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A comparison between London and Baghdad surface urban heat islands and possible engineering mitigation solutions (2016)
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Ali, J. M., Marsh, S., & Smith, M. J. (2017). A comparison between London and Baghdad surface urban heat islands and possible engineering mitigation solutions. Sustainable Cities and Society, 29, 159-168. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2016.12.010

This study adopts remote sensing techniques to compare the Surface urban Heat Island (SUHI) in Bagh-dad and London as they represent different climatic conditions, natural environments and levels of urbandevelopment. It tests the reported correlation... Read More about A comparison between London and Baghdad surface urban heat islands and possible engineering mitigation solutions.

A pilot randomized controlled trial comparing effectiveness of prism glasses, visual search training and standard care in hemianopia (2016)
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Rowe, F., Conroy, E. J., Bedson, E. J., Cwiklinski, E., Drummond, A. E., Garcia-Finana, M., …Sackley, C. (2017). A pilot randomized controlled trial comparing effectiveness of prism glasses, visual search training and standard care in hemianopia. Acta Neurologica Scandinavica, 136(4), 310-321. https://doi.org/10.1111/ane.12725

Objective: Pilot trial comparing prism therapy and visual search training, for homonymous hemianopia, to standard care (information only). Methods: Prospective, multicentre, parallel, single-blind, three-arm RCT across fifteen UK acute stroke units.... Read More about A pilot randomized controlled trial comparing effectiveness of prism glasses, visual search training and standard care in hemianopia.

An energy-stable time-integrator for phase-field models (2016)
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Vignal, P., Collier, N., Dalcin, L., Brown, D., & Calo, V. (2017). An energy-stable time-integrator for phase-field models. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 316, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2016.12.017

We introduce a provably energy-stable time-integration method for general classes of phase-field models with polynomial potentials. We demonstrate how Taylor series expansions of the nonlinear terms present in the partial differential equations of th... Read More about An energy-stable time-integrator for phase-field models.

Strategic and operational considerations for the Extended Enterprise: insights from the aerospace industry (2016)
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Braziotis, C., Tannock, J. D., & Bourlakis, M. (2017). Strategic and operational considerations for the Extended Enterprise: insights from the aerospace industry. Production Planning and Control, 28(4), 267-280. https://doi.org/10.1080/09537287.2016.1268274

The extended enterprise (EE) paradigm has been adopted in the civil aerospace industry to enhance collaboration and product innovation among supply chain partners. Nevertheless, key aspects of this collaborative form remain poorly understood. In part... Read More about Strategic and operational considerations for the Extended Enterprise: insights from the aerospace industry.

Cognitive rehabilitation for memory deficits after stroke (2016)
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das Nair, R., Cogger, H., Worthington, E., & Lincoln, N. (2017). Cognitive rehabilitation for memory deficits after stroke. Stroke, 48(2), Article e28-e29. https://doi.org/10.1161/STROKEAHA.116.015377

Memory problems are common after a stroke, leading to difficulties in everyday life. Memory rehabilitation aims to help retrain lost functions or to teach patients strategies to compensate for them. Although some studies have reported positive outcom... Read More about Cognitive rehabilitation for memory deficits after stroke.

Paracetamol (acetaminophen) with or without codeine or dihydrocodeine for neuropathic pain in adults (2016)
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Wiffen, P. J., Knaggs, R., Derry, S., Cole, P., Phillips, T., & Moore, R. A. (2016). Paracetamol (acetaminophen) with or without codeine or dihydrocodeine for neuropathic pain in adults. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Article CD012227. https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD012227.pub2

BACKGROUND

Paracetamol, either alone or in combination with codeine or dihydrocodeine, is commonly used to treat chronic neuropathic pain. This review sought evidence for efficacy and harm from randomised double-blind studies.

OBJECTIVES

To... Read More about Paracetamol (acetaminophen) with or without codeine or dihydrocodeine for neuropathic pain in adults.

School-based education programmes for the prevention of unintentional injuries in children and young people. (2016)
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Orton, E., Whitehead, J., Mhizha-Murira, J. R., Clarkson, M., Watson, M. C., Mulvaney, C. A., …Bhuchar, M. (2016). School-based education programmes for the prevention of unintentional injuries in children and young people. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 12(CD0102), https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD010246.pub2

Background: Unintentional injuries are the leading cause of death in children aged four to 18 years and are a major cause of ill health. The school setting offers the opportunity to deliver preventive interventions to a large number of children and h... Read More about School-based education programmes for the prevention of unintentional injuries in children and young people..

Deciphering long-term records of natural variability and human impact as recorded in lake sediments: a palaeolimnological puzzle (2016)
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Mills, K., Schillereff, D., Saulnier-Talbot, É., Gell, P., Anderson, N. J., Arnaud, F., …Ryves, D. B. (2017). Deciphering long-term records of natural variability and human impact as recorded in lake sediments: a palaeolimnological puzzle. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 4(2), Article e1195. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1195

Global aquatic ecosystems are under increasing threat from anthropogenic activity, as well as being exposed to past (and projected) climate change, however, the nature of how climate and human impacts are recorded in lake sediments is often ambiguous... Read More about Deciphering long-term records of natural variability and human impact as recorded in lake sediments: a palaeolimnological puzzle.

Stretching and Kibble scaling regimes for Hubble-damped defect networks (2016)
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Martins, C., Rybak, I. Y., Avgoustidis, A., & Shellard, E. (2016). Stretching and Kibble scaling regimes for Hubble-damped defect networks. Physical Review D, 94(11), Article 116017. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.94.116017

The cosmological evolution of topological defect networks can broadly be divided into two stages. At early times they are friction dominated due to particle scattering and therefore nonrelativistic and may either be conformally stretched or evolve in... Read More about Stretching and Kibble scaling regimes for Hubble-damped defect networks.

Environmental Impacts of Selective Laser Melting: Do Printer, Powder, Or Power Dominate? (2016)
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Faludi, J., Baumers, M., Maskery, I., & Hague, R. (2017). Environmental Impacts of Selective Laser Melting: Do Printer, Powder, Or Power Dominate?. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 21(S1), S144-S156. https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.12528

© 2016 The Authors. Journal of Industrial Ecology, published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc., on behalf of Yale University. This life cycle assessment measured environmental impacts of selective laser melting, to determine where most impacts arise: machin... Read More about Environmental Impacts of Selective Laser Melting: Do Printer, Powder, Or Power Dominate?.

City enhancement beyond the notion of “sustainable city”: introduction to integrated assessment for city enhancement (iACE) toolkit (2016)
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Cheshmehzangi, A. (2016). City enhancement beyond the notion of “sustainable city”: introduction to integrated assessment for city enhancement (iACE) toolkit. Energy Procedia, 104, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2016.12.027

Over the course of past three decades, many researchers questioned the oxymoron characteristics of sustainable city. It is, therefore, uncertain that to what extend cities can actually be sustainable or are they sustainable at all. This study challen... Read More about City enhancement beyond the notion of “sustainable city”: introduction to integrated assessment for city enhancement (iACE) toolkit.

China's New-Type Urbanisation Plan (NUP) and the foreseeing challenges for decarbonization of cities: a review (2016)
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Cheshmehzangi, A. (in press). China's New-Type Urbanisation Plan (NUP) and the foreseeing challenges for decarbonization of cities: a review. Energy Procedia, 104, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2016.12.026

The most recent urbanisation plan in China, the New-type Urbanisation Plan (NUP) launched in March 2014, is a national plan proposed for development of a scientific and reasonable urban development model by 2020. NUP aims to connect four major plans... Read More about China's New-Type Urbanisation Plan (NUP) and the foreseeing challenges for decarbonization of cities: a review.

DNA damage repair in breast cancer and its therapeutic implications (2016)
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Ali, R., Rakha, E. A., Madhusudan, S., & Bryant, H. E. (2017). DNA damage repair in breast cancer and its therapeutic implications. Pathology, 49(2), 156-165. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pathol.2016.11.002

The DNA damage response (DDR) involves the activation of numerous cellular activities that repair DNA lesions and maintain genomic integrity, and is critical in preventing tumorigenesis. Inherited or acquired mutations in specific genes involved in t... Read More about DNA damage repair in breast cancer and its therapeutic implications.

Therapeutic implications of counselling psychologists’ responses to client trauma: an interpretative phenomenological analysis (2016)
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Merriman, O., & Joseph, S. (in press). Therapeutic implications of counselling psychologists’ responses to client trauma: an interpretative phenomenological analysis. Counselling Psychology Quarterly, 31(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/09515070.2016.1266601

The past two decades have seen a surge of interest in the impact of working with trauma survivors on therapists’ psychological well-being. Existing literature assumes that therapists’ strong subjective responses to traumatic material adversely influe... Read More about Therapeutic implications of counselling psychologists’ responses to client trauma: an interpretative phenomenological analysis.

VALES. II. The physical conditions of interstellar gas in normal star-forming galaxies up to z=0.2 revealed by ALMA (2016)
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Hughes, T., Ibar, E., Villanueva, V., Aravena, M., Baes, M., Bourne, N., …Xue, Y. (2016). VALES. II. The physical conditions of interstellar gas in normal star-forming galaxies up to z=0.2 revealed by ALMA. Astronomy and Astrophysics, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201629588

We use new Band 3 CO(1–0) observations taken with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to study the physical conditions in the interstellar gas of a sample of 27 dusty main-sequence star-forming galaxies at 0:03 < z < 0:2 present i... Read More about VALES. II. The physical conditions of interstellar gas in normal star-forming galaxies up to z=0.2 revealed by ALMA.

Analysis of a hysteresis-controlled self-oscillating class-D amplifier (2016)
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Cox, S. M., Yu, J., Goh, W. L., & Tan, M. T. (in press). Analysis of a hysteresis-controlled self-oscillating class-D amplifier. IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics, 82(2), https://doi.org/10.1093/imamat/hxw053

This paper gives the first systematic perturbation analysis of the audio distortion and mean switching period for a self-oscillating class-D amplifier. Explicit expressions are given for all the principal components of audio distortion, for a general... Read More about Analysis of a hysteresis-controlled self-oscillating class-D amplifier.

A monomeric, heterobimetallic complex with an unsupported Mg−Fe bond (2016)
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Birchall, C., Moxey, G. J., McMaster, J., Blake, A. J., Lewis, W., & Kays, D. L. (2017). A monomeric, heterobimetallic complex with an unsupported Mg−Fe bond. Inorganica Chimica Acta, 458, 97-100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ica.2016.12.029

The phosphinimine, trimethylsilyl-substituted BIPM ligand [BIPM = bis(iminophosphorano)methanide] has been used to stabilise CH(Ph2PNSiMe3)2MgFe(η5-C5H5)(CO)2 (1), which is a structurally authenticated complex exhibiting a direct, unsupported bond be... Read More about A monomeric, heterobimetallic complex with an unsupported Mg−Fe bond.

Multiple genetic associations with Irish wolfhound dilated cardiomyopathy (2016)
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Simpson, S., Dunning, M. D., Brownlie, S., Patel, J., Godden, M., Cobb, M., …Rutland, C. S. (2016). Multiple genetic associations with Irish wolfhound dilated cardiomyopathy. BioMed Research International, 2016(637408), https://doi.org/10.1155/2016/6374082

Cardiac disease is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in dogs and humans, with dilated cardiomyopathy being a large contributor to this. The Irish Wolfhound (IWH) is one of the most commonly affected breeds and one of the few breeds with gene... Read More about Multiple genetic associations with Irish wolfhound dilated cardiomyopathy.

Dynamic programming with approximation function for nurse scheduling (2016)
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Shi, P., & Landa-Silva, D. (2016). Dynamic programming with approximation function for nurse scheduling. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 10122, 269-280. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51469-7_23

Although dynamic programming could ideally solve any combinatorial optimization problem, the curse of dimensionality of the search space seriously limits its application to large optimization problems. For example, only few papers in the literature h... Read More about Dynamic programming with approximation function for nurse scheduling.