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Practitioners’ perspectives on improving ready-to-eat food vending in urban Nigeria: a practice-based visioning and back-casting approach

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2023
In many parts of the world, food consumption is shifting from mostly home-based to out-of-home due to transforming of everyday lives as a result of urban development and changing infrastructure.
Kehinde Paul Adeosun, Kehinde Paul Adeosun, Mary Greene, Peter Oosterveer   +3 more
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Measuring quality in social care services: theory and practice [PDF]

, 2010
Measuring and assessing service quality in the social care sector presents distinct challenges. The 'experience' good properties of social care, for instance, and the large influence played by subjective judgements about the quality of personal ...
Fernández, José-Luis, Malley, Juliette
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A qualitative study of health care professionals’ views and experiences of paediatric advance care planning

BMC Palliative Care, 2018
Background Good end-of-life care planning is vital to ensure optimal care is provided for patients and their families. Two key factors are open and honest advance care planning conversations between the patient (where possible), family, and health care ...
Barbara A. Jack, Tracy K. Mitchell, Mary R. O’Brien, Sergio A. Silverio, Katherine Knighting   +4 more
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Practic-ing culture: exploring the implications of pre-existing mobility cultures on (post-) pandemic practices in Norway, Ireland, and the United States

Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy, 2022
Issues of culture have to date been underexplored in practice-theoretical approaches to consumption. As a disruptive force affecting citizen mobility all over the world, the COVID-19 pandemic provides a unique empirical context to explore how culture and
Mary Greene, Katherine Ellsworth-Krebs, Johannes Volden, Emmet Fox, Manisha Anantharaman   +4 more
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Developing effective practice learning for tomorrow's social workers [PDF]

, 2007
This paper considers some of the changes in social work education in the UK, particularly focusing on practice learning in England. The changes and developments are briefly identified and examined in the context of what we know about practice learning ...
Arksey H., Bogo M., Bogo M., Caspi J., Department of Health, Department of Health, Doel M., Doel M., Fortune A., Gambrill E., Griffiths S., GSCC, GSCC, GSCC, Hesse‐Biber S. N., Jonathan Parker, Kearney P., Knight C., Lindsay J., Marsh P., Miles M.B., Parker J., Parker J., Parker J., PLTF, QAA, Regehr C., Sapey B., Shardlow S., Silverman D., Singh G., Smith G., Topss, Topss England/Taskforce, Valentine D., Wray J.   +35 more
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Anxiety as Social Practice [PDF]

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 2010
This paper advances a theory of anxiety as social practice. Distinguishing between individual anxieties and anxiety as a social condition, the paper suggests that anxiety has not been subject to the same level of theoretical scrutiny as related concepts such as risk, trust, or fear.
Peter Jackson, Jonathan Everts
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Thinking from Experience in Psychosocial Practice: Reclaiming and Teaching ‘Use of Self’ [PDF]

, 2014
A course based on psychosocial theory and students' experiences in practice has been taught in the UK, Norway and Quebec. It departs from the classical social work concept ‘use of self’ and aims to help novices in health and social work to understand how
Davies, Linda, Froggett, Lynn, Ramvi, Ellen   +2 more
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Internal goods to legal practice: reclaiming fuller with macintyre [PDF]

, 2015
Lon Fuller rejected legal positivism because he believed that the ‘procedural morality of law’ established a necessary connection between law and morals. Underpinning his argument is a claim that law is a purposive activity grounded by a relationship of
Retter, Mark
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Ableism as a regulator of social practice and disabled peoples’ self-determination to participate in sport and physical activity

Leisure Studies, 2019
Building on the theories of ableism, social practice and self-determination, this article proposes a framework to aid explaining why disabled people (DP) are less likely to access and participate in sport and physical activity (S&PA).
I. Brittain, R. Biscaia, S. Gérard
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Trends in Adolescent Suicide in Hong Kong for the Period 1980 to 2003

The Scientific World Journal, 2005
This paper utilizes existing statistics on adolescent suicide to examine adolescent suicide trends and patterns in Hong Kong for the period 1980 to 2003. Several trends and patterns could be revealed from the analyses.
Daniel T.L. Shek, Britta M. Lee, Joyce Chow   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source