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Corrigendum to “Implementation of tidal turbines in MIKE 3 and Delft3D models of Pentland Firth & Orkney waters” [Ocean Coast. Manag. 147 (2017) 21–36] (2018)
Journal Article
Waldman, S., Bastón, S., Nemalidinne, R., Chatzirodou, A., Venugopal, V., & Side, J. (2018). Corrigendum to “Implementation of tidal turbines in MIKE 3 and Delft3D models of Pentland Firth & Orkney waters” [Ocean Coast. Manag. 147 (2017) 21–36]. Ocean and Coastal Management, 163, 535-536. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2018.07.014

© 2017 Elsevier Ltd The authors regret that a software error caused incorrect predictions for the effects of tidal turbines in Delft3D. The predictions without turbines are unaffected, as are those from the MIKE 3 model. The overall conclusions of th... Read More about Corrigendum to “Implementation of tidal turbines in MIKE 3 and Delft3D models of Pentland Firth & Orkney waters” [Ocean Coast. Manag. 147 (2017) 21–36].

Hierarchical-Structure-Based Fault Estimation and Fault-Tolerant Control for Multiagent Systems (2018)
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Liu, C., Jiang, B., Patton, R. J., & Zhang, K. (2019). Hierarchical-Structure-Based Fault Estimation and Fault-Tolerant Control for Multiagent Systems. IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, 6(2), 586-597. https://doi.org/10.1109/TCNS.2018.2860460

This paper proposes a hierarchical-structure-based fault estimation and fault-tolerant control design with bidirectional interactions for nonlinear multiagent systems with actuator faults. The hierarchical structure consists of distributed multiagent... Read More about Hierarchical-Structure-Based Fault Estimation and Fault-Tolerant Control for Multiagent Systems.

Force–length relation of skeletal muscles: from sarcomeres to myofibril (2018)
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Hou, M. (2018). Force–length relation of skeletal muscles: from sarcomeres to myofibril. Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, 17(6), 1797-1810. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10237-018-1057-0

Sarcomeres are building blocks of skeletal muscles. Given force–length relations of sarcomeres serially connected in a myofibril, the myofibril force–length relation can be uniquely determined. Necessary and sufficient conditions are derived for capa... Read More about Force–length relation of skeletal muscles: from sarcomeres to myofibril.

Missed opportunity? Worsening breathlessness as a harbinger of death: a cohort study (2018)
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Currow, D. C., Smith, J. M., Chansriwong, P., Noble, S. I., Nikolaidou, T., Ferreira, D., …Ekström, M. (2018). Missed opportunity? Worsening breathlessness as a harbinger of death: a cohort study. European respiratory journal, 52(3), Article 1800684. https://doi.org/10.1183/13993003.00684-2018

Introduction: To explore trajectories of breathlessness intensity by function and life-limiting illness diagnosis in the last 3 weeks of life in palliative care patients. Methods: Prospective, consecutive cohort with point-of-care data of patients o... Read More about Missed opportunity? Worsening breathlessness as a harbinger of death: a cohort study.

Small Water Bodies in Great Britain and Ireland: Ecosystem function, human-generated degradation, and options for restorative action (2018)
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Riley, W. D., Potter, E. C., Biggs, J., Collins, A. L., Jarvie, H. P., Jones, J. I., …Siriwardena, G. M. (2018). Small Water Bodies in Great Britain and Ireland: Ecosystem function, human-generated degradation, and options for restorative action. The Science of the total environment, 645, 1598-1616. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.07.243

© 2018 Small, 1st and 2nd-order, headwater streams and ponds play essential roles in providing natural flood control, trapping sediments and contaminants, retaining nutrients, and maintaining biological diversity, which extend into downstream reaches... Read More about Small Water Bodies in Great Britain and Ireland: Ecosystem function, human-generated degradation, and options for restorative action.

The development of transmigrant historiography in Britain (2018)
Book Chapter
Evans, N. J. (2018). The development of transmigrant historiography in Britain. In J. Craig-Norton, C. Hoffman, & T. Kushner (Eds.), Migrant Britain: Histories and Historiographies: Essays in Honour of Colin Holmes (224-234). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315159959

The growth of migrant studies since the early 1970s has filled significant lacuna in the historiography of Britain during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The development of transmigrant historiography in the UK has followed a very different p... Read More about The development of transmigrant historiography in Britain.

A prospective, mixed-methods, before and after study to identify the evidence base for the core components of an effective Paediatric Early Warning System and the development of an implementation package containing those core recommendations for use in the UK: Paediatric early warning system - utilisation and mortality avoidance- the PUMA study protocol (2018)
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Thomas-Jones, E., Lloyd, A., Roland, D., Sefton, G., Tume, L., Hood, K., …Powell, C. (2018). A prospective, mixed-methods, before and after study to identify the evidence base for the core components of an effective Paediatric Early Warning System and the development of an implementation package containing those core recommendations for use in the UK: Paediatric early warning system - utilisation and mortality avoidance- the PUMA study protocol. BMC Pediatrics, 18(1), Article 244. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12887-018-1210-z

© 2018 The Author(s). Background: In hospital, staff need to routinely monitor patients to identify those who are seriously ill, so that they receive timely treatment to improve their condition. A Paediatric Early Warning System is a multi-faceted so... Read More about A prospective, mixed-methods, before and after study to identify the evidence base for the core components of an effective Paediatric Early Warning System and the development of an implementation package containing those core recommendations for use in the UK: Paediatric early warning system - utilisation and mortality avoidance- the PUMA study protocol.

Method to reduce the formation of crystallites in ZnO nanorod thin-films grown via ultra-fast microwave heating (2018)
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Gray, R. J., Jaafar, A. H., Verrelli, E., & Kemp, N. T. (2018). Method to reduce the formation of crystallites in ZnO nanorod thin-films grown via ultra-fast microwave heating. Thin solid films, 662, 116-122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsf.2018.07.034

© 2018 This paper discusses the nucleation and growth mechanisms of ZnO nanorod thin-films and larger sized crystallites that form within the solution and on surfaces during an ultra-fast microwave heating growth process. In particular, the work focu... Read More about Method to reduce the formation of crystallites in ZnO nanorod thin-films grown via ultra-fast microwave heating.

The impact of dementia on service use by individuals with a comorbid health condition: A comparison of two cross-sectional analyses conducted approximately 10 years apart (2018)
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Bennett, H. Q., Norton, S., Bunn, F., Robinson, L., Rait, G., Goodman, C., …Matthews, F. E. (2018). The impact of dementia on service use by individuals with a comorbid health condition: A comparison of two cross-sectional analyses conducted approximately 10 years apart. BMC medicine, 16(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-018-1105-8

Background: The presence of concomitant medical conditions in people with dementia is common. Dementia may be related to differential use of health, social and informal care. Methods: Data from two large UK population-based studies (CFAS I & II) of a... Read More about The impact of dementia on service use by individuals with a comorbid health condition: A comparison of two cross-sectional analyses conducted approximately 10 years apart.

Self-propulsion of water-supported liquid marbles filled with sulfuric acid (2018)
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Frenkel, M., Dombrovsky, L., Multanen, V., Danchuk, V., Legchenkova, I., Shoval, S., …Bormashenko, E. (2018). Self-propulsion of water-supported liquid marbles filled with sulfuric acid. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 122(32), 7936-7942. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.8b06136

Self-propulsion of liquid marbles filled with sulfuric acid and coated with hydrophobic fluorosilica powder on a water surface is reported. The prolonged self-propulsion of marbles occurs over a couple of minutes with a typical velocity of the center... Read More about Self-propulsion of water-supported liquid marbles filled with sulfuric acid.

Amphiphile-Induced Anisotropic Colloidal Self-Assembly (2018)
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Rey, M., Yu, T., Bley, K., Landfester, K., Buzza, D. M. A., & Vogel, N. (2018). Amphiphile-Induced Anisotropic Colloidal Self-Assembly. Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids, 34(34), 9990-10000. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.8b01382

Spherical colloidal particles typically self-assemble into hexagonal lattices when adsorbed at liquid interfaces. More complex assembly structures, including particle chains and phases with square symmetry, were theoretically predicted almost two dec... Read More about Amphiphile-Induced Anisotropic Colloidal Self-Assembly.

Mixed-methods pre-match cooling improves simulated soccer performance in the heat (2018)
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Aldous, J. W. F., Chrismas, B. C. R., Akubat, I., Stringer, C. A., Abt, G., & Taylor, L. (2019). Mixed-methods pre-match cooling improves simulated soccer performance in the heat. European journal of sport science : the official journal of the European College of Sport Science, 19(2), 156-165. https://doi.org/10.1080/17461391.2018.1498542

This investigation examined the effects of three pre-match and half-time cooling manoeuvres on physical performance and associated physiological and perceptual responses in eight University soccer players during a non-motorised treadmill based indivi... Read More about Mixed-methods pre-match cooling improves simulated soccer performance in the heat.

Improving timing sensitivity in the microhertz frequency regime: limits from PSR J1713+0747 on gravitational waves produced by supermassive black hole binaries (2018)
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Perera, B. B., Stappers, B. W., Babak, S., Keith, M. J., Antoniadis, J., Bassa, C. G., …Taylor, S. R. (2018). Improving timing sensitivity in the microhertz frequency regime: limits from PSR J1713+0747 on gravitational waves produced by supermassive black hole binaries. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 478(1), 218-227. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty1116

We search for continuous gravitational waves (CGWs) produced by individual supermassive black hole binaries in circular orbits using high-cadence timing observations of PSR J1713+0747. We observe this millisecond pulsar using the telescopes in the Eu... Read More about Improving timing sensitivity in the microhertz frequency regime: limits from PSR J1713+0747 on gravitational waves produced by supermassive black hole binaries.

CAMERA - complete assessment of elderly patients with cancer: A non-randomised feasibility study (2018)
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Jackson, G., Gabe, R., Johnson, M., Date, K., Harman, D., Maraveyas, A., …Lind, M. J. (2019). CAMERA - complete assessment of elderly patients with cancer: A non-randomised feasibility study. Journal of Geriatric Oncology, 10(1), 175-177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jgo.2018.07.005

One of the primary risk factors in the development of cancer is older age. The demographic shift to an ageing population has given rise to an increased number of older patients with cancer. The extreme heterogeneity within this population renders app... Read More about CAMERA - complete assessment of elderly patients with cancer: A non-randomised feasibility study.

The public and private marginal product of capital (2018)
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Lowe, M., Papageorgiou, C., & Perez Sebastian, F. (2019). The public and private marginal product of capital. Economica, 86(342), 336-361. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecca.12268

Why doesn't capital flow to developing countries as predicted by the neoclassical model? What are the direction and degree of capital misallocation across nations? We revisit these questions by removing public capital from total capital to achieve a... Read More about The public and private marginal product of capital.

Perfluorinated alkyl acids in the serum and follicular fluid of UK women with and without polycystic ovarian syndrome undergoing fertility treatment and associations with hormonal and metabolic parameters (2018)
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Heffernan, A., Cunningham, T., Drage, D., Aylward, L., Thompson, K., Vijayasarathy, S., …Sathyapalan, T. (2018). Perfluorinated alkyl acids in the serum and follicular fluid of UK women with and without polycystic ovarian syndrome undergoing fertility treatment and associations with hormonal and metabolic parameters. International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health, 221(7), 1068-1075. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheh.2018.07.009

© 2018 Women with polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) undergoing treatment for infertility could be a sensitive subpopulation for endocrine effects of exposure to perfluorinated alkyl acids (PFAAs), persistent organic pollutants with potential endocri... Read More about Perfluorinated alkyl acids in the serum and follicular fluid of UK women with and without polycystic ovarian syndrome undergoing fertility treatment and associations with hormonal and metabolic parameters.

Overcoming the dichotomy of implementing societal flood risk management while conserving instream fish habitat – A long-term study from a highly modified urban river (2018)
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Angelopoulos, N. V., Harvey, J. P., Bolland, J. D., Nunn, A. D., Noble, R. A., Smith, M. A., …Cowx, I. G. (2018). Overcoming the dichotomy of implementing societal flood risk management while conserving instream fish habitat – A long-term study from a highly modified urban river. Journal of environmental management, 224, 69-76. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2018.07.030

Flood Risk Management (FRM) is often essential to reduce the risk of flooding to properties and infrastructure in urban landscapes, but typically degrades the habitats required by many aquatic animals for foraging, refuge and reproduction. This confl... Read More about Overcoming the dichotomy of implementing societal flood risk management while conserving instream fish habitat – A long-term study from a highly modified urban river.