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Teach the children well: young adult literature and queer content
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This paper forms part of a larger project interested equally in literary analysis of young adult texts with LGBTQ content, the institutional contexts within which such texts are produced, and what happens to the texts once they are published. Ultimat... Read More about Teach the children well: young adult literature and queer content.

Trade and customs procedures: the compliance costs for UK meat imports: a case study
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The study was funded by the Nottingham University Business School with the support of the International Meat Trade Association (IMTA) and the Association of Port Health Authorities (APHA), amongst others. It involved: a detailed review of current im... Read More about Trade and customs procedures: the compliance costs for UK meat imports: a case study.

Port resilience: a primer
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The aim of this conceptual paper is to help stimulate further research and enquiry into UK Port Resilience and is a product of the EPSRC funded Knowledge Transfer Collaboration between the University of Nottingham and the Department for Transport (Df... Read More about Port resilience: a primer.

Improving quality of life and end of life care for people with dementia using the soundtrack to my life tool: evaluation report, University of Nottingham
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Good support at home for people with dementia and their carers is crucial to maintaining their quality of life and helping them to remain in their own home. Person centred packages of care have been shown to be an effective means of providing this su... Read More about Improving quality of life and end of life care for people with dementia using the soundtrack to my life tool: evaluation report, University of Nottingham.

Learning-based text mining in analysis of free-text responses to the (2013) Wales Cancer Patient Experience Survey (WCPES): findings and future applications
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Norms, normality and normalization: papers from the postgraduate summer school in German Studies, Nottingham, July 2013
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A collection of 12 papers delivered at the DAAD Postgraduate Summer School in German Studies "Norms, Normality and Normalization". Matthias Uecker: Introduction: Norms, normality and normalization; Jürgen Link: Crisis between ʻDenormalizationʼ and... Read More about Norms, normality and normalization: papers from the postgraduate summer school in German Studies, Nottingham, July 2013.

Protocol for the development and validation of risk prediction equations to estimate absolute and conditional survival in patients with cancer
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This is a protocol to describe the development and validation of a set of prediction equations to quantify absolute survival for patients with different types of cancers taking account of other clinical factors available through routine linkage of ca... Read More about Protocol for the development and validation of risk prediction equations to estimate absolute and conditional survival in patients with cancer.

Protocol to assess the effectiveness and safety of novel oral anticoagulants (NOAC) vs warfarin in real world settings: cohort study in primary care
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Anticoagulants are used to treat thrombosis and to prevent thrombosis and stroke among those at high risk. Older anticoagulants such as warfarin can be effective but require regular monitoring and may lead to major bleeding and even death. Newer anti... Read More about Protocol to assess the effectiveness and safety of novel oral anticoagulants (NOAC) vs warfarin in real world settings: cohort study in primary care.

An evaluation of the High Frequency Digit Triplet Test as a screening tool for early detection of hearing loss in individuals with Cystic Fibrosis. Protocol v2.1.
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The arpeggigon: declarative programming of a full-fledged musical application
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There are many systems and languages for music that essentially are declarative, often following the synchronous dataflow paradigm. As these tools, however, are mainly aimed at artists, their application focus tends to be narrow and their usefulness... Read More about The arpeggigon: declarative programming of a full-fledged musical application.

The hidden costs of mental depression: implications on social trust and life satisfaction
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Mental health conditions such as depression is a rapidly rising epidemic and a major contributor to the overall global burden of disease. In addition to the direct medical costs and indirect economic costs that falls into the traditional boundary of... Read More about The hidden costs of mental depression: implications on social trust and life satisfaction.

A corpus-based study of depressive language in online teen health communications
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This paper presents a multidisciplinary study by using a corpus linguistic approach to investigate the topic of teen depression in an online discussion forum. The lexico- grammatical and semantic patterns of keywords in 129 online posts are explored,... Read More about A corpus-based study of depressive language in online teen health communications.

Simplified three player Kuhn poker
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We study a very small three player poker game (one-third street Kuhn poker), and a simplified version of the game that is interesting because it has three distinct equilibrium solutions. For one-third street Kuhn poker, we are able to find all of the... Read More about Simplified three player Kuhn poker.

Why most people with mental illness go untreated? economic perspectives and evidence from China
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Due to the rapid economic growth and advancement in medical technology, many countries have experienced in the past decades an epidemiological transition from communicable to non- communicable dieses (NCDs). One of the challenges in the era of NCDs i... Read More about Why most people with mental illness go untreated? economic perspectives and evidence from China.

Lost and stolen dogs - the true sacrifice
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A lost \ stolen dog has a devastating affect on an individual and their family this article attempts to quantify the financial cost of such an event in the UK context.

Bayesian model choice via mixture distributions with application to epidemics and population process models
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We consider Bayesian model choice for the setting where the observed data are partially observed realisations of a stochastic population process. A new method for computing Bayes factors is described which avoids the need to use reversible jump appro... Read More about Bayesian model choice via mixture distributions with application to epidemics and population process models.

Critical perspectives on making science public
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Selected papers given at the Science in Public conference, July 22-23 2013 at the University of Nottingham

Chaos and "uiut" in Bulgakov's Belaia Gvardiia
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The opposition of uiut (the meaning of which is only partially rendered by the English ‘cosiness’) and chaos is identified as a fundamental structural element in Mikhail Bulgakov’s Belaia gvardiia, informing the novel’s construction on a variety of f... Read More about Chaos and "uiut" in Bulgakov's Belaia Gvardiia.

Russian anti-literature
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To support the myth of Russian literature’s unique social mission, its critics, historians, and creators since the time of Pushkin have used various strategies to present it as inherently nomoclastic – as somehow standing apart from established Europ... Read More about Russian anti-literature.

Sortal concepts and modality
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What is the modal significance of sortal concepts? It is generally accepted that sortal concepts provide persistence conditions with modal implications that are de re, and not merely de dicto. I do not think that this important assumption has receive... Read More about Sortal concepts and modality.