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Byzantine yperpyra and Venetian ducats: Missing pieces in the puzzle of monetary theory (2018)
Journal Article
Sotiropoulou, I. (2018). Byzantine yperpyra and Venetian ducats: Missing pieces in the puzzle of monetary theory. Economic Alternatives, 12(3), 419-434

Summary
The paper stems from a greater project on economic history concerning the monetary system and policies of medieval and renaissance Venice, with a special focus on Venice’s colony of Crete. The Venetian monetary system included various curren... Read More about Byzantine yperpyra and Venetian ducats: Missing pieces in the puzzle of monetary theory.

Laboratory study on the effects of hydro kinetic turbines on hydrodynamics and sediment dynamics (2018)
Journal Article
Ramírez-Mendoza, R., Amoudry, L., Thorne, P., Cooke, R., McLelland, S., Jordan, L., Simmons, S., Parsons, D., & Murdoch, L. (2018). Laboratory study on the effects of hydro kinetic turbines on hydrodynamics and sediment dynamics. Renewable energy, 129(Part A), 271-284. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2018.05.094

© 2018 The Authors The need for hydrokinetic turbine wake characterisation and their environmental impact has led to a number of studies. However, a small number of them have taken into account mobile sediment bed effects. The aim of the present work... Read More about Laboratory study on the effects of hydro kinetic turbines on hydrodynamics and sediment dynamics.

Connectivity as an emergent property of geomorphic systems (2018)
Journal Article
Wohl, E., Brierley, G., Cadol, D., Coulthard, T. J., Covino, T., Fryirs, K. A., Grant, G., Hilton, R. G., Lane, S. N., Magilligan, F. J., Meitzen, K. M., Passalacqua, P., Poeppl, R. E., Rathburn, S. L., & Sklar, L. S. (2019). Connectivity as an emergent property of geomorphic systems. Earth surface processes and landforms : the journal of the British Geomorphological Research Group, 44(1), 4-26. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.4434

Connectivity describes the efficiency of material transfer between geomorphic system components such as hillslopes and rivers or longitudinal segments within a river network. Representations of geomorphic systems as networks should recognize that the... Read More about Connectivity as an emergent property of geomorphic systems.

Cases of energy system in a green building in UK (2018)
Book Chapter
Zhao, X., Ma, X., Xu, P., Thierno, D., Zhu, Z., & Zhou, J. (2018). Cases of energy system in a green building in UK. In R. Wang, & X. Zhai (Eds.), Handbook of Energy Systems in Green Buildings (1741-1794). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49120-1_15

© Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018. This chapter gives an overview of the current development of the indirect evaporative cooling technologies, PV and PV/T solar energy systems, natural ventilation systems, heat recovery systems, and low-energ... Read More about Cases of energy system in a green building in UK.

Off-design performance modelling of a solar organic Rankine cycle integrated with pressurized hot water storage unit for community level application (2018)
Journal Article
Kutlu, C., Li, J., Su, Y., Pei, G., & Riffat, S. (2018). Off-design performance modelling of a solar organic Rankine cycle integrated with pressurized hot water storage unit for community level application. Energy Conversion and Management, 166, 132-145. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2018.04.024

Solar organic Rankine cycle (ORC) has advantages over common PV systems in view of the flexible operation even if solar radiation is unavailable. However, at present the dynamic performance of solar ORC with respect to the off-design behaviour of sto... Read More about Off-design performance modelling of a solar organic Rankine cycle integrated with pressurized hot water storage unit for community level application.

Bedform migration in a mixed sand and cohesive clay intertidal environment and implications for bed material transport predictions (2018)
Journal Article
Lichtman, I. D., Baas, J. H., Amoudry, L. O., Thorne, P. D., Malarkey, J., Hope, J. A., Peakall, J., Paterson, D. M., Bass, S. J., Cooke, R. D., Manning, A. J., Davies, A. G., Parsons, D. R., & Ye, L. (2018). Bedform migration in a mixed sand and cohesive clay intertidal environment and implications for bed material transport predictions. Geomorphology, 315, 17-32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2018.04.016

Many coastal and estuarine environments are dominated by mixtures of non-cohesive sand and cohesive mud. The migration rate of bedforms, such as ripples and dunes, in these environments is important in determining bed material transport rates to info... Read More about Bedform migration in a mixed sand and cohesive clay intertidal environment and implications for bed material transport predictions.

Beyond equilibrium: Re-evaluating physical modelling of fluvial systems to represent climate changes (2018)
Journal Article
Baynes, E. R., van de Lageweg, W. I., McLelland, S. J., Parsons, D. R., Aberle, J., Dijkstra, J., Henry, P.-Y., Rice, S. P., Thom, M., & Moulin, F. (2018). Beyond equilibrium: Re-evaluating physical modelling of fluvial systems to represent climate changes. Earth-Science Reviews, 181, 82-97. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2018.04.007

© 2018 Elsevier B.V. The interactions between water, sediment and biology in fluvial systems are complex and driven by multiple forcing mechanisms across a range of spatial and temporal scales. In a changing climate, some meteorological drivers are e... Read More about Beyond equilibrium: Re-evaluating physical modelling of fluvial systems to represent climate changes.

How to recognize crescentic bedforms formed by supercritical turbidity currents in the geologic record: Insights from active submarine channels (2018)
Journal Article
Hage, S., Cartigny, M. J., Clare, M. A., Sumner, E. J., Vendettuoli, D., Clarke, J. E., Hubbard, S. M., Talling, P. J., Gwyn Lintern, D., Stacey, C. D., Englert, R. G., Vardy, M. E., Hunt, J. E., Yokokawa, M., Parsons, D. R., Hizzett, J. L., Azpiroz-Zabala, M., & Vellinga, A. J. (2018). How to recognize crescentic bedforms formed by supercritical turbidity currents in the geologic record: Insights from active submarine channels. Geology, 46(6), 563-566. https://doi.org/10.1130/G40095.1

© 2018 Geological Society of America. Submarine channels have been important throughout geologic time for feeding globally significant volumes of sediment f rom land to the deep sea. Modern observations show that submarine channels can be sculpted by... Read More about How to recognize crescentic bedforms formed by supercritical turbidity currents in the geologic record: Insights from active submarine channels.

Physical Activity Classification for Elderly People in Free-Living Conditions (2018)
Journal Article
Awais, M., Chiari, L., Ihlen, E. A. F., Helbostad, J. L., & Palmerini, L. (2019). Physical Activity Classification for Elderly People in Free-Living Conditions. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 23(1), 197-207. https://doi.org/10.1109/jbhi.2018.2820179

Physical activity is strongly linked with mental and physical health in the elderly population and accurate monitoring of activities of daily living (ADLs) can help improve quality of life and well-being. This study presents and validates an inertial... Read More about Physical Activity Classification for Elderly People in Free-Living Conditions.

The influence of solvent representation on nuclear shielding calculations of protonation states of small biological molecules (2018)
Journal Article
Roggatz, C. C., Lorch, M., & Benoit, D. M. (2018). The influence of solvent representation on nuclear shielding calculations of protonation states of small biological molecules. Journal of chemical theory and computation : JCTC, 14(5), 2684-2695. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jctc.7b01020

In this study, we assess the influence of solvation on the accuracy and reliability of isotropic nuclear magnetic shielding calculations for amino acids in comparison to experimental data. We focus particularly on the performance of solvation methods... Read More about The influence of solvent representation on nuclear shielding calculations of protonation states of small biological molecules.