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Numerical and experimental analysis of a novel heat pump driven sorption storage heater (2017)
Journal Article
Aydin, D., Casey, S. P., Chen, X., & Riffat, S. (2018). Numerical and experimental analysis of a novel heat pump driven sorption storage heater. Applied Energy, 211, 954-974. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2017.11.102

This study investigates a hybrid “solid sorption heat storage/air sourced heat pump” system for energy efficient heating of buildings. The proposed system could convert excess energy generated using photovoltaic panels/off-peak electricity to heat an... Read More about Numerical and experimental analysis of a novel heat pump driven sorption storage heater.

Development of the Fray-Farthing-Chen Cambridge Process: towards the sustainable production of titanium and its alloys (2017)
Journal Article
Hu, D., Dolganov, A., Ma, M., Bhattacharya, B., Bishop, M. T., & Chen, G. Z. (2018). Development of the Fray-Farthing-Chen Cambridge Process: towards the sustainable production of titanium and its alloys. JOM Journal of the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society, 70(2), https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-017-2664-4

The Kroll process has been employed for titanium extraction since the 1950s. It is a labour and energy intensive multi-step semi-batch process. The post-extraction processes for making the raw titanium into alloys and products are also excessive, inc... Read More about Development of the Fray-Farthing-Chen Cambridge Process: towards the sustainable production of titanium and its alloys.

Innovations and technological comebacks (2017)
Journal Article
Foucart, R., Wan, C., & Wang, S. (2018). Innovations and technological comebacks. International Journal of Research in Marketing, 35(1), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijresmar.2017.11.002

Motivated by the comeback of the vinyl, we explore the idea that the success of a third-generation technology (digital music) can have adverse effects on the second generation (CD) but positive effects on the first one (vinyl). This phenomenon arises... Read More about Innovations and technological comebacks.

Leveraging of dynamic export capabilities for competitive advantage and performance consequences: evidence from China (2017)
Journal Article
Efrat, K., Hughes, P., Nemkova, E., Souchon, A. L., & Sy-Changco, J. (2018). Leveraging of dynamic export capabilities for competitive advantage and performance consequences: evidence from China. Journal of Business Research, 84, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2017.11.018

As the business arena becomes more global and therefore dynamic, organizations must balance their capabilities with the demands and the conditions of the international marketplace. This leads firms to trade off the development of more capabilities wi... Read More about Leveraging of dynamic export capabilities for competitive advantage and performance consequences: evidence from China.

Transitory electrochemical masking for precision jet processing techniques (2017)
Journal Article
Mitchell-Smith, J., Speidel, A., & Clare, A. (2018). Transitory electrochemical masking for precision jet processing techniques. Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 31, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmapro.2017.11.028

Electrochemical jet processing techniques provide an efficient method for large area surface structuring and micro-milling, where the metallurgy of the near-surface is assured and not adversely affected by thermal loading. Here, doped electrolytes ar... Read More about Transitory electrochemical masking for precision jet processing techniques.

Adult education, spirit and the 'New Age': Sir George Trevelyan and the Shropshire Adult Education College at Attingham 1948-76 (2017)
Thesis
Clancy, S. L. Adult education, spirit and the 'New Age': Sir George Trevelyan and the Shropshire Adult Education College at Attingham 1948-76. (Thesis). University of Nottingham

This thesis presents an interdisciplinary study of post-Second World War short-term residential adult education, through an investigation of the Shropshire Adult Education College (SAEC), 1948-1976. This was located at Attingham Park, Atcham, Shropsh... Read More about Adult education, spirit and the 'New Age': Sir George Trevelyan and the Shropshire Adult Education College at Attingham 1948-76.

Pilgrimage and travel writing in early sixteenth-century England: the pilgrimage accounts of Thomas Larke and Robert Langton (2017)
Journal Article
Lutton, R. (2017). Pilgrimage and travel writing in early sixteenth-century England: the pilgrimage accounts of Thomas Larke and Robert Langton. Viator, 48(3), 333-357. https://doi.org/10.1484/J.VIATOR.5.116358

By 1500 more than 500 written accounts of the Jerusalem pilgrimage alone had been produced in the West, and yet such works continued to be written and, increasingly, printed. How did these works retain their popularity, who was writing them and why?... Read More about Pilgrimage and travel writing in early sixteenth-century England: the pilgrimage accounts of Thomas Larke and Robert Langton.

Is believing for a normative reason a composite condition? (2017)
Journal Article
Cunningham, J. J. (2019). Is believing for a normative reason a composite condition?. Synthese, 196(9), 3889-3910. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-017-1630-6

Here is a surprisingly neglected question in contemporary epistemology: what is it for an agent to believe that p in response to a normative reason for them to believe that p? On one style of answer, believing for the normative reason that q factors... Read More about Is believing for a normative reason a composite condition?.

Explanatory abstractions (2017)
Journal Article
Jansson, L., & Saatsi, J. (2019). Explanatory abstractions. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 70(3), 817–844. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjps/axx016

A number of philosophers have recently suggested that some abstract, plausibly non-causal and/or mathematical, explanations explain in a way that is radically different from the way causal explanation explain. Namely, while causal explanations explai... Read More about Explanatory abstractions.

Generalization and modelling of rigid polyisocyanurate foam reaction kinetics, structural units effect, and cell configuration mechanism (2017)
Journal Article
Xu, J., Wu, T., Sun, W., & Peng, C. (2017). Generalization and modelling of rigid polyisocyanurate foam reaction kinetics, structural units effect, and cell configuration mechanism. Cellular Polymers, 36(6),

PIR/PUR ratio was derived from differential manipulation of generalized polyisocyanurate kinetic model. The structural unit effects on polymerization of isocyanurate, urethane and urea linkages were evaluated based on Mayo-Lewise tercopolymerization... Read More about Generalization and modelling of rigid polyisocyanurate foam reaction kinetics, structural units effect, and cell configuration mechanism.

Towards a coherent implementation of safe building laws and regulations in Cameroon: law, gowernance and institutional imperatives (2017)
Journal Article
Tene, C. B., Omer, S., & Mempouo, B. (2017). Towards a coherent implementation of safe building laws and regulations in Cameroon: law, gowernance and institutional imperatives. Journal of Sustainable Development Law and Policy, 8(2), 87-109. https://doi.org/10.4314/jsdlp.v8i2.5

Over the last decade a sustained pattern of building collapse and fire outbreaks has been observed in various West African countries such as Cameroon, Nigeria and Ghana. This has become a serious concern amongst building practitioners and to the publ... Read More about Towards a coherent implementation of safe building laws and regulations in Cameroon: law, gowernance and institutional imperatives.

A molecular signature of dormancy in CD34+CD38- acute myeloid leukaemia cells (2017)
Journal Article
Al-Asadi, M. G., Brindle, G., Castellanos, M., May, S., Mills, K. I., Russell, N., …Pallis, M. (2017). A molecular signature of dormancy in CD34+CD38- acute myeloid leukaemia cells. Oncotarget, 8(67), 111405-111418. https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.22808

Dormant leukaemia initiating cells in the bone marrow niche are a crucial therapeutic target for total eradication of acute myeloid leukaemia. To study this cellular subset we created and validated an in vitro model employing the cell line TF-1a, tre... Read More about A molecular signature of dormancy in CD34+CD38- acute myeloid leukaemia cells.

Engineering substrate promiscuity in halophilic alcohol dehydrogenase (HvADH2) by in silico design (2017)
Journal Article
Cassidy, J., Bruen, L., Rosini, E., Molla, G., Pollegioni, L., & Paradisi, F. (in press). Engineering substrate promiscuity in halophilic alcohol dehydrogenase (HvADH2) by in silico design. PLoS ONE, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0187482

An alcohol dehydrogenase from the halophilic archaeon Haloferax volcanii (HvADH2) has been engineered by rational design to broaden its substrate scope towards the conversion of a range of aromatic substrates, including flurbiprofenol, that is an int... Read More about Engineering substrate promiscuity in halophilic alcohol dehydrogenase (HvADH2) by in silico design.

New type I ancient compact solutions of the Yamabe flow (2017)
Journal Article
Daskalopoulos, P., del Pino, M., King, J., & Sesum, N. (2017). New type I ancient compact solutions of the Yamabe flow. Mathematical Research Letters, 24(6), 1667-1691. https://doi.org/10.4310/MRL.2017.v24.n6.a5

We construct new ancient compact solutions to the Yamabe flow. Our solutions are rotationally symmetric and converge, as t???, to two self-similar complete non-compact solutions to the Yamabe flow moving in opposite directions. They are type I ancien... Read More about New type I ancient compact solutions of the Yamabe flow.

Assessing the impacts of 1.5 °C global warming–simulation protocol of the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP2b) (2017)
Journal Article
Frieler, K., Lange, S., Piontek, F., Reyer, C. P., Schewe, J., Warszawski, L., …Yamagata, Y. (2017). Assessing the impacts of 1.5 °C global warming–simulation protocol of the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP2b). Geoscientific Model Development, 10(12), https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-4321-2017

In Paris, France, December 2015, the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) invited the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to provide a "special report in 2018 on the impact... Read More about Assessing the impacts of 1.5 °C global warming–simulation protocol of the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP2b).

Computational phase-field modeling (2017)
Book Chapter
Gomez, H., & van der Zee, K. G. (2017). Computational phase-field modeling. In E. Stein, R. de Borst, & T. J. Hughes (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Computational Mechanics, Second Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

Phase-field modeling is emerging as a promising tool for the treatment of problems with interfaces. The classical description of interface problems requires the numerical solution of partial differential equations on moving domains in which the domai... Read More about Computational phase-field modeling.