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Active fixturing: literature review and future research directions (2013)
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Bakker, O. J., Papastathis, T., Popov, A. A., & Ratchev, S. (2013). Active fixturing: literature review and future research directions. International Journal of Production Research, 51(11), https://doi.org/10.1080/00207543.2012.695893

Fixtures are used to fixate, position and support workpieces and represent a crucial tool in manufacturing. Their performance determines the result of the whole manufacturing process of a product. There is a vast amount of research done on automatic... Read More about Active fixturing: literature review and future research directions.

Outside the gate: sub-urban legal practices in early medieval England (2013)
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Baker, J., & Brookes, S. (2013). Outside the gate: sub-urban legal practices in early medieval England. World Archaeology, 45(5), https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2013.865330

Many aspects of English early medieval (Anglo-Saxon) legal landscapes can be discerned in archaeological and toponymic evidence, ranging from the locations of legislative councils and judicial assemblies to sites of capital punishment. Among the corp... Read More about Outside the gate: sub-urban legal practices in early medieval England.

From villains to victims: experiencing illness in Siberian exile (2013)
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Badcock, S. (2013). From villains to victims: experiencing illness in Siberian exile. Europe-Asia Studies, 65(9), https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2013.840116

This essay presents the subjective experience of life and sickness for the punished in late Imperial Siberia, and the distinctions the punished made between legitimate and illegitimate forms of punishment. The essay also explores state policies towar... Read More about From villains to victims: experiencing illness in Siberian exile.

The role of nicotine replacement therapy for temporary abstinence in the home to protect children from environmental tobacco smoke exposure: a qualitative study with disadvantaged smokers (2013)
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Atkinson, O., Coleman, T., McNeill, A., Lewis, S., & Jones, L. L. (2013). The role of nicotine replacement therapy for temporary abstinence in the home to protect children from environmental tobacco smoke exposure: a qualitative study with disadvantaged smokers. BMC Public Health, 13, Article 262. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-13-262

Background Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) has recently been licensed to help smokers to abstain from smoking for short time periods and recent studies have shown that 8-14% of smokers are regularly using NRT to cope when they cannot or are not a... Read More about The role of nicotine replacement therapy for temporary abstinence in the home to protect children from environmental tobacco smoke exposure: a qualitative study with disadvantaged smokers.

Medication errors in the Middle East countries: a systematic review of the literature (2013)
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Alsulami, Z., Conroy, S., & Choonara, I. (2013). Medication errors in the Middle East countries: a systematic review of the literature. European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 69(4), https://doi.org/10.1007/s00228-012-1435-y

Background: Medication errors are a significant global concern and can cause serious medical consequences for patients. Little is known about medication errors in Middle Eastern countries. The objectives of this systematic review were to review st... Read More about Medication errors in the Middle East countries: a systematic review of the literature.

Domain transformation approach to deterministic optimization of examination timetables (2013)
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Abdul Rahim, S., Bargiela, A., & Qu, R. (2013). Domain transformation approach to deterministic optimization of examination timetables. Artificial Intelligence Research, 2(1), https://doi.org/10.5430/air.v2n1p122

In this paper we introduce a new optimization method for the examinations scheduling problem. Rather than attempting direct optimization of assignments of exams to specific time-slots, we perform permutations of slots and reassignments of exams upon... Read More about Domain transformation approach to deterministic optimization of examination timetables.

A comparison of approaches to the teaching and learning of science in Chinese and Australian elementary classrooms: cultural and socioeconomic complexities (2013)
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Tao, Y., Oliver, M., & Venville, G. (2013). A comparison of approaches to the teaching and learning of science in Chinese and Australian elementary classrooms: cultural and socioeconomic complexities. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 50(1), https://doi.org/10.1002/tea.21064

Set in the context of today’s globalized approaches to curriculum reform, the purpose of this study was to compare the teaching and learning of science in Chinese and Australian Grade 6 classrooms. A conceptual framework based on notions of culture a... Read More about A comparison of approaches to the teaching and learning of science in Chinese and Australian elementary classrooms: cultural and socioeconomic complexities.

Towards a more systematic approach to secure systems design and analysis (2013)
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Miller, S., Appleby, S., Garibaldi, J. M., & Aickelin, U. (2013). Towards a more systematic approach to secure systems design and analysis. International Journal of Secure Software Engineering, 4(1), https://doi.org/10.4018/jsse.2013010102

The task of designing secure software systems is fraught with uncertainty, as data on uncommon attacks is limited, costs are difficult to estimate, and technology and tools are continually changing. Consequently, experts may interpret the security ri... Read More about Towards a more systematic approach to secure systems design and analysis.

Construction of a doxycycline inducible adipogenic lentiviral expression system (2013)
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Liu, Q., Hill, P., Karamitri, A., Ryan, K., Chen, H., & Lomax, M. A. (2013). Construction of a doxycycline inducible adipogenic lentiviral expression system. Plasmid, 69(1), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plasmid.2012.10.001

To provide a tool for research on regulating adipocyte differentiation, tetracycline inducible (Tet on) lentiviral expression vectors under the control of an adipose-specific promoter were constructed. The lowest basal expression in the absence of do... Read More about Construction of a doxycycline inducible adipogenic lentiviral expression system.

Limitations of perturbative techniques in the analysis of rhythms and oscillations (2013)
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Lin, K. K., Wedgwood, K. C., Coombes, S., & Young, L.-S. (2013). Limitations of perturbative techniques in the analysis of rhythms and oscillations. Journal of Mathematical Biology, 66(1-2), https://doi.org/10.1007/s00285-012-0506-0

Perturbation theory is an important tool in the analysis of oscillators and their response to external stimuli. It is predicated on the assumption that the perturbations in question are “sufficiently weak”, an assumption that is not always valid when... Read More about Limitations of perturbative techniques in the analysis of rhythms and oscillations.

High throughput discovery of thermo-responsive materials using water contact angle measurements and time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (2013)
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Hook, A. L., Scurr, D. J., Anderson, D. G., Langer, R., Williams, P., Davies, M. C., & Alexander, M. R. (2013). High throughput discovery of thermo-responsive materials using water contact angle measurements and time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry. Surface and Interface Analysis, 45(1), https://doi.org/10.1002/sia.4910

Switchable materials that alter their chemical or physical properties in response to external stimuli allow for temporal control of material-biological interactions, thus, are of interest for many biomaterial applications. Our interest is the discove... Read More about High throughput discovery of thermo-responsive materials using water contact angle measurements and time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry.

DNA damage induces nucleoid compaction via the Mre11-Rad50 complex in the archaeon Haloferax volcanii (2013)
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Delmas, S., Duggin, I. J., & Allers, T. (2013). DNA damage induces nucleoid compaction via the Mre11-Rad50 complex in the archaeon Haloferax volcanii. Molecular Microbiology, 87(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/mmi.12091

In prokaryotes the genome is organized in a dynamic structure called the nucleoid, which is embedded in the cytoplasm. We show here that in the archaeon Haloferax volcanii, compaction and reorganization of the nucleoid is induced by stresses that... Read More about DNA damage induces nucleoid compaction via the Mre11-Rad50 complex in the archaeon Haloferax volcanii.

Development of a smoke visualisation system for wind tunnel laboratory experiments (2013)
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Trinder, M., & Jabbal, M. (2013). Development of a smoke visualisation system for wind tunnel laboratory experiments. International Journal of Mechanical Engineering Education, 41(1), https://doi.org/10.7227/IJMEE.41.1.5

The design, build and test of a smoke visualisation system for a vertical wind tunnel at Brunel University are described. The smoke visualisation system utilised a fog machine for smoke generation and required the design and manufacture of a smoke ra... Read More about Development of a smoke visualisation system for wind tunnel laboratory experiments.

Phrases in literary contexts: patterns and distributions of suspensions in Dickens’s novels (2013)
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Mahlberg, M., Smith, C., & Preston, S. (2013). Phrases in literary contexts: patterns and distributions of suspensions in Dickens’s novels. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 18(1), https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.18.1.05mah

This paper addresses relations between lexico-grammatical patterns and texts. Our focus is on a specific linguistic unit, the ‘suspended quotation’ (or ‘suspension’), which has received particular attention in Dickens studies. The suspended quotation... Read More about Phrases in literary contexts: patterns and distributions of suspensions in Dickens’s novels.