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Designing with Care - Interior Design and Residential Child Care Final Report [PDF]

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 ...
Docherty, Catherine   +3 more
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Speckle‐Engineered Upconversion Amplification in Nanoemulsion‐Templated Hydrogel Microdomes

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Nanoemulsion‐confined PEGDA microdomes generate speckle‐like excitation fields that strongly amplify upconversion luminescence upon dehydration, enabling filter‐free visible readout with reversible on–off switching. DMD‐based lithography yields scalable, shape‐programmable arrays for moisture‐responsive displays and optical encryption.
Chaeyeong Ryu   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Residential child care in Scotland: themes for practice since Another Kind of Home

open access: yesScottish 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
doaj   +1 more source

Care ethics and physical restraint in residential child care [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
When social care workers must respond to behaviour which poses serious, imminent danger, the response can sometimes take the form of physical restraint.
Steckley, Laura
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Decellularized Extracellular Matrix (dECM) in Tendon Regeneration: A Comprehensive Review

open access: yesAdvanced 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   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Editorial Vol17 no4

open access: yesScottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2018
We're delighted to have been asked to edit this special themed edition of the Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, on perspectives and understandings of disability.
chris Walter, Charlotte Wilson
doaj   +1 more source

RECONSIDERING RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN JAPANESE RESIDENTIAL CARE AND THE ROAD TO FICE JAPAN

open access: yesInternational 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   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Holding safely : guidance for residential child care practitioners and managers about physically restraining children and young people [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Residential child care is intensive and at times very diffificult work. Staff in residential childcare, therefore, need training, advice, supervision and support in undertaking this demanding work, since they are often doing the hardest of social care ...
Davidson, Jennifer   +4 more
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Model‐Driven Optimization of Subcutaneous Polymer Prodrugs Achieves Cancer Remission in Mice

open access: yesAdvanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
A pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics (PK/PD) model was developed to evaluate multiple dosing regimens for subcutaneously administered water‐soluble polymer prodrug for cancer therapy. The model enabled prediction of in vivo performance and contributed to the optimization of anticancer efficacy.
Anne Rodallec   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Positive leadership and management in residential child care: what do these involve and how do we bring them about?

open access: yesScottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2015
This short article reports on an interview with Graham McPheat, Senior Teaching Fellow, University of Strathclyde. Drawing on his experience as a children's homes manager and educator, Graham offers a starting point for debates about the nature of ...
Leslie Hicks
doaj   +1 more source

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