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Timescales of self-healing in human bone tissue and polymeric ionic liquids (2014)
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Akbarzadeh, J., Puchegger, S., Stojanovic, A., Kirchner, H. O., Binder, W. H., Bernstorff, S., …Peterlik, H. (2014). Timescales of self-healing in human bone tissue and polymeric ionic liquids. Bioinspired, Biomimetic and Nanobiomaterials, 3(3), 123-130. https://doi.org/10.1680/bbn.14.00007

Strain (stress-free) relaxation in mechanically prestrained bone has a time constant of 75 s. It occurs by a reorganization of the proteoglycan-glycoprotein matrix between collagen fibers, which requires ionic interactions. Dissolving and relinking t... Read More about Timescales of self-healing in human bone tissue and polymeric ionic liquids.

The influence of product age on pricing decisions: An examination of bank deposit interest rate setting (2014)
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Anderson, R. D., Ashton, J. K., & Hudson, R. S. (2014). The influence of product age on pricing decisions: An examination of bank deposit interest rate setting. Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, 31, 216-230. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intfin.2014.03.010

Do banks extract rent from depositors who hold older deposit accounts? This study addresses this question using product level data from the UK instant access (branch based) deposit market. In this context, two research questions related to the condit... Read More about The influence of product age on pricing decisions: An examination of bank deposit interest rate setting.

The critical role of stratification in submarine channels: Implications for channelization and long runout of flows (2014)
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Dorrell, R. M., Darby, S. E., Peakall, J., Sumner, E. J., Parsons, D. R., & Wynn, R. B. (2014). The critical role of stratification in submarine channels: Implications for channelization and long runout of flows. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 119(4), 2620-2641. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014jc009807

Channelized submarine gravity currents travel remarkable distances, transporting sediment to the distal reaches of submarine fans. However, the mechanisms by which flows can be sustained over these distances remain enigmatic. In this paper we conside... Read More about The critical role of stratification in submarine channels: Implications for channelization and long runout of flows.

Centurions and Chieftains : tank sales and British policy towards Israel in the aftermath of the Six Day War (2014)
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Smith, S. C. (2014). Centurions and Chieftains : tank sales and British policy towards Israel in the aftermath of the Six Day War. Contemporary British History, 28(2), 219-239. https://doi.org/10.1080/13619462.2014.930348

Britain's attempt to distance itself from Israel as London sought to conciliate the Arab world in the aftermath of the Six-Day War has entered the historiography of Anglo-Israeli relations. A neglected aspect of the development of British policy towa... Read More about Centurions and Chieftains : tank sales and British policy towards Israel in the aftermath of the Six Day War.

A typology of marine and estuarine hazards and risks as vectors of change : a review for vulnerable coasts and their management (2014)
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Elliott, M., Cutts, N. D., & Trono, A. (2014). A typology of marine and estuarine hazards and risks as vectors of change : a review for vulnerable coasts and their management. Ocean and Coastal Management, 93, 88-99. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2014.03.014

This paper illustrates a typology of 14 natural and anthropogenic hazards, the evidence for their causes and consequences for society and their role as vectors of change in estuaries, vulnerable coasts and marine areas. It uses hazard as the potentia... Read More about A typology of marine and estuarine hazards and risks as vectors of change : a review for vulnerable coasts and their management.

Blending scales of governance: land-use policies and practices in the small state of Luxembourg (2014)
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Affolderbach, J., & Carr, C. (2016). Blending scales of governance: land-use policies and practices in the small state of Luxembourg. Regional studies, 50(6), 944-955. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2014.893057

© 2014 Regional Studies Association. Affolderbach J. and Carr C. Blending scales of governance: land-use policies and practices in the small state of Luxembourg, Regional Studies. While multilevel governance is helpful in understanding the logics beh... Read More about Blending scales of governance: land-use policies and practices in the small state of Luxembourg.

Corporate social responsibility enhanced control systems reducing the likelihood of fraud (2014)
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Rodgers, W., Söderbom, A., & Guiral, A. (2015). Corporate social responsibility enhanced control systems reducing the likelihood of fraud. Journal of Business Ethics, 131(4), 871-882. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-014-2152-5

All kinds of fraud are costly for the people engrossed both financially and often in terms of the time needed to clear their name when illegal use has been made of their personal details. The relationship among ethics, internal control, and fraud is... Read More about Corporate social responsibility enhanced control systems reducing the likelihood of fraud.

Earth's youngest known ultrahigh-temperature granulites discovered on Seram, eastern Indonesia (2014)
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Pownall, J. M., Hall, R., Armstrong, R. A., & Forster, M. A. (2014). Earth's youngest known ultrahigh-temperature granulites discovered on Seram, eastern Indonesia. Geology, 42(4), 279-282. https://doi.org/10.1130/G35230.1

Episodes of ultrahigh-temperature (UHT, ≥900 °C) granulite metamorphism have been recorded in mountain belts since the Neoarchean. However, evidence for the tectonic mechanisms responsible for the generation of such extreme thermal conditions is rare... Read More about Earth's youngest known ultrahigh-temperature granulites discovered on Seram, eastern Indonesia.

Flooding in a Vertically Rising Gas–Liquid Foam (2014)
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Wang, X., Evans, G. M., & Stevenson, P. (2014). Flooding in a Vertically Rising Gas–Liquid Foam. Industrial & engineering chemistry research, 53(14), 6150-6156. https://doi.org/10.1021/ie4001844

The maximum liquid fraction that stable pneumatic foam can support is studied in this paper in order to illuminate change of flow regime from turbulent foam flow to the “emulsion regime” in which the distinct interface between the foam layer and the... Read More about Flooding in a Vertically Rising Gas–Liquid Foam.

Theoretical investigation of the thermal performance of a novel solar loop-heat-pipe façade-based heat pump water heating system (2014)
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He, W., Hong, X., Zhao, X., Zhang, X., Shen, J., & Ji, J. (2014). Theoretical investigation of the thermal performance of a novel solar loop-heat-pipe façade-based heat pump water heating system. Energy and Buildings, 77, 180-191. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2014.03.053

The aim of the paper was to present a dedicated theoretical investigation into the thermal performance of a novel solar loop-heat-pipe façade based heat pump water heating system. This involved thermo-fluid analyses, computer numerical model developm... Read More about Theoretical investigation of the thermal performance of a novel solar loop-heat-pipe façade-based heat pump water heating system.

Microbubbles enhanced synthetic phorbol ester degradation by ozonolysis (2014)
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Kuvshinov, D., Siswanto, A., & Zimmerman, W. (2014). Microbubbles enhanced synthetic phorbol ester degradation by ozonolysis. International journal of chemical, molecular, nuclear, materials and metallurgical engineering, 8(1), 76-79

A phorbol-12-myristate-13-acetate (TPA) is a synthetic analogue of phorbol ester (PE), a natural toxic compound of Euphorbiaceae plant. The oil extracted from plants of this family is useful source for primarily biofuel. However this oil might also b... Read More about Microbubbles enhanced synthetic phorbol ester degradation by ozonolysis.

Fear and the musical avant-garde in games: Interviews with Jason Graves, Garry Schyman, Paul Gorman and Michael Kamper (2014)
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Mitchell, H. R. (2014). Fear and the musical avant-garde in games: Interviews with Jason Graves, Garry Schyman, Paul Gorman and Michael Kamper. Horror studies, 5(1), 127-144. https://doi.org/10.1386/host.5.1.127_1

© 2014 Intellect Ltd Article. If you have ever experienced the cold chill of fear when watching a film or playing a video or computer game, it is highly probable that your responses have been manipulated by composers exploiting the musical resources... Read More about Fear and the musical avant-garde in games: Interviews with Jason Graves, Garry Schyman, Paul Gorman and Michael Kamper.

Linking mineralisation process and sedimentary product in terrestrial carbonates using a solution thermodynamic approach (2014)
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Rogerson, M., Pedley, H. M., Kelham, A., & Wadhawan, J. D. (2014). Linking mineralisation process and sedimentary product in terrestrial carbonates using a solution thermodynamic approach. Earth surface dynamics European Geosciences Union, 2(1), 197-216. https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-2-197-2014

Determining the processes which generate terrestrial carbonate deposits (tufas, travertines and to a lesser extent associated chemical sediments such as calcretes and speleothems) is a long-standing problem. Precipitation of mineral products from sol... Read More about Linking mineralisation process and sedimentary product in terrestrial carbonates using a solution thermodynamic approach.

Principled simulation of cell proliferation dynamics using the CoSMoS approach (2014)
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Polack, F., & Droop, A. (2014). Principled simulation of cell proliferation dynamics using the CoSMoS approach. Natural Computing, 14(1), 63-82. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11047-014-9468-z

A collaboration between cancer biologists and academic software engineers has been exploring the development of an agent-based simulator to inform and support work on the dynamics of cell proliferation in the study of prostate disorders. The research... Read More about Principled simulation of cell proliferation dynamics using the CoSMoS approach.

An improved algorithm for collision avoidance in environments having U and H shaped obstacles (2014)
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Zohaib, M., Pasha, S. M., Javaid, N., Salaam, A., & Iqbal, J. (2014). An improved algorithm for collision avoidance in environments having U and H shaped obstacles. Studies in Informatics and Control, 23(1), 97-106. https://doi.org/10.24846/v23i1y201410

This paper proposes a novel obstacle avoidance algorithm for autonomous mobile robot control. The proposed approach brings a solution to the problem of robot traversal in critical shaped environments and offers several advantages compared to the repo... Read More about An improved algorithm for collision avoidance in environments having U and H shaped obstacles.

Fracture healing following high energy tibial trauma: Ilizarov versus Taylor Spatial Frame (2014)
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Menakaya, C., Rigby, A., Hadland, Y., Barron, E., & Sharma, H. (2014). Fracture healing following high energy tibial trauma: Ilizarov versus Taylor Spatial Frame. Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 96(2), 106-110. https://doi.org/10.1308/003588414x13824511650335

Introduction: The optimal treatment of high energy tibial fractures remains controversial and a challenging orthopaedic problem. The role of external fi xators for all these tibial fractures has been shown to be crucial. Methods: A fi ve-year consecu... Read More about Fracture healing following high energy tibial trauma: Ilizarov versus Taylor Spatial Frame.

Press self-regulation in Britain: a critique (2014)
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Cohen-Almagor, R. (2015). Press self-regulation in Britain: a critique. Science and engineering ethics, 21(1), 159-181. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-014-9538-8

This article reviews the history of press self-regulation in Britain, from the 1947 Ross Commission to the 2012 Leveson Inquiry Commission. It considers the history of the Press Council and the Press Complaints Commission, analysing the ways they dev... Read More about Press self-regulation in Britain: a critique.

Looming motion primes the visuomotor system (2014)
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Skarratt, P. A., Gellatly, A. R. H., Cole, G. G., Pilling, M., & Hulleman, J. (2014). Looming motion primes the visuomotor system. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 40(2), 566-579. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0034456

A wealth of evidence now shows that human and animal observers display greater sensitivity to objects that move toward them than to objects that remain static or move away. Increased sensitivity in humans is often evidenced by reaction times that inc... Read More about Looming motion primes the visuomotor system.

Whiter, brighter, and more stable cellulose paper coated with antibacterial carboxymethyl starch stabilized ZnO nanoparticles (2014)
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Cheng, F., Betts, J. W., Kelly, S. M., Wareham, D. W., Kornherr, A., Dumestre, F., …Heinze, T. (2014). Whiter, brighter, and more stable cellulose paper coated with antibacterial carboxymethyl starch stabilized ZnO nanoparticles. Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 2(20), 3057-3064. https://doi.org/10.1039/c3tb21734e

Small, carboxymethyl-starch-stabilised zinc oxide nanoparticles with a defined shape, size and morphology were prepared in situ in water at relatively low reaction temperatures using soluble carboxymethyl starch (CMS) as a combined crystallising, sta... Read More about Whiter, brighter, and more stable cellulose paper coated with antibacterial carboxymethyl starch stabilized ZnO nanoparticles.

Positioning further education and community colleges: Text, teachers and students as global discourse (2014)
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Dennis, C. A. (2014). Positioning further education and community colleges: Text, teachers and students as global discourse. Studies in the Education of Adults, 46(1), 91-107. https://doi.org/10.1080/02660830.2014.11661659

This article explores how ideas about quality in further education and community colleges are articulated by two policy texts. Published in 2012, How Colleges Improve examines the factors that have contributed towards sustained high performance or im... Read More about Positioning further education and community colleges: Text, teachers and students as global discourse.