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Can routine data be used to support cancer clinical trials? A historical baseline on which to build: retrospective linkage of data from the TACT (CRUK 01/001) breast cancer trial and the National Cancer Data Repository

open access: yesTrials, 2017
Background Randomised clinical trials (RCTs) are the gold standard for evaluating new cancer treatments. They are, however, expensive to conduct, particularly where long-term follow-up of participants is required.
Lucy Suzanne Kilburn   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Interfacial separation between elastic solids with randomly rough surfaces: comparison of experiment with theory

open access: yes, 2008
We study the average separation between an elastic solid and a hard solid with a nominal flat but randomly rough surface, as a function of the squeezing pressure.
B Lorenz   +13 more
core   +1 more source

“Do You Want to Continue?”—Coordinating the Closing of Conversations and Managing Face Concerns

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
This study investigates how participants manage the decision to end or continue their conversation when directly asked about their preferences. The dataset consists of 19 conversations where the researcher explicitly asked if the two participants wanted to continue their conversation, thus causing some potential interactional trouble for the ...
Emmi Koskinen
wiley   +1 more source

FORMATION OF PEDAGOGICAL TACT OF THE FUTURE TEACHERS IN THE ART PROCESS DESIGNING

open access: yesОсвітній вимір, 2006
This article is about the questions of forming of pedagogical tact in the process of artistic ...
L.H. Fedorova
doaj   +1 more source

Contrastive Self‐Categorization as a Resource for Defending Cultural Stereotypes

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
This study explores how speakers defend morally sanctionable cultural stereotypes from challenges in adult second language classrooms. Within the conversation analysis and membership categorization analysis frameworks, I examine two extended video‐recorded class discussions in which students maintain face‐threatening, stereotypical portrayals of ...
Nadja Tadic
wiley   +1 more source

‘I think your child might be autistic’: A qualitative survey study examining how school staff broach initial interactions with parents whose children may be autistic

open access: yesBritish Journal of Special Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Recognising and understanding that a child might be autistic is an important first step in the autism diagnostic pathway. For many families, this process involves working alongside school staff and, in England, this tends to be led by the Special Educational Needs Coordinator (SENCO). Existing research highlights the importance of how and when
Hannah Cresswell, Laura Crane
wiley   +1 more source

Measuring up: an afterword

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Abstract Towards the end of their Introduction, the editors of this special issue suggest that a principal challenge in ethnographic description is ‘how to measure the measures of others’. It is their own measure of persons, say, or of transactions, on which anthropologists frequently draw in adjudicating social phenomena, not least when characterizing
Marilyn Strathern
wiley   +1 more source

Pedahohycheskoe Mastery terms of education and Pedagogical rechevoy personality [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
У тезах розглядаються компоненти педагогічного такту. Розкриваються педагогічні умови зростання мовленнєвої особистості у дошкільному дитинстві.В тезисах рассматриваются компоненты педагогического такта.
Гончаренко, Алла Миколаївна
core  

Tactile tensions: uncertainty, mutuality, and therianthropic nightmares in Highland Odisha Tact et tensions : incertitude, mutualité et cauchemars thérianthropiques dans les hautes terres de l'Odisha

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In the central highlands of Odisha, India, Kutia Kondh families navigate a precarious reality shaped by productive autonomy, decentralized authority, and material and relational uncertainty. Abundance and destitution are finely balanced in a world where humans, animals, ancestors, and spirits are co‐present and co‐dependent but also opaque and ...
Sam Wilby
wiley   +1 more source

Finite-element analysis of contact between elastic self-affine surfaces

open access: yes, 2004
Finite element methods are used to study non-adhesive, frictionless contact between elastic solids with self-affine surfaces. We find that the total contact area rises linearly with load at small loads.
B. B. Mandelbrot   +9 more
core   +1 more source

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