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A more general model of price complexity (2019)
Journal Article
Chioveanu, I. (2020). A more general model of price complexity. International Journal of Industrial Organization, 69, Article 102563. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijindorg.2019.102563

This paper analyses a model of competition where the …rms set not only prices but also the complexity levels of their prices (which determine how di¢ cult it is for consumers to assess the price o¤ers). Unlike previous work, in this model, the …rms'c... Read More about A more general model of price complexity.

Sequential MPC Strategy for High Performance Induction Motor Drives: a detailed analysis (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Vodola, V., Odhano, S., Norambuena, M., Garcia, C., Vaschetto, S., Zanchetta, P., …Bojoi, R. (2019). Sequential MPC Strategy for High Performance Induction Motor Drives: a detailed analysis. In 2019 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE). https://doi.org/10.1109/ecce.2019.8912708

Examining the effectiveness of general practitioner and nurse promotion of electronic cigarettes versus standard care for smoking reduction and abstinence in hardcore smokers with smoking-related chronic disease: Protocol for a randomised controlled trial (2019)
Journal Article
Begh, R., Coleman, T., Yardley, L., Barnes, R., Naughton, F., Gilbert, H., …Aveyard, P. (2019). Examining the effectiveness of general practitioner and nurse promotion of electronic cigarettes versus standard care for smoking reduction and abstinence in hardcore smokers with smoking-related chronic disease: Protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Trials, 20(1), Article 659. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-019-3850-1

© 2019 The Author(s). Background: Despite the clear harm associated with smoking tobacco, many people with smoking-related chronic diseases or serious mental illnesses (SMI) are unwilling or unable to stop smoking. In many cases, these smokers have t... Read More about Examining the effectiveness of general practitioner and nurse promotion of electronic cigarettes versus standard care for smoking reduction and abstinence in hardcore smokers with smoking-related chronic disease: Protocol for a randomised controlled trial.

Dealing with Non-cooperation at the icc: Towards a More Holistic Approach (2019)
Journal Article
Bekou, O. (2019). Dealing with Non-cooperation at the icc: Towards a More Holistic Approach. International Criminal Law Review, 19(6), 911-937. https://doi.org/10.1163/15718123-02002001

© 2019 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. The article examines the legal and non-legal responses to tackling non-cooperation with requests issued by the International Criminal Court. Through an examination of the Rome Statute regime as... Read More about Dealing with Non-cooperation at the icc: Towards a More Holistic Approach.

Chrysanthemums for Bill: On Lawrentian style and stylistics (2019)
Book Chapter
Stockwell, P. (2019). Chrysanthemums for Bill: On Lawrentian style and stylistics. In P. Simpson (Ed.), Style, rhetoric and creativity in language : in memory of Walter (Bill) Nash (1926-2015) (37-55). John Benjamins Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1075/lal.34.04sto

This chapter on a short story by D. H. Lawrence revisits a key stylistic account of the text by Bill Nash, which was criticised both specifically and as a general representation of stylistic practice. The chapter addresses those criticisms, different... Read More about Chrysanthemums for Bill: On Lawrentian style and stylistics.

VLT/SINFONI study of black hole growth in high redshift radio-loud quasars from the CARLA survey (2019)
Journal Article
Marinello, M., Overzier, R. A., Röttgering, H. J. A., Kurk, J. D., De Breuck, C., Vernet, J., …Saxena, A. (2020). VLT/SINFONI study of black hole growth in high redshift radio-loud quasars from the CARLA survey. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 492(2), 1991–2016. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz3333

Recommendations for measuring whisker movements and locomotion in mice with sensory, motor and cognitive deficits (2019)
Journal Article
Simanaviciute, U., Ahmed, J., Brown, R. E., Connor-Robson, N., Farr, T. D., Fertan, E., …Grant, R. A. (2020). Recommendations for measuring whisker movements and locomotion in mice with sensory, motor and cognitive deficits. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 331, Article 108532. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneumeth.2019.108532

Background : Previous studies have measured whisker movements and locomotion to characterise mouse models of neurodegenerative disease. However, these studies have always been completed in isolation, and do not involve standardized procedures for com... Read More about Recommendations for measuring whisker movements and locomotion in mice with sensory, motor and cognitive deficits.

Polar surface structure of oxide nanocrystals revealed with solid-state NMR spectroscopy (2019)
Journal Article
Chen, J., Wu, X. P., Hope, M. A., Qian, K., Halat, D. M., Liu, T., …Peng, L. (2019). Polar surface structure of oxide nanocrystals revealed with solid-state NMR spectroscopy. Nature Communications, 10(1), Article 5420. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13424-7

© 2019, The Author(s). Compared to nanomaterials exposing nonpolar facets, polar-faceted nanocrystals often exhibit unexpected and interesting properties. The electrostatic instability arising from the intrinsic dipole moments of polar facets, howeve... Read More about Polar surface structure of oxide nanocrystals revealed with solid-state NMR spectroscopy.

Task space-based orientability analysis and optimization of a wire-driven continuum robot (2019)
Journal Article
Wang, C., Geng, S., Branson, D. T., Yang, C., Dai, J. S., & Kang, R. (2019). Task space-based orientability analysis and optimization of a wire-driven continuum robot. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, 233(23-24), 7658-7668. https://doi.org/10.1177/0954406219889083

Compared to traditional rigid robots, continuum robots have intrinsic compliance and therefore behave dexterously when performing tasks in restricted environments. Although there have been many researches on the design and application of continuum ro... Read More about Task space-based orientability analysis and optimization of a wire-driven continuum robot.

FU-Net: Multi-class Image Segmentation Using Feedback Weighted U-Net (2019)
Book Chapter
Jafari, M., Li, R., Xing, Y., Auer, D., Francis, S., Garibaldi, J., & Chen, X. (2019). FU-Net: Multi-class Image Segmentation Using Feedback Weighted U-Net. In Image and Graphics: 10th International Conference, ICIG 2019, Beijing, China, August 23–25, 2019, Proceedings, Part II (529-537). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34110-7_44

© 2019, Springer Nature Switzerland AG. In this paper, we present a generic deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) for multi-class image segmentation. It is based on a well-established supervised end-to-end DCNN model, known as U-net. U-net is firs... Read More about FU-Net: Multi-class Image Segmentation Using Feedback Weighted U-Net.

In vivo delivery of VEGF RNA and protein to increase osteogenesis and intraosseous angiogenesis (2019)
Journal Article
Rumney, R. M. H., Lanham, S. A., Kanczler, J. M., Kao, A. P., Thiagarajan, L., Dixon, J. E., …Oreffo, R. O. C. (2019). In vivo delivery of VEGF RNA and protein to increase osteogenesis and intraosseous angiogenesis. Scientific Reports, 9(1), Article 17745. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-53249-4

Deficient bone vasculature is a key component in pathological conditions ranging from developmental skeletal abnormalities to impaired bone repair. Vascularisation is dependent upon vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), which drives both angioge... Read More about In vivo delivery of VEGF RNA and protein to increase osteogenesis and intraosseous angiogenesis.

Schmallenberg Virus Neutralising Antibody Responses in Sheep (2019)
Journal Article
Jones, S., Eden, L., McKay, H., Bollard, N., Dunham, S., Davies, P., & Tarlinton, R. (2019). Schmallenberg Virus Neutralising Antibody Responses in Sheep. BMC Veterinary Research, 15, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12917-019-2139-7

Schmallenberg virus (SBV) is a midge borne virus of cattle and sheep. Infection is typically asymptomatic in adult sheep but fetal infection during pregnancy can result in abortion, stillbirth, neurological disorders and malformations of variable sev... Read More about Schmallenberg Virus Neutralising Antibody Responses in Sheep.

Principal nested shape space analysis of molecular dynamics data (2019)
Journal Article
Dryden, I. L., Kim, K., Laughton, C. A., & Le, H. (2019). Principal nested shape space analysis of molecular dynamics data. Annals of Applied Statistics, 13(4), 2213-2234. https://doi.org/10.1214/19-AOAS1277

Molecular dynamics simulations produce huge datasets of temporal sequences of molecules. It is of interest to summarize the shape evolution of the molecules in a succinct, low-dimensional representation. However, Euclidean techniques such as principa... Read More about Principal nested shape space analysis of molecular dynamics data.

Thermal and crystallization kinetics of yttrium-doped phosphate-based glasses (2019)
Journal Article
Arafat, A., Samad, S. A., Wadge, M. D., Islam, M. T., Lewis, A. L., Barney, E. R., & Ahmed, I. (2020). Thermal and crystallization kinetics of yttrium-doped phosphate-based glasses. International Journal of Applied Glass Science, 11(1), 120-133. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijag.14163

© 2019 The American Ceramic Society and Wiley Periodicals, Inc Yttrium-doped glasses have been utilized for biomedical applications such as radiotherapy, especially for liver cancer treatment. In this paper, the crystallization behavior of phosphate-... Read More about Thermal and crystallization kinetics of yttrium-doped phosphate-based glasses.

Predictive Voltage Control of the Direct Matrix Converter applied to Grid Current Injection (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Toledo, S., Rivera, M., Dragicevic, T., Caballero, D., Wheeler, P., & Gregor, R. (2020). Predictive Voltage Control of the Direct Matrix Converter applied to Grid Current Injection. In 2019 IEEE CHILEAN Conference on Electrical, Electronics Engineering, Information and Communication Technologies (CHILECON)https://doi.org/10.1109/CHILECON47746.2019.8987518

Predictive control applied to direct matrix converter provide a feasible option to control the output voltage of a generation system with good performance. In this work a predictive voltage control strategy is proposed as the inner loop control of an... Read More about Predictive Voltage Control of the Direct Matrix Converter applied to Grid Current Injection.

Challenges to implementing the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control guidelines on tobacco cessation treatment: a qualitative analysis (2019)
Journal Article
Shelley, D. R., Kyriakos, C. N., McNeill, A., Murray, R., Nilan, K., Sherman, S. E., & Raw, M. (2020). Challenges to implementing the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control guidelines on tobacco cessation treatment: a qualitative analysis. Addiction, 115(3), 527-533. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.14863

© 2019 Society for the Study of Addiction Aim: To identify barriers to implementing the World Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) Article 14 guidelines on tobacco dependence treatment (TDT). Design: Cross-sectiona... Read More about Challenges to implementing the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control guidelines on tobacco cessation treatment: a qualitative analysis.

Engineering of Thermovibrio ammonificans carbonic anhydrase mutants with increased thermostability (2019)
Journal Article
Parra-Cruz, R., Lau, P. L., Loh, H., & Pordea, A. (2020). Engineering of Thermovibrio ammonificans carbonic anhydrase mutants with increased thermostability. Journal of Co2 Utilization, 37, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcou.2019.11.015

Carbonic anhydrase can be used as an additive to improve the efficiency of carbon capture and utilisation processes, due to its ability to increase the rate of CO2 absorption into solvents. Successful industrial application requires robust carbonic a... Read More about Engineering of Thermovibrio ammonificans carbonic anhydrase mutants with increased thermostability.

Experimental Validation of a quasi Z-Source Modular Multilevel Converter with DC Fault Blocking Capability (2019)
Journal Article
Khera, F., Klumpner, C., & Wheeler, P. (2021). Experimental Validation of a quasi Z-Source Modular Multilevel Converter with DC Fault Blocking Capability. IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, 9(2), 1951-1965. https://doi.org/10.1109/jestpe.2019.2955859

This paper considers the design methodology and the modulation of the quasi Z-source modular multilevel converter (qZS-MMC) with half bridge sub-modules and evaluates its performance in voltage boosting mode for medium voltage applications. The qZS-M... Read More about Experimental Validation of a quasi Z-Source Modular Multilevel Converter with DC Fault Blocking Capability.

Stress Management Competency Framework in English policing (2019)
Journal Article
Houdmont, J., Jachens, L., Randall, R., Colwell, J., & Gardner, S. (2019). Stress Management Competency Framework in English policing. Occupational Medicine, 70(1), 31-37. https://doi.org/10.1093/occmed/kqz143

Background The UK Health and Safety Executive’s Stress Management Competency Framework and associated questionnaire, the Stress Management Competency Indicator Tool (SMCIT), address line managers’ behaviours across four competency areas. The applica... Read More about Stress Management Competency Framework in English policing.

Comprehensive and quantitative profiling of B vitamins and related compounds in the mammalian liver (2019)
Journal Article
Xu, J., Clare, C. E., Brassington, A. H., Sinclair, K., & Barrett, D. (2020). Comprehensive and quantitative profiling of B vitamins and related compounds in the mammalian liver. Journal of Chromatography B, 1136, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jchromb.2019.121884

A method for the simultaneous quantification of B vitamins and related amines in one-carbon (1C) metabolism would benefit the study of diet and genetic/epigenetic regulation of mammalian development and health. We present a validated method for the s... Read More about Comprehensive and quantitative profiling of B vitamins and related compounds in the mammalian liver.