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S Hennessy

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PubMed1993

How do communication aid centres provide services to their clients?

A survey of the functioning of the six communication aid centres (CACs) in England and Wales was undertaken. All CACs are specialist units drawing clients from a wide area of the country which means that referrals are more likely to come from outside, rather than from within the districts in which the CACs are located. All CACs have developed individual assessment procedures, with some CACs undertaking continuous assessment of clients, and others recommending an aid after a single session. Funding of aids was often a problem because CACs were only able to recommend aid provision and did not supply them; their stocks of aids were used in assessment sessions or for interim loan to clients until a definitive aid had been acquired. CAC staff engaged in a variety of other functions including the organisation of courses, acting as an advice and information service, and undertaking research.

Communication Devices for People with Disabilities↗
PubMed1993

Evaluation of Communication Aid Centres in England and Wales.

This paper reports the findings of an evaluation (funded by the Department of Health) of six Communication Aid Centres established in 1983. The evaluation was undertaken to assess the effectiveness of these Centres in meeting their set objectives, and to examine service costs and client satisfaction. The findings show that the work of each Centre was effective in meeting its stated objectives, but that the work of individual Centres reflected its own specialised interests. Two problems with current funding arrangements were highlighted. First, the need to replace the original funding by locally based finance, and second, the funding of communication aids for clients. The findings also show that the specialist service provided by these Centres can be managed at costs per person assessed at, or below, non-specialist services in health districts. Client satisfaction with the services provided by the Centres was high.

Communication Devices for People with Disabilities↗
PubMed1975

Regulation of synthesis of hepatic fatty acid synthetase: binding of fatty acid synthetase antibodies to polysomes.

Mammalian fatty acid synthetase was shown to be composed of two peptides, molecular weight 240,000, after dissociation with sodium dodecyl sulfate. Rat liver polysomes that synthesize fatty acid synthetase were identified by sucrose gradient analysis of polysomes that had been reacted with 125I-labeled antibody against fatty acid synthetase. The binding of 125I-labeled antibody to polysomes was found to correlate with the rate of hepatic fatty acid synthesis in various nutritional conditions.

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PubMed1975

Regulation of synthesis of hepatic fatty acid synthetase: polysomal translation in a cell-free system.

Polysomes were isolated from livers of rats fed various diets and were translated in a protein-synthesizing system derived from cultured Chang liver cells. One of the labeled products was identified as complete subunit(s) of fatty acid synthetase by indirect immunoprecipitation and sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of the solubilized immunoprecipitate. The relative amounts of fatty acid synthetase synthesized by polysomes from livers of rats fed a normal diet, starved rats, and rats starved and refed a fat-free diet for 16 hr were 1, 0.1, and 10, respectively. Induction of synthesis of fatty acid synthetase after fat-free refeeding of starved rats began by 2 hr (3-fold increase over starved animals), was increasing rapidly by 5 hr (19-fold over starved animals), and reached a high level by 16 hr (95-fold over starved and 10-fold over normally fed).

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Cross-sectional study of the ethics of pharmacy students.

The importance of ethics in pharmacy education and practice has recently received increased attention. Previous studies have addressed occupational orientation and personality traits as well as the nature of attitudes and values. Many unanswered questions remain. This cross-sectional study was designed to compare the attitudes and value priorities of pharmacy students in preprofessional and professional years of study and to evaluate a modified questionnaire. The 495 students who completed the questionnaire were representative of the 835 pharmacy students enrolled in this "0/5" undergraduate pharmacy program. The survey results indicated that honesty and full disclosure are preferences held by preprofessional students, whereas what may be described as professional judgment predominates in students during their final two professional years. Most students felt they had an idealistic or humanistic orientation. The differences among the classes may be due to any of a number of factors including curricula, normal maturation, or chance differences in the students within each class.

Cross-Sectional Studies↗