DSpace at Cardiff Met: Recent submissions
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More than you were
(Parthian Books, 2017-05-01)When David Thatcher died of a drug overdose in America, his daughter wrote to understand what came after. The result is a striking collection of poetry which explores addiction, family politics, childhood memories and ... -
Losing Andrew: Disenfranchised Grief in Shelly Wagner’s Poetry
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Entrepreneurship in Education Live Projects
(2015)This special issue is a collaboration with “ETCToolkit” www.etctoolkit.org.uk The “Enhancing the Curriculum (ETC) Toolkit” was developed as a free resource to support educators, seeking to develop skills and knowledge in ... -
Enabling Theory into Practice: Making Sense of the ‘Why’ and the ‘How’ in the Early Years
(Infonomics Society, 2018-03-01)The authors delivered and facilitated a panel discussion at the London International Conference on Education (LICE-2017) based on a recently published book [1]. It is recognised that high quality early years education is ... -
The overlooked significance of plasma volume for successful adaptation to high altitude in Sherpa and Andean natives
(National Academy of Sciences, 2019)In contrast to Andean natives, high altitude Tibetans present with a lower hemoglobin concentration that correlates with reproductive success and exercise capacity. Decades of physiological and genomic research have assumed ... -
Playing with words - becoming a reader and writer
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“Indistinctness is my forte”: Turner, Ruskin, and The Climate of Art”
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Transnational Networks at Holland House: Staël, Foscolo, and Byron
(Liverpool University Press, 2019)This essay examines the international Romantic sociability that was cultivated around Holland House, with a specific focus on Staël’s and Foscolo’s London experience. It also investigates Byron’s engagement with Holland ... -
Lights4Violence: a quasi-experimental educational intervention in six European countries to promote positive relationships among adolescents.
(Springer Nature, 2019-04-08)Background Preventing intimate partner violence or dating violence (DV) among adolescents is a public health priority due to its magnitude and damaging short and long-term consequences for adolescent and adult health. In ... -
A Study of the English Language Learning Challenges that Inhibit Displaced Medical Professionals from Returning to Practice in the UK
(Cardiff Metropolitan University, 2015)To join the General Medical Council (GMC) refugee doctors are required to pass professional and linguistic assessments. The first of these is the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) test and, according ... -
A suitcase of memories: A sensory ethnography of tourism and dementia with older people
(Cardiff Metropolitan University, 2018)The growth in the number of older people worldwide is dramatic and associated with this is an increase in the number of people in the UK with a diagnosis of dementia. It is estimated that by 2050, two million people in the ... -
Ethical considerations in using innovative methods in early education research
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Using video to research outdoors with young children
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Global Matrix 3.0 Physical Activity Report Card Grades for Children and Youth: Results and Analysis From 49 Countries
(Human Kinetics, 2018-01)Background: Accumulating sufficient moderate to vigorous physical activity is recognized as a key determinant of physical, physiological, developmental, mental, cognitive, and social health among children and youth (aged ... -
Report Card Grades on the Physical Activity of Children and Youth Comparing 30 Very High Human Development Index Countries
(Human Kinetics, 2018-01)Background: To better understand the childhood physical inactivity crisis, Report Cards on physical activity of children and youth were prepared concurrently in 30 very high Human Development Index countries. The aim of ... -
Negative schizotypy is associated with impaired episodic but not semantic coding in a conditional learning task
(Taylor and Francis, 2019-06-11)Context processing deficits associated with negative schizotypy may reflect variation in semantic or episodic declarative coding. Healthy volunteers (n = 166) were grouped on the basis of their introvertive anhedonia and ... -
May Measurement Month 2018: a pragmatic global screening campaign to raise awareness of blood pressure by the International Society of Hypertension
(Oxford University Press, 2019-05-01)Aims Raised blood pressure (BP) is the biggest contributor to mortality and disease burden worldwide and fewer than half of those with hypertension are aware of it. May Measurement Month (MMM) is a global campaign set up ... -
Effects of combined resistance training and weightlifting on injury risk factors and resistance training skill of adolescent males
(Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2019)The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of resistance training with or without weightlifting on risk factors for injury and resistance training skill in circa-peak height velocity boys. Sixty-seven boys ... -
The SATSport model: an applied and adaptive approach to grassroots sport organisations’ governance arrangements
(Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019-03-29)In local contexts and at an international level (especially European), sport organisations have reached a high level of visibility and interest among a range of stakeholder groups and in sectors not directly related to ... -
Resisted Sprint Training in Youth: The Effectiveness of Backward vs. Forward Sled Towing on Speed, Jumping, and Leg Compliance Measures in High-School Athletes
(Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2019-03-13)Resisted sprinting (RS) is a popular training method used to enhance sprinting performance in youth. However, research has only explored the effects of forward RS (FRS) training. We examined the effects of FRS and backward ...
