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Iceland and European Union accession - the whaling issue (2011)
Journal Article
Davies, P. G. (2011). Iceland and European Union accession - the whaling issue. Georgetown International Environmental Law Review, 24(1),

This article seeks to assess one of the important questions regarding Iceland’s potential accession to the EU, namely, whether Iceland could legitimately continue its whaling operations under current EU environmental law if it becomes a member of the... Read More about Iceland and European Union accession - the whaling issue.

A second-order class-D audio amplifier (2011)
Journal Article
Cox, S. M., Tan, M., & Yu, J. (2011). A second-order class-D audio amplifier. SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, 71(1), https://doi.org/10.1137/100788367

Class-D audio amplifiers are particularly efficient, and this efficiency has led to their ubiquity in a wide range of modern electronic appliances. Their output takes the form of a high-frequency square wave whose duty cycle (ratio of on-time to off-... Read More about A second-order class-D audio amplifier.

Two-grid hp-version DGFEMs for strongly monotone second-order quasilinear elliptic PDEs (2011)
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Congreve, S., Houston, P., & Wihler, T. P. (2011). Two-grid hp-version DGFEMs for strongly monotone second-order quasilinear elliptic PDEs. PAMM, 11(1), https://doi.org/10.1002/pamm.201110002

In this article we develop the a priori error analysis of so-called two-grid hp-version discontinuous Galerkin finite element methods for the numerical approximation of strongly monotone second-order quasilinear partial differential equations. In thi... Read More about Two-grid hp-version DGFEMs for strongly monotone second-order quasilinear elliptic PDEs.

An overview of recent remote sensing and GIS based research in ecological informatics (2011)
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Boyd, D. S., & Foody, G. M. (2011). An overview of recent remote sensing and GIS based research in ecological informatics. Ecological Informatics, 6(1), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2010.07.007

This article provides an overview of some of the recent research in ecological informatics involving remote sensing and GIS. Attention focuses on a selected range of issues including topics such as the nature of remote sensing data sets, issues of ac... Read More about An overview of recent remote sensing and GIS based research in ecological informatics.

Mental health law in the community: thinking about Africa (2011)
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Bartlett, P., Jenkins, R., & Kiima, D. (2011). Mental health law in the community: thinking about Africa. International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 5(21), https://doi.org/10.1186/1752-4458-5-21

The new United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities creates a new paradigm for mental
health law, moving from a focus on institutional care to a focus on community-based services and treatment. This
article considers implem... Read More about Mental health law in the community: thinking about Africa.

'The necessity must be convincingly shown to exist': standards for compulsory treatment for mental disorder under the Mental Health Act 1983 (2011)
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Bartlett, P. (2011). 'The necessity must be convincingly shown to exist': standards for compulsory treatment for mental disorder under the Mental Health Act 1983. Medical Law Review, 19(4), https://doi.org/10.1093/medlaw/fwr025

Current English law has few controls on the involuntary treatment of persons detained under the Mental Health Act 1983. In 2001, R (Wilkinson)v. Broadmoor Special Hospital Authority provided some hope that, in conjunction with the Human Rights Act an... Read More about 'The necessity must be convincingly shown to exist': standards for compulsory treatment for mental disorder under the Mental Health Act 1983.

Association between somatic cell count and serial locomotion score assessments in UK dairy cows (2011)
Journal Article
Archer, S. C., Madouasse, A., Green, M. J., & Huxley, J. (2011). Association between somatic cell count and serial locomotion score assessments in UK dairy cows. Journal of Dairy Science, 94(9), https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2011-4276

This research investigated the effect of lameness, measured by locomotion score (LS) on the somatic cell count (SCC) of UK dairy cows. The data set consisted of 11,141 records of SCC and LS collected monthly on 12 occasions from 1,397 cows kept on 7... Read More about Association between somatic cell count and serial locomotion score assessments in UK dairy cows.

Heat affected zones and oxidation marks in fiber laser-oxygen cutting of mild steel (2011)
Journal Article
Al-Mashikhi, S., Powell, J., Kaplan, A., & Voisey, K. (2011). Heat affected zones and oxidation marks in fiber laser-oxygen cutting of mild steel. Journal of Laser Applications, 23(4), https://doi.org/10.2351/1.3614404

The effect of cutting speed and sheet thickness on surface oxidation and heat affected zones (HAZs) has been investigated for laser-oxygen cutting of mild steel sheet with a fiber laser. Optical and scanning electron micrographs were used to determin... Read More about Heat affected zones and oxidation marks in fiber laser-oxygen cutting of mild steel.

Ciprofloxacin safety in paediatrics: a systematic review (2011)
Journal Article
Adefurin, A., Sammons, H., Jacqz-Aigrain, E., & Choonara, I. (2011). Ciprofloxacin safety in paediatrics: a systematic review. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 96(9), https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.2010.208843

Objective: To determine the safety of ciprofloxacin in
paediatric patients in relation to arthropathy, any other
adverse events (AEs) and drug interactions.
Methods: A systematic search of MEDLINE, EMBASE,
CINAHL, CENTRAL and bibliographies of re... Read More about Ciprofloxacin safety in paediatrics: a systematic review.

Close relationships in adolescents with and without a history of specific language impairment (2011)
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Wadman, R., Durkin, K., & Conti-Ramsden, G. (2011). Close relationships in adolescents with and without a history of specific language impairment. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 42, https://doi.org/10.1044/0161-1461%282010/10-0003%29

Purpose: Engagement in close friendships and romantic relationships becomes particularly salient in adolescence. This study examined the influence of language, behavioral, and social variables on the level of emotional engagement experienced by adole... Read More about Close relationships in adolescents with and without a history of specific language impairment.

The justice lottery?: police station advice 25 years on from PACE (2011)
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Pleasence, P., Kemp, V., & Balmer, N. (2011). The justice lottery?: police station advice 25 years on from PACE. Criminal Law Review, 2011(1),

January 2011 marks the 25th anniversary of the introduction of the unequivocal right of police station detainees to obtain advice from a solicitor. However, while this right is a fundamental safeguard to procedural propriety, no large-scale investiga... Read More about The justice lottery?: police station advice 25 years on from PACE.

Discrimination power of short-term heart rate variability measures for CHF assessment (2011)
Journal Article
Pecchia, L., Melillo, P., & Bracale, M. (2011). Discrimination power of short-term heart rate variability measures for CHF assessment. IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, 15(1), https://doi.org/10.1109/TITB.2010.2091647

In this study, we investigated the discrimination power of short-term Heart Rate Variability (HRV) for discriminating normal subjects versus Chronic Heart Failure (CHF) patients. We analyzed 1,914.40 hours of ECG of 83 patients of which 54 are normal... Read More about Discrimination power of short-term heart rate variability measures for CHF assessment.

Discrimination power of long-term heart rate variability measures for Chronic Heart Failure detection (2011)
Journal Article
Melillo, P., Fusco, R., Sansone, M., Bracale, M., & Pecchia, L. (2011). Discrimination power of long-term heart rate variability measures for Chronic Heart Failure detection. Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing, 49(1), https://doi.org/10.1007/s11517-010-0728-5

The aim of this study was to investigate the discrimination power of standard long-term Heart Rate Variability (HRV) measures for the diagnosis of Chronic Heart Failure (CHF).
We performed a retrospective analysis on 4 public Holter databases, analy... Read More about Discrimination power of long-term heart rate variability measures for Chronic Heart Failure detection.

חטאת as interpolative gloss: a solution to Gen 4,7 (2011)
Journal Article
Crouch, C. (2011). חטאת as interpolative gloss: a solution to Gen 4,7. Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, 123(2), https://doi.org/10.1515/ZAW.2011.016

This note suggests that Gen 4,7 can be rendered comprehensible by the removal of the term ht't, understanding its appearance as an interpolative gloss, and the interpretation of the remaining rbts as the subject of a nominal clause. This eliminates t... Read More about חטאת as interpolative gloss: a solution to Gen 4,7.

A Medea called Wally: race, madness and fashion in Paul Heyse's novella 'Medea' (2011)
Journal Article
Bartel, H. (2011). A Medea called Wally: race, madness and fashion in Paul Heyse's novella 'Medea'. German Life and Letters, 64(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0483.2010.01519.x

In the extensive tradition of adaptations of the Medea myth in German-speaking literature Paul Heyse’s novella Medea (1898) has been often overlooked. However, the fact that it is the first text to introduce the tragic heroine from classical mytholog... Read More about A Medea called Wally: race, madness and fashion in Paul Heyse's novella 'Medea'.

Case study of Chinese and U.S. university, college of business partnerships: form, process, opportunities, and challenges (2011)
Journal Article
Borgia, D., Bonvillian, G., & Rubens, A. (2011). Case study of Chinese and U.S. university, college of business partnerships: form, process, opportunities, and challenges. Journal of Management Policy and Practice, 12(1),

This paper presents the experiences of three regional universities - one public and two private - that have established academic partnerships in business with Chinese institutions of higher education. The paper briefly highlights the process used by... Read More about Case study of Chinese and U.S. university, college of business partnerships: form, process, opportunities, and challenges.