Towards a values-based person specification for recruitment of compassionate nursing and midwifery candidates: A study of registered and student nurses' and midwives' perceptions of prerequisite attributes and key skills
Journal Article
Waugh, A., Smith, D., Horsburgh, D., & Gray, M. (2014)
Towards a values-based person specification for recruitment of compassionate nursing and midwifery candidates: A study of registered and student nurses' and midwives' perceptions of prerequisite attributes and key skills. Nurse Education Today, 34, 1190-1195. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2013.12.009
Summary
Selection and retention of preregistration nursing and midwifery students are issues that exercise educators, universities and commissioning bodies both nationally an...
Phosphorylation of the epidermal growth factor
receptor (EGFR) is essential for interleukin-8
release from intestinal epithelial cells in response to
challenge with Escherichia coli O157 :H7 flagellin.
Journal Article
Fraser-Pitt, D. J., Cameron, P., McNeilly, T. N., Boyd, A., Manson, E. D. T., & Smith, D. G. E. (2011)
challenge with Escherichia coli O157 :H7 flagellin. Microbiology, 157, 2339-2347. https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.047670-0
Enterohaemorrhagic E. coli O157:H7 is a major food-borne and environmental pathogen responsible for both sporadic cases and outbreaks of food poisoning which can lead to serio...
Characterisation of proteins extracted from the surface of Salmonella Typhimurium grown under SPI-2-inducing conditions by LC-ESI/MS/MS sequencing.
Journal Article
Sherry, A. E., Inglis, N. F., Stevenson, A., Fraser-Pitt, D. J., Everest, P., Smith, D. G. E., & Roberts, M. (2011)
Characterisation of proteins extracted from the surface of Salmonella Typhimurium grown under SPI-2-inducing conditions by LC-ESI/MS/MS sequencing. Proteomics, 11, 361-370. https://doi.org/10.1002/pmic.200900802
Salmonella enterica has two pathogenicity islands encoding separate type three secretion systems (T3SS). Proteins secreted through these systems facilitate invasion and surviv...
'Big Brother' researchers to rein in horse obesity
Journal Article
Smith, D. (2010)
'Big Brother' researchers to rein in horse obesity. Inspiring Futures,
RESEARCHERS have adopted Big Brother tactics to tackle growing levels of obesity in Britain’s horse population.
One in three horses, and over 80% of ponies, are currently bel...
Study to learn secrets of equine couch potatoes
Journal Article
Smith, D. (2010)
Study to learn secrets of equine couch potatoes. Horsetalk.co.nz,
It is hoped the Big Brother tactics will deliver results useful in tackling growing levels of equine obesity.
Researchers hope the study will help them discover exactly what...
Why a mongrel will always trump the pedigree chump
Journal Article
Smith, D. (2008)
Why a mongrel will always trump the pedigree chump. The Mail,
With a pedigree as long as his tail, you might expect the pure-bred pooch to trounce his mongrel cousin in an IQ test.
But it seems that all that breeding may be for nothing....
Use of n-alkanes for estimation of voluntary intake and digestibility in donkeys (Equus asinus)
Journal Article
Castelǭn-Ortega, O. A., Estrada-Flores, J. G., Smith, D., Colunga, G. B., Solis_Mendezl, A., Aviles_Nova, F., …Garcial, I. (2007)
Use of n-alkanes for estimation of voluntary intake and digestibility in donkeys (Equus asinus). Journal of animal and feed sciences, 16, 307-312
The aim of this work was to evaluate if the n-alkanes (C32) technique can be used to determine voluntary dry matter intake (DMI) and dry matter digestibility (DMD) in grazing ...
Book review - Reptilian Incubation. Environment, Evolution and Behaviour
Journal Article
Smith, D. (2006)
Book review - Reptilian Incubation. Environment, Evolution and Behaviour. Biologist, 53, 151
Both professional and amateur herpetologists will find Reptile Incubation: Environment, Evolution and Behaviour a fascinating read. The book provides detailed academic discus...
Book review - "Nutritional physiology of the horse" - Ellis, Andrea D., HIll, Julian
Journal Article
Smith, D. (2006)
Book review - "Nutritional physiology of the horse" - Ellis, Andrea D., HIll, Julian. Biologist, 53, 202
There has been a considerable advance in our knowledge of equine nutritional physiology over the past two decades, as techniques originally developed for ruminant research hav...
Validating the alkane pair technique to estimate dry matter intake in equids.
Journal Article
Smith, D., Mayes, R. W., Hollands, T., Cuddeford, D., Yule, H. H., Ladrero, C. M. M. & Gillen, E. (2006)
Validating the alkane pair technique to estimate dry matter intake in equids. Journal of Agricultural Science. 145, 273-281. doi:10.1017/S0021859607006788. ISSN 0021-8596
The estimation of dry matter intake (DMI) using the alkane pair technique has been validated in ruminants, but not in equids. The current paper reports the finding of three co...