The biogeographical status of Alnus crispa (Ait.) Pursch in sub-Arctic southern Greenland : Do pollen records indicate local populations during the past 1500 years?

The Leverhulme Trust is thanked for financial support. We also thank the referees for their constructive comments that helped to improve the paper.Peer reviewedPostprin

A multiple profile approach to the palynological reconstruction of Norse landscapes in Greenland's Eastern Settlement

Acknowledgments The Leverhulme Trust is thanked for financial support. Gordon Cook provided radiocarbon dates. Thanks are also due to Andy McMullen for botanical identifications and assistance in the field, and to Sikuu Motzfeld for hospitality during fieldwork. We are also grateful to Emilie Gauthier, Mike Kaplan, Pete Langdon and Alan Gillespie for their comments.Peer reviewedPostprin

Preventive Antepartum Care

As the role of the obstetrician-gynecologist evolves to include primary care, the obstetrician must assume greater responsibility for providing prenatal preventive care, particularly regarding the STORCH5 pathogens

Representations of Class, Social Realism and Region in Eleven Months in Bunbury by James Ricks

The aim of this thesis is to explore representations of class, social realism and region in Eleven months in Bunbury by James Ricks. This novel stands outside dominant literary theory in its representations of class, realism and regionalism. It also presents opportunities to consider ideology and class through the eyes of a working class person, in the language of the class that it depicts. Thus it speaks to a class which rarely has its point of view and lives represented in conventional literature. It is therefore a useful literary and social document

Group A Streptococcus in the Gynecologic Patient

Background: Over the past few decades, physicians have been reminded of the potential for serious complications arising from group A streptococcal (GAS) infections. These infections continue to pose a serious threat, primarily because the pathophysiology of these infections is complex. This article reviews some of the features of GAS infections and presents two case reports of GAS pelvic infections in women

The National Institute for Health Research Service Delivery and Organisation Network: a descriptive narrative of the network

BACKGROUND: Governments from the 1990s have demonstrated a concern with bridging the gaps between biomedical, clinical and health services research (HSR), in particular with bringing the benefits of that research into practice. To address this concern, the National Coordinating Centre for NHS Service Delivery and Organisation Research and Development commissioned a network in 2007 for a period of 5 years to support NHS managers in accessing and engaging with HSR generally and specifically with their research portfolio. OBJECTIVES: The Service Delivery and Organisation (SDO) Network, hosted by the NHS Confederation, aimed to enable managers to improve and develop services by facilitating their access to the latest HSR. Through a combination of push, pull, and linkage and exchange strategies, the network proactively targeted interventions at senior, middle and new managers. METHODS: This report presents a descriptive narrative of the SDO Network building in the political and organisational contexts. Information contained in this report was obtained from informal discussions with the network team, document review, analysis of web content and a review of relevant academic and grey literature. Discussions with former and current SDO Network members of staff helped to capture perceptions of influence and working practices, and suggest significant/high-impact interventions. RESULTS: The evolution of the SDO Network is captured in four distinct phases of development: initiation of the SDO Network project and its place within a new NHS research and development infrastructure; a period of knowledge transfer and exchange to encourage interactions across interest groups and collaboration with other networks; then a period of increasing complexity and consolidation from research translation to capacity building; and finally the end of project and the new innovation landscape phase. CONCLUSION: Lessons for similar initiatives aimed at knowledge mobilisation in the health sector include ensuring an adequate evaluation framework is in place from initiation, to capture impact and inform strategy, and developing a range of collaborative relationships to expand the scope and reach of activities. Future work could compare or contrast the experience of the SDO Network with studies of other networks in health (nationally or internationally) to address its contribution within the wider research literature in this field. FUNDING: The Health Services and Delivery Research programme

Prevention of Infection in Pregnancy

We believe the prevention of infection-related adverse pregnancy outcome is the most important focus for obstetricians today. An emphasis upon immunization of susceptible women, prevention of transmissible disease by modification of patient behavior, and identification and treatment of silent infections should become standards of practice. This will require educational initiatives for physicians and their patients as well as continued clinical trials to determine costs and effectiveness

Preservice teachers’ confidence and preferred teaching strategies using TeachLivE™ Virtual Learning Environment: A two-step cluster analysis

TeachLivETM, a mixed reality learning environment originating from University of Central Florida (2011), has recently been introduced to the Australian preservice teaching context by Murdoch University (2016) and the University of Newcastle (2017). This paper, the first of a program of research mapping the implementation of TeachLivETM within the Australian context, captures preservice teachers’ (PSTs) reflections on their initial interactions with the mixed reality learning environment. The study highlights preferred teaching strategies and teaching confidences during initial interactions in the simulation laboratory and introduces a quality measure within the reflective practice process. A Two-Step Cluster analysis of 322 PSTs was conducted. Results showed a positive impact of reflective practice and revealed that most preservice teachers preferred ‘Questioning’ and ‘Direct Instruction’ methods of delivering micro-teaching lessons. The authors offer a typology of teaching strategies, confidences and a quality measure for teacher educators