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Human rights shaming and FDI: effects of the UN Human Rights Commission and Council (2017)
Journal Article
Vadlamannati, K. C., Janz, N., & Berntsen, Ø. I. (2018). Human rights shaming and FDI: effects of the UN Human Rights Commission and Council. World Development, 104, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.11.014

Do public condemnations by the United Nations human rights bodies lead to foreign direct investment (FDI) loss for abusive regimes? The Human Rights Commission and later Council (UNHRCC) are internationally legitimized tools where member states shame... Read More about Human rights shaming and FDI: effects of the UN Human Rights Commission and Council.

Oxy-fuel combustion study of biomass fuels in a 20 kWth fluidized bed combustor (2017)
Journal Article
Sher, F., Pans, M. A., Sun, C., Snape, C. E., & Liu, H. (2018). Oxy-fuel combustion study of biomass fuels in a 20 kWth fluidized bed combustor. Fuel, 215, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2017.11.039

Oxy-fuel combustion is one of the promising carbon capture technologies considered to be suitable for future commercial applications with stationary combustion plants. Although more and more biomass and waste are now being burned in stationary combus... Read More about Oxy-fuel combustion study of biomass fuels in a 20 kWth fluidized bed combustor.

Iodine soil dynamics and methods of measurement: a review (2017)
Journal Article
Humphrey, O., Young, S., Bailey, E., Crout, N., Ander, E., & Watts, M. (2018). Iodine soil dynamics and methods of measurement: a review. Environmental Science: Processes and Impacts, 20(2), https://doi.org/10.1039/c7em00491e

Iodine is an essential micronutrient for human health: insufficient intake can have multiple effects on development and growth, affecting approximately 1.9 billion people worldwide. Previous reviews have focussed on iodine analysis in environmental a... Read More about Iodine soil dynamics and methods of measurement: a review.

Treatment of dragonfruit ( Hylocereus polyrhizus ) with salicylic acid and methyl jasmonate improves postharvest physico-chemical properties and antioxidant activity during cold storage (2017)
Journal Article
Mustafa, M. A., Ali, A., Seymour, G. B., & Tucker, G. A. (2018). Treatment of dragonfruit ( Hylocereus polyrhizus ) with salicylic acid and methyl jasmonate improves postharvest physico-chemical properties and antioxidant activity during cold storage. Scientia Horticulturae, 231, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scienta.2017.09.041

As the market for tropical fruit constantly expands, cold storage is increasingly used for transporting fruits over long distances. This is an economic postharvest tool, yet challenges tropical fruits by exposure to chilling injury. An assessment of... Read More about Treatment of dragonfruit ( Hylocereus polyrhizus ) with salicylic acid and methyl jasmonate improves postharvest physico-chemical properties and antioxidant activity during cold storage.

Optical design of compact linear Fresnel reflector systems (2017)
Journal Article
Zhu, J., & Chen, Z. (in press). Optical design of compact linear Fresnel reflector systems. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 176, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2017.12.016

Compact linear Fresnel reflector (CLFR) system employing multiple receivers is promising with better optical performance and cost effectiveness compared to linear Fresnel reflector (LFR) system, especially for applications with limited ground availab... Read More about Optical design of compact linear Fresnel reflector systems.

LARGE ROOT ANGLE1, encoding OsPIN2, is involved in root system architecture in rice (2017)
Journal Article
Wang, L., Guo, M., Li, Y., Ruan, W., Mo, X., Wu, Z., …Mao, C. (in press). LARGE ROOT ANGLE1, encoding OsPIN2, is involved in root system architecture in rice. Journal of Experimental Botany, https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erx427

Root system architecture is very important for plant growth and crop yield. It is essential for nutrient and water uptake, anchoring, and mechanical support. Root growth angle (RGA) is a vital constituent of root system architecture and is used as a... Read More about LARGE ROOT ANGLE1, encoding OsPIN2, is involved in root system architecture in rice.

Phonon spectroscopy with chirped shear and compressive acoustic pulses (2017)
Journal Article
Poyser, C. L., York, W., Srikanthreddy, D., Glavin, B., Linnik, T., Campion, R., …Kent, A. (in press). Phonon spectroscopy with chirped shear and compressive acoustic pulses. Physical Review Letters, 119, Article 255502. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.255502

Picosecond duration compressive and shear phonon wave packets injected into (311) GaAs slabs transform after propagation through ∼1  mm into chirped acoustic pulses with a frequency increasing in time due to phonon dispersion. By probing the temporal... Read More about Phonon spectroscopy with chirped shear and compressive acoustic pulses.

Storia delle ricerche paletnologiche nel territorio di Varese (2017)
Book Chapter
Pearce, M. (2017). Storia delle ricerche paletnologiche nel territorio di Varese. In M. Harari (Ed.), Storia di Varese: Il territorio di Varese in età preistorica e protostorica. Nomos Edizioni

A history of prehistoric studies in the north Italian province of Varese. The province of Varese saw some of the pioneering work in prehistory in Italy in the 19th century, and many key figures in the history of the discipline have done work in the p... Read More about Storia delle ricerche paletnologiche nel territorio di Varese.

Gravitational mechanisms to self-tune the cosmological constant: obstructions and ways forward (2017)
Journal Article
Niedermann, F., & Padilla, A. (2017). Gravitational mechanisms to self-tune the cosmological constant: obstructions and ways forward. Physical Review Letters, 119(25), Article 251306. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.251306

Gravitational models of self-tuning are those in which vacuum energy has no observable effect on spacetime curvature, even though it is a priori unsuppressed below the cut-off. We complement Weinberg's no go theorem by studying field theoretic comple... Read More about Gravitational mechanisms to self-tune the cosmological constant: obstructions and ways forward.

Binarized Convolutional Landmark Localizers for Human Pose Estimation and Face Alignment with Limited Resources (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bulat, A., & Tzimiropoulos, G. (2017). Binarized Convolutional Landmark Localizers for Human Pose Estimation and Face Alignment with Limited Resources. In Proceedings - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2017) (3726 - 3734). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCV.2017.400

Our goal is to design architectures that retain the groundbreaking performance of CNNs for landmark localization and at the same time are lightweight, compact and suitable for applications with limited computational resources. To this end, we make th... Read More about Binarized Convolutional Landmark Localizers for Human Pose Estimation and Face Alignment with Limited Resources.

The determinants of Islamic bank capital decisions (2017)
Journal Article
Bitar, M., Hassan, M. K., & Hippler, W. J. (2017). The determinants of Islamic bank capital decisions. Emerging Markets Review, 35, 48-68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ememar.2017.12.002

We report new evidence on the bank and institutional determinants of Islamic bank capital ratios in 28 countries between 1999 and 2013. Overall, we find that smaller, more profitable, and highly liquid Islamic banks are more highly capitalized. Addit... Read More about The determinants of Islamic bank capital decisions.

Neural circuitry underlying sustained attention in healthy adolescents and in ADHD symptomatology (2017)
Journal Article
O'Halloran, L., Cao, Z., Ruddy, K., Jollans, L., Albaugh, M. D., Aleni, A., …Whelan, R. (2018). Neural circuitry underlying sustained attention in healthy adolescents and in ADHD symptomatology. NeuroImage, 169, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.12.030

Moment-to-moment reaction time variability on tasks of attention, often quantified by intra-individual response variability (IRV), provides a good indication of the degree to which an individual is vulnerable to lapses in sustained attention. Increa... Read More about Neural circuitry underlying sustained attention in healthy adolescents and in ADHD symptomatology.

Cardiovascular outcomes following a respiratory tract infection among adults with non-CF bronchiectasis: a general population based study (2017)
Journal Article
Navaratnam, V., Root, A. A., Douglas, I., Smeeth, L., Hubbard, R. B., & Quint, J. K. (2018). Cardiovascular outcomes following a respiratory tract infection among adults with non-CF bronchiectasis: a general population based study. Annals of the American Thoracic Society, 15(3), https://doi.org/10.1513/AnnalsATS.201706-488OC

Rationale: Studies suggest that people with bronchiectasis are at increased risk of cardiovascular co-morbidities.

Objectives: We aimed to quantify the relative risk of incident cardiovascular events following a respiratory tract infection amongs... Read More about Cardiovascular outcomes following a respiratory tract infection among adults with non-CF bronchiectasis: a general population based study.

Alkyl-modified oligonucleotides as intercalating vehicles for doxorubicin uptake via albumin binding (2017)
Journal Article
Purdie, L., Alexander, C., Spain, S. G., & Magnusson, J. P. (2018). Alkyl-modified oligonucleotides as intercalating vehicles for doxorubicin uptake via albumin binding. Molecular Pharmaceutics, 15(2), https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.7b00805

DNA-based drug delivery vehicles have displayed promise for the delivery of intercalating drugs. Here, we demonstrate that oligonucleotides modified with an alkyl chain can bind to human serum albumin, mimicking the natural binding of fatty acids. Th... Read More about Alkyl-modified oligonucleotides as intercalating vehicles for doxorubicin uptake via albumin binding.

Effects of defocus on the transfer function of coherence scanning interferometry (2017)
Journal Article
Su, R., Thomas, M., Leach, R., & Coupland, J. (2017). Effects of defocus on the transfer function of coherence scanning interferometry. Optics Letters, 43(1), https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.43.000082

Coherence scanning interferometry (CSI) offers three dimensional (3D) measurement of surface topography with high precision and accuracy. Defocus within the interferometric objective lens, however, is commonly present in CSI measurements, and reduces... Read More about Effects of defocus on the transfer function of coherence scanning interferometry.

The Herschel–ATLAS data release 2, Paper I. Submillimeter and far-infrared images of the South and North Galactic Poles: the largest Herschel survey of the extragalactic sky (2017)
Journal Article
Smith, M. W., Ibar, E., Maddox, S., Valiante, E., Dunne, L., Eales, S., …Viaene, S. (2017). The Herschel–ATLAS data release 2, Paper I. Submillimeter and far-infrared images of the South and North Galactic Poles: the largest Herschel survey of the extragalactic sky. Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 233(2), https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/aa9b35

We present the largest submillimeter images that have been made of the extragalactic sky. The Herschel Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey (H-ATLAS) is a survey of 660 deg2 with the PACS and SPIRE cameras in five photometric bands: 100, 160, 25... Read More about The Herschel–ATLAS data release 2, Paper I. Submillimeter and far-infrared images of the South and North Galactic Poles: the largest Herschel survey of the extragalactic sky.