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The effect of normal aging and age-related macular degeneration on perceptual learning (2015)
Journal Article
Blighe, A. J., Astle, A. T., Webb, B. S., & McGraw, P. V. (2015). The effect of normal aging and age-related macular degeneration on perceptual learning. Journal of Vision, 15(10), 16. https://doi.org/10.1167/15.10.16

We investigated whether perceptual learning could be used to improve peripheral word identification speed. The relationship between the magnitude of learning and age was established in normal participants to determine whether perceptual learning effe... Read More about The effect of normal aging and age-related macular degeneration on perceptual learning.

A Novel Continuum Robot Using Twin-Pivot Compliant Joints: Design, Modeling, and Validation (2015)
Journal Article
Dong, X., Raffles, M., Cobos-Guzman, S., Axinte, D., & Kell, J. (2016). A Novel Continuum Robot Using Twin-Pivot Compliant Joints: Design, Modeling, and Validation. Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, 8(2), Article 021010. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4031340

A twisting problem is identified from the central located flexible backbone continuum robot. Regarding this problem, a design solution is required to mechanically minimize this twisting angle along the backbone. Further, the error caused by the kinem... Read More about A Novel Continuum Robot Using Twin-Pivot Compliant Joints: Design, Modeling, and Validation.

Imaging gray matter with concomitant null point imaging from the phase sensitive inversion recovery sequence (2015)
Journal Article
Mougin, O., Abdel-Fahim, R., Dineen, R., Pitiot, A., Evangelou, N., & Gowland, P. (2016). Imaging gray matter with concomitant null point imaging from the phase sensitive inversion recovery sequence. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 76(5), 1512-1516. https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.26061

Purpose

To present an improved three-dimensional (3D) interleaved phase sensitive inversion recovery (PSIR) sequence including a concomitantly acquired new contrast, null point imaging (NPI), to help detect and classify abnormalities in cortical g... Read More about Imaging gray matter with concomitant null point imaging from the phase sensitive inversion recovery sequence.

On the formation of AlSi10Mg single tracks and layers in selective laser melting: Microstructure and nano-mechanical properties (2015)
Journal Article
Aboulkhair, N. T., Maskery, I., Tuck, C., Ashcroft, I., & Everitt, N. M. (2016). On the formation of AlSi10Mg single tracks and layers in selective laser melting: Microstructure and nano-mechanical properties. Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 230, 88-98. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmatprotec.2015.11.016

Selective laser melting (SLM) is a relatively new manufacturing technique that can be used to process a range of materials. Aluminum alloys are potential candidates for SLM but are more difficult to process than the titanium alloys more commonly used... Read More about On the formation of AlSi10Mg single tracks and layers in selective laser melting: Microstructure and nano-mechanical properties.

The ANZUS Treaty during the Cold War: a reinterpretation of U.S. diplomacy in the Southwest Pacific (2015)
Journal Article
Robb, T. K., & Gill, D. J. (2015). The ANZUS Treaty during the Cold War: a reinterpretation of U.S. diplomacy in the Southwest Pacific. Journal of Cold War Studies, 17(4), https://doi.org/10.1162/JCWS_a_00599

This article explains the origins of the Australia–New Zealand–United States (ANZUS) Treaty by highlighting U.S. ambitions in the Pacific region after World War II. Three clarifications to the historiography merit attention. First, an alliance with A... Read More about The ANZUS Treaty during the Cold War: a reinterpretation of U.S. diplomacy in the Southwest Pacific.

Cognitive behaviour therapy for non-cardiac pain in the chest (COPIC): a multicentre randomized controlled trial with economic evaluation (2015)
Journal Article
Tyrer, P., Tyrer, H., Cooper, S., Barrett, B., Kings, S., Lazarevic, V., …Crawford, M. (2015). Cognitive behaviour therapy for non-cardiac pain in the chest (COPIC): a multicentre randomized controlled trial with economic evaluation. BMC Psychology, 3(41), https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-015-0099-7

Background

Most patients with chest pain have nothing wrong with their cardiac function. Psychological forms of treatment for this condition are more likely to be successful than others.

Methods/design

A two-arm parallel controlled randomize... Read More about Cognitive behaviour therapy for non-cardiac pain in the chest (COPIC): a multicentre randomized controlled trial with economic evaluation.

Impacts of dynamic interactions on the predicted thermal performance of earth–air heat exchangers for preheating, cooling and ventilation of buildings (2015)
Journal Article
Gan, G. (in press). Impacts of dynamic interactions on the predicted thermal performance of earth–air heat exchangers for preheating, cooling and ventilation of buildings. International Journal of Low-Carbon Technologies, Article ctv029. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijlct/ctv029

Earth–air tunnel ventilation is an energy efficient ventilation technique that makes use of relatively stable soil temperature in shallow ground for preheating and cooling of supply air to a building. During operation, an earth–air heat exchanger int... Read More about Impacts of dynamic interactions on the predicted thermal performance of earth–air heat exchangers for preheating, cooling and ventilation of buildings.

Picturing probation: exploring the utility of visual methods in comparative research (2015)
Journal Article
Carr, N., Bauwens, A., Bosker, J., Donker, A., Robinson, G., Sucic, I., & Worrall, A. (2015). Picturing probation: exploring the utility of visual methods in comparative research. European Journal of Probation, 7(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/2066220315617269

A previous review of research on the practice of offender supervision identified the predominant use of interview-based methodologies and limited use of other research approaches (Robinson and Svensson, 2013). It also found that most research has t... Read More about Picturing probation: exploring the utility of visual methods in comparative research.

Introducing the interaction approach for successful business relationships (2015)
Journal Article
Koporčić, N., Tolušić, Z., Strossmayer, J. J., Tolušić, Z., & Strossmayer, J. J. (2015). Introducing the interaction approach for successful business relationships. Ekonomski Vjesnik, 28(2), 523-533

Many countries in the world, including Croatia, are facing crises in their economies. There are numerous reasons for this situation, and problems of the business market present one of them. Nevertheless, successful business relationships are what kee... Read More about Introducing the interaction approach for successful business relationships.

Gendering the Settler State White Women, Race, Liberalism and Empire in Rhodesia, 1950-1980 (2015)
Book
LAW, K. (2015). Gendering the Settler State White Women, Race, Liberalism and Empire in Rhodesia, 1950-1980. New York: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

White women cut an ambivalent figure in the transnational history of the British Empire. They tend to be remembered as malicious harridans personifying the worst excesses of colonialism, as vacuous fusspots, whose lives were punctuated by a series of... Read More about Gendering the Settler State White Women, Race, Liberalism and Empire in Rhodesia, 1950-1980.

The shear viscosity of carbon fibre suspension and its application for fibre length measurement (2015)
Journal Article
Jiang, G., Turner, T. A., & Pickering, S. J. (2016). The shear viscosity of carbon fibre suspension and its application for fibre length measurement. Rheologica Acta, 55(1), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00397-015-0890-7

The viscosity of short carbon fibre suspensions in glycerol aqueous solution was measured using a bespoke vane-in-cup viscometer, where the carbon fibre has an aspect ratio from 450 to 2209. In the semi-concentrated regime, nL3 ranging from 20 to 440... Read More about The shear viscosity of carbon fibre suspension and its application for fibre length measurement.

Inter-group violence among early Holocene hunter-gatherers of West Turkana, Kenya (2015)
Journal Article
Lahr, M., Rivera, F., Power, R., Foley, R., Mounier, A., Copsey, B., …Wilshaw, A. (2016). Inter-group violence among early Holocene hunter-gatherers of West Turkana, Kenya. Nature, 529, https://doi.org/10.1038/nature16477

The nature of inter-group relations among prehistoric hunter-gatherers remains disputed, with arguments in favour and against the existence of warfare before the development of sedentary societies. Here we report on a case of inter-group violence tow... Read More about Inter-group violence among early Holocene hunter-gatherers of West Turkana, Kenya.

Surgical caseload and the risk of surgical Never Events in England (2015)
Journal Article
Moppett, I., & Moppett, S. (2015). Surgical caseload and the risk of surgical Never Events in England. Anaesthesia, 71(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/anae.13290

Never Events are medical errors that are believed to be preventable with appropriate measures. We surveyed all English acute NHS trusts to determine the number of surgical Never Events and surgical caseload for 2011–2014. There were 742 surgically re... Read More about Surgical caseload and the risk of surgical Never Events in England.

A hybrid control method to suppress the three time fundamental frequency neutral-point voltage fluctuation in a VIENNA rectifier (2015)
Journal Article
Song, W.-Z., Xing, F.-X., Yang, H., Empringham, L., De Lillo, L., Wheeler, P., Li, J., & Zhong, Y.-R. (2015). A hybrid control method to suppress the three time fundamental frequency neutral-point voltage fluctuation in a VIENNA rectifier. IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, 4(2), https://doi.org/10.1109/JESTPE.2015.2503125

This paper presents a solution to the control of the three times fundamental frequency fluctuation of the neutral-point in a VIENNA rectifier. A hybrid method combining a dynamic adjustment factor with a voltage deviation control of the split DC-link... Read More about A hybrid control method to suppress the three time fundamental frequency neutral-point voltage fluctuation in a VIENNA rectifier.

Teaching Data Science and Cloud Computing in Low and Middle Income Countries (2015)
Journal Article
Shanahan, H., Harrison, A., & May, S. T. (2015). Teaching Data Science and Cloud Computing in Low and Middle Income Countries. Advanced Techniques in Biology & Medicine, 3(3), Article 150. https://doi.org/10.4172/2379-1764.1000150

Large, publicly available data sets present a challenge and an opportunity for researchers based in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMIC). The challenge for these researchers is how they can make use of such data sets given their poor connectivity a... Read More about Teaching Data Science and Cloud Computing in Low and Middle Income Countries.

Bottom-up hierarchical self-assembly of chiral porphyrins through coordination and hydrogen bonds (2015)
Journal Article
Oliveras-Gonzalez, C., Di Meo, F., Gonzalez-Campo, A., Beljonne, D., Norman, P., Maite, S.-S., …Amabilino, D. A. (in press). Bottom-up hierarchical self-assembly of chiral porphyrins through coordination and hydrogen bonds. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 137(50), https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5b08081

A series of chiral synthetic compounds is reported that show intricate but specific hierarchical assembly because of varying positions of coordination and hydrogen bonds. The evolution of the aggregates (followed by absorption spectroscopy and temper... Read More about Bottom-up hierarchical self-assembly of chiral porphyrins through coordination and hydrogen bonds.