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Early life stages of fishes as indicators of estuarine ecosystem health (2011)
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Ramos, S., Amorim, E., Elliott, M., Cabral, H., & Bordalo, A. A. (2012). Early life stages of fishes as indicators of estuarine ecosystem health. Ecological Indicators, 19, 172-183. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2011.08.024

A major goal of current environmental policies is to preserve or return areas to a good ecological status, which should be assessed at the ecosystem level, using several biological elements, together with physical, chemical and pollution elements. Th... Read More about Early life stages of fishes as indicators of estuarine ecosystem health.

Chronic cough and esomeprazole: A double-blind placebo-controlled parallel study (2011)
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Faruqi, S., Molyneux, I. D., Fathi, H., Wright, C., Thompson, R., & Morice, A. H. (2011). Chronic cough and esomeprazole: A double-blind placebo-controlled parallel study. Respirology : official journal of the Asian Pacific Society of Respirology, 16(7), 1150-1156. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1843.2011.02014.x

Background and objective: Gastro-oesophageal reflux has been implicated in the pathogenesis of chronic cough. Guidelines on management suggest a therapeutic trial of anti-reflux medication. Esomeprazole is a proton pump inhibitor licensed for the lon... Read More about Chronic cough and esomeprazole: A double-blind placebo-controlled parallel study.

Characterisation, kinetics and modelling of gasification of poultry manure and litter: An overview (2011)
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Font-Palma, C. (2012). Characterisation, kinetics and modelling of gasification of poultry manure and litter: An overview. Energy Conversion and Management, 53(1), 92-98. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2011.08.017

Environmental implications of the disposal of waste from the poultry industry have created the need for proper waste management. As a result, poultry litter has been proposed as a potential fuel candidate for thermal conversion technologies since it... Read More about Characterisation, kinetics and modelling of gasification of poultry manure and litter: An overview.

Post-transcriptional exon shuffling events in humans can be evolutionarily conserved and abundant (2011)
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Al-Balool, H. H., Weber, D., Liu, Y., Wade, M., Guleria, K., Nam, P. L. P., Clayton, J., Rowe, W., Coxhead, J., Irving, J., Elliott, D. J., Hall, A. G., Santibanez-Koref, M., & Jackson, M. S. (2011). Post-transcriptional exon shuffling events in humans can be evolutionarily conserved and abundant. Genome research, 21(11), 1788-1799. https://doi.org/10.1101/gr.116442.110

In silico analyses have established that transcripts from some genes can be processed into RNAs with rearranged exon order relative to genomic structure (post-transcriptional exon shuffling, or PTES). Although known to contribute to transcriptome div... Read More about Post-transcriptional exon shuffling events in humans can be evolutionarily conserved and abundant.

Bronchoconstriction and airway remodeling [2] (2011)
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Morjaria, J., Hart, S., & Morice, A. H. (2011). Bronchoconstriction and airway remodeling [2]. New England Journal of Medicine, 365(12), 1156-1157. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMc1107353

Imitation and observational learning of hand actions: prefrontal involvement and connectivity (2011)
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Higuchi, S., Holle, H., Roberts, N., Eickhoff, S. B., & Vogt, S. (2012). Imitation and observational learning of hand actions: prefrontal involvement and connectivity. NeuroImage, 59(2), 1668-1683. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.09.021

The first aim of this event-related fMRI study was to identify the neural circuits involved in imitation learning. We used a rapid imitation task where participants directly imitated pictures of guitar chords. The results provide clear evidence for t... Read More about Imitation and observational learning of hand actions: prefrontal involvement and connectivity.

A synthesis of bredinin (Mizoribine®) from an acyclic precursor (2011)
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Humble, R. W., Middleton, D. F., Banoub, J., Ewing, D. F., Boa, A. N., & Mackenzie, G. (2011). A synthesis of bredinin (Mizoribine®) from an acyclic precursor. Tetrahedron letters; the international organ for the rapid publication of preliminary communications in organic chemistry, 52(47), 6223-6227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tetlet.2011.09.085

Bredinin (4-carbamoyl-1-β-D-ribofuranosylimidazolium-5-olate, 1) was synthesised by the formation of amalonamate from 2,3-isopropylidene-D-ribofuranosylamine and ethyl malonyl chloride, followed by a sequence involving amination, via reduction of an... Read More about A synthesis of bredinin (Mizoribine®) from an acyclic precursor.

Non-uniform order mixed FEM approximation: Implementation, post-processing, computable error bound and adaptivity (2011)
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Ainsworth, M., & Ma, X. (2012). Non-uniform order mixed FEM approximation: Implementation, post-processing, computable error bound and adaptivity. Journal of Computational Physics, 231(2), 436-453. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2011.09.011

The present work provides a straightforward and focused set of tools and corresponding theoretical support for the implementation of an adaptive high order finite element code with guaranteed error control for the approximation of elliptic problems i... Read More about Non-uniform order mixed FEM approximation: Implementation, post-processing, computable error bound and adaptivity.

Prevalence of scarred and dysfunctional myocardium in patients with heart failure of ischaemic origin: A cardiovascular magnetic resonance study (2011)
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Bourantas, C. V., Nikitin, N. P., Loh, H. P., Lukaschuk, E. I., Sherwi, N., de Silva, R., Tweddel, A. C., Alamgir, M. F., Wong, K., Gupta, S., Clark, A. L., & Cleland, J. G. (2011). Prevalence of scarred and dysfunctional myocardium in patients with heart failure of ischaemic origin: A cardiovascular magnetic resonance study. Journal of cardiovascular magnetic resonance : official journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, 13(53), Article ARTN 53. https://doi.org/10.1186/1532-429x-13-53

BackgroundCardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) with late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) can provide unique data on the transmural extent of scar/viability. We assessed the prevalence of dysfunctional myocardium, including partial thickness scar, whi... Read More about Prevalence of scarred and dysfunctional myocardium in patients with heart failure of ischaemic origin: A cardiovascular magnetic resonance study.

"This orphan play": Cardenio and the construction of the author (2011)
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Meek, R., & Rickard, J. (2011). "This orphan play": Cardenio and the construction of the author. Shakespeare, 7(3), 269-283. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450918.2011.589058

Critical and popular interest in Cardenio/Double Falsehood has focused largely on Shakespeare. Through a combination of Anglocentrism and Shakespeare-centrism, Shakespeare's collaborator, John Fletcher, and the Spanish author of their source, Miguel... Read More about "This orphan play": Cardenio and the construction of the author.

A multi-agent architecture for reverse logistics in a green supply chain (2011)
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Mishra, N., Kumar, V., & Chan, F. T. (2012). A multi-agent architecture for reverse logistics in a green supply chain. International Journal of Production Research, 50(9), 2396-2406. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207543.2011.581003

Green supply chain issues have attracted a lot of attention in recent years with growing awareness of environmental concerns. This has drawn the considerable world-wide attention of academics and practitioners. Therefore, recycling has now become an... Read More about A multi-agent architecture for reverse logistics in a green supply chain.

Spectroscopy and single-molecule emission of a fluorene-terthiophene oligomer (2011)
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Khalil, G. E., Adawi, A. M., Robinson, B., Cadby, A. J., Tsoi, W. C., Kim, J.-S., Charas, A., Morgado, J., & Lidzey, D. G. (2011). Spectroscopy and single-molecule emission of a fluorene-terthiophene oligomer. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 115(42), 12028-12035. https://doi.org/10.1021/jp206368g

We study the thiophene-based oligomer poly[2,7-(9,9-bis(2′-ethylhexyl)fluorene)-alt-2,5-terthiophene] (PF3T) in solution and when dispersed at low concentration into a polynorbornene matrix. We find that at high concentration in solution the 0–0 elec... Read More about Spectroscopy and single-molecule emission of a fluorene-terthiophene oligomer.

Effectiveness of short-term heat acclimation for highly trained athletes (2011)
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Garrett, A. T., Creasy, R., Rehrer, N. J., Patterson, M. J., & Cotter, J. D. (2012). Effectiveness of short-term heat acclimation for highly trained athletes. European journal of applied physiology, 112(5), 1827-1837. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00421-011-2153-3

Effectiveness of short-term acclimation has generally been undertaken using untrained and moderatelytrained participants. The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of short-term (5-day) heat acclimation on highly trained athletes. Eight m... Read More about Effectiveness of short-term heat acclimation for highly trained athletes.

A mosaic of eyes (2011)
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Jiang, P., Feng, Z., Cheng, Y., Ji, Y., Zhu, J., Baruch, J., Wang, X., Tian, F., & Hu, F. (2011). A mosaic of eyes. IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, 18(3), 104-113. https://doi.org/10.1109/MRA.2011.942119

Autonomous navigation is a traditional research topic in intelligent robotics and vehicles, which requires a robot to perceive its environment through onboard sensors such as cameras or laser scanners, to enable it to drive to its goal. Most research... Read More about A mosaic of eyes.