (L.) Hill In The British Isles And Implications For Its Conservation, Natasha De Vere
School of Biological and Marine Sciences Theses
The aim of this study was to research the ecology and genetics of Cirsium dissectum and to discuss the implications of the results for its conservation. The ecology of C. dissectum was described through a review of the literature. Site characteristics, plant communities and reproductive biology were investigated by examining 22 populations throughout the British Isles. Microsatellite genetic markers were used to investigate levels of genetic diversity within and between these populations. Within populations, relationships between genetic diversity, population size, fitness and habitat quality (concentrating on soil nutrients and vegetation structure) were explored using multiple regression and structural equation modelling. …
The Geographies Of Policing, R Yarwood
The Geographies Of Policing, R Yarwood
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
No abstract provided.
Getting Just Deserts? Policing, Governance And Rurality In Western Australia, Richard Yarwood
Getting Just Deserts? Policing, Governance And Rurality In Western Australia, Richard Yarwood
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
This paper examines the perceived shift from police to policing in developed world countries. It focuses on the development of multi-agency policing in rural Western Australia and, using ideas from governance theory, questions whether these partnerships are leading to more inclusive policing and new forms of rural governance. Evidence is taken from the development of a Rural Crime Prevention Strategy and interviews with various stakeholders in rural Australia. It is concluded that multi-agency work does offer a more inclusive way forward but that it is still mainly driven by government, rather than radical changes in rural society and power.
Paris Framed: Twentieth-Century French Writers Crossing The City, C Mansfield
Paris Framed: Twentieth-Century French Writers Crossing The City, C Mansfield
Plymouth Business School
Twentieth-century writers frame Paris as a locus of desire for their characters, whether working in fiction or in the more contemporary ethno¬graphic journaling exemplified by the writing of Annie Ernaux in La Vie extérieure (2000) and Journal du dehors (1993). This article draws on the critical approaches taken by Christopher Thompson (1992) and Richard Burton (1988) in their respective works on French nineteenth-century literature and uses their critical frameworks as a starting point with which to explore this travel writing of Ernaux.
Soil Fertility And Productivity Relationships In Rice Production System, Bangladesh, S Rahman, Rj Parkinson
Soil Fertility And Productivity Relationships In Rice Production System, Bangladesh, S Rahman, Rj Parkinson
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
This paper presents an econometric analysis of the influence of soil fertility status on productivity and resource use in rice production utilizing survey data from 21 villages in three agro-ecological regions of Bangladesh. Detailed crop husbandry input-output data were collected from 380 paddy rice (Oryza sativa) farmers. Data collected included fertilizer, pesticide, labour, animal power services, irrigation, farm capital assets and rice yield. The soil fertility status in each region was determined by analysis of soil organic carbon, available nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium concentration. Analysis was based on a profit function, where the selected soil fertility parameters were incorporated as …
Planktic Foraminifera From The Proposed Gssp For The Oxfordian Stage: Redcliff Point, Near Weymouth, M.B. Hart, T. Aze, W. Hudson, C.W. Smart
Planktic Foraminifera From The Proposed Gssp For The Oxfordian Stage: Redcliff Point, Near Weymouth, M.B. Hart, T. Aze, W. Hudson, C.W. Smart
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
In the course of the stratigraphical and palaeontological investigations for the Global Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the base of the Oxfordian Stage at Recicliff (near Weymouth) an assemblage of planktic foraminifera has been described. Planktic foraminifera are exceptionally rare in the Jurassic of the United Kingdom and only a few records have been reported in the last few years. At Redcliff, the assemblage is preserved as pyrite steinkerns, but the fauna contains a number of morphotypes which match onto known species from this interval (Globuligerina oxfordiana, Compactogerina stellapolaris) while others have no described species to which they can …
Geochronology Of Salt-Marsh Sediments, William Alderman Marshall
Geochronology Of Salt-Marsh Sediments, William Alderman Marshall
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses
Salt-marsh sediments can provide important achives of past sea levels if they can besecurely dated. This thesis investigates eight methods for dating salt-marsh sediments.These include traditional and established dating methods (¹⁴C dating and theradionuclides ¹³⁷Cs and ²¹ºPb) and more novel approaches to dating the deposition ofsalt-marsh sediments (palaeomagnetic dating, the use of' atmospheric stable leaddeposition, tephra chronologies, pollen markers, SCP analysis and the use ofatmospheric ¹⁴C 'bomb spike' and high-precision AMS ¹⁴C measurements). Sites wereselected to provide contrasting sediment sequences that differed both in lithology andaccumulation rates and included salt marshes from the Taf estuary (southwest Wales),the Arne Peninsula (southern …
The Evolution And Palaeobiogeography Of Mesozoic Planktonic Foraminifera, Wendy Hudson
The Evolution And Palaeobiogeography Of Mesozoic Planktonic Foraminifera, Wendy Hudson
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses
In the 1960s Oberhauser and Fuchs (palaeontologists working at the Geologische Bundesanstalt in Vienna) described a range of new taxa from the Triassic of Austria that were thought to be the earliest planktonic foraminifera. The first reactions of the palaeontological community were negative but in the subsequent forty years our knowledge of Jurassic planktonic foraminifera has expanded considerably. A thorough re-evaluation of the Oberhauser and Fuchs collections in Vienna has shown that these species are probably not planktonic and that the first planktonic taxa appeared in the Toarcian. This origination in the centre of Western Tethys was followed by a …
The Experience Of Obesity, Its Treatment And Weight Loss: A Qualitative Study Of Overweight Couples, Brenda Potz Kieffer
The Experience Of Obesity, Its Treatment And Weight Loss: A Qualitative Study Of Overweight Couples, Brenda Potz Kieffer
Other Faculty of Health Theses
This study utilized a qualitative, phenomenological methodology to study obesity. The purpose was to better understand the experiences of obesity, treatment and weight loss from the perspectives of formerly obese individuals, their partners and as couples. The participants consisted of six couples mostly from rural communities. In each couple, at least one the partners had experienced weight fluctuations into the obese range and had achieved at least 50% of his or her weight loss goal. The couples participated in two semi-structured interviews, both individually and as couples. A genogram was constructed with each couple to help identify family of origin …
Managing Community: A Philosophical Analysis Of Praxis, Alan Sanderson
Managing Community: A Philosophical Analysis Of Praxis, Alan Sanderson
Other Faculty of Science and Engineering Theses
If communities are to become a viable means of implementing social policy then community practitioners must individually examine their personal praxis. Therefore, in discovering a community's aims and objectives, a management model is needed that offers every practitioner a reflexive means of understanding peoples' beliefs, values, and attitudes. This proposition is critically examined through a philosophical framework that explores individuals' diverse perspectives on community, derived from their adherence to contending ontological and epistemological propositions about the social world, and its related ethical and motivational dimensions. Following a philosophical analysis, the taxonomy of social reality perspectives, developed by Dixon (2003) and …
The Marketing Strategies Of Livestock Enterprises In Objective One Regions : A Comparative Study Between Greece And United Kingdom, Lambros Tsourgiannis
The Marketing Strategies Of Livestock Enterprises In Objective One Regions : A Comparative Study Between Greece And United Kingdom, Lambros Tsourgiannis
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses
This research aims to identify the marketing decisions made by agricultural producers in two E. U. Objective I regions and to provide insights into the reasons that such decisions are made, with a particular focus on meat and milk products. Two farm business surveys; one in the involving sheep and goat farmers in the Region of East Macedonia and Thrace (EMT11) in Greece and one in the sheep and dairy cow fanners in Cornwall, U. K. were undertaken in order to identify their marketing behaviour. This study used robust predictive models incorporating bivariate and multivariate statistical techniques in order to …
Dose-Banding Of Carboplatin: Rationale And Proposed Banding Scheme, Gj Sewell, S Kaestner
Dose-Banding Of Carboplatin: Rationale And Proposed Banding Scheme, Gj Sewell, S Kaestner
School of Health Professions
No abstract provided.
On Computing Shannon’S Sphere Packing Bound And Applications, Mz Ahmed, Ma Ambroze, M Tomlinson
On Computing Shannon’S Sphere Packing Bound And Applications, Mz Ahmed, Ma Ambroze, M Tomlinson
School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics
A new method to numerically evalu- ate Shannon’s lower bound is presented in this pa- per. This new method is based on the Incomplete Beta function and permits the exact evaluation of the Sphere Packing Bound for a large range of code sizes, rates and probability of error. Comparisons with cur- rent standards (DVB–RCS, DVB–S2 and 3GPP) are also presented and discussed. It is shown that cur- rent standard coding schemes are about 0.6dB from the Shannon Limit corrected for Binary Signalling.
Constructing L2-Svm-Based Fuzzy Classifiers In High-Dimensional Space With Automatic Model Selection And Fuzzy Rule Ranking, Shang Ming Zhou, John Q. Gan
Constructing L2-Svm-Based Fuzzy Classifiers In High-Dimensional Space With Automatic Model Selection And Fuzzy Rule Ranking, Shang Ming Zhou, John Q. Gan
School of Nursing and Midwifery
No abstract provided.
Ambiguous Women: Debates Within American Evangelical Feminism, A Syska
Ambiguous Women: Debates Within American Evangelical Feminism, A Syska
School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences
This article is an analysis of major debates within American evangelical feminism since its emergence in early 1970s. It examines ways in which American evangelical feminists negotiate their identity in the daily struggle between the mundane and the sacred, home setting and church practice, and their private and public lives. Through presentation of personal stories and lived experiences it argues that evangelical feminists' ambiguity is a significant and powerful force that not only forges distinctive self-awareness among evangelical feminists, but also shapes diverse understandings of evangelical feminism and shifts the boundaries of both evangelicalism and feminism in America.
Evidence For An Olfactory Store In Working Memory?, J Andrade, L Donaldson
Evidence For An Olfactory Store In Working Memory?, J Andrade, L Donaldson
School of Psychology
No abstract provided.
Learning Through Ritual, R Brown
Learning Through Ritual, R Brown
School of Art, Design and Architecture
This paper considers how mitate, the act of drawing an analogy between two seemingly unrelated things, was used to give students a ‘way in’ to designing an addition to the main hall of a Shinto Shrine in Japan. The challenge of the project was to create places that celebrate local identity; yet without the opportunity to visit Japan, how then to avoid external preconceptions or misinterpretations, and to develop an awareness of another culture’s sensibilities towards the built environment, particularly concepts alien to a Western perspective? Using mitate, students engaged with Japanese beliefs and values through an exploration of the …
Hunger-Related Intrusive Thoughts Reflect Increased Accessibility Of Food Items, Lisa Marie Berry, Jackie Andrade, Jon May
Hunger-Related Intrusive Thoughts Reflect Increased Accessibility Of Food Items, Lisa Marie Berry, Jackie Andrade, Jon May
School of Psychology
No abstract provided.
Preserving Deep-Sea Natural Heritage: Emerging Issues In Offshore Conservation And Management, Aj Davies, Jm Roberts, J Hall-Spencer
Preserving Deep-Sea Natural Heritage: Emerging Issues In Offshore Conservation And Management, Aj Davies, Jm Roberts, J Hall-Spencer
School of Biological and Marine Sciences
No abstract provided.
Electronic Signatures For Copyright In The Uk: A Solution To The "Holy Grail" Of Document Delivery, G Titley
Electronic Signatures For Copyright In The Uk: A Solution To The "Holy Grail" Of Document Delivery, G Titley
More Faculty of Health Research
Purpose - The aim of this paper is to show that an electronic signature for copyright can be achieved in the UK.Design/methodology/approach - The article outlines, as a case study, the drivers for change that influenced the revisiting of the issue of electronic signatures for copyright by the University of Plymouth (UoP), how that signature has been achieved, and how the process has improved the document delivery service through the establishment of an electronic "request-to-delivery" service.Findings - The article finds that significant improvements in the ability of document delivery services to provide a fast and efficient service, with regard to …
Colour, Copies And Confinement, A Ilderton, M Lavelle, D Mcmullan
Colour, Copies And Confinement, A Ilderton, M Lavelle, D Mcmullan
School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics
No abstract provided.
A Sequential Temperature Cycling Study For The Investigation Of Carboplatin Infusion Stability To Facilitate Dose-Banding, Gj Sewell, S Kaestner
A Sequential Temperature Cycling Study For The Investigation Of Carboplatin Infusion Stability To Facilitate Dose-Banding, Gj Sewell, S Kaestner
School of Health Professions
No abstract provided.
A Generalized Method For Transfecting Root Epidermis Uncovers Endosomal Dynamics In Arabidopsis Root Hairs, Prisca Campanoni, Jens Uwe Sutter, Craig Stewart Davis, George Robert Littlejohn, Michael Robert Blatt
A Generalized Method For Transfecting Root Epidermis Uncovers Endosomal Dynamics In Arabidopsis Root Hairs, Prisca Campanoni, Jens Uwe Sutter, Craig Stewart Davis, George Robert Littlejohn, Michael Robert Blatt
School of Biological and Marine Sciences
SummaryProgress in analysing the cellular functions of many structural proteins has accelerated through the use of confocal microscopy together with transient gene expression. Several methods for transient expression have been developed in the past few years, but their application has seen limited success beyond a few tractable species and tissues. We have developed a simple and efficient method to visualize fluorescent proteins in Arabidopsis root epidermis using co‐cultivation of seedlings with Agrobacterium rhizogenes. The method is equally suitable for transient gene expression in other species, including Thellungiella, and can be combined with supporting molecular and biochemical analyses. The method promises …
The Fading Of Reported Effectiveness. A Meta-Analysis Of Randomised Controlled Trials, Bt Gehr, C Weiss, F Porzsolt
The Fading Of Reported Effectiveness. A Meta-Analysis Of Randomised Controlled Trials, Bt Gehr, C Weiss, F Porzsolt
More Faculty of Health Research
Abstract Background The "real" effect size of a medical therapy is constant over time. In contrast, the effect size reported in randomised controlled trials (RCTs) may change over time because the sum of all kinds of bias influencing the reported effectiveness is not necessarily constant. As this would affect the validity of meta-analyses, we tested the hypothesis that the reported effect size decreases over time. Furthermore, we tested three hypotheses that would explain a possible change. Methods Because of well established outcome measures, the lipid-lowering drugs Pravastatin and Atorvastatin (serum low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, LDL-C) and the anti-glaucoma drugs Timolol and …