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Neural network predictions of acoustical parameters in multi-purpose performance halls (2013)
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Cheung, L. Y., & Tang, S. K. (2013). Neural network predictions of acoustical parameters in multi-purpose performance halls. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 134(3), 2049-2065. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4817880

A detailed binaural sound measurement was carried out in two multi-purpose performance halls of different seating capacities and designs in Hong Kong in the present study. The effectiveness of using neural network in the predictions of the acoustical... Read More about Neural network predictions of acoustical parameters in multi-purpose performance halls.

A comparison of cardiovascular risk indices in patients with polycystic ovary syndrome with and without coexisting nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (2013)
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Dawson, A. J., Sathyapalan, T., Smithson, J. A. J., Vince, R. V., Coady, A. M., Ajjan, R., Kilpatrick, E. S., & Atkin, S. L. (2014). A comparison of cardiovascular risk indices in patients with polycystic ovary syndrome with and without coexisting nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Clinical Endocrinology, 80(6), 843-849. https://doi.org/10.1111/cen.12258

Background Women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) have an adverse cardiovascular risk profile and an increased prevalence of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), which is also associated with an adverse cardiovascular risk profile. Objectiv... Read More about A comparison of cardiovascular risk indices in patients with polycystic ovary syndrome with and without coexisting nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.

Adaptation and acclimatization to ocean acidification in marine ectotherms: an in situ transplant experiment with polychaetes at a shallow CO₂ vent system (2013)
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Calosi, P., Rastrick, S. P., Lombardi, C., de Guzman, H. J., Davidson, L., Jahnke, M., Giangrande, A., Hardege, J. D., Schulze, A., Spicer, J. I., & Gambi, M. C. (2013). Adaptation and acclimatization to ocean acidification in marine ectotherms: an in situ transplant experiment with polychaetes at a shallow CO₂ vent system. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 368(1627), 0-0. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2012.0444

Metabolic rate determines the physiological and life-history performances of ectotherms. Thus, the extent to which such rates are sensitive and plastic to environmental perturbation is central to an organism's ability to function in a changing enviro... Read More about Adaptation and acclimatization to ocean acidification in marine ectotherms: an in situ transplant experiment with polychaetes at a shallow CO₂ vent system.

The management of change in public organizations: a literature review (2013)
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Kuipers, B. S., Higgs, M., Kickert, W., Tummers, L., Grandia, J., & Van Der Voet, J. (2014). The management of change in public organizations: a literature review. Public administration, 92(1), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1111/padm.12040

This article presents a review of the recent literature on change management in public organizations and sets out to explore the extent to which this literature has responded to earlier critiques regarding the lack of (public) contextual factors. The... Read More about The management of change in public organizations: a literature review.

Real-time posture reconstruction for Microsoft Kinect (2013)
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Shum, H. P., Ho, E. S., Jiang, Y., & Takagi, S. (2013). Real-time posture reconstruction for Microsoft Kinect. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 43(5), 1357-1369. https://doi.org/10.1109/TCYB.2013.2275945

The recent advancement of motion recognition using Microsoft Kinect stimulates many new ideas in motion capture and virtual reality applications. Utilizing a pattern recognition algorithm, Kinect can determine the positions of different body parts fr... Read More about Real-time posture reconstruction for Microsoft Kinect.

Inorganic constituents formed during small-scale gasification of poultry litter: A model based study (2013)
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Font Palma, C., & Martin, A. D. (2013). Inorganic constituents formed during small-scale gasification of poultry litter: A model based study. Fuel Processing Technology, 116, 300-307. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuproc.2013.07.018

Europe's vast poultry industry requires a proper waste management in order to comply with environmental regulations. As a result, poultry litter represents a potential fuel candidate for thermal conversion technologies since it is an available source... Read More about Inorganic constituents formed during small-scale gasification of poultry litter: A model based study.

How to choose mitigation measures for supply chain risks (2013)
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Micheli, G. J. L., Mogre, R., & Perego, A. (2014). How to choose mitigation measures for supply chain risks. International Journal of Production Research, 52(1), 117-129. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207543.2013.828170

Properly managing supply chain risks is at the top of many supply chain managers' agendas. However, the process of selecting preventive measures to mitigate supply chain risks is often unstructured in practice. This is also reflected in academic lite... Read More about How to choose mitigation measures for supply chain risks.

Do marine protected areas deliver flows of ecosystem services to support human welfare? (2013)
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Potts, T., Burdon, D., Jackson, E., Atkins, J., Saunders, J., Hastings, E., & Langmead, O. (2014). Do marine protected areas deliver flows of ecosystem services to support human welfare?. Marine Policy, 44, 139-148. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2013.08.011

This paper examines the potential relationships between the ecosystem services provided by the coastal and marine environment and the designation of marine protected areas. The hypothesis is that relationships exist between the provision of ecosystem... Read More about Do marine protected areas deliver flows of ecosystem services to support human welfare?.

Hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction in humans (2013)
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Ariyaratnam, P., Loubani, M., & Morice, A. H. (2013). Hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction in humans. Biomed research international, 2013, Article 623684. https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/623684

Hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction is the elegant theory put forward more than six decades ago to explain regional variations in perfusion within the lung in certain animal species in response to localised restrictions in oxygenation. Although consid... Read More about Hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction in humans.

The impact of peer support in the context of perinatal mental illness: a meta-ethnography (2013)
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Jones, C. C., Jomeen, J., & Hayter, M. (2014). The impact of peer support in the context of perinatal mental illness: a meta-ethnography. Midwifery, 30(5), 491-498. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2013.08.003

ObjectiveThis paper is a report of a systematic review and meta-ethnography to explore the impact of peer support in the context of perinatal mental illness (PMI).MethodSystematic review methods identified five qualitative studies about women's exper... Read More about The impact of peer support in the context of perinatal mental illness: a meta-ethnography.

Recent progress on nickel-based systems for ethylene oligo-/polymerization catalysis (2013)
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Wang, S., Sun, W.-H., & Redshaw, C. (2014). Recent progress on nickel-based systems for ethylene oligo-/polymerization catalysis. Journal of organometallic chemistry, 751(February), 717-741. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jorganchem.2013.08.021

Recent progress on nickel-based complex pre-catalysts is reviewed herein. The ethylene oligo-/polymerization behaviour is discussed in terms of the variation of the complex models bearing different kinds of ligand sets. These discussions focus mainly... Read More about Recent progress on nickel-based systems for ethylene oligo-/polymerization catalysis.

A physical explanation of the temperature dependence of physiological processes mediated by cilia and flagella (2013)
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Humphries, S. (2013). A physical explanation of the temperature dependence of physiological processes mediated by cilia and flagella. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110(36), 14693-14698. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1300891110

The majority of biological rates are known to exhibit temperature dependence. Here I reveal a direct link between temperature and ecologically relevant rates such as swimming speeds in Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukaryotes as well as fluid-pumping and fi... Read More about A physical explanation of the temperature dependence of physiological processes mediated by cilia and flagella.

Dichloropalladium complexes ligated by 4,5-bis(arylimino)pyrenylidenes: Synthesis, characterization, and catalytic behavior towards Heck-reaction (2013)
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Song, K., Kong, S., Liu, Q., Sun, W.-H., & Redshaw, C. (2014). Dichloropalladium complexes ligated by 4,5-bis(arylimino)pyrenylidenes: Synthesis, characterization, and catalytic behavior towards Heck-reaction. Journal of organometallic chemistry, 751(February), 453-457. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jorganchem.2013.08.006

A series of 4,5-bis(arylimino)pyrenylidenylpalladium(II) chloride complexes (C1–C4) were synthesized and characterized by FT-IR and NMR spectroscopy, elemental analysis as well as by single crystal X-ray diffraction for the representative complexes C... Read More about Dichloropalladium complexes ligated by 4,5-bis(arylimino)pyrenylidenes: Synthesis, characterization, and catalytic behavior towards Heck-reaction.

2-(1-Aryliminoethyl)cycloheptapyridylpalladium complexes: Synthesis, characterization and the use in the Heck-reaction (2013)
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Ye, B., Wang, L., Hu, X., Redshaw, C., & Sun, W. H. (2013). 2-(1-Aryliminoethyl)cycloheptapyridylpalladium complexes: Synthesis, characterization and the use in the Heck-reaction. Inorganica Chimica Acta, 407, 281-288. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ica.2013.08.008

A series of 2-(1-aryliminoethyl)cycloheptapyridine derivatives (L1-L7) were prepared in good yield by the condensation reaction of 2- acetylcycloheptapyridine with various anilines, and then reacted with PdCl 2(CH3CN)2 in dichloromethane to form the... Read More about 2-(1-Aryliminoethyl)cycloheptapyridylpalladium complexes: Synthesis, characterization and the use in the Heck-reaction.

Microparticle-associated tissue factor is recycled by endothelial cells resulting in enhanced surface tissue factor activity (2013)
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Collier, M. E. W., Mah, P.-M., Xiao, Y., Maraveyas, A., & Ettelaie, C. (2013). Microparticle-associated tissue factor is recycled by endothelial cells resulting in enhanced surface tissue factor activity. Thrombosis and haemostasis, 110(5), 966-976. https://doi.org/10.1160/TH13-01-0055

In this study the uptake of tissue factor (TF)-positive microparticles by endothelial cells and the recycling of the TF component were examined. Human dermal blood endothelial cells (HDBEC) were incubated with microparticles derived from cancer cell... Read More about Microparticle-associated tissue factor is recycled by endothelial cells resulting in enhanced surface tissue factor activity.

The rise and fall of (Chinese) African apparel exports (2013)
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Rotunno, L., Vézina, P. L., & Wang, Z. (2013). The rise and fall of (Chinese) African apparel exports. Journal of Development Economics, 105, 152-163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2013.08.001

During the final years of the Multifiber Agreement (2001-2005) the US imposed quotas on Chinese apparel while it gave African apparel duty- and quota-free access. We argue that the combination of these policies led to a rapid but ephemeral rise of Af... Read More about The rise and fall of (Chinese) African apparel exports.

An ultrasonic transducer transient compensator design based on a simplified Variable Structure Control algorithm (2013)
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Ma, S., Wilkinson, A. J., & Paulson, K. S. (2014). An ultrasonic transducer transient compensator design based on a simplified Variable Structure Control algorithm. Ultrasonics, 54(2), 502-515. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultras.2013.07.017

A non-linear control method, known as Variable Structure Control (VSC), is employed to reduce the duration of ultrasonic (US) transducer transients. A physically realizable system using a simplified form of the VSC algorithm is proposed for standard... Read More about An ultrasonic transducer transient compensator design based on a simplified Variable Structure Control algorithm.

Investigating terminal decline: Results from a UK population-based study of aging (2013)
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Muniz-Terrera, G., van den Hout, A., Piccinin, A. M., Matthews, F. E., & Hofer, S. M. (2013). Investigating terminal decline: Results from a UK population-based study of aging. Psychology and Aging, 28(2), 377-385. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0031000

The terminal decline hypothesis states that in the proximity of death, an individual's decline in cognitive abilities accelerates. We aimed at estimating the onset of faster rate of decline in global cognition using Mini Mental State Examination (MMS... Read More about Investigating terminal decline: Results from a UK population-based study of aging.