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Carbon Monoxide Screening In Pregnancy: An Evaluation Study Of A Plymouth Pilot Intervention, Ea Stenhouse, G Letherby, O Corrigan, L Adams, A Bendall Jan 2014

Carbon Monoxide Screening In Pregnancy: An Evaluation Study Of A Plymouth Pilot Intervention, Ea Stenhouse, G Letherby, O Corrigan, L Adams, A Bendall

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences

No abstract provided.


An Electronic Delphi Study To Establish Pediatric Intensive Care Nursing Research Priorities In Twenty European Countries*, Lyvonne N. Tume, Den Hoogen A Van, Joke M. Wielenga, Jos M. Latour Jan 2014

An Electronic Delphi Study To Establish Pediatric Intensive Care Nursing Research Priorities In Twenty European Countries*, Lyvonne N. Tume, Den Hoogen A Van, Joke M. Wielenga, Jos M. Latour

School of Nursing and Midwifery

No abstract provided.


South African Critical Care Nurses' Views On End‐Of‐Life Decision‐Making And Practices, Gayle Langley, Shelley Schmollgruber, Paul Fulbrook, John W. Albarran, Jos M. Latour Jan 2014

South African Critical Care Nurses' Views On End‐Of‐Life Decision‐Making And Practices, Gayle Langley, Shelley Schmollgruber, Paul Fulbrook, John W. Albarran, Jos M. Latour

School of Nursing and Midwifery

ABSTRACTBackgroundCare of patients at the end‐of‐life (EOL) may be influenced by the experiences, attitudes and beliefs of nurses involved in their direct care.AimTo investigate South African critical care nurses' experiences and perceptions of EOL care.DesignCross‐sectional survey.MethodsSouth African critical care nurses completed a modified version of the ‘VENICE’ survey tool. Data were collected concerning: attitudes towards EOL care; involvement in EOL decision‐making; and beliefs about EOL practices.ResultsOf 149 surveys distributed, 100 were returned (response rate 67%). Seventy‐six percent stated that they had had direct involvement in EOL care of patients, but a minority (29%) had participated in EOL decision‐making processes. Whilst …


Antecedents Of Business-To-Business E-Commerce Adoption And Its Effect On Competitive Advantage In Manufacturing Small And Medium-Sized Enterprises: A Comparative Study Of United States Of America And Egypt, Haseba Hamad Jan 2014

Antecedents Of Business-To-Business E-Commerce Adoption And Its Effect On Competitive Advantage In Manufacturing Small And Medium-Sized Enterprises: A Comparative Study Of United States Of America And Egypt, Haseba Hamad

Plymouth Business School Theses

Business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce adoption has become a necessity for most small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), allowing them to gain and sustain competitive advantage in a dynamic competitive environment. Accepting the fact that B2B is adopted at different levels based on different resources leads to the acceptance that competitive advantage is gained and sustained on a level consistent with the level of adoption. This study employs quantitative method based on the positivism philosophy and deductive approach. A questionnaire survey technique was used to collect the data from the American and Egyptian manufacturing SMEs. Moreover, it used structural equation modelling with a …


An Investigation Of The Effects Of Intellectual Capital On Innovations In The Egyptian Banks: The Mediating Role Of Organisational Capital, Ahmed Elsetouhi Jan 2014

An Investigation Of The Effects Of Intellectual Capital On Innovations In The Egyptian Banks: The Mediating Role Of Organisational Capital, Ahmed Elsetouhi

Plymouth Business School Theses

This research aims to analyse the direct and indirect effects of human capital, social capital and customer capital on the different types of innovations via organisational capital in the service sector. It also examines the interaction among the different types of innovations including product, process and organisational innovations and tests the role of human capital, social capital and customer capital in supporting organisational capital. This research employs the first stage of Actor Network Theory named problematisation to justify the research model. This study adopts a positivism philosophy, a deduction approach and a quantitative method as the research methodology. Hence, a …


From Principles To Practice: Sustainable Supply Chain Management In Smes, Alison Louise Ashby Jan 2014

From Principles To Practice: Sustainable Supply Chain Management In Smes, Alison Louise Ashby

Plymouth Business School Theses

Sustainable Supply Chain Management (SSCM) is an evolving discipline, and incorporates the environmental and social performance dimensions of sustainability with the traditional measure of economic performance; current SSCM research indicates a skew towards economic performance and its interaction with environmental performance, while social performance is underrepresented (Pagell and Wu, 2009, Schaefer, 2004, Sharma and Ruud, 2003). The UK clothing industry represents a relevant research focus due to its supply chain complexity, and scale and scope of its environmental and social impacts; this thesis further recognises the tendency for academic research to focus on Large Enterprises (LE) (Curran and Blackburn, 2001) …


Developing A Methodical Approach For The Systematic Identification Of Innovative Technological Applications – Based On Mixed Reality In Manual Order Picking, Markus Friedrich Ehmann Jan 2014

Developing A Methodical Approach For The Systematic Identification Of Innovative Technological Applications – Based On Mixed Reality In Manual Order Picking, Markus Friedrich Ehmann

Plymouth Business School Theses

The need to be economically successful is the key driver for companies to be innovative and implement new technologies with increasing efficiency and effectiveness. Uncertainty about whether to use new technologies and missing knowledge about their advantages lead to staggering and withholding from fast diffusion of innovations. Focusing on the industry of logistics and the technology Mixed Reality, this research project developed a methodical approach for evaluating the fitness of an innovative technology and a specific process of application. A mixed methods approach was derived, based on interviews and experiments. The main methodologies used, were semi-structured interviews with decision makers …


Factors External To The Individual Encouraging Idea Generation In Sme Contexts, Graham Michael Perkins Jan 2014

Factors External To The Individual Encouraging Idea Generation In Sme Contexts, Graham Michael Perkins

Plymouth Business School Theses

This thesis sets out to explore factors external to the individual that encourage creative idea generation in SME environments, understanding their importance in a variety of organisational contexts. The original contribution to knowledge made by this thesis is the creation of a framework which aids understanding by splitting the various factors into those responsible for initiating and sustaining idea generation. Literature concerning creative idea generation is continuously developing and contains a broad spectrum of topics and understandings. Key amongst these are leadership, the nature of creative idea generation, theories such as the ‘strength of weak ties’, collective creativity and the …


The Edict Of Milan Through The Prism Of Students At The Faculty Of Orthodox Theology In Macedonia, Ruzhica Cacanoska, Maja Angelovska Jan 2014

The Edict Of Milan Through The Prism Of Students At The Faculty Of Orthodox Theology In Macedonia, Ruzhica Cacanoska, Maja Angelovska

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

This paper is an integral whole of three, seemingly different parts, each of which has the Edict of Milan as its main topic. The first part presents the historical data and key elements of the Edict of Milan which serves as an introduction into the research, which also serve as a part of the basic information that are pointed out to students. The second part of this paper points out how the anniversary of issuing the Edict of Milan--a date of utmost importance for Christianity--is being celebrated in the region. The third part contains an account of the sociological research …


The Contributions Of Dissenting Protestantism To Western Views Of Human Dignity And Freedom, Nicholas P. Miller Jan 2014

The Contributions Of Dissenting Protestantism To Western Views Of Human Dignity And Freedom, Nicholas P. Miller

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Longitudinal Evaluation Of Quality Of Life In 288 Patients With Neurofibromatosis 2, Rosalie E. Ferner, Adam Shaw, D. Gareth Evans, Dympna Mcaleer, Dorothy Halliday, Allyson Parry, F. Lucy Raymond, Juliette Durie-Gair, C. Oliver Hanemann, Rachel Hornigold, Patrick Axon, John F. Golding Jan 2014

Longitudinal Evaluation Of Quality Of Life In 288 Patients With Neurofibromatosis 2, Rosalie E. Ferner, Adam Shaw, D. Gareth Evans, Dympna Mcaleer, Dorothy Halliday, Allyson Parry, F. Lucy Raymond, Juliette Durie-Gair, C. Oliver Hanemann, Rachel Hornigold, Patrick Axon, John F. Golding

Peninsula Medical School

No abstract provided.