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Advanced Ligo, Tiffany Summerscales, Ligo Scientific Collaboration Jan 2015

Advanced Ligo, Tiffany Summerscales, Ligo Scientific Collaboration

Faculty Publications

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Characterization Of The Ligo Detectors During Their Sixth Science Run, Tiffany Summerscales, Ligo Collaboration Jan 2015

Characterization Of The Ligo Detectors During Their Sixth Science Run, Tiffany Summerscales, Ligo Collaboration

Faculty Publications

In 2009–2010, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) operated together with international partners Virgo and GEO600 as a network to search for gravitational waves (GWs) of astrophysical origin. The sensitivity of these detectors was limited by a combination of noise sources inherent to the instrumental design and its environment, often localized in time or frequency, that couple into the GW readout. Here we review the performance of the LIGO instruments during this epoch, the work done to characterize the detectors and their data, and the effect that transient and continuous noise artefacts have on the sensitivity of LIGO to a …

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Supporting Education, Research, And Training In The 21st Century, Glynis M. Bradfield, Adam Fenner, Petr Činčala Jan 2015

Supporting Education, Research, And Training In The 21st Century, Glynis M. Bradfield, Adam Fenner, Petr Činčala

Faculty Publications

The expanding array of digital devices accessing the Internet around the globe provides new opportunities to collaborate in educating Adventist teachers and educational leaders to continue the teaching ministry of Jesus Christ in the 21st century. Partnerships among the Curriculum and Instruction Resource Center Linking Educators (CIRCLE), the Adventist Learning Community (ALC), and the Institute of Church Ministry (ICM) now connect more Adventists to education and training resources electronically than ever before.

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Review Of Children's Rights 0-8: Promoting Participation In Education And Care By M. Kanyal, Lori Imasiku Jan 2015

Review Of Children's Rights 0-8: Promoting Participation In Education And Care By M. Kanyal, Lori Imasiku

Faculty Publications

The book Children’s Right’s 0-8 discusses the right to participate in education and decision making for young children. The title itself was somewhat unclear as the book limited the discussion of children’s rights to participation and one must only assume that the 0- 8 is in reference to the age of children. Though the title itself is unclear, the contents of the book are well developed and can be a useful tool for those who work with young children as caregivers or educators. The theoretical development of child participation makes this a book suitable resource for researchers and scholars.

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Dry Needling For Myofascial Trigger Point Pain: A Clinical Commentary, Casey Unverzagt, Kathleen Berglund, J J. Thomas Jan 2015

Dry Needling For Myofascial Trigger Point Pain: A Clinical Commentary, Casey Unverzagt, Kathleen Berglund, J J. Thomas

Faculty Publications

Sports and orthopaedic physical therapists have long used a multitude of techniques in order to address pain and dysfunction associated with myofascial trigger points. One technique in particular has recently received overwhelming attention: trigger point dry needling (DN). Despite its efficacy and low risk, questions remain as to its effectiveness, safety, and whether the technique is within the scope of practice of physical therapists. Therefore, the purpose of this clinical commentary is to summarize the current literature related to the associated mechanisms of action of DN, the safety of DN, as well as to discuss relevant scope of practice concerns.

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Desenvolvimento De Liderança Sustentável, David K. Penno Jan 2015

Desenvolvimento De Liderança Sustentável, David K. Penno

Faculty Publications

Organizações que crescem precisam desenvolver novos líderes continuamente. O crescimento não pode ser sustentado a menos que um número crescente de homens e mulheres sejam capacitados para servir em importantes funções de liderança, à medida que a organização se torna maior e mais complexa. Moisés descobriu através do conselho de seu sogro que não conseguiria liderar Israel sozinho. A tarefa era simplesmente grande demais (Êx. 18). Uma coisa é treinar e mentorear líderes, e cada líder deveria estar fazendo isso, mas uma organização deve embutir em sua cultura um sistema de desenvolvimento contínuo de líderes para substituir aqueles vão embora …

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Sensory Processing And Conducive Study Environments, Katrina Kotta Jan 2015

Sensory Processing And Conducive Study Environments, Katrina Kotta

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

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Data Services And The Performing Arts, Amy Jackson, Jon Wheeler, Todd Quinn Jan 2015

Data Services And The Performing Arts, Amy Jackson, Jon Wheeler, Todd Quinn

University Libraries & Learning Sciences Faculty and Staff Publications

In the academic world, research is primarily seen through the scientific approach of collecting and interpreting scientific or numeric data, or the humanistic approach of comparing and interpreting texts. However, in the performing arts fields, academics see themselves on a spectrum between scholar and artist. Artistic scholarly research activities are often driven by the same requirements as humanities research. However, as artists, research often takes the form of listening to or watching performances. In this approach, performances and recordings are research data to these academics. How can libraries support this method of research? What are the implications for data curation …

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Faces And Figures Of Fortune: Astrological Physiognomy In Tamburlaine Part 1., Vanessa I. Corredera Jan 2015

Faces And Figures Of Fortune: Astrological Physiognomy In Tamburlaine Part 1., Vanessa I. Corredera

Faculty Publications

When articulating the relationship between man and the world around him (or her), George Peele imagines man as a canvas, a 'picture' of the universe, a microcosm whose makeup carries the 'face' or the viewable surface of the macrocosm. Peele's statement perfectly encapsulates the early modern belief in signatures and correspondences, in which 'Individual objects on earth...contain the signature of the heavenly bodies to which they supposedly correspond'. By envisioning man as a 'picture', Peele conceives of the universe as readily legible upon the human body. In his discussion of the history of signatures and correspondences in The Order of …

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Roger Boraas Dies, Paul J. Ray Jan 2015

Roger Boraas Dies, Paul J. Ray

Faculty Publications

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Digging Lachish: Recovering The Past Tells Us About The God Of The Future, Gerald A. Klingbeil Jan 2015

Digging Lachish: Recovering The Past Tells Us About The God Of The Future, Gerald A. Klingbeil

Faculty Publications

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Body, Sign And Double: A Parallel Analysis Of Elaine Shemilt’S Doppelganger, Federica Marangoni’S The Box Of Life And Sanja Ivekovic ́’S Instructions N°1 And Make Up - Make Down, S Partridge, L Leuzzi, E Shemilt Jan 2015

Body, Sign And Double: A Parallel Analysis Of Elaine Shemilt’S Doppelganger, Federica Marangoni’S The Box Of Life And Sanja Ivekovic ́’S Instructions N°1 And Make Up - Make Down, S Partridge, L Leuzzi, E Shemilt

School of Art, Design and Architecture

Body, identity, self-representation, sexuality, stereotypical images of women portrayed by the society and the media, and the condition of female professional artists: these themes were expressed and developed in several early video works in the 70s and early 80s by women artists that didn’t have direct knowledge or contact between each other. This simultaneity of thematic is an unusual phenomenon that reveals common, contemporary sensibilities within both Europe and the USA.

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What Remains Of The Intersubjective?: On The Presencing Of Self And Other, Paul Simpson Jan 2015

What Remains Of The Intersubjective?: On The Presencing Of Self And Other, Paul Simpson

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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Coupled Techniques For Arsenic Speciation In Food And Drinking Water: A Review, Bashdar Sadee, M. E. Foulkes, S. J. Hill Jan 2015

Coupled Techniques For Arsenic Speciation In Food And Drinking Water: A Review, Bashdar Sadee, M. E. Foulkes, S. J. Hill

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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Urban Regeneration: Thirty Years Of Change On Plymouth’S Waterfront, Stephen Essex, Peter Ford Jan 2015

Urban Regeneration: Thirty Years Of Change On Plymouth’S Waterfront, Stephen Essex, Peter Ford

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Waterfront revitalisation has become one of the main areas of concentration and activity in urban regeneration as former port, military and resort sites seek new and appropriate uses. Various regeneration approaches have been implemented over the years, with most involving central-government funding, but with different levels of partnership with the private sector and/or the local community. This paper explores in detail the transformation of the waterfront in the English city of Plymouth from its former functions as a naval port and dockyard, with both military and commercial port activities, to its predominantly post-industrial focus on residential, leisure, tourism, and heritage …

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Crustal‐Scale Degassing Due To Magma System Destabilization And Magma‐Gas Decoupling At Soufrière Hills Volcano, Montserrat, T. E. Christopher, J. Blundy, K. Cashman, P. Cole, M. Edmonds, P. J. Smith, R. S.J. Sparks, A. Stinton Jan 2015

Crustal‐Scale Degassing Due To Magma System Destabilization And Magma‐Gas Decoupling At Soufrière Hills Volcano, Montserrat, T. E. Christopher, J. Blundy, K. Cashman, P. Cole, M. Edmonds, P. J. Smith, R. S.J. Sparks, A. Stinton

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

AbstractActivity since 1995 at Soufrière Hills Volcano (SHV), Montserrat has alternated between andesite lava extrusion and quiescence, which are well correlated with seismicity and ground deformation cycles. Large variations in SO2 flux do not correlate with these alternations, but high and low HCl/SO2 characterize lava dome extrusion and quiescent periods respectively. Since lava extrusion ceased (February 2010) steady SO2 emissions have continued at an average rate of 374 tonnes/day (± 140 t/d), and incandescent fumaroles (temperatures up to 610oC) on the dome have not changed position or cooled. Occasional short bursts (over several hours) of higher (∼ 10x) SO2 flux …

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Entrepreneurship In The Knowledge Based Economy: A Spatial Analysis Of Great Britain 2008-2010, Daniel Shilcof Jan 2015

Entrepreneurship In The Knowledge Based Economy: A Spatial Analysis Of Great Britain 2008-2010, Daniel Shilcof

Plymouth Business School Theses

Entrepreneurship is increasingly recognised as an important component of the contemporary knowledge based economy and crucial to the attainment of economic growth and development. However, entrepreneurial activity varies significantly across space within countries. This thesis makes an original contribution by examining the determinants of spatial variations in entrepreneurship across sub-regions of Great Britain from 2008-2010. Through utilising newly available data on firm births and applying exploratory spatial data analysis and spatial econometric techniques, two prominent theories of entrepreneurship are examined. First, the Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship posits that underutilised knowledge by incumbent firms creates entrepreneurial opportunities. The appropriation of …

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Modelling Container Logistics Processes In Container Terminals: A Case Study In Alexandria, Hebatallah Mohammed Elmesmary Jan 2015

Modelling Container Logistics Processes In Container Terminals: A Case Study In Alexandria, Hebatallah Mohammed Elmesmary

Plymouth Business School Theses

This study aims to optimize the logistics processes of container terminals. Potentially powerful pipe-flow models of container terminal logistics processes have been neglected to date and modelling of terminals is rare. Because research which adopts a pipe flow and dynamic operational perspective is rare, a case application in Alexandria, Egypt collated empirical container and information flows using interviews and company records to describe its logistics processes and model container and information flows. The methodology used includes qualitative and quantitative methods and a descriptive methodology proceeds sequentially. Primary and secondary data were presented as a pipe flow model to show interrelations …

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Implementation Science: A Reappraisal Of Our Journal Mission And Scope, Robbie Foy, Anne Sales, Michel Wensing, Gregory A. Aarons, Signe Flottorp, Bridie Kent, Susan Michie, D O’Connor, Anne Rogers, Nick Sevdalis, Sharon Straus, Paul Wilson Jan 2015

Implementation Science: A Reappraisal Of Our Journal Mission And Scope, Robbie Foy, Anne Sales, Michel Wensing, Gregory A. Aarons, Signe Flottorp, Bridie Kent, Susan Michie, D O’Connor, Anne Rogers, Nick Sevdalis, Sharon Straus, Paul Wilson

School of Nursing and Midwifery

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Exploring Nurses’ Reactions To A Novel Technology To Support Acute Health Care Delivery, Bridie Kent, Bernice Redley, Nilmini Wickramasinghe, Lemai Nguyen, Nyree J. Taylor, Hoda Moghimi, Mari Botti Jan 2015

Exploring Nurses’ Reactions To A Novel Technology To Support Acute Health Care Delivery, Bridie Kent, Bernice Redley, Nilmini Wickramasinghe, Lemai Nguyen, Nyree J. Taylor, Hoda Moghimi, Mari Botti

School of Nursing and Midwifery

Aims and objectivesTo explore nurses’ reactions to new novel technology for acute health care.BackgroundPast failures of technology developers to deliver products that meet nurses’ needs have led to resistance and reluctance in the technology adoption process. Thus, involving nurses in a collaborative process from early conceptualisation serves to inform design reflective upon current clinical practice, facilitating the cementing of ‘vision’ and expectations of the technology.DesignAn exploratory descriptive design to capture nurses’ immediate impressions.MethodsFour focus groups (52 nurses from medical and surgical wards at two hospitals in Australia; one private and one public).ResultsNursing reactions towards the new technology illustrated a variance …

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Education And Training For Implementation Science: Our Interest In Manuscripts Describing Education And Training Materials, Sharon E. Straus, Anne Sales, Michel Wensing, Susan Michie, Bridie Kent, Robbie Foy Jan 2015

Education And Training For Implementation Science: Our Interest In Manuscripts Describing Education And Training Materials, Sharon E. Straus, Anne Sales, Michel Wensing, Susan Michie, Bridie Kent, Robbie Foy

School of Nursing and Midwifery

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Meteoric Water Circulation In A Rolling-Hinge Detachment System (Northern Snake Range Core Complex, Nevada), A Gébelin, C Teyssier, Mt Heizler, A Mulch Jan 2015

Meteoric Water Circulation In A Rolling-Hinge Detachment System (Northern Snake Range Core Complex, Nevada), A Gébelin, C Teyssier, Mt Heizler, A Mulch

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Combined petrofabric, microstructural, stable isotopic, and 40Ar/39Ar geochronologic data provide a new perspective on the Cenozoic evolution of the northern Snake Range metamorphic core complex in east-central Nevada. This core complex is bounded by the northern Snake Range detachment, interpreted as a rolling-hinge detachment, and by an underlying shear zone that is dominated by muscovite-bearing quartzite mylonite and interlayered micaschist. In addition to petrofabric, microstructural analysis, and 40Ar/39Ar geochronology, we use hydrogen isotope ratios (δD) in synkinematic white mica to characterize fluid-rock interaction across the rolling-hinge detachment. Results indicate that the western flank of the range preserves mostly Eocene deformation …

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Visualizing Peripheral Nerve Regeneration By Whole Mount Staining., Xin Peng Dun, David B. Parkinson Jan 2015

Visualizing Peripheral Nerve Regeneration By Whole Mount Staining., Xin Peng Dun, David B. Parkinson

Peninsula Medical School

Peripheral nerve trauma triggers a well characterised sequence of events both proximal and distal to the site of injury. Axons distal to the injury degenerate, Schwann cells convert to a repair supportive phenotype and macrophages enter the nerve to clear myelin and axonal debris. Following these events, axons must regrow through the distal part of the nerve, re-innervate and finally are re-myelinated by Schwann cells. For nerve crush injuries (axonotmesis), in which the integrity of the nerve is maintained, repair may be relatively effective whereas for nerve transection (neurotmesis) repair will likely be very poor as few axons may be …

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Interferon-Λ Rs12979860 Genotype And Liver Fibrosis In Viral And Non-Viral Chronic Liver Disease, Mohammed Eslam, Ahmed M. Hashem, Reynold Leung, Manuel Romero-Gomez, Thomas Berg, Gregory J. Dore, Henry L.K. Chan, William L. Irving, David Sheridan, Maria L. Abate, Leon A. Adams, Alessandra Mangia, Martin Weltman, Elisabetta Bugianesi, Ulrich Spengler, Olfat Shaker, Janett Fischer, Lindsay Mollison, Wendy Cheng, Elizabeth Powell, Jacob Nattermann, Stephen Riordan, Duncan Mcleod, Nicola J. Armstrong, Mark W. Douglas, Christopher Liddle, David R. Booth, Jacob George, Golo Ahlenstiel Jan 2015

Interferon-Λ Rs12979860 Genotype And Liver Fibrosis In Viral And Non-Viral Chronic Liver Disease, Mohammed Eslam, Ahmed M. Hashem, Reynold Leung, Manuel Romero-Gomez, Thomas Berg, Gregory J. Dore, Henry L.K. Chan, William L. Irving, David Sheridan, Maria L. Abate, Leon A. Adams, Alessandra Mangia, Martin Weltman, Elisabetta Bugianesi, Ulrich Spengler, Olfat Shaker, Janett Fischer, Lindsay Mollison, Wendy Cheng, Elizabeth Powell, Jacob Nattermann, Stephen Riordan, Duncan Mcleod, Nicola J. Armstrong, Mark W. Douglas, Christopher Liddle, David R. Booth, Jacob George, Golo Ahlenstiel

Peninsula Medical School

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Energy Expenditure On Recreational Visits To Different Natural Environments, Lewis R. Elliott, Mathew P. White, Adrian H. Taylor, Stephen Herbert Jan 2015

Energy Expenditure On Recreational Visits To Different Natural Environments, Lewis R. Elliott, Mathew P. White, Adrian H. Taylor, Stephen Herbert

Peninsula Medical School

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Combining Behavioural Activation With Physical Activity Promotion For Adults With Depression: Findings Of A Parallel-Group Pilot Randomised Controlled Trial (Bacpac), Claire Pentecost, Paul Farrand, Colin J. Greaves, Rs Taylor, Fiona C. Warren, Melvyn Hillsdon, Colin Green, Jo R. Welsman, Kat Rayson, Philip H. Evans, Ah Taylor Jan 2015

Combining Behavioural Activation With Physical Activity Promotion For Adults With Depression: Findings Of A Parallel-Group Pilot Randomised Controlled Trial (Bacpac), Claire Pentecost, Paul Farrand, Colin J. Greaves, Rs Taylor, Fiona C. Warren, Melvyn Hillsdon, Colin Green, Jo R. Welsman, Kat Rayson, Philip H. Evans, Ah Taylor

Peninsula Medical School

No abstract provided.

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The London Exercise And Pregnant Smokers (Leap) Trial: A Randomised Controlled Trial Of Physical Activity For Smoking Cessation In Pregnancy With An Economic Evaluation, Michael Ussher, S Lewis, Paul Aveyard, Isaac Manyonda, Robert West, B Lewis, Bess Marcus, Muhammad Riaz, Adrian H. Taylor, Pelham Barton, Amanda Daley, Holly Essex, Dale Esliger, Tim Coleman Jan 2015

The London Exercise And Pregnant Smokers (Leap) Trial: A Randomised Controlled Trial Of Physical Activity For Smoking Cessation In Pregnancy With An Economic Evaluation, Michael Ussher, S Lewis, Paul Aveyard, Isaac Manyonda, Robert West, B Lewis, Bess Marcus, Muhammad Riaz, Adrian H. Taylor, Pelham Barton, Amanda Daley, Holly Essex, Dale Esliger, Tim Coleman

Peninsula Medical School

BackgroundSmoking during pregnancy is the main preventable cause of poor birth outcomes. Improved methods are needed to help women to stop smoking during pregnancy. Pregnancy provides a compelling rationale for physical activity (PA) interventions as cessation medication is contraindicated or ineffective, and an effective PA intervention could be highly cost-effective.ObjectiveTo examine the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a PA intervention plus standard behavioural support for smoking cessation relative to behavioural support alone for achieving smoking cessation at the end of pregnancy.DesignMulticentre, two-group, pragmatic randomised controlled trial and economic evaluation with follow-up at the end of pregnancy and 6 months postnatally. Randomisation …

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An Investigation Into The Effects Of Different Types Of Exercise On The Maintenance Of Approach Motivation Levels, J. A.S. Lowenstein, K. Wright, A. Taylor, N. J. Moberly Jan 2015

An Investigation Into The Effects Of Different Types Of Exercise On The Maintenance Of Approach Motivation Levels, J. A.S. Lowenstein, K. Wright, A. Taylor, N. J. Moberly

Peninsula Medical School

No abstract provided.

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Practice Expectations For Graduates Of Australian Critical Care Nurse Education: Development Of The Standard Of Practice And Evaluation Of Critical-Care-Nursing Tool (Spect), F Gill, G Leslie, C Grech, J Latour Jan 2015

Practice Expectations For Graduates Of Australian Critical Care Nurse Education: Development Of The Standard Of Practice And Evaluation Of Critical-Care-Nursing Tool (Spect), F Gill, G Leslie, C Grech, J Latour

School of Nursing and Midwifery

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Developing And Testing The Standard Of Practice And Evaluation Of Critical-Care-Nursing Tool (Spect) For Graduates Of Critical Care Nurse Education Programs, F Gill, G Leslie, C Grech, D Boldy, J Latour Jan 2015

Developing And Testing The Standard Of Practice And Evaluation Of Critical-Care-Nursing Tool (Spect) For Graduates Of Critical Care Nurse Education Programs, F Gill, G Leslie, C Grech, D Boldy, J Latour

School of Nursing and Midwifery

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