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Functional evolution of the feeding system in rodents (2012)
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Cox, P. G., Rayfield, E. J., Fagan, M. J., Herrel, A., Pataky, T. C., & Jeffery, N. (2012). Functional evolution of the feeding system in rodents. PLoS ONE, 7(4), e36299. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0036299

The masticatory musculature of rodents has evolved to enable both gnawing at the incisors and chewing at the molars. In particular, the masseter muscle is highly specialised, having extended anteriorly to originate from the rostrum. All living rodent... Read More about Functional evolution of the feeding system in rodents.

Sleeping with the enemy? : strategic transformations in business - NGO relationships through stakeholder dialogue (2012)
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Burchell, J., & Cook, J. (2013). Sleeping with the enemy? : strategic transformations in business - NGO relationships through stakeholder dialogue. Journal of Business Ethics, 113(3), 505-518. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-012-1319-1

Campaigning activities of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have increased public awareness and concern regarding the alleged unethical and environmentally damaging practices of many major multinational companies. Companies have responded by deve... Read More about Sleeping with the enemy? : strategic transformations in business - NGO relationships through stakeholder dialogue.

Experimental investigation of the sound absorption performance of compartmented Helmholtz resonators (2012)
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Tang, S. K., Ng, C. H., & Lam, E. Y. (2012). Experimental investigation of the sound absorption performance of compartmented Helmholtz resonators. Applied acoustics. Acoustique appliqué. Angewandte Akustik, 73(9), 969-976. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apacoust.2012.03.016

An experiment was derived in the present study to investigate the effects of coupling up two Helmholtz resonators on their overall sound absorption performance. The effect of compartmenting the cavity of a resonator on its sound absorption property w... Read More about Experimental investigation of the sound absorption performance of compartmented Helmholtz resonators.

Role of the mental health nurse towards physical health care in serious mental illness: An integrative review of 10 years of UK Literature (2012)
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Blythe, J., & White, J. (2012). Role of the mental health nurse towards physical health care in serious mental illness: An integrative review of 10 years of UK Literature. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 21(3), 193-201. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1447-0349.2011.00792.x

People with serious mental illness have significantly poorer physical health compared to the general population. Mental health nurses are in a prime position to help reduce unacceptable death in this population. A literature search was undertaken to... Read More about Role of the mental health nurse towards physical health care in serious mental illness: An integrative review of 10 years of UK Literature.

Leadership, the logic of sufficiency and the sustainability of education (2012)
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Bottery, M. (2012). Leadership, the logic of sufficiency and the sustainability of education. Educational Management Administration and Leadership, 40(4), 449-463. https://doi.org/10.1177/1741143212438220

The notion of sufficiency has not yet entered mainstream educational thinking, and it still has to make its mark upon educational leadership. However, a number of related concepts – particularly those of sustainability and complexity theory – are beg... Read More about Leadership, the logic of sufficiency and the sustainability of education.

Taking the long view: Temporal considerations in the ethics of children's research activity and knowledge production (2012)
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Hampshire, K., Porter, G., Owusu, S., Mariwah, S., Abane, A., Robson, E., Munthali, A., Mashiri, M., Maponya, G., & Bourdillon, M. (2012). Taking the long view: Temporal considerations in the ethics of children's research activity and knowledge production. Children's Geographies, 10(2), 219-232. https://doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2012.667921

Children are increasingly engaged in the research process as generators of knowledge, but little is known about the impacts on children's lives, especially in the longer term. As part of a study on children's mobility in Ghana, Malawi and South Afric... Read More about Taking the long view: Temporal considerations in the ethics of children's research activity and knowledge production.

Learning from young people about their lives: Using participatory methods to research the impacts of AIDS in southern Africa (2012)
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Ansell, N., Robson, E., Hajdu, F., & van Blerk, L. (2012). Learning from young people about their lives: Using participatory methods to research the impacts of AIDS in southern Africa. Children's Geographies, 10(2), 169-186. https://doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2012.667918

Methods of participatory research have become popular among children's geographers as they are believed to enable young people to speak openly about their lives in unthreatening contexts. In this article, we reflect on our experience of using partici... Read More about Learning from young people about their lives: Using participatory methods to research the impacts of AIDS in southern Africa.

Volume conduction effects in brain network inference from electroencephalographic recordings using phase lag index (2012)
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Peraza, L. R., Asghar, A., Green, G., & Halliday, D. M. (2012). Volume conduction effects in brain network inference from electroencephalographic recordings using phase lag index. Journal of neuroscience methods, 207(2), 189-199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneumeth.2012.04.007

In this paper, we test the performance of a synchronicity estimator widely applied in Neuroscience, phase lag index (PLI), for brain network inference in EEG. We implement the four sphere head model to simulate the volume conduction problem present i... Read More about Volume conduction effects in brain network inference from electroencephalographic recordings using phase lag index.

A randomized trial of aerobic exercise and sleep quality in lymphoma patients receiving chemotherapy or no treatments (2012)
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Courneya, K. S., Sellar, C. M., Trinh, L., Forbes, C. C., Stevinson, C., McNeely, M. L., Peddle-McIntyre, C. J., Friedenreich, C. M., & Reiman, T. (2012). A randomized trial of aerobic exercise and sleep quality in lymphoma patients receiving chemotherapy or no treatments. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, 21(6), 887-894. https://doi.org/10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-12-0075

Background: Patients with lymphoma experience sleep problems that may be managed with aerobic exercise but no previous study has examined this issue.

Methods: We randomized 122 patients with lymphoma to usual care (n = 62) or 12 weeks of supervised... Read More about A randomized trial of aerobic exercise and sleep quality in lymphoma patients receiving chemotherapy or no treatments.

Multiwalled carbon nanotubes based nanocomposites for supercapacitors: A review of electrode materials (2012)
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Kiamahalleh, M. V., Zein, S. H. S., Najafpour, G., Sata, S. A., & Buniran, S. (2012). Multiwalled carbon nanotubes based nanocomposites for supercapacitors: A review of electrode materials. Nano, 7(2), Article 1230002. https://doi.org/10.1142/S1793292012300022

Electrode materials are the most important factors to verify the properties of the electrochemical supercapacitor. In this paper, the storage principles and characteristics of electrode materials, including carbon-based materials, transition metal ox... Read More about Multiwalled carbon nanotubes based nanocomposites for supercapacitors: A review of electrode materials.

Effectiveness of mindfulness-based stress reduction in mood, breast- and endocrine-related quality of life, and well-being in stage 0 to III breast cancer : a randomized, controlled trial (2012)
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Hoffman, C. J., Ersser, S. J., Hopkinson, J. B., Nicholls, P. G., Harrington, J. E., & Thomas, P. W. (2012). Effectiveness of mindfulness-based stress reduction in mood, breast- and endocrine-related quality of life, and well-being in stage 0 to III breast cancer : a randomized, controlled trial. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 30(12), 1335-1342. https://doi.org/10.1200/jco.2010.34.0331

Purpose To assess the effectiveness of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) for mood, breast- and endocrine-specific quality of life, and well-being after hospital treatment in women with stage 0 to III breast cancer. Patients and Methods A rand... Read More about Effectiveness of mindfulness-based stress reduction in mood, breast- and endocrine-related quality of life, and well-being in stage 0 to III breast cancer : a randomized, controlled trial.

Effective Capacity Building: The Capacity to Do What? (2012)
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Lord Norton of Louth, P. (2012). Effective Capacity Building: The Capacity to Do What?. Parliamentary affairs, 65(3), 520-528. https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gss015

This volume addresses an important subject, one that is too often neglected in the scholarly study of legislatures. I begin by addressing the premise of the volume: that is, that capacity building matters. Why does it matter? It matters because legis... Read More about Effective Capacity Building: The Capacity to Do What?.

Nickel halide complexes bearing 2-benzimidazolyl-N-arylquinoline-8- carboxamide derived ligands: Synthesis, characterization and catalytic behavior towards ethylene oligomerization and the vinyl polymerization of norbornene (2012)
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He, F., Hao, X., Cao, X., Redshaw, C., & Sun, W. H. (2012). Nickel halide complexes bearing 2-benzimidazolyl-N-arylquinoline-8- carboxamide derived ligands: Synthesis, characterization and catalytic behavior towards ethylene oligomerization and the vinyl polymerization of norbornene. Journal of organometallic chemistry, 712, 46-51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jorganchem.2012.04.013

Nickel halide complexes of the type L 2NiX 2 (Ni1-Ni6, X = Cl; Ni7-Ni12, X = Br) bearing 2-benzimidazolyl-N-arylquinoline-8-carboxamide derived ligands have been synthesized and characterized by IR spectroscopy and elemental analysis. The molecular s... Read More about Nickel halide complexes bearing 2-benzimidazolyl-N-arylquinoline-8- carboxamide derived ligands: Synthesis, characterization and catalytic behavior towards ethylene oligomerization and the vinyl polymerization of norbornene.

Benefits and Risks of Adopting the Global Code of Practice for Recreational Fisheries (2012)
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Arlinghaus, R., Beard, T. D., Cooke, S. J., & Cowx, I. G. (2012). Benefits and Risks of Adopting the Global Code of Practice for Recreational Fisheries. Fisheries, 37(4), 165-172. https://doi.org/10.1080/03632415.2012.666473

Recreational fishing constitutes the dominant or sole use of many fish stocks, particularly in freshwater ecosystems in Western industrialized countries. However, despite their social and economic importance, recreational fisheries are generally guid... Read More about Benefits and Risks of Adopting the Global Code of Practice for Recreational Fisheries.

Hexahomotrioxacalix[3]arene derivatives as ionophores for molecular recognition of dopamine, serotonin and phenylethylamine (2012)
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Ni, X. L., Rahman, S., Wang, S., Jin, C. C., Zeng, X., Hughes, D. L., Redshaw, C., & Yamato, T. (2012). Hexahomotrioxacalix[3]arene derivatives as ionophores for molecular recognition of dopamine, serotonin and phenylethylamine. Organic & biomolecular chemistry, 10(23), 4618-4626. https://doi.org/10.1039/c2ob25177a

The lower rim functionalized hexahomotrioxacalix[3]arene derivatives cone-3 and cone-5 bearing three benzyl and three N,N-diethyl-2-aminoethoxy groups, respectively, were synthesized from triol 1. Their complexation with 2-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)ethyla... Read More about Hexahomotrioxacalix[3]arene derivatives as ionophores for molecular recognition of dopamine, serotonin and phenylethylamine.

Response to Baksi, A., 2012, 'New 40Ar/ 39Ar dating of the Grande Ronde lavas, Columbia River Basalts, USA: Implications for duration of flood basalt eruption episodes' by Barry et al., 2010-Discussion' (2012)
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Barry, T. L., Self, S., Kelley, S. P., Reidel, S., Hooper, P., & Widdowson, M. (2012). Response to Baksi, A., 2012, 'New 40Ar/ 39Ar dating of the Grande Ronde lavas, Columbia River Basalts, USA: Implications for duration of flood basalt eruption episodes' by Barry et al., 2010-Discussion'. Lithos, 146-147, 300-303. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2012.04.011

Baksi (2012) claims that a number of radiometric ages presented in Barry et al. (2010) are statistically invalid and that many of the samples were altered, thus not able to date the eruptions, and that there is no compelling evidence for a limited du... Read More about Response to Baksi, A., 2012, 'New 40Ar/ 39Ar dating of the Grande Ronde lavas, Columbia River Basalts, USA: Implications for duration of flood basalt eruption episodes' by Barry et al., 2010-Discussion'.

Fe catalysis for lignocellulosic biomass conversion to fuels and materials via thermochemical processes (2012)
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Skoulou, V., & Zabaniotou, A. (2012). Fe catalysis for lignocellulosic biomass conversion to fuels and materials via thermochemical processes. Catalysis Today, 196(1), 56-66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cattod.2012.03.035

Recently, international research is aiming at developing gasification and pyrolysis processes for the cost-effective thermochemical conversion of non-food biomass to biofuels. Gasification produces a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, known as... Read More about Fe catalysis for lignocellulosic biomass conversion to fuels and materials via thermochemical processes.

Cyborg cells: functionalisation of living cells with polymers and nanomaterials (2012)
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Fakhrullin, R. F., Zamaleeva, A. I., Minullina, R. T., Konnova, S. A., & Paunov, V. N. (2012). Cyborg cells: functionalisation of living cells with polymers and nanomaterials. Chemical Society Reviews, 41(11), 4189. https://doi.org/10.1039/c2cs15264a

Living cells interfaced with a range of polyelectrolyte coatings, magnetic and noble metal nanoparticles, hard mineral shells and other complex nanomaterials can perform functions often completely different from their original specialisation. Such “c... Read More about Cyborg cells: functionalisation of living cells with polymers and nanomaterials.

Cellular uptake studies of two hexanuclear, carboxylate bridged, zinc ring structures using fluorescence microscopy (2012)
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Redshaw, C., Elsegood, M. R., Frese, J. W., Ashby, S., Chao, Y., & Mueller, A. (2012). Cellular uptake studies of two hexanuclear, carboxylate bridged, zinc ring structures using fluorescence microscopy. Chemical communications : Chem comm / the Royal Society of Chemistry, 48(53), 6627. https://doi.org/10.1039/c2cc32060f

Two hexanuclear zinc complexes have been structurally characterized, and evaluation against several cells showed selective toxicity. Cellular uptake revealed a non-specific process, resulting in accumulation within the cell cytoplasm. © 2012 The Roya... Read More about Cellular uptake studies of two hexanuclear, carboxylate bridged, zinc ring structures using fluorescence microscopy.