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Residential child care qualifications audit 2007

open access: yes, 2007
In recent years there has been a drive to develop a fully qualified residential child care sector in Scotland. In 2003 the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) announced the baseline qualifications for residential child care staff and set down a ...
Hunter, Lynne   +4 more
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Do social networks affect the use of residential aged care among older Australians? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Background: Older people's social networks with family and friends can affect residential aged care use. It remains unclear if there are differences in the effects of specific (with children, other relatives, friends and confidants) and total social ...
Andrews, G.   +11 more
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Printed Integrated Logic Circuits Based on Chitosan‐Gated Organic Transistors for Future Edible Systems

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Edible electronics needs integrated logic circuits for computation and control. This work presents a potentially edible printed chitosan‐gated transistor with a design optimized for integration in circuits. Its implementation in integrated logic gates and circuits operating at low voltage (0.7 V) is demonstrated, as well as the compatibility with an ...
Giulia Coco   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Designing with Care - Interior Design and Residential Child Care Final Report

open access: yes, 2006
This exploratory study examined the attitudes to a range of design interventions in four residential care homes for children in South Lanarkshire. The project set out to identify the benefits and disadvantages to young people and staff of a change in ...
Lerpiniere, Jennifer   +4 more
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Intrinsic Photoactive Star ZnPc–Poly(glutamate) Nanoplatforms for Multimodal Glioblastoma Therapy and Brain‐Targeted Delivery

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
An intrinsic photoactive star‐shaped zinc phtalocyanine‐poly(L‐glutamic acid) (ZnPc‐PGA) nanoplatform for multimodal glioblastoma (GBM) therapy and brain‐targeted elivery. A ZnPc‐PGA‐based multifunctional theranostic nanocarrier platform enables image‐guided, multimodal GBM therapy. ZnPc‐PGA nanocarriers support the integration of fluorescence imaging,
Amina Benaicha‐Fernández   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Editorial Vol11 no1

open access: yesScottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2011
As this issue of the Journal goes to press, the work of the Scottish Institute for Residential Child Care (SIRCC) has been incorporated within a new Centre for excellence for looked after children in Scotland (CELCIS).
Irene Stevens
doaj   +1 more source

THE QUESTION OF DOORS

open access: yesInternational Journal of Child, Youth & Family Studies, 2012
This paper will argue that child and youth care is a kind of social diagram that maps the relations of children and adults. It will propose that residential care in particular, when thought of as a machinic social diagram, has certain characteristics ...
Hans Skott-Myhre
doaj   +1 more source

Nae too bad: a survey of job satisfaction, staff morale and qualifications in residential child care in Scotland

open access: yes, 2004
The report of the National Children’s Bureau study of staff morale, qualifications and retention in England (Mainey, 2003) rightly highlighted a number of crucial issues facing providers of residential child care.
Milligan, I.M., Avan, G., Kendrick, A.
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Application of Ibuprofen Sodium Dihydrate for Thermochemical Energy Storage

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Ibuprofen sodium dihydrate is introduced as a durable organic salt hydrate for low‐temperature thermochemical energy storage, operating within 60°C–110°C with high energy density. At the material level, it delivers ∼99.9% cycling efficiency over 150 cycles without deliquescence, enabled by a dual energy‐storage mechanism coupling dehydration and phase ...
Kavin Chakravarthy Thangaraj   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Informal care relationships and residential aged care recommendations: evidence from administrative data

open access: yesBMC Geriatrics, 2017
Background The Australian government recognises the importance of informal care to enable ageing in place. Yet, few multivariable studies have examined aspects of informal care that alter the probability of entry to residential care in Australia ...
Jeromey B. Temple   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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