The study of stem cells is one of the most stimulating areas of current biomedical research. Recent studies in the field of Orthopaedics mainly focuses on the development, growth, function, and health of the musculoskeletal system, the biology of adult stem cells, and the utilization of this knowledge to develop technologies that will regenerate and/or restore function to diseased and damaged m...

This paper reports findings of a review of qualitative studies exploring patients' experiences of involuntary hospital treatment. Thematic analysis was used to synthesize emerging issues from different studies. Only five studies with a total sample of 54 patients fulfilled the inclusion criteria of the review. Main themes in the studies were a) patients' perceived autonomy and participation in ...

Methods An exploratory qualitative approach was used in one UK centre for paediatric rheumatology with young people who were participating in the UK JSLE Cohort Study and who had received their diagnosis after January 2010. The study utilised in-depth interviews with eight young people who told their story of their own ‘journey to diagnosis’. Data were subjected to thematic analysis (Braun & Cl...

In this innovative project, the views of children and young people were explored regarding their preference of thematic design and colour for their hospital environment in a new children's unit. The novelty of the approach was that it was driven by the preferred choices of children and young people through the use of 'child-friendly' interviews and questionnaires. Informing the study was the de...

Photoconsortium is an association of photographic archives that contributed over 450.000 images of early photography to Europeana. In this contribution we discuss lessons learned, in particular on digitization and copy‐ right issues and describe the activities involved in managing state-of-the-art digi‐ tized photographic archives. We discuss follow-on project activities such as Europeana Space...

The purpose of this final chapter is to capture the thematic analysis of the contributions to ‘advancing practice’ embedded in this book. The process for this is briefly described below. We do not intend this to be an in-depth theoretical discussion but rather a pragmatic perspective on the issues we believe, informed by these contributors, to be central to advancing practice in the context of ...

It is a pleasure to introduce the 3rd in the series of Thematic Issues on organo-fluorine chemistry for the Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry (BJOC). These series have become progressively more successful over time in terms of the number and quality of the contributions received. It is also pleasing to note that the profile and impact factor of the journal has increased steadily over this ...

as narrative discourses and discursive thematic frame- works on social issues in media can provide us with an insight into how different understandings and perspectives serve to construct dif- ferent presentations of social actors, social events as well as social re- lations and conflicts, it seems necessary to take them into more seri- ous considerations. to this end, the present study was an ...

This report was prepared by the State University – Higher School of Economics under supervision and with support of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation as an input to the OECD Thematic Review of Tertiary Education. The document was prepared in response to guidelines encouraged the authors to canvass a breadth of views and priorities on tertiary education issues. The ...