72 research outputs found
Explicating the role of partnerships in changing the health and well-being of local communities in urban regeneration areas: An evaluation of the Warnwarth Conceptual Framework for partnership evaluation: A Case Study Approach. Volume 3.
This literature review is one of three
outputs from a project: Explicating
the role of partnerships in changing
the health and well-being of local
communities, one of a number of
projects in a larger Higher Education
Funding Council Strategic
Development Fund project (HEFCE)
entitled: Urban Regeneration: Making
a Difference. This was a collaborative
venture between Manchester
Metropolitan University, Northumbria
University, University of Salford and
University of Central Lancashire.
Bradford University was an affiliated
partner
Shaping the future for primary care education and training project. Finding the evidence for education & training to deliver integrated health and social care: the primary care workforce perspective
This report is one of a series of outputs from the Shaping the Future in Primary Care Education and Training project (www.pcet.org.uk) funded by the North West Development Agency (NWDA). It is the result of a collaborative initiative between the NWDA, the North West Universities Association and seven Higher Education Institutions in the
North West of England. The report presents an evidence base drawn from the analysis of the experiences and aspirations of integrated health and social care, as reported by
members of the current primary health and social care workforce working in or with Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) in the North West region
Mirror, mirror: reflections on the emotionally intelligent practitioner
Nurturance, love, compassion, respect, humanity, self awareness, mind emptying and mindfulness are all qualities considered necessary for the development of the therapeuticrelationship which is central to holistic care. Likewise raised levels of academia within nurse education have lead to the notion of emotional intelligence where such qualities, often associated with tacit and experiential knowledge, are inextricably bound with theory, practice and research. In an environment where nursing theory and research dominate, we suggest that such qualities are more likely to be attained if those expected to portray them,students, are themselves in receipt of the same or similar qualities from the organisations, namely education and practice.This paper explores the concept of preparedness in terms of developing the above qualities with those we educate and what might be required of educationalists in achieving this goal. Using psychoanalytic concepts of mirroring, holding and containing we explore the role of the educationalist in βpreparingβ nurses to become emotionally intelligent practitioners. If we are to move from the rhetoric to the reality of an emotionally intelligent practitioner, nurseeducators need to ensure that the student experience, in terms of their own learning, becomes the centre of their educational universe. We believe that this is more likely tooccur when we as educationalists are able to personalise the educational process through mirroring love, care and nurturance, thus validating the emotional context of the studentsβ personal experience as a foundation for their learning
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Cosmological parameters from three seasons of data
We present constraints on cosmological and astrophysical parameters from
high-resolution microwave background maps at 148 GHz and 218 GHz made by the
Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) in three seasons of observations from 2008 to
2010. A model of primary cosmological and secondary foreground parameters is
fit to the map power spectra and lensing deflection power spectrum, including
contributions from both the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) effect and the
kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich (kSZ) effect, Poisson and correlated anisotropy
from unresolved infrared sources, radio sources, and the correlation between
the tSZ effect and infrared sources. The power ell^2 C_ell/2pi of the thermal
SZ power spectrum at 148 GHz is measured to be 3.4 +\- 1.4 muK^2 at ell=3000,
while the corresponding amplitude of the kinematic SZ power spectrum has a 95%
confidence level upper limit of 8.6 muK^2. Combining ACT power spectra with the
WMAP 7-year temperature and polarization power spectra, we find excellent
consistency with the LCDM model. We constrain the number of effective
relativistic degrees of freedom in the early universe to be Neff=2.79 +\- 0.56,
in agreement with the canonical value of Neff=3.046 for three massless
neutrinos. We constrain the sum of the neutrino masses to be Sigma m_nu < 0.39
eV at 95% confidence when combining ACT and WMAP 7-year data with BAO and
Hubble constant measurements. We constrain the amount of primordial helium to
be Yp = 0.225 +\- 0.034, and measure no variation in the fine structure
constant alpha since recombination, with alpha/alpha0 = 1.004 +/- 0.005. We
also find no evidence for any running of the scalar spectral index, dns/dlnk =
-0.004 +\- 0.012.Comment: 26 pages, 22 figures. This paper is a companion to Das et al. (2013)
and Dunkley et al. (2013). Matches published JCAP versio
Computing Highly Correlated Positions Using Mutual Information and Graph Theory for G Protein-Coupled Receptors
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are a superfamily of seven transmembrane-spanning proteins involved in a wide array of physiological functions and are the most common targets of pharmaceuticals. This study aims to identify a cohort or clique of positions that share high mutual information. Using a multiple sequence alignment of the transmembrane (TM) domains, we calculated the mutual information between all inter-TM pairs of aligned positions and ranked the pairs by mutual information. A mutual information graph was constructed with vertices that corresponded to TM positions and edges between vertices were drawn if the mutual information exceeded a threshold of statistical significance. Positions with high degree (i.e. had significant mutual information with a large number of other positions) were found to line a well defined inter-TM ligand binding cavity for class A as well as class C GPCRs. Although the natural ligands of class C receptors bind to their extracellular N-terminal domains, the possibility of modulating their activity through ligands that bind to their helical bundle has been reported. Such positions were not found for class B GPCRs, in agreement with the observation that there are not known ligands that bind within their TM helical bundle. All identified key positions formed a clique within the MI graph of interest. For a subset of class A receptors we also considered the alignment of a portion of the second extracellular loop, and found that the two positions adjacent to the conserved Cys that bridges the loop with the TM3 qualified as key positions. Our algorithm may be useful for localizing topologically conserved regions in other protein families
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