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Sampling effects on the quantification of sodium content in infant formula using laser induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) (2018)
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Cama-Moncunill, X., Markiewicz-Keszycka, M., Cama-Moncunill, R., Dixit, Y., Casado-Gavalda, M. P., Cullen, P., & Sullivan, C. (2018). Sampling effects on the quantification of sodium content in infant formula using laser induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS). International Dairy Journal, 85, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.idairyj.2018.04.014

Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) was employed to predict the sodium content of infant formula (IF) over the range 0.5–4 mg Na g−1. Calibration models were built using partial least squares regression (PLS), correlating the LIBS spectral da... Read More about Sampling effects on the quantification of sodium content in infant formula using laser induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS).

Sounding Out Ethnography and Design: Developing Metadata Frameworks for Designing Personal Heritage Soundscapes (2018)
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Chamberlain, A., Bødker, M., & Papangelis, K. (2018). Sounding Out Ethnography and Design: Developing Metadata Frameworks for Designing Personal Heritage Soundscapes. Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 66(6), 468-477. https://doi.org/10.17743/jaes.2018.0025

© 2018 Audio Engineering Society. All rights reserved. The paper presents reflections on understanding the issues of designing locative sonic memory-scapes. As physical space and digital media become ever more intertwined, together forming and augmen... Read More about Sounding Out Ethnography and Design: Developing Metadata Frameworks for Designing Personal Heritage Soundscapes.

Labour market and intra-household dynamics in urban Tanzania (2018)
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Bridges, S., Gaggero, A., & Owens, T. (2018). Labour market and intra-household dynamics in urban Tanzania

While a large body of literature documents the existence of informal arrangements to share risk across and within households, there has been little research on the various coping strategies through which risk sharing takes place, and how these strate... Read More about Labour market and intra-household dynamics in urban Tanzania.

Thermal stability of dialkylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate and hexafluorophosphate ionic liquids: ex situ bulk heating to complement in situ mass spectrometry (2018)
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Clarke, C. J., Puttick, S., Sanderson, T. J., Taylor, A. W., Bourne, R. A., Lovelock, K. R., & Licence, P. (in press). Thermal stability of dialkylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate and hexafluorophosphate ionic liquids: ex situ bulk heating to complement in situ mass spectrometry. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 20(24), 16786-16800. https://doi.org/10.1039/C8CP01090K

Thermal decomposition (TD) products of the ionic liquids (ILs) [CnC1Im][BF4] and [CnC1Im][PF6] ([CnC1Im]+ = 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium, [BF4]- = tetrafluoroborate, and [PF6]- = hexafluorophosphate) were prepared, ex situ, by bulk heating experiments... Read More about Thermal stability of dialkylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate and hexafluorophosphate ionic liquids: ex situ bulk heating to complement in situ mass spectrometry.

Ceiling effects in the Movement Assessment Battery for Children-2 (MABC-2) suggest that non-parametric scoring methods are required (2018)
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French, B., Sycamore, N. J., McGlashan, H. L., Blanchard, C. C., & Holmes, N. P. (in press). Ceiling effects in the Movement Assessment Battery for Children-2 (MABC-2) suggest that non-parametric scoring methods are required. PLoS ONE, 13(6), Article e0198426. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0198426

Initially designed to identify children's movement impairments in clinical settings, the Movement Assessment Battery for Children-2 (MABC-2) is also widely used to evaluate children's movement in research. Standardised scores on the test are calculat... Read More about Ceiling effects in the Movement Assessment Battery for Children-2 (MABC-2) suggest that non-parametric scoring methods are required.

Portfolio allocation as the president's calculations: loyalty, copartisanship, and political context in South Korea (2018)
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Lee, D. S. (2018). Portfolio allocation as the president's calculations: loyalty, copartisanship, and political context in South Korea. Journal of East Asian Studies, 18(3), 345-365. https://doi.org/10.1017/jea.2018.16

How do the president's calculations in achieving policy goals shape the allocation of cabinet portfolios? Despite the growing literature on presidential cabinet appointments, this question has barely been addressed. I argue that cabinet appointments... Read More about Portfolio allocation as the president's calculations: loyalty, copartisanship, and political context in South Korea.

Early, specialist vocational rehabilitation to facilitate return to work after traumatic brain injury: the FRESH feasibility RCT (2018)
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Radford, K. A., Sutton, C., Sach, T., Holmes, J., Watkins, C. L., Forshaw, D., …Phillips, J. (2018). Early, specialist vocational rehabilitation to facilitate return to work after traumatic brain injury: the FRESH feasibility RCT. Health Technology Assessment, 22(33), https://doi.org/10.3310/hta22330

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Up to 160,000 people incur traumatic brain injury (TBI) each year in the UK. TBI can have profound effects on many areas of human functioning, including participation in work. There is limited evidence of the clinical effectiveness and... Read More about Early, specialist vocational rehabilitation to facilitate return to work after traumatic brain injury: the FRESH feasibility RCT.

Long-term topical corticosteroid use and risk of skin cancer: a systematic review (2018)
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Ratib, S., Burden-Teh, E., Leonardi-Bee, J., Harwood, C., & Bath-Hextall, F. (in press). Long-term topical corticosteroid use and risk of skin cancer: a systematic review. JBI Database of Systematic Reviews and Implementation Reports, 16(6), https://doi.org/10.11124/jbisrir-2017-003393

Objective: The objective of this systematic review was to synthesize available research evidence to determine the risk of skin cancer in patients with long-term use of topical corticosteroids (TCS).
Introduction: Topical corticosteroids are one of... Read More about Long-term topical corticosteroid use and risk of skin cancer: a systematic review.

The arts as a medium for care and self-care in dementia: arguments and evidence (2018)
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Schneider, J. M. (2018). The arts as a medium for care and self-care in dementia: arguments and evidence. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 15(6), Article 1151. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15061151

The growing prevalence of dementia, combined with an absence of effective pharmacological treatments, highlights the potential of psychosocial interventions to alleviate the effects of dementia and enhance quality of life. With reference to a manifes... Read More about The arts as a medium for care and self-care in dementia: arguments and evidence.

Variation in the reported management of canine prolapsed nictitans gland and feline herpetic keratitis (2018)
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White, C. N., Jones, G., Baker, S., Dean, R. S., & Brennan, M. L. (2018). Variation in the reported management of canine prolapsed nictitans gland and feline herpetic keratitis. Veterinary Sciences, 5(2), Article 54. https://doi.org/10.3390/vetsci5020054

Treatment variation in medicine may be driven by evidence gaps, clinician factors, and patient preferences. Although well-documented in human medicine, variation in clinical management is relatively unexplored in veterinary practice. Clinical vignett... Read More about Variation in the reported management of canine prolapsed nictitans gland and feline herpetic keratitis.

An MBO Scheme for Minimizing the Graph Ohta–Kawasaki Functional (2018)
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van Gennip, Y. (2018). An MBO Scheme for Minimizing the Graph Ohta–Kawasaki Functional. Journal of Nonlinear Science, 1-49. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00332-018-9468-8

We study a graph based version of the Ohta-Kawasaki functional, which was originally introduced in a continuum setting to model pattern formation in diblock copolymer melts and has been studied extensively as a paradigmatic example of a variational m... Read More about An MBO Scheme for Minimizing the Graph Ohta–Kawasaki Functional.

Risk in synthetic biology: views from the lab (2018)
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McLeod, C., Saille, S. D., & Nerlich, B. (2018). Risk in synthetic biology: views from the lab. EMBO Reports, 19(7), Article e45958. https://doi.org/10.15252/embr.201845958

How do synthetic biologists think about the risks in their research? This paper reports on a novel elicitation method that got surprising answers. Participants reflected not only on technical, but also on societal and psychological risks and responsi... Read More about Risk in synthetic biology: views from the lab.

Multi-scale wave propagation modelling for two-dimensional periodic textile composites (2018)
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Thierry, V., Brown, L., & Chronopoulos, D. (2018). Multi-scale wave propagation modelling for two-dimensional periodic textile composites. Composites Part B: Engineering, 150, 144-156. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compositesb.2018.05.052

In this article, a method allowing vibro-acoustic and ultrasonic wave propagation analysis of highly anisotropic textile composites at a mesoscopic level is presented for the first time. The method combines the advantages of mode-based Component Mode... Read More about Multi-scale wave propagation modelling for two-dimensional periodic textile composites.

Effective design and simulation of surface-based lattice structures featuring volume fraction and cell type grading (2018)
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Maskery, I., Aremu, A., Parry, L., Wildman, R., Tuck, C., & Ashcroft, I. (2018). Effective design and simulation of surface-based lattice structures featuring volume fraction and cell type grading. Materials and Design, 155, 220-232. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2018.05.058

In this paper we present a numerical investigation into surface-based lattice structures with the aim of facilitating their design for additive manufacturing. We give the surface equations for these structures and show how they can be used to tailor... Read More about Effective design and simulation of surface-based lattice structures featuring volume fraction and cell type grading.

One step at a time: representational overlap between active voice, be-passive, and get-passive forms in English (2018)
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Thompson, D., Ferreira, F., & Scheepers, C. (2018). One step at a time: representational overlap between active voice, be-passive, and get-passive forms in English. Journal of Cognition, 1(1), Article 35. https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.36

The active voice and passive voice are complementary sentence forms that are available when describing a transitive event. In English, the latter has two variants: be-passive and get-passive. Numerous attempts have been made in the literature to repr... Read More about One step at a time: representational overlap between active voice, be-passive, and get-passive forms in English.

SiC MOSFET device parameter spread and ruggedness of parallel multichip structures (2018)
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Castellazzi, A., Fayyaz, A., & Kraus, R. (2018). SiC MOSFET device parameter spread and ruggedness of parallel multichip structures. Materials Science Forum, 924, 811-817. https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/msf.924.811

This paper presents a preliminary study of the impact of device electro-thermal parameter spread and temperature variation on the robustness of SiC MOSFET parallel multi-chip power switch architectures. Reference is made to 1200 V – 80 mΩ rated comme... Read More about SiC MOSFET device parameter spread and ruggedness of parallel multichip structures.

Exploration of energy resources in the deep seabed: opportunities for industry, challenges for law (2018)
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Pappa, M. (2018). Exploration of energy resources in the deep seabed: opportunities for industry, challenges for law. International Energy Law Review, 66-74

The Continental Shelf is not the only part of the ocean where energy resources lie. The seabed extending beyond coastal states’ jurisdiction is also rich in hydrocarbons, methane hydrates, and marine genetic resources which can be used to cover the w... Read More about Exploration of energy resources in the deep seabed: opportunities for industry, challenges for law.

Solid papillary breast carcinomas resembling the tall cell variant of papillary thyroid neoplasms (solid papillary carcinomas with reverse polarity) harbour recurrent mutations affecting IDH2 and PIK3CA: a validation cohort (2018)
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Lozada, J. R., Basili, T., Pareja, F., Alemar, B., Paula, A. D. C., Gularte-Merida, R., …Geyer, F. C. (2018). Solid papillary breast carcinomas resembling the tall cell variant of papillary thyroid neoplasms (solid papillary carcinomas with reverse polarity) harbour recurrent mutations affecting IDH2 and PIK3CA: a validation cohort. Histopathology, 73(2), 339-344. https://doi.org/10.1111/his.13522

Aims: Solid papillary breast carcinoma resembling the tall cell variant of papillary thyroid neoplasms (BPTC), also known as solid papillary carcinomawith reverse polarity, is a rare histological type of breast cancer that resembles morphologically t... Read More about Solid papillary breast carcinomas resembling the tall cell variant of papillary thyroid neoplasms (solid papillary carcinomas with reverse polarity) harbour recurrent mutations affecting IDH2 and PIK3CA: a validation cohort.

Solar tracking systems: Technologies and trackers drive types – A review (2018)
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Hafez, A. Z., Yousef, A. M., & Harag, N. M. (2018). Solar tracking systems: Technologies and trackers drive types – A review. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 91, 754-782. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2018.03.094

This paper presents a comprehensive review on solar tracking systems and their potentials in solar energy applications. The paper overviews the design parameters, construction, types and drive system techniques covering different usage application. T... Read More about Solar tracking systems: Technologies and trackers drive types – A review.