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Exploring individual differences in scenario planning workshops: A cognitive style framework (2013)
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Franco, L. A., Meadows, M., & Armstrong, S. J. (2013). Exploring individual differences in scenario planning workshops: A cognitive style framework. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 80(4), 723-734. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2012.02.008

In recent years, scenario planning has enjoyed wide acceptance among practitioners and academics as a decision support aid in the strategy formulation process. Although different approaches to scenario planning are possible, most of them are usually... Read More about Exploring individual differences in scenario planning workshops: A cognitive style framework.

Contextual match and cue-independence of retrieval-induced forgetting: testing the prediction of the model by Norman, Newman, and Detre (2007). (2013)
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Hanczakowski, M., & Mazzoni, G. (2013). Contextual match and cue-independence of retrieval-induced forgetting: testing the prediction of the model by Norman, Newman, and Detre (2007). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 39(3), 953-958. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0030531

Retrieval-induced forgetting (RIF) is the finding of impaired memory performance for information stored in long-term memory due to retrieval of a related set of information. This phenomenon is often assigned to operations of a specialized mechanism r... Read More about Contextual match and cue-independence of retrieval-induced forgetting: testing the prediction of the model by Norman, Newman, and Detre (2007)..

An overview of web-based school collaboration: a history of success or failure? (2013)
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Gouseti, A. (2013). An overview of web-based school collaboration: a history of success or failure?. Cambridge Journal of Education, 43(3), 377-390. https://doi.org/10.1080/0305764X.2013.792785

The notion of school collaboration has become widely recognised as an effective means of fostering cultural links and supporting communication between geographically separated schools. As shall be acknowledged in this paper, school collaboration foll... Read More about An overview of web-based school collaboration: a history of success or failure?.

Correlates of eye colour and pattern in mantellid frogs (2013)
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Amat, F., Wollenberg, K. C., & Vences, M. (2013). Correlates of eye colour and pattern in mantellid frogs. Salamandra - German Journal of Herpetology, 49(1), 7-17

With more than 250 species, the Mantellidae is the most species-rich family of frogs in Madagascar. These frogs are highly diversified in morphology, ecology and natural history. Based on a molecular phylogeny of 248 mantellids, we here examine the d... Read More about Correlates of eye colour and pattern in mantellid frogs.

Social problem solving, social cognition, and mild cognitive impairment in Parkinson's Disease (2013)
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Anderson, R. J., Simpson, A. C., Channon, S., Samuel, M., & Brown, R. G. (2013). Social problem solving, social cognition, and mild cognitive impairment in Parkinson's Disease. Behavioral Neuroscience, 127(2), 184-192. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0030250

Cognitive impairment is a recognized feature of Parkinson's disease (PD), which, even if mild, can impact some aspects of a patient's ability to deal with everyday life. The current study examined the ability to solve social problems in three groups... Read More about Social problem solving, social cognition, and mild cognitive impairment in Parkinson's Disease.

Effects of presentation format and list length on children's false memories (2013)
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Swannell, E. R., & Dewhurst, S. A. (2013). Effects of presentation format and list length on children's false memories. Journal of cognition and development : official journal of the Cognitive Development Society, 14(2), 332-342. https://doi.org/10.1080/15248372.2011.638689

The effect of list length on children's false memories was investigated using list and story versions of the Deese/Roediger-McDermott (DRM) procedure. Short (7 items) and long (14 items) sequences of semantic associates were presented to children age... Read More about Effects of presentation format and list length on children's false memories.

The in-plane thermal conductivity and the contact resistance of the components of the membrane electrode assembly in proton exchange membrane fuel cells (2013)
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Alhazmi, N., Ismail, M. S., Ingham, D. B., Hughes, K. J., Ma, L., & Pourkashanian, M. (2013). The in-plane thermal conductivity and the contact resistance of the components of the membrane electrode assembly in proton exchange membrane fuel cells. Journal of power sources, 241, 136-145. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2013.04.100

Understanding the thermal properties of the materials which are used in a proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEM) is essential for the thermal management of a PEM fuel cell and consequently for improving its performance. In this paper, the parallel... Read More about The in-plane thermal conductivity and the contact resistance of the components of the membrane electrode assembly in proton exchange membrane fuel cells.

Controlling factors on heavy mineral assemblages in Chinese loess and red clay (2013)
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Nie, J., Peng, W., Pfaff, K., Möller, A., Garzanti, E., Andò, S., …Ji, S. (2013). Controlling factors on heavy mineral assemblages in Chinese loess and red clay. Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology, 381-382, 110-118. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.04.020

Heavy-mineral analysis is a sensitive technique in constraining provenance of sandstone, but has rarely been applied to loess. Here we report a heavy-mineral study of selected samples from the Luochuan, Xifeng and Caoxian loess-Red Clay sections on t... Read More about Controlling factors on heavy mineral assemblages in Chinese loess and red clay.

Forecasting asthma-related hospital admissions in London using negative binomial models (2013)
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Soyiri, I. N., Reidpath, D. D., & Sarran, C. (2013). Forecasting asthma-related hospital admissions in London using negative binomial models. Chronic Respiratory Disease, 10(2), 85-94. https://doi.org/10.1177/1479972313482847

Health forecasting can improve health service provision and individual patient outcomes. Environmental factors are known to impact chronic respiratory conditions such as asthma, but little is known about the extent to which these factors can be used... Read More about Forecasting asthma-related hospital admissions in London using negative binomial models.

The metabolic inter-relationships between changes in waist circumference, triglycerides, insulin sensitivity and small, dense low-density lipoprotein particles with acute weight loss in clinically obese children and adolescents (2013)
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Hobkirk, J. P., King, R. F., Davies, I., Harman, N., Gately, P., Pemberton, P., …Carroll, S. (2014). The metabolic inter-relationships between changes in waist circumference, triglycerides, insulin sensitivity and small, dense low-density lipoprotein particles with acute weight loss in clinically obese children and adolescents. Pediatric obesity : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity, 9(3), 209-217. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2047-6310.2013.00165.x

Objective Small, dense low-density lipoprotein (LDL) particles are highly atherogenic and strongly associated with obesity-related dyslipidemia. The metabolic inter-relationships between weight loss induced changes in waist circumference, triglycerid... Read More about The metabolic inter-relationships between changes in waist circumference, triglycerides, insulin sensitivity and small, dense low-density lipoprotein particles with acute weight loss in clinically obese children and adolescents.

Costs of colour change in fish: food intake and behavioural decisions (2013)
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Rodgers, G. M., Gladman, N. W., Corless, H. F., & Morrell, L. J. (2013). Costs of colour change in fish: food intake and behavioural decisions. The journal of experimental biology, 216(14), 2760-2767. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.080879

Many animals, particularly reptiles, amphibians, fish and cephalopods, have the ability to change their body colour, for functions including thermoregulation, signalling and predator avoidance. Many fish plastically darken their body colouration in r... Read More about Costs of colour change in fish: food intake and behavioural decisions.

Model for biomass gasification including tar formation and evolution (2013)
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Palma, C. F. (2013). Model for biomass gasification including tar formation and evolution. Energy and Fuels, 27(5), 2693-2702. https://doi.org/10.1021/ef4004297

Since tar elimination from the product gas is necessary to make gasification an attractive option, the presence of tar was included in a kinetic model. Lignin was assumed as the main precursor of tars due to its aromatic nature; therefore, the lignin... Read More about Model for biomass gasification including tar formation and evolution.

Measurement of the reaction 17O(α,n)20Ne and its impact on the s process in massive stars (2013)
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Best, A., Beard, M., Görres, J., Couder, M., Deboer, R., Falahat, S., …Wiescher, M. (2013). Measurement of the reaction 17O(α,n)20Ne and its impact on the s process in massive stars. Physical Review C - Nuclear Physics, 87(4), Article 045805. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevc.87.045805

Background: The ratio between the rates of the reactions 17O ( α , n ) 20Ne and 17O ( α , γ ) 21Ne determines whether 16O is an efficient neutron poison for the s process in massive stars, or if most of the neutrons captured by 16O(n,γ) are recycled... Read More about Measurement of the reaction 17O(α,n)20Ne and its impact on the s process in massive stars.

Controlling a spillover pathway with the molecular cork effect (2013)
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Marcinkowski, M. D., Jewell, A. D., Stamatakis, M., Boucher, M. B., Lewis, E. A., Murphy, C. J., …Sykes, E. C. H. (2013). Controlling a spillover pathway with the molecular cork effect. Nature Materials, 12(6), 523-528. https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat3620

Spillover of reactants from one active site to another is important in heterogeneous catalysis and has recently been shown to enhance hydrogen storage in a variety of materials. The spillover of hydrogen is notoriously hard to detect or control. We r... Read More about Controlling a spillover pathway with the molecular cork effect.

Effectiveness of a telehealth and telecare learning resource within an undergraduate nursing curriculum. (2013)
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Barrett, D. (2013). Effectiveness of a telehealth and telecare learning resource within an undergraduate nursing curriculum. Journal of the International Society for Telemedicine and eHealth, 1(1), 12-18

This paper discusses the impact of a telehealth and telecare eLearning resource on a cohort of undergraduate nursing students in the United Kingdom. The resource was designed to raise awareness of telehealth and telecare applications, and to introduc... Read More about Effectiveness of a telehealth and telecare learning resource within an undergraduate nursing curriculum..

Abundances of neutron-capture elements in stars of the Galactic disk substructures (2013)
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Mishenina, T. V., Pignatari, M., Korotin, S. A., Soubiran, C., Charbonnel, C., Thielemann, F., …Basak, N. Y. (2013). Abundances of neutron-capture elements in stars of the Galactic disk substructures. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 552, A128. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201220687

Aims. The aim of this work is to present and discuss the observations of the iron peak (Fe, Ni) and neutron-capture element (Y, Zr, Ba, La, Ce, Nd, Sm, and Eu) abundances for 276 FGK dwarfs, located in the Galactic disk with metallicity-1 < [Fe/H]... Read More about Abundances of neutron-capture elements in stars of the Galactic disk substructures.

The Experience of Carers in Supporting People with Intellectual Disabilities through the Process of Bereavement: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (2013)
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Handley, E., & Hutchinson, N. (2013). The Experience of Carers in Supporting People with Intellectual Disabilities through the Process of Bereavement: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 26(3), 186-194. https://doi.org/10.1111/jar.12025

Background: This study explored the personal experiences of family carers and residential care staff in supporting adults with intellectual disabilities through the process of bereavement. Method: A semi-structured interview was used to interview 11... Read More about The Experience of Carers in Supporting People with Intellectual Disabilities through the Process of Bereavement: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis.

Initiators, leaders, and recruitment mechanisms in the collective movements of damselfish (2013)
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Ward, A. J. W., Herbert-Read, J. E., Jordan, L. A., James, R., Krause, J., Ma, Q., …Morrell, L. J. (2013). Initiators, leaders, and recruitment mechanisms in the collective movements of damselfish. The American naturalist, 181(6), 748-760. https://doi.org/10.1086/670242

Explaining how individual behavior and social interac- tions give rise to group-level outcomes and affect issues such as leadership is fundamental to the understanding of collective behavior. Here we examined individual and collective behavioral dyna... Read More about Initiators, leaders, and recruitment mechanisms in the collective movements of damselfish.

Women bishops : equality, rights and disarray (2013)
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Clucas, R., & Sharpe, K. (2013). Women bishops : equality, rights and disarray. Ecclesiastical Law Journal, 15(2), 158-174. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956618X13000185

In this article we discuss the recent history of the failed draft Bishops and Priests (Consecration and Ordination of Women) Measure, situating this within the broader context of the ordination of women and debates around the Equality Act exceptions... Read More about Women bishops : equality, rights and disarray.

Geometric properties of acoustic waves generated by a point source in the solar-like interior: Effects of acoustic cutoff frequency (2013)
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Zharkov, S. (2013). Geometric properties of acoustic waves generated by a point source in the solar-like interior: Effects of acoustic cutoff frequency. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 431(4), 3414-3428. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt420

Acoustic waves generated by a point source in stratified plasma are considered in this paper. An analytical parametric solution for a monochromatic source is derived for the plane-parallel polytrope model of the solar interior. The solution is used t... Read More about Geometric properties of acoustic waves generated by a point source in the solar-like interior: Effects of acoustic cutoff frequency.