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Real Exchange Rate Misalignments of Libyan Dinar: Fundamentals and Markov Switching Regimes (2020)
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Bhattarai, K., & Ben-Naser, A. (2020). Real Exchange Rate Misalignments of Libyan Dinar: Fundamentals and Markov Switching Regimes. Journal of Development Economics and Finance, 1(1), 151-162

This study found evidence for a time-varying misalignments of equilibrium RER of the Libyan dinar. Markov switching model explains the overvaluation episodes during. Policy makers should urgently align the actual exchange rate very close to the movem... Read More about Real Exchange Rate Misalignments of Libyan Dinar: Fundamentals and Markov Switching Regimes.

Value for money and the commodification of higher education: front-line narratives (2020)
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Wilkinson, L. C., & Wilkinson, M. D. (in press). Value for money and the commodification of higher education: front-line narratives. Teaching in higher education, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2020.1819226

This paper provides a critical interrogation of government-led reform of higher education (HE) in England. Its focus is marketisation, and in particular, the concepts of ‘value for money’ (VFM), teaching excellence, and students as educational consum... Read More about Value for money and the commodification of higher education: front-line narratives.

A War of Songs. Popular Music and Recent Russia–Ukraine Relations: Arve Hansen, Andrei Rogatchevski, Yngvar Steinholt & David-Emil Wickström. Stuttgart: Ibidem Verlag, 2019, 247pp., €34.90 p/b. (2020)
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Baker, C. (2020). A War of Songs. Popular Music and Recent Russia–Ukraine Relations: Arve Hansen, Andrei Rogatchevski, Yngvar Steinholt & David-Emil Wickström. Stuttgart: Ibidem Verlag, 2019, 247pp., €34.90 p/b. Europe-Asia Studies, 72(8), 1426-1427. https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2020.1814605

Barriers to sexual and reproductive education among in-school adolescents in Zomba and Mangochi districts, Malawi (2020)
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Likupe, G., Chintsanya, J., Magadi, M., Munthali, A., & Makwemba, M. (2021). Barriers to sexual and reproductive education among in-school adolescents in Zomba and Mangochi districts, Malawi. Sex Education, 21(4), 450-462. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681811.2020.1821181

Teenage pregnancy and child marriage continue to rise in Malawi despite the introduction of compulsory Life Skills education in primary schools in 2002. A qualitative approach, employing focus group discussions with participants was used to explore t... Read More about Barriers to sexual and reproductive education among in-school adolescents in Zomba and Mangochi districts, Malawi.

Study of the impacts of supplements on the specific methane production during anaerobic digestion of the West African Gamba and Guinea Grass (2020)
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Egwu, U., Sallis, P., & Oko, E. (2021). Study of the impacts of supplements on the specific methane production during anaerobic digestion of the West African Gamba and Guinea Grass. Fuel, 285, Article 119060. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2020.119060

Nutrient supplementation could improve the biomethane production of different biomass feedstocks during anaerobic digestion. In this study, the impact of nutrient supplementation on the anaerobic digestion of the West African Gamba and Guinea Grass f... Read More about Study of the impacts of supplements on the specific methane production during anaerobic digestion of the West African Gamba and Guinea Grass.

Alert system design based on experimental findings from long-term unobtrusive monitoring in COPD (2020)
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den Brinker, A. C., van Dinther, R., Crooks, M. G., Thackray-Nocera, S., & Morice, A. H. (2021). Alert system design based on experimental findings from long-term unobtrusive monitoring in COPD. Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, 63, Article 102205. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bspc.2020.102205

An observational study using a cough count monitor was executed in the home of 30 patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). The monitoring system was unobtrusive, allowing long-term monitoring. This paper illustrates the cough count... Read More about Alert system design based on experimental findings from long-term unobtrusive monitoring in COPD.

The role of ethnic characteristics in the effect of income shocks on African conflict (2020)
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Manotas-Hidalgo, B., Pérez-Sebastián, F., & Campo-Bescós, M. A. (2021). The role of ethnic characteristics in the effect of income shocks on African conflict. World Development, 137, Article 105153. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105153

This paper disentangles the ethnic drivers of the effect of food-related income shocks on African conflict employing geolocalized information. We consider diversity and political ethnic variables and several conflict definitions. We find that differe... Read More about The role of ethnic characteristics in the effect of income shocks on African conflict.

Postload glucose spike but not fasting glucose determines prognosis after myocardial infarction in patients without known or newly diagnosed diabetes (2020)
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Chattopadhyay, S., George, A., John, J., & Sathyapalan, T. (2021). Postload glucose spike but not fasting glucose determines prognosis after myocardial infarction in patients without known or newly diagnosed diabetes. Journal of Diabetes, 13(3), 191-199. https://doi.org/10.1111/1753-0407.13111

Background: The effect of postload glucose spikes (PGS), the difference between 2 hour post-load plasma glucose (2hPLPG) and fasting plasma glucose (FPG), on post–myocardial infarction (post-MI) prognosis in nondiabetic patients is unexplored. Method... Read More about Postload glucose spike but not fasting glucose determines prognosis after myocardial infarction in patients without known or newly diagnosed diabetes.

Objective Assessment of Cough: An Early Marker of Response to Biological Therapies in Asthma? (2020)
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Faruqi, S., Sykes, D. L., Crooks, M. G., Brindle, K., Thompson, J., & Morice, A. H. (2020). Objective Assessment of Cough: An Early Marker of Response to Biological Therapies in Asthma?. Lung, 198(5), 767-770. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00408-020-00391-w

© 2020, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature. Cough is an important symptom of asthma. The objective assessment of chronic cough has been enhanced by the development of ambulatory cough monitoring systems. Mepolizumab has bee... Read More about Objective Assessment of Cough: An Early Marker of Response to Biological Therapies in Asthma?.

Yorkshire Lung Screening Trial (YLST): protocol for a randomised controlled trial to evaluate invitation to community-based low-dose CT screening for lung cancer versus usual care in a targeted population at risk (2020)
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Crosbie, P. A., Gabe, R., Simmonds, I., Kennedy, M., Rogerson, S., Ahmed, N., Baldwin, D. R., Booton, R., Cochrane, A., Darby, M., Franks, K., Hinde, S., Janes, S. M., Macleod, U., Messenger, M., Moller, H., Murray, R. L., Neal, R. D., Quaife, S. L., Sculpher, M., …Callister, M. E. (2020). Yorkshire Lung Screening Trial (YLST): protocol for a randomised controlled trial to evaluate invitation to community-based low-dose CT screening for lung cancer versus usual care in a targeted population at risk. BMJ open, 10(9), Article e037075. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-037075

© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2020. Re-use permitted under CC BY. Published by BMJ. INTRODUCTION: Lung cancer is the world's leading cause of cancer death. Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) screening reduced lung cancer mortality by 20% in the... Read More about Yorkshire Lung Screening Trial (YLST): protocol for a randomised controlled trial to evaluate invitation to community-based low-dose CT screening for lung cancer versus usual care in a targeted population at risk.

Evaluating whether MPA management measures meet ecological principles for effective biodiversity protection (2020)
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Hopkins, C., Burns, N., Brooker, E., Dolman, S., Devenport, E., Duncan, C., & Bailey, D. (2020). Evaluating whether MPA management measures meet ecological principles for effective biodiversity protection. Acta Oecologica, 108, Article 103625. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actao.2020.103625

Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) have been implemented as a spatial management tool throughout the world in order to meet targets for marine biodiversity conservation. The success of MPAs in achieving biodiversity conservation objectives is strongly dep... Read More about Evaluating whether MPA management measures meet ecological principles for effective biodiversity protection.

Effects of geometrical dimensions of flow channels of a large-active-area PEM fuel cell: A CFD study (2020)
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Carcadea, E., Ismail, M. S., Ingham, D. B., Patularu, L., Schitea, D., Marinoiu, A., …Varlam, M. (2021). Effects of geometrical dimensions of flow channels of a large-active-area PEM fuel cell: A CFD study. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 46(25), 13572-13582. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2020.08.150

Various flow field designs have been numerically investigated to evaluate the effect of pattern and the cross-sectional dimensions of the channel on the performance of a large active area PEM fuel cell. Three types of multiple-serpentine channels (7-... Read More about Effects of geometrical dimensions of flow channels of a large-active-area PEM fuel cell: A CFD study.

Aggregation-Induced Emission Luminogens for Direct Exfoliation of 2D Layered Materials in Ethanol (2020)
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Zhao, Y., Gao, W., Yang, Y., Zhang, H., Redshaw, C., Feng, X., Li, J., Lam, J. W., & Tang, B. Z. (2020). Aggregation-Induced Emission Luminogens for Direct Exfoliation of 2D Layered Materials in Ethanol. Advanced Materials Interfaces, 7(21), Article 2000795. https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.202000795

© 2020 Wiley-VCH GmbH Aggregation-induced emission (AIE) luminogens are an important type of advanced functional materials with fantastic optical properties and have found potential applications in organic electronics, biochemistry, and molecular ima... Read More about Aggregation-Induced Emission Luminogens for Direct Exfoliation of 2D Layered Materials in Ethanol.

Evaluation of the N 13 (α,p) O 16 thermonuclear reaction rate and its impact on the isotopic composition of supernova grains (2020)
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Meyer, A., De Séréville, N., Laird, A. M., Hammache, F., Longland, R., Lawson, T., Pignatari, M., Audouin, L., Beaumel, D., Fortier, S., Kiener, J., Lefebvre-Schuhl, A., Pellegriti, M. G., Stanoiu, M., & Tatischeff, V. (2020). Evaluation of the N 13 (α,p) O 16 thermonuclear reaction rate and its impact on the isotopic composition of supernova grains. Physical Review C, 102(3), Article 035803. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.102.035803

Background: It has been recently suggested that hydrogen ingestion into the helium shell of massive stars could lead to high C13 and N15 excesses when the shock of a core-collapse supernova passes through its helium shell. This prediction questions t... Read More about Evaluation of the N 13 (α,p) O 16 thermonuclear reaction rate and its impact on the isotopic composition of supernova grains.

Effects of Mucin on the dexterity and tactile sensitivity of medical glove users (2020)
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Preece, D., Lewis, R., & Carré, M. J. (2020). Effects of Mucin on the dexterity and tactile sensitivity of medical glove users. Biotribology, 24, Article 100146. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biotri.2020.100146

The evaluation of medical glove performance has mostly focused on analysing how good a barrier the glove materials are, as well as their durability. Very few studies aim to determine how these gloves affect the performance of the user. This could lea... Read More about Effects of Mucin on the dexterity and tactile sensitivity of medical glove users.

Stewardship of personal data on social networking sites (2020)
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Angelopoulos, S., Brown, M., McAuley, D., Merali, Y., Mortier, R., & Price, D. (2021). Stewardship of personal data on social networking sites. International journal of information management, 56, Article 102208. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2020.102208

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The extant Information Management literature highlights the asymmetric distribution of power between users and online platforms, while the issues related to the stewardship of personal data on such platforms remain problematic and largely u... Read More about Stewardship of personal data on social networking sites.

Co-expression of C9orf72 related dipeptide-repeats over 1000 repeat units reveals age-A nd combination-specific phenotypic profiles in Drosophila (2020)
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West, R. J., Sharpe, J. L., Voelzmann, A., Munro, A. L., Hahn, I., Baines, R. A., & Pickering-Brown, S. (2020). Co-expression of C9orf72 related dipeptide-repeats over 1000 repeat units reveals age-A nd combination-specific phenotypic profiles in Drosophila. Acta Neuropathologica Communications, 8(1), Article 158. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40478-020-01028-y

A large intronic hexanucleotide repeat expansion (GGGGCC) within the C9orf72 (C9orf72-SMCR8 Complex Subunit) locus is the most prevalent genetic cause of both Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD) and Motor Neuron Disease (MND). In patients this expansion is... Read More about Co-expression of C9orf72 related dipeptide-repeats over 1000 repeat units reveals age-A nd combination-specific phenotypic profiles in Drosophila.

Predictive control using active aerodynamic surfaces to improve ride quality of a vehicle (2020)
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Ahmad, E., Iqbal, J., Khan, M. A., Liang, W., & Youn, I. (2020). Predictive control using active aerodynamic surfaces to improve ride quality of a vehicle. Electronics, 9(9), Article 1463. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics9091463

This work presents a predictive control strategy for a four degrees of freedom (DOF) half-car model in the presence of active aerodynamic surfaces. The proposed control strategy consists of two parts: the feedback control deals with the tracking erro... Read More about Predictive control using active aerodynamic surfaces to improve ride quality of a vehicle.

Specialist alcohol inpatient treatment admissions and non-specialist hospital admissions for alcohol withdrawal in England: an inverse relationship (2020)
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Phillips, T., Huang, C., Roberts, E., & Drummond, C. (2021). Specialist alcohol inpatient treatment admissions and non-specialist hospital admissions for alcohol withdrawal in England: an inverse relationship. Alcohol and Alcoholism, 56(1), 28-33. https://doi.org/10.1093/alcalc/agaa086

© The Author(s) 2020. Medical Council on Alcohol and Oxford University Press. AIMS: We assessed the relationship between specialist and non-specialist admissions for alcohol withdrawal since the introduction of the UK government Health and Social Car... Read More about Specialist alcohol inpatient treatment admissions and non-specialist hospital admissions for alcohol withdrawal in England: an inverse relationship.