Bite sized: a mother’s journal alongside anorexia

Bite sized: a mother’s journal alongside anorexia

Bite sized Fiona Hamilton is a therapeutic writing practitioner and mother of three. She is a published poet and has written scripts for the theatre and community projects. In Bite Sized, (168 printed pages), she has made a personal telling of her daughter’s eating disorder in a prose poem. She has captured the very essence of a parent’s experience of having a child with an eating disorder and ...

Bite-sized Marketing: Realistic Solutions for the Overworked Librarian

Tutorial section: Domains and motifs - proteins in bite-sized chunks

Possibly the ultimate goal of bioinformatics is to be able to predict protein tertiary structure and chemical functionality from the initial amino acid sequence. Despite the best efforts of many researchers over the past two decades, a reliable modelling method has yet to be found and the folding problem continues to be a hurdle for scientists.

Family functioning in anorexia nervosa: British and Italian mothers' perceptions.

This study tested the hypothesis that cultural differences would influence individuals' perceptions of family functioning. Mothers of British and Italian children and adolescents with anorexia nervosa completed the Family Assessment Device (FAD). British mothers perceived their families' communication and role definition as less healthy than did the Italian mothers. In contrast, the Italians pe...

Robotic Wheelchair Moving Alongside a Companion

We introduce a robotic wheelchair that can move with a companion collaboratively to facilitate easy communication between them. The system uses the Laser Range Sensor attached horizontally on the companion’s shoulder level for observing the companion’s position to follow him/her. The system tracks the companion’s position and orientation to move with the companion and to avoid collision with hi...