Introduction Approximately 70% of patients with stroke experience impaired arm function, which is persistent and disabling for an estimated 40%. Loss of function reduces independence in daily activities and impacts on quality of life. Muscles in thos... Read More about ESCAPS study protocol: a feasibility randomised controlled trial of ‘Early electrical stimulation to the wrist extensors and wrist flexors to prevent the post-stroke complications of pain and contractures in the paretic arm’.
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Performance evaluation of a 3-level ANPC photovoltaic grid-connected inverter with 650V SiC devices and optimized PWM (2016)
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Photovoltaic (PV) energy conversion has been on the spotlight of scientific research on renewable energy for several years. In recent years the bulk of the research on PV has focused on transformerless grid-connected inverters, more efficient than tr... Read More about Performance evaluation of a 3-level ANPC photovoltaic grid-connected inverter with 650V SiC devices and optimized PWM.
Evolution of South Atlantic density and chemical stratification across the last deglaciation (2016)
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Explanations of the glacial-interglacial variations in atmospher¬ic pCO2 invoke a significant role for the deep ocean in the stor¬age of CO2. Deep ocean density stratification has been pro¬posed as a mechanism to promote the storage of CO2 in the dee... Read More about Evolution of South Atlantic density and chemical stratification across the last deglaciation.
Friendly pharmacodynamics: a simple introduction (2016)
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A rather tedious and unfortunate affair: the Rahi saga and the troubled origins of Indo–Soviet cinematic exchange (2016)
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This article breaks new ground by reframing the context in which the governments of India and the Soviet Union arrived at an understanding that determined the course of cinematic exchange between the two countries during the cold war. It suggests tha... Read More about A rather tedious and unfortunate affair: the Rahi saga and the troubled origins of Indo–Soviet cinematic exchange.
Neural basis of understanding communicative actions: changes associated with knowing the actor’s intention and the meanings of the actions (2016)
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People can communicate by using hand actions, e.g., signs. Understanding communicative actions requires that the observer knows that the actor has an intention to communicate and the meanings of the actions. Here, we investigated how this prior knowl... Read More about Neural basis of understanding communicative actions: changes associated with knowing the actor’s intention and the meanings of the actions.
Dr Ansgar Koene is a Senior Research Fellow at Horizon Digital Economy Research (http://www.horizon.ac.uk). Horizon is a Research Institute at The University of Nottingham and a Research Hub within the RCUK Digital Economy programme. Horizon brings t... Read More about Written evidence submitted by Dr Ansgar Koene, Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute, University of Nottingham (IPB0066).
The impact of affordable housing developments on sustainability in Gulf cities (2016)
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The recent construction boom has led to new urban development dynamics in Gulf cities driven by real-estate speculations and large infrastructure investments. While in the past affordable housing for medium income migrants and their families was inte... Read More about The impact of affordable housing developments on sustainability in Gulf cities.
Reflections from EDI conference: Equality, diversity, inclusion and human rights in times of austerity (2016)
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© Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the research presented at the 2016 Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Conference in Nicosia, Cyprus. Design/methodology/approach - The report is... Read More about Reflections from EDI conference: Equality, diversity, inclusion and human rights in times of austerity.
Readings in the UK Energy Security (2016)
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Over the last few decades, the debate about ‘Peak Oil’ became increasingly common and frustrating to governments, oil companies and individuals. Also in the last decade or so, some unusual events took places, which have raised the concern about the f... Read More about Readings in the UK Energy Security.
All change at the World Bank: The new procurement framework (2016)
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Cities are hotspots for threatened species (2016)
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Explanation in ethics and mathematics (2016)
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A comparison of Plurality Voting Sheets and Idea Rating Sheets in judgement-making (2016)
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The public's engagement in museum projects is widely encouraged. However, public participation may also passively impact the relationship of museum and their publics if any existing conflicts cannot be identified and resolved. This paper organised a... Read More about A comparison of Plurality Voting Sheets and Idea Rating Sheets in judgement-making.
Arts policy and practice for disabled children and young people: towards a ‘practice spectrum’ approach (2016)
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This article argues for an approach to the evaluation of arts policy and practice for disabled children and young people that goes beyond the dialogic antagonism between Disability Arts and community arts, and towards a ‘practice spectrum’. Little is... Read More about Arts policy and practice for disabled children and young people: towards a ‘practice spectrum’ approach.
Amelioration and inclusion: gender identity and the concept of woman (2016)
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Feminist analyses of gender concepts must avoid the inclusion problem, the fault of marginalizing or excluding some prima facie women. Sally Haslanger’s ‘ameliorative’ analysis of gender concepts seeks to do so by defining woman by reference to subor... Read More about Amelioration and inclusion: gender identity and the concept of woman.
On the weak convergence of the kernel density estimator in the uniform topology (2016)
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