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    Using [beta]-decay to map the E2 strength in the Cd isotopes and the downfall of vibrational motion

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    Publisher's Version/PDFThe &beta; decay of 112Ag has been used to populate spin 0+ and 2+ states in 112Cd to 3 MeV excitation energy. The statistical quality obtained allows the extraction of very weak &gamma;-ray branching ratios that, combined with known level lifetimes, enables the determination of the B(E2) values or upper limits for transitions populating the proposed two-phonon states. While candidates for 3+, 4+, and 6+ three-phonon levels have been identified, there are no candidates for the 0+ and 2+&nbsp;three phonon levels, and the upper limits of the B(E2) values indicate that phonon E2 strength is not fragmented, but absent below 5ℏw2.</sub

    Mudança organizacional: uma abordagem preliminar

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    The biographical impact of teenage and adolescent cancer.

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    Objectives: This paper offers an overview of the findings of research into the experience of having cancer in adolescence and young adulthood, the aims of which were to understand how age and life stage affect the illness experience and impact upon biographies and life trajectories. Methods: The data were gathered primarily through the use of in-depth qualitative interviews with adolescents and young adults with cancer, but also through the submission of a small number of written narratives. Results: Acute and life-threatening illness at a transitional life stage on the threshold of adulthood can have a long-term, and therefore chronic, effect on the life trajectories and biographies of young adult cancer patients. Many aspects of the participants' lives were affected, including education, careers, life plans, friendship networks, appearance, sexuality and fertility. The economic effects could also be far-reaching and contribute to a loss of independence, which is very fragile in this age-group. Conclusions: While recognizing the potentially devastating impact of cancer at any age, the research findings suggest a distinct effect in adolescence and young adulthood resulting from a disrupted biography at a critical transitional moment in the life trajectory that can have a chronic effect after the acute stage of the illness is passed. An age-appropriate approach to the care of young people with cancer that takes into account the distinct effects of life stage in this age-group can mitigate the negative impact on life trajectories and maximize the chances of adherence and a return to normal life after recovery

    Young people living with cancer: implications for policy and practice.

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    Personal agendas in emotionally demanding research.

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    Dying as a teenager or young person

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    This chapter examines the issues that relate to the deaths of young adults and their lack of easy fit in hospital and hospice settings as well as the challenge of providing adequate home based care at the end of life

    Risk, The Real World and Naive Sociology.

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    A bereavement group for parents whose son or daughter died from cancer:how shared experience can lessen isolation

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    This article analyses the content of a session of a bereavement support group for parents whose teenage or young adult son or daughter had died from cancer. It considers how the group works, how people come to believe that they share a similar grief and how they ‘co-write’ a narrative about what they perceive as their shared grief. The analysis suggests strongly that this is a forum where ways of managing grief and loss can be supported through sharing with others who have not only been through a similar experience but one which may not be well understood by others. The bereaved parents felt that others who had not endured the loss of a child would find some of the manifestations of their grief and how they commemorated their child difficult to understand. There was both an explicit and implicit acknowledgment amongst group members that the group provided a safe place where what might be perceived as dysfunctional grief could be recognised and validated as ‘normal’ by other members. The conclusion is that the loss of a child sets bereaved parents apart from other bereaved people, their ‘normality’ has to be reconfigured and membership of such a group, if it is well facilitated, can assist in the grieving process and lessen isolation

    Palliative and end of life care for children and young people:home, hospice, hospital

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