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Experimental and numerical investigation to rationalize both near-infrared and mid-infrared spontaneous emission in Pr3+ doped selenide-chalcogenide fiber (2019)
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Sujecki, S., Sojka, L., Beres-Pawlik, E., Anders, K., Piramidowicz, R., Tang, Z., Furniss, D., Barney, E., Benson, T., & Seddon, A. (2019). Experimental and numerical investigation to rationalize both near-infrared and mid-infrared spontaneous emission in Pr3+ doped selenide-chalcogenide fiber. Journal of Luminescence, 209, 14-20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jlumin.2019.01.023

This contribution reports on detailed experimental and numerical investigations of both near-infrared (NIR) and mid-infrared (MIR) photoluminescence obtained in praseodymium trivalent ion doped chalcogenide-selenide glass fiber. The experimental anal... Read More about Experimental and numerical investigation to rationalize both near-infrared and mid-infrared spontaneous emission in Pr3+ doped selenide-chalcogenide fiber.

Dynamics of water evaporation from porous asphalt (2019)
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Aboufoul, M., Shokri, N., Saleh, E., Tuck, C., & Garcia, A. (2019). Dynamics of water evaporation from porous asphalt. Construction and Building Materials, 202, 406-414. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2019.01.043

The dynamics of water evaporation from porous asphalt mixture, with porosity ranging from 15% to 12 29%, have been investigated in this article. In order to test the same samples under different conditions, the pore structure of asphalt was quantifi... Read More about Dynamics of water evaporation from porous asphalt.

Discrete trajectories of resolving and persistent pain in people with rheumatoid arthritis despite undergoing treatment for inflammation: results from three UK cohorts (2019)
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McWilliams, D. F., Dawson, O., Young, A., Kiely, P., Ferguson, E., & Walsh, D. A. (2019). Discrete trajectories of resolving and persistent pain in people with rheumatoid arthritis despite undergoing treatment for inflammation: results from three UK cohorts. Journal of Pain, 20(6), 716-727. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpain.2019.01.001

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an example of human chronic inflammatory pain. Modern treatments suppress inflammation, yet pain remains a major problem for many people with RA. We hypothesised that discrete RA subgroups might display favourable or unfa... Read More about Discrete trajectories of resolving and persistent pain in people with rheumatoid arthritis despite undergoing treatment for inflammation: results from three UK cohorts.

The effects of terlipressin and direct portacaval shunting on liver hemodynamics following 80% hepatectomy in the pig (2019)
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Hammond, J. S., Godtliebsen, F., Steigen, S., Guha, I. N., Wyatt, J., Revhaug, A., Lobo, D. N., & Mortensen, K. E. (2019). The effects of terlipressin and direct portacaval shunting on liver hemodynamics following 80% hepatectomy in the pig. Clinical Science, 133(1), 153-166. https://doi.org/10.1042/CS20180858

Liver failure is the major cause of death following liver resection. Post-resection portal venous pressure (PVP) predicts liver failure, is implicated in its pathogenesis and when PVP is reduced, rates of liver dysfunction decrease. The aim of this s... Read More about The effects of terlipressin and direct portacaval shunting on liver hemodynamics following 80% hepatectomy in the pig.

Future research priorities for lichen sclerosus – results of a James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership (2019)
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Simpson, R., Cooper, S., Kirtschig, G., Larsen, S., Lawton, S., McPhee, M., Murphy, R., Nunns, D., Rees, S., Tarpey, M., Thomas, K., & Lichen Sclerosus Priority Setting Partnership Steering Group. (2019). Future research priorities for lichen sclerosus – results of a James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership. British Journal of Dermatology, 180(5), 1236-1237. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjd.17447

Forcible acts by states towards non-state actors operating in disputed waters: beyond the limits of international law? (2019)
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Pappa, M. (2019). Forcible acts by states towards non-state actors operating in disputed waters: beyond the limits of international law?. Legal Issues Journal, 7(1),

The obligation of States to not use force against other States is well established in international law both on land and at sea. Unless authorized by the United Nations Security Council or based on self-defence, non-compliance with this rule is a bre... Read More about Forcible acts by states towards non-state actors operating in disputed waters: beyond the limits of international law?.

Halogen-Bonding Interactions and Electrochemical Properties of Unsymmetrical Pyrazole Pincer NiII Halides: A Peculiar Behavior of the Fluoride Complex (PCN)NiF (2019)
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Luconi, L., Garino, C., Cerreia Vioglio, P., Gobetto, R., Chierotti, M. R., Yakhvarov, D., Gafurov, Z. N., Morozov, V., Sakhapov, I., Rossin, A., & Giambastiani, G. (2019). Halogen-Bonding Interactions and Electrochemical Properties of Unsymmetrical Pyrazole Pincer NiII Halides: A Peculiar Behavior of the Fluoride Complex (PCN)NiF. ACS Omega, 4(1), 1118-1129. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.8b02452

Four metal halides of the (tBuPCN)NiX family [X = F (1), Cl (2), Br (3), or I (4); PCN = 1-[3-[(di-tert-butylphosphino)methyl]phenyl]-1H-pyrazole] have been prepared through a direct reaction of the corresponding anhydrous NiX2 salts and the unsymmet... Read More about Halogen-Bonding Interactions and Electrochemical Properties of Unsymmetrical Pyrazole Pincer NiII Halides: A Peculiar Behavior of the Fluoride Complex (PCN)NiF.

Holistic engineering of Cal-A lipase chain-length selectivity identifies triglyceride binding hot-spot (2019)
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Rousseau, O., Quaglia, D., Alejaldre, L., Ouadhi, S., & Pelletier, J. N. (2019). Holistic engineering of Cal-A lipase chain-length selectivity identifies triglyceride binding hot-spot. PLoS ONE, 14(1), Article e0210100. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0210100

Through the application of a region-focused saturation mutagenesis and randomization approach, protein engineering of the Cal-A enzyme was undertaken with the goal of conferring new triglyceride selectivity. Little is known about the mode of triglyce... Read More about Holistic engineering of Cal-A lipase chain-length selectivity identifies triglyceride binding hot-spot.

Clinical utility of existing and second-generation interferon-γ release assays for diagnostic evaluation of tuberculosis: an observational cohort study (2019)
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Whitworth, H. S., Badhan, A., Boakye, A. A., Takwoingi, Y., Rees-Roberts, M., Partlett, C., Lambie, H., Innes, J., Cooke, G., Lipman, M., Conlon, C., Macallan, D., Chua, F., Post, F. A., Wiselka, M., Woltmann, G., Deeks, J. J., Kon, O. M., Lalvani, A., Abdoyeku, D., …Menzies, S. (2019). Clinical utility of existing and second-generation interferon-γ release assays for diagnostic evaluation of tuberculosis: an observational cohort study. Lancet Infectious Diseases, 19(2), 193-202. https://doi.org/10.1016/s1473-3099%2818%2930613-3

© 2019 Elsevier Ltd Background: The clinical utility of interferon-γ release assays (IGRAs) for diagnosis of active tuberculosis is unclear, although they are commonly used in countries with a low incidence of tuberculosis. We aimed to resolve this c... Read More about Clinical utility of existing and second-generation interferon-γ release assays for diagnostic evaluation of tuberculosis: an observational cohort study.

The interaction between viral and environmental risk factors in the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis (2019)
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Tarlinton, R., Khaibullin, T., Granatov, E., Martynova, E., Rizvanov, A., & Khaiboullina, S. (2019). The interaction between viral and environmental risk factors in the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 20(2), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms20020303

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic debilitating inflammatory disease of unknown ethology targeting the central nervous system (CNS). MS has a polysymptomatic onset and is usually first diagnosed between the ages of 20–40 years. The pathology of the... Read More about The interaction between viral and environmental risk factors in the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis.

Are you watching me?: the role of audience and object novelty on overimitation (2019)
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Marsh, L. E., Ropar, D., & De C. Hamilton, A. F. (2019). Are you watching me?: the role of audience and object novelty on overimitation. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 180, 123-130. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2018.12.010

This study tests whether overimitation is subject to an audience effect, and whether it is modulated by object novelty. Eighty-six 4-to-11-year old children watched a demonstrator open novel and familiar boxes, using sequences of necessary and unnece... Read More about Are you watching me?: the role of audience and object novelty on overimitation.

Optimal distillation of quantum coherence with reduced waste of resources (2019)
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Torun, G., Lami, L., Adesso, G., & Yildiz, A. (2019). Optimal distillation of quantum coherence with reduced waste of resources. Physical Review A, 99(1), Article 012321. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.99.012321

We present an optimal probabilistic protocol to distill quantum coherence. Inspired by a specific entanglement distillation protocol, our main result yields a strictly incoherent operation that produces one of a family of maximally coherent states of... Read More about Optimal distillation of quantum coherence with reduced waste of resources.

An efficient algorithm for computing exact system and survival signatures of K-terminal network reliability (2019)
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Reed, S., Löfstrand, M., & Andrews, J. (2019). An efficient algorithm for computing exact system and survival signatures of K-terminal network reliability. Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 185, 429-439. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ress.2019.01.011

An efficient algorithm is presented for computing exact system and survival signatures of K-terminal reliability in undirected networks with unreliable edges. K-terminal reliability is defined as the probability that a subset K of the network nodes c... Read More about An efficient algorithm for computing exact system and survival signatures of K-terminal network reliability.

The influence of non-ionic surfactants on electrosynthesis in extended channel, narrow gap electrolysis cells (2019)
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Folgueiras-Amador, A. A., Jolley, K. E., Birkin, P. R., Brown, R. C., Pletcher, D., Pickering, S., Sharabi, M., de Frutos, O., Mateos, C., & Rincón, J. A. (2019). The influence of non-ionic surfactants on electrosynthesis in extended channel, narrow gap electrolysis cells. Electrochemistry Communications, 100, 6-10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.elecom.2019.01.009

It is demonstrated that the addition of a non-ionic surfactant (Triton X-100 or Brij L23) to the electrolyte medium leads to a significant improvement to the current efficiency for the methoxylation of N-formylpyrrolidine in a flow electrolysis cell... Read More about The influence of non-ionic surfactants on electrosynthesis in extended channel, narrow gap electrolysis cells.

Quasi-normal modes and fermionic vacuum decay around a Kerr black hole (2019)
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Coutant, A., & Millington, P. (2019). Quasi-normal modes and fermionic vacuum decay around a Kerr black hole. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 36(3), Article 035005. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/aaf679

We analyze the instability of the non-rotating fermion vacuum in Kerr spacetimes. We describe how the co-rotating Fermi sea is formed as a result of a spontaneous vacuum decay. Most significantly, and drawing upon intuition gained from analogous elec... Read More about Quasi-normal modes and fermionic vacuum decay around a Kerr black hole.

Participatory research approaches to integrating scientific and farmer knowledge of soil to meet multiple objectives in the English East Midlands (2019)
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Morris, C., Seymour, S., Jones, S., Stoate, C., & Crotty, F. (2019). Participatory research approaches to integrating scientific and farmer knowledge of soil to meet multiple objectives in the English East Midlands. Soil Use and Management, 35(1), 150-159. https://doi.org/10.1111/sum.12488

Soil management influences food production, economic performance of farm businesses, and a range of public benefits such as water quality, flood control and aquatic and terrestrial biodiversity. The aim of this paper is to explore the role of part... Read More about Participatory research approaches to integrating scientific and farmer knowledge of soil to meet multiple objectives in the English East Midlands.

A Framework for Environmental Mitigation in Convention and Exhibition Centers in the China Greater Bay Area (2019)
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Chan, W., Mak, B., Lee, D., & Zhang, C. (2019). A Framework for Environmental Mitigation in Convention and Exhibition Centers in the China Greater Bay Area. Journal of Convention and Event Tourism, 20(1), 44-63. https://doi.org/10.1080/15470148.2018.1563011

The numerous participants in convention and exhibition (C&E) events and the consequently huge consumption of direct and indirect resources have increased the environmental pressure on C&E centers to implement environmentally friendly practices and pr... Read More about A Framework for Environmental Mitigation in Convention and Exhibition Centers in the China Greater Bay Area.

Entropy and its Application to Urban Systems (2019)
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Purvis, B., Mao, Y., & Robinson, D. (2019). Entropy and its Application to Urban Systems. Entropy, 21(1), Article 56. https://doi.org/10.3390/e21010056

Since its conception over 150 years ago, entropy has enlightened and confused scholars and students alike, from its origins in physics and beyond. More recently, it has been considered within the urban context in a rather eclectic range of applicatio... Read More about Entropy and its Application to Urban Systems.

Multinationals and the globalization of R&D (2019)
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García-Vega, M., Hofmann, P., & Kneller, R. (2019). Multinationals and the globalization of R&D. International Journal of Industrial Organization, 63, 583-614. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijindorg.2019.01.001

In this paper we consider how the location, organization and output of knowledge production evolve within domestic firms following acquisition-FDI in order to understand the aggregate effect on an index of domestically produced innovations. We find s... Read More about Multinationals and the globalization of R&D.

Service innovation through resource integration: An empirical examination of co-created value using telehealth services (2019)
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Go Jefferies, J., Bishop, S., & Hibbert, S. (2021). Service innovation through resource integration: An empirical examination of co-created value using telehealth services. Public Policy and Administration, 36(1), 69-88. https://doi.org/10.1177/0952076718822715

Scholars, policymakers and practitioners recognise the potential to improve public services through active citizen involvement and much research has examined the formal opportunities to 'co-produce' changes in the structures and cultures of public se... Read More about Service innovation through resource integration: An empirical examination of co-created value using telehealth services.