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A sustainability framework for engineering carbon capture soil in transport infrastructure (2017)
Journal Article
Kolosz, B. W., Goddard, M. A., Jorat, M. E., Aumonier, J., Sohi, S. P., & Manning, D. A. (2017). A sustainability framework for engineering carbon capture soil in transport infrastructure. International Journal of Transport Development and Integration, 1(1), 74-83. https://doi.org/10.2495/TDI-V1-N1-74-83

Recent research has demonstrated considerable potential for artificial soils to be designed for carbon capture. The incorporation of quarry fines enables the accumulation of atmospheric CO2 in newly formed carbonate minerals. However, the rate and tr... Read More about A sustainability framework for engineering carbon capture soil in transport infrastructure.

Computer aided parametric design of hydraulic gear pumps (2017)
Journal Article
GHIONEA, I. G., IONESCU, N., GHIONEA, A., ĆUKOVIĆ, S., TONOIU, S., CATANĂ, M., & JAMSHED, I. (2017). Computer aided parametric design of hydraulic gear pumps. Acta technica Napocensis. Series: Applied mathematics, mechanics and engineering, 60(1), 113-124

This paper addresses methodological and applied issues to design spur gear pumps. Based on the requirements raised by a Romanian production partner, the overall objective of this research is to identify several design alternatives and to propose impr... Read More about Computer aided parametric design of hydraulic gear pumps.

On the derivation of novel model and sophisticated control of flexible joint manipulator (2017)
Journal Article
Khan, O., Pervaiz, M., Ahmad, E., & Iqbal, J. (2017). On the derivation of novel model and sophisticated control of flexible joint manipulator. Revue Roumaine des Sciences Techniques : Série Électrotechnique et Énergétique, 62(1), 103-108

Flexibility in robotic manipulators offers several benefits in terms of weight, maneuverability, operational speed and power consumption. However, these merits are obtained at the cost of control complexity. This paper addresses the control problem o... Read More about On the derivation of novel model and sophisticated control of flexible joint manipulator.

Eleven new records of caridean shrimps from Cuban waters (Decapoda, Caridea) (2017)
Journal Article
De Grave, S., Anker, A., Pindar, C., Sandell, J., & Johnson, M. L. (2017). Eleven new records of caridean shrimps from Cuban waters (Decapoda, Caridea). Crustaceana, 90(5), 617-624. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685403-00003675

The Empire that never was: The nearly-Dutch Atlantic empire in the seventeenth century (2017)
Journal Article
Burnard, T., Goodfriend, J., Van Zandt, C., Frijhoff, W., & Klooster, W. (2017). The Empire that never was: The nearly-Dutch Atlantic empire in the seventeenth century. Journal of early American history, 7(1), 33-80. https://doi.org/10.1163/18770703-00701004

© koninklijke brill nv, leiden, 2017. This book forum focuses on Wim Klooster's The Dutch Moment: War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World (Cornell University Press, 2016). In his book, Wim Klooster shows how the Dutch bui... Read More about The Empire that never was: The nearly-Dutch Atlantic empire in the seventeenth century.

Managing the ageing workforce in the East and the West (2017)
Book
Flynn, M., Li, Y., & Chiva, A. (Eds.). (2017). Managing the ageing workforce in the East and the West. Bingley, UK: Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/9781787146389

Managing the Ageing Workforce in the East and the West brings together HRM specialists from both Eastern and Western perspectives in a unique collaboration. Each chapter explores the universal relevance of human resource interventions into extending... Read More about Managing the ageing workforce in the East and the West.

Rococo study: a real-world evaluation of an over-the-counter medicine in acute cough (a multicentre, randomised, controlled study) (2017)
Journal Article
Birring, S. S., Brew, J., Kilbourn, A., Edwards, V., Wilson, R., & Morice, A. H. (2017). Rococo study: a real-world evaluation of an over-the-counter medicine in acute cough (a multicentre, randomised, controlled study). BMJ open, 7(1), e014112. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-014112

Objectives To investigate the efficacy and safety of CS1002, an over-the-counter cough treatment containing diphenhydramine, ammonium chloride and levomenthol in a cocoa-based demulcent.

Design A multicentre, randomised, parallel group, controlled... Read More about Rococo study: a real-world evaluation of an over-the-counter medicine in acute cough (a multicentre, randomised, controlled study).

Efficacy of oral risperidone, haloperidol, or placebo for symptoms of delirium among patients in palliative care: A randomized clinical trial (2017)
Journal Article
Agar, M. R., Lawlor, P. G., Quinn, S., Draper, B., Caplan, G. A., Rowett, D., Sanderson, C., Hardy, J., Le, B., Eckermann, S., McCaffrey, N., Devilee, L., Fazekas, B., Hill, M., & Currow, D. C. (2017). Efficacy of oral risperidone, haloperidol, or placebo for symptoms of delirium among patients in palliative care: A randomized clinical trial. JAMA Internal Medicine, 177(1), 34-42. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2016.7491

IMPORTANCE Antipsychotics are widely used for distressing symptoms of delirium, but efficacy has not been established in placebo-controlled trials in palliative care. OBJECTIVE To determine efficacy of risperidone or haloperidol relative to placebo i... Read More about Efficacy of oral risperidone, haloperidol, or placebo for symptoms of delirium among patients in palliative care: A randomized clinical trial.

Eine Helmstedter Schule der Botanik? Eine Hamburger Schenkung für Lorenz Heisters Botanischen Garten und die Debatte um Linnés Klassifikationssystem (2017)
Book Chapter
Biskup, T. (2017). Eine Helmstedter Schule der Botanik? Eine Hamburger Schenkung für Lorenz Heisters Botanischen Garten und die Debatte um Linnés Klassifikationssystem. In M. Busch, S. Kroll, & M. Anna Maksymiak (Eds.), Hippokratische Grenzgänge – Ausflüge in kultur- und medizingeschichtliche Wissensfelder. Kovac

The Routledge companion to music, technology, and education (2017)
Book
King, A. (2017). The Routledge companion to music, technology, and education. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315686431

The Routledge Companion to Music, Technology, and Education is a comprehensive resource that draws together burgeoning research on the use of technology in music education around the world. Rather than following a procedural how-to approach, this com... Read More about The Routledge companion to music, technology, and education.

New directions in hypnosis research: strategies for advancing the cognitive and clinical neuroscience of hypnosis (2017)
Journal Article
Jensen, M. P., Jamieson, G. A., Lutz, A., Mazzoni, G., McGeown, W. J., Santarcangelo, E. L., Demertzi, A., De Pascalis, V., Bányai, É. I., Rominger, C., Vuilleumier, P., Faymonville, M.-E., & Terhune, D. B. (2017). New directions in hypnosis research: strategies for advancing the cognitive and clinical neuroscience of hypnosis. Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2017(1), Article nix004. https://doi.org/10.1093/nc/nix004

This article summarizes key advances in hypnosis research during the past two decades, including (i) clinical research supporting the efficacy of hypnosis for managing a number of clinical symptoms and conditions, (ii) research supporting the role of... Read More about New directions in hypnosis research: strategies for advancing the cognitive and clinical neuroscience of hypnosis.

Time resolved anisotropic emission from an aluminium laser produced plasma (2017)
Journal Article
Wubetu, G. A., Fiedorowicz, H., Costello, J. T., & Kelly, T. J. (2017). Time resolved anisotropic emission from an aluminium laser produced plasma. Physics of Plasmas, 24(1), 013105. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4973444

The polarisation anisotropy of the emission from a laser produced aluminium plasma has been studied using time and polarisation resolved spectroscopy at various background pressures of air. A Wollaston prism was used to resolve the emission from the... Read More about Time resolved anisotropic emission from an aluminium laser produced plasma.

Mean width of random perturbations of random polytopes (2017)
Journal Article
Alonso-Gutiérrez, D., & Prochno, J. (2017). Mean width of random perturbations of random polytopes. Advances in geometry, 17(1), 75-90. https://doi.org/10.1515/advgeom-2016-0032

We prove some “high probability” results on the expected value of the mean width for random perturbations of random polytopes. The random perturbations are considered for Gaussian random vectors and uniform distributions on ℓNp-balls and the unit sph... Read More about Mean width of random perturbations of random polytopes.

Factors associated with preterm delivery and low birth weight: a study from rural Maharashtra, India [version 1; peer review: 2 approved] (2017)
Journal Article
Ahankari, A., Bapat, S., Myles, P., Fogarty, A., & Tata, L. (2017). Factors associated with preterm delivery and low birth weight: a study from rural Maharashtra, India [version 1; peer review: 2 approved]. F1000Research, 6, Article 72. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.10659.1

© 2017 Ahankari A et al. Background Although preterm delivery and low birth weight (LBW) have been studied in India, findings may not be generalisable to rural areas such as the Marathwada region of Maharashtra state. There is limited information ava... Read More about Factors associated with preterm delivery and low birth weight: a study from rural Maharashtra, India [version 1; peer review: 2 approved].

Healthcare benefits linked with Below Poverty Line registration in India: Observations from Maharashtra Anaemia Study (MAS) [version 1; peer review: 2 approved] (2017)
Journal Article
Ahankari, A., Fogarty, A., Tata, L., & Myles, P. (2017). Healthcare benefits linked with Below Poverty Line registration in India: Observations from Maharashtra Anaemia Study (MAS) [version 1; peer review: 2 approved]. F1000Research, 6, Article 25. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.10556.1

© 2017 Ahankari A et al. A 2015 Lancet paper by Patel et al. on healthcare access in India comprehensively discussed national health programmes where some benefits are linked with the country's Below Poverty Line (BPL) registration scheme. BPL regist... Read More about Healthcare benefits linked with Below Poverty Line registration in India: Observations from Maharashtra Anaemia Study (MAS) [version 1; peer review: 2 approved].

On-chip magnetic particle-based immunoassays using multilaminar flow for clinical diagnostics (2017)
Book Chapter
Tarn, M. D., & Pamme, N. (2017). On-chip magnetic particle-based immunoassays using multilaminar flow for clinical diagnostics. In V. Taly, J. L. Viovy, & S. Descroix (Eds.), Microchip Diagnostics : Methods and Protocols (69-83). Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-6734-6_6

Magnetic particles have become popular in recent years for immunoassays due to their high surface-to-volume ratio and the ease of their manipulation. However, such assays also require multiple reaction and washing steps that are both time-consuming a... Read More about On-chip magnetic particle-based immunoassays using multilaminar flow for clinical diagnostics.

Luminescent coordination polymers based on Ca²⁺ and octahedral cluster anions [{M₆Clⁱ₈}Clᵃ₆}²⁻ (M = Mo, W) : synthesis and thermal stability studies (2017)
Journal Article
Evtushok, D. V., Vorotnikova, N. A., Logvinenko, V. A., Smolentsev, A. I., Brylev, K. A., Plyusnin, P. E., Pishchur, D. P., Kitamura, N., Mironov, Y. V., Solovieva, A. O., Efremova, O. A., & Shestopalov, M. A. (2017). Luminescent coordination polymers based on Ca²⁺ and octahedral cluster anions [{M₆Clⁱ₈}Clᵃ₆}²⁻ (M = Mo, W) : synthesis and thermal stability studies. New journal of chemistry = Nouveau journal de chimie, 41(24), 14855-14861. https://doi.org/10.1039/c7nj02858j

Luminescent coordination polymers (CPs) based of inexpensive stable precursors are attractive materials for applications. Here we report the synthesis and evaluation of the stability and photophysical characteristics of the first examples of phosphor... Read More about Luminescent coordination polymers based on Ca²⁺ and octahedral cluster anions [{M₆Clⁱ₈}Clᵃ₆}²⁻ (M = Mo, W) : synthesis and thermal stability studies.

Chemosensor for micro to nano-molar detection of Ag+ and Hg2+ ions in pure aqueous media and its applications in cell imaging (2017)
Journal Article
Nandre, J. P., Patil, S. R., Sahoo, S. K., Pradeep, C. P., Churakov, A., Yu, F., Chen, L., Redshaw, C., Patil, A. A., & Patil, U. D. (2017). Chemosensor for micro to nano-molar detection of Ag+ and Hg2+ ions in pure aqueous media and its applications in cell imaging. Dalton Transactions : an international journal of inorganic chemistry, 46(41), 14201-14209. https://doi.org/10.1039/C7DT02524F

The pyridine substituted thiourea derivative PTB-1 was synthesized and characterized by spectroscopic techniques as well as by single crystal X-ray crystallography. The metal ion sensing ability of PTB-1 was explored by various experimental (naked-ey... Read More about Chemosensor for micro to nano-molar detection of Ag+ and Hg2+ ions in pure aqueous media and its applications in cell imaging.

Children’s first experience of taking anabolic-androgenic steroids can occur before their 10th birthday: a systematic review identifying 9 factors that predict doping among young people (2017)
Journal Article
Nicholls, A. R., Bailey, R., Theodorou, N. C., Andrés, M. P., Kristensen, A. H., Thompson, M. A., Mueller, D., Andres, M. P., Cope, E., Nicholls, A., Andrés, M. P., Baumann, W., Chanal, B., Dumon, D., Koenen, K., Kristensen, A., Laurent, J.-F., Müller, D., Saint Laurent, D., Theodorou, N., & Thompson, M. (2017). Children’s first experience of taking anabolic-androgenic steroids can occur before their 10th birthday: a systematic review identifying 9 factors that predict doping among young people. Frontiers in psychology Frontiers Research Foundation, 8(JUN), Article ARTN 1015. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01015

Taking performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) can cause serious and irreversible health consequences, which can ultimately lead to premature death. Some young people may take PEDs without fully understanding the ramifications of their actions or based on... Read More about Children’s first experience of taking anabolic-androgenic steroids can occur before their 10th birthday: a systematic review identifying 9 factors that predict doping among young people.

Ring opening polymerization of lactides and lactones by multimetallic alkyl zinc complexes derived from the acids Ph₂C(X)CO₂2H (X = OH, NH₂ ) (2017)
Journal Article
Al-Khafaji, Y. F., Elsegood, M. R. J., Frese, J. W. A., Elsegood, M. R., Frese, J. W., Al-Khafaji, Y., Redshaw, C., Elsegood, M., & Frese, J. (2017). Ring opening polymerization of lactides and lactones by multimetallic alkyl zinc complexes derived from the acids Ph₂C(X)CO₂2H (X = OH, NH₂ ). RSC advances, 7(8), 4510-4517. https://doi.org/10.1039/C6RA26746G

The reaction of the dialkylzinc reagents R₂Zn with the acids 2,2-Ph₂C(X)(CO₂H), where X = NH₂, OH, i.e. 2,2′-diphenylglycine (dpgH) or benzilic acid (benzH2), in toluene at reflux temperature afforded the tetra-nuclear ring complexes [RZn(dpg)]₄, whe... Read More about Ring opening polymerization of lactides and lactones by multimetallic alkyl zinc complexes derived from the acids Ph₂C(X)CO₂2H (X = OH, NH₂ ).