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Walking measures to evaluate assistive technology for foot drop in multiple sclerosis: A systematic review of psychometric properties
(Elsivier, 2018-12-25)Background: Foot drop in people with multiple sclerosis (pwMS) often managed with assistive technologies, such as functional electrical stimulation and ankle foot orthoses. No evidence synthesis exists for the ... -
Wanted: A Community of Practice for Senior Public Relations Practitioners
(International Public Relations AssociationQueen Margaret University, 2013-12)The gap between PR theory and practice is not always easily bridged. How self-aware are senior practitioners and how much do they interrogate their thinking when making decisions? Beyond Competence: Concepts, criticality ... -
Waste Regeneration in the Scottish Distillery Industry
(Queen Margaret University, 2015)Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyse the innovative sustainability initiatives which Scottish distilleries use in order to reduce the impact waste has on the environment and the benefits it gives to other ... -
Water and electrolyte balance in subjects with a permanent ileostomy.
(BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, 1983-08)Water and electrolyte balance has been studied in 39 patients with a permanent ileostomy, who had had a proctocolectomy for ulcerative colitis. The findings have been compared with those in 39 healthy subjects who were ... -
‘WATER IS LIFE’: WASH PROJECTS AS SOCIETY-COHESION TOOLS FOR GRASSROOTS PEACE-BUILDING IN PROTRACTED CRISIS STATES: DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
(2017)The Democratic Republic of Congo has one of the lowest levels of access to potable water in the world. Potable water is essential for health, to avoid dehydration and illness through water supply, sanitation and hygiene ... -
Water Nakba in Palestine: Sustainable Development Goal 6 versus Israeli hydro-hegemony
(Informa UK Limited, 2017-08-13)This Viewpoint article argues that Sustainable Development Goal 6, which aims to ensure the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all, cannot be achieved for the Palestinian people under the ... -
Ways to control alcohol price (Letter)
(BMJ Publishing Group Ltd., 2010-12-20)The proposal that VAT should be less for on sales than for off sales alcohol might help stem the UK trend towards off sales purchasing. 1 Although difficult to prove, drinking in licensed premises may be safer than drinking ... -
We All Cast Shadows
(Aberdeen Art Gallery, 2014-06-15)This publication is the documentation of a practice-based research into the situating of a public art gallery into a community, and how the community felt about that imposition. -
We are flames not flowers-: a gendered reading of the social movement for justice in Bhopal
(2011-11)This essay is in continuation of the article that Eurig Scandrett and I wrote for the previous issue of Interface (Scandrett and Mukherjee 2011). It looks at gender as one of the abstractions that arises from the material ... -
We had it coming: hypothetical docudrama as contested form and multiple fantasy
(Manchester University Press, 2011-05)This essay examines four hypothetical docudramas - Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon (2002), The Day Britain Stopped (2003), The Man Who Broke Britain (2004) and Death of a President (2006) - broadcast in the UK between 2002 ... -
'We Just Have to Learn to Deal with It': Young workers experiences of workplace violence
(American Institute of Science, 2015-04-20)We report on two studies that examined how young people (aged 16 to 24 years) working in public-facing jobs report experiences of workplace violence from dealing with the public. In Study 1, 65% (n=227) of respondents ... -
We represent, here, the interests of the free world': Accountability in Israeli leaders' media talk on the Gaza Crisis (2008-2009)
(University of Glasgow, 2010)he Palestinian-Israeli conflict turned into an armed crisis from the 27th of December 2008 to 22nd of January 2009. Instances of such armed conflict make issues of accountability highly pertinent. In this paper we analyse ... -
Web-based physiotherapy for people moderately affected with Multiple Sclerosis; quantitative and qualitative data from a randomized, controlled pilot study
(SAGE Publications, 2014-04-01)Objective: To explore the effectiveness and participant experience of web-based physiotherapy for people moderately affected with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and to provide data to establish the sample size required for a fully ... -
Web-based physiotherapy for people with axial spondyloarthritis (WEBPASS) - a study protocol
(BioMed Central, 2016-08-24)Background: Evidence suggests people with axial spondyloarthritis (axial SpA) should exercise up to five times per week but lack of time, symptoms, cost and distance are barriers to regular exercise in axial SpA. Personalised ... -
WebDance Evaluation Report, Report submitted to the European Union (Socrates-Minerva) for the WebDance project.
(University of the Aegean, 2005)Kavakli, E., , S. , M. and Karkou V. (2005) -
Webfilm theory
(Queen Margaret University, 2007)Since its inception in 1989, the World Wide Web has grown as a medium for publishing first text, then images, audio, and finally, moving images including short films. While most new media forms, in particular, hypertext, ... -
Webinar Address Building staff learning communities - Working Together to Embrace Difference-.
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Wedding Consumption and Expectations: A study into how these factors have changed from one generation to the next and the pressures of being a contemporary bride
(Queen Margaret University, 2014)ABSTRACT Weddings are a popular and traditional event; they hold a lot of symbolism and emotion for everyone involved (Flanagan 2001; Otnes et al 1997; Rojek 2013). Over the generations weddings have ... -
Weighing the options for delivery care in rural Malawi: community actors' perceptions of the 2007 policy guidelines and redefined traditional birth attendants roles
(Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, 2017)Despite significant recent improvements, maternal mortality remains high in Malawi. To address this, the Government prioritised strategies promoting skilled birth attendance. However, in a country where 80% of the population ...