The purpose of this study was to examine perceived and desired parental involvement in female sports in Greece. The parental involvement in sport questionnaire was administrated to 383 female former and current athletes (mean age 20.33 years, competitive experience 7.10…

Aim. To explore the experiences of care staff in managing long-term percutaneous
endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) feeding regimes.
Background. Since its first description in 1980, PEG feeding has become a widelyused
technique to provide enteral nutritional support. Its initial use for…

Copyright owner for archived file: Cambridge University Press., Direct payments are becoming an important means by which any disabled person can arrange their care in ways that give them more choice and control over how they are supported. A key…

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…

In this interview, Adrian Lee talks candidly about the current challenges facing police and public sector leadership. The Chief Constable's studies of theology, philosophy and law prior to him joining the police service have shaped and formed his sense of…

Silver halide sensitized gelatin (SHSG) is one of the most promising techniques for the fabrication of transmission holographic optical elements, achieving relatively high sensitivity of photographic material with the low scattering and high light stability of dichromated gelatin. In this…

In this work we present a discrete event model to design and implement a real time system simulator. This kind of software is useful to verify and evaluate algorithms and models, and to compute performance metrics. The discrete event model…

The main purpose of this book is to present the contents of an introductory course in databases. In this regard, one can find a number of material validity and recognized different scopes. This work is developed under the guidelines that…

There are few practical tools for how we can develop the trust needed to be able to work with ourselves and our colleagues, nor on how
we can develop the organisational conditions that enable us to trust ourselves and others,…

This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article: The potential of parasitoid Hymenoptera as bioindicators of arthropod diversity in agricultural grasslands 2011, 48 (2):382 Journal of Applied Ecology, which has been published in final form at: http://doi.wiley.com/10.1111/j.1365-2664.2010.01937.x, 1. As…