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Reading Dickens’s characters: employing psycholinguistic methods to investigate the cognitive reality of patterns in texts (2014)
Journal Article
Mahlberg, M., Conklin, K., & Bisson, M.-J. (2014). Reading Dickens’s characters: employing psycholinguistic methods to investigate the cognitive reality of patterns in texts. Language and Literature, 23(4), https://doi.org/10.1177/0963947014543887

This article reports the findings of an empirical study that uses eye-tracking and follow-up interviews as methods to investigate how participants read body language clusters in novels by Charles Dickens. The study builds on previous corpus stylistic... Read More about Reading Dickens’s characters: employing psycholinguistic methods to investigate the cognitive reality of patterns in texts.

A learning-guided multi-objective evolutionary algorithm for constrained portfolio optimization (2014)
Journal Article
Lwin, K., Qu, R., & Kendall, G. (2014). A learning-guided multi-objective evolutionary algorithm for constrained portfolio optimization. Applied Soft Computing, 24, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asoc.2014.08.026

Portfolio optimization involves the optimal assignment of limited capital to different available financial assets to achieve a reasonable trade-off between profit and risk objectives. In this paper, we studied the extended Markowitz's mean-variance p... Read More about A learning-guided multi-objective evolutionary algorithm for constrained portfolio optimization.

Muslim-Christian relations and peacemaking in the Arab World (2014)
Book Chapter
Hoover, J. (2014). Muslim-Christian relations and peacemaking in the Arab World. In R. R. King, & S.-L. Tan (Eds.), (un)Common sounds: songs of peace and reconciliation among Muslims and Christians. Cascade Books (Wipf and Stock Publishers)

Goal-oriented adaptive composite discontinuous Galerkin methods for incompressible flows (2014)
Journal Article
Giani, S., & Houston, P. (2014). Goal-oriented adaptive composite discontinuous Galerkin methods for incompressible flows. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 270, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cam.2014.03.007

In this article we consider the application of goal-oriented mesh adaptation to problems posed on complicated domains which may contain a huge number of local geometrical features, or micro-structures. Here, we exploit the composite variant of the di... Read More about Goal-oriented adaptive composite discontinuous Galerkin methods for incompressible flows.

Effects of compositions of filler, binder and porosity on elastic and fracture properties of nuclear graphite (2014)
Journal Article
Kyaw, S. T., Sun, W., & Becker, A. A. (2015). Effects of compositions of filler, binder and porosity on elastic and fracture properties of nuclear graphite. Journal of Nuclear Materials, 457, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnucmat.2014.10.071

Physical mechanisms at different length scales have to be taken into account while predicting the overall failure of nuclear graphite structures of advanced gas cooled graphite reactors. In this paper, the effect of composition of meso graphite phase... Read More about Effects of compositions of filler, binder and porosity on elastic and fracture properties of nuclear graphite.

Through-thickness permeability study of orthogonal and angle-interlock woven fabrics (2014)
Journal Article
Xiao, X., Endruweit, A., Zeng, X., Hu, J., & Long, A. C. (2015). Through-thickness permeability study of orthogonal and angle-interlock woven fabrics. Journal of Materials Science, 50(3), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-014-8683-4

Three-dimensional (3D) woven textiles, including orthogonal and angle-interlock woven fabrics, exhibit high inter-laminar strength in addition to good in-plane mechanical properties and are particularly suitable for lightweight structural application... Read More about Through-thickness permeability study of orthogonal and angle-interlock woven fabrics.

Spelling errors and keywords in born-digital data: a case study using the Teenage Health Freak Corpus (2014)
Journal Article
Smith, C., Adolphs, S., Harvey, K., & Mullany, L. (2014). Spelling errors and keywords in born-digital data: a case study using the Teenage Health Freak Corpus. Corpora, 9(2), https://doi.org/10.3366/cor.2014.0055

The abundance of language data that is now available in digital form, and the rise of distinct language varieties that are used for digital communication, means that issues of non-standard spellings and spelling errors are, in future, likely to becom... Read More about Spelling errors and keywords in born-digital data: a case study using the Teenage Health Freak Corpus.

Lianas in gaps reduce carbon accumulation in a tropical forest (2014)
Journal Article
Schnitzer, S. A., van der Heijden, G., Mascaro, J., & Carson, W. P. (2014). Lianas in gaps reduce carbon accumulation in a tropical forest. Ecology, 95(11), https://doi.org/10.1890/13-1718.1

Treefall gaps are the “engines of regeneration” in tropical forests and are loci of high tree recruitment, growth, and carbon accumulation. Gaps, however, are also sites of intense competition between lianas and trees, whereby lianas can dramatically... Read More about Lianas in gaps reduce carbon accumulation in a tropical forest.

Microwave processing of oil sands and contribution of clay minerals (2014)
Journal Article
Robinson, J. P., Binner, E., Saeid, A., Al-Harahsheh, M., & Kingman, S. (2014). Microwave processing of oil sands and contribution of clay minerals. Fuel, 135, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2014.06.057

This study establishes the feasibility of microwave heating for extracting oil from Oil Sands in ex-situ processes. Previous studies in this area have shown some potential, but have not characterised the dielectric properties of the Oil Sands used, n... Read More about Microwave processing of oil sands and contribution of clay minerals.

A Tale of Five Bridges; the use of GNSS for Monitoring the Deflections of Bridges (2014)
Journal Article
Roberts, G. W., Brown, C. J., Tang, X., Meng, X., & Ogundipe, O. (2014). A Tale of Five Bridges; the use of GNSS for Monitoring the Deflections of Bridges. Journal of Applied Geodesy, 8(4), https://doi.org/10.1515/jag-2014-0013

The first Bridge Monitoring surveying was carried out in 1996 by the authors, through attaching Ashtech ZXII GPS receivers onto the Humber Bridge’ parapet, and gathering and further analysing the resulting 1 Hz RTK GPS data. Various surveys have subs... Read More about A Tale of Five Bridges; the use of GNSS for Monitoring the Deflections of Bridges.

Long-period surface motion of the multi-patch Mw9.0 Tohoku-Oki earthquake (2014)
Journal Article
Psimoulis, P., Houlie, N., Michel, C., Meindl, M., & Rothacher, M. (2014). Long-period surface motion of the multi-patch Mw9.0 Tohoku-Oki earthquake. Geophysical Journal International, 199(2), https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggu302

We show that it is possible to capture the oscillatory ground motion induced by the Tohoku-Oki event for periods ranging from 3 to 100s using Precise Point Positioning (PPP). We find that the ground motions of the sedimentary basins of Japan were lar... Read More about Long-period surface motion of the multi-patch Mw9.0 Tohoku-Oki earthquake.

Vocational rehabilitation following traumatic brain injury: what is the evidence for clinical practice? (2014)
Journal Article
Phillips, J., & Radford, K. A. (2014). Vocational rehabilitation following traumatic brain injury: what is the evidence for clinical practice?. Advances in Clinical Neuroscience and Rehabilitation, 14(5),

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) typically affects young adults with potentially many years of working life ahead of them. For people who were in work prior to their injury, return to work (RTW) is a common goal. However, a systematic review of RTW rat... Read More about Vocational rehabilitation following traumatic brain injury: what is the evidence for clinical practice?.

Assessment of availability of visual inspection with acetic –acid (VIA) requirements for cervical cancer screening in secondary health care institutions of Kaduna State, Nigeria (2014)
Journal Article
Musa, U., Balarabe, F., Chado, M. A., & Ladan, M. A. (2014). Assessment of availability of visual inspection with acetic –acid (VIA) requirements for cervical cancer screening in secondary health care institutions of Kaduna State, Nigeria. https://doi.org/10.9790/0853-131125762

The study determined the availability of visual inspection with acetic-acid requirements for cervical cancer screening in secondary health care institutions of Kaduna state. A cross-sectional descriptive survey was used for the study. The study popul... Read More about Assessment of availability of visual inspection with acetic –acid (VIA) requirements for cervical cancer screening in secondary health care institutions of Kaduna State, Nigeria.

Approximation for the conditional distribution of the MLE with application to autoregression (2014)
Journal Article
Marsh, P. (in press). Approximation for the conditional distribution of the MLE with application to autoregression. Advances and applications in statistics, 42(1),

The famous p* formula provides a higher-order approximation for the conditional distribution of the maximum likelihood estimator given an exact ancillary. By collating well known existing results including application of a formal higher-order expansi... Read More about Approximation for the conditional distribution of the MLE with application to autoregression.

Common reasoning in games: a Lewisian analysis of common knowledge of rationality (2014)
Journal Article
Cubitt, R. P., & Sugden, R. (2014). Common reasoning in games: a Lewisian analysis of common knowledge of rationality. Economics and Philosophy, 30(3), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266267114000339

Abstract: We present a new class of models of players’ reasoning in non-cooperative games, inspired by David Lewis’s account of common knowledge. We argue that the models in this class formalise common knowledge of rationality in a way that is dis... Read More about Common reasoning in games: a Lewisian analysis of common knowledge of rationality.

Perspectives on regular and support class placement and factors that contribute to success of inclusion for children with ASD (2014)
Journal Article
Carter, M., Stephenson, J., Clark, T., Costley, D., Martin, J., Williams, K., …Bruck, S. (2014). Perspectives on regular and support class placement and factors that contribute to success of inclusion for children with ASD. Journal of International Special Needs Education, 17(2), https://doi.org/10.9782/2159-4341-17.2.60

For young children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in regular schools, ASD specific service delivery options include regular class placement with itinerant consultative support and support class placement. This study provided an examination of le... Read More about Perspectives on regular and support class placement and factors that contribute to success of inclusion for children with ASD.

First for stroke: using the Microsoft ‘Kinect’ as a facial paralysis stroke rehabilitation tool (2014)
Journal Article
Breedon, P., Russell, A., Logan, P., Newell, O., O’Brien, B., Edmans, J., …Hall, P. (2014). First for stroke: using the Microsoft ‘Kinect’ as a facial paralysis stroke rehabilitation tool. International Journal of Integrated Care, 14(8), https://doi.org/10.5334/ijic.1760

There are around 152,000 incidents of stroke each year in the UK, with 16% of cases having long lasting facial weakness. Most strokes occur after 65 years of age and with people living longer the number of sufferers will continue to increase, making... Read More about First for stroke: using the Microsoft ‘Kinect’ as a facial paralysis stroke rehabilitation tool.

Rotavirus infection in children with acute gastroenteritis in Iran: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2014)
Journal Article
Moradi-Lakeh, M., Shakerian, S., Yaghoubi, M., Esteghamati, A., Shokraneh, F., Baradaran, H. R., & Ghanaee, R. M. (2014). Rotavirus infection in children with acute gastroenteritis in Iran: A systematic review and meta-analysis. International Journal of Preventive Medicine, 5(10), 1213-1223

© 2014, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences(IUMS). All rights reserved. Background: The recent studies show that Rotavirus is important cause of the acute gastroenteritis. The aim of this review is to estimate the number of Rotavirus infection amo... Read More about Rotavirus infection in children with acute gastroenteritis in Iran: A systematic review and meta-analysis.