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Part-load performance of direct-firing and co-firing of coal and biomass in a power generation system integrated with a CO2 capture and compression system (2017)
Journal Article
Ali, U., Akram, M., Font-Palma, C., Ingham, D. B., & Pourkashanian, M. (2017). Part-load performance of direct-firing and co-firing of coal and biomass in a power generation system integrated with a CO2 capture and compression system. Fuel, 210, 873-884. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2017.09.023

Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) is recognised as a key technology to mitigate CO2 emissions and achieve stringent climate targets due to its potential for negative emissions. However, the cost for its deployment is expected to be hi... Read More about Part-load performance of direct-firing and co-firing of coal and biomass in a power generation system integrated with a CO2 capture and compression system.

Minimum sample size requirements for a validation study of the Birth Satisfaction Scale-Revised (BSS-R) (2017)
Journal Article
Martin, C. R., & Hollins Martin, C. J. (2017). Minimum sample size requirements for a validation study of the Birth Satisfaction Scale-Revised (BSS-R). Journal of Nursing and Practice, 1(1), 25-30

Introduction: The 10-item Birth Satisfaction Scale-Revised (BSS-R) is a theoretically anchored and easy to administer
multidimensional measure of the birth satisfaction construct. The use of the BSS-R Internationally has led to an increasing
number... Read More about Minimum sample size requirements for a validation study of the Birth Satisfaction Scale-Revised (BSS-R).

TIGA-CUB – manualised psychoanalytic child psychotherapy versus treatment as usual for children aged 5–11 years with treatment-resistant conduct disorders and their primary carers: study protocol for a randomised controlled feasibility trial (2017)
Journal Article
Edginton, E., Walwyn, R., Burton, K., Cicero, R., Graham, L., Reed, S., Tubeuf, S., Twiddy, M., Wright-Hughes, A., Ellis, L., Evans, D., Hughes, T., Midgley, N., Wallis, P., & Cottrell, D. (2017). TIGA-CUB – manualised psychoanalytic child psychotherapy versus treatment as usual for children aged 5–11 years with treatment-resistant conduct disorders and their primary carers: study protocol for a randomised controlled feasibility trial. Trials, 18(1), Article 431. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-017-2166-2

Background: The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recommends evidence-based parenting
programmes as a first-line intervention for conduct disorders (CD) in children aged 5–11 years. As these are not
effective in 25–33% of cases... Read More about TIGA-CUB – manualised psychoanalytic child psychotherapy versus treatment as usual for children aged 5–11 years with treatment-resistant conduct disorders and their primary carers: study protocol for a randomised controlled feasibility trial.

Prevalence, predictors, and prognostic implications of PR interval prolongation in patients with heart failure (2017)
Journal Article
Nikolaidou, T., Pellicori, P., Zhang, J., Kazmi, S., Goode, K. M., Cleland, J. G., & Clark, A. L. (2018). Prevalence, predictors, and prognostic implications of PR interval prolongation in patients with heart failure. Clinical Research in Cardiology, 107(2), 108-119. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00392-017-1162-6

© 2017 The Author(s) Aims: To determine the prevalence, incidence, predictors, and prognostic implications of PR interval prolongation in patients referred with suspected heart failure. Methods and results: Consecutive patients referred with suspecte... Read More about Prevalence, predictors, and prognostic implications of PR interval prolongation in patients with heart failure.

An algorithm for fast mining top-rank-k frequent patterns based on node-list data structure (2017)
Journal Article
Wang, Q., Ren, J., N Davis, D., & Cheng, Y. (2018). An algorithm for fast mining top-rank-k frequent patterns based on node-list data structure. Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing, 24(2), 399-404. https://doi.org/10.1080/10798587.2017.1340135

Frequent pattern mining usually requires much run time and memory usage. In some applications, only the patterns with top frequency rank are needed. Because of the limited pattern numbers, quality of the results is even more important than time and m... Read More about An algorithm for fast mining top-rank-k frequent patterns based on node-list data structure.

Reflections on the origins, interpretations and development of the creative city idea (2017)
Book Chapter
Bianchini, F. (2017). Reflections on the origins, interpretations and development of the creative city idea. In I. Van Damme, B. De Munck, & A. Miles (Eds.), Cities and creativity from the renaissance to the present (23-42). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315167046-2

This chapter considers the complex origins of the concept of the creative city in the late 1980s to early 1990s and some of the ways in which it has evolved and been applied since then. It explains how the idea of the creative city evolved in several... Read More about Reflections on the origins, interpretations and development of the creative city idea.

The effectiveness of fish feeding behaviour in mirroring trawling-induced patterns (2017)
Journal Article
Mangano, M. C., Bottari, T., Caridi, F., Porporato, E. M., Rinelli, P., Spanò, N., Johnson, M., & Sarà, G. (2017). The effectiveness of fish feeding behaviour in mirroring trawling-induced patterns. Marine environmental research, 131, 195-204. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2017.09.004

The ability to observe and predict trawling-induced patterns at spatial and temporal scales that are relevant to inform realistic management strategies is a challenge which scientists have consistently faced in recent decades. Here, we use fish feedi... Read More about The effectiveness of fish feeding behaviour in mirroring trawling-induced patterns.

The distributional effects of the Trump and Clinton tax proposals (2017)
Journal Article
Haughton, J., Bachman, P., Bhattarai, K., & Tuerck, D. G. (2017). The distributional effects of the Trump and Clinton tax proposals. Atlantic Economic Journal, 45(4), 453-472. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11293-017-9554-6

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, the Democratic and Republican candidates for President of the U.S. in 2016, proposed several changes in the federal tax code. Hillary Clinton would add a personal income tax surcharge of 4% on high annual incomes, li... Read More about The distributional effects of the Trump and Clinton tax proposals.

Thermoresponsive and reducible hyperbranched polymers synthesized by RAFT polymerisation (2017)
Journal Article
Tochwin, A., El-Betany, A., Tai, H., Chan, K. Y., Blackburn, C., & Wang, W. (2017). Thermoresponsive and reducible hyperbranched polymers synthesized by RAFT polymerisation. Polymers, 9(9), Article 443. https://doi.org/10.3390/polym9090443

Here, we report the synthesis of new thermoresponsive hyperbranched polymers (HBPs) via one-pot reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) copolymerisation of poly(ethylene glycol)methyl ether methacrylate (PEGMEMA,Mn = 475 g/mol), poly(... Read More about Thermoresponsive and reducible hyperbranched polymers synthesized by RAFT polymerisation.

Metastability in the reversible inclusion process (2017)
Journal Article
Bianchi, A., Dommers, S., & Giardinà, C. (2017). Metastability in the reversible inclusion process. Electronic journal of probability, 22, Article 70. https://doi.org/10.1214/17-EJP98

We study the condensation regime of the finite reversible inclusion process, i.e., the inclusion process on a finite graph S with an underlying random walk that admits a reversible measure. We assume that the random walk kernel is irreducible and its... Read More about Metastability in the reversible inclusion process.

Fine motor control underlies the association between response inhibition and drawing skill in early development (2017)
Journal Article
Simpson, A., Al Ruwaili, R., Jolley, R., Leonard, H., Geeraert, N., & Riggs, K. J. (2019). Fine motor control underlies the association between response inhibition and drawing skill in early development. Child Development, 90(3), 911-923. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12949

Previous research shows that the development of response inhibition and drawing skill are linked. The current research investigated whether this association reflects a more fundamental link between response inhibition and motor control. In Experiment... Read More about Fine motor control underlies the association between response inhibition and drawing skill in early development.

Cognitive correlates of pragmatic language comprehension in adult traumatic brain injury: A systematic review and meta-analyses (2017)
Journal Article
Rowley, D. A., Rogish, M., Alexander, T., & Riggs, K. J. (2017). Cognitive correlates of pragmatic language comprehension in adult traumatic brain injury: A systematic review and meta-analyses. Brain Injury, 31(12), 1564-1574. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699052.2017.1341645

Effective pragmatic comprehension of language is critical for successful communication and interaction, but this ability is routinely impaired following Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) [1,2]. Individual studies have investigated the cognitive domains as... Read More about Cognitive correlates of pragmatic language comprehension in adult traumatic brain injury: A systematic review and meta-analyses.

Encouragement, Discouragement and Connection: The Role of Relationships in Prison Education Experiences (2017)
Journal Article
Nichols, H. (2017). Encouragement, Discouragement and Connection: The Role of Relationships in Prison Education Experiences. Prison service journal, 4-10

Existing literature in the field of prison education often focuses on rates of reoffending, conceptions and understandings of personal change and the correlation between increased educational attainment and employability. More recently, with the publ... Read More about Encouragement, Discouragement and Connection: The Role of Relationships in Prison Education Experiences.

Metaphor, Mythology and Metonymy: Russian Scenography in the Yeltsin Era (2017)
Book Chapter
Skinner, A. (2017). Metaphor, Mythology and Metonymy: Russian Scenography in the Yeltsin Era. In A. Aronson (Ed.), The Routledge Companion to Scenography (435-443). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781317422266-41

The complex, metaphorical scenographies that are seen in the work of Russian designers during the 1970s and 1980s are a clear legacy of the Soviet period, where the necessities of censorship led to the emergence of specific modes of expression. The m... Read More about Metaphor, Mythology and Metonymy: Russian Scenography in the Yeltsin Era.

The Gaia-ESO Survey: matching chemodynamical simulations to observations of the Milky Way (2017)
Journal Article
Thompson, B. B., Few, C. G., Bergemann, M., Gibson, B. K., MacFarlane, B. A., Serenelli, A., Gilmore, G., Randich, S., Vallenari, A., Alfaro, E. J., Bensby, T., Francois, P., Korn, A. J., Bayo, A., Carraro, G., Casey, A. R., Costado, M. T., Donati, P., Franciosini, E., Frasca, A., …Zaggia, S. (2018). The Gaia-ESO Survey: matching chemodynamical simulations to observations of the Milky Way. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 473(1), 185-197. https://doi.org/10.1093/MNRAS/STX2316

The typical methodology for comparing simulated galaxies with observational surveys is usually to apply a spatial selection to the simulation to mimic the region of interest covered by a comparable observational survey sample. In this work, we compar... Read More about The Gaia-ESO Survey: matching chemodynamical simulations to observations of the Milky Way.

Quantifying the external and internal loads of professional rugby league training modes : consideration for concurrent field-based training prescription (2017)
Journal Article
Weaving, D., Jones, B., Till, K., Marshall, P., Earle, K., & Abt, G. (2020). Quantifying the external and internal loads of professional rugby league training modes : consideration for concurrent field-based training prescription. Journal of strength and conditioning research, 34(12), 3514-3522. https://doi.org/10.1519/JSC.0000000000002242

The intermittent movement, collision and skill components of professional rugby league match play require players to have a wide range of physical (e.g. repeated effort ability, speed) and technical qualities (e.g. passing, kicking, tackling ability)... Read More about Quantifying the external and internal loads of professional rugby league training modes : consideration for concurrent field-based training prescription.

The core value compass: visually evaluating the goodness of brands that do good (2017)
Journal Article
Yoganathan, V., McLeay, F., Osburg, V.-S., & Hart, D. (2018). The core value compass: visually evaluating the goodness of brands that do good. Journal of Brand Management, 25(1), 68-83. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41262-017-0074-0

Brands that do good for the society as well as for themselves are motivated by the core values they espouse, which necessitates a better understanding of what qualities a true core value must possess. The inherent tension within brands that do good,... Read More about The core value compass: visually evaluating the goodness of brands that do good.

Supporting students to use social media and comply with professional standards (2017)
Journal Article
Cartwright, L. (2017). Supporting students to use social media and comply with professional standards. Social Work Education, 36(8), 880-892. https://doi.org/10.1080/02615479.2017.1372409

Student social workers live in a world where sharing of information seems to be straightforward and unproblematic. However, data sharing is a contentious issue in practice that raises ethical issues. There is a focus on this aspect of practice in soc... Read More about Supporting students to use social media and comply with professional standards.

Ambiguous attachments and industrious nostalgias: heritage narratives of Russian Old Believers in Romania (2017)
Journal Article
Clopot, C. (2017). Ambiguous attachments and industrious nostalgias: heritage narratives of Russian Old Believers in Romania. Anthropological Journal of European Cultures, 26(2), 31-51. https://doi.org/10.3167/ajec.2017.260204

This article questions notions of belonging in the case of displaced communities’ descendants and discusses such groups’ efforts to preserve their heritage. It examines the instrumental use of nostalgia in heritage discourses that drive preservation... Read More about Ambiguous attachments and industrious nostalgias: heritage narratives of Russian Old Believers in Romania.