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Long-Term Care: Matching Resources and Needs (2004)
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Knapp, M., Challis, D., Fernández, J., & Netten, A. (Eds.). (2004). Long-Term Care: Matching Resources and Needs. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351153560

Improving equity and efficiency in the long-term care of older people is an international concern, with governments attempting to ensure that policies and practice develop so that resources are used to best effect. This requires good quality evidence... Read More about Long-Term Care: Matching Resources and Needs.

Conceptualising and Effecting Good Outcomes in Foster Care:an exploration of the research literature (2004)
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Wilson, K., Sinclair, I., Taylor, C., Pithouse, A., & Sellick, C. (2004). Conceptualising and Effecting Good Outcomes in Foster Care:an exploration of the research literature. Policy Press

On any one day over 75,000 children are looked after by local authorities in the UK. Numerically the most important form of provision for these looked after children is foster care. This caters for about 60% of those looked after at any one point i... Read More about Conceptualising and Effecting Good Outcomes in Foster Care:an exploration of the research literature.

The contribution of community pharmacy to improving the public's health. Report 1, Evidence from the peer-reviewed literature 1990–2001 (2003)
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Anderson, C., Blenkinsopp, A., & Armstrong, M. (2003). The contribution of community pharmacy to improving the public's health. Report 1, Evidence from the peer-reviewed literature 1990–2001. PharmacyHealthLink and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain

The modernisation of the NHS has highlighted the
Government's intent to improve the public’s access to
health services, information on preventing ill health and
support for self-care. Community pharmacies are in a
strong position to contribute to... Read More about The contribution of community pharmacy to improving the public's health. Report 1, Evidence from the peer-reviewed literature 1990–2001.

Monadic parser combinators (1996)
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Hutton, G., & Meijer, E. (1996). Monadic parser combinators. School of Computer Science and IT

In functional programming, a popular approach to building recursive descent parsers is to model parsers as functions, and to define higher-order functions (or combinators) that implement grammar constructions such as sequencing, choice, and repetitio... Read More about Monadic parser combinators.

The Ruby Interpreter (1993)
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Hutton, G. (1993). The Ruby Interpreter. Department of Computing Science

Ruby is a relational calculus for designing digital circuits. This document is a guide to the Ruby interpreter, which allows a special class of $quot;implementable$quot; Ruby programs to be executed. The Ruby interpreter is written in the functional... Read More about The Ruby Interpreter.

Investigation of strategic capacity issues in the aerospace sector
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Wang, K., Buxton, D., Farr, R., & MacCarthy, B. Investigation of strategic capacity issues in the aerospace sector. VIVACE project consortium

The business environment is changing fast and radically. Traditional capacity planning has limitations in today’s dynamic environments, particularly from a strategic perspective in the aerospace sector. This document sets out to identify the unique c... Read More about Investigation of strategic capacity issues in the aerospace sector.

Global Expressivism: language agency without semantics, reality without metaphysics
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Barker, S. J. Global Expressivism: language agency without semantics, reality without metaphysics. (submitted to) Oxford University Press. Manuscript submitted for publication

There is a wide-spread belief amongst theorists of mind and language. This is that in order to understand the relation between language, thought, and reality we need a theory of meaning and content, that is, a normative, formal science of meaning, wh... Read More about Global Expressivism: language agency without semantics, reality without metaphysics.

What Pedro could do
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Woodard, C. (2007). What Pedro could do. University of Nottingham

This paper discusses Bernard Williams's famous case of Jim and the Indians. It contrasts two ways of diagnosing the alleged errors of Act Utilitarianism in considering this case. One approach suggests that Act Utilitarianism fails to appreciate the i... Read More about What Pedro could do.

"Deutschland kann nur durch Deutschland gerettet werden": der Kampf um das nationale Erbe der Befreiungskriege am Berliner Dönhoffplatz im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert
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Haase, C., & Kreuzer, J. "Deutschland kann nur durch Deutschland gerettet werden": der Kampf um das nationale Erbe der Befreiungskriege am Berliner Dönhoffplatz im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. University of Nottingham. Manuscript submitted for publication

The former Dönhoffplatz has been renamed the Marion-Gräfin-Dönhoff-Platz in 2010. The University of Nottingham provided the historical background research on the history of the Platz which dates back to the 1740s. The findings are presented in this P... Read More about "Deutschland kann nur durch Deutschland gerettet werden": der Kampf um das nationale Erbe der Befreiungskriege am Berliner Dönhoffplatz im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert.

A report into patterns of diet and exercise in the Pakistani community of Nottingham City
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Shaw, I., & Hussain, B. (2013). A report into patterns of diet and exercise in the Pakistani community of Nottingham City. Nottingham City Primary Care NHS Trust

This qualitative investigation considers dietary and exercise patterns of the Pakistani community residing in Nottingham. This is an important area of inquiry as the evidence suggests that these patterns cause higher rates of CHD among the members of... Read More about A report into patterns of diet and exercise in the Pakistani community of Nottingham City.

Teach the children well: young adult literature and queer content
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Billingham, S. E. Teach the children well: young adult literature and queer content. University of Nottingham

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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Grainger, A. (2013). Trade and customs procedures: the compliance costs for UK meat imports: a case study. Nottingham University Business School

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.