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Towards a Framework for Capturing Interpretability of Hierarchical Fuzzy Systems - A Participatory Design Approach (2020)
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Soria, D., Razak, T. R., Garibaldi, J. M., Pourabdollah, A., & Wagner, C. (2021). Towards a Framework for Capturing Interpretability of Hierarchical Fuzzy Systems - A Participatory Design Approach. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 29(5), 1160-1172. https://doi.org/10.1109/tfuzz.2020.2969901

Hierarchical fuzzy systems (HFSs) have been shown to have the potential to improve the interpretability of fuzzy logic systems (FLSs). However, challenges remain, such as: "How can we measure their interpretability?", "How can we make an informed ass... Read More about Towards a Framework for Capturing Interpretability of Hierarchical Fuzzy Systems - A Participatory Design Approach.

‘Lays of the Octopods (The Last of the Octopods)’: An Unpublished Poem by Edward Lear (2020)
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Downey, E., & Wilcockson, A. (2020). ‘Lays of the Octopods (The Last of the Octopods)’: An Unpublished Poem by Edward Lear. Notes and Queries, https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjz207

An unpublished poem entitled ‘Lays of the Octopods (The Last of the Octopods)’ by artist, travel-writer, and poet, Edward Lear (1812–88) has come to light in the British Library’s Charnwood Autographs Collection.1 The autograph manuscript is dated 22... Read More about ‘Lays of the Octopods (The Last of the Octopods)’: An Unpublished Poem by Edward Lear.

Essential healthcare services provided to conflict-affected internally displaced populations in low and middle-income countries: A systematic review (2020)
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Ekezie, W., Adaji, E. E., & Murray, R. L. (2020). Essential healthcare services provided to conflict-affected internally displaced populations in low and middle-income countries: A systematic review. Health Promotion Perspectives, 10(1), 24-37. https://doi.org/10.15171/hpp.2020.06

Background: Conflict and violent crises have resulted in over 40 million of internally displaced persons (IDPs). Most affected regions lack access to basic health resources and generally rely on humanitarian support. The objective of this review was... Read More about Essential healthcare services provided to conflict-affected internally displaced populations in low and middle-income countries: A systematic review.

Unruh effect and information flow (2020)
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Sokolov, B., Louko, J., Maniscalco, S., & Vilja, I. (2020). Unruh effect and information flow. Physical Review D, 101(2), Article 024047. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.101.024047

We study memory effects as information backflow for an accelerating two-level detector weakly interacting with a scalar field in the Minkowski vacuum. This is the framework of the well-known Unruh effect: the detector behaves as if it were in a therm... Read More about Unruh effect and information flow.

Comprehensive LESA Mass Spectrometry Imaging of Intact Proteins by Integration of Cylindrical FAIMS (2020)
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Griffiths, R. L., Hughes, J. W., Abbatiello, S. E., Belford, M. W., Styles, I. B., & Cooper, H. J. (2020). Comprehensive LESA Mass Spectrometry Imaging of Intact Proteins by Integration of Cylindrical FAIMS. Analytical Chemistry, 92(4), 2885-2890. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.9b05124

The benefits of high field asymmetric waveform ion mobility spectrometry (FAIMS) for mass spectrometry imaging of intact proteins in thin tissue sections have been demonstrated previously. In those works, a planar FAIMS device coupled with a Thermo E... Read More about Comprehensive LESA Mass Spectrometry Imaging of Intact Proteins by Integration of Cylindrical FAIMS.

Engineering NonBinary Rydberg Interactions via Phonons in an Optical Lattice (2020)
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Gambetta, F., Li, W., Schmidt-Kaler, F., & Lesanovsky, I. (2020). Engineering NonBinary Rydberg Interactions via Phonons in an Optical Lattice. Physical Review Letters, 124(4), Article 043402. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.124.043402

Coupling electronic and vibrational degrees of freedom of Rydberg atoms held in optical tweezer arrays offers a flexible mechanism for creating and controlling atom-atom interactions. We find that the state-dependent coupling between Rydberg atoms an... Read More about Engineering NonBinary Rydberg Interactions via Phonons in an Optical Lattice.

Deep Learning with Dynamically Weighted Loss Function for Sensor-Based Prognostics and Health Management (2020)
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Rengasamy, D., Jafari, M., Rothwell, B., Chen, X., & Figueredo, G. P. (2021). Deep Learning with Dynamically Weighted Loss Function for Sensor-Based Prognostics and Health Management. Sensors, 20(3), Article 723. https://doi.org/10.3390/s20030723

Deep learning has been employed to prognostic and health management of automotive and aerospace with promising results. Literature in this area has revealed that most contributions regarding deep learning is largely focused on the model’s architectur... Read More about Deep Learning with Dynamically Weighted Loss Function for Sensor-Based Prognostics and Health Management.

A lifing method based on R5 and viscoplasticity modelling and its application to turbine rotor under thermomechanical loading (2020)
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Bonetti, R., Hadjipakkos, P., Rae, Y., Hughes, J., & Sun, W. (2020). A lifing method based on R5 and viscoplasticity modelling and its application to turbine rotor under thermomechanical loading. Engineering Failure Analysis, 110, Article 104416. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engfailanal.2020.104416

An integrated life assessment procedure for structures operating under thermomechanical loading has been
developed. The methodology uses a viscoplasticity based framework combined with the R5 life assessment code. The
viscoplastic constitutive mode... Read More about A lifing method based on R5 and viscoplasticity modelling and its application to turbine rotor under thermomechanical loading.

Preparation and characteristics evaluation of mono and hybrid nano-enhanced phase change materials (NePCMs) for thermal management of microelectronics (2020)
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Arshad, A., Jabbal, M., & Yan, Y. (2020). Preparation and characteristics evaluation of mono and hybrid nano-enhanced phase change materials (NePCMs) for thermal management of microelectronics. Energy Conversion and Management, 205, Article 112444. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2019.112444

Efficient, clean and quiet thermal management has become a vital challenge in for cooling of electronic devices. To enhance the capability and efficiency of passive thermal management , novel composite materials have been designed by the combination... Read More about Preparation and characteristics evaluation of mono and hybrid nano-enhanced phase change materials (NePCMs) for thermal management of microelectronics.

Modelling the permeability of random discontinuous carbon fibre preforms (2020)
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Xiao, Z., Liu, X., Harper, L. T., Endruweit, A., & Warrior, N. A. (2020). Modelling the permeability of random discontinuous carbon fibre preforms. Journal of Composite Materials, 54(20), 2739-2751. https://doi.org/10.1177/0021998320902506

A force-directed algorithm was developed to create representative geometrical models of fibre distributions in Directed Carbon Fibre Preforms (DCFP). Local permeability values were calculated for the preform models depending on the local fibre orient... Read More about Modelling the permeability of random discontinuous carbon fibre preforms.

Engineering non-binary Rydberg interactions via electron-phonon coupling (2020)
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Gambetta, F. M., Li, W., Schmidt-Kaler, F., & Lesanovsky, I. (2020). Engineering non-binary Rydberg interactions via electron-phonon coupling. Physical Review Letters, 124(4), Article 043402. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.043402

Coupling electronic and vibrational degrees of freedom of Rydberg atoms held in optical tweezers arrays offers a flexible mechanism for creating and controlling atom-atom interactions. We find that the state-dependent coupling between Rydberg atoms a... Read More about Engineering non-binary Rydberg interactions via electron-phonon coupling.

An Analysis of the Thermal Interaction Between Components in Power Converter Applications (2020)
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Shahjalal, M., Ahmed, M. R., Lu, H., Bailey, C., & Forsyth, A. J. (2020). An Analysis of the Thermal Interaction Between Components in Power Converter Applications. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 35(9), 9082-9094. https://doi.org/10.1109/tpel.2020.2969350

Accurately predicting the temperature of semiconductor devices is very important in the initial design of the power electronics converter. RC thermal models derived from the well-known methods have some ability to predict the temperature. However, th... Read More about An Analysis of the Thermal Interaction Between Components in Power Converter Applications.

Distinct inactive conformations of the dopamine D2 and D3 receptors correspond to different extents of inverse agonism (2020)
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Lane, J. R., Abramyan, A. M., Adhikari, P., Keen, A. C., Lee, K.-H., Sanchez, J., …Shi, L. (2020). Distinct inactive conformations of the dopamine D2 and D3 receptors correspond to different extents of inverse agonism. eLife, 9, Article e52189. https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.52189

By analyzing and simulating inactive conformations of the highly-homologous dopamine D2 and D3 receptors (D2R and D3R), we find that eticlopride binds D2R in a pose very similar to that in the D3R/eticlopride structure but incompatible with the D2R/r... Read More about Distinct inactive conformations of the dopamine D2 and D3 receptors correspond to different extents of inverse agonism.

Analyzing Magnetically Induced Currents in Molecular Systems Using Current-Density-Functional Theory (2020)
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Irons, T. J. P., Spence, L., David, G., Speake, B. T., Helgaker, T., & Teale, A. M. (2020). Analyzing Magnetically Induced Currents in Molecular Systems Using Current-Density-Functional Theory. Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 124(7), 1321-1333. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.9b10833

A suite of tools for the analysis of magnetically induced currents is introduced. These are applicable to both the weak-field regime, well described by linear response perturbation theory, and to the strong-field regime, which is inaccessible to such... Read More about Analyzing Magnetically Induced Currents in Molecular Systems Using Current-Density-Functional Theory.

Detrimental effects of uterine disease and lipopolysaccharide on luteal angiogenesis (2020)
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Mohammed, Z. A., Robinson, R. S., Harris, R., McLaughlin, Y., Turnbull, K. E., Mann, G. E., & Woad, K. J. (2020). Detrimental effects of uterine disease and lipopolysaccharide on luteal angiogenesis. Journal of Endocrinology, 245(1), 79-92. https://doi.org/10.1530/JOE-19-0443

© 2020 Society for Endocrinology Reproductive tract inflammatory disease (RTID) commonly occurs after the traumatic events of parturition and adversely affects follicular function. This study is the first to describe the cellular and steroidogenic ch... Read More about Detrimental effects of uterine disease and lipopolysaccharide on luteal angiogenesis.

Emissive Platinum(II) Cages with Reverse Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer for Multiple Sensing (2020)
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Zhang, Z., Zhao, Z., Wu, L., Lu, S., Ling, S., Li, G., …Zhang, M. (2020). Emissive Platinum(II) Cages with Reverse Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer for Multiple Sensing. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 142(5), 2592-2600. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.9b12689

It is quite challenging to realize fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) between two chromophores with specific positions and directions. Herein, through the self-assembly of two carefully selected fluorescent ligands via metal-coordination i... Read More about Emissive Platinum(II) Cages with Reverse Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer for Multiple Sensing.

A Multimodal Particle Swarm Optimization-based Approach for Image Segmentation (2020)
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Farshi, T. R., Drake, J. H., & Özcan, E. (2020). A Multimodal Particle Swarm Optimization-based Approach for Image Segmentation. Expert Systems with Applications, 149, Article 113233. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2020.113233

Color image segmentation is a fundamental challenge in the field of image analysis and pattern recognition. In this paper, a novel automated pixel clustering and color image segmentation algorithm is presented. The proposed method operates in three s... Read More about A Multimodal Particle Swarm Optimization-based Approach for Image Segmentation.

The impact of a high-fat diet in mice is dependent on duration and age, and differs between muscles (2020)
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Messa, G. A. M., Piasecki, M., Hurst, J., Hill, C., Tallis, J., & Degens, H. (2020). The impact of a high-fat diet in mice is dependent on duration and age, and differs between muscles. Journal of Experimental Biology, 223(6), Article jeb.217117. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.217117

© 2020. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd. Prolonged high-fat diets (HFDs) can cause intramyocellular lipid (IMCL) accumulation that may negatively affect muscle function. We investigated the duration of a HFD required to instigate these cha... Read More about The impact of a high-fat diet in mice is dependent on duration and age, and differs between muscles.

A meta-analysis of self-determination theory-informed intervention studies in the health domain: effects on motivation, health behavior, physical, and psychological health (2020)
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Ntoumanis, N., Ng, J. Y., Prestwich, A., Quested, E., Hancox, J. E., Thøgersen-Ntoumani, C., …Williams, G. C. (2021). A meta-analysis of self-determination theory-informed intervention studies in the health domain: effects on motivation, health behavior, physical, and psychological health. Health Psychology Review, 15(2), 214-244. https://doi.org/10.1080/17437199.2020.1718529

© 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. There are no literature reviews that have examined the impact of health-domain interventions, informed by self-determination theory (SDT), on SDT constructs a... Read More about A meta-analysis of self-determination theory-informed intervention studies in the health domain: effects on motivation, health behavior, physical, and psychological health.

Enzymatic One-Pot Synthesis of Renewable and Biodegradable Surfactants in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide (scCO2) (2020)
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d’Almeida Gamiero, M., Goddard, A. . R., Taresco, V., & Howdle, S. M. (2020). Enzymatic One-Pot Synthesis of Renewable and Biodegradable Surfactants in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide (scCO2). Green Chemistry, 22(4), 1308-1318. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9gc04011k

We seek to expand the opportunities to exploit glycerol, a largely untapped renewable feedstock, by exploiting enzymatic catalysis in supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO2). This work highlights a promising and clean approach to bio-renewable amphiphil... Read More about Enzymatic One-Pot Synthesis of Renewable and Biodegradable Surfactants in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide (scCO2).