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Supply chain integration strategies in fast evolving industries (2017)
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Sabet, E., Yazdani, N., & De Leeuw, S. (2017). Supply chain integration strategies in fast evolving industries. International Journal of Logistics Management, The, 28(1), 29-46. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJLM-01-2015-0013

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to define the “fast evolving industry” (FEI) and its supply chain management (SCM) challenges. The authors review and structure the literature regarding integration strategies and implementation methods to devel... Read More about Supply chain integration strategies in fast evolving industries.

Physical and biological characteristics of multi drug resistance (MDR): an integral approach considering pH and drug resistance in cancer (2017)
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Omran, Z., Scaife, P., Stewart, S., & Rauch, C. (2017). Physical and biological characteristics of multi drug resistance (MDR): an integral approach considering pH and drug resistance in cancer. Seminars in Cancer Biology, 43, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.semcancer.2017.01.002

The role of the Warburg effect in cancer remains to be elucidated with a resurgence in research efforts over the past decade. Why a cancer cell would prefer to use energy inefficient glycolysis, leading to an alteration of pH both inside and outside... Read More about Physical and biological characteristics of multi drug resistance (MDR): an integral approach considering pH and drug resistance in cancer.

‘Instead of fetching flowers, the youths brought in flakes of snow’: exploring extreme weather history through English parish registers (2017)
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Veale, L., Bowen, J. P., & Endfield, G. H. (2017). ‘Instead of fetching flowers, the youths brought in flakes of snow’: exploring extreme weather history through English parish registers. Archives and Records, https://doi.org/10.1080/23257962.2016.1260531

Parish registers provide organized, dated and located population data and as such, are routinely among the most frequently consulted documents within the holdings of county record offices and archives. Throughout history, extreme weather has had sign... Read More about ‘Instead of fetching flowers, the youths brought in flakes of snow’: exploring extreme weather history through English parish registers.

Image-based 3D canopy reconstruction to determine potential productivity in complex multi-species crop systems (2017)
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Burgess, A. J., Retkute, R., Pound, M. P., Mayes, S., & Murchie, E. H. (2017). Image-based 3D canopy reconstruction to determine potential productivity in complex multi-species crop systems. Annals of Botany, 119(4), 517-532. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcw242

Background and Aims: Intercropping systems contain two or more species simultaneously in close proximity. Due to contrasting features of the component crops, quantification of the light environment and photosynthetic productivity is extremely difficu... Read More about Image-based 3D canopy reconstruction to determine potential productivity in complex multi-species crop systems.

The competencies of registered nurses working in care homes: a modified Delphi study (2017)
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Stanyon, M., Goldberg, S. E., Astle, A., Griffiths, A., & Gordon, A. L. (2017). The competencies of registered nurses working in care homes: a modified Delphi study. Age and Ageing, 46(4), 582–588. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afw244

BACKGROUND: Registered Nurses (RNs) working in UK care homes receive most of their training in acute hospitals. At present the role of care home nursing is underdeveloped and it is seen as a low status career. We describe here research to define cor... Read More about The competencies of registered nurses working in care homes: a modified Delphi study.

Rheumatoid arthritis is getting less frequent—results of a nationwide population-based cohort study (2017)
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Abhishek, A., Doherty, M., Kuo, C.-F., Mallen, C. D., Zhang, W., & Grainge, M. J. (2017). Rheumatoid arthritis is getting less frequent—results of a nationwide population-based cohort study. Rheumatology, 56(5), 736-744. https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/kew468

Objectives: The objectives of this study were to examine changes in incidence and prevalence of RA between 1990 and 2014, and to explore if there is any geographic variation in incidence and prevalence of RA in the UK
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Design Prospective... Read More about Rheumatoid arthritis is getting less frequent—results of a nationwide population-based cohort study.

Appearance and disappearance of quantum correlations in measurement-based feedback control of a mechanical oscillator (2017)
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Sudhir, V., Wilson, D. J., Schilling, R., Schütz, H., Fedorov, S. A., Ghadimi, A. H., Nunnenkamp, A., & Kippenberg, T. J. (2017). Appearance and disappearance of quantum correlations in measurement-based feedback control of a mechanical oscillator. Physical Review X, 7(1), Article 011001. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.7.011001

Quantum correlations between imprecision and backaction are a hallmark of continuous linear measurements. Here, we study how measurement-based feedback can be used to improve the visibility of quantum correlations due to the interaction of a laser fi... Read More about Appearance and disappearance of quantum correlations in measurement-based feedback control of a mechanical oscillator.

The Divine Office in Anglo-Saxon England, 597-c.1000. By Jesse D. Billett. Henry Bradshaw Society Subsidia 7. London: Henry Bradshaw Society. 2014. xxii + 463 pp.; 2 b/w plates. £60. ISBN 978 1 90749 728 5. (2017)
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Parkes, H. (2017). The Divine Office in Anglo-Saxon England, 597-c.1000. By Jesse D. Billett. Henry Bradshaw Society Subsidia 7. London: Henry Bradshaw Society. 2014. xxii + 463 pp.; 2 b/w plates. £60. ISBN 978 1 90749 728 5. Early Medieval Europe, 25(1), 117-119. https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12191

Synthesis of polymeric microcapsules by interfacial-suspension cationic photopolymerisation of divinyl ether monomer in aqueous suspension (2017)
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Benedetti, M., Congdon, T. R., Bassett, S. P., Alauhdin, M., Howdle, S. M., Haddleton, D. M., Pisano, R., Sangermano, M., & Schiller, T. L. (2017). Synthesis of polymeric microcapsules by interfacial-suspension cationic photopolymerisation of divinyl ether monomer in aqueous suspension. Polymer Chemistry, 8(6), 972-975. https://doi.org/10.1039/c6py01782g

© 2017 The Royal Society of Chemistry. Polymeric microcapusles have been synthesised with a markedly more hydrophillic monomer than previously reported, triethylene glycol divinyl ether, using cationic photopolymerisation in an aqueous environment. C... Read More about Synthesis of polymeric microcapsules by interfacial-suspension cationic photopolymerisation of divinyl ether monomer in aqueous suspension.

Endogenous lysophosphatidic acid (LPA1) receptor agonists demonstrate ligand bias between calcium and ERK signalling pathways in human lung fibroblasts (2017)
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Sattikar, A., Dowling, M. R., & Rosethorne, E. M. (2017). Endogenous lysophosphatidic acid (LPA1) receptor agonists demonstrate ligand bias between calcium and ERK signalling pathways in human lung fibroblasts. British Journal of Pharmacology, 174(3), 227-237. https://doi.org/10.1111/bph.13671

Background and Purpose

Human lung fibroblasts (HLF) express high levels of the LPA1 receptor, a GPCR that responds to the endogenous lipid mediator, lysophosphatidic acid (LPA). Several molecular species or analogues of LPA exist and have been det... Read More about Endogenous lysophosphatidic acid (LPA1) receptor agonists demonstrate ligand bias between calcium and ERK signalling pathways in human lung fibroblasts.

Mean-VaR portfolio optimization: a nonparametric approach (2017)
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Lwin, K. T., Qu, R., & MacCarthy, B. L. (2017). Mean-VaR portfolio optimization: a nonparametric approach. European Journal of Operational Research, 260(2), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2017.01.005

Portfolio optimization involves the optimal assignment of limited capital to different available financial assets to achieve a reasonable trade-off between profit and risk. We consider an alternative Markowitz's mean-variance model, in which the vari... Read More about Mean-VaR portfolio optimization: a nonparametric approach.

Markov Chain methods for the Bipartite Boolean Quadratic Programming Problem (2017)
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Karapetyan, D., Punnen, A., & Parkes, A. J. (2017). Markov Chain methods for the Bipartite Boolean Quadratic Programming Problem. European Journal of Operational Research, 260(2), 494-506. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2017.01.001

We study the Bipartite Boolean Quadratic Programming Problem (BBQP) which is an extension of the well known Boolean Quadratic Programming Problem (BQP). Applications of the BBQP include mining discrete patterns from binary data, approximating matrice... Read More about Markov Chain methods for the Bipartite Boolean Quadratic Programming Problem.

Methane combustion in MILD oxyfuel regime: influences of dilution atmosphere in co-flow configuration (2017)
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Chen, S., Liu, H., & Zheng, C. (2017). Methane combustion in MILD oxyfuel regime: influences of dilution atmosphere in co-flow configuration. Energy, 121, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2017.01.011

MILD (moderate or intense low oxygen dilution) oxyfuel combustion is a recently proposed clean combustion mode which can remedy the shortcomings of the standard oxyfuel combustion technology. Nowadays most available studies on MILD oxyfuel combustion... Read More about Methane combustion in MILD oxyfuel regime: influences of dilution atmosphere in co-flow configuration.

Acetylsalicylic acid interferes with embryonic kidney growth and development by a prostaglandin-independent mechanism (2017)
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Welham, S. J., Sparrow, A. J., Gardner, D. S., & Elmes, M. J. (2017). Acetylsalicylic acid interferes with embryonic kidney growth and development by a prostaglandin-independent mechanism. World Journal of Nephrology, 6(1), https://doi.org/10.5527/WJN.v6.i1.21

AIM: To evaluate the effects of the non-selective, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) acetylsalicylic acid (ASA), on ex vivo embryonic kidney growth and development.
METHODS: Pairs of fetal mouse kidneys at embryonic day 12.5 were cultured... Read More about Acetylsalicylic acid interferes with embryonic kidney growth and development by a prostaglandin-independent mechanism.

Highly excited strings I: Generating function (2017)
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Skliros, D. P., Copeland, E. J., & Saffin, P. M. (in press). Highly excited strings I: Generating function. Nuclear Physics B, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2016.12.022

This is the first of a series of detailed papers on string amplitudes with highly excited strings (HES). In the present paper we construct a generating function for string amplitudes with generic HES vertex operators using a fixed-loop momentum forma... Read More about Highly excited strings I: Generating function.

Lickometry: a novel and sensitive method for assessing functional deficits in rats after stroke (2017)
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Ahmed, J., Dwyer, D. E., Farr, T. D., Harrison, D. J., Dunnett, S. B., & Trueman, R. C. (in press). Lickometry: a novel and sensitive method for assessing functional deficits in rats after stroke. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, 37(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/0271678X16684141

The need for sensitive, easy to administer assessments of long-term functional deficits is crucial in pre-clinical stroke research. In the present study, we introduce lickometry (lick microstructure analysis) as a precise method to assess sensorimoto... Read More about Lickometry: a novel and sensitive method for assessing functional deficits in rats after stroke.

A multi-redox responsive cyanometalate-based metallogel (2017)
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Mitsumoto, K., Cameron, J., Wei, R. J., Nishikawa, H., Shiga, T., Nihei, M., Newton, G., & Oshio, H. (2017). A multi-redox responsive cyanometalate-based metallogel. Chemistry - A European Journal, 23(7), 1502-1506. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201605542

A tetrathiafulvalene (TTF) based tridentate ligand (-(4’-methyl-4,5-di-n-dodecylthylthiotetrathiafulvalene-5’-ylthio)-’-[tris-2,2,2-(1-pyrazolyl)ethoxy]-p-xylene) (L) with long-chain alkyl moieties was prepared in order to obtain a new multi-redox... Read More about A multi-redox responsive cyanometalate-based metallogel.

Erratum to: Degradation of Lignin in Agricultural Residues by locally Isolated Fungus Neurospora discreta (2017)
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Pamidipati, S., & Ahmed, A. (2017). Erratum to: Degradation of Lignin in Agricultural Residues by locally Isolated Fungus Neurospora discreta. Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology, 182(3), 1256-1257. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12010-016-2380-5

The original version of this article unfortunately contained a mistake. The order of Figure 4 sub-panel images were placed incorrectly; the correct version is provided below and the original article has been corrected. The figure caption remains the... Read More about Erratum to: Degradation of Lignin in Agricultural Residues by locally Isolated Fungus Neurospora discreta.

Using flow technologies to direct the synthesis and assembly of materials in solution (2017)
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Robertson, K. (2017). Using flow technologies to direct the synthesis and assembly of materials in solution. Chemistry Central Journal, 11(1), Article 4. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13065-016-0229-1

In the pursuit of materials with structure-related function, directing the assembly of materials is paramount. The resultant structure can be controlled by ordering of reactants, spatial confinement and control over the reaction/crystallisation times... Read More about Using flow technologies to direct the synthesis and assembly of materials in solution.