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An Empirical study on Predicting Blood Pressure using Classification and Regression Trees (2018)
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Zhang, B., Wei, Z., Ren, J., Cheng, Y., & Zheng, Z. (2018). An Empirical study on Predicting Blood Pressure using Classification and Regression Trees. IEEE Access, 6, 21758 - 21768. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2017.2787980

Blood pressure diseases have become one of the major threats to human health. Continuous measurement of blood
pressure has proven to be a prerequisite for effective incident prevention. In contrast with the traditional prediction models with low
meas... Read More about An Empirical study on Predicting Blood Pressure using Classification and Regression Trees.

Youth livelihoods in the cellphone era: Perspectives from urban Africa (2018)
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Porter, G., Hampshire, K., de Lannoy, A., Bango, A., Munthali, A., Robson, E., Tanle, A., Abane, A., & Owusu, S. (2018). Youth livelihoods in the cellphone era: Perspectives from urban Africa. Journal of international development, 30(4), 539-558. https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.3340

Issues surrounding youth employment and unemployment are central to the next development decade. Understanding how youth use mobile phones as a means of communicating and exchanging information about employment and livelihoods is particularly import... Read More about Youth livelihoods in the cellphone era: Perspectives from urban Africa.

A qualitative study of patients’ feedback about Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT) services in Northern England : implications for service improvement (2018)
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Twiddy, M., Czoski Murray, C. J., Mason, S. J., Meads, D., Wright, J. M., Mitchell, E. D., & Minton, J. (2018). A qualitative study of patients’ feedback about Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT) services in Northern England : implications for service improvement. BMJ open, 8(1), e019099. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-019099

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Objective Outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) provides opportunities for improved cost savings, but in the UK, implementation is patchy and a variety of service models are in use. The slow uptake in the UK and Europe is due to... Read More about A qualitative study of patients’ feedback about Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT) services in Northern England : implications for service improvement.

Dealing with endogeneity bias: The generalized method of moments (GMM) for panel data (2018)
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Ullah, S., Akhtar, P., & Zaefarian, G. (2018). Dealing with endogeneity bias: The generalized method of moments (GMM) for panel data. Industrial marketing management, 71, 69-78. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indmarman.2017.11.010

Endogeneity bias can lead to inconsistent estimates and incorrect inferences, which may provide misleading conclusions and inappropriate theoretical interpretations. Sometimes such bias can even lead to coefficients having the wrong sign. Although th... Read More about Dealing with endogeneity bias: The generalized method of moments (GMM) for panel data.

Why we need to establish international political psychology (2018)
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Beyer, C. (in press). Why we need to establish international political psychology. Asia Pacific journal of advanced business and social studies, 4(1), 393-401. https://doi.org/10.25275/apjabssv4i1ss14

A combination of Psychology with International Relations yields important results and ideas for improving the international world. This chapter proposes to establish International Political Psychology as a discipline with the purpose of harvesting id... Read More about Why we need to establish international political psychology.

Abolishing the security dilemma: Why we need to integrate the militaries (2018)
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Beyer, A. C. (2018). Abolishing the security dilemma: Why we need to integrate the militaries. Cambridge Journal of Eurasian Studies, 2, 93EAZO. https://doi.org/10.22261/CJES.93EAZO

This article argues that the Security Dilemma can in fact be abolished by integrating the militaries into one common global organisation, possibly under one common command. The existence and workings of NATO are an approximate example of this ideal i... Read More about Abolishing the security dilemma: Why we need to integrate the militaries.

Early arthritis induces disturbances at bone nanostructural level reflected in decreased tissue hardness in an animal model of arthritis (2018)
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Vidal, B., Cascão, R., Finnilä, M. A., Lopes, I. P., Saarakkala, S., Zioupos, P., …Fonseca, J. E. (2018). Early arthritis induces disturbances at bone nanostructural level reflected in decreased tissue hardness in an animal model of arthritis. PLoS ONE, 13(1), Article e0190920. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0190920

Introduction Arthritis induces joint erosions and skeletal bone fragility. Objectives The main goal of this work was to analyze the early arthritis induced events at bone architecture and mechanical properties at tissue level. Methods Eighty-eight Wi... Read More about Early arthritis induces disturbances at bone nanostructural level reflected in decreased tissue hardness in an animal model of arthritis.

Meaningful yet useless? Factors behind the retention of questionable concepts in human geography (2018)
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Dymitrow, M., & Brauer, R. (2018). Meaningful yet useless? Factors behind the retention of questionable concepts in human geography. Geografiska annaler. Series B, Human geography, 100(3), 195-219. https://doi.org/10.1080/04353684.2017.1419071

The concepts ‘rural’ and ‘urban’ have long been criticized by geographers for their lack of analytical and explanatory power, yet have remained a vital source for conceptual guidance in human geography. Realizing that the continued use of questionabl... Read More about Meaningful yet useless? Factors behind the retention of questionable concepts in human geography.

Perception of artificial conspecifics by bearded dragons (Pogona vitticeps) (2018)
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Frohnwieser, A., Pike, T. W., Murray, J. C., & Wilkinson, A. (2019). Perception of artificial conspecifics by bearded dragons (Pogona vitticeps). Integrative Zoology, 14(2), 214-222. https://doi.org/10.1111/1749-4877.12303

Artificial animals are increasingly used as conspecific stimuli in animal behavior research. However, researchers often have an incomplete understanding of how the species under study perceives conspecifics, and, hence, which features are needed for... Read More about Perception of artificial conspecifics by bearded dragons (Pogona vitticeps).

Postmortem ICD interrogation in mode of death classification (2018)
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Nikolaidou, T., Johnson, M. J., Ghosh, J. M., Marincowitz, C., Shah, S., Lammiman, M. J., Schilling, R. J., & Clark, A. L. (2018). Postmortem ICD interrogation in mode of death classification. Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology, 29(4), 573-583. https://doi.org/10.1111/jce.13414

© 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Background: The definition of sudden death due to arrhythmia relies on the time interval between onset of symptoms and death. However, not all sudden deaths are due to arrhythmia. In patients with an implantable cardiov... Read More about Postmortem ICD interrogation in mode of death classification.

Masculinity in transition or patriarchy reasserted? A study of construction workers in Sylhet, Bangladesh (2018)
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Choudhury, T., & Clisby, S. (2018). Masculinity in transition or patriarchy reasserted? A study of construction workers in Sylhet, Bangladesh. Studies on Home and Community Science, 11(2), 125-139. https://doi.org/10.1080/09737189.2017.1420406

Globally, understandings and experiences of masculinity have drawn significant attention and critique, generating lively academic debate and scholarship over the past several decades. However to date there has been relatively little such debate perta... Read More about Masculinity in transition or patriarchy reasserted? A study of construction workers in Sylhet, Bangladesh.

Gender games: practical tools for gender analysis (2018)
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Clisby, S. (2018). Gender games: practical tools for gender analysis. Studies on Home and Community Science, 11(2), 57-65. https://doi.org/10.1080/09737189.2017.1420382

In this practical methodological piece I provide an illustration of what form gender analysis training might take. This is an example of training that I have devised and employed in various ways and formats in my work with a range of NGOs and non-sta... Read More about Gender games: practical tools for gender analysis.

Analytical investigation of the heat-transfer limits of a novel solar loop-heat pipe employing a mini-channel evaporator (2018)
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Diallo, T. M., Yu, M., Zhou, J., Zhao, X., Ji, J., & Hardy, D. (2018). Analytical investigation of the heat-transfer limits of a novel solar loop-heat pipe employing a mini-channel evaporator. Energies, 11(1), Article 148. https://doi.org/10.3390/en11010148

© 2018 by the authors. This paper presents an analytical investigation of heat-transfer limits of a novel solar loop-heat pipe developed for space heating and domestic hot water use. In the loop-heat pipe, the condensate liquid returns to the evapora... Read More about Analytical investigation of the heat-transfer limits of a novel solar loop-heat pipe employing a mini-channel evaporator.

The furan microsolvation blind challenge for quantum chemical methods: First steps (2018)
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Gottschalk, H. C., Poblotzki, A., Suhm, M. A., Al-Mogren, M. M., Antony, J., Auer, A. A., Baptista, L., Benoit, D. M., Bistoni, G., Bohle, F., Dahmani, R., Firaha, D., Grimme, S., Hansen, A., Harding, M. E., Hochlaf, M., Holzer, C., Jansen, G., Klopper, W., Kopp, W. A., …Mata, R. A. (2018). The furan microsolvation blind challenge for quantum chemical methods: First steps. The Journal of chemical physics, 148(1), Article 014301. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5009011

© 2018 Author(s). Herein we present the results of a blind challenge to quantum chemical methods in the calculation of dimerization preferences in the low temperature gas phase. The target of study was the first step of the microsolvation of furan, 2... Read More about The furan microsolvation blind challenge for quantum chemical methods: First steps.

Financial stress relationships among Euro area countries: an R-vine copula approach (2018)
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Zhang, D., Yan, M., & Tsopanakis, A. (2018). Financial stress relationships among Euro area countries: an R-vine copula approach. The European journal of finance, 24(17), 1587-1608. https://doi.org/10.1080/1351847X.2017.1419273

One of the biggest challenges of keeping Euro area financial stability is the negative co-movement between the vulnerability of public finance, the financial sector, security markets stresses as well as economic growth, especially in peripheral econo... Read More about Financial stress relationships among Euro area countries: an R-vine copula approach.

Pyrene-based color-tunable dipolar molecules: Synthesis, characterization and optical properties (2018)
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Wang, C. Z., Feng, X., Kowser, Z., Wu, C., Akther, T., Elsegood, M. R. J., Redshaw, C., & Yamato, T. (2018). Pyrene-based color-tunable dipolar molecules: Synthesis, characterization and optical properties. Dyes and pigments : an international journal, 153, 125-131. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dyepig.2018.01.003

© 2018 Elsevier Ltd A controllable regioselective approach to achieve dipolar functionalization at the active sites (1,3-positions) and K-region (5,9-positions) of pyrene is demonstrated. Following this strategy, a set of dipolar 1,3-diphenyl-5,9-di(... Read More about Pyrene-based color-tunable dipolar molecules: Synthesis, characterization and optical properties.

Is the Milky Way still breathing? RAVE–Gaia streaming motions (2018)
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Carrillo, I., Minchev, I., Kordopatis, G., Steinmetz, M., Binney, J., Anders, F., Bienaymé, O., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Famaey, B., Freeman, K. C., Gilmore, G., Gibson, B. K., Grebel, E. K., Helmi, A., Just, A., Kunder, A., McMillan, P., Monari, G., Munari, U., Navarro, J., …Zwitter, T. (2018). Is the Milky Way still breathing? RAVE–Gaia streaming motions. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 475(2), 2679-2696. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx3342

We use data from the Radial Velocity Experiment (RAVE) and the Tycho-Gaia astrometric solution (TGAS) catalogue to compute the velocity fields yielded by the radial (VR), azimuthal (Vϕ),and vertical (Vz) components of associated Galactocentric veloci... Read More about Is the Milky Way still breathing? RAVE–Gaia streaming motions.

Translocator protein as an imaging marker of macrophage and stromal activation in rheumatoid arthritis pannus (2018)
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Narayan, N., Owen, D. R., Mandhair, H., Smyth, E., Carlucci, F., Saleem, A., Gunn, R. N., Rabiner, E. A., Wells, L., Dakin, S. G., Sabokbar, A., & Taylor, P. C. (2018). Translocator protein as an imaging marker of macrophage and stromal activation in rheumatoid arthritis pannus. Journal of nuclear medicine, 59(7), 1125-1132. https://doi.org/10.2967/jnumed.117.202200

PET radioligands targeted to translocator protein (TSPO) offer a highly sensitive and specific means of imaging joint inflammation in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Through high expression of TSPO on activated macrophages, TSPO PET has been widely report... Read More about Translocator protein as an imaging marker of macrophage and stromal activation in rheumatoid arthritis pannus.

Sediment Transport of Fine Sand to Fine Gravel on Transverse Bed Slopes in Rotating Annular Flume Experiments (2018)
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Baar, A. W., de Smit, J., Uijttewaal, W. S. J., & Kleinhans, M. G. (2018). Sediment Transport of Fine Sand to Fine Gravel on Transverse Bed Slopes in Rotating Annular Flume Experiments. Water Resources Research, 54(1), 19-45. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017WR020604

Large‐scale morphology, in particular meander bend depth, bar dimensions, and bifurcation dynamics, are greatly affected by the deflection of sediment transport on transverse bed slopes due to gravity and by secondary flows. Overestimating the transv... Read More about Sediment Transport of Fine Sand to Fine Gravel on Transverse Bed Slopes in Rotating Annular Flume Experiments.