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Mechanical Property Characterization of Aligned Plant Yarn Reinforced Thermoset Matrix Composites Manufactured via Vacuum Infusion (2014)
Journal Article
Shah, D. U., Schubel, P. J., Clifford, M. J., & Licence, P. (2014). Mechanical Property Characterization of Aligned Plant Yarn Reinforced Thermoset Matrix Composites Manufactured via Vacuum Infusion. Polymer-Plastics Technology and Engineering, 53(3), 239-253. https://doi.org/10.1080/03602559.2013.843710

This article evaluates the mechanical properties of vacuum-infused unidirectional plant fiber composites (PFRPs), composing of bast fiber yarns and thermoset matrices. PFRPs are found to have lower fiber volume fractions than E-glass composites (GFRP... Read More about Mechanical Property Characterization of Aligned Plant Yarn Reinforced Thermoset Matrix Composites Manufactured via Vacuum Infusion.

Amplification with hearing aids for patients with tinnitus and co-existing hearing loss (2014)
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Hoare, D. J., Edmondson-Jones, M., Sereda, M., Akeroyd, M. A., & Hall, D. (2014). Amplification with hearing aids for patients with tinnitus and co-existing hearing loss. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 1, doi:10.1002/14651858.CD010151.pub2

Modification and preliminary use of the five-minute speech sample in the postpartum: associations with postnatal depression and posttraumatic stress (2014)
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Iles, J., Spiby, H., & Slade, P. (2014). Modification and preliminary use of the five-minute speech sample in the postpartum: associations with postnatal depression and posttraumatic stress. Archives of Women's Mental Health, 17(5), 389-402. doi:10.1007/s00737-014-0414-y

Politics of matter: justice and organisation in technoscience (2014)
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Papadopoulos, D. (2014). Politics of matter: justice and organisation in technoscience. Social Epistemology, 28(1), (70-85). doi:10.1080/02691728.2013.862878. ISSN 0269-1728

The technoscientific capacity to manipulate and remake the material substance of being is at the core of an expanding ontological imaginary that permeates culture in Global North societies. What are the political implications of this imaginary? What... Read More about Politics of matter: justice and organisation in technoscience.

Reflexivity as situated problem-solving: A pragmatist alternative to general theory (2014)
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Holmwood, J. (2014). Reflexivity as situated problem-solving: A pragmatist alternative to general theory. Sociologica, 2014(1), https://doi.org/10.2383/77051

Recent developments in sociological theory have addressed the linkage between structure and agency via a conception of reflexivity and the agent’s internal conversation as a means of understanding the (variable) contribution that the self and its pow... Read More about Reflexivity as situated problem-solving: A pragmatist alternative to general theory.

How does it really feel to be in my shoes? Patients' experiences of compassion within nursing care and their perceptions of developing compassionate nurses (2014)
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Bramley, L., & Matiti, M. (2014). How does it really feel to be in my shoes? Patients' experiences of compassion within nursing care and their perceptions of developing compassionate nurses. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 23(19-20), 2790-2799. https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.12537

Aims and objectives To understand how patients experience compassion within nursing care and explore their perceptions of developing compassionate nurses. Background Compassion is a fundamental part of nursing care. Individually, nurses have a d... Read More about How does it really feel to be in my shoes? Patients' experiences of compassion within nursing care and their perceptions of developing compassionate nurses.

“By ones and twos and tens”: pedagogies of possibility for democratizing higher education (2014)
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Amsler, S. (in press). “By ones and twos and tens”: pedagogies of possibility for democratizing higher education. Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 22(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/14681366.2013.852614

This paper concerns the relationship between teaching and political action both within and outside formal educational institutions. Its setting is the recent period following the 2010 Browne Review on the funding of higher education in England. Rathe... Read More about “By ones and twos and tens”: pedagogies of possibility for democratizing higher education.

Differential Effects of FODMAPs (Fermentable Oligo-, Di-, Mono-Saccharides and Polyols) on Small and Large Intestinal Contents in Healthy Subjects Shown by MRI (2014)
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Murray, K., Wilkinson-Smith, V., Hoad, C., Costigan, C., Cox, E., Lam, C., …Spiller, R. C. (2014). Differential Effects of FODMAPs (Fermentable Oligo-, Di-, Mono-Saccharides and Polyols) on Small and Large Intestinal Contents in Healthy Subjects Shown by MRI. American Journal of Gastroenterology, 109(1), 110-119. https://doi.org/10.1038/ajg.2013.386

OBJECTIVES:The objective of this study was to investigate whether ingestion of fructose and fructans (such as inulin) can exacerbate irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) symptoms. The aim was to better understand the origin of these symptoms by magnetic re... Read More about Differential Effects of FODMAPs (Fermentable Oligo-, Di-, Mono-Saccharides and Polyols) on Small and Large Intestinal Contents in Healthy Subjects Shown by MRI.

The European Neighbourhood Policy and the Democratic Values of the EU: A Legal Analysis (2014)
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GHAZARYAN, N. (2014). The European Neighbourhood Policy and the Democratic Values of the EU: A Legal Analysis. Oxford: Hart Publishing

This book offers a legal analysis of the European Neighbourhood Policy (the ENP) as it applies to developing relations with the EU's neighbours. It explores the legal aspects of this policy, including ENP competence matters, institutional arrangement... Read More about The European Neighbourhood Policy and the Democratic Values of the EU: A Legal Analysis.

Dynamical energy analysis on mesh grids: a new tool for describing the vibro-acoustic response of complex mechanical structures (2014)
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Chappell, D. J., Loechel, D., Sondergaard, N., & Tanner, G. (2014). Dynamical energy analysis on mesh grids: a new tool for describing the vibro-acoustic response of complex mechanical structures. Wave Motion, 51(4), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wavemoti.2014.01.004

We present a new approach for modelling noise and vibration in complex mechanical structures in the mid-to-high frequency regime. It is based on a dynamical energy analysis (DEA) formulation which extends standard techniques such as statistical energ... Read More about Dynamical energy analysis on mesh grids: a new tool for describing the vibro-acoustic response of complex mechanical structures.

Probiotic edible films as a new strategy for developing functional bakery products: the case of pan bread (2014)
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Soukoulis, C., Yonekura, L., Gan, H. H., Behboudi-Jobbehdar, S., Parmenter, C., & Fisk, I. D. (2014). Probiotic edible films as a new strategy for developing functional bakery products: the case of pan bread. Food Hydrocolloids, 39, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodhyd.2014.01.023

In the present paper, a novel approach for the development of probiotic baked cereal products is presented. Probiotic pan bread constructed by the application of film forming solutions based either on individual hydrogels e.g. 1% w/w sodium alginate... Read More about Probiotic edible films as a new strategy for developing functional bakery products: the case of pan bread.

Health services changes: is a run-in period necessary before evaluation in randomised clinical trials? (2014)
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Rathod, T., Belcher, J., Montgomery, A. A., Salisbury, C., & Foster, N. (2014). Health services changes: is a run-in period necessary before evaluation in randomised clinical trials?. Trials, 15(41), https://doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-15-41

Background Most randomised clinical trials (RCTs) testing a new health service do not allow a run-in period of consolidation before evaluating the new approach. Consequently, health professionals involved may feel insufficiently familiar or confid... Read More about Health services changes: is a run-in period necessary before evaluation in randomised clinical trials?.

Including spatial distribution in a data-driven rainfall-runoff model to improve reservoir inflow forecasting in Taiwan (2014)
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Meng-Jung, T., Abrahart, R., Mount, N. J., & Chang, F. (2014). Including spatial distribution in a data-driven rainfall-runoff model to improve reservoir inflow forecasting in Taiwan. Hydrological Processes, 28(3), https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.9559

Multi-step ahead inflow forecasting has a critical role to play in reservoir operation and management in Taiwan during typhoons as statutory legislation requires a minimum of 3-hours warning to be issued before any reservoir releases are made. Howeve... Read More about Including spatial distribution in a data-driven rainfall-runoff model to improve reservoir inflow forecasting in Taiwan.

DC fault ride-through capability and STATCOM operation of a HVDC hybrid voltage source converter (2014)
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Feldman, R., Farr, E., Watson, A. J., Clare, J. C., & Wheeler, P. (2014). DC fault ride-through capability and STATCOM operation of a HVDC hybrid voltage source converter. IET Generation, Transmission and Distribution, 8(1), https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-gtd.2012.0713

HVDC transmission systems are becoming increasingly popular when compared to conventional AC transmission methods. HVDC voltage source converters (VSC) can offer advantages over traditional HVDC current source converter topologies; as such, it is exp... Read More about DC fault ride-through capability and STATCOM operation of a HVDC hybrid voltage source converter.

Multimodal Polymer Nanoparticles with Combined 19F Magnetic Resonance and Optical Detection for Tunable, Targeted, Multimodal Imaging in Vivo (2014)
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Rolfe, B. E., Blakey, I., Squires, O., Peng, H., Boase, N. R., Alexander, C., …Thurecht, K. J. (2014). Multimodal Polymer Nanoparticles with Combined 19F Magnetic Resonance and Optical Detection for Tunable, Targeted, Multimodal Imaging in Vivo. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 136(6), 2413-2419. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja410351h

Effects of collaboration scripts and heuristic worked examples on the acquisition of mathematical argumentation skills of teacher students with different levels of prior achievement (2014)
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Kollar, I., Ufer, S., Reichersdorfer, E., Vogel, F., Fischer, F., & Reiss, K. (2014). Effects of collaboration scripts and heuristic worked examples on the acquisition of mathematical argumentation skills of teacher students with different levels of prior achievement. Learning and Instruction, 32, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2014.01.003

A challenging demand for mathematics teacher students is to produce acceptable scientific mathematical argumentations. We investigated to what extent mathematics teacher students with different levels of prior achievement who collaborated in dyads ca... Read More about Effects of collaboration scripts and heuristic worked examples on the acquisition of mathematical argumentation skills of teacher students with different levels of prior achievement.

Application of RELUX simulation to investigate energy saving potential from daylighting in a new educational building in UK (2014)
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Yu, X., Su, Y., & Chen, X. (2014). Application of RELUX simulation to investigate energy saving potential from daylighting in a new educational building in UK. Energy and Buildings, 74, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2014.01.024

Daylighting is a renewable energy solution for illumination and visual comfort in buildings. Daylighting performance and its induced energy saving largely depends on various factors, including room geometry, window-to-wall ratio, window transmittance... Read More about Application of RELUX simulation to investigate energy saving potential from daylighting in a new educational building in UK.

Caspase-8-mediated PAR-4 cleavage is required for TNF?-induced apoptosis (2014)
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Treude, F., Kappes, F., Fahrenkamp, D., Müller-Newen, G., Dajas-Bailador, F., Krämer, O. H., …Hartkamp, J. (2014). Caspase-8-mediated PAR-4 cleavage is required for TNFα-induced apoptosis. Oncotarget, 5(10), https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.1634

The tumor suppressor protein prostate apoptosis response-4 (PAR-4) is silenced in a subset of human cancers and its down-regulation serves as a mechanism for cancer cell survival following chemotherapy. PAR-4 re-expression selectively causes apoptosi... Read More about Caspase-8-mediated PAR-4 cleavage is required for TNF?-induced apoptosis.

Aid and Government Fiscal Behavior: Assessing Recent Evidence (2014)
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Morrissey, O. (2015). Aid and Government Fiscal Behavior: Assessing Recent Evidence. World Development, 69, 98-105. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2013.12.008

This paper reviews evidence published in the last 10 years that has added to our understanding of the effects of aid on government spending and tax effort in recipient countries, with a discussion of when (general) budget support is a fiscally effici... Read More about Aid and Government Fiscal Behavior: Assessing Recent Evidence.

Effects of cyclic equibiaxial mechanical stretch on ?-BK and TRPV4 expression in equine chondrocytes (2014)
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Hdud, I. M., Mobasheri, A., & Loughna, P. (2014). Effects of cyclic equibiaxial mechanical stretch on ?-BK and TRPV4 expression in equine chondrocytes. SpringerPlus, 3, Article 59. https://doi.org/10.1186/2193-1801-3-59

Background Chondrocytes are regularly exposed to load-induced stimuli and have the capability to sense and respond to applied mechanical stress. However, the mechanisms involved in chondrocyte mechanotransduction are not clearly understood. The pu... Read More about Effects of cyclic equibiaxial mechanical stretch on ?-BK and TRPV4 expression in equine chondrocytes.