Drawing partly on personal experience, the author of this article seeks to unpack the expertise that service users bring to the design and delivery of mental health services. Service user involvement cannot be imposed by policy diktat from above, she…

A new fully microwave-assisted liquid sample introduction system (MASIS) is presented and evaluated in Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectrometry (ICP-AES). The device employs a single TM010 microwave cavity for the simultaneous aerosol generation and desolvation. The different experimental requirements…

The notion of ‘participation’ has growing currency at many levels of social policy in the UK where the Labour government uses it to
denote the engagement of ‘local people’ in decision-making about the services and structures which affect their daily…

The probation service is at risk of serious harm from the discourses of toughness and cure. People subject to community rehabilitation orders are categorised first and foremost as ‘offenders’ by probation officers, their managers and governors. Not surprisingly, people on…

The original publication is available at springerlink.com., We examined group spread and interindividual spacing within wild mixedspecies
troops of saddleback (Saguinus fuscicollis) and mustached (Saguinus
mystax) tamarins. Mustached tamarin groups were spread over larger areas
than those of saddleback tamarins.…

Discusses P. B. Shelley’s attitude to Jews in the context of early nineteenth-century antisemitism, and in the light of two fragments in which Shelley speaks in the person of a contemporary Jew. First publication in the West of a little-known…

Ce manuscrit est une pré-publication d'un article paru dans International Journal of Drug Policy 2010; 21(1): 49-55., IRSC et FRSQ - Réseau SIDA et maladies infectieuses

The mucosal environment in mammals is highly tolerogenic; however, after exposure to pathogens or danger signals, it is able to shift towards an inflammatory response. Dendritic cells (DCs) orchestrate immune responses and are highly responsible, through the secretion of cytokines…

Purpose: A number of studies and writings have presented ideas about new working practices that might be embraced in the twenty-first century. Moreover, that, employers would seek to gain their commitment by adopting the high working practices of high performance…

The ability of building robust semantic space representations of environments is crucial for the development of truly autonomous robots. This task, inherently connected with cognition, is traditionally achieved by training the robot with a supervised learning phase. We argue that…