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Morbidity, utilization of curative care and service entry point preferences in metropolitan Centro Habana, Cuba
(Scientific Electronic Library Online, 2016-11-03)First-line health services with a primary health care approach are a strong trigger for adequate health-care-seeking behavior. Research on the association between prevalence of chronic diseases and acute illnesses and use ... -
More harm than good?
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More than a lifestyle
(Independent Thinking Press, 2018-03-31)Teachers are part of the working class, whether they like it or not, and (apart from private schools) so are most of the families of the children they teach. I want to argue in this chapter that education for the majority ... -
More than meets the eye: using video to research the interactions of older people in care settings.
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More Than Skin Deep: An exploratory study of pain, tattoos and coping strategies.
(Queen Margaret University, 2017)Coping with emotional pain and the phenomena of tattooing are often cited together as ways people express their emotions and get closure on their issues. However, there is very little known about the relationship between ... -
A Moroccan homecoming: The fabulation of family and home in Izza Génini's Retrouver Oulad Moumen
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Morphemes, Phonetics and Lexical Items: The Case of the Scottish Vowel Length Rule.
(International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 1999)We show that, in the Scottish Vowel Length Rule, the high vowels in the sequences /i#d/ and /##d/ are 68% longer than in the tautomorphemic /id/ and /ud/ sequences, while /ai#d/ is only 28% longer than /aid/. There is no ... -
Morphological and functional changes associated with a 12-week self-guided exercise programme of overweight adults: a pilot study
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Morphological and health-related changes associated with a 12-week self-guided exercise programme in overweight adults: a pilot study
(Taylor & Francis, 2013-09-09)Over 12 weeks, supervised physical activity (PA) interventions have demonstrated improvements in morphological and health parameters, whereas community walking programmes have not. The present study piloted a self-guided ... -
Morphological changes induced by opioid receptor agonist treatment of B50 neuronal cells cultured in hypoxia
(Brazilian Society of Anatomy and, 2013-04)Introduction: Hypoxia has been implicated in nerve cell deaths that occur in a variety of neurological disorders. Opioid receptor agonists have been shown to have some positive benefits on the nervous system. The aim of ... -
Morphological effects on pronunciation
(International Phonetic Association, 2015-08-15)Converging, albeit inconsistent, empirical evidence suggests that the morphological structure of a word influences its pronunciation. We investigated this issue using Ultrasound Tongue Imaging in the context of an experimental ... -
Mothers are less efficient in employing prosodic disambiguation in child-directed speech than non-mothers : is there a trade-off between affective and linguistic prosody?
(2007-08)This study examines prosodic disambiguation in child-directed (CD) speech. Twenty-four mothers addressed syntactically ambiguous sentences to their 2;0 to 3;8 year old child and to an adult confederate. Twenty-four non-mothers ... -
Mothers' experience of sustainable fashion consumption: an existential phenomenological exploration within Edinburgh
(Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh., 2012)The research described in this thesis is an interpretative approach to exploring fashion consumption behaviour through applying a sustainability lens, underpinned by tenets of value. The research adopts existential ... -
Mothers, adults, children, pets - towards the acoustics of intimacy
(2008)In this paper, we investigate acoustic features which differentiate the two speech registers neutral and intimate within different constellations of speakers and addressees. Three different types of speakers are considered: ... -
Mothers’ roles in negotiating children’s access to multiple media: an interpretative phenomenological analysis
(2018)This research is an interpretative phenomenological analysis of mothers’ roles in negotiating children’s access to a range of media which have perpetuated the sexualisation and consumerism of childhood. Five mothers of ... -
Motivation and method in Scots translations, versions and adaptations of plays from the historic repertoire of continental European drama.
(Queen Margaret University, 2000)This study adopts a twin approach to investigation of writers' motivation and method in translating, versionizing, and/or adapting into Scots plays from the historic repertoire of Continental European drama. First, it ... -
Motivation and retention of health workers in developing countries: a systematic review
(BioMed Central, 2008)Background A key constraint to achieving the MDGs is the absence of a properly trained and motivated workforce. Loss of clinical staff from low and middle-income countries is crippling already fragile health care systems. ... -
Motivational differences between international and Scottish students attending music events in Edinburgh
(Queen Margaret University, 2014)Motivational research is a crucial part of designing successful events. A better understanding of the factors influencing motivation is still lacking in existing studies. A gap in the literature ... -
MOTOR FATIGABILITY DURING A RUNNING PROTOCOL IN HIGHLY FUNCTIONAL INDIVIDUALS WITH MS
(2018)Background/Objective: Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a chronic neurodegenerative disease which presents with various debilitating symptoms, commonly including fatigue-induced gait abnormalities. It is important to understand ... -
Motor speech disorders in Chinese
(Multilingual Matters, 2014-07-21)Chinese, spoken by approximately 20% of the world’s population, is the most commonly spoken language in the world (Fung, 1990). There is some debate regarding whether varieties of spoken Chinese should be considered dialects ...