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An assessment of the remodelling of bifurcations in hazel (Corylus avellana L.) in response to bracing, drilling and splitting (2016)
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Slater, D., & Ennos, A. R. (2016). An assessment of the remodelling of bifurcations in hazel (Corylus avellana L.) in response to bracing, drilling and splitting. Arboriculture & urban forestry, 42(5), 355-370

This paper provides an insight into the ability of bifurcations in hazel trees to remodel themselves after bracing, drilling and splitting. The study uses evidence from field observations and testing the strength of these bifurcations using a univers... Read More about An assessment of the remodelling of bifurcations in hazel (Corylus avellana L.) in response to bracing, drilling and splitting.

Simultaneous differential scanning calorimetry – synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction : a powerful technique for physical form characterisation in pharmaceutical materials (2016)
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Clout, A., Buanz, A. B. M., Prior, T. J., Reinhard, C., Wu, Y., O'Hare, D., …Gaisford, S. (2016). Simultaneous differential scanning calorimetry – synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction : a powerful technique for physical form characterisation in pharmaceutical materials. Analytical chemistry, 88(20), 10111-10117. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.6b02549

© 2016 American Chemical Society. We report a powerful new technique: hyphenating synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction (XRD) with differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). This is achieved with a simple modification to a standard laboratory DSC instru... Read More about Simultaneous differential scanning calorimetry – synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction : a powerful technique for physical form characterisation in pharmaceutical materials.

“A malignant, seething hatework”: an introduction to U.S. 21st century hardcore horror (2016)
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Aston, J. (2016). “A malignant, seething hatework”: an introduction to U.S. 21st century hardcore horror. Senses of cinema,

The proliferation of U.S. horror films in the 21 st century has engendered an increase in critical and academic response which has almost exclusively focused on the conventions of mainstream horror cinema. That is, films sanctioned by classificatory... Read More about “A malignant, seething hatework”: an introduction to U.S. 21st century hardcore horror.

Barriers to increasing the physical activity of people with intellectual disabilities (2016)
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Cartwright, L., Reid, M., Hammersley, R., & Walley, R. M. (2017). Barriers to increasing the physical activity of people with intellectual disabilities. British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 45(1), 47-55. https://doi.org/10.1111/bld.12175

© 2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd Accessible summary: We talked to people with intellectual disabilities and their carers about being healthy. Sometimes it was difficult for people with intellectual disabilities to take part in activities that would hel... Read More about Barriers to increasing the physical activity of people with intellectual disabilities.

Impact of foreign aid on growth and trade (2016)
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Bhattarai, K. (2016). Impact of foreign aid on growth and trade. Journal of economics and development studies, 4(3), https://doi.org/10.15640/jeds.v4n3a4

Foreign aid from the donors may or may not raise growth rates in receiving countries. In general they may increase investment but if the amount of aid is associated with conditionality of exports, that will have negative impacts on growth rates. Simu... Read More about Impact of foreign aid on growth and trade.

An evaluation of Mesozoic rift-related magmatism on the margins of the Labrador Sea: Implications for rifting and passive margin asymmetry (2016)
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Peace, A., McCaffrey, K., Imber, J., Phethean, J., Nowell, G., Gerdes, K., & Dempsey, E. (2016). An evaluation of Mesozoic rift-related magmatism on the margins of the Labrador Sea: Implications for rifting and passive margin asymmetry. Geosphere, 12(6), 1701-1724. https://doi.org/10.1130/GES01341.1

The Labrador Sea is a small (∼900 km wide) ocean basin separating southwest Greenland from Labrador, Canada. It opened following a series of rifting events that began as early as the Late Triassic or Jurassic, culminating in a brief period of seafloo... Read More about An evaluation of Mesozoic rift-related magmatism on the margins of the Labrador Sea: Implications for rifting and passive margin asymmetry.

Computational text analysis: Thoughts on the contingencies of an evolving method (2016)
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Marciniak, D. (2016). Computational text analysis: Thoughts on the contingencies of an evolving method. Big Data and Society, 3(2), https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951716670190

Mapping a public discourse with the tools of computational text analysis comes with many contingencies in the areas of corpus curation, data processing and analysis, and visualisation. However, the complexity of algorithmic assemblies and the beauty... Read More about Computational text analysis: Thoughts on the contingencies of an evolving method.

Board gender diversity and sustainability reporting quality (2016)
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Al-Shaer, H., & Zaman, M. (2016). Board gender diversity and sustainability reporting quality. Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics, 12(3), 210-222. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcae.2016.09.001

Based on the notion that a diverse board will take a more balanced view and pay greater attention to social responsibility and stakeholder concerns, this paper examines the effect of board gender diversity, measured using a range of proxies, on susta... Read More about Board gender diversity and sustainability reporting quality.

Use of twitter data for waste minimisation in beef supply chain (2016)
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Mishra, N., & Singh, A. (2018). Use of twitter data for waste minimisation in beef supply chain. Annals of Operations Research, 270(1-2), 337-359. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-016-2303-4

© 2016, The Author(s). Approximately one third of the food produced is discarded or lost, which accounts for 1.3 billion tons per annum. The waste is being generated throughout the supply chain viz. farmers, wholesalers/processors, logistics, retaile... Read More about Use of twitter data for waste minimisation in beef supply chain.

Large-Scale Production of V6O13 Cathode Materials Assisted by Thermal Gravimetric Analysis-Infrared Spectroscopy Technology (2016)
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Liang, H. P., Du, J., Jones, T. G., Lawrence, N. S., & Meredith, A. W. (2016). Large-Scale Production of V6O13 Cathode Materials Assisted by Thermal Gravimetric Analysis-Infrared Spectroscopy Technology. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 8(39), 25674-25679. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.6b10832

© 2016 American Chemical Society. The kilogram-scale fabrication of V6O13 cathode materials has been notably assisted by in situ thermal gravimetric analysis (TGA)-infrared spectroscopy (IR) technology. This technology successfully identified a resid... Read More about Large-Scale Production of V6O13 Cathode Materials Assisted by Thermal Gravimetric Analysis-Infrared Spectroscopy Technology.

Factors of resilience in informal caregivers of people with dementia from integrative international data analysis (2016)
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Joling, K. J., Windle, G., Dröes, R., Meiland, F., van Hout, H. P., MacNeil Vroomen, J., …Woods, B. (2016). Factors of resilience in informal caregivers of people with dementia from integrative international data analysis. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders, 42(3-4), 198-214. https://doi.org/10.1159/000449131

Background/Aims: Although caring for a person with dementia can be stressful, some caregivers appear to experience few negative consequences to their well-being. This study aimed to examine what proportion of caregivers demonstrates resilience under... Read More about Factors of resilience in informal caregivers of people with dementia from integrative international data analysis.

Director configuration in the twist-bend nematic phase of CB11CB (2016)
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Miglioli, I., Bacchiocchi, C., Arcioni, A., Kohlmeier, A., Mehl, G. H., & Zannoni, C. (2016). Director configuration in the twist-bend nematic phase of CB11CB. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 4(41), 9887-9896. https://doi.org/10.1039/c6tc03246j

The director distribution in the nematic phases exhibited by the 100,1100-bis(4-cyanobiphenyl-40-yl)undecane (CB11CB) liquid crystal has been studied in the bulk with the EPR spin probe technique. EPR spectra confirmed the presence of an higher tempe... Read More about Director configuration in the twist-bend nematic phase of CB11CB.

Peri-conceptual and mid-pregnancy drinking: a cross-sectional assessment in two Scottish health board areas using a 7-day Retrospective Diary (2016)
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Symon, A., Rankin, J., Sinclair, H., Butcher, G., Barclay, K., Gordon, R., …Smith, L. (2017). Peri-conceptual and mid-pregnancy drinking: a cross-sectional assessment in two Scottish health board areas using a 7-day Retrospective Diary. Journal of advanced nursing, 73(2), 375-385. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.13112

Aims: The aim of this study was to evaluate the use of a 7-day Retrospective Diary to assess peri-conceptual and mid-pregnancy alcohol consumption. Background: Alcohol consumption among women has increased significantly and is of international concer... Read More about Peri-conceptual and mid-pregnancy drinking: a cross-sectional assessment in two Scottish health board areas using a 7-day Retrospective Diary.

Looking for imprints of the first stellar generations in metal-poor bulge field stars (2016)
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Chiappini, C., Freeman, K., Ness, M., Depagne, E., Cantelli, E., Hirschi, R., …Siqueira-Mello, C. (2016). Looking for imprints of the first stellar generations in metal-poor bulge field stars. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 593, A79-1-A79-16. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201628104

© 2016 ESO. Context. Efforts to look for signatures of the first stars have concentrated on metal-poor halo objects. However, the low end of the bulge metallicity distribution has been shown to host some of the oldest objects in the Milky Way and hen... Read More about Looking for imprints of the first stellar generations in metal-poor bulge field stars.

Governance and bank characteristics in the credit and sovereign debt crises – the impact of CEO power (2016)
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Mollah, S., & Liljeblom, E. (2016). Governance and bank characteristics in the credit and sovereign debt crises – the impact of CEO power. Journal of Financial Stability, 27(December), 59-73. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfs.2016.09.003

The global financial sector recently suffered from two interrelated crises: the credit crisis and the sovereign debt crisis. A common question is whether the recent experience with the credit crisis has helped in dealing with the sovereign debt crisi... Read More about Governance and bank characteristics in the credit and sovereign debt crises – the impact of CEO power.

Development of an optical thermal history coating sensor based on the oxidation of a divalent rare earth ion phosphor (2016)
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Yáñez-González, Á., Ruiz-Trejo, E., van Wachem, B., Skinner, S., Beyrau, F., & Heyes, A. (2016). Development of an optical thermal history coating sensor based on the oxidation of a divalent rare earth ion phosphor. Measurement Science and Technology, 27(11), Article 115103. https://doi.org/10.1088/0957-0233/27/11/115103

The measurement of temperatures in gas turbines, boilers, heat exchangers and other components exposed to hot gases is essential to design energy efficient systems and improve maintenance procedures. When on-line measurements, such as those performed... Read More about Development of an optical thermal history coating sensor based on the oxidation of a divalent rare earth ion phosphor.

Sensorimotor network crucial for inferring amusement from smiles (2016)
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Paracampo, R., Tidoni, E., Borgomaneri, S., di Pellegrino, G., & Avenanti, A. (2017). Sensorimotor network crucial for inferring amusement from smiles. Cerebral Cortex, 27(11), 5116-5129. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhw294

Understanding whether another's smile reflects authentic amusement is a key challenge in social life, yet, the neural bases of this ability have been largely unexplored. Here, we combined transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) with a novel empathic... Read More about Sensorimotor network crucial for inferring amusement from smiles.

Ising Critical Behavior of Inhomogeneous Curie-Weiss Models and Annealed Random Graphs (2016)
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Dommers, S., Giardinà, C., Giberti, C., van der Hofstad, R., & Prioriello, M. L. (2016). Ising Critical Behavior of Inhomogeneous Curie-Weiss Models and Annealed Random Graphs. Communications in mathematical physics, 348(1), 221-263. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-016-2752-2

We study the critical behavior for inhomogeneous versions of the Curie-Weiss model, where the coupling constant Jij(β) for the edge ij on the complete graph is given by Jij(β)=βwiwj/(∑k∈[N]wk) . We call the product form of these couplings the... Read More about Ising Critical Behavior of Inhomogeneous Curie-Weiss Models and Annealed Random Graphs.