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Performance evaluation of a naturally ventilated photovoltaic-thermal (PV/T) solar collector: a case study (2018)
Journal Article
Shahsavar, A., Sardari, P. T., Yasseri, S., & Mahani, R. B. (2018). Performance evaluation of a naturally ventilated photovoltaic-thermal (PV/T) solar collector: a case study. International Journal of Energy and Environment, 9(5), 455-472

The objective of this paper is to design and analyze a naturally ventilated photovoltaic-thermal (PV/T) air collector numerically and experimentally in both glazed and unglazed conditions. To reduce the panel's temperature, a thin metal sheet in the... Read More about Performance evaluation of a naturally ventilated photovoltaic-thermal (PV/T) solar collector: a case study.

A Functional Regression Approach to Facial Landmark Tracking (2018)
Journal Article
Sánchez-Lozano, E., Tzimiropoulos, G., Martinez, B., De la Torre, F., & Valstar, M. (2018). A Functional Regression Approach to Facial Landmark Tracking. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 40(9), 2037-2050. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPAMI.2017.2745568

© 1979-2012 IEEE. Linear regression is a fundamental building block in many face detection and tracking algorithms, typically used to predict shape displacements from image features through a linear mapping. This paper presents a Functional Regressio... Read More about A Functional Regression Approach to Facial Landmark Tracking.

Experimental fiction or classical story-telling?: Alexander Kluge’s multi-media authorship (2018)
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Uecker, M. (2018). Experimental fiction or classical story-telling?: Alexander Kluge’s multi-media authorship. Monatshefte, 110(3), 364-386

Alexander Kluge has created a huge oeuvre concerned with history and story-telling. His books, combine short narrative forms into large constructions in which the different parts all complement each other and create a seemingly never-ending series of... Read More about Experimental fiction or classical story-telling?: Alexander Kluge’s multi-media authorship.

Short-term (less 8 wk) high-intensity interval training in diseased cohorts (2018)
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Blackwell, J. E., Doleman, B., Herrod, P., Ricketts, S., Phillips, B. E., Lund, J. N., & Williams, J. P. (2018). Short-term (less 8 wk) high-intensity interval training in diseased cohorts. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 50(9), 1740–1749. https://doi.org/10.1249/MSS.0000000000001634

Background and Aim: Exercise training regimes can lead to improvements in measures of cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF), improved general health, and reduced morbidity and overall mortality risk. High-intensity interval training (HIIT) offers a time-ef... Read More about Short-term (less 8 wk) high-intensity interval training in diseased cohorts.

Parametric polymorphism and operational improvement (2018)
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Hackett, J., & Hutton, G. (2018). Parametric polymorphism and operational improvement. Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages, 2(ICFP), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1145/3236763

Parametricity, in both operational and denotational forms, has long been a useful tool for reasoning about program correctness. However, there is as yet no comparable technique for reasoning about program improvement, that is, when one program uses f... Read More about Parametric polymorphism and operational improvement.

Workplace policies and practices promoting physical activity across England: what is commonly used and what works? (2018)
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Knox, E., Musson, H., & Adams, E. (2018). Workplace policies and practices promoting physical activity across England: what is commonly used and what works?. International Journal of Workplace Health Management, 10(5), 391-403. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJWHM-01-2017-0004

Purpose Many adults fail to achieve sufficient moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA). Understanding how workplaces most effectively promote physical activity can benefit public health. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected via tw... Read More about Workplace policies and practices promoting physical activity across England: what is commonly used and what works?.

Charlesworth and Percy on Negligence (2018)
Book
Walton, C., Armitage, M., Cooper, R., Hyde, R., Kramer, P., & Todd, S. (Eds.). (2018). Charlesworth and Percy on Negligence. London: Sweet and Maxwell

Parasites and pets: a veterinary nursing guide (2018)
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Elsheikha, H., Wright, I. G., & McGarry, J. W. (2018). H. M. Elsheikha (Ed.). Parasites and pets: a veterinary nursing guide. CAB International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1079/9781786394040.0000

This book, primarily focussing on parasitic diseases of cats and dogs, is designed specifically for veterinary nurses and students and adopts an enquiry based approach essential for consolidating knowledge and a deep practical understanding of this i... Read More about Parasites and pets: a veterinary nursing guide.

Fit for life after cancer: does exercise timing matter? (2018)
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O'Connor, D., Daly, A., Mulvin, C., & Lennon, O. (2022). Fit for life after cancer: does exercise timing matter?. BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care, 12(e1), E1-E4. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjspcare-2018-001581

Objectives To assess the effects of a single exercise session per week for 6 weeks on quality of life (QoL), fatigue and exercise participation in male and female cancer survivors with follow-up at 6 months. A secondary aim was to identify if the tim... Read More about Fit for life after cancer: does exercise timing matter?.

Alterities of global citizenship: education, human rights, and everyday bordering (2018)
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Swanson, D. M., & Gamal, M. (2018). Alterities of global citizenship: education, human rights, and everyday bordering. Justice, Power and Resistance, 2(2), 357-388

Assumptions abound regarding societal embetterment at the heart of global interconnections and the distributions of knowledge through international educational organisations and structures worldwide (Swanson, 2013; 2015). In schools and higher educat... Read More about Alterities of global citizenship: education, human rights, and everyday bordering.

Constitutionalism and cultural identity as revolutionary concepts in German political radicalism 1806-1819: the case of the Burschenschaftler Karl Follen (2018)
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Oergel, M. (2018). Constitutionalism and cultural identity as revolutionary concepts in German political radicalism 1806-1819: the case of the Burschenschaftler Karl Follen. Comparative Critical Studies, 15(2), 183-205. https://doi.org/10.3366/ccs.2018.0288

The aim of this essay is to investigate the concepts of cultural identity and national sovereignty as they emerge in radical German nationalism after 1806 in relation to French Revolutionary ideas and seek to reconstruct a radical revolutionary, i.e.... Read More about Constitutionalism and cultural identity as revolutionary concepts in German political radicalism 1806-1819: the case of the Burschenschaftler Karl Follen.

Efficiency versus equality in bargaining (2018)
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Galeotti, F., Montero, M., & Poulsen, A. (2019). Efficiency versus equality in bargaining. Journal of European Economic Association, 17(6), 1941-1970. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvy030

© The Author(s) 2019. We consider how the outcome of bargaining varies with changes in the trade-off between equality, efficiency, and total-earnings maximization.We observe that subjects avoid an equal-earning outcome if it is Pareto inefficient; a... Read More about Efficiency versus equality in bargaining.

Bifurcations of self-similar solutions for reversing interfaces in the slow diffusion equation with strong absorption (2018)
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Foster, J., Gysbers, P., King, J., & Pelinovsky, D. (2018). Bifurcations of self-similar solutions for reversing interfaces in the slow diffusion equation with strong absorption. Nonlinearity, 31(10), (4621-4648). doi:10.1088/1361-6544/aad30b. ISSN 0951-7715

Bifurcations of self-similar solutions for reversing interfaces are studied in the slow diffusion equation with strong absorption. The self-similar solutions bifurcate from the time-independent solutions for standing interfaces. We show that such bif... Read More about Bifurcations of self-similar solutions for reversing interfaces in the slow diffusion equation with strong absorption.

Quorum sensing in Pseudomonas savastanoi pv. savastanoi and Erwinia toletana: role in virulence and interspecies interactions in the olive knot (2018)
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Caballo-Ponce, E., Meng, X., Uzelac, G., Halliday, N., Cámara, M., Licastro, D., …Venturi, V. (2018). Quorum sensing in Pseudomonas savastanoi pv. savastanoi and Erwinia toletana: role in virulence and interspecies interactions in the olive knot. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 84(18), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.00950-18

The olive-knot disease (Olea europea L.) is caused by the bacterium Pseudomonas savastanoi pv. savastanoi (PSV). PSV in the olive-knot undergoes interspecies interactions with the harmless endophyte Erwina toletana (ET); PSV and ET co-localize and fo... Read More about Quorum sensing in Pseudomonas savastanoi pv. savastanoi and Erwinia toletana: role in virulence and interspecies interactions in the olive knot.

Gene therapy using plasmid DNA encoding VEGF164 and FGF2 genes: a novel treatment of naturally occurring tendinitis and desmitis in horses (2018)
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Kovac, M., Litvin, Y. A., Aliev, R. O., Zakirova, E. Y., Rutland, C. S., Kiyasov, A. P., & Rizvanov, A. A. (2018). Gene therapy using plasmid DNA encoding VEGF164 and FGF2 genes: a novel treatment of naturally occurring tendinitis and desmitis in horses. Frontiers in Pharmacology, 9, https://doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2018.00978

This clinical study describes the intralesional application of the plasmid DNA encoding two therapeutic species-specific growth factors: vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF164) and fibroblast growth factor 2 (FGF2) in seven horses to restore nat... Read More about Gene therapy using plasmid DNA encoding VEGF164 and FGF2 genes: a novel treatment of naturally occurring tendinitis and desmitis in horses.

Hybridization and covalency in the Group 2 and Group 12 metal cation/rare gas complexes (2018)
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Tuttle, W., Harris, J., Zheng, Y., Breckenridge, W., & Wright, T. (2018). Hybridization and covalency in the Group 2 and Group 12 metal cation/rare gas complexes. Journal of Physical Chemistry A, doi:10.1021/acs.jpca.8b07139. ISSN 1089-5639

We provide a consistent set of interaction energy curves for the Group 2 (IIA) and Group 12 (IIB) metal cation/rare gas complexes, M+-RG, where M+= Be+–Ra+ and Zn+–Hg+; and RG = He–Rn. We report spectroscopic constants derived from these, compare the... Read More about Hybridization and covalency in the Group 2 and Group 12 metal cation/rare gas complexes.