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An hp-adaptive Newton-discontinuous-Galerkin finite element approach for semilinear elliptic boundary value problems (2018)
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Houston, P., & Wihler, T. P. (in press). An hp-adaptive Newton-discontinuous-Galerkin finite element approach for semilinear elliptic boundary value problems. Mathematics of Computation, https://doi.org/10.1090/mcom/3308

In this paper we develop an hp-adaptive procedure for the numerical solution of general second-order semilinear elliptic boundary value problems, with possible singular perturbation. Our approach combines both adaptive Newton schemes and an hp-versio... Read More about An hp-adaptive Newton-discontinuous-Galerkin finite element approach for semilinear elliptic boundary value problems.

Hořava gravity after GW170817 (2018)
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Emir Gümrükçüoğlu, A., Saravani, M., & Sotiriou, T. P. (in press). Hořava gravity after GW170817. Physical Review D, 97(2), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.97.024032

The recent detection of gravitational wave GW170817 has placed a severe bound on the deviation of the speed of gravitational waves from the speed of light. We explore the consequences of this detection for Hořava gravity.

The construction of marketing measures: The case of viewability (2018)
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Cluley, R. (2018). The construction of marketing measures: The case of viewability. Marketing Theory, 18(3), 287-305. https://doi.org/10.1177/1470593117753981

© The Author(s) 2018. This study seeks to develop a critical understanding of marketing measures. Marketing measures inform a variety of marketing practices and have been subject to ethical, discursive and epistemological critique. Informed by a rang... Read More about The construction of marketing measures: The case of viewability.

Study on High Efficiency Permanent Magnet Linear Synchronous Motor for Maglev (2018)
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Wang, H., Li, J., Qu, R., Lai, J., Huang, H., & Liu, H. (2018). Study on High Efficiency Permanent Magnet Linear Synchronous Motor for Maglev. IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, 28(3), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1109/TASC.2018.2796560

This paper discusses the traction performance of a single-side linear induction motor and a single-side coreless Halbach permanent magnet linear synchronous motor (PM-LSM) for the mid- and low-speed maglev train. Based on a typical mid- and low-speed... Read More about Study on High Efficiency Permanent Magnet Linear Synchronous Motor for Maglev.

‘But I’d rather have raisins!’: Exploring a hybridized approach to multimodal interaction in the case of a minimally verbal child with autism (2018)
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Doak, L. (2019). ‘But I’d rather have raisins!’: Exploring a hybridized approach to multimodal interaction in the case of a minimally verbal child with autism. Qualitative Research, 19(1), 30-54. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468794117752115

This article explores a ‘hybridized approach’ to multimodal research drawing on video data of classroom communication involving children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder. The focus is a short video of ‘Luke’, aged six, who at snack time declin... Read More about ‘But I’d rather have raisins!’: Exploring a hybridized approach to multimodal interaction in the case of a minimally verbal child with autism.

Climatic and evolutionary factors shaping geographical gradients of species richness in Anolis lizards (2018)
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Velasco, J. A., Villalobos, F., Diniz-Filho, J. A. F., Algar, A. C., Flores-Villela, O., Köhler, G., …Martínez-Meyer, E. (2018). Climatic and evolutionary factors shaping geographical gradients of species richness in Anolis lizards. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 123(3), 615-627. https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blx160

Understanding the climatic and historical factors shaping species richness is a major goal of ecology and biogeography. Consensus on how climate affects species richness is still lacking, but four potential and non-exclusive explanations have emerged... Read More about Climatic and evolutionary factors shaping geographical gradients of species richness in Anolis lizards.

Realising governmentality: pastoral power, governmental discourse and the (re)constitution of subjectivities (2018)
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Martin, G. P., & Waring, J. (2018). Realising governmentality: pastoral power, governmental discourse and the (re)constitution of subjectivities. Sociological Review, 66(6), 1292-1308. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038026118755616

Michel Foucault’s concept of governmentality has been hugely influential in sociology and other disciplinary fields. However, its application has been criticised by those who suggest it neglects agency, and gives overwhelming power to governmental di... Read More about Realising governmentality: pastoral power, governmental discourse and the (re)constitution of subjectivities.

Evidence for merger-driven growth in luminous, high-z, obscured AGNs in the CANDELS/COSMOS field (2018)
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Donley, J. L., Kartaltepe, J., Kocevski, D., Salvato, M., Santini, P., Suh, H., …Nagao, T. (2018). Evidence for merger-driven growth in luminous, high-z, obscured AGNs in the CANDELS/COSMOS field. Astrophysical Journal, 853(1), https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa9ffa

While major mergers have long been proposed as a driver of both active galactic nucleus (AGN) activity and the
MBH–sbulge relation, studies of moderate to high-redshift Seyfert-luminosity AGN hosts have found little evidence for enhanced rates of in... Read More about Evidence for merger-driven growth in luminous, high-z, obscured AGNs in the CANDELS/COSMOS field.

Measurement properties of tools used to assess depression in adults with and without Autism Spectrum Conditions: a systematic review (2018)
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Cassidy, S. A., Bradley, L., Bowen, E., Wigham, S., & Rodgers, J. (2018). Measurement properties of tools used to assess depression in adults with and without Autism Spectrum Conditions: a systematic review. Autism Research, 11(5), 738-754. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.1922

Depression is the most commonly experienced mental health condition in adults with Autism Spectrum Conditions (ASC). However, it is unclear what tools are currently being used to assess depression in ASC, or whether tools need to be adapted for this... Read More about Measurement properties of tools used to assess depression in adults with and without Autism Spectrum Conditions: a systematic review.

The experience of living with patellofemoral pain—loss, confusion and fear-avoidance: a UK qualitative study (2018)
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Smith, B. E., Moffatt, F., Hendrick, P., Bateman, M., Rathleff, M. S., Selfe, J., …Logan, P. (2018). The experience of living with patellofemoral pain—loss, confusion and fear-avoidance: a UK qualitative study. BMJ Open, 8(1), Article e018624. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-018624

Objectives:
To investigate the experience of living with patellofemoral pain.

Design:
Qualitative study design using semi-structured interviews, and analysed thematically using the guidelines set out by Braun and Clarke.

Setting:
A National... Read More about The experience of living with patellofemoral pain—loss, confusion and fear-avoidance: a UK qualitative study.

The reliability of methods to estimate the number and size of human motor units and their use with large limb muscles (2018)
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Piasecki, M., Ireland, A., Piasecki, J., Stashuk, D., McPhee, J., & Jones, D. (2018). The reliability of methods to estimate the number and size of human motor units and their use with large limb muscles. European Journal of Applied Physiology, 118(4), 767-775. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00421-018-3811-5

Purpose

Current methods for estimating muscle motor unit (MU) number provide values which are remarkably similar for muscles of widely differing size, probably because surface electrodes sample from similar and relatively small volumes in each mus... Read More about The reliability of methods to estimate the number and size of human motor units and their use with large limb muscles.

One-carbon oxidative annulations of 1,3-enynes by catalytic C–H functionalization and 1,4-rhodium(III) migration (2018)
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Dooley, J. D., & Lam, H. W. (2018). One-carbon oxidative annulations of 1,3-enynes by catalytic C–H functionalization and 1,4-rhodium(III) migration. Chemistry - A European Journal, 24(16), 4050-4054. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201706043

Rhodium(III)-catalyzed C-H functionalization-oxidative annulations of aromatic substrates with 1,3-enynes that contain allylic hydrogen atoms cis to the alkyne are described. The key step in these reactions is an alkenyl-to-allyl 1,4-rhodium(III) mig... Read More about One-carbon oxidative annulations of 1,3-enynes by catalytic C–H functionalization and 1,4-rhodium(III) migration.

Penalised Euclidean distance regression (2018)
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Vasiliu, D., Dey, T., & Dryden, I. L. (2018). Penalised Euclidean distance regression. Stat, 7(1), Article e175. https://doi.org/10.1002/sta4.175

A method is introduced for variable selection and prediction in linear regression problems where the number of predictors can be much larger than the number of observations. The methodology involves minimising a penalised Euclidean distance, where th... Read More about Penalised Euclidean distance regression.

True cowmen and commercial farmers: exploring vets’ and dairy farmers’ contrasting views of ‘good farming’ in relation to biosecurity (2018)
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Shortall, O., Sutherland, L.-A., Ruston, A., & Kaler, J. (in press). True cowmen and commercial farmers: exploring vets’ and dairy farmers’ contrasting views of ‘good farming’ in relation to biosecurity. Sociologia Ruralis, https://doi.org/10.1111/soru.12205

Responsibility for biosecurity in UK farming is being devolved from government to industry, with a greater emphasis on the veterinarian (vet)-farmer relationship. Although social science has shown that care for animals is part of ‘good farming’, the... Read More about True cowmen and commercial farmers: exploring vets’ and dairy farmers’ contrasting views of ‘good farming’ in relation to biosecurity.

Simulations of Cold Electroweak Baryogenesis: quench from portal coupling to new singlet field (2018)
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Mou, Z.-G., Saffin, P. M., & Tranberg, A. (2018). Simulations of Cold Electroweak Baryogenesis: quench from portal coupling to new singlet field. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2018(1), Article 103. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01%282018%29103

We compute the baryon asymmetry generated from Cold Electroweak Baryogenesis, when a dynamical Beyond-the-Standard-Model scalar singlet field triggers the spinodal transition. Using a simple potential for this additional field, we match the speed of... Read More about Simulations of Cold Electroweak Baryogenesis: quench from portal coupling to new singlet field.

Operando monitoring of the solution-mediated discharge and charge processes in a Na-O2 battery using liquid-electrochemical Transmission Electron Microscopy (2018)
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Lutz, L., Dachraoui, W., Demortière, A., Johnson, L. R., Bruce, P. G., Grimaud, A., & Tarascon, J.-M. (in press). Operando monitoring of the solution-mediated discharge and charge processes in a Na-O2 battery using liquid-electrochemical Transmission Electron Microscopy. Nano Letters, 18(2), https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b04937

Despite the fact that in sodium-oxygen (Na-O2) batteries show promise as high-energy storage systems, this technology is still the subject of intense fundamental research, owing to the complex reaction by which it operates. To understand the formatio... Read More about Operando monitoring of the solution-mediated discharge and charge processes in a Na-O2 battery using liquid-electrochemical Transmission Electron Microscopy.

Interventions to improve retention in a surgical, clinical trial: a pragmatic, stakeholder driven approach (2018)
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Leighton, P., Brealey, S. D., & Dias, J. J. (in press). Interventions to improve retention in a surgical, clinical trial: a pragmatic, stakeholder driven approach. Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, https://doi.org/10.1111/jebm.12271

Objective

To explore stakeholder perspectives upon participant retention in clinical trials, and to generate strategies to support retention in a surgical, clinical trial.

Study Design & Setting


The SWIFFT trial is a multi-centre study com... Read More about Interventions to improve retention in a surgical, clinical trial: a pragmatic, stakeholder driven approach.

Position matching between the visual fields in strabismus (2018)
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Hussain, Z., Astle, A. T., Webb, B. S., & McGraw, P. V. (2018). Position matching between the visual fields in strabismus. Journal of Vision, 18(1), https://doi.org/10.1167/18.1.9

The misalignment of visual input in strabismus disrupts positional judgments.We measured positional accuracy in the extrafoveal visual field (18–78 eccentricity) of a large group of strabismic subjects and a normal control group to identify positiona... Read More about Position matching between the visual fields in strabismus.

Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): morphological transformation of galaxies across the green valley (2018)
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Bremer, M., Phillipps, S., Kelvin, L., De Propris, R., Kennedy, R., Moffett, A., …Taylor, E. (in press). Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): morphological transformation of galaxies across the green valley. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty124

We explore constraints on the joint photometric and morphological evolution of typical low redshift galaxies as they move from the blue cloud through the green valley and onto the red sequence. We select GAMA survey galaxies with 10.25 < log(M*/M⊙) <... Read More about Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): morphological transformation of galaxies across the green valley.