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Top tips on being a medical educator (2009)
Journal Article
Cooper, N. (2009). Top tips on being a medical educator. CME Journal. Geriatric Medicine, 11(3), 115–117

Medical educators need to understand that teaching is not the same as learning, and that professional education is different to education in general. There are 4 key ingredients to becoming an expert. Doctors learn from practice in a clinical environ... Read More about Top tips on being a medical educator.

Essential Guide to Educational Supervision in Postgraduate Medical Education (2009)
Book
Cooper, N., & Forrest, K. (Eds.). (2009). Essential Guide to Educational Supervision in Postgraduate Medical Education. BMJ Books. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444311648

The world of postgraduate medical education is changing, and educational supervisors need the knowledge and skills to be able to do their job effectively. Many of those who want to do this job well feel unprepared for the task.
Essential Guide to Ed... Read More about Essential Guide to Educational Supervision in Postgraduate Medical Education.

A retrospective analysis of alcohol intake and management on the medical assessment unit (2009)
Journal Article
Hoye, S., Boundy, R., & Cooper, N. (2009). A retrospective analysis of alcohol intake and management on the medical assessment unit. Acute Medicine, 8(1), 43-47. https://doi.org/10.52964/AMJA.0231

A retrospective case note analysis of 100 consecutive admissions to a Medical Assessment Unit to (a) review the current impact of alcohol, and (b) assess the quality of clinical management and adherence to local and national guidelines.

A Case of Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome on the Acute Medical Unit (2009)
Journal Article
Heaps, T., & Cooper, N. (2009). A Case of Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome on the Acute Medical Unit. Acute Medicine, 8(1), 1-52

We describe a case of postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) in a young female, presenting several weeks after neurosurgery, to the Medical Admissions Unit. The diagnosis is discussed with reference to differential diagnosis, diagnostic cri... Read More about A Case of Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome on the Acute Medical Unit.

Continuity, support, togetherness and trust: findings from an evaluation of a university-administered early professional development programme for teachers in England (2009)
Journal Article
McIntyre, J., Hobson, A. J., & Mitchell, N. (2009). Continuity, support, togetherness and trust: findings from an evaluation of a university-administered early professional development programme for teachers in England. Professional Development in Education, 35(3), 357--379. https://doi.org/10.1080/19415250903016624

This article discusses the evaluation of a unique university-based early professional development (EPD) programme in England that enabled newly and recently qualified teachers to have continued contact with their initial teacher preparation provider.... Read More about Continuity, support, togetherness and trust: findings from an evaluation of a university-administered early professional development programme for teachers in England.

Auditory Evidentiality in English and German: The Case of Perception Verbs (2009)
Journal Article
Whitt, R. (2009). Auditory Evidentiality in English and German: The Case of Perception Verbs. Lingua, 119(7), 1083-1095. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2008.11.001

Evidentiality, the linguistic encoding of speaker's information source, is an understudied phenomenon in languages such as English and German, which do not encode evidential meaning in the grammar. However, there are several lexical means by which sp... Read More about Auditory Evidentiality in English and German: The Case of Perception Verbs.

Governance, networks and policy change: The case of Cannabis in the United Kingdom (2009)
Book Chapter
Acevedo, B., & Common, R. (2009). Governance, networks and policy change: The case of Cannabis in the United Kingdom. In S. P. Osborne (Ed.), The New Public Governance? Emerging Perspectives on the Theory and Practice of Public Governance. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203861684

The two coterminous concepts of governance and policy networks have been reasserted in public management studies in the wake of the recent decline in the popularity of the so-called New Public Management (NPM) movement. The concepts appear to be inte... Read More about Governance, networks and policy change: The case of Cannabis in the United Kingdom.

New percolation crossing formulas and second-order modular forms (2009)
Journal Article
Diamantis, N., & Kleban, P. (2009). New percolation crossing formulas and second-order modular forms. Communications in Number Theory and Physics, 3(4), 677–696. https://doi.org/10.4310/cntp.2009.v3.n4.a4

We consider the three crossing probability densities for percolation recently found via conformal field theory [23]. We prove that all three of them (i) may be simply expressed in terms of Cardy’s [4] and Watts’ [24] crossing probabilities, (ii) are... Read More about New percolation crossing formulas and second-order modular forms.

Supporting People with Dementia at Home: Challenges and Opportunities for the 21st Century (2009)
Book
Challis, D., Sutcliffe, C., Hughes, J., Von Abendorff, R., Brown, P., & Chesterman, J. (2009). Supporting People with Dementia at Home: Challenges and Opportunities for the 21st Century. Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315611358

Supporting People with Dementia at Home details a groundbreaking study of an intensive care management scheme designed for older people with dementia that are at risk of entry into residential care. The authors use a quasi-experimental approach to co... Read More about Supporting People with Dementia at Home: Challenges and Opportunities for the 21st Century.

Whole-cell patch clamping of isolated fiber cells confirms that spatially distinct Cl- influx and efflux pathways exist in the cortex of the rat lens (2009)
Journal Article
Webb, K. F., & Donaldson, P. J. (2009). Whole-cell patch clamping of isolated fiber cells confirms that spatially distinct Cl- influx and efflux pathways exist in the cortex of the rat lens. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 50(8), 3808-3818. https://doi.org/10.1167/iovs.08-2680

PURPOSE. To test the hypothesis that lens fiber cells use different combinations of transport proteins to mediate Cl influx and efflux in order to regulate their steady state volume.

METHODS. Cells were isolated from rat lenses by enzymatic disso... Read More about Whole-cell patch clamping of isolated fiber cells confirms that spatially distinct Cl- influx and efflux pathways exist in the cortex of the rat lens.

Economics and Human Geography (2009)
Book Chapter
Faulconbridge, J. R., & Hall, S. (2009). Economics and Human Geography. In R. Kitchin, & N. Thrift (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (332-337). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-008044910-4.00279-0

© 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. At first glance, economics and human geography seem to have much in common. However, the relationship between the two disciplines has been dynamic and contested over recent years as epistemologies and ontolog... Read More about Economics and Human Geography.

An improved version of volume dominance for multi-objective optimisation (2009)
Book Chapter
Le, K., Landa-Silva, D., & Li, H. (2009). An improved version of volume dominance for multi-objective optimisation. In Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization: 5th International Conference, EMO 2009, Nantes, France, April 7-10, 2009. Proceedings (231-245). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01020-0_21

This paper proposes an improved version of volume dominance to assign fitness to solutions in Pareto-based multi-objective optimisation. The impact of this revised volume dominance on the performance of multi-objective evolutionary algorithms is inve... Read More about An improved version of volume dominance for multi-objective optimisation.

John Freeman, 1969–71 (2009)
Book Chapter
Young, J. W. (2009). John Freeman, 1969–71. In M. F. Hopkins, S. Kelly, & J. W. Young (Eds.), The Washington Embassy: British Ambassadors to the United States, 1939–77 (169-188). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230234543_10

At less than two years duration, the ambassadorship of John Freeman was the second shortest covered by this book. It took place, too, in a singularly uneventful period in Anglo-American relations, between the dramas of 1967–68 — when the devaluation... Read More about John Freeman, 1969–71.

Suppression to visual, auditory, and gustatory stimuli habituates normally in rats with excitotoxic lesions of the perirhinal cortex (2009)
Journal Article
Robinson, J., Sanderson, D. J., Aggleton, J. P., & Jenkins, T. A. (2009). Suppression to visual, auditory, and gustatory stimuli habituates normally in rats with excitotoxic lesions of the perirhinal cortex. Behavioral Neuroscience, 123(6), 1238-1250. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0017444

In 3 habituation experiments, rats with excitotoxic lesions of the perirhinal cortex were found to be indistinguishable from control rats. Two of the habituation experiments examined the habituation of suppression of responding on an appetitive, inst... Read More about Suppression to visual, auditory, and gustatory stimuli habituates normally in rats with excitotoxic lesions of the perirhinal cortex.

Tackling NHS staff stress levels in an ‘eggstraordinary’ way (2009)
Journal Article
Lee, S., & Blake, H. (2009). Tackling NHS staff stress levels in an ‘eggstraordinary’ way. Health Psychology Update, 18(2), 8-13

Occupational stress levels amongst employees are a key area of concern for the National Health Service with Government calls for healthcare employers to provide a positive ‘health culture’ and facilities which encourage staff to consider their own he... Read More about Tackling NHS staff stress levels in an ‘eggstraordinary’ way.