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The Use of Traditional Herbal Medicines Amongst South Asian Diasporic Communities in the UK
(Article)Migrant South Asian communities in the UK have brought with them their own traditional forms of medicine, yet little is known about their current use of herbal medicines (HMs) in the UK. The aim of the study was to explore ... -
Using conversation analysis to investigate the efficacy of the Hanen Parent Programme for parents of preschool children with learning disabilities/language disorder.
(Conference)The Hanen Training Programme, (Manolson, 1975)1 was devised to empower parents and caregivers to help children to communicate to the best of their abilities. In line with moves within the speech and language therapy ... -
Using every day client and advocate clinical interviews to gather outcome measurements – a mixed methods framework
(Conference)Abstract introduction Aphasia is a multimodality language difficulty experienced by people who have a left sided stroke. Speech and Language Therapists (SLTs) who work with People with Aphasia (PWA) often provide word ... -
Using real-time fMRI brain-computer interfacing to treat eating disorders
(Article)Real-time functional magnetic resonance imaging based brain-computer interfacing (fMRI neurofeedback) has shown encouraging outcomes in the treatment of psychiatric and behavioural disorders. However, its use in the treatment ... -
Using real-time fMRI to influence effective connectivity in the developing emotion regulation network
(Article)For most people, adolescence is synonymous with emotional turmoil and it has been shown that early difficulties with emotion regulation can lead to persistent problems for some people. This suggests that intervention during ... -
Using signs and symbols to identify hospital patients with a dementia diagnosis: help or hindrance to recognition and care?
(Article)Philosophical and biomedical perspectives both agree that the ways in which someone is seen is critical to their wellbeing. Empirical work confirms the philosophical claims that attention is an active process, a relationship ... -
Using workload measurement tools in diverse care contexts: the experience of staff in mental health and learning disability inpatient settings
(Article)Abstract Accessible summary What is known on the subject? Difficulties with the recruitment and retention of qualified nursing staff have resulted in nursing shortages worldwide with a consequential impact on the ... -
The utility of the YLS/CMI-SV for assessing youth offenders in Singapore.
(Article)The Youth Level of Service/Case Management Inventory–Screening Version (YLS/CMI-SV) is designed to provide a preliminary estimate of the level of risk for antisocial behaviors as well as an indication of areas for intervention ... -
Vagotomy inhibits the jejunal fluid secretion activated by luminal ileal Escherichia coli STa in the rat in vivo.
(Article)BACKGROUND Escherichia coli heat stable enterotoxin (STa) is a major cause of secretory diarrhoea in humans. AIMS To assess the effects of instilling STa into the ileum on remote fluid secretion in the jejunum and colon ... -
Valuing people with sickle cell disease
(Article)Employers need to be flexible when managing sickle cell disease in the workplace and sensitive to the risks of discrimination. Diana De, Simon Dyson and Karl Atkin offer evidence-based guidance and recommendations. -
The verification interview technique: Enabling the evaluation of the impact of language therapy on the quality of life of a person with severe aphasia.
(Conference)Background It is difficult to measure the impact of speech and language therapy intervention for people with aphasia. This is because the effect of communication loss and language rehabilitation is hard to capture using ... -
Violence as Work: Ethnomethodological Insights into Military Combat Operations
(Article)Objective: The objective of this article is to outline an ethnomethodological approach to the study of professionalized violence or violence as work. It focuses primarily on violence in the context of military combat ... -
The Violence You Were/n’t Meant to See
(Book chapter)This chapter starts with a consideration of the opportunities the internet affords us to become virtual witnesses to episodes of military operations and the deaths they result in. It is organised around an analysis of two ... -
VIRTUAL CASE STUDIES IN THE NOVEL RESOURCE DMU E-PARASITOLOGY
(Conference)A novel on-line package for teaching and learning human parasitology, named DMU e-Parasitology, is being co-developed by academics from De Montfort University (DMU, Leicester, UK) and the Spanish universities: University ...