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Technology demonstrator of a novel software defined radio-based aeronautical communications system (2014)
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Cheng, Y., Xu, K., Hu, Y. F., Pillai, P., Baddoo, J., Smith, A., …Pillai, A. (2014). Technology demonstrator of a novel software defined radio-based aeronautical communications system. IET science, measurement & technology, 8(6), 370-379. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-smt.2014.0003

This study presents the architectural design, software implementation, the validation and flight trial results of an aeronautical communications system developed within the Seamless Aeronautical Networking through integration of Data links Radios and... Read More about Technology demonstrator of a novel software defined radio-based aeronautical communications system.

Expert opinion on the cough hypersensitivity syndrome in respiratory medicine (2014)
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Morice, A. H., Millqvist, E., Belvisi, M. G., Bieksiene, K., Birring, S. S., Chung, K. F., …Smith, J. A. (2014). Expert opinion on the cough hypersensitivity syndrome in respiratory medicine. European respiratory journal, 44(5), 1132-1148. https://doi.org/10.1183/09031936.00218613

© ERS 2014. In 2011, a European Respiratory Society Task Force embarked on a process to determine the position and clinical relevance of the cough hypersensitivity syndrome, a disorder characterised by troublesome coughing often triggered by low leve... Read More about Expert opinion on the cough hypersensitivity syndrome in respiratory medicine.

Assessing Cultural Impact: Film4, Canon Formation and Forgotten Films (2014)
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Mayne, L. (2014). Assessing Cultural Impact: Film4, Canon Formation and Forgotten Films. Journal of British cinema and television, 11(4), 459-480. https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2014.0229

For over 30 years Channel 4 has supported more than 400 feature films through its production arm, Film4. However, despite the scale and variety of this contribution to British cinema, only a handful of these productions are regularly cited in print m... Read More about Assessing Cultural Impact: Film4, Canon Formation and Forgotten Films.

An integrative review of the literature on the teaching of the history of nursing in pre-registration adult nursing education in the UK (2014)
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Kelly, J., & Watson, R. (2015). An integrative review of the literature on the teaching of the history of nursing in pre-registration adult nursing education in the UK. Nurse education today, 35(2), 360-365. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2014.10.015

© Published by Elsevier Ltd. Aims: To present an integrative review of literature on the teaching of nursing history in pre-registration adult nursing education. Background: Despite successive reconfigurations in healthcare systems and education poli... Read More about An integrative review of the literature on the teaching of the history of nursing in pre-registration adult nursing education in the UK.

Effectiveness of performance appraisal: An integrated framework (2014)
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Iqbal, M. Z., Akbar, S., & Budhwar, P. (2015). Effectiveness of performance appraisal: An integrated framework. International Journal of Management Reviews, 17(4), 510-533. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijmr.12050

© 2015 British Academy of Management and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Based on a robust analysis of the existing literature on performance appraisal (PA), this paper makes a case for an integrated framework of effectiveness of performance appraisal (EPA)... Read More about Effectiveness of performance appraisal: An integrated framework.

Non-invasive estimation of left atrial dominant frequency in atrial fibrillation from different electrode sites: Insight from body surface potential mapping (2014)
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Bojarnejad, M., Blake, J. R., Bourke, J., Shepherd, E., Murray, A., & Langley, P. (2014). Non-invasive estimation of left atrial dominant frequency in atrial fibrillation from different electrode sites: Insight from body surface potential mapping. Journal of atrial fibrillation, 7(3), 6-10

© 2014, CardioFront LLC. All rights reserved. The dominant driving sources of atrial fibrillation are often found in the left atrium, but the expression of left atrial activation on the body surface is poorly understood. Using body surface potential... Read More about Non-invasive estimation of left atrial dominant frequency in atrial fibrillation from different electrode sites: Insight from body surface potential mapping.

Precompetitive achievement goals, stress appraisals, emotions, and coping among athletes (2014)
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Nicholls, A. R., Perry, J. L., & Calmeiro, L. (2014). Precompetitive achievement goals, stress appraisals, emotions, and coping among athletes. Journal of sport & exercise psychology, 36(5), 433-445. https://doi.org/10.1123/jsep.2013-0266

Grounded in Lazarus’ (1991, 1999, 2000) Cognitive-Motivational-Relational theory of emotions, we tested a model of achievement goals, stress appraisals, emotions, and coping. We predicted that pre-competitive achievement goals would be associated wit... Read More about Precompetitive achievement goals, stress appraisals, emotions, and coping among athletes.

What is best value in public sector building construction? (2014)
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Ojiako, U., Park, J. H., Williams, T., Marshall, A., & Chipulu, M. (2014). What is best value in public sector building construction?. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Management, procurement, and law, 167(5), 209-219. https://doi.org/10.1680/mpal.13.00026

Although the lowest bid procurement philosophy has formed the basis of procurement in public sector building construction, for a long time it has arguably resulted in low-quality construction work. In response, construction stakeholders have sought t... Read More about What is best value in public sector building construction?.

Energy sovereignty in marine spaces (2014)
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Barnes, R. (2014). Energy sovereignty in marine spaces. International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law, 29(4), 573-599. https://doi.org/10.1163/15718085-12341328

The term “energy sovereignty” is used with differing emphases to describe a State’s rights or assertions over energy resources and supplies. Given the importance of offshore energy developments, particularly in the field of renewables, this article e... Read More about Energy sovereignty in marine spaces.

Diverging strategies to planning an ecologically coherent network of MPAs in the North Sea : The roles of advocacy, evidence and pragmatism in the face of uncertainty (2014)
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Caveen, A. J., Fitzsimmons, C., Pieraccini, M., Dunn, E., Sweeting, C. J., Johnson, M. L., …Polunin, N. V. (2014). Diverging strategies to planning an ecologically coherent network of MPAs in the North Sea : The roles of advocacy, evidence and pragmatism in the face of uncertainty. Advances in Marine Biology, 69, 325-370. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-800214-8.00009-8

The North Sea is one of the most economically important seas in the world due to productive fisheries, extensive oil and gas fields, busy shipping routes, marine renewable energy development and recreational activity. Unsurprisingly, therefore, the u... Read More about Diverging strategies to planning an ecologically coherent network of MPAs in the North Sea : The roles of advocacy, evidence and pragmatism in the face of uncertainty.

Marine ecosystem services: Linking indicators to their classification (2014)
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Hattam, C., Atkins, J. P., Beaumont, N., Börger, T., Böhnke-Henrichs, A., Burdon, D., …Austen, M. C. (2015). Marine ecosystem services: Linking indicators to their classification. Ecological Indicators, 49, 61-75. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2014.09.026

© 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. There is a multitude of ecosystem service classifications available within the literature, each with its own advantages and drawbacks. Elements of them have been used to tailor a generic ecosystem service cla... Read More about Marine ecosystem services: Linking indicators to their classification.

Violations of local stochastic independence exaggerate scalability in Mokken scaling analysis of the Chinese Mandarin SF-36 (2014)
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Watson, R., Wang, W., & Thompson, D. R. (2014). Violations of local stochastic independence exaggerate scalability in Mokken scaling analysis of the Chinese Mandarin SF-36. Health and quality of life outcomes, 12(1), Article ARTN 149. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12955-014-0149-5

Background: Previous work using Mokken scaling analysis with the SF-36 has found subscales appearing to show excellent Mokken scaling properties. However, the values of scalability of the subscales are very large, raising the possibility that these a... Read More about Violations of local stochastic independence exaggerate scalability in Mokken scaling analysis of the Chinese Mandarin SF-36.

Polymerisable octahedral rhenium cluster complexes as precursors for photo/electroluminescent polymers (2014)
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Efremova, O. A., Brylev, K. A., Kozlova, O., White, M. S., Shestopalov, M. A., Kitamura, N., …Sutherland, A. J. (2014). Polymerisable octahedral rhenium cluster complexes as precursors for photo/electroluminescent polymers. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2(40), 8630-8638. https://doi.org/10.1039/c4tc01643b

New polymerisable photoluminescent octahedral rhenium cluster complexes trans-[{Re₆Q₈}(TBP)₄VB)₂] (Q = S or Se; TBP – p-tert-butylpyridine; VB – vinyl benzoate) have been synthesised, characterised and used to construct rhe-nium cluster-organic polym... Read More about Polymerisable octahedral rhenium cluster complexes as precursors for photo/electroluminescent polymers.

Novel conducting polymer current limiting devices for low cost surge protection applications (2014)
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Jabarullah, N. H., Verrelli, E., Mauldin, C., Navarro, L. A., Golden, J., Madianos, L., …Kemp, N. T. (2014). Novel conducting polymer current limiting devices for low cost surge protection applications. Journal of applied physics, 116(16), 164501. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4899246

We report on the development of novel intrinsic conducting polymer two terminal surge protection devices. These resettable current limiting devices consist of polyaniline nanofibres doped with methane sulphonic acid electrochemically deposited betwee... Read More about Novel conducting polymer current limiting devices for low cost surge protection applications.

Laser induced magnetization reversal for detection in optical interconnects (2014)
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Azim, Z. A., Fong, X., Ostler, T., Chantrell, R., & Roy, K. (2014). Laser induced magnetization reversal for detection in optical interconnects. IEEE Electron Device Letters, 35(12), 1317-1319. https://doi.org/10.1109/LED.2014.2364232

Optical interconnect has emerged as the front-runner to replace electrical interconnect especially for off-chip communication. However, a major drawback with optical interconnects is the need for photodetectors and amplifiers at the receiver, impleme... Read More about Laser induced magnetization reversal for detection in optical interconnects.

Full scale field study of sound transmission across plenum windows (2014)
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Tong, Y. G., Tang, S. K., Kang, J., Fung, A., & Yeung, M. K. (2015). Full scale field study of sound transmission across plenum windows. Applied acoustics. Acoustique appliqué. Angewandte Akustik, 89, 244-253. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apacoust.2014.10.003

A full scale field measurement of the acoustical insertion loss of plenum windows was carried out in the present investigation. Two identical mock-up test rooms with dimensions the same as those commonly adopted for Hong Kong public housing were buil... Read More about Full scale field study of sound transmission across plenum windows.

Constraining the Galaxy's dark halo with RAVE stars (2014)
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Piffl, T., Binney, J., McMillan, P. J., Steinmetz, M., Helmi, A., Wyse, R. F. G., …Zwitter, T. (2014). Constraining the Galaxy's dark halo with RAVE stars. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 445(3), 3133-3151. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu1948

© 2014 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. We use the kinematics of ~200 000 giant stars that lie within ~1.5 kpc of the plane to measure the vertical profile of mass density near the Sun. We... Read More about Constraining the Galaxy's dark halo with RAVE stars.