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Turning the tide: experimental creation of tidal channel networks and ebb deltas (2012)
Journal Article
Terwisscha Van Scheltinga, R., Kleinhans, M. G., Van Der Vegt, M., van Scheltinga, R. T., Baar, A. W., & Markies, H. (2012). Turning the tide: experimental creation of tidal channel networks and ebb deltas. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences, 91(3), 311-323. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016774600000469

Tidal channel networks, estuaries and ebb deltas are usually formed over a period longer than observations cover. Much is known about their characteristics and formation from linear stability analyses, numerical modelling and field observations. Howe... Read More about Turning the tide: experimental creation of tidal channel networks and ebb deltas.

Tourist literature and the ideological grammar of landscape in the Austrian Danube Valley, ca. 1870–1945 (2012)
Journal Article
Ploner, J. (2012). Tourist literature and the ideological grammar of landscape in the Austrian Danube Valley, ca. 1870–1945. Journal of Tourism History, 4(3), 237-257. https://doi.org/10.1080/1755182x.2012.711376

With its allure of transnationalism, border-crossing and timelessness, the Danube, unlike any other European river, has provided a rich and diverse image reservoir for travel and tourism writing for centuries. Symbolizing the continuous flow through... Read More about Tourist literature and the ideological grammar of landscape in the Austrian Danube Valley, ca. 1870–1945.

Experts, rights and precaution (2012)
Journal Article
Bielby, P., & Ward, T. (2012). Experts, rights and precaution. Web journal of current legal issues, 2012(5),

In this article, we offer an account of the epistemological and moral principles that should govern decisions where judges and other official decision-makers are asked to authorize courses of action which would amount to a violation of someone's righ... Read More about Experts, rights and precaution.

Atorvastatin reduces malondialdehyde concentrations in patients with polycystic ovary syndrome (2012)
Journal Article
Sathyapalan, T., Shepherd, J., Coady, A.-M., Kilpatrick, E. S., & Atkin, S. L. (2012). Atorvastatin reduces malondialdehyde concentrations in patients with polycystic ovary syndrome. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 97(11), 3951-3955. https://doi.org/10.1210/jc.2012-2279

Background: It has been shown that there is an increase in oxidative stress in polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). Statins are considered to have a pleiotropic effect other than their lipid-lowering effect. These effects may be mediated in part by redu... Read More about Atorvastatin reduces malondialdehyde concentrations in patients with polycystic ovary syndrome.

Diagnosis and management of cardiovascular disease with an intelligent decision-making support system (2012)
Journal Article
Bohacik, J., & Davis, D. (2012). Diagnosis and management of cardiovascular disease with an intelligent decision-making support system. ULAB journal of science and engineering, 3(1), Article 42888

Cardiovascular disease is the principal cause of death in most European countries and may have a major negativeimpact on the patients' functional status, productivity, and quality of life. It seems an automatic decision support system couldlower thes... Read More about Diagnosis and management of cardiovascular disease with an intelligent decision-making support system.

Designing personalised learning resources for disabled students using an ontology-driven community of agents (2012)
Book Chapter
Nganji, J. T., & Brayshaw, M. (2012). Designing personalised learning resources for disabled students using an ontology-driven community of agents. In P. Isaias, & M. Baptista Nunes (Eds.), Information systems research and exploring social artifacts: approaches and methodologies (81-102). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2491-7.ch005

The exploration of social artifacts for the disabled is an important and timely issue. The affordances of new technologies like the Semantic Web allow more intelligent handling of educational learning resources that open up the potential of personali... Read More about Designing personalised learning resources for disabled students using an ontology-driven community of agents.

Violent women in print : representations in the West German print media of the 1960s and 1970s (2012)
Book
Bielby, C. (2012). Violent women in print : representations in the West German print media of the 1960s and 1970s. Camden House

As the controversy surrounding the release of Uli Edel and Bernd Eichinger's 2008 feature film The Baader Meinhof Complex demonstrates, West Germany's terrorist period, which reached its height in the "German autumn" of 1977, is still a fascinating -... Read More about Violent women in print : representations in the West German print media of the 1960s and 1970s.

An NBD-armed thiacalix[4]arene-derived colorimetric and fluorometric chemosensor for Ag+: A metal–ligand receptor of anions (2012)
Journal Article
Fu, Y., Mu, L., Zeng, X., Zhao, J. L., Redshaw, C., Ni, X. L., & Yamato, T. (2013). An NBD-armed thiacalix[4]arene-derived colorimetric and fluorometric chemosensor for Ag+: A metal–ligand receptor of anions. Dalton Transactions : an international journal of inorganic chemistry, 42(10), 3552-3560. https://doi.org/10.1039/c2dt32115g

A new type of thiacalix[4]arene-based chemosensor 2a and 2b containing amino groups as a binding site and 7-nitrobenzo-2-oxa-1,3-diazole (NBD) as a chromophore have been synthesized and characterized by single crystal X-ray diffraction and by NMR spe... Read More about An NBD-armed thiacalix[4]arene-derived colorimetric and fluorometric chemosensor for Ag+: A metal–ligand receptor of anions.

Countering anti-theatricality: Davenant and the drama of the protectorate (2012)
Book Chapter
Clare, J. (2012). Countering anti-theatricality: Davenant and the drama of the protectorate. In The Oxford handbook of literature and the English Revolution (498 - 515). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199560608.013.0027

This article begins with a discussion of the parliamentary-Puritan opposition to theatre during the Civil Wars and after the regicide. It then turns to the restoration of the monarchy in 1653, and the efforts of Richard Flecknoe and William Davenant... Read More about Countering anti-theatricality: Davenant and the drama of the protectorate.

And yet they act together: Interpersonal perception modulates visuo-motor interference and mutual adjustments during a joint-grasping task (2012)
Journal Article
Sacheli, L. M., Candidi, M., Pavone, E. F., Tidoni, E., & Aglioti, S. M. (2012). And yet they act together: Interpersonal perception modulates visuo-motor interference and mutual adjustments during a joint-grasping task. PLoS ONE, 7(11), e50223. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0050223

Prediction of “when” a partner will act and “what” he is going to do is crucial in joint-action contexts. However, studies on face-to-face interactions in which two people have to mutually adjust their movements in time and space are lacking. Moreove... Read More about And yet they act together: Interpersonal perception modulates visuo-motor interference and mutual adjustments during a joint-grasping task.

Towards an understanding of the vibrational spectrum of the neutral Au7cluster (2012)
Journal Article
Mancera, L. A., & Benoit, D. M. (2013). Towards an understanding of the vibrational spectrum of the neutral Au7cluster. Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP, 15(6), 1929-1943. https://doi.org/10.1039/c2cp43211k

We present a detailed theoretical study of the vibrational spectrum of the neutral Au 7 cluster, aimed at understanding its reported experimental spectrum [P. Gruene et al., Science, 2008, 321, 674]. We study the effect of vibrational anharmonicity,... Read More about Towards an understanding of the vibrational spectrum of the neutral Au7cluster.

Problem-based learning supported by semantic techniques (2012)
Journal Article
Lozano, E., Gracia, J., Corcho, O., Noble, R. A., & Gómez-Pérez, A. (2015). Problem-based learning supported by semantic techniques. Interactive Learning Environments, 23(1), 37-54. https://doi.org/10.1080/10494820.2012.745431

Problem-based learning has been applied over the last three decades to a diverse range of learning environments. In this educational approach, different problems are posed to the learners so that they can develop different solutions while learning ab... Read More about Problem-based learning supported by semantic techniques.

Limited latitudinal mantle plume motion for the Louisville hotspot (2012)
Journal Article
Koppers, A. A., Yamazaki, T., Geldmacher, J., Gee, J. S., Pressling, N., Hoshi, H., Anderson, L., Beier, C., Buchs, D. M., Chen, L. H., Cohen, B. E., Deschamps, F., Dorais, M. J., Ebuna, D., Ehmann, S., Fitton, J. G., Fulton, P. M., Ganbat, E., Hamelin, C., Hanyu, T., …Williams, R. (2012). Limited latitudinal mantle plume motion for the Louisville hotspot. Nature Geoscience, 5(12), 911-917. https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1638

Hotspots that form above upwelling plumes of hot material from the deep mantle typically leave narrow trails of volcanic seamounts as a tectonic plate moves over their location. These seamount trails are excellent recorders of Earth's deep processes... Read More about Limited latitudinal mantle plume motion for the Louisville hotspot.

Cardiac Depression Scale: Mokken scaling in heart failure patients (2012)
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Ski, C. F., Thompson, D. R., Hare, D. L., Stewart, A. G., & Watson, R. (2012). Cardiac Depression Scale: Mokken scaling in heart failure patients. Health and quality of life outcomes, 10(1), 141. https://doi.org/10.1186/1477-7525-10-141

Background: There is a high prevalence of depression in patients with heart failure (HF) that is associated with worsening prognosis. The value of using a reliable and valid instrument to measure depression in this population is therefore essential.... Read More about Cardiac Depression Scale: Mokken scaling in heart failure patients.

Nuclear strategy and Catholicism : a reappraisal (2012)
Journal Article
Lonsdale, D. J. (2012). Nuclear strategy and Catholicism : a reappraisal. Journal of Military Ethics, 11(3), 186-207. https://doi.org/10.1080/15027570.2012.738501

During the Cold War sections within the Catholic Church reached an uneasy compromise on the moral validity of nuclear strategy. As an ‘interim ethic’ the dominant Catholic position accepted the legitimacy of nuclear deterrence, but rejected many of t... Read More about Nuclear strategy and Catholicism : a reappraisal.

Hydrochemical processes in lowland rivers: Insights from in situ, high-resolution monitoring (2012)
Journal Article
Wade, A. J., Palmer-Felgate, E. J., Halliday, S. J., Skeffington, R. A., Loewenthal, M., Jarvie, H. P., Bowes, M. J., Greenway, G. M., Haswell, S. J., Bell, I. M., Joly, E., Fallatah, A., Neal, C., Williams, R. J., Gozzard, E., & Newman, J. R. (2012). Hydrochemical processes in lowland rivers: Insights from in situ, high-resolution monitoring. Hydrology and earth system sciences, 16(11), 4323-4342. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-16-4323-2012

This paper introduces new insights into the hydrochemical functioning of lowland river systems using field-based spectrophotometric and electrode technologies. The streamwater concentrations of nitrogen species and phosphorus fractions were measured... Read More about Hydrochemical processes in lowland rivers: Insights from in situ, high-resolution monitoring.

Tailoring iron complexes for ethylene oligomerization and/or polymerization (2012)
Journal Article
Zhang, W., Sun, W. H., & Redshaw, C. (2013). Tailoring iron complexes for ethylene oligomerization and/or polymerization. Dalton Transactions : an international journal of inorganic chemistry, 42(25), 8988-8997. https://doi.org/10.1039/c2dt32337k

Recent progress in the use of iron-based complex pre-catalysts for ethylene reactivity is reviewed, illustrating the current state-of-the-art and the potential usefulness of such systems for delivering solely ethylene oligomerization or polymerizatio... Read More about Tailoring iron complexes for ethylene oligomerization and/or polymerization.

Broadband and broadangle SPP antennas based on plasmonic crystals with linear chirp (2012)
Journal Article
Bouillard, J. S., Vilain, S., Dickson, W., Wurtz, G. A., & Zayats, A. V. (2012). Broadband and broadangle SPP antennas based on plasmonic crystals with linear chirp. Scientific reports, 2(1), Article 829. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep00829

Plasmonic technology relies on the coupling of light to surface electromagnetic modes on smooth or structured metal surfaces. While some applications utilise the resonant nature of surface polaritons, others require broadband characteristics. We demo... Read More about Broadband and broadangle SPP antennas based on plasmonic crystals with linear chirp.

The recodification of private law in Central and Eastern Europe (2012)
Book Chapter
Cserne, P. (2012). The recodification of private law in Central and Eastern Europe. In P. Larouche, & P. Cserne (Eds.), National legal systems and globalization: new role, continuing relevance (45 - 88). T.M.C. Asser Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-6704-885-9_4

In the past two decades, Central and Eastern European countries have experienced a rapid political, economic and social transformation. This transformation has been intertwined with the Europeanisation and modernisation of the law. This chapter analy... Read More about The recodification of private law in Central and Eastern Europe.