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Material hardship and 529 college savings plan participation: the mitigating effects of Child Development Accounts (2014)
Journal Article
Wikoff, N., Huang, J., Kim, Y., & Sherraden, M. (2015). Material hardship and 529 college savings plan participation: the mitigating effects of Child Development Accounts. Social Science Research, 50, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2014.11.017

Experience of material hardship can adversely affect a family’s ability to make long-term investments in children’s development. We examine whether material hardship is associated with one indicator of such investments: participation in a tax-advanta... Read More about Material hardship and 529 college savings plan participation: the mitigating effects of Child Development Accounts.

Optimal GPS/accelerometer integration algorithm for monitoring the vertical structural dynamics (2014)
Journal Article
Meng, X., Wang, J., & Han, H. (in press). Optimal GPS/accelerometer integration algorithm for monitoring the vertical structural dynamics. Journal of Applied Geodesy, 8(4), https://doi.org/10.1515/jag-2014-0024

The vertical structural dynamics is a crucial factor for structural health monitoring (SHM) of civil structures such as high-rise buildings, suspension bridges and towers. This paper presents an optimal GPS/accelerometer integration algorithm for an... Read More about Optimal GPS/accelerometer integration algorithm for monitoring the vertical structural dynamics.

Early labour midwifery care in Italy: local and cross-cultural challenges (2014)
Journal Article
Iannuzzi, L., & Borrelli, S. E. (2014). Early labour midwifery care in Italy: local and cross-cultural challenges. Evidence Based Midwifery, 12(4),

INTRODUCTION. The definition of early labour and its management are debatable issues at a local, national and international level. In Italy, this issue is also of concern.
APPROACH. This is a descriptive discussion paper designed to portray the cros... Read More about Early labour midwifery care in Italy: local and cross-cultural challenges.

A boundary integral formalism for stochastic ray tracing in billiards (2014)
Journal Article
Chappell, D., & Tanner, G. (in press). A boundary integral formalism for stochastic ray tracing in billiards. Chaos, 24, Article 043137. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4903064

Determining the flow of rays or non-interacting particles driven by a force or velocity field is fundamental to modelling many physical processes. These include particle flows arising in fluid mechanics and ray flows arising in the geometrical optics... Read More about A boundary integral formalism for stochastic ray tracing in billiards.

Three dimensional (3D) flexible graphene foam/polypyrrole composite: towards highly efficient supercapacitors (2014)
Journal Article
Chabi, S., Peng, C., Yang, Z., Xia, Y., & Zhu, Y. (2014). Three dimensional (3D) flexible graphene foam/polypyrrole composite: towards highly efficient supercapacitors. RSC Advances, 5(6), https://doi.org/10.1039/c4ra13743d

Polypyrrole (PPY) functionalized 3 dimensional (3D) graphene foam (GF) with remarkable electrochemical performance has been synthesized in this work. The resulting 3D PPY–GF electrode is free standing and hence was used directly as a working electrod... Read More about Three dimensional (3D) flexible graphene foam/polypyrrole composite: towards highly efficient supercapacitors.

Prefrontal Control over Motor Cortex Cycles at Beta Frequency during Movement Inhibition (2014)
Journal Article
Picazio, S., Veniero, D., Ponzo, V., Caltagirone, C., Gross, J., Thut, G., & Koch, G. (2014). Prefrontal Control over Motor Cortex Cycles at Beta Frequency during Movement Inhibition. Current Biology, 24(24), 2940-2945. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2014.10.043

A fully adapted behavior requires maximum efficiency to inhibit processes in the motor domain [1]. Although a number of cortical and subcortical brain regions have been implicated, converging evidence suggests that activation of right inferior fronta... Read More about Prefrontal Control over Motor Cortex Cycles at Beta Frequency during Movement Inhibition.

Review article: Artificial inoculum and inoculation techniques commonly used in the investigation of Fusarium head blight in cereals (2014)
Journal Article
Imathiu, S., Edwards, S., Ray, R., & Back, M. (2014). Review article: Artificial inoculum and inoculation techniques commonly used in the investigation of Fusarium head blight in cereals. Acta Phytopathologica et Entomologica Hungarica, 49(2), 129-139. https://doi.org/10.1556/APhyt.49.2014.2.1

© 2014 Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest. Fusarium head blight (FHB) is a disease of small-grain cereals that has a proven negative impact on crop yield, quality and food safety. In this regard, it is one of the most studied diseases of small-grain cereals w... Read More about Review article: Artificial inoculum and inoculation techniques commonly used in the investigation of Fusarium head blight in cereals.

The importance of alternative host plants as reservoirs of the cotton leaf hopper, Amrasca devastans, and its natural enemies (2014)
Journal Article
Saeed, R., Razaq, M., & Hardy, I. C. (2015). The importance of alternative host plants as reservoirs of the cotton leaf hopper, Amrasca devastans, and its natural enemies. Journal of Pest Science, 88(3), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10340-014-0638-7

Many agricultural pests can be harboured by alternative host plants but these can also harbour the pests’ natural enemies. We evaluated the capacity of non-cotton plant species (both naturally growing and cultivated) to function as alternative hosts... Read More about The importance of alternative host plants as reservoirs of the cotton leaf hopper, Amrasca devastans, and its natural enemies.

Elicitation of strategies in four variants of a round-robin tournament: the case of Goofspiel (2014)
Journal Article
Dror, M., Kendall, G., & Rapoport, A. (2016). Elicitation of strategies in four variants of a round-robin tournament: the case of Goofspiel. IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games, 8(3), https://doi.org/10.1109/TCIAIG.2014.2377250

Goofspiel is a simple two-person zero-sum game for which there exist no known equilibrium strategies. To gain insight into what constitute winning strategies, we conducted a round-robin tournament in which participants were asked to provide computeri... Read More about Elicitation of strategies in four variants of a round-robin tournament: the case of Goofspiel.

Modelling the degradation of vibration characteristics of reinforced concrete beams due to flexural damage (2014)
Journal Article
Hamad, W., Owen, J., & Hussein, M. (2015). Modelling the degradation of vibration characteristics of reinforced concrete beams due to flexural damage. Structural Control and Health Monitoring, 22(6), https://doi.org/10.1002/stc.1726

This paper presents an improved crack model incorporating non-linearity of flexural damage in concrete to reproduce changes in vibration properties of cracked reinforced concrete beams. A reinforced concrete beam model with multiple-distributed flexu... Read More about Modelling the degradation of vibration characteristics of reinforced concrete beams due to flexural damage.

Communicating employability: the role of communicative competence for Zimbabwean highly skilled migrants in the UK (2014)
Journal Article
Madziva, R., McGrath, S., & Thondhlana, J. (2014). Communicating employability: the role of communicative competence for Zimbabwean highly skilled migrants in the UK. Journal of International Migration and Integration, 17(1), https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-014-0403-z

Skilled migration is an increasingly important topic for both policy and research internationally. OECD governments in particular are wrestling with tensions between their desire to use skilled migration to be on the winning side in the ‘global war f... Read More about Communicating employability: the role of communicative competence for Zimbabwean highly skilled migrants in the UK.

The merchant (2014)
Book Chapter
Goddard, R. (2014). The merchant. In S. Rigby, & A. Minnis (Eds.), Historians on Chaucer : the General prologue to the Canterbury tales. Oxford University Press

How communication approaches impact mergers and acquisitions outcomes (2014)
Journal Article
Angwin, D., Mellahi, K., Gomes, E., & Peter, E. (2016). How communication approaches impact mergers and acquisitions outcomes. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 27(20), 2370-2397. https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2014.985330

Communication is generally viewed as a critical component in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) performance, yet surprisingly little research has examined the link between different communication approaches and M&A outcomes. This paper provides a systema... Read More about How communication approaches impact mergers and acquisitions outcomes.

Engagement in Motion: Exploring Short Term Dynamics in Page-Level Social Media Metrics (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lucas, B., Arefin, A. S., Vries, N. J. D., Berretta, R., Carlson, J., & Moscato, P. (2015). Engagement in Motion: Exploring Short Term Dynamics in Page-Level Social Media Metrics. In 2014 IEEE Fourth International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing. https://doi.org/10.1109/bdcloud.2014.56

Using page-level metrics of a randomly selected group of 15,625 among the top 100,000 Facebook check-in locations which rank high in terms of customer engagement, we explore if the short-term dynamical information on these metrics could deliver, via... Read More about Engagement in Motion: Exploring Short Term Dynamics in Page-Level Social Media Metrics.

Inclusion of KI67 significantly improves performance of the PREDICT prognostication and prediction model for early breast cancer (2014)
Journal Article
Wishart, G. C., Rakha, E., Green, A., Ellis, I., Ali, H. R., Provenzano, E., …Pharoah, P. D. (2014). Inclusion of KI67 significantly improves performance of the PREDICT prognostication and prediction model for early breast cancer. BMC Cancer, 14(1), Article 908. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-14-908

Background

PREDICT (http://www.predict.nhs.uk) is a prognostication and treatment benefit tool for early breast cancer (EBC). The aim of this study was to incorporate the prognostic effect of KI67 status in a new version (v3), and compare performa... Read More about Inclusion of KI67 significantly improves performance of the PREDICT prognostication and prediction model for early breast cancer.

Duality-based two-level error estimation for time-dependent PDEs: application to linear and nonlinear parabolic equations (2014)
Journal Article
Şimşek, G., Wu, X., van der Zee, K., & van Brummelen, E. (2015). Duality-based two-level error estimation for time-dependent PDEs: application to linear and nonlinear parabolic equations. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 288, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2014.11.019

We introduce a duality-based two-level error estimator for linear and nonlinear time-dependent problems. The error measure can be a space-time norm, energy norm, final-time error or other error related functional. The general methodology is developed... Read More about Duality-based two-level error estimation for time-dependent PDEs: application to linear and nonlinear parabolic equations.

Relationship between tinnitus pitch and edge of hearing loss in individuals with a narrow tinnitus bandwidth (2014)
Journal Article
Sereda, M., Edmondson-Jones, M., & Hall, D. A. (2015). Relationship between tinnitus pitch and edge of hearing loss in individuals with a narrow tinnitus bandwidth. International Journal of Audiology, 54(4), 249-256. https://doi.org/10.3109/14992027.2014.979373

Objective: Psychoacoustic measures of tinnitus, in particular dominant tinnitus pitch and its relationship to the shape of the audiogram, are important in determining and verifying pathophysiological mechanisms of the condition. Our previous study po... Read More about Relationship between tinnitus pitch and edge of hearing loss in individuals with a narrow tinnitus bandwidth.