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Symmetry is a salient visual feature in the natural world, yet the perception of symmetry may be influenced by how natural lighting conditions (e.g., shading) fall on the object relative to its symmetry axis. Here, we investigate how symmetry detection may interact with luminance polarity-grouping, and whether this modulates neural responses to symmetry as evidenced by the Sustained Posterior Negativity (SPN) component of Event-Related Potentials (ERPs). Stimuli were dot patterns arranged eit...

The purpose of this research was to conduct an exploratory study of how self-employed individuals with caring responsibilities manage their paid work with their unpaid care work. Self-employment continues to rise alongside individual responsibilities for providing unpaid care, and unpaid caregivers are increasingly turning to self-employment. It is crucial for researchers and policymakers alike to understand how self-employment and unpaid care work intersect and what this intersection means i...

Background: Nurse education plays an essential role in preparing future nurses to engage with quality improvement (QI) initiatives in their organisations and improve patient care. However, frontline nurses continue to report that a lack of QI knowledge hinders their abilities to engage in improvement work. In the UK, student nurses are now trained in QI within their degree to enable them to contribute to improvements once qualified. Objectives: This qualitative follow-up study investigated th...

First paragraph: The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (Incorporation)(Scotland) Act 2024 (2024 Act) commenced in July 2024. The culmination of decades of work by children, young people, NGOs, elected officials and academics, the 2024 Act incorporates the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) into Scots law with the intention of ensuring a “maximalist approach” to direct legal incorporation by giving “international law direct effect in national law” while ensuring justiciabi...