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Blame the patient, blame the doctor or blame the system? a meta-synthesis of qualitative studies of patient safety in primary care
(Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2015-08-05)Objective Studies of patient safety in health care have traditionally focused on hospital medicine. However, recent years have seen more research located in primary care settings which have different features compared to ... -
Blanchot and ambiguity
(Purdue University Press, 2010-09)In his article "Blanchot and Ambiguity" Paolo Bartoloni investigates the enigmatic and ambiguous turn of the famous Blanchotian statement "existence without Being." The intention of the article is to locate Blanchot's ... -
Blending the formal and nonformal educational sectors: Creating a shared learning initiative for secondary school teachers and youth workers
(Taylor & Francis, 2023-07-27)It has been widely argued that existing educational inequality and inequity was exacerbated when schools closed due to Covid-19. In addition, it is disadvantaged young people that are most likely to experience the most ... -
‘blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt’: solidarity between generations in the irish crisis
(SAGE Publications, 2014-01-23)Ireland has gained a reputation for peaceable acceptance of austerity following a European Union/International Monetary Fund bailout in 2010. While proponents of austerity praise Ireland's stoicism, critics of global ... -
Bleustein-Gulyaev waves in some functionally graded materials
(Elsevier, 2006-02-28)Functionally Graded Materials are inhomogeneous elastic bodies whose properties vary continuously with space. Hence consider a half-space (x2>0) occupied by a special Functionally Graded Material made of an hexagonal (6 ... -
The Blind Fiddler by Marie Jones, Lyric Theatre, Belfast
(Irish Theatre Magazine, 2003-06-12)Perhaps unfairly, Marie Jones remains more noted for commercial rather than critical success. The Blind Fiddler – an exciting fusion of melodrama, traditional music, and great storytelling – looks likely to be as successful ... -
Blockchain adoption: Technological, organisational and environmental considerations
(Implications of the Blockchain, 2018)Information technology (IT) innovation is rapidly reshaping organisations, affecting fundamental aspects of their everyday business activities and processes. This development is accompanied by benefits as well as challenges. ... -
Blockchain in energy efficiency: Potential applications and benefits
(MDPI, 2019-08-28)Blockchain technology is ready to disrupt nearly every industry and business model, and the energy sector is no exception. Energy businesses across the world have already started exploring the use of blockchain technology ... -
A blockchain-based smart contract system for healthcare management
(MDPI, 2020-01-03)Blockchain is evolving to be a secure and reliable platform for secure data sharing in application areas such as the financial sector, supply chain management, food industry, energy sector, internet of things and healthcare. ... -
Blood biomarker monitoring in professional soccer: Longitudinal analysis of inflammation in English Premier League players
(NUI Galway, 2021-09-06)The high intensity demands of elite soccer predispose players to recurrent episodes of acute inflammation, and during periods of frequent match play recovery time may not be adequate for the resolution of the inflammatory ... -
Blood gases in pregnancy at sea level and at high altitude
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2001-09-01)Objective 1. To measure blood gases and minute ventilation in healthy women with normal pregnancies, compare with non-pregnant women both at sea level and at high altitude; 2. to relate the results at altitude with duration ... -
Blood pressure measurement in peritoneal dialysis: which method is best?
(MultiMed Inc., 2013-04-01)Background: The optimal approach to monitoring blood pressure (BP) in the peritoneal dialysis (PD) population is unclear. Ambulatory BP monitoring reliably predicts prognosis, but can be inconvenient. The accuracy of home ... -
Bloody Sunday: Error or Design?
(2010)When British Paratroopers shot dead 13 people at a civil rights march in Derry on January 30, 1972 it dealt a hammer blow to British government claims of neutrality and moral authority in dealing with the escalating violence ... -
Blue-light inhibition of listeria monocytogenes growth is mediated by reactive oxygen species and is influenced by σband the blue-light sensor lmo0799
(American Society for Microbiology, 2016-04-29)Listeria monocytogenes senses blue light via the flavin mononucleotide-containing sensory protein Lmo0799, leading to activation of the general stress response sigma factor SigB (sigma(B)). In this study, we investigated ... -
The BMR freeness conjecture for the 2-reflection groups
(American Mathematical Society, 2016-10-12)We prove the freeness conjecture of Broue, Malle and Rouquier for the Hecke algebras associated to the primitive complex 2-reflection groups with a single conjugacy class of reflections. -
The Boardscape: Creating a Super Social Network of Message Boards
(AAAI, 2007)A Web-based message board or forum is an online area where discussions are held by many Internet users on a variety of subjects. More recently, online social networks have been created for various purposes: job searching, ... -
Boarfish (capros aper) target strength modelled from magnetic resonance imaging (mri) scans of its swimbladder
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2013-08-06)Boarfish (Capros aper) abundance has increased dramatically in the Northeast Atlantic from the early 1970s after successive years of good recruitment attributed to an increase in sea surface temperature. Due to increased ... -
Bodipy-ruthenium(II) tris-bipyridyl dyads for homogeneous photochemical oxidations
(Elsevier, 2014-10-28)Two Bodipy-ruthenium(II) tris-bipyridyl dyads were synthesized for use as sensitizers in photochemical oxidation reactions of organic substrates. The synthetic strategy involved the use of a simple ‘click’ CuAAC reaction ... -
Body and Soul: Turning Turk in Early Modern Barbary captivity narratives
(2016-12-20)This thesis focuses on early modern Barbary captivity narratives which describe Christian encounters with the Islamic world, and gives particular attention to questions of sexuality and gender. From the short fledgling ... -
Body mass index and health service utilisation in the older population: results from the irish longitudinal study on ageing
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2014-11-06)Background: obesity is associated with higher healthcare costs in older people; however, estimates are predominantly based on the use of primary and secondary services. Our objective was to estimate the effect of overweight ...