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Mixed empirical-numerical method for investigating tunneling effects on structures (2017)
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The assessment of potential for building damage due to ground displacements caused by tunnelling is a global issue being faced by engineers. There is a two-way interaction between tunnelling and existing buildings; tunnel construction affects a build... Read More about Mixed empirical-numerical method for investigating tunneling effects on structures.

Culture, tradition, and taboo: understanding the social shaping of fuel choices and cooking practices in Nigeria (2017)
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Wood fuel remains the most widely used domestic fuel amongst resource poor groups in many low-income countries, despite the environmental and health problems associated with exposure to wood smoke. Studies on household air pollution concentrate predo... Read More about Culture, tradition, and taboo: understanding the social shaping of fuel choices and cooking practices in Nigeria.

Human rights shaming and FDI: effects of the UN Human Rights Commission and Council (2017)
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Do public condemnations by the United Nations human rights bodies lead to foreign direct investment (FDI) loss for abusive regimes? The Human Rights Commission and later Council (UNHRCC) are internationally legitimized tools where member states shame... Read More about Human rights shaming and FDI: effects of the UN Human Rights Commission and Council.

Oxy-fuel combustion study of biomass fuels in a 20 kWth fluidized bed combustor (2017)
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Oxy-fuel combustion is one of the promising carbon capture technologies considered to be suitable for future commercial applications with stationary combustion plants. Although more and more biomass and waste are now being burned in stationary combus... Read More about Oxy-fuel combustion study of biomass fuels in a 20 kWth fluidized bed combustor.

Iodine soil dynamics and methods of measurement: a review (2017)
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Iodine is an essential micronutrient for human health: insufficient intake can have multiple effects on development and growth, affecting approximately 1.9 billion people worldwide. Previous reviews have focussed on iodine analysis in environmental a... Read More about Iodine soil dynamics and methods of measurement: a review.

Treatment of dragonfruit ( Hylocereus polyrhizus ) with salicylic acid and methyl jasmonate improves postharvest physico-chemical properties and antioxidant activity during cold storage (2017)
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As the market for tropical fruit constantly expands, cold storage is increasingly used for transporting fruits over long distances. This is an economic postharvest tool, yet challenges tropical fruits by exposure to chilling injury. An assessment of... Read More about Treatment of dragonfruit ( Hylocereus polyrhizus ) with salicylic acid and methyl jasmonate improves postharvest physico-chemical properties and antioxidant activity during cold storage.

Optical design of compact linear Fresnel reflector systems (2017)
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Compact linear Fresnel reflector (CLFR) system employing multiple receivers is promising with better optical performance and cost effectiveness compared to linear Fresnel reflector (LFR) system, especially for applications with limited ground availab... Read More about Optical design of compact linear Fresnel reflector systems.

LARGE ROOT ANGLE1, encoding OsPIN2, is involved in root system architecture in rice (2017)
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Root system architecture is very important for plant growth and crop yield. It is essential for nutrient and water uptake, anchoring, and mechanical support. Root growth angle (RGA) is a vital constituent of root system architecture and is used as a... Read More about LARGE ROOT ANGLE1, encoding OsPIN2, is involved in root system architecture in rice.

Phonon spectroscopy with chirped shear and compressive acoustic pulses (2017)
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Picosecond duration compressive and shear phonon wave packets injected into (311) GaAs slabs transform after propagation through ?1??mm into chirped acoustic pulses with a frequency increasing in time due to phonon dispersion. By probing the temporal... Read More about Phonon spectroscopy with chirped shear and compressive acoustic pulses.

Gravitational mechanisms to self-tune the cosmological constant: obstructions and ways forward (2017)
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Gravitational models of self-tuning are those in which vacuum energy has no observable effect on spacetime curvature, even though it is a priori unsuppressed below the cut-off. We complement Weinberg's no go theorem by studying field theoretic comple... Read More about Gravitational mechanisms to self-tune the cosmological constant: obstructions and ways forward.

Telomere, telomerase and liver disease (2017)
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Additional new insights into Biometeorology (2017)
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The determinants of Islamic bank capital decisions (2017)
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We report new evidence on the bank and institutional determinants of Islamic bank capital ratios in 28 countries between 1999 and 2013. Overall, we find that smaller, more profitable, and highly liquid Islamic banks are more highly capitalized. Addit... Read More about The determinants of Islamic bank capital decisions.

Neural circuitry underlying sustained attention in healthy adolescents and in ADHD symptomatology (2017)
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Moment-to-moment reaction time variability on tasks of attention, often quantified by intra-individual response variability (IRV), provides a good indication of the degree to which an individual is vulnerable to lapses in sustained attention. Increa... Read More about Neural circuitry underlying sustained attention in healthy adolescents and in ADHD symptomatology.

Cardiovascular outcomes following a respiratory tract infection among adults with non-CF bronchiectasis: a general population based study (2017)
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Rationale: Studies suggest that people with bronchiectasis are at increased risk of cardiovascular co-morbidities. Objectives: We aimed to quantify the relative risk of incident cardiovascular events following a respiratory tract infection amongs... Read More about Cardiovascular outcomes following a respiratory tract infection among adults with non-CF bronchiectasis: a general population based study.

Alkyl-modified oligonucleotides as intercalating vehicles for doxorubicin uptake via albumin binding (2017)
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DNA-based drug delivery vehicles have displayed promise for the delivery of intercalating drugs. Here, we demonstrate that oligonucleotides modified with an alkyl chain can bind to human serum albumin, mimicking the natural binding of fatty acids. Th... Read More about Alkyl-modified oligonucleotides as intercalating vehicles for doxorubicin uptake via albumin binding.

Effects of defocus on the transfer function of coherence scanning interferometry (2017)
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Coherence scanning interferometry (CSI) offers three dimensional (3D) measurement of surface topography with high precision and accuracy. Defocus within the interferometric objective lens, however, is commonly present in CSI measurements, and reduces... Read More about Effects of defocus on the transfer function of coherence scanning interferometry.

The Herschel–ATLAS data release 2, Paper I. Submillimeter and far-infrared images of the South and North Galactic Poles: the largest Herschel survey of the extragalactic sky (2017)
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We present the largest submillimeter images that have been made of the extragalactic sky. The Herschel Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey (H-ATLAS) is a survey of 660 deg2 with the PACS and SPIRE cameras in five photometric bands: 100, 160, 25... Read More about The Herschel–ATLAS data release 2, Paper I. Submillimeter and far-infrared images of the South and North Galactic Poles: the largest Herschel survey of the extragalactic sky.

Clinical and cost effectiveness of issuing longer versus shorter duration (3 month vs. 28 day) prescriptions in patients with chronic conditions: systematic review and economic modelling (2017)
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Background: To reduce expenditure on, and wastage of, drugs, some commissioners have encouraged general practitioners to issue shorter prescriptions, typically 28 days in length; however, the evidence base for this recommendation is uncertain. Objec... Read More about Clinical and cost effectiveness of issuing longer versus shorter duration (3 month vs. 28 day) prescriptions in patients with chronic conditions: systematic review and economic modelling.

Mesenchymal stem cell-conditioned medium reduces disease severity and immune responses in inflammatory arthritis (2017)
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We evaluated the therapeutic potential of mesenchymal stem cell-conditioned medium (CM-MSC) as an alternative to cell therapy in an antigen-induced model of arthritis (AIA). Disease severity and cartilage loss were evaluated by histopathological anal... Read More about Mesenchymal stem cell-conditioned medium reduces disease severity and immune responses in inflammatory arthritis.