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Community Resilience In Rural China: The Case Of Hu Village, Sichuan Province, G Wilson, Z Hu, S Rahman Jan 2018

Community Resilience In Rural China: The Case Of Hu Village, Sichuan Province, G Wilson, Z Hu, S Rahman

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Building on conceptual frameworks to assess community resilience developed by Emery and Flora (2006) and Kelly et al. (2015), this study analyses the resilience of Hu village (Sichuan, China). The resilience of the village is assessed in the face of multiple and complex slow- and fast onset anthropogenic disturbances, especially the impacts of globalisation and modernisation, which have substantially transformed Chinese society. Hu village is typical for a rural community in transition affected by industrialisation, deagrarianisation, counter-urbanisation and changing stakeholder expectations and opportunities. This has been accompanied by agricultural depopulation, outmigration, increasing non-farm employment, declining agricultural incomes, and associated social …

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Data Browser 06: Executing Practices, Geoff Cox, Olle Essvik, Jennifer Gabrys, Francisco Gallardo, David Gauthier, Linda Hilfling Ritasdatter, Brian House, Yuk Hui, Marie Louise Juul Søndergaard, Peggy Pierrot, Andrew Prior, Helen Pritchard, Roel Roscam Abbing, Audrey Samson, Kasper Hedegård Schiølin, Susan Schuppli, Femke Snelting, Eric Snodgrass, Winnie Soon, Magdalena Tyzlik-Carver Jan 2018

Data Browser 06: Executing Practices, Geoff Cox, Olle Essvik, Jennifer Gabrys, Francisco Gallardo, David Gauthier, Linda Hilfling Ritasdatter, Brian House, Yuk Hui, Marie Louise Juul Søndergaard, Peggy Pierrot, Andrew Prior, Helen Pritchard, Roel Roscam Abbing, Audrey Samson, Kasper Hedegård Schiølin, Susan Schuppli, Femke Snelting, Eric Snodgrass, Winnie Soon, Magdalena Tyzlik-Carver

School of Art, Design and Architecture

This book is a result of collective energy that brought together a group of artists, researchers and practitioners. Their different practices and approaches to the question of execution sparked a desire to carry out a project where thinking about software is entangled with various practices of computationally-informed executions.

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Time For Change: A Study Of Enrolment Decision Dynamics For Admission Into English Secondary Education, David Andrew Carter Jan 2018

Time For Change: A Study Of Enrolment Decision Dynamics For Admission Into English Secondary Education, David Andrew Carter

Plymouth Business School Theses

Cross-sectional studies suggest a prevalence of mental health problems from the age that children change to English secondary schools but there are few longitudinal appraisals of these issues and how enrolment policies influence psychological wellbeing. This research focuses on key factors linking competition for secondary schools and family responses to such challenges to determine enrolment policies that can sustain wellbeing longer-term. Integrated, model-based multimethodology was used in this urban, case-based study. Views were induced from multi-agency, expert practitioners to agree a system dynamics concept model. Parental decision-making behaviours were deduced by survey to understand key factors for model calibration. Dynamic …

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From Entrepreneurial Intention To Action: The Role Of Self-Regulation And Cultural Values The Case Of Saudi Arabia, Khalid Alammari Jan 2018

From Entrepreneurial Intention To Action: The Role Of Self-Regulation And Cultural Values The Case Of Saudi Arabia, Khalid Alammari

Plymouth Business School Theses

Scholarship has recognised the importance of entrepreneurship for economic development. Increasingly, policy makers promote entrepreneurship as one of the solutions for unemployment concerns. However, although many people formulate entrepreneurial intention they fail to convert their intention into action; this problem is called the intention-action gap. The problem of intention-action gap is particularly salient in Saudi Arabia. Although people have positive perceptions about entrepreneurship and high entrepreneurial intention, the country’s entrepreneurial activity is low. This presents a barrier in achieving the country’s national strategy to create more entrepreneurs through the promotion of entrepreneurship. Here, raising an intention to become an entrepreneur …

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Disadvantage In English Seaside Resorts: A Typology Of Deprived Neighbourhoods, Sheela Agarwal, Steven Jakes, Stephen Essex, Stephen J. Page, Martin Mowforth Jan 2018

Disadvantage In English Seaside Resorts: A Typology Of Deprived Neighbourhoods, Sheela Agarwal, Steven Jakes, Stephen Essex, Stephen J. Page, Martin Mowforth

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Socio-economic disadvantage experienced by residents of English seaside resorts has been growing over the last decade, and academic and practice-based research is providing better insights into the causes, internal dynamics and appropriate policy responses to these issues in coastal communities. This paper examines the nature and extent of disadvantage in English seaside resorts through analysis of a specially devised spatial and temporal database, which draws together various publicly available sources beyond the population census and Index of Multiple Deprivation. Using univariate, bivariate and multivariate analyses of this database, a new typology of highly deprived resort neighbourhoods has been devised, with …

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An Exploration Of Peer-Assisted Learning In Undergraduate Nursing Students In Paediatric Clinical Settings: An Ethnographic Study, Matthew C. Carey, Anna Chick, Bridie Kent, Jos M. Latour Jan 2018

An Exploration Of Peer-Assisted Learning In Undergraduate Nursing Students In Paediatric Clinical Settings: An Ethnographic Study, Matthew C. Carey, Anna Chick, Bridie Kent, Jos M. Latour

School of Nursing and Midwifery

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Refining Nursing Assessment And Management With A New Post-Anaesthetic Care Discharge Tool To Minimise Surgical Patient Risk, Maryann Street, Nicole M. Phillips, Emily Haesler, Bridie Kent Jan 2018

Refining Nursing Assessment And Management With A New Post-Anaesthetic Care Discharge Tool To Minimise Surgical Patient Risk, Maryann Street, Nicole M. Phillips, Emily Haesler, Bridie Kent

School of Nursing and Midwifery

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Organisational Interventions Designed To Reduce Caesarean Section Rates: A Systematic Review Protocol, Alison M. Hutchinson, Cate Nagle, Bridie Kent, Debra Bick, Rebecca Lindberg Jan 2018

Organisational Interventions Designed To Reduce Caesarean Section Rates: A Systematic Review Protocol, Alison M. Hutchinson, Cate Nagle, Bridie Kent, Debra Bick, Rebecca Lindberg

School of Nursing and Midwifery

IntroductionThere is a growing body of evidence to indicate that both primary and subsequent caesarean sections are associated with increased maternal and perinatal morbidity. Efforts to reduce the number of clinically unnecessary caesarean sections are urgently required. Our objective is to systematically review published evidence on the effectiveness of maternity service organisational interventions, such as models of maternity care, that aim to reduce caesarean section rates.Methods and analysisDatabases will be searched, including the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, MEDLINE, Maternity and Infant Care, EMBASE and SCOPUS. Search terms related to caesarean …

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A Very Different Experience: Merchant Seamen On British Coastal Convoys 1940-45', Gh Bennett, Gh Bennett Jan 2018

A Very Different Experience: Merchant Seamen On British Coastal Convoys 1940-45', Gh Bennett, Gh Bennett

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences

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The Credibility Gap: The Objectification Of Child Victims Of Sexual Abuse 1880-1980, Ka Stevenson Jan 2018

The Credibility Gap: The Objectification Of Child Victims Of Sexual Abuse 1880-1980, Ka Stevenson

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences

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Discrimination, Harassment And Non-Reporting In Uk Medical Education, Jonathan Broad, Marion Matheson, Fabienne Verrall, Anna K. Taylor, Daniel Zahra, Louise Alldridge, Gene Feder Jan 2018

Discrimination, Harassment And Non-Reporting In Uk Medical Education, Jonathan Broad, Marion Matheson, Fabienne Verrall, Anna K. Taylor, Daniel Zahra, Louise Alldridge, Gene Feder

Peninsula Medical School

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Intervention Delivery Fidelity Assessment Of A Counseling-Based Intervention For Promoting Smoking Reduction And Increasing Physical Activity, Tom P. Thompson, Jeffrey D. Lambert, Colin J. Greaves, Adrian H. Taylor Jan 2018

Intervention Delivery Fidelity Assessment Of A Counseling-Based Intervention For Promoting Smoking Reduction And Increasing Physical Activity, Tom P. Thompson, Jeffrey D. Lambert, Colin J. Greaves, Adrian H. Taylor

Peninsula Medical School

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Health Trainer-Led Motivational Intervention Plus Usual Care For People Under Community Supervision Compared With Usual Care Alone: A Study Protocol For A Parallel-Group Pilot Randomised Controlled Trial (Strengthen), Tom P. Thompson, Lynne Callaghan, Emma Hazeldine, Cath Quinn, Samantha Walker, Richard Byng, Gary Wallace, Siobhan Creanor, Colin Green, Annie Hawton, Jill Annison, Julia Sinclair, Jane Senior, Adrian H. Taylor Jan 2018

Health Trainer-Led Motivational Intervention Plus Usual Care For People Under Community Supervision Compared With Usual Care Alone: A Study Protocol For A Parallel-Group Pilot Randomised Controlled Trial (Strengthen), Tom P. Thompson, Lynne Callaghan, Emma Hazeldine, Cath Quinn, Samantha Walker, Richard Byng, Gary Wallace, Siobhan Creanor, Colin Green, Annie Hawton, Jill Annison, Julia Sinclair, Jane Senior, Adrian H. Taylor

Peninsula Medical School

IntroductionPeople with experience of the criminal justice system typically have worse physical and mental health, lower levels of mental well-being and have less healthy lifestyles than the general population. Health trainers have worked with offenders in the community to provide support for lifestyle change, enhance mental well-being and signpost to appropriate services. There has been no rigorous evaluation of the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of providing such community support. This study aims to determine the feasibility and acceptability of conducting a randomised trial and delivering a health trainer intervention to people receiving community supervision in the UK.Methods and analysisA multicentre, parallel, …

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Validation Of Multisource Feedback In Assessing Medical Performance: A Systematic Review, Sag Stevens, J Read, R Baines, A Chatterjee, J Archer Jan 2018

Validation Of Multisource Feedback In Assessing Medical Performance: A Systematic Review, Sag Stevens, J Read, R Baines, A Chatterjee, J Archer

Peninsula Medical School

Introduction Over the past ten years, a number of systematic reviews have evaluated the validity of multisource feedback (MSF) to assess and quality assure medical practice. The purpose of this study is to synthesise the results from existing reviews to provide a holistic overview of the validity evidence. Methods This review identified eight systematic reviews evaluating the validity of MSF published between January 2006 and October 2016. Using a standardised data extraction form, two independent reviewers extracted study characteristics. A framework of validation developed by the American Psychological Association (APA) was used to appraise the validity evidence within each systematic …

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Ethical, Cultural, Social And Individual Considerations Prior To Transition To Limitation Or Withdrawal Of Life-Sustaining Therapies, Re Kirsch, Cr Balit, Fa Carnevale, Jm Latour, V Larcher Jan 2018

Ethical, Cultural, Social And Individual Considerations Prior To Transition To Limitation Or Withdrawal Of Life-Sustaining Therapies, Re Kirsch, Cr Balit, Fa Carnevale, Jm Latour, V Larcher

School of Nursing and Midwifery

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Obesity And Dental Caries In Young Children In Plymouth, United Kingdom: A Spatial Analysis, Martha Paisi, Elizabeth Kay, Irene Kaimi, Robert Witton, Robert Nelder, Costas Christophi, Debra Lapthorne Jan 2018

Obesity And Dental Caries In Young Children In Plymouth, United Kingdom: A Spatial Analysis, Martha Paisi, Elizabeth Kay, Irene Kaimi, Robert Witton, Robert Nelder, Costas Christophi, Debra Lapthorne

School of Nursing and Midwifery

No abstract provided.

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Mhealth Resources For Asthma And Pregnancy Care: Methodological Issues And Social Media Recruitment. A Discussion Paper, Graham R. Williamson, Anita O'Connor, Chervonne Chamberlain, David Halpin Jan 2018

Mhealth Resources For Asthma And Pregnancy Care: Methodological Issues And Social Media Recruitment. A Discussion Paper, Graham R. Williamson, Anita O'Connor, Chervonne Chamberlain, David Halpin

School of Nursing and Midwifery

No abstract provided.

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Preconception Care For Infertile Couples: Nurses' And Midwives' Roles In Promoting Better Maternal And Birth Outcomes., Helen T. Allan, Ginny Mounce, Esther Crespo, Jill Shawe Jan 2018

Preconception Care For Infertile Couples: Nurses' And Midwives' Roles In Promoting Better Maternal And Birth Outcomes., Helen T. Allan, Ginny Mounce, Esther Crespo, Jill Shawe

School of Nursing and Midwifery

INTRODUCTION: Preconception care promotes better maternal outcomes, may assist in preventing birth defects and improves fertility awareness among healthy childbearing couples. Yet, the significance of preconception care for infertile couples is undeveloped area of practice in Europe. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: To discuss the importance of nurses and midwives in providing preconception care to infertile couples in the United Kingdom and Spain. DESIGN: Discursive paper. METHOD: A comparison of different midwifery and nursing approaches to preconception care for infertile couples in two European countries. FINDINGS: At present, infertile couples' needs for preconception care are not routinely identified or understood. There is …

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Factors Influencing The Implementation Of Advanced Midwife Practitioners In Healthcare Settings: A Qualitative Study, R Goemaes, J Shawe, D Beeckman, E Decoene, S Verhaeghe, Hecke A Van Jan 2018

Factors Influencing The Implementation Of Advanced Midwife Practitioners In Healthcare Settings: A Qualitative Study, R Goemaes, J Shawe, D Beeckman, E Decoene, S Verhaeghe, Hecke A Van

School of Nursing and Midwifery

No abstract provided.

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‘University Must Be Saved’ Genealogy As A Knowledge Approach., Patrizia Moschella Jan 2018

‘University Must Be Saved’ Genealogy As A Knowledge Approach., Patrizia Moschella

School of Art, Design and Architecture Theses

The research offers an elaboration of genealogy as an approach to knowledge from Friedrich Nietzsche's original work on method (1887) processed by Michel Foucault (1971). It provides an interdisciplinary version that integrates theoretical and analytical contributions from the philosophy of knowledge, from exact and social sciences to artistic research. This work also takes into account those who have most explicitly enhanced the potentialities of geneaalogy such as Gilles Deleuze (1962) and, more recently, Carlo Sini (2007) and Giorgio Agamben (2010), but also embraces the reflections of researchers, from the past or present, whom I dare associate with the genealogy approach …

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A Framework For The Consideration Of Narrative In Creative Arts Practice, Paul Green Jan 2018

A Framework For The Consideration Of Narrative In Creative Arts Practice, Paul Green

School of Art, Design and Architecture Theses

This research project is aimed at creative practitioners in art and design who choose to engage in postgraduate research and who recognise narrative to be an important aspect of their work. While the goal of narratology has been explicitly declared as an interest in understanding narrative in all its forms, this project responded to a perceived absence of art and design centred perspectives in the general literature on narrative. A general attitude has developed throughout the course of the twentieth century resulting in a view that narrative has become a dead issue for contemporary practitioners. Findings from the investigations conducted …

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The Heart Of Cities Seen Through The Making Of Objects, P Davis Jan 2018

The Heart Of Cities Seen Through The Making Of Objects, P Davis

School of Art, Design and Architecture

No abstract provided.

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Building Resistance To Brand Switching During Disruptions In A Competitive Market: An Identity Theory Perspective, Dominic Appiah Jan 2018

Building Resistance To Brand Switching During Disruptions In A Competitive Market: An Identity Theory Perspective, Dominic Appiah

Plymouth Business School Theses

The impact of identity on brand loyalty has taken precedence as an area of focus in recent marketing research. This has taken place in an era defined by technological revolution, which has created market disruptions and there are implications for customer–brand relationships. Nonetheless, the extant literature on brand loyalty does not extensively acknowledge the impact of socio-psychological attributes but rather functional utility maximisation. The brand loyalty literature has the notion that the perceived value of a brand is conceptualised and operationalised as a functional utilitarian value. Knowledge that illuminates how firms can reposition themselves to sustain brand loyalty when disruptions …

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Corporate Governance In The Nonprofit Sector: A Grounded Theory Approach To Studying The Trustee Board, George Dexter Jan 2018

Corporate Governance In The Nonprofit Sector: A Grounded Theory Approach To Studying The Trustee Board, George Dexter

Plymouth Business School Theses

This thesis uses a constructivist grounded theory approach to investigate nonprofit corporate governance in the UK; using data obtained from participatory observations of board and associated meetings, workshops, and unstructured elite interviews. Open codes are generated and brought together as concepts, which are then iteratively compared and grouped in open categories. These categories are then reassembled using the paradigm model into five axial codes: the clash of orthodoxies; clash of motivations; regulator versus board power; clash of rationalities; and effective board duality. A dialectical approach is then used to create the core category of the ‘clash of neoliberal and public …

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An Evaluation Of Online Service Failures And Recovery Strategies In The Uk Fashion Industry, Samuel Ayertey Jan 2018

An Evaluation Of Online Service Failures And Recovery Strategies In The Uk Fashion Industry, Samuel Ayertey

Plymouth Business School Theses

The emerging digital economy has brought about new paradigms for retailing. Consumers across the world face new opportunities and challenges as the Internet, the driving force of the new economy, has given rise to online fashion retailing as a new and increasingly popular way for retailers to sell clothing in the twenty-first century. Along with this opportunity comes the challenge of identifying and rectifying service failures. In spite of a proliferation of the number of studies on service failure and recovery in e-service settings, there is a paucity of knowledge in terms of how service failure and recovery practices are …

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Improving Eating Habits In Adults With Type 2 Diabetes: An Experience With Food, Christine Noyan-Lue Jan 2018

Improving Eating Habits In Adults With Type 2 Diabetes: An Experience With Food, Christine Noyan-Lue

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

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Increasing Cognitive Screening, Neuropsychological Referrals, And Dementia Detection Among Older Haitian Adults, Sandra Daccarett Jan 2018

Increasing Cognitive Screening, Neuropsychological Referrals, And Dementia Detection Among Older Haitian Adults, Sandra Daccarett

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

No abstract provided.

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Factors Associated With Behavioural Problems Among Children Receiving Anti-Epileptic Drugs, Aswathy K. L Ms, P A Mohammed Kunju Dr, S Mini Dr Jan 2018

Factors Associated With Behavioural Problems Among Children Receiving Anti-Epileptic Drugs, Aswathy K. L Ms, P A Mohammed Kunju Dr, S Mini Dr

Manipal Journal of Nursing and Health Sciences

Children on anti-epileptic drug (AED) therapy have many health problems. Children with epilepsy are at a high risk for poor psychosocial outcomes, even without evident co-morbidities. Apart from the episodic seizures, multiple socio-cultural factors affect their behaviour and health. Objective: Objective of the present study is to find out factors associated with behavioural problems among children receiving anti-epileptic drugs. Methodology: A cross-sectional design was used in the present study. Data were collected from 275 children between 6 to 12 years, who were diagnosed with seizure disorder and on AED for a minimum of six months. Children along with their mothers …

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Associated Risk Factors Of Postnatal Depression In South Asian Region - A Narrative Review, Savitha, Linu Sara George, Shyamala G Dr, Judith Angelitta Noronha Dr Jan 2018

Associated Risk Factors Of Postnatal Depression In South Asian Region - A Narrative Review, Savitha, Linu Sara George, Shyamala G Dr, Judith Angelitta Noronha Dr

Manipal Journal of Nursing and Health Sciences

Background: Postpartum depression (PPD) is a major source of morbidity among women who have recently delivered a child. The recognition and timely identification of risk factors of PPD is very essential to plan appropriate interventions. Objective: Current review aims to explore associated factors of postpartum depression in South Asian region. Methods: Searches of observational cohorts and surveys were performed in Medline (PubMed), CINAHL, ProQuest, and Scopus databases from 2005 to 2016 to identify English language articles. Results: Twenty-four articles were eligible for analysis. The risk factors related to postpartum depression were grouped under following categories: Demographic, psychological, social, obstetric, and …

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Entry-Level Occupational Therapy Programs’ Emphasis On Play: A Survey, Anita W. Mitchell, Jennifer Hale, Meg Lawrence, Erwin Murillo, Katie Newman, Hannah Smith Jan 2018

Entry-Level Occupational Therapy Programs’ Emphasis On Play: A Survey, Anita W. Mitchell, Jennifer Hale, Meg Lawrence, Erwin Murillo, Katie Newman, Hannah Smith

Journal of Occupational Therapy Education

Play is a key occupation for children. Despite this, research suggests that pediatric occupational therapists primarily use play as a modality rather than addressing it as an outcome. Lack of education related to play has been identified as a factor contributing to the limited use of play in intervention; therefore, this study examined entry-level occupational therapy programs’ emphasis on play in their curricula. Faculty from entry-level occupational therapy programs in all regions of the U.S. responded to a validated survey. The majority (82%, n = 33) reported meeting Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy Education (ACOTE) standards related to play, notwithstanding …

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