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What do untrained conversation partners know about communicating with people with aphasia?
(Image)Background This study was undertaken as part of the final year undergraduate degree programme at De Montfort University. In 2006 Turner & Whitworth identified that teaching conversational partners about supportive ... -
What do you want to do with the leg?”: A critical narrative review of the understandings and implications of disposal in the context of limb amputations
(Article)Purpose: Amputation is seen to be a potentially distressing experience for patients and one which, for some patients, is seen as being akin to grief. Historically medical professionals have alluded to the relevance of ... -
What so service industry workers know about people with aphasia? – a small scale questionnaire investigation.
(Image)Background This study was undertaken as part of the final year undergraduate degree programme at De Montfort University. In 2003 Code found that people with aphasia (PWA) spent an average of twenty hours outside their ... -
Who do you troll and why: An investigation into the relationship between the Dark Triad Personalities and online trolling behaviours towards popular and less popular Facebook profiles.
(Article)This experiment examined the influence of Dark Personalities in trolling behaviour towards popular and less popular Facebook profiles. One-hundred and thirty-five participants were recruited to view two fake Facebook ... -
‘Who's the guy in the room?’ Involving fathers in antenatal care screening for sickle cell disorders
(Article)Fathers are increasingly invited to take part in antenatal care of which screening for sickle cell trait is a part. Expectations about involvement reflect changing perceptions of fatherhood and negotiation of gendered ... -
Whooping cough vaccination: historical, social and political controversies.
(Article)New acellular whooping cough vaccines may have the effect of leading us to believe that infectious diseases such as whooping cough have declined in the context of particular historical and social conditions, and persist ... -
Women’s experience of social egg freezing: perceptions of success, risks, and ‘going it alone’
(Article)Abstract Objective: To explore how female users of social egg freezing technology reported their experience of freezing eggs for ‘social’ reasons. Background: Very few studies have explored women’s experiences of social ... -
Women’s perspectives on the value of a father’s initiative in shifting gendered practices within families
(Article)This paper explores the qualitative perspectives of women about a community embedded fathers initiative in Northern England. Projects to improve the wellbeing of men and their children are less common within the landscape ... -
Working with other practitioners
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Working with professionals
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Working with sickle cell / thalassaemia support groups
(Book chapter)This chapter reports on the processes of research in working with support groups for sickle cell anaemia and beta-thalassaemia in conducting community-based surveys of knowledge of these two inherited conditions. The ... -
Yeast differentiation using MALDI-TOF-MS
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Yttrium levels in urban soils of Alcala de Henares (Madrid).
(Conference)El itrio (Y) es una tierra rara de transición que cada vez cuenta con mas aplicaciones tanto industriales como de uso domestico. Es un elemento moderadamente abundante en la corteza terrestre, aunque su presencia puede ... -
Zidovudine ameliorates pathology in the mouse model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy via P2RX7 purinoceptor antagonism
(Article)Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is the most common inherited muscle disorder that causes severe disability and death of young men. This disease is characterized by progressive muscle degeneration aggravated by sterile ...