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Extending the supply chain visibility boundary: utilizing stakeholders for identifying supply chain sustainability risks (2017)
Journal Article
Busse, C., Schleper, M. C., Weilenmann, J., & Wagner, S. M. (2017). Extending the supply chain visibility boundary: utilizing stakeholders for identifying supply chain sustainability risks. International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management, 47(1), https://doi.org/10.1108/IJPDLM-02-2015-0043

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate how buying firms facing low supply chain visibility can utilize their stakeholder network to identify salient supply chain sustainability risks (SCSR). Design/methodology/approach – The study empl... Read More about Extending the supply chain visibility boundary: utilizing stakeholders for identifying supply chain sustainability risks.

Rethinking international financial centres through the politics of territory: Renminbi internationalisation in London’s financial district (2017)
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Hall, S. (2017). Rethinking international financial centres through the politics of territory: Renminbi internationalisation in London’s financial district. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 44(4), 489-502. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12172

This paper revisits canonical thinking on international financial centres (IFCs) that understands them as being primarily sustained through: market liquidity; economies of competition and cooperation between financial and related professional service... Read More about Rethinking international financial centres through the politics of territory: Renminbi internationalisation in London’s financial district.

Analysis of a Dual-Rotor, Toroidal-Winding, Axial-Flux Vernier Permanent Magnet Machine (2017)
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Zou, T., Li, D., Qu, R., Li, J., & Jiang, D. (2017). Analysis of a Dual-Rotor, Toroidal-Winding, Axial-Flux Vernier Permanent Magnet Machine. IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, 53(3), 1920-1930. https://doi.org/10.1109/tia.2017.2657493

In this paper, a vernier permanent magnet (VPM) machine with dual-rotor toroidal-winding axial-flux topology is analyzed. Through the combination of toroidal windings with the rotor-stator-rotor topology, the end winding length of the proposed machin... Read More about Analysis of a Dual-Rotor, Toroidal-Winding, Axial-Flux Vernier Permanent Magnet Machine.

Care co-ordination for older people in the third sector: scoping the evidence (2017)
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Abendstern, M., Hughes, J., Jasper, R., Sutcliffe, C., & Challis, D. (2018). Care co-ordination for older people in the third sector: scoping the evidence. Health and Social Care in the Community, 26(3), 314-329. https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.12420

© 2017 John Wiley & Sons Ltd The third sector has played a significant role internationally in the delivery of adult social care services for many years. Its contribution to care co-ordination activities for older people, however, in England and el... Read More about Care co-ordination for older people in the third sector: scoping the evidence.

Concurrent infection of bluetongue and peste-des-petits-ruminants virus in small ruminants in Haryana State of India (2017)
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Maan, S., Kumar, A., Gupta, A. K., Dalal, A., Chaudhary, D., Gupta, T. K., …Mertens, P. P. (2018). Concurrent infection of bluetongue and peste-des-petits-ruminants virus in small ruminants in Haryana State of India. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 65(1), 235-239. https://doi.org/10.1111/tbed.12610

Bluetongue (BT) and peste-des-petits-ruminants (PPR) are major transboundary diseases of small ruminant, which are endemic in India. Testing of bluetongue virus (BTV) and peste-des-petits-ruminants virus (PPRV) from recent outbreaks (2015–2016) in di... Read More about Concurrent infection of bluetongue and peste-des-petits-ruminants virus in small ruminants in Haryana State of India.

Credence goods, costly diagnosis, and subjective evaluation (2017)
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Bester, H., & Dahm, M. (2018). Credence goods, costly diagnosis, and subjective evaluation. Economic Journal, 128(611), 1367-1394. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12472

We study contracting between a consumer and an expert in a credence goods model when (i) the expert's choice of diagnosis effort is not observable, (ii) the expert might misrepresent his private information about the adequate treatment, and (iii) pay... Read More about Credence goods, costly diagnosis, and subjective evaluation.

Quality control of a medicinal larval (Lucilia sericata) debridement device based on released gelatinase activity (2017)
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Pickles, S., & Pritchard, D. I. (2017). Quality control of a medicinal larval (Lucilia sericata) debridement device based on released gelatinase activity. Medical and Veterinary Entomology, 31(2), 200-206. https://doi.org/10.1111/mve.12220

Lucilia sericata Meigen (Diptera: Calliphoridae) larvae are manufactured worldwide for the treatment of chronic wounds. Published research has confirmed that the primary clinical effect of the product, debridement (the degradation of non-viable wound... Read More about Quality control of a medicinal larval (Lucilia sericata) debridement device based on released gelatinase activity.

A study on decision-making of food supply chain based on big data (2017)
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Ji, G., Hu, L., & Tan, K. H. (2017). A study on decision-making of food supply chain based on big data. Journal of Systems Science and Systems Engineering, 26(2), 183-198. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11518-016-5320-6

As more and more companies have captured and analyzed huge volumes of data to improve the performance of supply chain, this paper develops a big data harvest model that uses big data as inputs to make more informed production decisions in the food su... Read More about A study on decision-making of food supply chain based on big data.

When fair is not equal: compassion and politeness predict allocations of wealth under different norms of equity and need (2017)
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Zhao, K., Ferguson, E., & Smillie, L. D. (in press). When fair is not equal: compassion and politeness predict allocations of wealth under different norms of equity and need. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 8(8), https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550616683018

Growing evidence has highlighted the importance of social norms in promoting prosocial behaviors in economic games. Specifically, individual differences in norm adherence—captured by the politeness aspect of Big Five agreeableness—has been found to p... Read More about When fair is not equal: compassion and politeness predict allocations of wealth under different norms of equity and need.

Functional characterization of rhoptry kinome in the virulent toxoplasma gondii RH strain (2017)
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Wang, J.-L., Li, T.-T., Elsheikha, H. M., Chen, K., Zhu, W.-N., Yue, D.-M., …Huang, S.-Y. (in press). Functional characterization of rhoptry kinome in the virulent toxoplasma gondii RH strain. Frontiers in Microbiology, 8, Article 84. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2017.00084

Toxoplasma gondii is an obligatory intracellular apicomplexan protozoan which can infect any warm-blooded animal and causes severe diseases in immunocompromised individuals or infants infected in utero. The survival and success of this parasite requi... Read More about Functional characterization of rhoptry kinome in the virulent toxoplasma gondii RH strain.

Radiation trapping in a dense cold Rydberg gas (2017)
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Sadler, D., Bridge, E., Boddy, D., Bounds, A., Keegan, N., Lochead, G., …Olmos, B. (2017). Radiation trapping in a dense cold Rydberg gas. Physical Review A, 95(1), Article 013839. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.95.013839

Cold atomic gases resonantly excited to Rydberg states can exhibit strong optical nonlinearity at the single photon level. We observe that in such samples radiation trapping leads to an additional mechanism for Rydberg excitation. Conversely we demon... Read More about Radiation trapping in a dense cold Rydberg gas.

Fairness in examination timetabling: student preferences and extended formulations (2017)
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Muklason, A., Parkes, A. J., Özcan, E., McCollum, B., & McMullan, P. (2017). Fairness in examination timetabling: student preferences and extended formulations. Applied Soft Computing, 55, 302-318. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asoc.2017.01.026

Variations of the examination timetabling problem have been investigated by the research community for more than two decades. The common characteristic between all problems is the fact that the definitions and data sets used all originate from actual... Read More about Fairness in examination timetabling: student preferences and extended formulations.

Surface-selective direct 17O DNP NMR of CeO2 nanoparticles (2017)
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Hope, M. A., Halat, D. M., Magusin, P. C., Paul, S., Peng, L., & Grey, C. P. (2017). Surface-selective direct 17O DNP NMR of CeO2 nanoparticles. Chemical Communications, 53(13), https://doi.org/10.1039/c6cc10145c

Surface-selective direct 17O DNP has been demonstrated for the first time on CeO2 nanoparticles, for which the first three layers can be distinguished with high selectivity. Polarisation build-up curves show that the polarisation of the (sub-)surface... Read More about Surface-selective direct 17O DNP NMR of CeO2 nanoparticles.

An automated software system to promote anticoagulation and reduce stroke risk: cluster-randomized controlled trial (2017)
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Holt, T. A., Dalton, A., Marshall, T., Fay, M., Qureshi, N., Kirkpatrick, S., …Fitzmaurice, D. (2017). An automated software system to promote anticoagulation and reduce stroke risk: cluster-randomized controlled trial. Stroke, 48(3), 787-790

Background and Purpose: Oral anticoagulants (OAC) substantially reduce risk of stroke in atrial fibrillation, but uptake is suboptimal. Electronic health records enable automated identification of people at risk but not receiving treatment. We inve... Read More about An automated software system to promote anticoagulation and reduce stroke risk: cluster-randomized controlled trial.

6D interpretation of 3D gravity (2017)
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Herfray, Y., Krasnov, K., & Scarinci, C. (2017). 6D interpretation of 3D gravity. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 34(4), https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/aa5727

We show that 3D gravity, in its pure connection formulation, admits a natural 6D interpretation. The 3D field equations for the connection are equivalent to 6D Hitchin equations for the Chern–Simons 3-form in the total space of the principal bundle o... Read More about 6D interpretation of 3D gravity.

Factors associated with preterm delivery and low birth weight: a study from rural Maharashtra, India (2017)
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Ahankari, A., Bapat, S., Myles, P., Fogarty, A., & Tata, L. (in press). Factors associated with preterm delivery and low birth weight: a study from rural Maharashtra, India. F1000Research, 6(72), https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.10659.1

Background: Although preterm delivery and low birth weight (LBW) have been studied in India, findings may not be generalisable to rural areas such as the Marathwada region of Maharashtra state. There is limited information available on maternal and c... Read More about Factors associated with preterm delivery and low birth weight: a study from rural Maharashtra, India.