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Efficiency And Effectiveness Of The Philippine Crop Insurance Corporation’S Rice Crop Insurance Program: The Case Of Laguna Province, Philippines, Armand Christopher C. Rola, Nelson Jose Vincent B. Querijero Jan 2017

Efficiency And Effectiveness Of The Philippine Crop Insurance Corporation’S Rice Crop Insurance Program: The Case Of Laguna Province, Philippines, Armand Christopher C. Rola, Nelson Jose Vincent B. Querijero

Journal of Public Affairs and Development

The performance of the Rice Crop Insurance Program (RCIP) of the Philippine Crop Insurance Corporation (PCIC) was assessed to explain the low number of insured farmers and suggest ways to improve the program’s efficiency and effectiveness. Documents were reviewed and primary data were collected through survey of participating rice farmers and key informant interview of the officers and staff of PCIC Region 4 and National Irrigation Administration Region IV Employees Multipurpose Cooperative (NEMCO). Descriptive statistics, gap analysis, and Likert scale scoring were used in data analysis. Results of the study revealed gaps in enrollment in the program, duration of filing …

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Decentralization, The Internal Revenue Allotment, And Shared Growth: An Examination Of Correlations, Ferdinand C. Maquito Jan 2017

Decentralization, The Internal Revenue Allotment, And Shared Growth: An Examination Of Correlations, Ferdinand C. Maquito

Journal of Public Affairs and Development

This is a macro study on the role of internal revenue allotments in decentralization to help the Philippines achieve shared growth. The research attempted to answer two interrelated development policy questions: 1) has the Philippines achieved shared growth; and 2) does the Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA) have the potential of contributing to shared growth? Patterns of correlation were distilled from available provincial as well as national data on average income, poverty incidence, income distribution, and IRA. Correlation analysis for the second question was supplemented with an analysis of the IRA formula. Results showed that growth in the Philippines has been …

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‘A Fluctuating Relationship With Nature’: Tom Raworth's Ecopoetics, Mandy Bloomfield Jan 2017

‘A Fluctuating Relationship With Nature’: Tom Raworth's Ecopoetics, Mandy Bloomfield

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences

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Racial Tensions And U.S. Military (In)Justice In Northern Ireland During World War Ii, Simon Topping Jan 2017

Racial Tensions And U.S. Military (In)Justice In Northern Ireland During World War Ii, Simon Topping

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences

No abstract provided.

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Sonic Affects And The Production Of Space: ‘Music By Handle’ And The Politics Of Street Music In Victorian London, Paul Simpson Jan 2017

Sonic Affects And The Production Of Space: ‘Music By Handle’ And The Politics Of Street Music In Victorian London, Paul Simpson

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

This article examines the affective capacities of sound and its role in the on-going production of social spaces. More specifically, the article seeks to understand the situated nature of sound’s affectivity within particular social-political-material contexts or circumstances. This is developed through a discussion of an empirical case study related to the history of street music: the ‘street music debates’ of Victorian London. The interrelation here of the sounds street musicians made, the broader urban soundscape of the time, who played street music and who it was that found themselves listening to this music demonstrate clearly the situated affective capacities of …

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Sea-Ice Dynamics In An Arctic Coastal Polynya During The Past 6500 Years, J Knies, I Pathirana, P Cabedo-Sanz, A Banica, K Fabian, Tl Rasmussen, M Forwick, St Belt Jan 2017

Sea-Ice Dynamics In An Arctic Coastal Polynya During The Past 6500 Years, J Knies, I Pathirana, P Cabedo-Sanz, A Banica, K Fabian, Tl Rasmussen, M Forwick, St Belt

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

The production of high-salinity brines during sea-ice freezing in circum-arctic coastal polynyas is thought to be part of northern deep water formation as it supplies additional dense waters to the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation system. To better predict the effect of possible future summer ice-free conditions in the Arctic Ocean on global climate, it is important to improve our understanding of how climate change has affected sea-ice and brine formation, and thus finally dense water formation during the past. Here, we show temporal coherence between sea-ice conditions in a key Arctic polynya (Storfjorden, Svalbard) and patterns of deep water convection …

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Coupled Changes Between The H-Print Biomarker And Delta N-15 Indicates A Variable Sea Ice Carbon Contribution To The Diet Of Cumberland Sound Beluga Whales, T. A. Brown, E. Chrystal, S. H. Ferguson, D. J. Yurkowski, C. Watt, N. E. Hussey, T. C. Kelley, S. T. Belt Jan 2017

Coupled Changes Between The H-Print Biomarker And Delta N-15 Indicates A Variable Sea Ice Carbon Contribution To The Diet Of Cumberland Sound Beluga Whales, T. A. Brown, E. Chrystal, S. H. Ferguson, D. J. Yurkowski, C. Watt, N. E. Hussey, T. C. Kelley, S. T. Belt

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.

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Assessing The Cellular And Adhesive Interactions In In Vitro Models Of Mantle Cell Lymphoma, David Tucker Jan 2017

Assessing The Cellular And Adhesive Interactions In In Vitro Models Of Mantle Cell Lymphoma, David Tucker

Peninsula Medical School Theses

Mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) is a rare lymphoproliferative disorder (LPD) that has very poor survival. Like other LPDs, the neoplastic cells of MCL have an intimate dependence upon accessory cells within haematopoietic tissues. Understanding and exploiting the tissue-relationships of the mantle cells may therefore lead to further new approaches to treatment. This study work has set out to construct an in vitro system to model relevant aspects of the tissue-dependent behaviour of the neoplastic mantle cells, seeking to establish the link between in vitro behaviour and clinical phenotype, and establishing the feasibility of this system to study the effects of …

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Designing New Zealand’S Emissions Trading Scheme, Tor Håkon Jackson Inderberg, Ian Bailey, Nichola Harmer Jan 2017

Designing New Zealand’S Emissions Trading Scheme, Tor Håkon Jackson Inderberg, Ian Bailey, Nichola Harmer

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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One-Dimensional And Two-Dimensional Green–Naghdi Equations For Sloshing In Shallow Basins, Mohammad R. Jalali, Alistair Borthwick Jan 2017

One-Dimensional And Two-Dimensional Green–Naghdi Equations For Sloshing In Shallow Basins, Mohammad R. Jalali, Alistair Borthwick

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

This paper presents a verified model of weakly non-linear wave sloshing in shallow basins, based on level I Green–Naghdi (GN) mass and momentum equations derived for mild-sloped beds. The model is verified for sloshing of an initially sinusoidal free surface perturbation in a square tank with a horizontal bed. The model is also used to investigate free surface sloshing of an initial Gaussian hump in closed square basins, over horizontal and non-uniform bed topographies. Analysis of the free surface slosh motions demonstrates that the model gives predictions in satisfactory agreement with the analytical solution of linearised shallow water theory obtained …

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Playing In The Dark With Online Games For Girls, Rebecca Sinker, Mike Phillips, Victoria De Rijke Jan 2017

Playing In The Dark With Online Games For Girls, Rebecca Sinker, Mike Phillips, Victoria De Rijke

School of Art, Design and Architecture

Pregnant Rapunzel Emergency is part of a series of online free games aimed at young girls ( forhergames.com or babygirlgames.com ), where dozens of characters from fairy tales, children’s toys and media feature in recovery settings, such as ‘Barbie flu’. The range of games available to choose from includes not only dressing, varnishing nails or tidying messy rooms, but also rather more troubling options such as extreme makeovers, losing weight, or a plethora of baby showers, cravings, hospital pregnancy checks, births (including caesarean), postnatal ironing, washing and baby care. Taking the online game Pregnant Rapunzel Emergency as an exemplar of …

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Delivering Energy-Efficient Social Housing: Implications Of The Procurement Process, João Alencastro, Alba Fuertes, Wilde P De Jan 2017

Delivering Energy-Efficient Social Housing: Implications Of The Procurement Process, João Alencastro, Alba Fuertes, Wilde P De

School of Art, Design and Architecture

No abstract provided.

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Bridging The Gap: Pop Media As A Narrative Tool For Working With Millennials, Kristina M. Kays, David Kays, Adrian Egger Jan 2017

Bridging The Gap: Pop Media As A Narrative Tool For Working With Millennials, Kristina M. Kays, David Kays, Adrian Egger

Faculty Publications - Psychology Department

This seminar explores the use of popular media as a means to explore emotions issues resulting from trauma and abuse. The movie Inside Out will be explored as a practical and live example for use in integrating narrative therapy interventions with challenging clients resistant to exploring emotional concerns in therapy.

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Amplitude, Latency, And Peak Velocity In Accommodation And Disaccommodation Dynamics, Aj Del Águila-Carrasco, Jj Esteve-Taboada, E Papadatou, T Ferrer-Blasco, R Montés-Micó Jan 2017

Amplitude, Latency, And Peak Velocity In Accommodation And Disaccommodation Dynamics, Aj Del Águila-Carrasco, Jj Esteve-Taboada, E Papadatou, T Ferrer-Blasco, R Montés-Micó

School of Health Professions

The aim of this work was to ascertain whether there are differences in amplitude, latency, and peak velocity of accommodation and disaccommodation responses when different analysis strategies are used to compute them, such as fitting different functions to the responses or for smoothing them prior to computing the parameters. Accommodation and disaccommodation responses from four subjects to pulse changes in demand were recorded by means of aberrometry. Three different strategies were followed to analyze such responses: fitting an exponential function to the experimental data; fitting a Boltzmann sigmoid function to the data; and smoothing the data. Amplitude, latency, and peak …

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Bottom Trapped Internal Waves Over The Malin Sea Continental Slope, Nataliya Stashchuk, Vasiliy Vlasenko Jan 2017

Bottom Trapped Internal Waves Over The Malin Sea Continental Slope, Nataliya Stashchuk, Vasiliy Vlasenko

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

Three-dimensional dynamics of internal tides on the continental slope of the Malin Sea is studied numerically and validated with the observational data collected on the 88-th cruise of the RRS “James Cook” in June–July 2013. Observed in-situ bottom intensification of baroclinic tidal currents was reproduced in a series of numerical experiments using the Massachusetts Institute of Technology general circulation model. The baroclinic tidal dynamics is explained in terms of superposition of two wave processes developing in the area. One of them is a tidal beam generated at the shelf break and radiating tidal energy downward into abyss. The second important …

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Is The Health App Challenge Approach Of Patient-Led Application Conception, Development, And Review Worthwhile?, Emily J. Ashurst, Ray B. Jones Jan 2017

Is The Health App Challenge Approach Of Patient-Led Application Conception, Development, And Review Worthwhile?, Emily J. Ashurst, Ray B. Jones

School of Nursing and Midwifery

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Erratum To: Scaling Up Strategies Of The Chronic Respiratory Disease Programme Of The European Innovation Partnership On Active And Healthy Ageing (Action Plan B3: Area 5), J Bousquet, J. Farrell, G. Crooks, P. Hellings, E. H. Bel, M. Bewick, N. H. Chavannes, Sousa Jc De, A. A. Cruz, T. Haahtela, G. Joos, N. Khaltaev, J. Malva, A. Muraro, M. Nogues, S. Palkonen, S. Pedersen, C. Robalo-Cordeiro, B. Samolinski, T. Strandberg, A. Valiulis, A. Yorgancioglu, T. Zuberbier, A. Bedbrook, W. Aberer, M. Adachi, A. Agusti, Ca Akdis, M Akdis, J. Ankri Jan 2017

Erratum To: Scaling Up Strategies Of The Chronic Respiratory Disease Programme Of The European Innovation Partnership On Active And Healthy Ageing (Action Plan B3: Area 5), J Bousquet, J. Farrell, G. Crooks, P. Hellings, E. H. Bel, M. Bewick, N. H. Chavannes, Sousa Jc De, A. A. Cruz, T. Haahtela, G. Joos, N. Khaltaev, J. Malva, A. Muraro, M. Nogues, S. Palkonen, S. Pedersen, C. Robalo-Cordeiro, B. Samolinski, T. Strandberg, A. Valiulis, A. Yorgancioglu, T. Zuberbier, A. Bedbrook, W. Aberer, M. Adachi, A. Agusti, Ca Akdis, M Akdis, J. Ankri

School of Psychology

No abstract provided.

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Pneumococcal Vaccine Effectiveness And Its Interaction With Age: A Uk Population Based Study In Older Adults, Aj Streeter, Jah Masoli, A Ble, D Melzer, We Henley Jan 2017

Pneumococcal Vaccine Effectiveness And Its Interaction With Age: A Uk Population Based Study In Older Adults, Aj Streeter, Jah Masoli, A Ble, D Melzer, We Henley

Peninsula Medical School

No abstract provided.

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Po219 Guidelines For Pd Patient Involvement In Service Development, N Shaw, V Evans, J Rideout, C Carroll Jan 2017

Po219 Guidelines For Pd Patient Involvement In Service Development, N Shaw, V Evans, J Rideout, C Carroll

Peninsula Medical School

No abstract provided.

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The Effect Of Hospital Biocide Sodium Dichloroisocyanurate On The Viability And Properties Of Clostridium Difficile Spores., L. T. Joshi, A. Welsch, J. Hawkins, L. Baillie Jan 2017

The Effect Of Hospital Biocide Sodium Dichloroisocyanurate On The Viability And Properties Of Clostridium Difficile Spores., L. T. Joshi, A. Welsch, J. Hawkins, L. Baillie

Peninsula Dental School

UNLABELLED: Clostridium difficile is the primary cause of healthcare-associated diarrhoea globally and produces spores which are resistant to commonly used biocides and are able persist on contaminated surfaces for months. This study examined the effect of sublethal concentrations of the biocide sodium dichloroisocyanurate (NaDCC) on the viability of spores produced by 21 clinical isolates of C. difficile representing a range of PCR ribotypes. Spores exposed to 500 ppm NaDCC for 10 min exhibited between a 4-6 log10 reduction in viability which was independent of spore PCR ribotype. The effect of sublethal concentrations of biocide on the surface properties of exosporium …

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Assessing Larval Connectivity For Marine Spatial Planning In The Adriatic, L. Bray, D. Kassis, J. M. Hall-Spencer Jan 2017

Assessing Larval Connectivity For Marine Spatial Planning In The Adriatic, L. Bray, D. Kassis, J. M. Hall-Spencer

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

No abstract provided.

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Evaluation Of Salt Marsh Restoration By Means Of Self-Regulating Tidal Gate – Avon Estuary, South Devon, Uk, Gerd Masselink, Mick E. Hanley, Anissa C. Halwyn, Will Blake, Ken Kingston, Thomas Newton, Mike Williams Jan 2017

Evaluation Of Salt Marsh Restoration By Means Of Self-Regulating Tidal Gate – Avon Estuary, South Devon, Uk, Gerd Masselink, Mick E. Hanley, Anissa C. Halwyn, Will Blake, Ken Kingston, Thomas Newton, Mike Williams

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

No abstract provided.

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Validity Of The Activpal3 Activity Monitor In People Moderately Affected By Multiple Sclerosis, E. H. Coulter, L. Miller, S. Mccorkell, C. Mcguire, K. Algie, J. Freeman, B. Weller, P. G. Mattison, A. Mcconnachie, O. Wu, L. Paul Jan 2017

Validity Of The Activpal3 Activity Monitor In People Moderately Affected By Multiple Sclerosis, E. H. Coulter, L. Miller, S. Mccorkell, C. Mcguire, K. Algie, J. Freeman, B. Weller, P. G. Mattison, A. Mcconnachie, O. Wu, L. Paul

School of Health Professions

No abstract provided.

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Evaluating Rehabilitation: An Ongoing Challenge., Jennifer Freeman Jan 2017

Evaluating Rehabilitation: An Ongoing Challenge., Jennifer Freeman

School of Health Professions

Research on the effectiveness of rehabilitation interventions is crucial for people with multiple sclerosis (MS), their caregivers, treatment providers and policy makers. Whilst there has been a steady increase in rehabilitation research activity over the past decade, studies have tended to focus on the evaluation of single interventions, such as supervised exercise programmes, and even here there are challenges. In comparison few studies have evaluated the more complex packages, such as multi-disciplinary inpatient rehabilitation. Further, as is typical across the rehabilitation arena, many of the studies undertaken have been pilot or feasibility studies which have not moved onto a definitive …

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Abandoning Animal Personality Would Cause Obfuscation: A Comment On Beekman And Jordan, Mark Briffa Jan 2017

Abandoning Animal Personality Would Cause Obfuscation: A Comment On Beekman And Jordan, Mark Briffa

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

No abstract provided.

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Including The Online Feedback Site, Patient Opinion, In The Nursing Curriculum: Exploratory Study, R Jones, Kim Young, James Munro, Heather Miller, Stephanie Brelsford, Jennie Aronsson, Benny Goodman, Jane Peters Jan 2017

Including The Online Feedback Site, Patient Opinion, In The Nursing Curriculum: Exploratory Study, R Jones, Kim Young, James Munro, Heather Miller, Stephanie Brelsford, Jennie Aronsson, Benny Goodman, Jane Peters

School of Nursing and Midwifery

No abstract provided.

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Traducción Y Validación Al Español Del Cuestionario Empathic-30 Para Medir La Satisfacción De Los Padres En Cuidados Intensivos, Orive Fj Pilar, Lozano J Basabe, Zuñiga A López, Fernández Ym López, Argaluza J Escudero, Jos M. Latour Jan 2017

Traducción Y Validación Al Español Del Cuestionario Empathic-30 Para Medir La Satisfacción De Los Padres En Cuidados Intensivos, Orive Fj Pilar, Lozano J Basabe, Zuñiga A López, Fernández Ym López, Argaluza J Escudero, Jos M. Latour

School of Nursing and Midwifery

No abstract provided.

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Exchanges Between The Shelf And The Deep Black Sea: An Integrated Analysis Of Physical Mechanisms, Gi Shapiro, F Wobus, A Zatsepin, T Akivis, F Zhou Jan 2017

Exchanges Between The Shelf And The Deep Black Sea: An Integrated Analysis Of Physical Mechanisms, Gi Shapiro, F Wobus, A Zatsepin, T Akivis, F Zhou

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

This study provides an integrated analysis of exchanges of water, salt and heat between the north-western Black Sea shelf and the deep basin. Three contributing physical mechanisms are quantified, namely: Ekman drift, transport by mesoscale eddies at the edge of the NW Black Sea shelf and non-local cascading assisted by the rim current and mesoscale eddies.

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Regional-Scale Probabilistic Shoreline Evolution Modelling For Flood-Risk Assessment, Stuart Stripling, Michael Panzeri, Belen Blanco, Kate Rossington, Paul Sayers, Alistair Borthwick Jan 2017

Regional-Scale Probabilistic Shoreline Evolution Modelling For Flood-Risk Assessment, Stuart Stripling, Michael Panzeri, Belen Blanco, Kate Rossington, Paul Sayers, Alistair Borthwick

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

Rapid deterministic modelling of shoreline evolution at regional and coastal-scheme scale enables Monte-Carlo simulations by which long-term shoreline statistics can be estimated. This paper describes UnaLinea, a fast, accurate finite difference solver of the one-line sediment continuity equation. The model is verified for the evolution of an initially straight shoreline of a plane beach subject to regular breaking waves at constant angle of incidence in the presence of either a groyne or a continuous single-point feed of sediment. Grid convergence and stability tests are used to obtain accurate, stable results, with satisfactory computational efficiency. Influences of wave input filtering and …

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Wave Energy Absorption By A Floating Air Bag, A. Kurniawan, J. R. Chaplin, D. M. Greaves, M. Hann Jan 2017

Wave Energy Absorption By A Floating Air Bag, A. Kurniawan, J. R. Chaplin, D. M. Greaves, M. Hann

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

No abstract provided.

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