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Cresseid, Dido and the Power of Speech (2020)
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The representation of women is often used as a critical touchstone for the re-assessment of many medieval texts: this is also true of discussions of Robert Henryson’s The Testament of Cresseid and Gavin Douglas’s Eneados. This essay compares these po... Read More about Cresseid, Dido and the Power of Speech.

Picture or Text Superiority? The Two Forces of Element Size on Communication Effectiveness (2020)
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Observation of EDM plasma behavior influenced by parasitic working gap capacitance (2020)
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Machining large surfaces to good surface qualities is currently difficult, as optimisation of parameters does not always lead to a satisfactory outcome. This appears to be an issue with traditional EDM, and the cause is not understood very well. Obse... Read More about Observation of EDM plasma behavior influenced by parasitic working gap capacitance.

The microbiological testing regulations for cannabis products in Canada: Are they enough from food safety and public health point of view? (2020)
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Canada has recently legalised cannabis for its production, sale and usage in various ways viz. medicinal, recreational and edible. The Access to Cannabis for Medical Purposes Regulations (ACMPR) suggests that the microbial and chemical contaminants o... Read More about The microbiological testing regulations for cannabis products in Canada: Are they enough from food safety and public health point of view?.

Review of Albore Livadie C., Vecchio G. a cura di, Nola - Croce del Papa: un villaggio sepolto dall’eruzione vesuviana delle Pomici di Avellino, Collection du Centre Jean Bérard 54, Centre Jean Bérard, Napoli, 2020 (2020)
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Pulling Back the Curtain on the Wizards of Oz (2020)
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The Wizard of Oz method is an increasingly common practice in HCI and CSCW studies as part of iterative design processes for interactive systems. Instead of designing a fully-fledged system, the 'technical work' of key system components is completed... Read More about Pulling Back the Curtain on the Wizards of Oz.

A framework for differentiation in composed digital-physical products (2020)
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Product-service systems (PSS) composed of physical products and digital services are emerging as an important new product category. In this paper we suggest that the established metaphor of 'layering' is insufficient to capture the diverse ways in wh... Read More about A framework for differentiation in composed digital-physical products.

A Comparative Exploration of Quality Assurance Results by the Third-Party Pharmaceutical Education Evaluation in Japan (2020)
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Background: The Standards for the Establishment of Universities in Japan were revised; subsequently, the number of schools or universities of pharmacy/pharmaceutical sciences increased from 46 in 2002 to 74 in 2016.The pharmacy education programme wa... Read More about A Comparative Exploration of Quality Assurance Results by the Third-Party Pharmaceutical Education Evaluation in Japan.

Self-Induced Transparency in Warm and Strongly Interacting Rydberg Gases (2020)
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We study dispersive optical nonlinearities of short pulses propagating in high number density, warm atomic vapors where the laser resonantly excites atoms to Rydberg P states via a single-photon transition. Three different regimes of the light-atom i... Read More about Self-Induced Transparency in Warm and Strongly Interacting Rydberg Gases.

The corona-virus disease 2019 pandemic compromised routine care for hypertension: a survey conducted among excellence centers of the European Society of Hypertension (2020)
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Background: The Covid-19 pandemic caused a shutdown of healthcare systems in many countries. We explored the impact on hypertension care in the Excellence Center (EC) network of the European Society of Hypertension. Methods: We conducted a 17-questio... Read More about The corona-virus disease 2019 pandemic compromised routine care for hypertension: a survey conducted among excellence centers of the European Society of Hypertension.

Changes in IgA-targeted microbiota following fecal transplantation for recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection (2020)
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Secretory immunoglobulin A (IgA) interacts with intestinal microbiota and promotes mucosal homeostasis. IgA-bacteria interactions are altered during inflammatory diseases, but how these interactions are shaped by bacterial, host, and environmental fa... Read More about Changes in IgA-targeted microbiota following fecal transplantation for recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection.

Workforce impacts of Covid-19 in the UK (2020)
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Caves and rock shelters, burials and smelting (2020)
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This paper is an extended abstract for the International Conference on Resources and Transformation in Pre-modern Societies, Bochum 19–21 November 2020, 11 December 2020 and 15 January 2021. It discusses the world view of Copper Age and Early Bronze... Read More about Caves and rock shelters, burials and smelting.

Mitogenomic phylogeny and fossil-calibrated mutation rates for all F- and M-type mtDNA genes of the largest freshwater mussel family, the Unionidae (Bivalvia) (2020)
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The Unionidae represent an excellent model taxon for unravelling the drivers of freshwater diversity, but, phylogeographic studies on Southeast Asian taxa are hampered by lack of a comprehensive phylogeny and mutation rates for this fauna. We present... Read More about Mitogenomic phylogeny and fossil-calibrated mutation rates for all F- and M-type mtDNA genes of the largest freshwater mussel family, the Unionidae (Bivalvia).

How might modern slavery risk in English adult social care procurement be reduced? (2020)
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UK legislation, in the form of the Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012 (hereafter SVA) and more recently the Modern Slavery Act 2015 (hereafter MSA) has begun to acknowledge the role public procurement can play in improving social sustainability.... Read More about How might modern slavery risk in English adult social care procurement be reduced?.

Barriers and facilitators to type 2 diabetes management in the Caribbean region: a qualitative systematic review (2020)
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Objective:The objective of this systematic review was to summarize the barriers and facilitators to type 2 diabetes mellitus management in the Caribbean region.Introduction:The prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus in the Caribbean is of significant... Read More about Barriers and facilitators to type 2 diabetes management in the Caribbean region: a qualitative systematic review.

Walking the Talk: moving forwards with sustained shared thinking and dialogic teaching (2020)
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‘Incorrigible Jacobins’: Hazlitt’s Engagement with German Literature (2020)
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The fact that William Hazlitt engaged closely with contemporary German literature throughout his life has so far not received any detailed attention in Hazlitt research. The essay focuses on Hazlitt's assessment of German drama put forward in his thi... Read More about ‘Incorrigible Jacobins’: Hazlitt’s Engagement with German Literature.

From Warrant to Imagination: An Un-noticed Aspect of BEM (2020)
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Hausdorff Stability and Error Estimates for Compensated Convexity Based Methods for Approximation and Interpolation for Functions in Rn (2020)
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We establish error estimates and Hausdorff stability for approximations and interpolations for sampled functions in Rn by using compensated convex transforms introduced previously by K. Zhang [Compensated convexity and its applications, Ann. l’Instit... Read More about Hausdorff Stability and Error Estimates for Compensated Convexity Based Methods for Approximation and Interpolation for Functions in Rn.