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A Defence of Lucretian Presentism (2020)
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Tallant, J., & Ingram, D. (2020). A Defence of Lucretian Presentism. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 98(4), 675-690. https://doi.org/10.1080/00048402.2019.1697709

© 2019 Australasian Journal of Philosophy. In this paper, we defend Lucretian Presentism (‘Lucretianism’). Although the view faces many objections and has proven unpopular with presentists, we rehabilitate Lucretianism and argue that none of the obje... Read More about A Defence of Lucretian Presentism.

Creative autonomy in a simple interactive music system (2020)
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Paolizzo, F., & Johnson, C. G. (2020). Creative autonomy in a simple interactive music system. Journal of New Music Research, 49(2), 115-125. https://doi.org/10.1080/09298215.2019.1709510

Can autonomous systems be musically creative without musical knowledge? Assumptions from interdisciplinary studies on self-reflection are evaluated using Video Interactive VST Orchestra, a system that generates music from audio and video inputs throu... Read More about Creative autonomy in a simple interactive music system.

Identity Politics: Participatory Research and Its Challenges Related to Social and Epistemic Control (2020)
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Böschen, S., Legris, M., Pfersdorf, S., & Stahl, B. C. (2020). Identity Politics: Participatory Research and Its Challenges Related to Social and Epistemic Control. Social Epistemology, 34(4), 382-394. https://doi.org/10.1080/02691728.2019.1706121

Over the past 20 years, the participation of laypersons or representatives of civil society has become a guiding principle in processes of research and innovation. There is now a significant literature discussing collaboration between civil society o... Read More about Identity Politics: Participatory Research and Its Challenges Related to Social and Epistemic Control.

Closed-Form Solution for Secondary Perturbation Displacement in Finite-Element-Implemented Koiter’s Theory (2020)
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Yan, J., & Li, S. (2020). Closed-Form Solution for Secondary Perturbation Displacement in Finite-Element-Implemented Koiter’s Theory. AIAA Journal, 58(4), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.2514/1.j058941

The finite-element-implemented Koiter’s initial postbuckling analysis has not managed to convince commercial finite element code developers to incorporate it into their codes to benefit structural designers and analysts. Three key obstacles have been... Read More about Closed-Form Solution for Secondary Perturbation Displacement in Finite-Element-Implemented Koiter’s Theory.

A simulation study on performance improvement of solar assisted heat pump hot water system by novel controllable crystallization of supercooled PCMs (2020)
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Kutlu, C., Zhang, Y., Elmer, T., Su, Y., & Riffat, S. (2020). A simulation study on performance improvement of solar assisted heat pump hot water system by novel controllable crystallization of supercooled PCMs. Renewable Energy, 152, 601-612. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2020.01.090

Domestic hot water (DHW) has a significant share in building’s energy consumption. In order to reduce this consumption, various solutions have been proposed such as controlling the system in an efficient way, using renewable sources and using phase c... Read More about A simulation study on performance improvement of solar assisted heat pump hot water system by novel controllable crystallization of supercooled PCMs.

Tinnitus healthcare: a survey revealing extensive variation in opinion and practices across Europe (2020)
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Cima, R. F., Kikidis, D., Mazurek, B., Haider, H., Cederroth, C. R., Norena, A., …Hoare, D. J. (2020). Tinnitus healthcare: a survey revealing extensive variation in opinion and practices across Europe. BMJ Open, 10(1), Article e029346. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-029346

Tinnitus remains a scientific and clinical problem whereby, in spite of increasing knowledge on effective treatment and management for tinnitus, very little impact on clinical practice has been observed. There is evidence that prolonged, obscure and... Read More about Tinnitus healthcare: a survey revealing extensive variation in opinion and practices across Europe.

Microwave digestion of gibbsite and bauxite in sodium hydroxide (2020)
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Dillinger, B., Batchelor, A., Katrib, J., Dodds, C., Suchicital, C., Kingman, S., & Clark, D. (2020). Microwave digestion of gibbsite and bauxite in sodium hydroxide. Hydrometallurgy, 192, Article 105257. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hydromet.2020.105257

It was hypothesized that bauxite digestion may be improved by using microwave heating as it has been shown in literature that some material processes have improved efficiency. To test this hypothesis, a set of digestion experiments were conducted usi... Read More about Microwave digestion of gibbsite and bauxite in sodium hydroxide.

Prosocial exchange systems: Nonreciprocal giving, lending, and skill-sharing (2020)
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Harvey, J., Smith, A., Golightly, D., Goulding, J., & Gallage, H. S. (2020). Prosocial exchange systems: Nonreciprocal giving, lending, and skill-sharing. Computers in Human Behavior, 107, Article 106268. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2020.106268

Prosocial exchange systems support cooperation and exchange in support of more sustainable forms of consumption. While often assumed that exchanges within such systems are reciprocal, it remains unproven as to what extent reciprocity occurs. This stu... Read More about Prosocial exchange systems: Nonreciprocal giving, lending, and skill-sharing.

Quench dynamics of Rydberg-dressed bosons on two-dimensional square lattices (2020)
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Zhou, Y., Li, Y., Nath, R., & Li, W. (2020). Quench dynamics of Rydberg-dressed bosons on two-dimensional square lattices. Physical Review A, 101(1), Article 013427. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.101.013427

We study dynamics of bosonic atoms on a two dimensional square lattice, where atomic interactions are long ranged with either a box or soft-core shape. The latter can be realized through laser dressing ground state atoms to electronically excited Ryd... Read More about Quench dynamics of Rydberg-dressed bosons on two-dimensional square lattices.

Some animals are more equal than others: Validation of a new scale to measure how attitudes to animals depend on species and human purpose of use (2020)
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Bibby, P. A., Bradley, A., Mennie, N., Bibby, P. A., & Cassaday, H. J. (2020). Some animals are more equal than others: Validation of a new scale to measure how attitudes to animals depend on species and human purpose of use. PLoS ONE, 15(1), Article e0227948. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0227948

© 2020 Bradley et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are cr... Read More about Some animals are more equal than others: Validation of a new scale to measure how attitudes to animals depend on species and human purpose of use.

Resonant tunnelling into the two-dimensional subbands of InSe layers (2020)
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Kudrynskyi, Z. R., Kerfoot, J., Mazumder, D., Greenaway, M. T., Vdovin, E. E., Makarovsky, O., …Patanè, A. (2020). Resonant tunnelling into the two-dimensional subbands of InSe layers. Communications Physics, 3, Article 16. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-020-0290-x

Two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) crystals have attracted considerable interest for digital electronics beyond Si-based complementary metal oxide semiconductor technologies. Despite the transformative success of Si-based devices, there are lim... Read More about Resonant tunnelling into the two-dimensional subbands of InSe layers.

Nurses' illness perceptions during presenteeism and absenteeism (2020)
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Fiorini, L., Houdmont, J., & Griffiths, A. (2020). Nurses' illness perceptions during presenteeism and absenteeism. Occupational Medicine, 70(2), 101–106. https://doi.org/10.1093/occmed/kqaa012

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Presenteeism has been linked with lost productivity, impaired health and absence. Whilst much research has focused on types of diseases associated with presenteeism and absenteeism, there has been little investigation into the role of ind... Read More about Nurses' illness perceptions during presenteeism and absenteeism.

V. I. Lenin on the ‘Black Question’ (2020)
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Pateman, J. (2020). V. I. Lenin on the ‘Black Question’. Critique: Journal of Socialist Theory, 48(1), 77-93. https://doi.org/10.1080/03017605.2019.1706786

In his revolutionary activities and writings from 1913 to the fourth Comintern Congress in 1922, V. I. Lenin didn't merely analyse the function of black labour in the process of capitalist development. He also had something to say about the role that... Read More about V. I. Lenin on the ‘Black Question’.

Real time monitoring of biofilm formation on coated medical devices for the reduction and interception of bacterial infections (2020)
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Kurmoo, Y., Hook, A. L., Harvey, D., Dubern, J.-F., Williams, P., Morgan, S. P., …Alexander, M. R. (2020). Real time monitoring of biofilm formation on coated medical devices for the reduction and interception of bacterial infections. Biomaterials Science, 8(5), 1464-1477. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9bm00875f

Real time monitoring of bacterial attachment to medical devices provides opportunities to detect early biofilm formation and instigate appropriate interventions before infection develops. This study utilises long period grating (LPG) optical fibre se... Read More about Real time monitoring of biofilm formation on coated medical devices for the reduction and interception of bacterial infections.

Greenhouse gas emissions resulting from conversion of peat swamp forest to oil palm plantation (2020)
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Cooper, H. V., Evers, S., Aplin, P., Crout, N., Dahalan, M. P. B., & Sjogersten, S. (2020). Greenhouse gas emissions resulting from conversion of peat swamp forest to oil palm plantation. Nature Communications, 11(1), Article 407. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14298-w

© 2020, The Author(s). Conversion of tropical peat swamp forest to drainage-based agriculture alters greenhouse gas (GHG) production, but the magnitude of these changes remains highly uncertain. Current emissions factors for oil palm grown on drained... Read More about Greenhouse gas emissions resulting from conversion of peat swamp forest to oil palm plantation.

Feature Extraction of Oscillating Flow with Vapor Condensation of Moist Air in a Sonic Nozzle (2020)
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Ding, H., Li, Y., Wang, C., Wen, C., & Tian, Y. (2020). Feature Extraction of Oscillating Flow with Vapor Condensation of Moist Air in a Sonic Nozzle. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 69(9), 1-1. https://doi.org/10.1109/tim.2020.2967130

The sonic nozzle is commonly used in flow measurement. However, the non-equilibrium condensation phenomenon of moist air in the nozzle has a negative effect on the measuring accuracy. To investigate this complex phenomenon, the experiments on the osc... Read More about Feature Extraction of Oscillating Flow with Vapor Condensation of Moist Air in a Sonic Nozzle.

Culture-enriched metagenomic sequencing enables in-depth profiling of the cystic fibrosis lung microbiota (2020)
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Whelan, F. J., Waddell, B., Syed, S. A., Shekarriz, S., Rabin, H. R., Parkins, M. D., & Surette, M. G. (2020). Culture-enriched metagenomic sequencing enables in-depth profiling of the cystic fibrosis lung microbiota. Nature Microbiology, 5, 379-390. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-019-0643-y

Amplicon sequencing (for example, of the 16S rRNA gene) identifies the presence and relative abundance of microbial community members. However, metagenomic sequencing is needed to identify the genetic content and functional potential of a community.... Read More about Culture-enriched metagenomic sequencing enables in-depth profiling of the cystic fibrosis lung microbiota.

An ALMA survey of the SCUBA-2 cosmology legacy survey UKIDSS/UDS field: Dust attenuation in high-redshift Lyman-break galaxies (2020)
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Koprowski, M. P., Coppin, K. E. K., E. Geach, J., Dudzevičiūtė, U., Smail, I., Almaini, O., …Whitaker, K. E. (2020). An ALMA survey of the SCUBA-2 cosmology legacy survey UKIDSS/UDS field: Dust attenuation in high-redshift Lyman-break galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 492(4), 4927-4944. https://doi.org/10.1093/MNRAS/STAA160

© 2020 Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. We analyse 870 ∼m Atacama Large Millimetre Array (ALMA) dust continuum detections of 41 canonically selected z3 Lyman-break galaxies (LBGs), aswell as 209 ALMA-undetected LBGs, in follow-up of SCUB... Read More about An ALMA survey of the SCUBA-2 cosmology legacy survey UKIDSS/UDS field: Dust attenuation in high-redshift Lyman-break galaxies.

Comparative Pro-cognitive and Neurochemical Profiles of Glycine Modulatory Site Agonists and Glycine Reuptake Inhibitors in the Rat: Potential Relevance to Cognitive Dysfunction and Its Management (2020)
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Fone, K. C., Watson, D. J., Billiras, R. I., Sicard, D. I., Dekeyne, A., Rivet, J., …Millan, M. J. (2020). Comparative Pro-cognitive and Neurochemical Profiles of Glycine Modulatory Site Agonists and Glycine Reuptake Inhibitors in the Rat: Potential Relevance to Cognitive Dysfunction and Its Management. Molecular Neurobiology, 57, 2144–2166. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12035-020-01875-9

© 2020, The Author(s). Frontocortical NMDA receptors are pivotal in regulating cognition and mood, are hypofunctional in schizophrenia, and may contribute to autistic spectrum disorders. Despite extensive interest in agents potentiating activity at t... Read More about Comparative Pro-cognitive and Neurochemical Profiles of Glycine Modulatory Site Agonists and Glycine Reuptake Inhibitors in the Rat: Potential Relevance to Cognitive Dysfunction and Its Management.