All Outputs (3102)

Generation of virtual asphalt mixture porosity for computational modelling (2015)
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Chiarelli, A., Dawson, A., & Garcia, A. (2015). Generation of virtual asphalt mixture porosity for computational modelling. Powder Technology, 275, 351-360. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.powtec.2015.01.070

A new algorithm is proposed for the computational generation of realistic asphalt mixture porosity for computational simulations. The algorithm starts by generating in a 2D domain a number of randomly positioned circular or elliptical elements that a... Read More about Generation of virtual asphalt mixture porosity for computational modelling.

Green supply chain collaboration and incentives: current trends and future directions (2015)
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Gunasekaran, A., Subramanian, N., & Rahman, S. (in press). Green supply chain collaboration and incentives: current trends and future directions. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 74, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2015.01.002

This editorial piece discusses the current trends and future research directions in green supply chain collaboration and incentives. The discussion begins with evolution of green supply chain collaborations and few contributions made so far. The edit... Read More about Green supply chain collaboration and incentives: current trends and future directions.

Finite element modelling of the inertia friction welding of a CrMoV alloy steel including the effects of solid-state phase transformations (2015)
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Bennett, C. (in press). Finite element modelling of the inertia friction welding of a CrMoV alloy steel including the effects of solid-state phase transformations. Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 18, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmapro.2015.01.003

Finite element (FE) process modelling of the inertia friction welding (IFW) between two tubular CrMoV components has been carried out using the DEFORM-2D (v10.2) software. This model has been validated against experimental test welds of the material;... Read More about Finite element modelling of the inertia friction welding of a CrMoV alloy steel including the effects of solid-state phase transformations.

Electrochemical preparation of fine powders of nickel-boron alloys in molten chlorides for magnetic hydrogenation catalysts (2015)
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Peng, J., He, R., Tan, M., Dou, Y., Wang, Z., Chen, G. Z., & Jin, X. (2015). Electrochemical preparation of fine powders of nickel-boron alloys in molten chlorides for magnetic hydrogenation catalysts. Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 162(4), H271-H277. https://doi.org/10.1149/2.0871504jes

© The Author(s) 2015. Fine powders of magnetic nickel-boron alloys were prepared for the first time by direct electrochemical reduction of the 2Ni3(BO3)2/B2O3, Ni3(BO3)2/NiO and Ni3(BO3)2/3NiO composite precursors in molten CaCl2-NaCl at 700°C. Precu... Read More about Electrochemical preparation of fine powders of nickel-boron alloys in molten chlorides for magnetic hydrogenation catalysts.

Superconducting circuit boundary conditions beyond the dynamical Casimir effect (2015)
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Doukas, J., & Louko, J. (2015). Superconducting circuit boundary conditions beyond the dynamical Casimir effect. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 91(4), Article 044010. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.91.044010

© 2015 American Physical Society. We study analytically the time-dependent boundary conditions of superconducting microwave circuit experiments in the high plasma frequency limit, in which the conditions are Robin-type and relate the value of the fie... Read More about Superconducting circuit boundary conditions beyond the dynamical Casimir effect.

Multipole moments in scalar-tensor theory of gravity (2015)
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Pappas, G., & Sotiriou, T. P. (2015). Multipole moments in scalar-tensor theory of gravity. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 91, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.91.044011

Stationary, asymptotically flat spacetimes in general relativity can be characterized by their multipole moments. The moments have proved to be very useful tools for extracting information about the spacetime from various observables and, more recent... Read More about Multipole moments in scalar-tensor theory of gravity.

TElehealth in CHronic disease: mixed-methods study to develop the TECH conceptual model for intervention design and evaluation (2015)
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Salisbury, C., Thomas, C., O'Cathain, A., Rogers, A. E., Pope, C., Yardley, L., …Montgomery, A. A. (in press). TElehealth in CHronic disease: mixed-methods study to develop the TECH conceptual model for intervention design and evaluation. BMJ Open, 5(2), Article e006448. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2014-006448

Objective
To develop a conceptual model for effective use of telehealth in the management of chronic health conditions, and to use this to develop and evaluate an intervention for people with two exemplar conditions: raised cardiovascular disease r... Read More about TElehealth in CHronic disease: mixed-methods study to develop the TECH conceptual model for intervention design and evaluation.

Enhanced waterlogging tolerance in barley by manipulation of expression of the N-end rule pathway E3 ligase PROTEOLYSIS6 (2015)
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Mendiondo, G. M., Gibbs, D. J., Szurman-Zubrzycka, M., Korn, A., Marquez, J., Szarejko, I., …Holdsworth, M. J. (2016). Enhanced waterlogging tolerance in barley by manipulation of expression of the N-end rule pathway E3 ligase PROTEOLYSIS6. Plant Biotechnology Journal, 14(1), 40-50. https://doi.org/10.1111/pbi.12334

© 2016 Society for Experimental Biology, Association of Applied Biologists and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Increased tolerance of crops to low oxygen (hypoxia) during flooding is a key target for food security. In Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh., the N... Read More about Enhanced waterlogging tolerance in barley by manipulation of expression of the N-end rule pathway E3 ligase PROTEOLYSIS6.

Multivariate ToF-SIMS image analysis of polymer microarrays and protein adsorption (2015)
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Hook, A. L., Williams, P. M., Alexander, M. R., & Scurr, D. J. (2015). Multivariate ToF-SIMS image analysis of polymer microarrays and protein adsorption. Biointerphases, 10, Article 019005. https://doi.org/10.1116/1.4906484

The complexity of hyperspectral time of flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (ToF-SIMS) datasets makes their subsequent analysis and interpretation challenging, and is often an impasse to the identification of trends and differences within large sa... Read More about Multivariate ToF-SIMS image analysis of polymer microarrays and protein adsorption.

Beer and wine consumption and risk of knee or hip osteoarthritis: a case control study (2015)
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Muthuri, S. G., Zhang, W., Maciewicz, R. A., Muir, K., & Doherty, M. (2015). Beer and wine consumption and risk of knee or hip osteoarthritis: a case control study. Arthritis Research and Therapy, 17(1), 23. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13075-015-0534-4

© 2015 Muthuri et al.; licensee BioMed Central. Introduction: The aim of this study was to investigate the association between alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages and knee or hip osteoarthritis (OA). Methods: We conducted a case-control study of Ca... Read More about Beer and wine consumption and risk of knee or hip osteoarthritis: a case control study.

Coherent phonon optics in a chip with an electrically controlled active device (2015)
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Phonon optics concerns operations with high-frequency acoustic waves in solid media in a similar way to how traditional optics operates with the light beams (i.e. photons). Phonon optics experiments with coherent terahertz and sub-terahertz phonons p... Read More about Coherent phonon optics in a chip with an electrically controlled active device.

Engineering Ultra Long Charge Carrier Lifetimes in Organic Electronic Devices at Room Temperature (2015)
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Gao, Y., Mackenzie, R., Liu, Y., Xu, B., Van Loosdrecht, P. H., & Tian, W. (2015). Engineering Ultra Long Charge Carrier Lifetimes in Organic Electronic Devices at Room Temperature. Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2(4), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.201400555

© 2015 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim. An one hour long charge carrier lifetime in a plastic electronic device at room temperature is observed. This lifetime is over four orders of magnitude longer than previously reported. This result... Read More about Engineering Ultra Long Charge Carrier Lifetimes in Organic Electronic Devices at Room Temperature.

The sequential continuous-flow hydrothermal synthesis of molybdenum disulphide (2015)
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Molybdenum disulphide (MoS2) has been widely used as a catalyst and high temperature lubricant. It has been heavily researched recently as a graphene analogue and member of the so-called inorganic fullerenes. Here we report the first continuous flow... Read More about The sequential continuous-flow hydrothermal synthesis of molybdenum disulphide.

An occupational therapy intervention for residents with stroke related disabilities in UK care homes (OTCH): cluster randomised controlled trial (2015)
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Sackley, C. M., Walker, M. F., Burton, C. R., Watkins, C. L., Mant, J., Roalfe, A. K., …Peryer, G. (2015). An occupational therapy intervention for residents with stroke related disabilities in UK care homes (OTCH): cluster randomised controlled trial. BMJ, 350(feb05), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.h468

Objective: To evaluate the clinical efficacy of an established programme of occupational therapy in maintaining functional activity and reducing further health risks from inactivity in care home residents living with stroke sequelae.
Design: Pragmat... Read More about An occupational therapy intervention for residents with stroke related disabilities in UK care homes (OTCH): cluster randomised controlled trial.

Triaging informative cis-regulatory elements for the combinatorial control of temporal gene expression during Plasmodium falciparum intraerythrocytic development (2015)
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Russell, K., Emes, R. D., & Horrocks, P. (2015). Triaging informative cis-regulatory elements for the combinatorial control of temporal gene expression during Plasmodium falciparum intraerythrocytic development. Parasites and Vectors, 8(81), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-015-0701-0

Background: Over 2700 genes are subject to stage-specific regulation during the intraerythrocytic development of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. Bioinformatic analyses have identified a large number of over-represented motifs in the... Read More about Triaging informative cis-regulatory elements for the combinatorial control of temporal gene expression during Plasmodium falciparum intraerythrocytic development.

Far-infrared observations of an unbiased sample of gamma-ray burst host galaxies (2015)
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Kohn, S., Micha owski, M., Bourne, N., Baes, M., Fritz, J., Cooray, A., de Looze, I., De Zotti, G., Dannerbauer, H., Dunne, L., Dye, S., Eales, S., Furlanetto, C., Gonzalez-Nuevo, J., Ibar, E., Ivison, R., Maddox, S., Scott, D., Smith, D., Smith, M., …Valiante, E. (2015). Far-infrared observations of an unbiased sample of gamma-ray burst host galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 448(2), https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv088

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most energetic phenomena in the Universe; believed to result from the collapse and subsequent explosion of massive stars. Even though it has profound consequences for our understanding of their nature and selection bia... Read More about Far-infrared observations of an unbiased sample of gamma-ray burst host galaxies.

The contribution of PA-X to the virulence of pandemic 2009 H1N1 and highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza viruses (2015)
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Gao, H., Sun, Y., Hu, J., Qi, L., Wang, J., Xiong, X., …Liu, J. (in press). The contribution of PA-X to the virulence of pandemic 2009 H1N1 and highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza viruses. Scientific Reports, 5(1), https://doi.org/10.1038/srep08262

PA-X is a novel protein encoded by PA mRNA and is found to decrease the pathogenicity of pandemic 1918 H1N1 virus in mice. However, the importance of PA-X proteins in current epidemiologically important influenza A virus strains is not known. In this... Read More about The contribution of PA-X to the virulence of pandemic 2009 H1N1 and highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza viruses.

Hydrogen storage properties for Mg–Zn–Y quasicrystal and ternary alloys (2015)
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Luo, X., Grant, D. M., & Walker, G. S. (2015). Hydrogen storage properties for Mg–Zn–Y quasicrystal and ternary alloys. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 645, S23-S26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2015.01.266

Three Zn–Mg–Y alloys with nominal compositions of Zn50Mg42Y8 and Zn60Mg30Y10 were prepared by induction melting or gas atomisation. XRD and SEM analysis shows samples ZMY-1 and ZMY-2 consisted of multiple phases including icosahedral quasicrystal (QC... Read More about Hydrogen storage properties for Mg–Zn–Y quasicrystal and ternary alloys.

“In reality, it is complex and difficult”: UK nurses' perspectives on “treatment as prevention” within HIV care (2015)
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Evans, C., Bennett, J., Croston, M., Brito-Ault, N., & Bruton, J. (2015). “In reality, it is complex and difficult”: UK nurses' perspectives on “treatment as prevention” within HIV care. AIDS Care, 27(6), 753-757. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540121.2014.1002826

The effectiveness of Narrative Exposure Therapy with traumatised firefighters in Saudi Arabia: a randomized controlled study (2015)
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Firefighters are exposed to many traumatic events. The psychological costs of this exposure increase the risk of Post-Traumatic Stress disorder (PTSD), depression and anxiety. This study examined the effectiveness of Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET)... Read More about The effectiveness of Narrative Exposure Therapy with traumatised firefighters in Saudi Arabia: a randomized controlled study.