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Young children retain fast mapped object labels better than shape, color, and texture words (2015)
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Holland, A., Simpson, A., & Riggs, K. J. (2015). Young children retain fast mapped object labels better than shape, color, and texture words. Journal of experimental child psychology, 134, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2015.01.014

We compared short- and long-term retention of fast mapped color, shape and texture words as well as object labels. In an exposure session, 354 3- and 4-year-old children were shown a set of two familiar and three novel stimuli. One of the novel stimu... Read More about Young children retain fast mapped object labels better than shape, color, and texture words.

Visual object imagery and autobiographical memory: object imagers are better at remembering their personal past (2015)
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Vannucci, M., Pelagatti, C., Chiorri, C., & Mazzoni, G. (2016). Visual object imagery and autobiographical memory: object imagers are better at remembering their personal past. Memory, 24(4), 455-470. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2015.1018277

In the present study we examined whether higher levels of object imagery, a stable characteristic that reflects the ability and preference in generating pictorial mental images of objects, facilitate involuntary and voluntary retrieval of autobiograp... Read More about Visual object imagery and autobiographical memory: object imagers are better at remembering their personal past.

Ambidexterity and unit performance: intellectual capital antecedents and cross-level moderating effects of human resource practices (2015)
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Kostopoulos, K. C., Bozionelos, N., & Syrigos, E. (2015). Ambidexterity and unit performance: intellectual capital antecedents and cross-level moderating effects of human resource practices. Human Resource Management, 54(S1), s111-s132. https://doi.org/10.1002/hrm.21705

This study develops a cross‐level model examining the effects of intellectual capital facets (i.e., human, social, and organizational capital) on unit ambidexterity. Further, it proposes that organizational‐level high‐performance human resource (HPHR... Read More about Ambidexterity and unit performance: intellectual capital antecedents and cross-level moderating effects of human resource practices.

Can expertise mitigate auditors’ unintentional biases? (2015)
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Guiral, A., Rodgers, W., Ruiz, E., & Gonzalo-Angulo, J. A. (2015). Can expertise mitigate auditors’ unintentional biases?. Journal of International Accounting, Auditing and Taxation, 24, 105-117. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intaccaudtax.2014.11.002

It is important for both academics and practitioners to understand how biases influence auditing opinions, as well as how we might counteract those biases. According to moral seduction theory, auditors’ judgments are morally induced by conflicts of i... Read More about Can expertise mitigate auditors’ unintentional biases?.

Evaluation of different concentration doses of eugenol on the behaviour of Nephrops norvegicus (2015)
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Cowing, D., Powell, A., & Johnson, M. (2015). Evaluation of different concentration doses of eugenol on the behaviour of Nephrops norvegicus. Aquaculture, 442, 78-85. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2015.02.039

Eugenol was tested for use as an anaesthetic on Nephrops norvegicus at three different concentrations (300, 600, 900 μL/L). Monitoring included the time taken to reach each sedation stage. Sedation stage was assessed by passive behaviours and reactio... Read More about Evaluation of different concentration doses of eugenol on the behaviour of Nephrops norvegicus.

A model study of enhanced oil recovery by flooding with aqueous surfactant solution and comparison with theory (2015)
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Fletcher, P. D. I., Savory, L. D., Woods, F., Clarke, A., & Howe, A. M. (2015). A model study of enhanced oil recovery by flooding with aqueous surfactant solution and comparison with theory. Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids, 31(10), 3076-3085. https://doi.org/10.1021/la5049612

With the aim of elucidating the details of enhanced oil recovery by surfactant solution flooding, we have determined the detailed behavior of model systems consisting of a packed column of calcium carbonate particles as the porous rock, n-decane as t... Read More about A model study of enhanced oil recovery by flooding with aqueous surfactant solution and comparison with theory.

Decrease in water clarity of the southern and central North Sea during the 20th century (2015)
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Capuzzo, E., Stephens, D., Silva, T., Barry, J., & Forster, R. M. (2015). Decrease in water clarity of the southern and central North Sea during the 20th century. Global change biology, 21(6), 2206-2214. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.12854

Light in the marine environment is a key environmental variable coupling physics to marine biogeochemistry and ecology. Weak light penetration reduces light available for photosynthesis, changing energy fluxes through the marine food web. Based on pu... Read More about Decrease in water clarity of the southern and central North Sea during the 20th century.

Brain oxygenation patterns during the execution of tool use demonstration, tool use pantomime, and body-part-as-object tool use (2015)
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Helmich, I., Holle, H., Rein, R., & Lausberg, H. (2015). Brain oxygenation patterns during the execution of tool use demonstration, tool use pantomime, and body-part-as-object tool use. International journal of psychophysiology : official journal of the International Organization of Psychophysiology, 96(1), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2015.03.001

© 2015 Elsevier B.V. Divergent findings exist whether left and right hemispheric pre- and postcentral cortices contribute to the production of tool use related hand movements. In order to clarify the neural substrates of tool use demonstrations with... Read More about Brain oxygenation patterns during the execution of tool use demonstration, tool use pantomime, and body-part-as-object tool use.

Mantises exchange angular momentum between three rotating body parts to jump precisely to targets (2015)
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Burrows, M., Cullen, D. A., Dorosenko, M., & Sutton, G. P. (2015). Mantises exchange angular momentum between three rotating body parts to jump precisely to targets. Current biology : CB, 25(6), 786-789. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2015.01.054

Flightless animals have evolved diverse mechanisms to control their movements in air, whether falling with gravity or propelling against it. Many insects jump as a primary mode of locomotion and must therefore precisely control the large torques gene... Read More about Mantises exchange angular momentum between three rotating body parts to jump precisely to targets.

Simple and accurate modelling of the gravitational potential produced by thick and thin exponential discs (2015)
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Smith, R., Flynn, C., Candlish, G. N., Fellhauer, M., & Gibson, B. K. (2015). Simple and accurate modelling of the gravitational potential produced by thick and thin exponential discs. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 448(3), 2934-2940. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv228

We present accurate models of the gravitational potential produced by a radially exponential disc mass distribution. The models are produced by combining three separate Miyamoto–Nagai discs. Such models have been used previously to model the disc of... Read More about Simple and accurate modelling of the gravitational potential produced by thick and thin exponential discs.

Political branding: sense of identity or identity crisis? An investigation of the transfer potential of the brand identity prism to the UK Conservative Party (2015)
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Dean, D., & Pich, C. (2015). Political branding: sense of identity or identity crisis? An investigation of the transfer potential of the brand identity prism to the UK Conservative Party. Journal of marketing management, 31(11-12), 1353-1378. https://doi.org/10.1080/0267257x.2015.1018307

Brands are strategic assets and key to achieving a competitive advantage. Brands can be seen as a heuristic device, encapsulating a series of values that enable the consumer to make quick and efficient choices. More recently, the notion of a politica... Read More about Political branding: sense of identity or identity crisis? An investigation of the transfer potential of the brand identity prism to the UK Conservative Party.

The nature and role of the gold-krypton interactions in small neutral gold clusters (2015)
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Mancera, L. A., & Benoit, D. M. (2015). The nature and role of the gold-krypton interactions in small neutral gold clusters. The journal of physical chemistry. A, 119(12), 3075-3088. https://doi.org/10.1021/jp513021q

© 2015 American Chemical Society. We investigate the nature and role of krypton embedding in small neutral gold clusters. For some of these clusters, we observe a particular site-dependent character of the Kr binding that does not completely follow t... Read More about The nature and role of the gold-krypton interactions in small neutral gold clusters.

Intersex related gene expression profiles in clams Scrobicularia plana : molecular markers and environmental application (2015)
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Langston, W. J., Ciocan, C. M., Hill, E. M., Lerebours, A., Rotchell, J. M., Rotchell, J., …Pope, N. (2015). Intersex related gene expression profiles in clams Scrobicularia plana : molecular markers and environmental application. Marine pollution bulletin, 95(2), 610-617. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2015.02.019

Intersex, the appearance of female characteristics in male gonads, has been identified in several aquatic species. It is a widespread phenomenon in populations of the bivalve, Scrobicularia plana, from the southwest coast of the U.K. Genes previously... Read More about Intersex related gene expression profiles in clams Scrobicularia plana : molecular markers and environmental application.

PowerPoint and concept maps: a great double act (2015)
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Simon, J. (2015). PowerPoint and concept maps: a great double act. Accounting education, 24(2), 146-151. https://doi.org/10.1080/09639284.2015.1036583

This article explores how concept maps can provide a useful addition to PowerPoint slides to convey interconnections of knowledge and help students see how knowledge is often non-linear. While most accounting educators are familiar with PowerPoint, t... Read More about PowerPoint and concept maps: a great double act.

What ‘works’ when retracing sample members in a qualitative longitudinal study? (2015)
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Farrall, S., Hunter, B., Sharpe, G., & Calverley, A. (2016). What ‘works’ when retracing sample members in a qualitative longitudinal study?. International journal of social research methodology : theory & practice, 19(3), 287-300. https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2014.993839

Attrition represents a significant obstacle to overcome in any longitudinal research project. It is, perhaps, most keenly felt when the data collected are from a qualitative study, since, unlike quantitative longitudinal research, weighting factors c... Read More about What ‘works’ when retracing sample members in a qualitative longitudinal study?.

Solvent effect and fluorescence response of the 7-tert-butylpyrene-dipicolylamine linkage for the selective and sensitive response toward Zn(II) and Cd(II) ions (2015)
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Kowser, Z., Tomiyasu, H., Jiang, X., Rayhan, U., Redshaw, C., & Yamato, T. (2015). Solvent effect and fluorescence response of the 7-tert-butylpyrene-dipicolylamine linkage for the selective and sensitive response toward Zn(II) and Cd(II) ions. New journal of chemistry = Nouveau journal de chimie, 39(5), 4055-4062. https://doi.org/10.1039/c4nj02363c

The different binding behaviour of 7-tert-butylpyrene based chemosensors bearing dipicolylamine (Dpa) linkages at the 1,3-positions was investigated in various solvents for the sensing of Zn(II) and Cd(II).The potential mono-chelating ligand L1 follo... Read More about Solvent effect and fluorescence response of the 7-tert-butylpyrene-dipicolylamine linkage for the selective and sensitive response toward Zn(II) and Cd(II) ions.

Is increased time to diagnosis and treatment in symptomatic cancer associated with poorer outcomes? Systematic review (2015)
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Neal, R. D., Tharmanathan, P., France, B., Din, N. U., Cotton, S., Fallon-Ferguson, J., …Emery, J. (2015). Is increased time to diagnosis and treatment in symptomatic cancer associated with poorer outcomes? Systematic review. The British Journal of Cancer, 112, S92-S107. https://doi.org/10.1038/bjc.2015.48

© 2015 Cancer Research UK. Background: It is unclear whether more timely cancer diagnosis brings favourable outcomes, with much of the previous evidence, in some cancers, being equivocal. We set out to determine whether there is an association betwee... Read More about Is increased time to diagnosis and treatment in symptomatic cancer associated with poorer outcomes? Systematic review.

Cancer detection in primary care: Insights from general practitioners (2015)
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Green, T., Atkin, K., & Macleod, U. (2015). Cancer detection in primary care: Insights from general practitioners. The British Journal of Cancer, 112, S41-S49. https://doi.org/10.1038/bjc.2015.41

© 2015 Cancer Research UK. Background: General practitioners (GPs) have a key role in cancer detection as the usual first point of contact for patients with potential cancer symptoms. Nevertheless, there is limited work that investigates their percep... Read More about Cancer detection in primary care: Insights from general practitioners.

The role of primary care in cancer diagnosis via emergency presentation: qualitative synthesis of significant event reports (2015)
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Mitchell, E. D., Rubin, G., Merriman, L., & Macleod, U. (2015). The role of primary care in cancer diagnosis via emergency presentation: qualitative synthesis of significant event reports. The British Journal of Cancer, 112(S1), S50-S56. https://doi.org/10.1038/bjc.2015.42

Background: Patients diagnosed with cancer in the context of an emergency presentation (EP) have poorer outcomes. It is often assumed that such patients present to the emergency department without consulting their general practitioner (GP). Little w... Read More about The role of primary care in cancer diagnosis via emergency presentation: qualitative synthesis of significant event reports.

Dual-modal magnetic resonance/fluorescent zinc probes for pancreatic β-cell mass imaging (2015)
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Stasiuk, G. J., Minuzzi, F., Sae-Heng, M., Rivas, C., Juretschke, H., Piemonti, L., …Long, N. J. (2015). Dual-modal magnetic resonance/fluorescent zinc probes for pancreatic β-cell mass imaging. Chemistry: a European journal, 21(13), 5023-5033. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201406008

Despite the contribution of changes in pancreatic β-cell mass to the development of all forms of diabetes mellitus, few robust approaches currently exist to monitor these changes prospectively in vivo. Although magnetic-resonance imaging (MRI) provid... Read More about Dual-modal magnetic resonance/fluorescent zinc probes for pancreatic β-cell mass imaging.