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Accessible biometrics: a frustrated total internal reflection approach to imaging fingerprints (2017)
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Smith, N. D., & Sharp, J. S. (2017). Accessible biometrics: a frustrated total internal reflection approach to imaging fingerprints. Science and Justice, 57(3), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scijus.2017.03.003

Fingerprints are widely used as a means of identifying persons of interest because of the highly individual nature of the spatial distribution and types of features (or minuta) found on the surface of a finger. This individuality has led to their wid... Read More about Accessible biometrics: a frustrated total internal reflection approach to imaging fingerprints.

³¹P magnetization transfer magnetic resonance spectroscopy: assessing the activation induced change in cerebral ATP metabolic rates at 3 T (2017)
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Chen, C., Stephenson, M. C., Peters, A., Morris, P. G., Francis, S. T., & Gowland, P. A. (2018). ³¹P magnetization transfer magnetic resonance spectroscopy: assessing the activation induced change in cerebral ATP metabolic rates at 3 T. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 79(1), 22-30. https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.26663

Purpose: In vivo ³¹P MRS magnetization transfer (MT) provides a direct measure of neuronal activity at the metabolic level. This work aims to use functional ³¹P MRS-MT to investigate the change in cerebral ATP metabolic rates in healthy adults upon r... Read More about ³¹P magnetization transfer magnetic resonance spectroscopy: assessing the activation induced change in cerebral ATP metabolic rates at 3 T.

Deep recurrent neural networks for supernovae classification (2017)
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Charnock, T., & Moss, A. (2017). Deep recurrent neural networks for supernovae classification. Astrophysical Journal, 837(2), https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aa603d

We apply deep recurrent neural networks, which are capable of learning complex sequential information, to classify supernovae (code available at https://github.com/adammoss/supernovae). The observational time and filter fluxes are used as inputs to t... Read More about Deep recurrent neural networks for supernovae classification.

Task Workflow Design and its impact on performance and volunteers' subjective preference in Virtual Citizen Science (2017)
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Sprinks, J., Wardlaw, J., Houghton, R., Bamford, S., & Morley, J. (2017). Task Workflow Design and its impact on performance and volunteers' subjective preference in Virtual Citizen Science. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 104, 50-63. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2017.03.003

© 2017 The Authors Virtual citizen science platforms allow non-scientists to take part in scientific research across a range of disciplines. What they ask of volunteers varies considerably in terms of task type, variety, user judgement required and u... Read More about Task Workflow Design and its impact on performance and volunteers' subjective preference in Virtual Citizen Science.

Engineering p-n junctions and bandgap tuning of InSe nanolayers by controlled oxidation (2017)
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Balakrishnan, N., Kudrynskyi, Z. R., Smith, E. F., Fay, M. W., Makarovsky, O., Kovalyuk, Z. D., …Patanè, A. (2017). Engineering p-n junctions and bandgap tuning of InSe nanolayers by controlled oxidation. 2D Materials, 4(2), Article 025043. https://doi.org/10.1088/2053-1583/aa61e0

Exploitation of two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) crystals can be hindered by the deterioration of the crystal surface over time due to oxidation. On the other hand, the existence of a stable oxide at room temperature can offer prospects for s... Read More about Engineering p-n junctions and bandgap tuning of InSe nanolayers by controlled oxidation.

Impact of a common genetic variation associated with putamen volume on neural mechanisms of ADHD (2017)
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Xu, B., Jia, T., Macare, C., Banaschewski, T., Bokde, A. L., Bromberg, U., …Desrivières, S. (2017). Impact of a common genetic variation associated with putamen volume on neural mechanisms of ADHD. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 56(5), 436-444.e4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2017.02.009

Objective: In a recent genome-wide association study of subcortical brain volumes, we have identified common genetic variation at rs945270 as having the strongest effect on putamen volume, a brain measure linked to familial risk for attentiondeficit/... Read More about Impact of a common genetic variation associated with putamen volume on neural mechanisms of ADHD.

Galaxy Zoo: star formation versus spiral arm number (2017)
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Hart, R. E., Bamford, S. P., Casteels, K. R., Kruk, S. J., Lintott, C. J., & Masters, K. L. (2017). Galaxy Zoo: star formation versus spiral arm number. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 468(2), 1850-1863. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx581

Spiral arms are common features in low-redshift disc galaxies, and are prominent sites of star formation and dust obscuration. However, spiral structure can take many forms: from galaxies displaying two strong ‘grand design’ arms to those with many ‘... Read More about Galaxy Zoo: star formation versus spiral arm number.

Electric control of Dirac quasiparticles by spin-orbit torque in an antiferromagnet (2017)
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Šmejkal, L., Železný, J., Sinova, J., & Jungwirth, T. (2017). Electric control of Dirac quasiparticles by spin-orbit torque in an antiferromagnet. Physical Review Letters, 118(10), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.106402

Spin orbitronics and Dirac quasiparticles are two fields of condensed matter physics initiated independently about a decade ago. Here we predict that Dirac quasiparticles can be controlled by the spin-orbit torque reorientation of the Néel vector in... Read More about Electric control of Dirac quasiparticles by spin-orbit torque in an antiferromagnet.

Magnetically Induced Rotating Rayleigh-Taylor Instability (2017)
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Scase, M. M., Baldwin, K. A., & Hill, R. J. (2017). Magnetically Induced Rotating Rayleigh-Taylor Instability. Journal of Visualized Experiments, https://doi.org/10.3791/55088

Classical techniques for investigating the Rayleigh-Taylor instability include using compressed gasses, rocketry or linear electric motors to reverse the effective direction of gravity, and accelerate the lighter fluid toward the denser fluid. Other... Read More about Magnetically Induced Rotating Rayleigh-Taylor Instability.

Spin polarization of carriers in InGaAs self-assembled quantum rings inserted in GaAs-AlGaAs resonant tunneling devices (2017)
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Gordo, V. O., Gobato, Y., Galeti, H., Brasil, M., Taylor, D., & Henini, M. (in press). Spin polarization of carriers in InGaAs self-assembled quantum rings inserted in GaAs-AlGaAs resonant tunneling devices. Journal of Electronic Materials, 46(7), https://doi.org/10.1007/s11664-017-5391-2

In this work, we have investigated transport and polarization resolved photoluminescence (PL) of n-type GaAs-AlGaAs resonant tunneling diodes (RTDs) containing a layer of InGaAs self-assembled quantum rings (QRs) in the quantum well (QW). All measure... Read More about Spin polarization of carriers in InGaAs self-assembled quantum rings inserted in GaAs-AlGaAs resonant tunneling devices.

Hitomi Constraints on the 3.5 keV Line in the Perseus Galaxy Cluster (2017)
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Aharonian, F. A., Akamatsu, H., Akimoto, F., Allen, S. W., Angelini, L., Arnaud, K. A., …Hitomi Collaboration. (2017). Hitomi Constraints on the 3.5 keV Line in the Perseus Galaxy Cluster. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 837(1), L15. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aa61fa

© 2017. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. High-resolution X-ray spectroscopy with Hitomi was expected to resolve the origin of the faint unidentified E ≈ 3.5 keV emission line reported in several low-resolution studies of variou... Read More about Hitomi Constraints on the 3.5 keV Line in the Perseus Galaxy Cluster.

ICNIRP statement on diagnostic devices using non-ionizing radiation: existing regulations and potential health risks (2017)
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Green, A., Coggon, D., Sèze, R. D., Gowland, P. A., Marino, C., Peralta, A., …Watanabe, S. (2017). ICNIRP statement on diagnostic devices using non-ionizing radiation: existing regulations and potential health risks. Health Physics, 112(3), https://doi.org/10.1097/HP.0000000000000654

Use of non-ionizing radiation (NIR) for diagnostic purposes allows non-invasive assessment of the structure and function of the human body, and is widely employed in medical care. ICNIRP has published previous statements about the protection of patie... Read More about ICNIRP statement on diagnostic devices using non-ionizing radiation: existing regulations and potential health risks.

Planck intermediate results. L. Evidence of spatial variation of the polarized thermal dust spectral energy distribution and implications for CMB B-mode analysis (2017)
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Planck Collaboration, Aghanim, N., Ashdown, M., Aumont, J., Baccigalupi, C., Ballardini, M., …Zonca, A. (2017). Planck intermediate results. L. Evidence of spatial variation of the polarized thermal dust spectral energy distribution and implications for CMB B-mode analysis. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 599, Article A51. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201629164

The characterization of the Galactic foregrounds has been shown to be the main obstacle in thechallenging quest to detect primordial B-modes in the polarized microwave sky. We make use of the Planck-HFI 2015 data release at high frequencies to place... Read More about Planck intermediate results. L. Evidence of spatial variation of the polarized thermal dust spectral energy distribution and implications for CMB B-mode analysis.

Abnormal task driven neural oscillations in multiple sclerosis: a visuomotor MEG study (2017)
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Barratt, E. L., Tewarie, P. K., Clarke, M. A., Hall, E. L., Gowland, P. A., Morris, P. G., …Brookes, M. J. (2017). Abnormal task driven neural oscillations in multiple sclerosis: a visuomotor MEG study. Human Brain Mapping, 38(5), 2441-2453. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.23531

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a debilitating disease commonly attributed to degradation of white matter myelin. Symptoms include fatigue, as well as problems associated with vision and movement. Although areas of demyelination in white matter are observ... Read More about Abnormal task driven neural oscillations in multiple sclerosis: a visuomotor MEG study.

VALES: III. The calibration between the dust continuum and interstellar gas content of star-forming galaxies (2017)
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Hughes, T., Ibar, E., Villaneuva, V., Aravena, M., Baes, M., Bourne, N., …Xue, Y. (2017). VALES: III. The calibration between the dust continuum and interstellar gas content of star-forming galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 468(1), L103-L107. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slx033

We present the calibration between the dust continuum luminosity and interstellar gas content obtained from the Valparaiso ALMA Line Emission Survey (VALES) sample of 67 main-sequence star-forming galaxies at 0.02 < z < 0.35. We use CO(1–0) observati... Read More about VALES: III. The calibration between the dust continuum and interstellar gas content of star-forming galaxies.

The interstellar medium in high-redshift submillimeter galaxies as probed by infrared spectroscopy (2017)
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Wardlow, J. L., Cooray, A., Osage, W., Bourne, N., Clements, D., Dannerbauer, H., …Verma, A. (2017). The interstellar medium in high-redshift submillimeter galaxies as probed by infrared spectroscopy. Astrophysical Journal, 837(1), Article 12. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/837/1/12

Submillimeter galaxies (SMGs) at are luminous in the far-infrared, and have star formation rates, SFR, of hundreds to thousands of solar masses per year. However, it is unclear whether they are true analogs of local ULIRGs or whether the mode of the... Read More about The interstellar medium in high-redshift submillimeter galaxies as probed by infrared spectroscopy.

Concepts of antiferromagnetic spintronics (2017)
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Gomonay, O., Jungwirth, T., & Sinova, J. (in press). Concepts of antiferromagnetic spintronics. physica status solidi (RRL) - Rapid Research Letters, 11(4), Article 1700022. https://doi.org/10.1002/pssr.201700022

Antiferromagnetic spintronics is an emerging research field whose focus is on the electrical, optical or other means of control of the antiferromagnetic order parameter and its utility in information technology devices. An example of recently discove... Read More about Concepts of antiferromagnetic spintronics.

Investigation of exchange coupled bilayer Fe/CuMnAs by pump-probe experiment (2017)
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Saidl, V., Němec, P., Wadley, P., Edmonds, K., Campion, R., Novák, V., …Trojánek, F. (in press). Investigation of exchange coupled bilayer Fe/CuMnAs by pump-probe experiment. physica status solidi (RRL) - Rapid Research Letters, 11(4), https://doi.org/10.1002/pssr.201600441

Time-resolved pump-probe magneto-optical method was used to study Fe/CuMnAs bilayer. The probe polarization dependence was used to identify and separate parts of detected signals due to Faraday and Voigt magneto-optical effects that provide informati... Read More about Investigation of exchange coupled bilayer Fe/CuMnAs by pump-probe experiment.

Mean-field theory for confinement transitions and magnetization plateaux in spin ice (2017)
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Powell, S. (2017). Mean-field theory for confinement transitions and magnetization plateaux in spin ice. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 50(12), https://doi.org/10.1088/1751-8121/aa5bc6

We study phase transitions in classical spin ice at nonzero magnetization, by introducing a mean-field theory designed to capture the interplay between confinement and topological constraints. The method is applied to a model of spin ice in an applie... Read More about Mean-field theory for confinement transitions and magnetization plateaux in spin ice.