2012

Research Report, Obesity is rapidly becoming a major health concern and could be considered equal to smoking as a preventable cause of premature death. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE 2006) estimated that 1.1 billion people are…

2012

Introducing continental European approaches to UK child welfare practice raises a problem of comparison: to what extent are the problems and issues similar to or different from one country compared to another. Social pedagogues trained in continental Europe and working…

For most of us, the home is considered to be our castle: when we close the doors, it is our equivalent to pulling up the drawbridge, thereby retreating from the outside world. But more often, there is no retreat from…

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BACKGROUND:

Nursing students in higher education are spending more time in paid employment despite evidence that this can impact negatively on academic performance.

OBJECTIVES:

To examine the effect of paid work on academic performance in…

Background: In the UK there is a policy initiative to encourage volunteering to promote community participation and engagement in society. ‘Volunteers in Child Protection’ is a scheme promoting volunteers to work alongside statutory child care workers in complex child protection…

What is the relative importance of forest successional age, environmental heterogeneity, landscape structure and spatial structure of sampling sites on ?-diversity of tropical dry forests (TDF)? How do the magnitude of ?-diversity and the relative influence of factors, processes and…