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Effect of dicationic ionic liquids on lyotropic liquid crystals formed by a binary system composed of Triton-X 100 and water (2018)
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Thieghi, L. T., Longo Jr, L. S., Licence, P., & Alves, S. (in press). Effect of dicationic ionic liquids on lyotropic liquid crystals formed by a binary system composed of Triton-X 100 and water. Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, 657(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/15421406.2017.1403241

In this work, binary mixtures of a non-ionic surfactant (Triton X-100) and water were studied with concentrations of 30%wt H2O, showing, lamellar mesophase at temperatures below 10oC. Different dicationic ionic liquids were used for doping these meso... Read More about Effect of dicationic ionic liquids on lyotropic liquid crystals formed by a binary system composed of Triton-X 100 and water.

Visual complexity and affect: ratings reflect more than meets the eye (2018)
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Madan, C. R., Bayer, J., Gamer, M., Lonsdorf, T. B., & Sommer, T. (2018). Visual complexity and affect: ratings reflect more than meets the eye. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, Article 2368. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02368

Pictorial stimuli can vary on many dimensions, several aspects of which are captured by the term ‘visual complexity.’ Visual complexity can be described as, “a picture of a few objects, colors, or structures would be less complex than a very colorful... Read More about Visual complexity and affect: ratings reflect more than meets the eye.

A confirmatory factor analysis of the Mandarin-Chinese version of the Barrett-Lennard Relationship Inventory. (2018)
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Liao, F., Murphy, D., & Barrett-Lennard, G. (in press). A confirmatory factor analysis of the Mandarin-Chinese version of the Barrett-Lennard Relationship Inventory. Asia Pacific Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy, 9(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/21507686.2017.1419269

The aim of this study was to translate and provide an initial validation for a full Mandarin-Chinese version of the Barrett-Lennard Relationship Inventory (B-L RI:MC) to include forms Other toward Self-64 (OS-64) and Other toward Self-40 (OS-40) for... Read More about A confirmatory factor analysis of the Mandarin-Chinese version of the Barrett-Lennard Relationship Inventory..

Programming agent deliberation using procedural reflection (2018)
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Leask, S., & Logan, B. (in press). Programming agent deliberation using procedural reflection. Fundamenta Informaticae, 158, https://doi.org/10.3233/FI-2018-1643

A key advantage of BDI-based approaches to agent programming, is that agents can deliberate about which course of action to adopt to achieve a goal or respond to an event. However, while state-of-the-art BDI-based agent programming languages allow th... Read More about Programming agent deliberation using procedural reflection.

Nutrient limitation or home field advantage: does microbial community adaptation overcome nutrient limitation of litter decomposition in a tropical peatland? (2018)
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Hoyos-Santillan, J., Lomax, B. H., Turner, B. L., & Sjögersten, S. (in press). Nutrient limitation or home field advantage: does microbial community adaptation overcome nutrient limitation of litter decomposition in a tropical peatland?. Journal of Ecology, https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12923

Litter decomposition is an important control on carbon accumulation in tropical peatlands. Stoichiometric theory suggests that decomposition is regulated by elemental ratios in litter while the home field advantage (HFA) hypothesis predicts that deco... Read More about Nutrient limitation or home field advantage: does microbial community adaptation overcome nutrient limitation of litter decomposition in a tropical peatland?.

Sources of uncertainty in hydrological climate impact assessment: a cross-scale study (2018)
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Hattermann, F., Vetter, T., Breuer, L., Su, B., Daggupati, P., Donnelly, C., …Krysanova, V. (2018). Sources of uncertainty in hydrological climate impact assessment: a cross-scale study. Environmental Research Letters, 13(1), Article 5006. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aa9938

Climate change impacts on water availability and hydrological extremes are major concerns as regards the Sustainable Development Goals. Impacts on hydrology are normally investigated as part of a modelling chain, in which climate projections from mul... Read More about Sources of uncertainty in hydrological climate impact assessment: a cross-scale study.

Automatic EMI filter design for power electronic converters oriented to high power density (2018)
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Giglia, G., Ala, G., Di Piazza, M., Giaconia, G., Luna, M., Vitale, G., & Zanchetta, P. (2018). Automatic EMI filter design for power electronic converters oriented to high power density. Electronics, 7(2), Article 9. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics7010009

In this paper, a complete computer aided procedure based on the power density concept and aimed at the automatic design of EMI filters for power electronic converters is presented. It is rule-based, and it uses suitable databases built-up by consider... Read More about Automatic EMI filter design for power electronic converters oriented to high power density.

The second Herschel–ATLAS Data Release – III. Optical and near-infrared counterparts in the North Galactic Plane field (2018)
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Furlanetto, C., Dye, S., Bourne, N., Maddox, S., Dunne, L., Eales, S., …Ibar, E. (2018). The second Herschel–ATLAS Data Release – III. Optical and near-infrared counterparts in the North Galactic Plane field. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 476(1), 961-978. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty151

This paper forms part of the second major public data release of the Herschel Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey (H-ATLAS). In this work, we describe the identification of optical and near-infrared counterparts to the submillimetre detected so... Read More about The second Herschel–ATLAS Data Release – III. Optical and near-infrared counterparts in the North Galactic Plane field.

Using digital technology to enhance formative assessment in mathematics classrooms (2018)
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Dalby, D., & Swan, M. (in press). Using digital technology to enhance formative assessment in mathematics classrooms. British Journal of Educational Technology, https://doi.org/10.1111/bjet.12606

In this paper, which is based on research from the EU-funded project Improving Progress through Formative Assessment in Science and Mathematics Education (FASMEd), we explore how iPads are used within formative assessment processes by six mathematics... Read More about Using digital technology to enhance formative assessment in mathematics classrooms.

Owners and veterinary surgeons in the United Kingdom disagree about what should happen during a small animal vaccination consultation (2018)
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Belshaw, Z., Robinson, N. J., Dean, R. S., & Brennan, M. L. (2018). Owners and veterinary surgeons in the United Kingdom disagree about what should happen during a small animal vaccination consultation. Veterinary Sciences, 5(1), https://doi.org/10.3390/vetsci5010007

Dog and cat vaccination consultations are a common part of small animal practice in the United Kingdom. Few data are available describing what happens during those consultations or what participants think about their content. The aim of this novel st... Read More about Owners and veterinary surgeons in the United Kingdom disagree about what should happen during a small animal vaccination consultation.

Toward Investigation of External Oil Flow From a Journal Bearing in an Epicyclic Gearbox (2018)
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Berthold, M., Morvan, H., Young, C., & Jefferson-Loveday, R. J. (2018). Toward Investigation of External Oil Flow From a Journal Bearing in an Epicyclic Gearbox. Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, 140(6), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4038284

High loads and bearing life requirements make journal bearings the preferred choice for use in high power, planetary gearboxes in jet engines. With the planet gears rotating about their own axis and orbiting around the sun gear, centrifugal forces ge... Read More about Toward Investigation of External Oil Flow From a Journal Bearing in an Epicyclic Gearbox.

Avoiding the internet of insecure industrial things (2018)
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Urquhart, L., & McAuley, D. (2018). Avoiding the internet of insecure industrial things. Computer Law and Security Review, 34(3), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clsr.2017.12.004

Security incidents such as targeted distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on power grids and hacking of factory industrial control systems (ICS) are on the increase. This paper unpacks where emerging security risks lie for the industrial inter... Read More about Avoiding the internet of insecure industrial things.

Discovery of a highly active anticancer analogue of cardamonin that acts as an inducer of caspase-dependent apoptosis and modulator of the mTOR pathway (2018)
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Khaled bin Break, M., Hossan, M. S., Khooa, Y., Emad Qazzaz, M., Al-Hayali, M., Chow, S. C., …Khoo, T.-J. (2018). Discovery of a highly active anticancer analogue of cardamonin that acts as an inducer of caspase-dependent apoptosis and modulator of the mTOR pathway. Fitoterapia, 125, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fitote.2018.01.006

Nineteen analogues of cardamonin were semi-synthesized and tested against A549 and HK1 cell lines. The analogues were fully characterized via IR and NMR analyses, while compound 19 (a Cu (II) complex of cardamonin) was further characterized via HRMS,... Read More about Discovery of a highly active anticancer analogue of cardamonin that acts as an inducer of caspase-dependent apoptosis and modulator of the mTOR pathway.

3D extrusion printing of high drug loading immediate release paracetamol tablets (2018)
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Khaled, S. A., Alexander, M. R., Wildman, R. D., Wallace, M. J., Sharpe, S., Yoo, J., & Roberts, C. J. (2018). 3D extrusion printing of high drug loading immediate release paracetamol tablets. International Journal of Pharmaceutics, 538(1-2), 223-230. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpharm.2018.01.024

The manufacture of immediate release high drug loading paracetamol oral tablets was achieved using an extrusion based 3D printer from a premixed water based paste formulation. The 3D printed tablets demonstrate that a very high drug (paracetamol) loa... Read More about 3D extrusion printing of high drug loading immediate release paracetamol tablets.

Rate after-effects fail to transfer cross-modally: evidence for distributed sensory timing mechanisms (2018)
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Motola, A., Heron, J., McGraw, P. V., Roach, N. W., & Whitaker, D. (2018). Rate after-effects fail to transfer cross-modally: evidence for distributed sensory timing mechanisms. Scientific Reports, 8, Article 924. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-19218-z

Accurate time perception is critical for a number of human behaviours, such as understanding speech and the appreciation of music. However, it remains unresolved whether sensory time perception is mediated by a central timing component regulating all... Read More about Rate after-effects fail to transfer cross-modally: evidence for distributed sensory timing mechanisms.

Psychosocial interventions for people with dementia: a synthesis of systematic reviews (2018)
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McDermott, O., Charlesworth, G., Hogervorst, E., Stoner, C., Moniz-Cook, E., Spector, A., …Orrell, M. (2019). Psychosocial interventions for people with dementia: a synthesis of systematic reviews. Aging and Mental Health, 23(4), 393-403. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2017.1423031

© 2018, © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Objectives: Over the last 10years there has been a multitude of studies of psychosocial interventions for people with dementia. However, clinical serv... Read More about Psychosocial interventions for people with dementia: a synthesis of systematic reviews.

Genome-wide association study in 79,366 European-ancestry individuals informs the genetic architecture of 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels (2018)
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Jiang, X., O’Reilly, P. F., Aschard, H., Hsu, Y.-H., Richards, J. B., Dupuis, J., …Kiel, D. P. (2018). Genome-wide association study in 79,366 European-ancestry individuals informs the genetic architecture of 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels. Nature Communications, 9(1), Article 260. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02662-2

Vitamin D is a steroid hormone precursor that is associated with a range of human traits and diseases. Previous GWAS of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrations have identified four genome-wide significant loci (GC, NADSYN1/DHCR7, CYP2R1, CYP24A1). I... Read More about Genome-wide association study in 79,366 European-ancestry individuals informs the genetic architecture of 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels.

Species distribution modelling: contrasting presence-only models with plot abundance data (2018)
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Gomes, V. H., IJff, S. D., Raes, N., Amaral, I. L., Salomão, R. P., de Souza Coelho, L., …ter Steege, H. (in press). Species distribution modelling: contrasting presence-only models with plot abundance data. Scientific Reports, 8(1), Article 1003. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-18927-1

Species distribution models (SDMs) are widely used in ecology and conservation. Presence-only SDMs such as MaxEnt frequently use natural history collections (NHCs) as occurrence data, given their huge numbers and accessibility. NHCs are often spatial... Read More about Species distribution modelling: contrasting presence-only models with plot abundance data.