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Unravelling the mechanisms of microwave pyrolysis of biomass (2021)
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Robinson, J., Binner, E., Vallejo, D. B., Perez, N. D., Al Mughairi, K., Ryan, J., …Peneranda-Foix, F. (2022). Unravelling the mechanisms of microwave pyrolysis of biomass. Chemical Engineering Journal, 430(Part 3), Article 132975. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2021.132975

This study uses empirical observations and mass transfer simulations to establish a new mechanism for microwave pyrolysis of biomass. Experiments were conducted on cellulose and hemicellulose, using microwave equipment that could vary the observed he... Read More about Unravelling the mechanisms of microwave pyrolysis of biomass.

In-situ Microwave-assisted Catalytic Upgrading of Heavy Oil: Experimental Validation and Effect of Catalyst Pore Structure on Activity (2020)
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Adam, M., Anbari, H., Hart, A., Wood, J., Robinson, J. P., & Rigby, S. P. (2021). In-situ Microwave-assisted Catalytic Upgrading of Heavy Oil: Experimental Validation and Effect of Catalyst Pore Structure on Activity. Chemical Engineering Journal, 413, Article 127420. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2020.127420

In-situ combustion alone may not provide sufficient heating for downhole, catalytic upgrading of heavy oil in the Toe-to-Heel Air Injection (THAI) process. In this study, a new microwave heating technique has been proposed as a strategy to provide th... Read More about In-situ Microwave-assisted Catalytic Upgrading of Heavy Oil: Experimental Validation and Effect of Catalyst Pore Structure on Activity.

Development of a continuous-flow system for microwave-assisted extraction of pectin-derived oligosaccharides from food waste (2020)
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Arrutia, F., Adam, M., Mao, Y., Ángel Calvo-Carrascal, M., & Binner, E. (2020). Development of a continuous-flow system for microwave-assisted extraction of pectin-derived oligosaccharides from food waste. Chemical Engineering Journal, 395, Article 125056. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2020.125056

This paper addresses the current lack of a scalable process for the extraction of “hairy” pectins to upcycle biomasses, by describing the design methodology, building and testing of a continuous microwave-assisted process for potato waste pectin extr... Read More about Development of a continuous-flow system for microwave-assisted extraction of pectin-derived oligosaccharides from food waste.

Microwave synthesis of carbon onions in fractal aggregates using heavy oil as a precursor (2018)
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Adam, M., Hart, A., Stevens, L. A., Wood, J., Robinson, J. P., & Rigby, S. P. (2018). Microwave synthesis of carbon onions in fractal aggregates using heavy oil as a precursor. Carbon, 138, 427-435. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2018.07.066

In this work we report a method for preparing carbon onions through microwave heating of heavy oil. It was shown that microwave heating of heavy oil mixed with a carbon catalyst at 300 W leads to the growth of a several-centimetre long fractal carbon... Read More about Microwave synthesis of carbon onions in fractal aggregates using heavy oil as a precursor.

Microwave pyrolysis of biomass within a liquid medium (2018)
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Shepherd, B. J., Ryan, J., Adam, M., Beneroso Vallejo, D., Castaño, P., Kostas, E. T., & Robinson, J. P. (2018). Microwave pyrolysis of biomass within a liquid medium. Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis, 134, 381-388. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaap.2018.07.004

© 2018 Elsevier B.V. A new approach to pyrolysis is demonstrated that uses microwave heating combined with an external liquid media at atmospheric pressure. The liquid acts as the inerting medium instead of the traditional inert gas, and also acts as... Read More about Microwave pyrolysis of biomass within a liquid medium.

Impact of oil composition on microwave heating behavior of heavy oils (2018)
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Zhang, Y., Adam, M., Hart, A., Wood, J., Rigby, S. P., & Robinson, J. P. (in press). Impact of oil composition on microwave heating behavior of heavy oils. Energy and Fuels, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.7b03675

Electromagnetic heating techniques have recently received significant attention as alternatives to conventional heating methods for thermal processing of viscous and heavy oils. One of the benefits of electromagnetic heating is that the electromagnet... Read More about Impact of oil composition on microwave heating behavior of heavy oils.

Microwave fluidized bed for biomass pyrolysis. Part II: Effect of process parameters (2017)
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Adam, M., Beneroso, D., Katrib, J., Kingman, S., & Robinson, J. P. (in press). Microwave fluidized bed for biomass pyrolysis. Part II: Effect of process parameters. Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining, https://doi.org/10.1002/bbb.1781

The microwave fluidized bed process developed in Part I (DOI: 10.1002/bbb.1780), in which the heating heterogeneity issues are overcome, has been applied to the pyrolysis of biomass. The degree of pyrolysis was established by studying the behavior of... Read More about Microwave fluidized bed for biomass pyrolysis. Part II: Effect of process parameters.

Microwave fluidized bed for biomass pyrolysis. Part I: Process design (2017)
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Adam, M., Beneroso, D., Katrib, J., Kingman, S., & Robinson, J. P. (in press). Microwave fluidized bed for biomass pyrolysis. Part I: Process design. Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining, https://doi.org/10.1002/bbb.1780

The production of bio-oils from microwave pyrolysis has received increasing attention from bioenergy researchers, but no studies reported to date have proposed reliable solutions to avoid thermal runaway. The motivation of this paper is to develop an... Read More about Microwave fluidized bed for biomass pyrolysis. Part I: Process design.

Deep recurrent neural networks for supernovae classification (2017)
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Charnock, T., & Moss, A. (2017). Deep recurrent neural networks for supernovae classification. Astrophysical Journal, 837(2), https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aa603d

We apply deep recurrent neural networks, which are capable of learning complex sequential information, to classify supernovae (code available at https://github.com/adammoss/supernovae). The observational time and filter fluxes are used as inputs to t... Read More about Deep recurrent neural networks for supernovae classification.

Planck intermediate results. XLIX. Parity-violation constraints from polarization data (2016)
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Aghanim, N., Ashdown, M., Aumont, J., Baccigalupi, C., Ballardini, M., Banday, A., …Zonca, A. (in press). Planck intermediate results. XLIX. Parity-violation constraints from polarization data. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 596, Article A110. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201629018

Parity-violating extensions of the standard electromagnetic theory cause in vacuo rotation of the plane of polarization of propagating photons. This effect, also known as cosmic birefringence, has an impact on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) an... Read More about Planck intermediate results. XLIX. Parity-violation constraints from polarization data.

The effect of carboxylate position on the structure of a metal organic framework derived from cyclotriveratrylene (2016)
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Martin, A. D., Easun, T. L., Argent, S. P., Lewis, W., Blake, A. J., & Schröder, M. (2016). The effect of carboxylate position on the structure of a metal organic framework derived from cyclotriveratrylene. CrystEngComm, 19(4), 603-607. https://doi.org/10.1039/c6ce01965j

Two cyclotriveratrylene-based ligands H3L1 and H3L2 have been synthesised using microwave heating and used in the formation of 1 [Zn2(L1)(DMA)2(CH3COO)] and 2 [Zn6(L2)4(DMA)6(H2O)5] (DMA = N,N-dimethylacetamide). 1 displays an unusual trigonal paddle... Read More about The effect of carboxylate position on the structure of a metal organic framework derived from cyclotriveratrylene.

Planck 2015 results. XIX. Constraints on primordial magnetic fields (2016)
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Ade, P., Aghanim, N., Arnaud, M., Arroja, F., Ashdown, M., Aumont, J., …Zonca, A. (2016). Planck 2015 results. XIX. Constraints on primordial magnetic fields. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 594, Article A19. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201525821

We compute and investigate four types of imprint of a stochastic background of primordial magnetic fields (PMFs) on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies: the impact of PMFs on the CMB temperature and polarization spectra, which is relat... Read More about Planck 2015 results. XIX. Constraints on primordial magnetic fields.

Planck 2015 results. XXVII. The second Planck catalogue of Sunyaev-Zeldovich sources (2016)
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Ade, P., Aghanim, N., Arnaud, M., Ashdown, M., Aumont, J., Baccigalupi, C., …Zonca, A. (2016). Planck 2015 results. XXVII. The second Planck catalogue of Sunyaev-Zeldovich sources. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 594, Article A27. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201525823

We present the all-sky Planck catalogue of Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) sources detected from the 29 month full-mission data. The catalogue (PSZ2) is the largest SZ-selected sample of galaxy clusters yet produced and the deepest systematic all-sky surveyof... Read More about Planck 2015 results. XXVII. The second Planck catalogue of Sunyaev-Zeldovich sources.

Planck 2015 results. XXIV. Cosmology from Sunyaev-Zeldovich cluster counts (2016)
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Ade, P., Aghanim, N., Arnaud, M., Ashdown, M., Aumont, J., Baccigalupi, C., …Zonca, A. (2016). Planck 2015 results. XXIV. Cosmology from Sunyaev-Zeldovich cluster counts. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 594, Article A24. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201525833

We present cluster counts and corresponding cosmological constraints from the Planck full mission data set. Our catalogue consists of 439 clusters detected via their Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) signal down to a signal-to-noise ratio of 6, and is more than... Read More about Planck 2015 results. XXIV. Cosmology from Sunyaev-Zeldovich cluster counts.

Planck 2015 results. XVIII. Background geometry and topology of the Universe (2016)
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Ade, P., Aghanim, N., Arnaud, M., Ashdown, M., Aumont, J., Baccigalupi, C., …Zonca, A. (2016). Planck 2015 results. XVIII. Background geometry and topology of the Universe. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 594, Article A18. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201525829

Maps of cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarization from the 2015 release of Planck data provide the highest quality full-sky view of the surface of last scattering available to date. This enables us to detect possible departures f... Read More about Planck 2015 results. XVIII. Background geometry and topology of the Universe.

Planck 2015 results: XXVIII. The Planck Catalogue of Galactic cold clumps (2016)
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Ade, P., Aghanim, N., Arnaud, M., Ashdown, M., Aumont, J., Baccigalupi, C., …Zonca, A. (2016). Planck 2015 results: XXVIII. The Planck Catalogue of Galactic cold clumps. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 594, Article A28. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201525819

We present the Planck Catalogue of Galactic Cold Clumps (PGCC), an all-sky catalogue of Galactic cold clump candidates detected by Planck. This catalogue is the full version of the Early Cold Core (ECC) catalogue, which was made available in 2011 wit... Read More about Planck 2015 results: XXVIII. The Planck Catalogue of Galactic cold clumps.

Planck 2015 results. V. LFI calibration (2016)
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Ade, P., Aghanim, N., Ashdown, M., Aumont, J., Baccigalupi, C., Banday, A., …Zonca, A. (2016). Planck 2015 results. V. LFI calibration. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 594, Article A5. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526632

We present a description of the pipeline used to calibrate the Planck Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) timelines into thermodynamic temperatures for the Planck 2015 data release, covering four years of uninterrupted operations. As in the 2013 data rele... Read More about Planck 2015 results. V. LFI calibration.

Planck 2015 results. IV. Low Frequency Instrument beams and window functions (2016)
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Ade, P., Aghanim, N., Ashdown, M., Aumont, J., Baccigalupi, C., Banday, A., …Zonca, A. (2016). Planck 2015 results. IV. Low Frequency Instrument beams and window functions. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 594, Article A4. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201525809

This paper presents the characterization of the in-flight beams, the beam window functions, and the associated uncertainties for the Planck Low Frequency Instrument (LFI). The structure of the paper is similar to that presented in the 2013 Planck rel... Read More about Planck 2015 results. IV. Low Frequency Instrument beams and window functions.

Planck 2015 results. XVII. Constraints on primordial non-Gaussianity (2016)
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Ade, P., Aghanim, N., Arnaud, M., Arroja, F., Ashdown, M., Aumont, J., …Zonca, A. (2016). Planck 2015 results. XVII. Constraints on primordial non-Gaussianity. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 594, Article A17. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201525836

The Planck full mission cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and E-mode polarization maps are analysed to obtain constraints on primordial non-Gaussianity (NG). Using three classes of optimal bispectrum estimators – separable template-fittin... Read More about Planck 2015 results. XVII. Constraints on primordial non-Gaussianity.

Relationship between hair and salivary cortisol and pregnancy in women undergoing IVF (2016)
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Massey, A., Campbell, B. K., Raine-Fenning, N., Pincott-Allen, C., Perry, J., & Vedhara, K. (2016). Relationship between hair and salivary cortisol and pregnancy in women undergoing IVF. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 74, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2016.08.027

Evidence for an association between cortisol and clinical pregnancy in women undergoing In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) is mixed with previous studies relying exclusively on short term measures of cortisol in blood, saliva, urine, and/or follicular flui... Read More about Relationship between hair and salivary cortisol and pregnancy in women undergoing IVF.

Can illness beliefs, from the common-sense model, prospectively predict adherence to self-management behaviours?: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2016)
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Aujla, N., Walker, M., Sprigg, N., Abrams, K., Massey, A., & Vedhara, K. (in press). Can illness beliefs, from the common-sense model, prospectively predict adherence to self-management behaviours?: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Psychology and Health, 2016, https://doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2016.1153640

Objective: To determine whether people’s beliefs about their illness, conceptualised by the common sense model (CSM), can prospectively predict adherence to self-management behaviours (including, attendance, medication, diet and exercise) in adults w... Read More about Can illness beliefs, from the common-sense model, prospectively predict adherence to self-management behaviours?: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Sodium alginate decreases the permeability of intestinal mucus (2015)
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Mackie, A. R., Macierzanka, A., Aarak, K., Rigby, N. M., Parker, R., Channell, G. A., …Bajka, B. H. (2016). Sodium alginate decreases the permeability of intestinal mucus. Food Hydrocolloids, 52, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodhyd.2015.08.004

In the small intestine the nature of the environment leads to a highly heterogeneous mucus layer primarily composed of the MUC2 mucin. We set out to investigate whether the soluble dietary fibre sodium alginate could alter the permeability of the muc... Read More about Sodium alginate decreases the permeability of intestinal mucus.

The SDSS-IV in 2014: a demographic snapshot (2015)
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Lundgren, B., Kinemuchi, K., Zasowski, G., Lucatello, S., Diamond-Stanic, A. M., Tremonti, C. A., …Gallagher, J. S. (2015). The SDSS-IV in 2014: a demographic snapshot. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 127(954), https://doi.org/10.1086/682387

Many astronomers now participate in large international scientific collaborations, and it is important to examine whether these structures foster a healthy scientific climate that is inclusive and diverse. The Committee on the Participation of Women... Read More about The SDSS-IV in 2014: a demographic snapshot.

‘Axis of evil or access to diesel?: spaces of new imperialism and the Iraq war’ (2015)
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Bieler, A., & Morton, A. D. (2015). ‘Axis of evil or access to diesel?: spaces of new imperialism and the Iraq war’. Historical Materialism, 23(2), https://doi.org/10.1163/1569206X-12341412

The invasion of Iraq in 2003 was waged by the so-called ‘Coalition of the Willing’. This paper will examine how the war was a space in the ongoing geographical extension of global capitalism linked to U.S. foreign policy. Was it simply the decision b... Read More about ‘Axis of evil or access to diesel?: spaces of new imperialism and the Iraq war’.

Uneven and combined development and unequal exchange: the second wind of neoliberal ‘free trade’? (2014)
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Bieler, A., & Morton, A. D. (2014). Uneven and combined development and unequal exchange: the second wind of neoliberal ‘free trade’?. Globalizations, 11(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2014.860334

With capitalist social relations emerging in a prior system of absolutist states in Europe, the outward expansion of capitalism through conditions of uneven and combined development became dependent on the existence of multiple political entities. St... Read More about Uneven and combined development and unequal exchange: the second wind of neoliberal ‘free trade’?.

Native Apps versus Web Apps: which is best for healthcare applications? (2013)
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Selvarajah, K., Craven, M. P., Massey, A., Crowe, J., Vedhara, K., & Raine-Fenning, N. (2013). Native Apps versus Web Apps: which is best for healthcare applications?. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 8005, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39262-7_22

Smartphone applications (Apps) provide a new way to deliver healthcare, illustrated by the fact that healthcare Apps are estimated to make up over 30% of new Apps currently being developed; with this number seemingly set to increase as the benefits b... Read More about Native Apps versus Web Apps: which is best for healthcare applications?.