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On the priming of risk preferences: the role of fear and general affect (2019)
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Alempaki, D., Starmer, C., & Tufano, F. (2019). On the priming of risk preferences: the role of fear and general affect. Journal of Economic Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2018.12.011

Priming is an established tool in psychology for investigating aspects of cognitive processes underlying decision making and is increasingly applied in economics. We report a systematic attempt to test the reproducibility and generalisability of prim... Read More about On the priming of risk preferences: the role of fear and general affect.

Protocol for the process evaluation of the Promoting Activity, Independence and Stability in Early Dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment (PrAISED 2) Randomised Controlled Trial (2019)
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Di Lorito, C., Pollock, K., Harwood, R., das Nair, R., Logan, P., Goldberg, S., …Van Der Wardt, V. (2019). Protocol for the process evaluation of the Promoting Activity, Independence and Stability in Early Dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment (PrAISED 2) Randomised Controlled Trial. Maturitas, 122, 8-21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.maturitas.2019.01.001

Introduction. Promoting Activity, Independence and Stability in Early Dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment (PrAISED 2) is a randomised controlled trial to test the effectiveness of an intervention to promote activity and independence amongst people... Read More about Protocol for the process evaluation of the Promoting Activity, Independence and Stability in Early Dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment (PrAISED 2) Randomised Controlled Trial.

Experimental study of liquid to air membrane energy exchanger (LAMEE) performance by measuring its temperature fields (2019)
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Chu, J., Chen, Z., Bai, H., & Zhu, J. (2019). Experimental study of liquid to air membrane energy exchanger (LAMEE) performance by measuring its temperature fields. Thermal Science and Engineering Progress, 10, 163-168. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsep.2019.01.005

Many studies have already been conducted to assess liquid to air membrane energy exchanger (LAMEE) performance by numerical and experimental methods. However, the LAMEE temperature field is still an unknown area due to the operation difficult. In thi... Read More about Experimental study of liquid to air membrane energy exchanger (LAMEE) performance by measuring its temperature fields.

Surface plasmon resonance imaging of excitable cells (2019)
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Howe, C. L., Webb, K. F., Abayzeed, S. A., Anderson, D. J., Denning, C., & Russell, N. A. (2019). Surface plasmon resonance imaging of excitable cells. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 52(10), Article 104001. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6463/aaf849

Surface plasmons (SPs) are surface charge density oscillations occuring at a metal/dieletric interface and are highly sensitive to refractive index variations adjacent to the surface. This sensitivity has been exploited successfully for chemical and... Read More about Surface plasmon resonance imaging of excitable cells.

Expression of Lamin A/C in early-stage breast cancer and its prognostic value (2019)
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Alhudiri, I., Nolan, C., Ellis, I., Elzagheid, A., Rakha, E., Green, A., & Chapman, C. (2019). Expression of Lamin A/C in early-stage breast cancer and its prognostic value. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, 174(3), 661–668. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10549-018-05092-w

Purpose: Lamins A/C, a major component of the nuclear lamina, plays key roles in maintaining nuclear integrity, regulation of gene expression, cell proliferation and apoptosis. Reduced lamin A/C expression in cancer has been reported to be a sign of... Read More about Expression of Lamin A/C in early-stage breast cancer and its prognostic value.

Arabidopsis bioinformatics resources: the current state, challenges, and priorities for the future (2019)
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Doherty, C., Friesner, J., Gregory, B., Loraine, A., Megraw, M., Meyers, B., …Wurtele, E. (2019). Arabidopsis bioinformatics resources: the current state, challenges, and priorities for the future. Plant Direct, 3(1), Article e00109. https://doi.org/10.1002/pld3.109

Effective research, education, and outreach efforts by the Arabidopsis thaliana community, as well as other scientific communities that depend on Arabidopsis resources, depend vitally on easily available and publicly-shared resources. These resources... Read More about Arabidopsis bioinformatics resources: the current state, challenges, and priorities for the future.

How do midwives facilitate women to give birth during physiological second stage of labour? A protocol for a systematic review (2019)
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Verhoeven, C. J., Spence, D., Nyman, V., Otten, R. H. J., & Healy, M. (2019). How do midwives facilitate women to give birth during physiological second stage of labour? A protocol for a systematic review. Systematic Reviews, 8, Article 1. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-018-0916-1

Background Midwives’ practices during the second stage of labour vary nationally and internationally. We aim to retrieve evidence that supports high-quality intrapartum care by conducting a systematic review of the literature. Methods Electronic... Read More about How do midwives facilitate women to give birth during physiological second stage of labour? A protocol for a systematic review.

Deep p-Ring Trench Termination: An Innovative and Cost-Effective Way to Reduce Silicon Area (2019)
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Antoniou, M., Lophitis, N., Udrea, F., Rahimo, M., Vemulapati, U., Corvasce, C., & Badstuebner, U. (2019). Deep p-Ring Trench Termination: An Innovative and Cost-Effective Way to Reduce Silicon Area. IEEE Electron Device Letters, 40(2), 177-180. https://doi.org/10.1109/LED.2018.2890702

© 1980-2012 IEEE. A new type of high-voltage termination, namely the 'deep p-ring trench' termination design for high-voltage, high-power devices, is presented and extensively simulated. Termination of such devices consumes a large proportion of the... Read More about Deep p-Ring Trench Termination: An Innovative and Cost-Effective Way to Reduce Silicon Area.

The Influence of Winding Location in Flux-Switching Permanent-Magnet Machines (2019)
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Zhang, H., Hua, W., Hu, M., Gerada, D., & Gerada, C. (2019). The Influence of Winding Location in Flux-Switching Permanent-Magnet Machines. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 55(7), Article 8104205. https://doi.org/10.1109/tmag.2018.2886686

The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of winding location on back electromotive force (EMF) and armature inductance in flux-switching permanent-magnet (FSPM) machines. To obtain an analytical solution, a double-stator-pitch m... Read More about The Influence of Winding Location in Flux-Switching Permanent-Magnet Machines.

Sensory-Guided Analysis of Key Taste-Active Compounds in Pufferfish (Takifugu obscurus) (2019)
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Zhang, N., Ayed, C., Wang, W., & Liu, Y. (2019). Sensory-Guided Analysis of Key Taste-Active Compounds in Pufferfish (Takifugu obscurus). Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 67(50), 13809-13816. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jafc.8b06047

To investigate key taste-active components in Takifugu obscurus, 28 putative taste compounds in cooked muscle of T. obscurus were quantitatively analyzed and the pivotal components were identified by taste reconstitution, omission, and addition tests... Read More about Sensory-Guided Analysis of Key Taste-Active Compounds in Pufferfish (Takifugu obscurus).

Chemical Imaging of Buried Interfaces in Organic-Inorganic Devices Using Focused Ion Beam-Time-of-Flight-Secondary-Ion Mass Spectrometry (2019)
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Tiddia, M., Mihara, I., Seah, M. P., Trindade, G. F., Kollmer, F., Roberts, C. J., …Havelund, R. (2019). Chemical Imaging of Buried Interfaces in Organic-Inorganic Devices Using Focused Ion Beam-Time-of-Flight-Secondary-Ion Mass Spectrometry. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 11(4), 4500-4506. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.8b15091

Copyright © 2019 American Chemical Society. Organic-inorganic hybrid materials enable the design and fabrication of new materials with enhanced properties. The interface between the organic and inorganic materials is often critical to the device's pe... Read More about Chemical Imaging of Buried Interfaces in Organic-Inorganic Devices Using Focused Ion Beam-Time-of-Flight-Secondary-Ion Mass Spectrometry.

Analysing Slavery through Satellite Technology: How Remote Sensing Could Revolutionise Data Collection to Help End Modern Slavery (2019)
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Jackson, B., Bales, K., Owen, S., Wardlaw, J., & Boyd, D. S. (2019). Analysing Slavery through Satellite Technology: How Remote Sensing Could Revolutionise Data Collection to Help End Modern Slavery. Journal of Modern Slavery, 4(2), 169-199

An estimated 40.3 million people are enslaved globally across a range of industries. Whilst these industries are known, their scale can hinder the fight against slavery. Some industries using slave labour are visible in satellite imagery, including m... Read More about Analysing Slavery through Satellite Technology: How Remote Sensing Could Revolutionise Data Collection to Help End Modern Slavery.

Firm boundaries and financing with opportunistic stakeholder behaviour (2019)
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Aney, M. S., Appelbaum, E., & Banerji, S. (2019). Firm boundaries and financing with opportunistic stakeholder behaviour. Journal of Corporate Finance, 56, 437-457. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2018.12.003

We explore the impact of strategic behaviour of equity holders, debt holders and an opportunistic supplier of a critical input on the firm's capital structure, organisational design, and its outsourcing decision. We show that the supplier can trigger... Read More about Firm boundaries and financing with opportunistic stakeholder behaviour.

Indoor Topological Localization Using a Visual Landmark Sequence (2019)
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Zhu, J., Li, Q., Cao, R., Sun, K., Liu, T., Garibaldi, J., …Qiu, G. (2019). Indoor Topological Localization Using a Visual Landmark Sequence. Remote Sensing, 11(1), Article 73. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11010073

© 2019 by the authors. This paper presents a novel indoor topological localization method based on mobile phone videos. Conventional methods suffer from indoor dynamic environmental changes and scene ambiguity. The proposed Visual Landmark Sequence-b... Read More about Indoor Topological Localization Using a Visual Landmark Sequence.

DNA fragility in the parallel evolution of pelvic reduction in stickleback fish (2019)
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Xie, K. T., Wang, G., Thompson, A. C., Wucherpfennig, J. I., Reimchen, T. E., MacColl, A. D. C., …Kingsley, D. M. (2019). DNA fragility in the parallel evolution of pelvic reduction in stickleback fish. Science, 363(6422), 81-84. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aan1425

Evolution generates a remarkable breadth of living forms, but many traits evolve repeatedly, by mechanisms that are still poorly understood. A classic example of repeated evolution is the loss of pelvic hindfins in stickleback fish (Gasterosteus acul... Read More about DNA fragility in the parallel evolution of pelvic reduction in stickleback fish.

Evaluation of thermal and solar performance in atrium buildings using sequential simulation (2019)
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Ab Ghafar, N., Gadi, M., & Adam, M. (2019). Evaluation of thermal and solar performance in atrium buildings using sequential simulation. Energy and Environment, 30(6), 969-990. https://doi.org/10.1177/0958305X18813684

© The Author(s) 2019. Nowadays complex atrium design is becoming popular in city skylines that bring natural lighting to create more pleasant indoor environment. Atriums with complex skylight design and lack of knowledge in building thermal performan... Read More about Evaluation of thermal and solar performance in atrium buildings using sequential simulation.

An evaluation study of miniature dielectric crossed compound parabolic concentrator (dCCPC) panel as skylights in building energy simulation (2019)
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Tian, M., Zhang, L., Su, Y., Xuan, Q., Li, G., & Lv, H. (2019). An evaluation study of miniature dielectric crossed compound parabolic concentrator (dCCPC) panel as skylights in building energy simulation. Solar Energy, 179, 264-278. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2018.12.058

The potential of miniature dielectric crossed compound parabolic concentrator (dCCPC) panel as skylights for daylighting control has drawn a considerable research attention in the recent years, owing to its feature of variable transmittance according... Read More about An evaluation study of miniature dielectric crossed compound parabolic concentrator (dCCPC) panel as skylights in building energy simulation.

Attitudes to E-Cigarettes and Cessation Support for Pregnant Women from English Stop Smoking Services: A Mixed Methods Study (2019)
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Cooper, S., Orton, S., Campbell, K., Ussher, M., Coleman-Haynes, N., Whitemore, R., …Coleman, T. (2019). Attitudes to E-Cigarettes and Cessation Support for Pregnant Women from English Stop Smoking Services: A Mixed Methods Study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(1), Article 110. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16010110

Smoking in pregnancy remains a public health problem. In the UK e-cigarettes are the most popular aid to quitting smoking outside of pregnancy, but we don’t know the extent of e-cigarette use in pregnancy or how English Stop Smoking Services (SSS) re... Read More about Attitudes to E-Cigarettes and Cessation Support for Pregnant Women from English Stop Smoking Services: A Mixed Methods Study.

Maternal dietary ratio of linoleic acid to alpha-linolenic acid during pregnancy has sexspecific effects on placental and fetal weights in the rat (2019)
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Draycott, S. A., Liu, G., Daniel, Z. C., Elmes, M. J., Mulhausler, B. S., & Langley-Evans, S. C. (2019). Maternal dietary ratio of linoleic acid to alpha-linolenic acid during pregnancy has sexspecific effects on placental and fetal weights in the rat. Nutrition and Metabolism, 16(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12986-018-0330-7

Background: Increased consumption of linoleic acid (LA, omega-6) in Western diets coupled with the pro-inflammatory and adipogenic properties of its derivatives has led to suggestions that fetal exposure to this dietary pattern could be contributing... Read More about Maternal dietary ratio of linoleic acid to alpha-linolenic acid during pregnancy has sexspecific effects on placental and fetal weights in the rat.

From venture idea to venture formation: the role of sensemaking, sensegiving and sense receiving (2019)
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Hoyte, C., Noke, H., Mosey, S., & Marlow, S. (2019). From venture idea to venture formation: the role of sensemaking, sensegiving and sense receiving. International Small Business Journal, 37(3), 268-288. https://doi.org/10.1177/0266242618818876

This article explores the sensemaking processes entrepreneurs use when transitioning between venture ideas and venture formation. Adopting a sensemaking/sensegiving approach and utilising an interpretivist methodology, we use sensemaking to analyse t... Read More about From venture idea to venture formation: the role of sensemaking, sensegiving and sense receiving.