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Further letters of D.H. Lawrence (2015)
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Worthen, J., & Harrison, A. (2015). Further letters of D.H. Lawrence

[Letters by D.H. Lawrence, edited and translated by John Worthen and Andrew Harrison.]

On the grammaticalization of inferential evidential meaning: English "seem" and German "scheinen" (2015)
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Whitt, R. J. (2015). On the grammaticalization of inferential evidential meaning: English "seem" and German "scheinen". Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis, 20(2),

This paper provides an account of inferential evidential meaning in English and German, realized by seem and scheinen, respectively. The focus is on the grammaticalization of these verbs into semi-auxiliaries that take infinitive complements, a proce... Read More about On the grammaticalization of inferential evidential meaning: English "seem" and German "scheinen".

Implicit homophobic argument structure: equal marriage discourse in the Moral maze (2015)
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Van der Bom, I., Coffey-Glover, L., Jones, L., Mills, S., & Paterson, L. L. (2015). Implicit homophobic argument structure: equal marriage discourse in the Moral maze. Journal of Language and Sexuality, 4(1), https://doi.org/10.1075/jls.4.1.04mil

This article analyses the linguistic and discursive elements which contribute to the production of implicit homophobia. Explicit homophobia has been well documented and strategies for countering discriminatory language have been developed (Baker, 201... Read More about Implicit homophobic argument structure: equal marriage discourse in the Moral maze.

Emotional homework: a systematic literature review of patients’ intersession experiences (2015)
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Stewart, S., & Schröder, T. (2015). Emotional homework: a systematic literature review of patients’ intersession experiences. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, 25(3), https://doi.org/10.1037/a0039639

Patients’ processing of therapy between sessions can be planned and deliberate (homework) or spontaneous and incidental (intersession experiences). Aiming to inform clinical practice and future research, this review synthesizes empirical findings rel... Read More about Emotional homework: a systematic literature review of patients’ intersession experiences.

Pharyngeal electrical stimulation for treatment of poststroke dysphagia: individual patient data meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials (2015)
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Scutt, P., Lee, H. S., Hamdy, S., & Bath, P. M. (2015). Pharyngeal electrical stimulation for treatment of poststroke dysphagia: individual patient data meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. Stroke Research and Treatment, 2015, Article 429053. https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/429053

Background. Dysphagia after stroke is common, associated independently with poor outcome, and has limited treatment options. Pharyngeal electrical stimulation (PES) is a novel treatment being evaluated for treatment of poststroke dysphagia. Methods.... Read More about Pharyngeal electrical stimulation for treatment of poststroke dysphagia: individual patient data meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.

Time-randomized stopping problems for a family of utility functions (2015)
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Pérez López, I., & Le, H. (2015). Time-randomized stopping problems for a family of utility functions. SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 53(3), https://doi.org/10.1137/130946800

This paper studies stopping problems of the form $V=\inf_{0 \leq \tau \leq T} \mathbb{E}[U(\frac{\max_{0\le s \le T} Z_s }{Z_\tau})]$ for strictly concave or convex utility functions U in a family of increasing functions satisfying certain conditions... Read More about Time-randomized stopping problems for a family of utility functions.

Fast-decodable MIDO codes from non-associative algebras (2015)
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Pumpluen, S., & Steele, A. (2015). Fast-decodable MIDO codes from non-associative algebras. International Journal of Information and Coding Theory, 3(1), https://doi.org/10.1504/IJICOT.2015.068695

By defining a multiplication on a direct sum of n copies of a given cyclic division algebra, we obtain new unital non-associative algebras. We employ their left multiplication to construct rate-n and rate-2 fully diverse fast ML-decodable space-time... Read More about Fast-decodable MIDO codes from non-associative algebras.

The 'Auto-Mapic' map of Great Britain (2015)
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O'Loughlin, T. (2015). The 'Auto-Mapic' map of Great Britain

A study of a mechanical road atlas from the 1960s which is compared with codex form 'glove box' atlases from the period

[18F]FDG-6-P as a novel in vivo tool for imaging staphylococcal infections (2015)
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Mills, B., Awais, R., Luckett, J., Turton, D., Williams, P., Perkins, A., & Hill, P. (2015). [18F]FDG-6-P as a novel in vivo tool for imaging staphylococcal infections. EJNMMI Research, 5, Article 13. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13550-015-0095-1

Background Management of infection is a major clinical problem. Staphylococcus aureus is a Gram-positive bacterium which colonises approximately one third of the adult human population. Staphylococcal infections can be life-threatening and are frequ... Read More about [18F]FDG-6-P as a novel in vivo tool for imaging staphylococcal infections.

Challenge clusters facing LCA in environmental decision-making—what we can learn from biofuels (2015)
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McManus, M., Taylor, C., Mohr, A., Whittaker, C., Scown, C. D., Li Borrion, A., …Yin, Y. (2015). Challenge clusters facing LCA in environmental decision-making—what we can learn from biofuels. International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 20(10), https://doi.org/10.1007/s11367-015-0930-7

Purpose Bioenergy is increasingly used to help meet greenhouse gas (GHG) and renewable energy targets. However, bioenergy’s sustainability has been questioned, resulting in increasing use of life cycle assessment (LCA). Bioenergy systems are global a... Read More about Challenge clusters facing LCA in environmental decision-making—what we can learn from biofuels.

Lameness in cattle: recent research to inform clinical practice (2015)
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Maxwell, O., Miguel-Pacheco, G., Newsome, R., Randall, L., Remnant, J., Thomas, H., & Huxley, J. (2015). Lameness in cattle: recent research to inform clinical practice. In Practice, 37(3), https://doi.org/10.1136/inp.h897

Lameness in cattle has significant consequences for welfare, health and productivity. More research is now being done on lameness and this article, the first in a two-part series, provides an update on research-based advances in the field published f... Read More about Lameness in cattle: recent research to inform clinical practice.

Biochar-mediated reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from soil amended with anaerobic digestates (2015)
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Martin, S. L., Clarke, M. L., Othman, M., Ramsden, S. J., & West, H. M. (2015). Biochar-mediated reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from soil amended with anaerobic digestates. Biomass and Bioenergy, 79, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biombioe.2015.04.030

This investigation examines nitrous oxide (N2O) fluxes from soil with simultaneous amendments of anaerobic digestates and biochar. The main source of anthropogenic emissions of N2O is agriculture and in particular, manure and slurry application to fi... Read More about Biochar-mediated reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from soil amended with anaerobic digestates.

A study of Chinese university EFL learners’ foreign language listening anxiety,listening strategy use and academic listening performance (2015)
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Liu, M., & Thondhlana, J. (2015). A study of Chinese university EFL learners’ foreign language listening anxiety,listening strategy use and academic listening performance. Indonesian Journal of English Language Teaching, 10(1), 33-57

The present study examined foreign language (FL) listening anxiety and listening strategy use in relation to the FL listening comprehension performance of 1702 undergraduate EFL learners from 5 universities in China. The findings were: (1) more than... Read More about A study of Chinese university EFL learners’ foreign language listening anxiety,listening strategy use and academic listening performance.

Is the universe transparent? (2015)
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Liao, K., Avgoustidis, A., & Li, Z. (2015). Is the universe transparent?. Physical Review D, 92(12), Article 123539. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.92.123539

We present our study on cosmic opacity, which relates to changes in photon number as photons travel from the source to the observer. Cosmic opacity may be caused by absorption or scattering due to matter in the Universe, or by extragalactic magnetic... Read More about Is the universe transparent?.

An evaluation of the policy context on psychosocial risks and mental health in the workplace in the European Union: achievements, challenges, and the future (2015)
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Leka, S., Jain, A. K., Iavicoli, S., & Di Tecco, C. (2015). An evaluation of the policy context on psychosocial risks and mental health in the workplace in the European Union: achievements, challenges, and the future. BioMed Research International, 2015(213089), https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/213089

Despite the developments both in hard and soft law policies in the European Union in relation to mental health and psychosocial risks in the workplace, a review of these policies at EU level has not been conducted to identify strengths, weaknesses, a... Read More about An evaluation of the policy context on psychosocial risks and mental health in the workplace in the European Union: achievements, challenges, and the future.

A diffusion process associated with Fréchet means (2015)
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Le, H. (2015). A diffusion process associated with Fréchet means. Annals of Applied Probability, 25(6), https://doi.org/10.1214/14-AAP1066

This paper studies rescaled images, under exp−1μ, of the sample Fréchet means of i.i.d. random variables {Xk|k≥1} with Fréchet mean μ on a Rie-mannian manifold. We show that, with appropriate scaling, these images converge weakly to a diffusion proce... Read More about A diffusion process associated with Fréchet means.

Moderate drinking before the unit: medicine and life assurance in Britain and the US c.1860–1930 (2015)
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Kneale, J., & French, S. (2015). Moderate drinking before the unit: medicine and life assurance in Britain and the US c.1860–1930. Drugs: Education, Prevention, and Policy, 22(2), https://doi.org/10.3109/09687637.2014.964185

This article describes the way in which “Anstie’s Limit” – a particular definition of moderate drinking first defined in Britain in the 1860s by the physician Francis Edmund Anstie (1833–1874) – became established as a useful measure of moderate alco... Read More about Moderate drinking before the unit: medicine and life assurance in Britain and the US c.1860–1930.

British peace activism and 'new' diplomacy: revisiting the 1899 Hague Peace Conference (2015)
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Hucker, D. (2015). British peace activism and 'new' diplomacy: revisiting the 1899 Hague Peace Conference. Diplomacy and Statecraft, 26(3), https://doi.org/10.1080/09592296.2015.1067509

This analysis provides a re-appraisal of the 1899 Hague Conference by looking more closely at how citizen activists—notably in Britain but also transnationally—used it as a forum through which to press their agenda onto politicians and diplomatists.... Read More about British peace activism and 'new' diplomacy: revisiting the 1899 Hague Peace Conference.