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Vagotomy inhibits the jejunal fluid secretion activated by luminal ileal Escherichia coli STa in the rat in vivo.
(Article)BACKGROUND Escherichia coli heat stable enterotoxin (STa) is a major cause of secretory diarrhoea in humans. AIMS To assess the effects of instilling STa into the ileum on remote fluid secretion in the jejunum and colon ... -
Valuing people with sickle cell disease
(Article)Employers need to be flexible when managing sickle cell disease in the workplace and sensitive to the risks of discrimination. Diana De, Simon Dyson and Karl Atkin offer evidence-based guidance and recommendations. -
The verification interview technique: Enabling the evaluation of the impact of language therapy on the quality of life of a person with severe aphasia.
(Conference)Background It is difficult to measure the impact of speech and language therapy intervention for people with aphasia. This is because the effect of communication loss and language rehabilitation is hard to capture using ... -
Violence as Work: Ethnomethodological Insights into Military Combat Operations
(Article)Objective: The objective of this article is to outline an ethnomethodological approach to the study of professionalized violence or violence as work. It focuses primarily on violence in the context of military combat ... -
The Violence You Were/n’t Meant to See
(Book chapter)This chapter starts with a consideration of the opportunities the internet affords us to become virtual witnesses to episodes of military operations and the deaths they result in. It is organised around an analysis of two ... -
VIRTUAL CASE STUDIES IN THE NOVEL RESOURCE DMU E-PARASITOLOGY
(Conference)A novel on-line package for teaching and learning human parasitology, named DMU e-Parasitology, is being co-developed by academics from De Montfort University (DMU, Leicester, UK) and the Spanish universities: University ... -
Virtual libraries of tissue and clinical samples: potential role of a 3-D microscope.
(Conference)Our international innovative teaching group from different European Universities (De Montfort University, DMU, UK; and the Spanish University of Alcalá, University Miguel Hernández and University of San Pablo CEU), in ... -
VirtualUnknown(TM) microbiology.
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Wanted: guidelines for reporting correlations
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War on video: Combat footage, vernacular video analysis and military culture from within
(Article)In this article we present an ethnomethodological study of a controversial case of ‘friendly fire’ from the Iraq War in which leaked video footage, war on video, acquired particular significance. We examine testimony ... -
War-making and sense-making: some technical reflections on an instance of ‘friendly fire’
(Article)In this paper we analyse a ‘friendly fire’ incident from the second Gulf War and the controversy which came to envelop it during a coroner's inquest in 2007. Focusing on the cockpit video of the incident that was leaked ... -
Ward based feeding and swallowing training.
(Conference / Image)TITLE OF PAPER: WARD BASED FEEDING AND SWALLOWING TRAINING KEYWORDS: DYSPHAGIA, EVIDENCE BASE WHY THE STUDY WAS UNDERTAKEN This paper summarises the findings of the Northamptonshire Healthcare (NH) Feeding and ... -
"We di woman den, na we di suffer"
(Technical Report)Sierra Leone is thought to be one of the West African countries most affected by sickle cell disorders. Estimates state that one in four people carry the gene for sickle cell and between 1 to 2% of births are of children ...