OUR APPROACH TO DEVELOPING COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE TO FOSTER RESEARCH CAPACITIES FOR THE ADULT SOCIAL CARE WORKFORCE [VERSION 2; PEER REVIEW: 1 APPROVED, 2 APPROVED WITH RESERVATIONS]

Our approach to developing communities of practice to foster research capacities for the adult social care workforce [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations]

Background Efforts to build and foster adult social care research in England have historically encountered more challenges to its growth and expansion compared with health research, with a sector facing significant barriers in facilitating research activity due to a lack of resourcing, poor valuation or understanding of the profile of social care r

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Shear induced diffusion of platelets revisited

The transport of platelets in blood is commonly assumed to obey an advection-diffusion equation with a diffusion constant given by the so-called Zydney-Colton theory.Here we reconsider this hypothesis based on experimental observations and numerical simulations including a fully resolved suspension of red radio birdman tshirt blood cells and platel

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