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Reduced occipital and prefrontal brain volumes in dysbindin-associated schizophrenia
(Springer Nature, 2009-09-30)A three-marker C-A-T dysbindin haplotype identified by Williams et al (PMID: 15066891) is associated with increased risk for schizophrenia, decreased mRNA expression, poorer cognitive performance, and early sensory processing ... -
Reduced order modelling of the thermal behaviour of an office space
(Infoscience EPFL Scientific Publications, 2013-09-04)Reduced Order Models (ROMs) have proven to be a valid and efficient approach to model the thermal behaviour of building zones. The main issues associated with the use of zonal/lumped models are how to (1) divide the domain ... -
Reducing drinking in concurrent problem alcohol and illicit drug users: an impact story
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Reducing medication errors using lean six sigma methodology in a Thai hospital: an action research study
(Emerald, 2020-05-12)Abstract Purpose The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the use of Lean Six Sigma (LSS) and its associated tools to reduce dispensing errors in an inpatient pharmacy of a teaching hospital in Thailand. Design/me ... -
Reducing pharmacy medication errors using Lean Six Sigma: A Thai hospital case study
(Routledge, 2021-03-02)Hospital medication errors are costly and contribute to patient mortality, morbidity, and decreased health care quality. Errors result from poor systems design more commonly than from healthcare staff performance. As ... -
Reducing potentially inappropriate prescribing for older people in primary care: cost-effectiveness of the opti-script intervention
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2017-10-11)Objectives: This study examines the cost-effectiveness of the OPTI-SCRIPT intervention on potentially inappropriate prescribing in primary care. Methods: Economic evaluation, using incremental cost-effectiveness and cost ... -
Reducing residential carbon emissions in Ireland: Challenges and policy responses
(Palgrave Pivot, Cham, 2019-06-08)Carbon emissions from the residential sector in Ireland are higher than the European average and are rising. This is a concern in a country already struggling to meet its agreed climate targets. In this chapter, the authors ... -
Reducing the health care burden for marginalised migrants: the potential role for primary care in europe
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Reducing the likelihood of falls in older people
(RCN Publishing, 2004-08-18)Background Falls are a serious health concern for older people and an important issue for nurses. Many factors contribute to the causes of falls. Various combinations of these factors have been incorporated in the fall ... -
Reductions in tobacco smoke pollution and increases in support for smoke-free public places following the implementation of comprehensive smoke-free workplace legislation in the republic of ireland: findings from the itc ireland/uk survey
(BMJ, 2006-06-01)Objective: To evaluate the psychosocial and behavioural impact of the first ever national level comprehensive workplace smoke-free law, implemented in Ireland in March 2004. Design: Quasi-experimental prospective cohort ... -
Reference information extraction and processing using random conditional fields
(Boston College University Libraries, 2012-06-12)Fostering both the creation and the linking of data with the scope of supporting the growth of the Linked Data Web requires us to improve the acquisition and extraction mechanisms of the underlying semantic metadata. This ... -
Reference-less detection, astrometry, and photometry of faint companions with adaptive optics
(IOP Publishing, 2009-05-19)We propose a complete framework for the detection, astrometry, and photometry of faint companions from a sequence of adaptive optics (AO) corrected short exposures. The algorithms exploit the difference in statistics between ... -
Referral of patients to plastic surgeons following self-harm: Opportunities for suicide prevention
(Elsevier, 2018-11-13)Self-harm is a common source of referral to plastic and hand surgery services. Appropriate management of these patients is complex and includes the need for close liaison with mental health services. Self-harm is the single ... -
Refiguring childhood: Hannah Arendt, natality, and prefigurative biopolitics
(SAGE Publications, 2018-05-18)Arendt s concept of natality spans birth and action, which combine to inaugurate the new. Natality is used here to examine prefigurative forms of biopolitics, both past and present. These are practices that seek to actualise ... -
A refined model of nucleolar formation derived from the analysis of UBF variants and the hierarchical silencing of human nucleolar organizer regions
(NUI Galway, 2017-03-23)The nucleolus, the largest sub-nuclear structure, forms around arrays of ribosomal RNA genes, termed nucleolar organizer regions (NORs). As the site of ribosome biogenesis, nucleolar function is intrinsically linked to ... -
Refinement and validation of an exposure model for the pharmaceutical industry
(2011)Objectives: Assessment of worker's exposure is becoming increasingly critical in the pharmaceutical industry as drugs of higher potency are being manufactured. The batch nature of operations often makes it difficult to ... -
A refinement of a conjecture of Quillen
(Elsevier ScienceDirect, 2015-09)We present some new results on the cohomology of a large scope of SL2 groups in degrees above the virtual cohomological dimension, yielding some partial positive results for the Quillen conjecture in rank one. We combine ... -
Reflecting on ‘evidence’ and documentation devices in ‘translating’ community interventions
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2015-03-04)The pursuit of 'evidence' within the community sector has intensified the array of documents, forms, and other artefacts and devices (e.g. computer software systems) to be read, written, completed, inputted, and reflected ... -
Reflecting with the Delone & McClean Model
(2011)This paper introduces a new approach to utilise the information system success model developed by DeLone and McLean. In practice, the new approach was to illustrate an information system project retrospectively and by ... -
Reflection in Language Teaching/Learning: Is the European Portfolio the Answer?
(Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid, 2008)[No abstract available]