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Functional consequences of pre- and postsynaptic expression of synaptic plasticity (2017)
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Costa, R. P., Mizusaki, B. E., Sjöström, P. J., & van Rossum, M. C. (2017). Functional consequences of pre- and postsynaptic expression of synaptic plasticity. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 372(1715), https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2016.0153

Growing experimental evidence shows that both homeostatic and Hebbian synaptic plasticity can be expressed presynaptically as well as postsynaptically. In this review, we start by discussing this evidence and methods used to determine expression loci... Read More about Functional consequences of pre- and postsynaptic expression of synaptic plasticity.

Virtual Instrumentation for Electrochemical Biosensor Applications (2017)
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Madasamy, T., Pandiaraj, M., Balamurugan, M., Santharaman, P., Venkatesh, A., Vairamani, K., …Karunakaran, C. (2017). Virtual Instrumentation for Electrochemical Biosensor Applications. Sensor Letters, 15(1), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1166/sl.2017.3762

Virtual instrumentation (VI) is defined as an instrument whose general function and capabilities are determined in software. Especially, graphical user interface (GUI) software LabVIEW (Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Engineering Workbench) is ide... Read More about Virtual Instrumentation for Electrochemical Biosensor Applications.

Attempts to Improve the Energy Capacity of Capacitive Electrochemical Energy Storage Devices (2017)
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Yu, L. P., & Chen, G. Z. (2017). Attempts to Improve the Energy Capacity of Capacitive Electrochemical Energy Storage Devices. Journal of Electrochemistry, 23(5), 533-547. https://doi.org/10.13208/j.electrochem.170347

This article reviews selected literatures from the authors' research group on the development of capacitive electrochemical energy storage (EES) devices, focusing on supercapacitors and supercapatteries at both the electrode material level and device... Read More about Attempts to Improve the Energy Capacity of Capacitive Electrochemical Energy Storage Devices.

Dissolved redox species for the improvement of the performance of supercapacitors (2017)
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Akinwolemiwa, B., & Chen, G. Z. (2017). Dissolved redox species for the improvement of the performance of supercapacitors. Current Topics in Electrochemistry, 19, 47-65

© 2019, Research Trend. All rights reserved. The recent surging investigations into the applications of redox active electrolytes for the improvement of charge storage in supercapacitors and other related hybrid devices have shown a lot of promise bu... Read More about Dissolved redox species for the improvement of the performance of supercapacitors.

“It doesn’t take much evidence to convict a Negro”: Capital punishment, race, and rape in mid-20th-century Florida (2017)
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Miller, V. (2017). “It doesn’t take much evidence to convict a Negro”: Capital punishment, race, and rape in mid-20th-century Florida. Crime, histoire & societes = Crime, history & societies / International Association for the History of Crime and Criminal Justice, 21(1), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.4000/chs.1714

Thirty men were executed for rape in Florida between 1940 and 1964, in a state undergoing rapid population growth, Sunbelt economic change, and black freedom struggle protest and activism. No white man was sentenced to death for the rape of a “Negro”... Read More about “It doesn’t take much evidence to convict a Negro”: Capital punishment, race, and rape in mid-20th-century Florida.

Vulnerability to climate change in riparian char and river-bank households in Bangladesh: implication for policy, livelihoods and social development (2017)
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Bangladesh is vulnerable to climate-driven hazards, including river-bank erosion causing the loss of land and associated natural resources of riparian households, which threatens the livelihood, health and food security of these vulnerable communitie... Read More about Vulnerability to climate change in riparian char and river-bank households in Bangladesh: implication for policy, livelihoods and social development.

Leveraging social network sites for new product launch (2017)
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Roberts, D. L., Cani, M., & Hughes, M. (2017). Leveraging social network sites for new product launch. Industrial Management and Data Systems, 117(10), 2400-2416. https://doi.org/10.1108/IMDS-11-2016-0472

Purpose – The ability to make use of social network sites (SNSs) to promote new products and facilitate positive word of mouth around new product launch (NPL) presents an important opportunity. However, the mechanisms and motivations of SNS users are... Read More about Leveraging social network sites for new product launch.

The adoption of vendor managed inventory for hospital pharmaceutical supply (2017)
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Krichanchai, S., & MacCarthy, B. L. (2017). The adoption of vendor managed inventory for hospital pharmaceutical supply. International Journal of Logistics Management, The, 28(3), https://doi.org/10.1108/ijlm-01-2015-0010

The study investigates Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) for the supply of medicines between distributors and hospitals to identify factors that may affect VMI adoption. Multiple case studies are conducted involving five organizations (three hospitals,... Read More about The adoption of vendor managed inventory for hospital pharmaceutical supply.

Photoperiod-induced increases in bone mineral apposition rate in Siberian hamsters and the involvement of seasonal leptin changes (2017)
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Kokolski, M., Ebling, F. J., Henstock, J. R., & Anderson, S. I. (2017). Photoperiod-induced increases in bone mineral apposition rate in Siberian hamsters and the involvement of seasonal leptin changes. Frontiers in Endocrinology, 8, Article 357. https://doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2017.00357

The adipokine leptin regulates energy balance, appetite, and reproductive maturation. Leptin also acts on bone growth and remodeling, but both osteogenic and anti-osteogenic effects have been reported depending on experimental conditions. Siberian ha... Read More about Photoperiod-induced increases in bone mineral apposition rate in Siberian hamsters and the involvement of seasonal leptin changes.

Role of interactions in a dissipative many-body localized system (2017)
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Everest, B., Lesanovsky, I., Garrahan, J. P., & Levi, E. (2017). Role of interactions in a dissipative many-body localized system. Physical Review B, 95(2), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.95.024310

Recent experimental and theoretical efforts have focused on the effect of dissipation on quantum many-body systems in their many-body localized (MBL) phase. While in the presence of dephasing noise such systems reach a unique ergodic state, their dyn... Read More about Role of interactions in a dissipative many-body localized system.

Developing and evaluating interventions for women firesetters in high secure mental healthcare (2017)
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Annesley, P., Davison, L., Colley, C., Gilley, L., & Thomson, L. (2017). Developing and evaluating interventions for women firesetters in high secure mental healthcare. Journal of Forensic Practice, 19(1), https://doi.org/10.1108/JFP-12-2015-0054

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss the implementation and evaluation of interventions for women firesetters in high secure mental healthcare at the UK’s National Women’s Service. Design/methodology/approach Two types of Arson trea... Read More about Developing and evaluating interventions for women firesetters in high secure mental healthcare.

Small-signal analysis of naturally-sampled single-edge PWM control loops (2017)
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Mouton, T., Cox, S., McGrath, B., Risbo, L., & Putzeys, B. (2017). Small-signal analysis of naturally-sampled single-edge PWM control loops. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 33(1), 51-64. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPEL.2017.2666720

This paper presents a simple method to analyse the behaviour of feedback loops that contain a naturally-sampled single-edge pulse-width modulator. A small-signal model is derived by means of simple geometric arguments. It is shown how this small-sign... Read More about Small-signal analysis of naturally-sampled single-edge PWM control loops.

Shared characteristics underpinning C 4 leaf maturation derived from analysis of multiple C 3 and C 4 species of Flaveria (2017)
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Kümpers, B. M., Burgess, S. J., Reyna-Llorens, I., Smith-Unna, R., Boursnell, C., & Hibberd, J. M. (2017). Shared characteristics underpinning C 4 leaf maturation derived from analysis of multiple C 3 and C 4 species of Flaveria. Journal of Experimental Botany, 68(2), https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erw488

Most terrestrial plants use C3 photosynthesis to fix carbon. In multiple plant lineages a modified system known as C4 photosynthesis has evolved. To better understand the molecular patterns associated with induction of C4 photosynthesis, the genus Fl... Read More about Shared characteristics underpinning C 4 leaf maturation derived from analysis of multiple C 3 and C 4 species of Flaveria.

Theorizing with managers: how to achieve both academic rigor and practical relevance? (2017)
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Nenonen, S., Brodie, R. J., Storbacka, K., & Peters, L. D. (2017). Theorizing with managers: how to achieve both academic rigor and practical relevance?. European Journal of Marketing, 51(7-8), 1130-1152. https://doi.org/10.1108/EJM-03-2017-0171

© 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: The aim of the paper is to address the widening theory-praxis gap in marketing. The authors propose that one viable solution to this challenge is involving practitioners in research processes as active, ref... Read More about Theorizing with managers: how to achieve both academic rigor and practical relevance?.

Understanding the care.data conundrum: new information flows for economic growth (2017)
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Vezyridis, P., & Timmons, S. (2017). Understanding the care.data conundrum: new information flows for economic growth. Big Data and Society, https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951716688490

The analysis of data from electronic health records aspires to facilitate healthcare efficiencies and biomedical innovation. There are also ethical, legal and social implications from the handling of sensitive patient information. The paper explores... Read More about Understanding the care.data conundrum: new information flows for economic growth.

A comprehensive analysis and hardware implementation of control strategies for high output voltage DC-DC boost power converter (2017)
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Padmanaban, S., Grandi, G., Blaabjerg, F., Wheeler, P., Siano, P., & Hammami, M. (2017). A comprehensive analysis and hardware implementation of control strategies for high output voltage DC-DC boost power converter. International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems, 10(1), https://doi.org/10.2991/ijcis.2017.10.1.10

Classical DC-DC converters used in high voltage direct current (HVDC) power transmission systems, lack in terms of efficiency, reduced transfer gain and increased cost with sensor (voltage/current) numbers. Besides, the internal self-parasitic behavi... Read More about A comprehensive analysis and hardware implementation of control strategies for high output voltage DC-DC boost power converter.

A novel multi-scale numerical model for prediction of texture-related impacts on fuel consumption (2017)
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Mansura, D., Thom, N., & Beckedahl, H. (2017). A novel multi-scale numerical model for prediction of texture-related impacts on fuel consumption. Tire Science and Technology, 45(1), https://doi.org/10.2346/tire.17.450104

It is estimated that to overcome rolling resistance (RR) a typical vehicle, on average, consumes 4152 MJ/119 L of fuel annually, depending not only on vehicle-related factors but also on pavement-related factors. A slight improvement in surface prope... Read More about A novel multi-scale numerical model for prediction of texture-related impacts on fuel consumption.