Daniel, J, West, P, Mackintosh, W
Persistent myths have lessened the impact of ICTs on education. Happily they are balanced by miracles of theory and practice that are gradually gaining the upper hand. We counter the myth that...
Charge multiplets and masses for E(11) (2008)
The particle, string and membrane charge multiplets are derived in detail from the decomposition of the l1 (charge) representation of E(11) in three, four, five, six, seven and eight spacetime...
Structural and mutational analysis of the cell division protein FtsQ (2008)
Ent, F. Van Den, Vinkenvleugel, T.M.F., Ind, A., West, P., Veprintsev, D., Nanninga, N., ...
Bacterial cytokinesis requires the divisome, a complex of proteins that co-ordinates the invagination of the cytoplasmic membrane, inward growth of the peptidoglycan layer and the outer membrane....
Young, R., Sweeting, H., West, P.
Objective To investigate whether deliberate self harm is associated with contemporary Goth youth subculture. Design Longitudinal cohort study. Setting School and community based study of young people...
E_{11}, ten forms and supergravity (2005)
We extend the previously given non-linear realisation of E_{11} for the decomposition appropriate to IIB supergravity to include the ten forms that were known to be present in the adjoint...
Dietary habits and children's family lives (2005)
Purpose : To investigate associations between 'less healthy eating' and 'unhealthy snacking' at age 11, and family life (family structure, meals and maternal employment status) together with...
Sheldon, T.A., Cullum, N., Dawson, D., Lankshear, A., Lowson, K., Watt, I., ...
OBJECTIVES: To assess the extent and pattern of implementation of guidance issued by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE). DESIGN: Interrupted time series analysis, review of case...
Sheldon, T.A., Cullum, N., Dawson, D., Lankshear, A., Lowson, K., Watt, I., ...
OBJECTIVES: To assess the extent and pattern of implementation of guidance issued by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE). DESIGN: Interrupted time series analysis, review of case...
Sheldon, T.A., Cullum, N., Dawson, D., Lankshear, A., Lowson, K., Watt, I., ...
OBJECTIVES: To assess the extent and pattern of implementation of guidance issued by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE). DESIGN: Interrupted time series analysis, review of case...
Sheldon, T.A., Cullum, N., Dawson, D., Lankshear, A., Lowson, K., Watt, I., ...
OBJECTIVES: To assess the extent and pattern of implementation of guidance issued by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE). DESIGN: Interrupted time series analysis, review of case...
Spiro, S.G., Rudd, R.M., Souhami, R.L., Brown, J., Fairlamb, D.J., Gower, N.H., ...
BACKGROUND: In 1995 a meta-analysis of randomised trials investigating the value of adding chemotherapy to primary treatment for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) suggested a small survival benefit...
Spiro, S.G., Rudd, R.M., Souhami, R.L., Brown, J., Fairlamb, D.J., Gower, N.H., ...
BACKGROUND: In 1995 a meta-analysis of randomised trials investigating the value of adding chemotherapy to primary treatment for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) suggested a small survival benefit...
Spiro, S.G., Rudd, R.M., Souhami, R.L., Brown, J., Fairlamb, D.J., Gower, N.H., ...
BACKGROUND: In 1995 a meta-analysis of randomised trials investigating the value of adding chemotherapy to primary treatment for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) suggested a small survival benefit...
Spiro, S.G., Rudd, R.M., Souhami, R.L., Brown, J., Fairlamb, D.J., Gower, N.H., ...
BACKGROUND: In 1995 a meta-analysis of randomised trials investigating the value of adding chemotherapy to primary treatment for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) suggested a small survival benefit...
Spiro, S.G., Rudd, R.M., Souhami, R.L., Brown, J., Fairlamb, D.J., Gower, N.H., ...
BACKGROUND: In 1995 a meta-analysis of randomised trials investigating the value of adding chemotherapy to primary treatment for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) suggested a small survival benefit...
Spiro, S.G., Rudd, R.M., Souhami, R.L., Brown, J., Fairlamb, D.J., Gower, N.H., ...
BACKGROUND: In 1995 a meta-analysis of randomised trials investigating the value of adding chemotherapy to primary treatment for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) suggested a small survival benefit...
Some simple predictions from E_{11} symmetry (2004)
The simplest consequences of the common E_{11} symmetry of the eleven dimensional, IIA and IIB theories are derived and are shown to imply the known relations between these three theories.
E_{11} origin of Brane charges and U-duality multiplets (2004)
We derive general equations which determine the decomposition of the G^{+++} multiplet of brane charges into the sub-algebras that arise when the non-linearly realised G^{+++} theory is dimensionally...
The IIA, IIB and eleven dimensional theories and their common E_{11} origin (2004)
We show that the commonly considered half BPS solutions of eleven dimensional supergravity and the ten dimensional type II theories, when expressed in terms of $E_{11}$ group elements, take the...
Abbotts, J., Sweeting, H., Williams, R., West, P.
Religiosity is often associated with mental health in adult populations, but not in a consistent direction. Conflicting results reflect the multidimensional nature of both concepts. Few studies have...
Catholic socio-economic disadvantage in the West of Scotland: a narrowing of inequality (2004)
Abbotts, J., Williams, R., West, P., Hunt, K., Ford, G.
No abstract available.
Evidence on equalisation in health in youth from the West of Scotland (2004)
Many studies report few socioeconomic (SES) differences in health in youth, a pattern contrasting with that of health inequalities in childhood and adulthood. This paper focuses on the child–youth...
West, P., Sweeting, H., Leyland, A.H.
Compared with the volume of research on school effects on educational outcomes, and in spite of growing interest in the health promoting school, there are very few studies that have investigated the...
Representations of G+++ and the role of space-time (2003)
We consider the decomposition of the adjoint and fundamental representations of very extended Kac-Moody algebras G+++ with respect to their regular A type subalgebra which, in the corresponding...
The symmetry of M-theories. (2003)
Englert, F., Houart, L., Taormina, A., West, P.
We consider the Cartan subalgebra of any very extended algebra Script G+++ where Script G is a simple Lie algebra and let the parameters be space-time fields. These are identified with diagonal...
$E_{11}$, SL(32) and Central Charges (2003)
We show that the $E_{11}$ representation that contains the space-time translation generators also contains the rank two and five totally anti-symmetric representations of $A_{10}$. By studying the...
The Symmetry of M-Theories (2003)
Englert, F., Houart, L., Taormina, A., West, P.
We consider the Cartan subalgebra of any very extended algebra G+++ where G is a simple Lie algebra and let the parameters be space-time fields. These are identified with diagonal metrics and...
Overview of JET results (2003)
Pamela, J., Solano, E. R., Adams, J. M., Agarici, G., Agarici, M., Akhter, H., ...
Scientific and technical activities on JET focus on the issues likely to affect the ITER design and operation. Our understanding of the ITER reference mode of operation, the ELMy H-mode, has...
No abstract available.
Sex differences in health at ages 11, 13 and 15 (2003)
This paper tests the hypothesis of an emerging or increasing female excess in general ill-health and physical symptoms, as well as psychological distress, during early to mid-adolescence....
Until the 1990s, the literature on youth leisure characterized that of females as home-based, passive and largely absent from male-dominated subcultures. Contrasting with this, over the course of the...
Fifteen, female and stressed: changing patterns of psychological distress over time (2003)
Background: Despite a widespread view that the mental health of young people has deteriorated, the evidence base is limited by the lack of comparable datasets over time, and their capacity to test...
Voice-DISC identified DSM-IV disorders among 15 year olds in the West of Scotland (2003)
West, P., Sweeting, H., Der, G., Barton, J., Lucas, C.
Objective: To report prevalence estimates of psychiatric disorder among Scottish adolescents using a self-administered computerized (Voice) version of the DISC. Method: A total of 1,860 15-year-olds...
Very Extended $E_8$ and $A_8$ at low levels, Gravity and Supergravity (2002)
We define a level for a large class of Lorentzian Kac-Moody algebras. Using this we find the representation content of very extended $A_{D-3}$ and $E_8$ (i.e. $E_{11}$) at low levels in terms of...
The Spontaneous Compactification of the Closed Bosonic String (2002)
We argue that the higher space-time derivative terms that occur in closed bosonic string field theory are reminiscent of those found in the Landau theory of liquid-crystal transitions. We examine the...
Gender differences in weight-related concerns in early to mid adolescence (2002)
Among adults, women are more likely than men to perceive themselves as too heavy for their height, the gender discrepancy being greatest among those within a "normal" weight range. This finding has...
West, P., Reeder, A.I., Milne, B.J., Poulton, R.
Against the background of increasing concern about levels of physical activity among young people, this paper reports the results of a cross-national comparison between two longitudinal studies of...
We argue that eleven dimensional supergravity can be described by a non-linear realisation based on the group E_{11}. This requires a formulation of eleven dimensional supergravity in which the...
Transport by intermittent convection in the boundary of the DIII-D tokamak (2001)
Boedo, J.A., Rudakov, D.L., Moyer, R.A., Krasheninnikov, S., Whyte, D.G., McKee, George R., ...
This material is presented to ensure timely dissemination of scholarly and technical work. Copyright and all rights therein are retained by authors or by other copyright holders. All persons copying...
Poor but healthy? The youngest generation of Irish Catholics in West Scotland (2001)
Abbotts, J., Sweeting, H., Williams, R., West, P.
OBJECTIVE: Catholic adults in the West of Scotland, who are mainly of Irish origin, have been shown to suffer excess morbidity and mortality compared to the general population. A major contributing...
Karvonen, S., West, P., Sweeting, H., Rahkonen, O., Young, R.
The extent to which young people's lifestyles are related to social class, their relationship with health behaviours, and variations in these relationships between countries are of central relevance...
Social class and smoking at age 15: the effect of different definitions of smoking (2001)
Aim : To explore whether the association between social class and smoking among teenagers varies according to the definition of smoking adopted. Design, setting and participants : A survey of 2196...
Being different: correlates of the experience of teasing and bullying at age 11 (2001)
The public stereotype, largely supported by a rather diverse range of literature, is that bullied children differ from their peers in respect of attributes such as appearance, disability or school...
West, P., Sweeting, H., Speed, E.
It is widely assumed that children, especially younger children and those in poorer circumstances, are unreliable informants of parental occupation and related characteristics, thereby precluding the...
Hidden Superconformal Symmetry in M Theory (2000)
The bosonic sectors of the eleven dimensional and IIA supergravity theories are derived as non-linear realisations. The underlying group includes the conformal group, the general linear group and as...
Automorphisms, Non-linear Realizations and Branes (2000)
The theory of non-linear realizations is used to derive the dynamics of the branes of M theory. A crucial step in this procedure is to use the enlarged automorphism group of the supersymmetry algebra...
Cardiovascular reactions to psychological distress: the influence of demographic variables (2000)
Carroll, D., Harrison, L., Johnston, D., Ford, G., Hunt, K., West, P.
Large magnitude cardiovascular reactions to psychological stress have been implicated in the development and expression of cardiovascular disease.1 Given that cardiovascular disease varies as a...
Ely, M., West, P., Sweeting, H., Richards, M.
The main aim of this paper is to compare the association of family structure with outcomes for young people in living in the West of Scotland (the Twenty-07 Study, N=1009) with their contemporaries...
Ely, M, West, P, Sweeting, H, Richards, M
The main aim of this paper is to compare the association of family structure with outcomes for young people in living in the West of Scotland (the Twenty-07 Study, N=1009) with their contemporaries...
Brane Rotating Symmetries and the Fivebrane Equations of Motion (1999)
We show that the fully covariant equations of motion for the M-theory fivebrane can be interpreted as charge conservation equations. The associated charges induce `shift'-symmetries of the scalar,...
Supergravity, Brane Dynamics and String Duality (1998)
In this review we show that a Clifford algebra possesses a unique irreducible representation; the spinor representation. We discuss what types of spinors can exist in Minkowski space-times and we...
Peer pressure to smoke: the meaning depends on the method (1996)
This paper is concerned with the meaning and the processes of peer pressure in relation to smoking behaviour amongst pre-adolescent and adolescent pupils. Previous research suggests that children who...
Non-Perturbative Green's Functions in Theories with Extended Superconformal Symmetry (1995)
The multiplets that occur in four dimensional rigidly supersymmetric theories can be described either by chiral superfields in Minkowski superspace or analytic superfields in harmonic superspace. The...
$W$ Strings and Cohomology in Parafermionic Theories (1994)
By enforcing locality we relate the cohomology found in parafermionic theories to that occurring in $W$ strings. This link provides a systematic method of finding states in the cohomology of...
$W_3$ strings, parafermions and the Ising model (1993)
We show that any covariant scattering amplitude of the $W_3$ string will contain, as part of its integrand, a factor that obeys the differential equations satisfied by an Ising model correlation...
On the relation between integrability and infinite-dimensional algebras (1993)
We review our work on the relation between integrability and infinite-dimensional algebras. We first consider the question of what sets of commuting charges can be constructed from the current of a...
$W_3$ string scattering (1992)
The group theoretic method is extended to include fields with a background charge. This formalism is used to compute the tree level scattering for $W_3$ strings. The scattering amplitudes involve...
On the quantum KP hierarchy and its relation to the non-linear Schr\"odinger equation (1992)
We establish a relation between the classical non-linear Schr\"odinger equation and the KP hierarchy, and we extend this relation to the quantum case by defining a quantum KP hierarchy. We present...
Commuting quantities and exceptional W-algebras (1992)
Freeman, M. D., Hornfeck, K., West, P.
Sets of commuting charges constructed from the current of a U(1) Kac-Moody algebra are found. There exists a set S_n of such charges for each positive integer n > 1; the corresponding value of the...
Symmetry structures of superstring field theories (1986)
Kazama, Yoichi, Neveu, A., Nicolai, Hermann, West, P.
A new extended formulation of free supersymmetric string field theories is presented. The hidden symmetries are exhibited and their quantization is given. The rigid space-time supersymmetry of the...
Space-time supersymmetry of the covariant superstring (1986)
Kazama, Yoichi, Neveu, A., Nicolai, Hermann, West, P.
We explicitly derive the ghost oscillator contribution to the gauge covariant fermion emission vertex. This vertex is used to construct the space-time supersymmetry transformation laws which are...
LASER SPECTROSCOPY OF HIGH RYDBERG STATES OF LIGHT ALKALINE-EARTH ELEMENTS : Be AND Mg (1983)
Beigang, R., Schmidt, D., West, P.
Rydberg series of msns and msnd configurations of Be (m=2) and Mg (m=3) were investigated between principal quantum numbers 10 ≤ n ≤ 70. The Rydberg states were populated using stepwise...
LASER SPECTROSCOPY OF HIGH RYDBERG STATES OF LIGHT ALKALINE-EARTH ELEMENTS : Be AND Mg (1983)
Beigang, R., Schmidt, D., West, P.
Rydberg series of msns and msnd configurations of Be (m=2) and Mg (m=3) were investigated between principal quantum numbers 10 ≤ n ≤ 70. The Rydberg states were populated using stepwise...
LASER SPECTROSCOPY OF HIGH RYDBERG STATES OF LIGHT ALKALINE-EARTH ELEMENTS : Be AND Mg (1983)
Beigang, R., Schmidt, D., West, P.
Rydberg series of msns and msnd configurations of Be (m=2) and Mg (m=3) were investigated between principal quantum numbers 10 ≤ n ≤ 70. The Rydberg states were populated using stepwise...
FREQUENCY MODULATION OF THE 6.2 keV MÖSSBAUER STATES OF 181Ta (1979)
Mössbauer sidebands up to the first order from a single parent line have been produced by subjecting a non magnetic W(181W) Mössbauer source to a strong oscillating magnetic field of up to 230...
The influence of oxygen impurities in tantalum metal on the 6.2 keV Mössbauer transition of 181Ta has been studied for oxygen concentrations of 500 ppm to 50 ppm and for temperatures ranging from...
FREQUENCY MODULATION OF THE 6.2 keV MÖSSBAUER STATES OF 181Ta (1979)
Mössbauer sidebands up to the first order from a single parent line have been produced by subjecting a non magnetic W(181W) Mössbauer source to a strong oscillating magnetic field of up to 230...
The influence of oxygen impurities in tantalum metal on the 6.2 keV Mössbauer transition of 181Ta has been studied for oxygen concentrations of 500 ppm to 50 ppm and for temperatures ranging from...
FREQUENCY MODULATION OF THE 6.2 keV MÖSSBAUER STATES OF 181Ta (1979)
Mössbauer sidebands up to the first order from a single parent line have been produced by subjecting a non magnetic W(181W) Mössbauer source to a strong oscillating magnetic field of up to 230...
The influence of oxygen impurities in tantalum metal on the 6.2 keV Mössbauer transition of 181Ta has been studied for oxygen concentrations of 500 ppm to 50 ppm and for temperatures ranging from...
Poor but healthy? The youngest generation of Irish Catholics in West Scotland
Abbotts, J., Sweeting, H., Williams, R., West, P.
OBJECTIVE: Catholic adults in the West of Scotland, who are mainly of Irish origin, have been shown to suffer excess morbidity and mortality compared to the general population. A major contributing...
Abbotts, J., Sweeting, H., Williams, R., West, P.
Religiosity is often associated with mental health in adult populations, but not in a consistent direction. Conflicting results reflect the multidimensional nature of both concepts. Few studies have...
Catholic socio-economic disadvantage in the West of Scotland: a narrowing of inequality
Abbotts, J., Williams, R., West, P., Hunt, K., Ford, G.
No abstract available.
Cardiovascular reactions to psychological distress: the influence of demographic variables
Carroll, D., Harrison, L., Johnston, D., Ford, G., Hunt, K., West, P.
Large magnitude cardiovascular reactions to psychological stress have been implicated in the development and expression of cardiovascular disease.1 Given that cardiovascular disease varies as a...
Teenage family life, life chances, lifestyles, and health: a comparison of two contemporary cohorts
Ely, M., West, P., Sweeting, H., Richards, M.
The main aim of this paper is to compare the association of family structure with outcomes for young people in living in the West of Scotland (the Twenty-07 Study, N=1009) with their contemporaries...
Karvonen, S., West, P., Sweeting, H., Rahkonen, O., Young, R.
The extent to which young people's lifestyles are related to social class, their relationship with health behaviours, and variations in these relationships between countries are of central relevance...
No abstract available.
Social class and smoking at age 15: the effect of different definitions of smoking
Aim : To explore whether the association between social class and smoking among teenagers varies according to the definition of smoking adopted. Design, setting and participants : A survey of 2196...
Being different: correlates of the experience of teasing and bullying at age 11
The public stereotype, largely supported by a rather diverse range of literature, is that bullied children differ from their peers in respect of attributes such as appearance, disability or school...
Gender differences in weight-related concerns in early to mid adolescence
Among adults, women are more likely than men to perceive themselves as too heavy for their height, the gender discrepancy being greatest among those within a "normal" weight range. This finding has...
Sex differences in health at ages 11, 13 and 15
This paper tests the hypothesis of an emerging or increasing female excess in general ill-health and physical symptoms, as well as psychological distress, during early to mid-adolescence....
Until the 1990s, the literature on youth leisure characterized that of females as home-based, passive and largely absent from male-dominated subcultures. Contrasting with this, over the course of the...
Dietary habits and children's family lives
Purpose : To investigate associations between 'less healthy eating' and 'unhealthy snacking' at age 11, and family life (family structure, meals and maternal employment status) together with...
West, P., Reeder, A.I., Milne, B.J., Poulton, R.
Against the background of increasing concern about levels of physical activity among young people, this paper reports the results of a cross-national comparison between two longitudinal studies of...
Fifteen, female and stressed: changing patterns of psychological distress over time
Background: Despite a widespread view that the mental health of young people has deteriorated, the evidence base is limited by the lack of comparable datasets over time, and their capacity to test...
Evidence on equalisation in health in youth from the West of Scotland
Many studies report few socioeconomic (SES) differences in health in youth, a pattern contrasting with that of health inequalities in childhood and adulthood. This paper focuses on the child–youth...
Voice-DISC identified DSM-IV disorders among 15 year olds in the West of Scotland
West, P., Sweeting, H., Der, G., Barton, J., Lucas, C.
Objective: To report prevalence estimates of psychiatric disorder among Scottish adolescents using a self-administered computerized (Voice) version of the DISC. Method: A total of 1,860 15-year-olds...
School effects on pupils' health behaviours: evidence in support of the health promoting school
West, P., Sweeting, H., Leyland, A.H.
Compared with the volume of research on school effects on educational outcomes, and in spite of growing interest in the health promoting school, there are very few studies that have investigated the...
West, P., Sweeting, H., Speed, E.
It is widely assumed that children, especially younger children and those in poorer circumstances, are unreliable informants of parental occupation and related characteristics, thereby precluding the...
Wound infection caused by Kanagawa-negative Vibrio parahaemolyticus.
Johnson, D E, Weinberg, L, Ciarkowski, J, West, P, Colwell, R R
Kanagawa-positive Vibrio parahaemolyticus strains are considered to be human pathogens and are most commonly associated with summer diarrhea. Kanagawa-negative strains are most frequently isolated...
A modification of the Cortipac procedure (Radiochemical Centre, Amersham) for the estimation of urinary free cortisol was found to be of value in the diagnosis of Cushing's syndrome and in the...
Rational establishment of air quality standards.
Pearce, D, Mooney, G, Akehurst, R, West, P
This paper attempts to apply two principles of rationality--efficiency and equity--to the establishment of air quality standards for total suspended particulates in the USA. It is argued that...
Wound infection caused by Kanagawa-negative Vibrio parahaemolyticus.
Johnson, D E, Weinberg, L, Ciarkowski, J, West, P, Colwell, R R
Kanagawa-positive Vibrio parahaemolyticus strains are considered to be human pathogens and are most commonly associated with summer diarrhea. Kanagawa-negative strains are most frequently isolated...
A modification of the Cortipac procedure (Radiochemical Centre, Amersham) for the estimation of urinary free cortisol was found to be of value in the diagnosis of Cushing's syndrome and in the...
Rational establishment of air quality standards.
Pearce, D, Mooney, G, Akehurst, R, West, P
This paper attempts to apply two principles of rationality--efficiency and equity--to the establishment of air quality standards for total suspended particulates in the USA. It is argued that...
Poor but healthy? The youngest generation of Irish Catholics in West Scotland
Abbotts, J., Sweeting, H., Williams, R., West, P.
OBJECTIVE: Catholic adults in the West of Scotland, who are mainly of Irish origin, have been shown to suffer excess morbidity and mortality compared to the general population. A major contributing...
Abbotts, J., Sweeting, H., Williams, R., West, P.
Religiosity is often associated with mental health in adult populations, but not in a consistent direction. Conflicting results reflect the multidimensional nature of both concepts. Few studies have...
Catholic socio-economic disadvantage in the West of Scotland: a narrowing of inequality
Abbotts, J., Williams, R., West, P., Hunt, K., Ford, G.
No abstract available.
Cardiovascular reactions to psychological distress: the influence of demographic variables
Carroll, D., Harrison, L., Johnston, D., Ford, G., Hunt, K., West, P.
Large magnitude cardiovascular reactions to psychological stress have been implicated in the development and expression of cardiovascular disease.1 Given that cardiovascular disease varies as a...
Teenage family life, life chances, lifestyles, and health: a comparison of two contemporary cohorts
Ely, M., West, P., Sweeting, H., Richards, M.
The main aim of this paper is to compare the association of family structure with outcomes for young people in living in the West of Scotland (the Twenty-07 Study, N=1009) with their contemporaries...
Karvonen, S., West, P., Sweeting, H., Rahkonen, O., Young, R.
The extent to which young people's lifestyles are related to social class, their relationship with health behaviours, and variations in these relationships between countries are of central relevance...
No abstract available.
Social class and smoking at age 15: the effect of different definitions of smoking
Aim : To explore whether the association between social class and smoking among teenagers varies according to the definition of smoking adopted. Design, setting and participants : A survey of 2196...
Being different: correlates of the experience of teasing and bullying at age 11
The public stereotype, largely supported by a rather diverse range of literature, is that bullied children differ from their peers in respect of attributes such as appearance, disability or school...
Gender differences in weight-related concerns in early to mid adolescence
Among adults, women are more likely than men to perceive themselves as too heavy for their height, the gender discrepancy being greatest among those within a "normal" weight range. This finding has...
Sex differences in health at ages 11, 13 and 15
This paper tests the hypothesis of an emerging or increasing female excess in general ill-health and physical symptoms, as well as psychological distress, during early to mid-adolescence....
Until the 1990s, the literature on youth leisure characterized that of females as home-based, passive and largely absent from male-dominated subcultures. Contrasting with this, over the course of the...
Dietary habits and children's family lives
Purpose : To investigate associations between 'less healthy eating' and 'unhealthy snacking' at age 11, and family life (family structure, meals and maternal employment status) together with...
West, P., Reeder, A.I., Milne, B.J., Poulton, R.
Against the background of increasing concern about levels of physical activity among young people, this paper reports the results of a cross-national comparison between two longitudinal studies of...
Fifteen, female and stressed: changing patterns of psychological distress over time
Background: Despite a widespread view that the mental health of young people has deteriorated, the evidence base is limited by the lack of comparable datasets over time, and their capacity to test...
Evidence on equalisation in health in youth from the West of Scotland
Many studies report few socioeconomic (SES) differences in health in youth, a pattern contrasting with that of health inequalities in childhood and adulthood. This paper focuses on the child–youth...
Voice-DISC identified DSM-IV disorders among 15 year olds in the West of Scotland
West, P., Sweeting, H., Der, G., Barton, J., Lucas, C.
Objective: To report prevalence estimates of psychiatric disorder among Scottish adolescents using a self-administered computerized (Voice) version of the DISC. Method: A total of 1,860 15-year-olds...
School effects on pupils' health behaviours: evidence in support of the health promoting school
West, P., Sweeting, H., Leyland, A.H.
Compared with the volume of research on school effects on educational outcomes, and in spite of growing interest in the health promoting school, there are very few studies that have investigated the...
West, P., Sweeting, H., Speed, E.
It is widely assumed that children, especially younger children and those in poorer circumstances, are unreliable informants of parental occupation and related characteristics, thereby precluding the...
Young, R., Sweeting, H., West, P.
Objective To investigate whether deliberate self harm is associated with contemporary Goth youth subculture. Design Longitudinal cohort study. Setting School and community based study of young people...
Young, R., Sweeting, H., West, P.
Objective To investigate whether deliberate self harm is associated with contemporary Goth youth subculture. Design Longitudinal cohort study. Setting School and community based study of young people...
Child death reviews: a gold mine for injury prevention and control
Onwuachi-Saunders, C., Forjuoh, S., West, P., Brooks, C.
Objectives—The purpose of this study was to demonstrate how child death review teams can be used to prevent future deaths through retrospective, multiagency case analysis and recommendations for...
Spiro, S, Rudd, R, Souhami, R, Brown, J, Fairlamb, D, Gower, N, ...
Background: In 1995 a meta-analysis of randomised trials investigating the value of adding chemotherapy to primary treatment for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) suggested a small survival benefit...
Correlates of blood pressure in 15 year olds in the west of Scotland.
Macintyre, S, Watt, G, West, P, Ecob, R
STUDY OBJECTIVE--The aim was to examine social and physical correlates of blood pressure in 15 year olds. DESIGN--This was the first, baseline, sweep of a longitudinal survey of 15 year olds based on...
Health at age 11: reports from schoolchildren and their parents
OBJECTIVE—To present self reports by children and reports by parents on behalf of their children relating to general health, current conditions, and recent symptoms. DESIGN—Questionnaires...
Cardiovascular reactions to psychological stress: the influence of demographic variables
Carroll, D., Harrison, L., Johnston, D., Ford, G., Hunt, K., Der, G., ...
Maslove, L, Gower, N, Spiro, S, Rudd, R, Stephens, R, West, P
Background: A large multicentre randomised trial, the Big Lung Trial, which in part compared supportive care with or without cisplatin-based chemotherapy in patients with advanced non-small cell lung...