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What would most help improve the quality of life of older family carers of people with dementia? A qualitative study of carers’ views (2018)
Journal Article
Oliveira, D., Sousa, L., & Aubeeluck, A. (2020). What would most help improve the quality of life of older family carers of people with dementia? A qualitative study of carers’ views. Dementia, 19(4), 939-950. https://doi.org/10.1177/1471301218791906

Older family carers of people with dementia provide a substantial amount of care for people with dementia in the UK. Caregiving can be stressful and burdensome for these individuals, who are also experiencing psychological and physical changes result... Read More about What would most help improve the quality of life of older family carers of people with dementia? A qualitative study of carers’ views.

Wheat straw availability for bioenergy in England (2018)
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Townsend, T., Sparkes, D., Ramsden, S., Glithero, N., & Wilson, P. (2018). Wheat straw availability for bioenergy in England. Energy Policy, 122, 349-357. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2018.07.053

In an effort to meet energy demands while reducing carbon emissions, crop residues, such as wheat straw, have been investigated for their use as feedstock for biofuel production. In order to identify the feasibility of utilising crop residues as bioe... Read More about Wheat straw availability for bioenergy in England.

Modifying Robusta coffee aroma by green bean chemical pre-treatment (2018)
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Liu, C., Yang, Q., Linforth, R., Fisk, I. D., & Yang, N. (2019). Modifying Robusta coffee aroma by green bean chemical pre-treatment. Food Chemistry, 272, 251-257. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodchem.2018.07.226

Green Robusta beans were subjected to pre-treatment with the aim of reducing the perceived aroma difference between Arabica and Robusta coffee. Treatment was a short soaking procedure with varying concentrations of acetic acid (up to 5%). Samples wer... Read More about Modifying Robusta coffee aroma by green bean chemical pre-treatment.

Lung cancer CT screening: psychological responses in the presence and absence of pulmonary nodules (2018)
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Clark, M. E., Bedford, L. E., Young, B., Robertson, J. F., das Nair, R., Vedhara, K., …Kendrick, D. (2018). Lung cancer CT screening: psychological responses in the presence and absence of pulmonary nodules. Lung Cancer, 124, 160-167. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lungcan.2018.08.001

Objectives: To determine the psychological response (thoughts, perceptions and affect) to a diagnosis of pulmonary nodules following a novel antibody blood test and computed tomography (CT) scans within a UK population. Materials and methods: This... Read More about Lung cancer CT screening: psychological responses in the presence and absence of pulmonary nodules.

Development of aircraft electric starter-generator system based-on active rectification technology (2018)
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Bozhko, S., Yang, T., Le Peuvedic, J., Arumugam, P., Degano, M., La Rocca, A., …Wheeler, P. (2018). Development of aircraft electric starter-generator system based-on active rectification technology. IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification, 4(4), 985-996. https://doi.org/10.1109/TTE.2018.2863031

More-electric aircraft (MEA) has become a dominant trend for modern aircraft. On-board MEA, many functions, which are conventionally driven by pneumatic and hydraulic power, are replaced with electrical subsystems. Starting aircraft engines with an e... Read More about Development of aircraft electric starter-generator system based-on active rectification technology.

Community-based rehabilitation intervention for people with schizophrenia in Ethiopia (RISE): a 12 month mixed methods pilot study (2018)
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Asher, L., Hanlon, C., Birhane, R., Habtamu, A., Eaton, J., Weiss, H. A., …De Silva, M. (2018). Community-based rehabilitation intervention for people with schizophrenia in Ethiopia (RISE): a 12 month mixed methods pilot study. BMC Psychiatry, 18(1), Article 250. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-018-1818-4

BACKGROUND: Community-based rehabilitation (CBR), or community-based inclusive development, is an approach to address the complex health, social and economic needs of people with schizophrenia in low and middle-income countries. Formative work was un... Read More about Community-based rehabilitation intervention for people with schizophrenia in Ethiopia (RISE): a 12 month mixed methods pilot study.

Priming text function in personification allegory: a corpus-assisted approach (2018)
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Cordell, J. (2018). Priming text function in personification allegory: a corpus-assisted approach. Language and Literature, 096394701878851. doi:10.1177/0963947018788516

Current linguistic examination of allegory focuses on its cognitive structure as conceptual metaphor, with its linguistic form realised in the absence of a target domain (Crisp, 2001; 2008). The present study addresses the intersection of conceptuali... Read More about Priming text function in personification allegory: a corpus-assisted approach.

The Three Hundred Project: a large catalogue of theoretically modelled galaxy clusters for cosmological and astrophysical applications (2018)
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Cui, W., Knebe, A., Yepes, G., Pearce, F., Power, C., Dave, R., …Welker, C. (2018). The Three Hundred Project: a large catalogue of theoretically modelled galaxy clusters for cosmological and astrophysical applications. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 480(3), 2898-2915. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty2111

We introduce the The Three Hundred project, an endeavour to model 324 large galaxy clusters with full-physics hydrodynamical re-simulations. Here we present the dataset and study the differences to observations for fundamental galaxy cluster properti... Read More about The Three Hundred Project: a large catalogue of theoretically modelled galaxy clusters for cosmological and astrophysical applications.

Exploring vendor capabilities in the cloud environment: a case study of Alibaba Cloud Computing (2018)
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Zhang, G., & Ravishankar, M. (2018). Exploring vendor capabilities in the cloud environment: a case study of Alibaba Cloud Computing. Information and Management, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.im.2018.07.008

Cloud computing has been viewed as an effective enabler for enhanced operational efficiency and flexibility in the present-day intensely competitive business environment. Despite the increased knowledge on cloud computing, very few studies have been... Read More about Exploring vendor capabilities in the cloud environment: a case study of Alibaba Cloud Computing.

Occupational Choice with Endogenous Spillovers (2018)
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Albornoz, F., Cabrales, A., & Hauk, E. (2019). Occupational Choice with Endogenous Spillovers. Economic Journal, 129(621), 1953-1970. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12634

© 2019 Royal Economic Society. Published by Oxford University Press. We study a model that integrates productive and socialising efforts with occupational choice, and endogenous spillovers. We show that more talented individuals work harder and contr... Read More about Occupational Choice with Endogenous Spillovers.

Coalition-proof full efficient implementation (2018)
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Safronov, M. (2018). Coalition-proof full efficient implementation. Journal of Economic Theory, 177, 659-677. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jet.2018.07.009

The Vickrey-Clarke-Groves and d'Aspremont-Gerard-Varet mechanisms implement efficient social choice by compensating each agent for the externalities that his report imposes on all other agents. Instead of aggregate compensations, which may lead to pr... Read More about Coalition-proof full efficient implementation.

Mid-IR plasmonic compound with gallium oxide toplayer formed by GaSb oxidation in water (2018)
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Bomers, M., Di Paola, D. M., Cerutti, L., Michel, T., Arinero, R., Tournié, E., …Taliercio, T. (2018). Mid-IR plasmonic compound with gallium oxide toplayer formed by GaSb oxidation in water. Semiconductor Science and Technology, 33(9), Article 095009. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6641/aad4bf

The oxidation of GaSb in aqueous environments has gained interest by the advent of plasmonic antimonide-based compound semiconductors for molecular sensing applications. This work focuses on quantifying the GaSb–water reaction kinetics by studying a... Read More about Mid-IR plasmonic compound with gallium oxide toplayer formed by GaSb oxidation in water.

The pharmacokinetics of orally administered butylscopolamine in greyhound dogs (2018)
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Morris, T., Paine, S. W., Viljanto, M., Hudson, S., Gower, S., Pittorino, M., & Colgan, S. (2018). The pharmacokinetics of orally administered butylscopolamine in greyhound dogs. Journal of Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, 41(6), 790-794. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvp.12701

The oral tablet formulation of butylscopolamine, which is available without prescription, is commonly used by trainers of racing greyhounds to treat functional urethral obstruction. As medication control of butylscopolamine is therefore required for... Read More about The pharmacokinetics of orally administered butylscopolamine in greyhound dogs.

A kinematic examination of dual-route processing for action imitation (2018)
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Reader, A. T., Rao, V. M., Christakou, A., & Holmes, N. P. (2018). A kinematic examination of dual-route processing for action imitation. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 80(8), 2069-2083. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-018-1582-z

The dual-route model of imitation suggests that meaningful and meaningless actions are processed through either an indirect or a direct route, respectively. Evidence indicates that the direct route is more cognitively demanding since it relies on map... Read More about A kinematic examination of dual-route processing for action imitation.

Enhancement of char gasification in CO2 during chemical looping combustion (2018)
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Marek, E. J., Zheng, Y., & Scott, S. A. (2018). Enhancement of char gasification in CO2 during chemical looping combustion. Chemical Engineering Journal, 354, 137-148. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2018.07.215

Three chars were gasified in CO2 in a fluidised bed of inert sand or Fe2O3 as an oxygen carrier (either derived from an ore or prepared in the laboratory). Rates of gasification were found to increase with temperature and the presence of active oxyge... Read More about Enhancement of char gasification in CO2 during chemical looping combustion.