Financing access to improved water and sanitation, Public Works Loans Board, UK by Richard Franceys

“…PWLB long-term average ‘real’ interest rates of 1.95% (5% nominal) made a significant difference to affordability in Britain as compared to some present ‘innovative financing’ reports of 15- 20% per year nominal interest costs.…”
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Consensus, collaboration and community care for elderly people by Adrian R. Turrell

“…The Thesis was stimulated by experiences of statutory carers as a volunteer supporting elderly people living in the community, My observations of these carers (such as social workers, district nurses, home helps and G.P.s) and the support they provided to elderly people in the community suggested that there was a fundamental contradiction between, on the one hand, their avowal of the virtue of maintaining elderly people at home for as long as possible (in the 'spirit' of community care policy) and, on the other hand, their ability and willingness to collaborate to achieve this end, To explain this situation, this Thesis explores three aspects of the theory and practice of community care for elderly people: •the historical and conceptual diversity of community care policies in England and Wales as revealed by government publications over the period 1800-1982 and a range of professional and academic literature; •the degree to which community care policies have been officially regarded as dependent upon inter-agency and inter-professional collaboration, and whether in practice community care practitioners have lent such policies their support and agreed on their meaning and implications; •I the relevance of these two aspects to implementing local community care policies. …”
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The tripartite efficacy framework in client-therapist rehabilitation interactions: implications for relationship quality and client engagement by Ben Jackson, James A. Dimmock, Ian Taylor, Martin S. Hagger

“…Clients reported their tripartite efficacy beliefs and perceptions about the quality of their relationship with their therapist, and respective therapists rated each client's engagement in his or her exercise program. In Study 2, we recruited 68 separate exercise clients ( Mage = 65.93, SD = 5.80) along with their therapists ( n = 68, Mage = 31.89, SD = 4.79) from the same program, to examine whether individuals' efficacy perceptions were related to their own and/or the other person's relationship quality perceptions. …”
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Using plantar pressure for free-living posture recognition and sedentary behaviour monitoring by Ricardo Aguilar Grajeda

“…Furthermore, the proposed model activity performance for daily life monitoring is validated against the current criterion (i.e. direct observation) and against the de facto standard, the activPAL. …”
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