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Promoting activity, independence and stability in early dementia and mild cognitive impairment (PrAISED): development of an intervention for people with mild cognitive impairment and dementia (2018)
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Booth, V., Harwood, R. H., Hood-Moore, V., Bramley, T., Hancox, J. E., Robertson, K., …Logan, P. (2018). Promoting activity, independence and stability in early dementia and mild cognitive impairment (PrAISED): development of an intervention for people with mild cognitive impairment and dementia. Clinical Rehabilitation, 32(7), 855-864. https://doi.org/10.1177/0269215518758149

This series of articles for rehabilitation in practice aims to cover a knowledge element of the rehabilitation medicine curriculum. Nevertheless, they are intended to be of interest to a multidisciplinary audience. The competency addressed in this ar... Read More about Promoting activity, independence and stability in early dementia and mild cognitive impairment (PrAISED): development of an intervention for people with mild cognitive impairment and dementia.

Multi-modal, multi-source reading: a multi-representational reader’s perspective (2018)
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Ainsworth, S. E. (2018). Multi-modal, multi-source reading: a multi-representational reader’s perspective. Learning and Instruction, 57, 71-75. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2018.01.014

In this commentary, I review the five articles that comprise the Special Issue titled ‘Towards a model of multi-source, multi-modal processing”. The papers are discussed in terms of how they help us understand the “second generational” issues of read... Read More about Multi-modal, multi-source reading: a multi-representational reader’s perspective.

Learning Shared Control by Demonstration for Personalized Wheelchair Assistance (2018)
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Kucukyilmaz, A., & Demiris, Y. (2018). Learning Shared Control by Demonstration for Personalized Wheelchair Assistance. IEEE Transactions on Haptics, 11(3), 431-442. https://doi.org/10.1109/TOH.2018.2804911

An emerging research problem in assistive robotics is the design of methodologies that allow robots to provide personalized assistance to users. For this purpose, we present a method to learn shared control policies from demonstrations offered by a h... Read More about Learning Shared Control by Demonstration for Personalized Wheelchair Assistance.

Using personalized teaching and learning to improve clinical performance (2018)
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Sandars, J., & Patel, R. (2018). Using personalized teaching and learning to improve clinical performance. British Journal of Hospital Medicine, 79(2), 102-105. https://doi.org/10.12968/hmed.2018.79.2.102

The intention of personalized teaching and learning to improve clinical performance is the optimization of individual performance across a variety of tasks in different environments. Educational interventions need to have a focus on the assessment an... Read More about Using personalized teaching and learning to improve clinical performance.

Effect of nonlinear electrostatic forces on the dynamic behaviour of a capacitive ring-based Coriolis Vibrating Gyroscope under severe shock (2018)
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Chouvion, B., McWilliam, S., & Popov, A. A. (2018). Effect of nonlinear electrostatic forces on the dynamic behaviour of a capacitive ring-based Coriolis Vibrating Gyroscope under severe shock. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 106, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ymssp.2017.12.043

This paper investigates the dynamic behaviour of capacitive ring-based Coriolis Vibrating Gyroscopes (CVGs) under severe shock conditions. A general analytical model is developed for a multi-supported ring resonator by describing the in-plane ring re... Read More about Effect of nonlinear electrostatic forces on the dynamic behaviour of a capacitive ring-based Coriolis Vibrating Gyroscope under severe shock.

Exploring the design space of nonlinear shallow arches with generalised path-following (2018)
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Cox, B. S., Groh, R. M., Avitabile, D., & Pirrera, A. (2018). Exploring the design space of nonlinear shallow arches with generalised path-following. Finite Elements in Analysis and Design, 143, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.finel.2018.01.004

The classic snap-through problem of shallow arches is revisited using the so-called generalised path-following technique. Classical buckling theory is a popular tool for designing structures prone to instabilities, albeit with limited applicability a... Read More about Exploring the design space of nonlinear shallow arches with generalised path-following.

RBL cells as models for in vitro studies of mast cells and basophils (2018)
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Falcone, F. H., Wan, D., Barwary, N., & Sagi-Eisenberg, R. (2018). RBL cells as models for in vitro studies of mast cells and basophils. Immunological Reviews, 282(1), 47-57. https://doi.org/10.1111/imr.12628

Since their establishment in 1981, RBL-2H3 cells have been widely used as a mast cell (MC) model. Their ability to be easily grown in culture in large amounts, their responsiveness to FcεRI-mediated triggers and the fact that they can be genetically... Read More about RBL cells as models for in vitro studies of mast cells and basophils.

Converting multilevel nonclassicality into genuine multipartite entanglement (2018)
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Regula, B., Piani, M., Cianciaruso, M., Bromley, T. R., Streltsov, A., & Adesso, G. (2018). Converting multilevel nonclassicality into genuine multipartite entanglement. New Journal of Physics, 20, Article 033012. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/aaae9d

Characterizing genuine quantum resources and determining operational rules for their manipulation are crucial steps to appraise possibilities and limitations of quantum technologies. Two such key resources are nonclassicality, manifested as quantum s... Read More about Converting multilevel nonclassicality into genuine multipartite entanglement.

Predicting age from cortical structure across the lifespan (2018)
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Madan, C. R., & Kensinger, E. A. (2018). Predicting age from cortical structure across the lifespan. European Journal of Neuroscience, 47(5), 399-416. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.13835

Despite inter-individual differences in cortical structure, cross-sectional and longitudinal studies have demonstrated a large degree of population-level consistency in age-related differences in brain morphology. The present study assessed how accur... Read More about Predicting age from cortical structure across the lifespan.

Continuum modes of nonlocal field theories (2018)
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Saravani, M. (2018). Continuum modes of nonlocal field theories. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 35, https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/aaaea8

We study a class of nonlocal Lorentzian quantum field theories, where the d'Alembertian operator “box” is replaced by a non-analytic function of the d'Alembertian, f (“box”). This is inspired by the Causal Set program where such an evolution arises a... Read More about Continuum modes of nonlocal field theories.

Analysing the Zenith Tropospheric Delay estimates in on-line Precise Point Positioning (PPP) services and PPP software packages (2018)
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Mendez Astudillo, J., Lau, L., Tang, Y., & Moore, T. (2018). Analysing the Zenith Tropospheric Delay estimates in on-line Precise Point Positioning (PPP) services and PPP software packages. Sensors, 18(2), https://doi.org/10.3390/s18020000

As Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals travel through the troposphere, a tropospheric delay occurs due to a change in the refractive index of the medium. The Precise Point Positioning (PPP) technique can achieve centimeter/millimeter po... Read More about Analysing the Zenith Tropospheric Delay estimates in on-line Precise Point Positioning (PPP) services and PPP software packages.

Quantitative assessment of the sensitivity of dormant AML cells to the BAD mimetics ABT-199 and ABT-737 (2018)
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Yu, N., Seedhouse, C., Russell, N., & Pallis, M. (2018). Quantitative assessment of the sensitivity of dormant AML cells to the BAD mimetics ABT-199 and ABT-737. Leukemia & Lymphoma, 59(10), 2447-2453. https://doi.org/10.1080/10428194.2018.1434884

Cells from patients with acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) that remain dormant and protected by stromal cells may escape effects of chemotherapy. We modelled dormancy in vitro and investigated the ability of Bcl-2 inhibitors ABT-199 and ABT-737 to overco... Read More about Quantitative assessment of the sensitivity of dormant AML cells to the BAD mimetics ABT-199 and ABT-737.

Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS): design and first-year review (2018)
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Smith, A. M., Niemeyer, K. E., Katz, D. S., Barba, L. A., Githinji, G., Gymrek, M., …Vanderplas, J. T. (in press). Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS): design and first-year review. PeerJ Computer Science, https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.147

This article describes the motivation, design, and progress of the Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS). JOSS is a free and open-access journal that publishes articles describing research software. It has the dual goals of improving the quality of... Read More about Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS): design and first-year review.

Near-Field MIMO Communication Links (2018)
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Phang, S., Ivrlac, M. T., Gradoni, G., Creagh, S. C., Tanner, G., & Nossek, J. A. (2018). Near-Field MIMO Communication Links. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, 65(9), 3027-3036. https://doi.org/10.1109/tcsi.2018.2796305

© 2004-2012 IEEE. A procedure to achieve near-field multiple input multiple output (MIMO) communication with equally strong channels is demonstrated in this paper. This has applications in near-field wireless communications, such as Chip-to-Chip (C2C... Read More about Near-Field MIMO Communication Links.

Development of a pre-operative scoring system for predicting risk of post-operative paediatric cerebellar mutism syndrome (2018)
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Liu, J., Dineen, R. A., Avula, S., Chambers, T., Dutta, M., Jaspan, T., …Walker, D. A. (in press). Development of a pre-operative scoring system for predicting risk of post-operative paediatric cerebellar mutism syndrome. British Journal of Neurosurgery, https://doi.org/10.1080/02688697.2018.1431204

BACKGROUND: Despite previous identification of pre-operative clinical and radiological predictors of post-operative paediatric cerebellar mutism syndrome (CMS), a unifying pre-operative risk stratification model for use during surgical consent is cur... Read More about Development of a pre-operative scoring system for predicting risk of post-operative paediatric cerebellar mutism syndrome.

Rapid one-step biotinylation of biological and non-biological surfaces (2018)
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Henry, S., Williams, E., Barr, K., Korchagina, E., Tuzikov, A., Ilyushina, N., …Bovin, N. (2018). Rapid one-step biotinylation of biological and non-biological surfaces. Scientific Reports, 8(1), Article 2845. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-21186-3

We describe a rapid one-step method to biotinylate virtually any biological or non-biological surface. Contacting a solution of biotin-spacer-lipid constructs with a surface will form a coating within seconds on non-biological surfaces or within minu... Read More about Rapid one-step biotinylation of biological and non-biological surfaces.

Design of a stator for a high-speed turbo-generator with fixed permanent magnet rotor radius and volt-ampere constraints (2018)
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Fernando, N., Arumugam, P., & Gerada, C. (2018). Design of a stator for a high-speed turbo-generator with fixed permanent magnet rotor radius and volt-ampere constraints. IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, 33(3), 1311-1320. https://doi.org/10.1109/TEC.2018.2804955

This paper investigates high-speed surface PM machine design for portable turbo-generator applications. The rotor radius is fixed to achieve certain optimal characteristics of the magnet retention mechanism. The basis of this paper is to design and s... Read More about Design of a stator for a high-speed turbo-generator with fixed permanent magnet rotor radius and volt-ampere constraints.

Eigen-transitions in cantilever cylindrical shells subjected to vertical edge loads (2018)
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Coman, C. D., & Bassom, A. P. (2019). Eigen-transitions in cantilever cylindrical shells subjected to vertical edge loads. Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids, 24(3), 701-722. https://doi.org/10.1177/1081286517754133

A thin cantilever cylindrical shell subjected to a transverse shear force at the free end can experience two distinct modes of buckling, depending on its relative thickness and length. If the former parameter is fixed then a short cylinder buckles in... Read More about Eigen-transitions in cantilever cylindrical shells subjected to vertical edge loads.