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High stakes: The role of weapons in offender decision making (2017)
Book Chapter
Brennan, I. R. (2017). High stakes: The role of weapons in offender decision making. In W. Bernasco, J. van Gelder, & H. Elffers (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of offender decision making (421-444). Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199338801.013.17

This chapter describes the contradictory roles that weapons play in offender decision making as mechanisms that can both increase the physical harm to a victim of violence and also reduce the need for physical harm in victims of robbery. Because weap... Read More about High stakes: The role of weapons in offender decision making.

Critical Love Studies (2017)
Book
Gratzke, M. (2018). A. Burge, & M. Gratzke (Eds.), Critical Love Studies

Moral dependence and natural properties (2017)
Journal Article
Zangwill, N. (2017). Moral dependence and natural properties. Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume, 91(1), 221-243. https://doi.org/10.1093/arisup/akx007

I explore the Because Constraint—the idea that moral facts depend on natural facts and that moral judgements ought to respect the dependence of moral facts on natural facts. I consider several issues concerning its clarification and importance.

The effect of caloric restriction on the forelimb skeletal muscle fibers of the hypertrophic myostatin null mice (2017)
Journal Article
Elashry, M. I., Matsakas, A., Wenisch, S., Arnhold, S., & Patel, K. (2017). The effect of caloric restriction on the forelimb skeletal muscle fibers of the hypertrophic myostatin null mice. Acta Histochemica, 119(5), 582-591. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acthis.2017.06.002

Skeletal muscle mass loss has a broad impact on body performance and physical activity. Muscle wasting occurs due to genetic mutation as in muscular dystrophy, age-related muscle loss (sarcopenia) as well as in chronic wasting disorders as in cancer... Read More about The effect of caloric restriction on the forelimb skeletal muscle fibers of the hypertrophic myostatin null mice.

Effect of opioids and benzodiazepines on clinical outcomes in patients receiving palliative care: an exploratory analysis (2017)
Journal Article
Boland, J. W., Allgar, V., Boland, E. G., Oviasu, O., Agar, M., Currow, D. C., & Johnson, M. J. (2017). Effect of opioids and benzodiazepines on clinical outcomes in patients receiving palliative care: an exploratory analysis. Journal of palliative medicine, 20(11), 1274-1279. https://doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2017.0129

Background: Medications for symptom management in palliative care have associated, but poorly understood, harms. Drug-related harms have important clinical implications, may impact on patients’ compliance and contribute to symptoms. Objective: To exp... Read More about Effect of opioids and benzodiazepines on clinical outcomes in patients receiving palliative care: an exploratory analysis.

Hierarchical strategies for efficient fault recovery on the reconfigurable PAnDA device (2017)
Journal Article
Trefzer, M. A., Lawson, D. M. R., Bale, S. J., Walker, J. A., Tyrrell, A. M., Lawson, D. M., …Tyrrell, A. (2017). Hierarchical strategies for efficient fault recovery on the reconfigurable PAnDA device. IEEE Transactions on Computers, 66(6), 930-945. https://doi.org/10.1109/TC.2016.2632722

A novel hierarchical fault-tolerance methodology for reconfigurable devices is presented. A bespoke multi-reconfigurable FPGA architecture, the programmable analogue and digital array (PAnDA), is introduced allowing fine-grained reconfiguration beyon... Read More about Hierarchical strategies for efficient fault recovery on the reconfigurable PAnDA device.

'Sounding' Japanese: Traditions of music in Japanese cinema (2017)
Book Chapter
Binns, A. (2017). 'Sounding' Japanese: Traditions of music in Japanese cinema. In M. Mera, R. Sadoff, & B. Winters (Eds.), The Routledge companion to screen music and sound (428-439). New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315681047

The cinema of Japan, known as nihon eiga [日本映画] is vast and is not easily encapsulated because of the wide range of cultural practices that have informed its identity, including the music it deployed. And yet, it arguably presents a distinctive s... Read More about 'Sounding' Japanese: Traditions of music in Japanese cinema.

Influence of ultrasonic treatment on formation of primary Al3Zr in Al–0.4Zr alloy (2017)
Journal Article
WANG, F., ESKIN, D., CONNOLLEY, T., & MI, J. W. (2017). Influence of ultrasonic treatment on formation of primary Al3Zr in Al–0.4Zr alloy. Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China, 27(5), 977-985. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1003-6326%2817%2960115-8

© 2017 The Nonferrous Metals Society of China The effect of ultrasonic treatment on the formation of primary Al3Zr was investigated by applying ultrasound to an Al–0.4Zr alloy. Three temperature ranges were selected, i.e., 830 to 790 °C (above liquid... Read More about Influence of ultrasonic treatment on formation of primary Al3Zr in Al–0.4Zr alloy.

Private enterprise, public policy and the development of Britain’s seafaring workforce, 1650-1815 (2017)
Book Chapter
Starkey, D. (2017). Private enterprise, public policy and the development of Britain’s seafaring workforce, 1650-1815. In C. A. Fury (Ed.), The social history of English seamen 1605-1815 (147-182). Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press

Job satisfaction, retirement attitude and intended retirement age: a conditional process analysis across workers’ level of household income (2017)
Journal Article
Davies, E. M., Flynn, M., & Van der Heijden, B. I. (2017). Job satisfaction, retirement attitude and intended retirement age: a conditional process analysis across workers’ level of household income. Frontiers in Psychology, 8(MAY), Article 891. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00891

In the contemporary workplace, insight into retirement behaviors is of crucial importance. Previous empirical evidence has found mixed results regarding the relationship between work attitudes, such as job satisfaction, and retirement behaviors, sugg... Read More about Job satisfaction, retirement attitude and intended retirement age: a conditional process analysis across workers’ level of household income.

Development of a core outcome set for disease modification trials in mild to moderate dementia: A systematic review, patient and public consultation and consensus recommendations (2017)
Journal Article
Webster, L., Groskreutz, D., Grinbergs-Saull, A., Howard, R., O’Brien, J. T., Mountain, G., …Livingston, G. (2017). Development of a core outcome set for disease modification trials in mild to moderate dementia: A systematic review, patient and public consultation and consensus recommendations. Health Technology Assessment, 21(26), 1-192. https://doi.org/10.3310/hta21260

© Queen’s Printer and Controller of HMSO 2017. Background: There is currently no disease-modifying treatment available to halt or delay the progression of the disease pathology in dementia. An agreed core set of the best-available and most appropriat... Read More about Development of a core outcome set for disease modification trials in mild to moderate dementia: A systematic review, patient and public consultation and consensus recommendations.

Modelling human skull growth: a validated computational model (2017)
Journal Article
Libby, J., Marghoub, A., Johnson, D., Khonsari, R. H., Fagan, M. J., & Moazen, M. (2017). Modelling human skull growth: a validated computational model. Journal of the Royal Society interface / the Royal Society, 14(130), 20170202. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2017.0202

© 2017 The Author(s) Published by the Royal Society. All rights reserved. During the first year of life, the brain grows rapidly and the neurocranium increases to about 65% of its adult size. Our understanding of the relationship between the biomecha... Read More about Modelling human skull growth: a validated computational model.

Analysis of the EPSRC Principles of Robotics in regard to key research topics (2017)
Journal Article
Gning, A., Davis, D. N., Cheng, Y., & Robinson, P. (2017). Analysis of the EPSRC Principles of Robotics in regard to key research topics. Connection Science, 29(3), 249-253. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540091.2017.1323456

© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. In this paper, we review the five rules published in EPSRC Principles of Robotics with a specific focus on future robotics research topics. It is demonstrated through a pictorial represe... Read More about Analysis of the EPSRC Principles of Robotics in regard to key research topics.

Iron and nickel isotope compositions of presolar silicon carbide grains from supernovae (2017)
Journal Article
Kodolányi, J., Stephan, T., Trappitsch, R., Hoppe, P., Pignatari, M., Davis, A. M., & Pellin, M. J. (2018). Iron and nickel isotope compositions of presolar silicon carbide grains from supernovae. Geochimica et cosmochimica acta, 221, 127-144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2017.05.029

© 2017 Elsevier Ltd. We report the carbon, silicon, iron, and nickel isotope compositions of twenty-five presolar SiC grains of mostly supernova (SN) origin. The iron and nickel isotope compositions were measured with the new Chicago Instrument for L... Read More about Iron and nickel isotope compositions of presolar silicon carbide grains from supernovae.

The effects of population density and lake characteristics on growth and size structure of brook trout Salvelinus fontinalis (Mitchill, 1815) in boreal forest lakes in Canada (2017)
Journal Article
van Zyll de Jong, M., Adams, B., Cote, D., & Cowx, I. (2017). The effects of population density and lake characteristics on growth and size structure of brook trout Salvelinus fontinalis (Mitchill, 1815) in boreal forest lakes in Canada. Zeitschrift für angewandte Ichthyologie = Journal of applied ichthyology, 33(5), 957-965. https://doi.org/10.1111/jai.13407

© 2017 Blackwell Verlag GmbH This paper examines the effect of lake characteristics on population density and how this variation affects growth, mortality and population size structure of brook trout, Salvelinus fontinalis. The study was conducted on... Read More about The effects of population density and lake characteristics on growth and size structure of brook trout Salvelinus fontinalis (Mitchill, 1815) in boreal forest lakes in Canada.

Are goal states represented during kinematic imitation? (2017)
Journal Article
Cole, G. G., Atkinson, M. A., D'Souza, A. D. C., Welsh, T. N., & Skarratt, P. A. (2018). Are goal states represented during kinematic imitation?. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 44(2), 226-242. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000429

A number of studies have shown that observation of another person’s actions can modulate one’s own actions such as when two individuals cooperate in order to complete a joint task. However, little is known about whether or not direct matching of spec... Read More about Are goal states represented during kinematic imitation?.

Multiple order-up-to policy for mitigating bullwhip effect in supply chain network (2017)
Journal Article
Keshari, A., Mishra, N., Shukla, N., McGuire, S., & Khorana, S. (2018). Multiple order-up-to policy for mitigating bullwhip effect in supply chain network. Annals of Operations Research, 269(1-2), 361-386. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-017-2527-y

This paper proposes a multiple order-up-to policy based inventory replenishment scheme to mitigate the bullwhip effect in a multi-stage supply chain scenario, where various transportation modes are available between the supply chain (SC) participants... Read More about Multiple order-up-to policy for mitigating bullwhip effect in supply chain network.

Barcoding rotifer biodiversity in Mediterranean ponds using diapausing egg banks (2017)
Journal Article
Moreno, E., Conde-Porcuna, J. M., & Gómez, A. (2017). Barcoding rotifer biodiversity in Mediterranean ponds using diapausing egg banks. Ecology and Evolution, 7(13), 4855-4867. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.2986

The biodiversity of Mediterranean freshwater bodies is among the most threatened worldwide; therefore, its accurate estimation is an urgent issue. However, traditional methods are likely to underestimate freshwater zooplankton biodiversity due to its... Read More about Barcoding rotifer biodiversity in Mediterranean ponds using diapausing egg banks.

Sexual orientation change efforts, conservative christianity and resistance to sexual justice (2017)
Journal Article
Clucas, R. (2017). Sexual orientation change efforts, conservative christianity and resistance to sexual justice. Social Sciences, 6(2), 54. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci6020054

© 2017 by the authors. In this article, I situate the practice of sexual orientation conversion efforts (SOCE), sometimes known as conversion or reparative therapy, within historical, cultural, religious and political attitudes to non-heterosexuality... Read More about Sexual orientation change efforts, conservative christianity and resistance to sexual justice.

Our Hands and Hearts are Joined Together”: Friendship, Colonialism, and the Cherokee People in Early America (2017)
Journal Article
Smithers, G. (2017). Our Hands and Hearts are Joined Together”: Friendship, Colonialism, and the Cherokee People in Early America. Journal of Social History, 50(4), 609-629. https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shw066

The eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries proved transformative for Cherokee people. At the dawn of the eighteenth century, Cherokees lived in towns and nurtured strong regional affiliations that were overlaid with the sacred obligations associat... Read More about Our Hands and Hearts are Joined Together”: Friendship, Colonialism, and the Cherokee People in Early America.