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State estimation technique for a planetary robotic rover (2014)
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Iqbal, J., Rehman-Saad, M., Malik, A., & Mahmood-Tahir, A. (2014). State estimation technique for a planetary robotic rover. Revista Facultad de Ingeniería Universidad de Antioquia, 58-68

Given the long traverse times and severe environmental constraints on a planet like Mars, the only option feasible now is to observe and explore the planet through more sophisticated planetary rovers. To achieve increasingly ambitious mission objecti... Read More about State estimation technique for a planetary robotic rover.

Content in ESOL: what do learners find useful and important? (2014)
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Nickson, M. (2014). Content in ESOL: what do learners find useful and important?. Language Issues, 25(2), 17-24

This research investigated course content in ESOL classes by asking ESOL learners to evaluate the usefulness and importance to them of a range of topics which they may encounter in their language class. A survey was administered to 117 learners rangi... Read More about Content in ESOL: what do learners find useful and important?.

The first use of Fulton's K for assessing and comparing the conditions of inter-tidal fish populations (2014)
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Barrett, C. J., Johnson, M., Hall, N. J., & Hull, S. (2016). The first use of Fulton's K for assessing and comparing the conditions of inter-tidal fish populations. Marine Ecology, 37(1), 42-45. https://doi.org/10.1111/maec.12234

Fulton's K condition factor was applied, for the first time, to inter-tidal specimens of the shanny (Lipophrys pholis) and long-spined scorpion fish (Taurulus bubalis) from two English rocky shore and two Welsh rocky shore sites during summer 2010 an... Read More about The first use of Fulton's K for assessing and comparing the conditions of inter-tidal fish populations.

‘Dark am I, yet lovely’: Tracing diabolical evil and femininities in gothic fusion tribal belly dance (2014)
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Dearey, M. (2014). ‘Dark am I, yet lovely’: Tracing diabolical evil and femininities in gothic fusion tribal belly dance. Dance, movement & spiritualities, 1(3), 373-391. https://doi.org/10.1386/dmas.1.3.373_1

While belly dance as a dance genre has been recognised for its ‘ambivalence’ (Downey et al, 2010: 379) in terms of its empowerment of women’s identities and body types and essentialising of narrowly constructed femininities, it has nonetheless in the... Read More about ‘Dark am I, yet lovely’: Tracing diabolical evil and femininities in gothic fusion tribal belly dance.

Exploring GPs' experiences of using diagnostic tools for cancer: A qualitative study in primary care (2014)
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Green, T., Martins, T., Hamilton, W., Rubin, G., Elliott, K., & Macleod, U. (2015). Exploring GPs' experiences of using diagnostic tools for cancer: A qualitative study in primary care. Family practice, 32(1), 101-105. https://doi.org/10.1093/fampra/cmu081

© The Author 2014. Background. The UK has an estimated 5-10 000 extra cancer deaths each year when compared to other European countries and diagnostic delays are thought to make a significant contribution to this. One of the initiatives in England in... Read More about Exploring GPs' experiences of using diagnostic tools for cancer: A qualitative study in primary care.

Natural fractures in a United Kingdom shale reservoir analog, Cleveland Basin, northeast England (2014)
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Imber, J., Armstrong, H., Clancy, S., Daniels, S., Herringshaw, L., McCaffrey, K., …Warren, C. (2014). Natural fractures in a United Kingdom shale reservoir analog, Cleveland Basin, northeast England. AAPG Bulletin, 98(11), 2411-2437. https://doi.org/10.1306/07141413144

Faults and fractures within the well-exposed Lower Jurassic Cleveland Ironstone and Whitby Mudstone Formations may provide insights into the tectonic history of gas-prospective, Mississippian shale in northern England. Subvertical opening mode fractu... Read More about Natural fractures in a United Kingdom shale reservoir analog, Cleveland Basin, northeast England.

Combining internal- and external-training-load measures in professional rugby league (2014)
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Abt, G., Earle, K., Marshall, P., Nevill, A., & Weaving, D. (2014). Combining internal- and external-training-load measures in professional rugby league. International journal of sports physiology and performance : IJSPP, 9(6), 905-912. https://doi.org/10.1123/ijspp.2013-0444

Purpose: This study investigated the effect of training mode on the relationships between measures of training load in professional rugby league players. Methods: Five measures of training load (internal: individualized training impulse, session rati... Read More about Combining internal- and external-training-load measures in professional rugby league.

Lateglacial and Holocene climate and environmental change in the northeastern Mediterranean region: Diatom evidence from Lake Dojran (Republic of Macedonia/Greece) (2014)
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Zhang, X., Reed, J., Wagner, B., Francke, A., & Levkov, Z. (2014). Lateglacial and Holocene climate and environmental change in the northeastern Mediterranean region: Diatom evidence from Lake Dojran (Republic of Macedonia/Greece). Quaternary science reviews, 103(1), 51-66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.09.004

The juncture between the west-east and north-south contrasting Holocene climatic domains across the Mediterranean is complex and poorly understood. Diatom analysis of Lake Dojran (Republic of Macedonia/Greece) provides a new insight into lake levels... Read More about Lateglacial and Holocene climate and environmental change in the northeastern Mediterranean region: Diatom evidence from Lake Dojran (Republic of Macedonia/Greece).

Shaping plasmon beams via the controlled illumination of finite-size plasmonic crystals (2014)
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Bouillard, J., Segovia, P., Dickson, W., Wurtz, G. A., & Zayats, A. V. (2015). Shaping plasmon beams via the controlled illumination of finite-size plasmonic crystals. Scientific reports, 4(1), Article UNSP 7234. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep07234

Plasmonic crystals provide many passive and active optical functionalities, including enhanced sensing, optical nonlinearities, light extraction from LEDs and coupling to and from subwavelength waveguides. Here we study, both experimentally and numer... Read More about Shaping plasmon beams via the controlled illumination of finite-size plasmonic crystals.

Stabilization of boron carbide via silicon doping (2014)
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Proctor, J. E., Bhakhri, V., Hao, R., Prior, T. J., Scheler, T., Gregoryanz, E., …Giulani, F. (2015). Stabilization of boron carbide via silicon doping. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 27(1), Article 015401. https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-8984/27/1/015401

Boron carbide is one of the lightest and hardest ceramics, but its applications are limited by its poor stability against a partial phase separation into separate boron and carbon. Phase separation is observed under high non-hydrostatic stress (both... Read More about Stabilization of boron carbide via silicon doping.

International student mobility : the role of social networks (2014)
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Beech, S. E. (2015). International student mobility : the role of social networks. Social & cultural geography, 16(3), 332-350. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2014.983961

Building upon recent work on higher education mobility, this paper contends that social networks of friendship and kinship are critical determinants for students deciding to study overseas, not just, as has hitherto been suggested, a complementary fa... Read More about International student mobility : the role of social networks.

The passive diffusion of Leptospira interrogans (2014)
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Koens, L., & Lauga, E. (2014). The passive diffusion of Leptospira interrogans. Physical Biology, 11(6), Article 066008. https://doi.org/10.1088/1478-3975/11/6/066008

Motivated by recent experimental measurements, the passive diffusion of the bacterium Leptospira interrogans is investigated theoretically. By approximating the cell shape as a straight helix and using the slender-body-theory approximation of Stokesi... Read More about The passive diffusion of Leptospira interrogans.

Gas absorption and reaction in a wet pneumatic foam (2014)
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Perry, D. C., & Stevenson, P. (2015). Gas absorption and reaction in a wet pneumatic foam. Chemical engineering science, 126, 177-185. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ces.2014.11.037

Results for the rate of absorption of carbon dioxide gas into a pneumatic (i.e. continuously rising) foam formed from a sodium carbonate–bicarbonate buffer solution stabilised by a polyglycol frother are presented. Previous studies upon the use of ga... Read More about Gas absorption and reaction in a wet pneumatic foam.

Pressurized groundwater outflow experiments and numerical modeling for outflow channels on Mars (2014)
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Marra, W. A., Hauber, E., McLelland, S. J., Murphy, B. J., Parsons, D. R., Conway, S. J., …Kleinhans, M. G. (2014). Pressurized groundwater outflow experiments and numerical modeling for outflow channels on Mars. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 119(12), 2668-2693. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014JE004701

© 2014. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved. The landscape of Mars shows incised channels that often appear abruptly in the landscape, suggesting a groundwater source. However, groundwater outflow processes are unable to explain the recon... Read More about Pressurized groundwater outflow experiments and numerical modeling for outflow channels on Mars.

Structural insights into magnetic clusters grown inside virus capsids (2014)
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Jaafar, M., Aljabali, A. A. A., Berlanga, I., Mas-Ballesté, R., Saxena, P., Warren, S., …de Pablo, P. J. (2014). Structural insights into magnetic clusters grown inside virus capsids. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 6(23), 20936-20942. https://doi.org/10.1021/am505682x

Magnetic nanoparticles have multiple applications in materials science. In particular, virus capsids have been suggested as promising templates for building up nanometric-sized magnetic clusters by taking advantage of their inner cavity as a nanoreac... Read More about Structural insights into magnetic clusters grown inside virus capsids.

Polymeric nanofibrous substrates stimulate pluripotent stem cells to form three-dimensional multilayered patty-like spheroids in feeder-free culture and maintain their pluripotency (2014)
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Alamein, M. A., Wolvetang, E. J., Ovchinnikov, D. A., Stephens, S., Sanders, K., & Warnke, P. H. (2015). Polymeric nanofibrous substrates stimulate pluripotent stem cells to form three-dimensional multilayered patty-like spheroids in feeder-free culture and maintain their pluripotency. Journal of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, 9(9), 1078-1083. https://doi.org/10.1002/term.1960

Expansion of pluripotent stem cells in defined media devoid of animal-derived feeder cells to generate multilayered three-dimensional (3D) bulk preparations or spheroids, rather than two-dimensional (2D) monolayers, is advantageous for many regenerat... Read More about Polymeric nanofibrous substrates stimulate pluripotent stem cells to form three-dimensional multilayered patty-like spheroids in feeder-free culture and maintain their pluripotency.

Palliative care among heart failure patients in primary care: A comparison to cancer patients using english family practice data (2014)
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Gadoud, A., Kane, E., Macleod, U., Ansell, P., Oliver, S., & Johnson, M. (2014). Palliative care among heart failure patients in primary care: A comparison to cancer patients using english family practice data. PLoS ONE, 9(11), Article e113188. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0113188

© 2014 Gadoud et al. Introduction: Patients with heart failure have a significant symptom burden and other palliative care needs often over a longer period than patients with cancer. It is acknowledged that this need may be unmet but by how much has... Read More about Palliative care among heart failure patients in primary care: A comparison to cancer patients using english family practice data.

Spectroscopic signatures of extratidal stars around the globular clusters NGC 6656 (M 22), NGC 3201, and NGC 1851 from RAVE (2014)
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Kunder, A., Bono, G., Piffl, T., Steinmetz, M., Grebel, E. K., Anguiano, B., …Helmi, A. (2014). Spectroscopic signatures of extratidal stars around the globular clusters NGC 6656 (M 22), NGC 3201, and NGC 1851 from RAVE. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 572, A30. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201424113

© ESO, 2014. Context. Stellar population studies of globular clusters have suggested that the brightest clusters in the Galaxy might actually be the remnant nuclei of dwarf spheroidal galaxies. If the present Galactic globular clusters formed within... Read More about Spectroscopic signatures of extratidal stars around the globular clusters NGC 6656 (M 22), NGC 3201, and NGC 1851 from RAVE.

Emotional maturity, dispositional coping, and coping effectiveness among adolescent athletes (2014)
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Nicholls, A. R., Levy, A. R., & Perry, J. L. (2015). Emotional maturity, dispositional coping, and coping effectiveness among adolescent athletes. Psychology of sport and exercise, 17(March), 32-39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2014.11.004

Objectives: Although some scholars have suggested that coping is constrained by emotional maturity, little is known about the relationship between these constructs. In this paper we assessed a model that included emotional maturity, dispositional cop... Read More about Emotional maturity, dispositional coping, and coping effectiveness among adolescent athletes.

Subdivision surface fitting to a dense mesh using ridges and umbilics (2014)
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Ma, X., Keates, S., Jiang, Y., & Kosinka, J. (2015). Subdivision surface fitting to a dense mesh using ridges and umbilics. Computer aided geometric design, 32(January), 5-21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cagd.2014.10.001

Fitting a sparse surface to approximate vast dense data is of interest for many applications: reverse engineering, recognition and compression, etc. The present work provides an approach to fit a Loop subdivision surface to a dense triangular mesh of... Read More about Subdivision surface fitting to a dense mesh using ridges and umbilics.