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Robust Sliding Mode Control for Flexible Joint Robotic Manipulator via Disturbance Observer (2019)
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Alam, W., Ahmad, S., Mehmood, A., & Iqbal, J. (2019). Robust Sliding Mode Control for Flexible Joint Robotic Manipulator via Disturbance Observer. Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems, 17(1), 85-97. https://doi.org/10.7906/indecs.17.1.11

In a flexible joint robotic manipulator, parametric variations and external disturbances result in mismatch uncertainties thus posing a great challenge in terms of manipulator’s control. This article investigates non-linear control algorithms for des... Read More about Robust Sliding Mode Control for Flexible Joint Robotic Manipulator via Disturbance Observer.

Technical investigation on V2G, S2V, and V2I for next generation smart city planning (2019)
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Adnan Khan, M. S., Kadir, K. M., Mahmood, K. S., Ibne Alam, M. I., Kamal, A., & Al Bashir, M. M. (2019). Technical investigation on V2G, S2V, and V2I for next generation smart city planning. Journal of Electronic Science and Technology, 17(4), Article 100010. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnlest.2020.100010

The paper investigates a few of the major areas of the next generation technological advancement, “smart city planning concept”. The areas that the paper focuses are vehicle to grid (V2G), sun to vehicle (S2V), and vehicle to infrastructure (V2I). Fo... Read More about Technical investigation on V2G, S2V, and V2I for next generation smart city planning.

Using supercritical CO2 in the preparation of metal-organic frameworks: Investigating effects on crystallisation (2019)
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Elsegood, M. R., Doan, H. V., Cheng, F., Dyirakumunda, T., Elsegood, M., Chin, J., …Ting, V. P. (2020). Using supercritical CO2 in the preparation of metal-organic frameworks: Investigating effects on crystallisation. Crystals, 10(1), Article 17. https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst10010017

© 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. In this report, we explore the use of supercritical CO2 (scCO2) in the synthesis of well-known metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) including Zn-MOF-74 and UiO-66, as well as on the preparation of... Read More about Using supercritical CO2 in the preparation of metal-organic frameworks: Investigating effects on crystallisation.

Information design for bowel cancer detection: The impact of using information visualisation to help patients prepare for colonoscopy screening (2019)
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dos Santos Lonsdale, M., Ni, L. C., Gu, C., & Twiddy, M. (2019). Information design for bowel cancer detection: The impact of using information visualisation to help patients prepare for colonoscopy screening. Information Design Journal, 25(2), 125-156. https://doi.org/10.1075/idj.25.2.01lon

© 2019 John Benjamins Publishing Company. All rights reserved. Colorectal cancer is one of the most commonly occurring cancers in the world, and colonoscopy is the most sensitive procedure to detect it. Colonoscopy success depends on the quality of b... Read More about Information design for bowel cancer detection: The impact of using information visualisation to help patients prepare for colonoscopy screening.

Brexit: hatred, lies and UK democracy (2019)
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Tyler, C. (2019). Brexit: hatred, lies and UK democracy. Dialogi Polityczne = Political Dialogues, 27(27), 63-82. https://doi.org/10.12775/dp.2019.011

The article analyses the progress of the Brexit debate in the UK from the time that David Cameron announced in 2013 his intention to hold a referendum on the UK’s membership of the UK up until the calling of the 2019 UK General Election. It considers... Read More about Brexit: hatred, lies and UK democracy.

What do the healthcare experiences of people with long-term conditions tell us about person-centred care? A systematic review. (2019)
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Dell Olio, M., Pask, S., Seymour, J., & Reeve, J. (2019). What do the healthcare experiences of people with long-term conditions tell us about person-centred care? A systematic review. European journal for person centered healthcare, 7(4),

Introduction Growing numbers of people now live with long term conditions. For each person, the challenges are multiple and unique to that individual. In recognition of this, health policy places greater emphasis on the delivery of person-centred ca... Read More about What do the healthcare experiences of people with long-term conditions tell us about person-centred care? A systematic review..

The Geographies of Protest and Public Space in Mid-nineteenth-century London: The Hyde Park Railings Affair (2019)
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Awcock, H. (2019). The Geographies of Protest and Public Space in Mid-nineteenth-century London: The Hyde Park Railings Affair. Historical geography, 47(1), 194-217. https://doi.org/10.1353/hgo.2019.0006

On 23 July 1866, a protest took place in Hyde Park, London, which provides a lens through which to analyse historical struggles over access to, and control of, public space. What began as a protest in favour of manhood suffrage became a conflict over... Read More about The Geographies of Protest and Public Space in Mid-nineteenth-century London: The Hyde Park Railings Affair.

Evolving trends in open access (2019)
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Watson, R. (2019). Evolving trends in open access. Compliance elliance journal, 5(1), 91-98

With the growth of open access publishing there has been a concomitant growth in the number of predatory publishers. This article considers why open access has arisen and the various models under which it operates before considering the nature of pre... Read More about Evolving trends in open access.

Exchange-rate exposure and Brexit: The case of FTSE, DAX and IBEX (2019)
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Andrikopoulos, A., Dassiou, X., & Zheng, M. (2020). Exchange-rate exposure and Brexit: The case of FTSE, DAX and IBEX. International review of financial analysis, 68, Article 101437. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2019.101437

This paper studies the impact of the United Kingdom's June 2016 referendum to withdraw from European Union membership (“Brexit”) on foreign exchange (FX) exposures. We collect weekly data from 26 FTSE100, 10 IBEX35, and 17 DAX30 nonfinancial multinat... Read More about Exchange-rate exposure and Brexit: The case of FTSE, DAX and IBEX.

How did order-flow impact bond prices during the European Sovereign Debt Crisis? (2019)
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Lin, Z., Hamill, P. A., Li, Y., Sun, Z., & Waterworth, J. (2020). How did order-flow impact bond prices during the European Sovereign Debt Crisis?. International Review of Economics and Finance, 67, 13-24. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iref.2019.12.008

The impact of trades on price dynamics in the European sovereign debt markets is of significant importance to policy makers and market participants. This paper uses high-frequency quote and transaction data from the MTS European sovereign bond inter-... Read More about How did order-flow impact bond prices during the European Sovereign Debt Crisis?.

Synthesis and structures of mono- and di-nuclear aluminium and zinc complexes bearing α-diimine and related ligands, and their use in the ring opening polymerization of cyclic esters (2019)
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Xiao, L., Zhao, Y., Qiao, S., Sun, Z., Santoro, O., & Redshaw, C. (2020). Synthesis and structures of mono- and di-nuclear aluminium and zinc complexes bearing α-diimine and related ligands, and their use in the ring opening polymerization of cyclic esters. Dalton Transactions : an international journal of inorganic chemistry, 49(5), 1456-1472. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9dt04332b

A series of organoaluminium imino-amido complexes of the type {[ArNC(Me2)C(Me)NAr]AlMe2} (Ar = 2,6-iPr2C6H3 (1), Ar = 2,6-Et2C6H3 (2); Ar = 2,6-Me2C6H3 (3) have been prepared via reaction of AlR3 and the respective α-diimine. Similar reaction of the... Read More about Synthesis and structures of mono- and di-nuclear aluminium and zinc complexes bearing α-diimine and related ligands, and their use in the ring opening polymerization of cyclic esters.

What is Commedia dell’Arte Today? A Review Essay (2019)
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Drábek, P. (2019). What is Commedia dell’Arte Today? A Review Essay. Early theatre, 22(2), 199-216. https://doi.org/10.12745/et.22.2.4128

This essay reviews seven recent volumes on the commedia dell'arte: Christopher B. Balme, Piermario Vescovo, and Daniele Vianello's edited volume Commedia dell’Arte in Context (2018); Judith Chaffee and Oliver Crick's edited The Routledge Companion to... Read More about What is Commedia dell’Arte Today? A Review Essay.

Spatial scale and product mix economies in U.S. banking with simultaneous spillover regimes (2019)
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Glass, A. J., Kenjegaliev, A., & Kenjegalieva, K. (2020). Spatial scale and product mix economies in U.S. banking with simultaneous spillover regimes. European journal of operational research, 284(2), 693-711. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2019.12.036

© 2019 Elsevier B.V. The literature on bank scale economies focuses on the familiar type of returns to scale that are internal to the firm. Using a spatial approach, we analyze returns to scale for banks that are made up of external (i.e., spillover)... Read More about Spatial scale and product mix economies in U.S. banking with simultaneous spillover regimes.

Mapping disparities in education across low- and middle-income countries (2019)
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Graetz, N., Woyczynski, L., Wilson, K. F., Hall, J. B., Hassen Abate, K., Abd-Allah, F., …Hay, S. I. (2020). Mapping disparities in education across low- and middle-income countries. Nature, 577(7789), 235-238. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1872-1

Educational attainment is an important social determinant of maternal, newborn, and child health. As a tool for promoting gender equity, it has gained increasing traction in popular media, international aid strategies, and global agenda-setting. The... Read More about Mapping disparities in education across low- and middle-income countries.

‘I am the voice of the past that will always be’: the Eurovision Song Contest as historical fiction (2019)
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Baker, C. (2019). ‘I am the voice of the past that will always be’: the Eurovision Song Contest as historical fiction. Journal of historical fictions, 2(2), 102-125

The Eurovision Song Contest has been called everything from ‘the Gay Olympics’ to ‘a monument to drivel’, but can it also be thought of as historical fiction – and what could that reveal about how narratives of national and European identity are reto... Read More about ‘I am the voice of the past that will always be’: the Eurovision Song Contest as historical fiction.

Tussilagonone Ameliorates Psoriatic Features in Keratinocytes and Imiquimod-Induced Psoriasis-Like Lesions in Mice via NRF2 Activation (2019)
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Lee, J., Song, K., Hiebert, P., Werner, S., Kim, T. G., & Kim, Y. S. (2020). Tussilagonone Ameliorates Psoriatic Features in Keratinocytes and Imiquimod-Induced Psoriasis-Like Lesions in Mice via NRF2 Activation. Journal of Investigative Dermatology, 140(6), 1223-1232.e4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jid.2019.12.008

Psoriasis is a common inflammatory skin disorder that is characterized by keratinocyte hyperproliferation and abnormal differentiation, resulting in the thickening of the epidermis and stratum corneum. In this study, we investigated in vitro and in v... Read More about Tussilagonone Ameliorates Psoriatic Features in Keratinocytes and Imiquimod-Induced Psoriasis-Like Lesions in Mice via NRF2 Activation.

Analysis of mechanical properties for two different structures of photovoltaic pavement unit block (2019)
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Zhou, B., Pei, J., Hughes, B. R., Nasir, D. S., & Zhang, J. (2020). Analysis of mechanical properties for two different structures of photovoltaic pavement unit block. Construction and Building Materials, 239, Article 117864. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2019.117864

Recently, photovoltaic (PV) pavement has widely attracted attention as an alternative to provide renewable energy. Research which focuses on the mechanical properties of a PV pavement is still at an early stage of exploration. This study adopted two... Read More about Analysis of mechanical properties for two different structures of photovoltaic pavement unit block.