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The participation of children and young people in the recruitment of residential child care staff in Scotland

Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2006
In 2004, the Scottish Executive commissioned research from the Scottish Institute of Residential Child Care (SIRCC) to identify current recruitment practices in residential child care.
Helen Kay, Irene Stevens
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Encyclopedia of 2D β′‐In2Se3 Growth Using Chemical Vapor Deposition: The Effects of Synthesis Parameters Onto Material Quality

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
A distinct semi‐confined inner‐tube chemical vapor deposition geometry enables reproducible, large‐area growth of phase‐pure 2D β′‐In2Se3 from InI + Se precursors. Engineering local vapor transport and optimizing precursor delivery and temperature–time conditions yield uniform continuous films.
Dasun P. W. Guruge, P. Sanju S. Panawala, Joseph F. S. Fernando, Zhenhuan Chen, Chao Zhang, Dong‐Chen Qi, Liangzhi Kou, Konstantin L. Firestein, Dmitri V. Golberg   +8 more
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Editorial Vol5 no1

Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2006
One of the key skills in residential child care practice is assessment. In this edition of the journal, several writers have taken some aspect of assessment as their theme, be it risk assessment, assessment of new staff, or a tool for assessing the needs
Irene Stevens
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Application of Ibuprofen Sodium Dihydrate for Thermochemical Energy Storage

Advanced 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, Hannah F. Chang, Shannon J. Lee, Mark E. Bowden, J. David Bazak, Vaithiyalingam Shutthanandan, Venkateshkumar Prabhakaran, Xiao Zhang, David M. Reed, Ajay S. Karakoti, Vijayakumar Murugesan   +10 more
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Guest Editorial Vol5 no2

Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2006
Some young people have a positive care journey with reasonable outcomes as evidenced in Extraordinary Lives: creating a positive future for looked-after children and young people in Scotland (Social Work Inspection Agency, 2006). Achieving consistency of
Deirdre Watson
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Decellularized Extracellular Matrix (dECM) in Tendon Regeneration: A Comprehensive Review

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Decellularized Extracellular Matrix (dECM) offers a promising solution by replicating the native tendon microenvironment and promoting regeneration. This review highlights advances in the decellularization methods, as well as their integration with emerging technologies and translational progress in tendon tissue engineering.
Kumaresan Sakthiabirami, Yeonwoo Park, Seong Kyeong Jo, Min Hee Kim, Jae Hwang Song   +4 more
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Residential child care in Scotland: themes for practice since Another Kind of Home

Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2017
In this very personal account, Angus Skinner, former Chief Social Work Adviser to Scottish Ministers, and author of Another Kind of Home (1992), a review of residential child care in Scotland, considers enduring themes for practice and leadership.
Angus Skinner
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Rapid Fabrication of Self‐Propelled and Steerable Magnetic Microcatheters for Precision Medicine

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
A rapid Joule heating fabrication method for the production of self‐propelling, adaptive microcatheters, with tunable stiffness and integrated microfluidic channels is presented. Demonstrated through three microrobotic designs, including a steerable guiding catheter, an untethered wave‐crawling TubeBot, and a distal‐end propelled microcatheter, it was ...
Zhi Chen, Boris Rivkin, David Castellanos‐Robles, Ivan Soldatov, Lukas Beyer, Mariana Medina‐Sánchez   +5 more
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Discovering Camphill: a personal narrative

Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2011
Recently the author was invited to visit Camphill School, Aberdeen, to reflect on his experience of the Camphill programme in light of contemporary thinking about 'best environments' for young people with serious learning disabilities.
Thom Garfat
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RECONSIDERING RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN JAPANESE RESIDENTIAL CARE AND THE ROAD TO FICE JAPAN

International Journal of Child, Youth & Family Studies, 2018
In order to foster interactive discussions with other countries, this paper offers an overview of residential care for children in Japan and its ongoing development. Japan still relies especially heavily on the residential care system; this is due to the
Shigeyuki Mori, Satoru Nishizawa, Arimi Kimura   +2 more
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