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The linkages between leadership approaches and coordination effectiveness: a path analysis of selected New Zealand-UK international agri-food supply chains (2015)
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Akhtar, P., & Khan, Z. (2015). The linkages between leadership approaches and coordination effectiveness: a path analysis of selected New Zealand-UK international agri-food supply chains. British food journal, 117(1), 443-460. https://doi.org/10.1108/BFJ-12-2013-0357

Purpose – A suitable leadership approach and multiple dimensions of performance (operational and social dimensions contributing to financial performance – the effectiveness of international agri-food supply chain coordination) are important because o... Read More about The linkages between leadership approaches and coordination effectiveness: a path analysis of selected New Zealand-UK international agri-food supply chains.

Modelling and simulation of intensified absorber for post-combustion CO₂ capture using different mass transfer correlations (2015)
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Joel, A. S., Wang, M., & Ramshaw, C. (2015). Modelling and simulation of intensified absorber for post-combustion CO₂ capture using different mass transfer correlations. Applied thermal engineering, 74, 47-53. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2014.02.064

This paper studied mass transfer in rotating packed bed (RPB) which has the potential to significantly reduce capital and operating costs in post-combustion CO₂capture. To model intensified absorber, mass transfer correlations were implemented in vis... Read More about Modelling and simulation of intensified absorber for post-combustion CO₂ capture using different mass transfer correlations.

Merkel cell carcinoma in East Yorkshire: A case series and literature review of current management (2015)
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Jackson, P. C., Wallis, K., Allgar, V., Lind, M. J., & Stanley, P. R. (2015). Merkel cell carcinoma in East Yorkshire: A case series and literature review of current management. Journal of plastic, reconstructive & aesthetic surgery : JPRAS, 68(5), 667-672. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bjps.2014.12.021

© 2015 British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons. Introduction Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) is a rare, aggressive neuroendocrine tumour of the skin. The incidence is rising and it is associated with sun exposure and immunos... Read More about Merkel cell carcinoma in East Yorkshire: A case series and literature review of current management.

Methylation diet and methyl group genetics in risk for adenomatous polyp occurrence (2015)
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Lucock, M., Yates, Z., Martin, C., Choi, J., Beckett, E., Boyd, L., …Veysey, M. (2015). Methylation diet and methyl group genetics in risk for adenomatous polyp occurrence. Bba Clinical, 3, 107-112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbacli.2014.11.005

Purpose The aim of this study is to explore whether a methylation diet influences risk for adenomatous polyps (AP) either independently, or interactively with one-carbon metabolism-dependent gene variants, and whether such a diet modifies blood homoc... Read More about Methylation diet and methyl group genetics in risk for adenomatous polyp occurrence.

Characterizing the high-velocity stars of RAVE: the discovery of a metal-rich halo star born in the Galactic disc (2015)
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Hawkins, K., Kordopatis, G., Gilmore, G., Masseron, T., Wyse, R. F. G., Ruchti, G., …Zwitter, T. (2015). Characterizing the high-velocity stars of RAVE: the discovery of a metal-rich halo star born in the Galactic disc. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 447(2), 2046-2058. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu2574

© 2015 The Authors. We aim to characterize high-velocity (HiVel) stars in the solar vicinity both chemically and kinematically using the fourth data release of the RAdial Velocity Experiment (RAVE). We used a sample of 57HiVel starswith Galactic rest... Read More about Characterizing the high-velocity stars of RAVE: the discovery of a metal-rich halo star born in the Galactic disc.

Assessing model fit: Caveats and recommendations for confirmatory factor analysis and exploratory structural equation modeling (2015)
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Perry, J. L., Nicholls, A. R., Clough, P. J., & Crust, L. (2015). Assessing model fit: Caveats and recommendations for confirmatory factor analysis and exploratory structural equation modeling. Measurement in physical education and exercise science, 19(1), 12-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/1091367x.2014.952370

Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) is commonly used to assess measurement models in sport and exercise psychology. Frequently used as a yardstick for their adequacy, are specific cutoff values proposed by Hu and Bentler (1999). The purpose of this st... Read More about Assessing model fit: Caveats and recommendations for confirmatory factor analysis and exploratory structural equation modeling.

Do the short helices exist in the nematic TB phase? (2015)
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Górecka, E., Salamończyk, M., Zep, A., Pociecha, D., Welch, C., Ahmed, Z., & Mehl, G. H. (2015). Do the short helices exist in the nematic TB phase?. Liquid crystals, 42(1), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2014.984646

Dimeric compounds forming twist-bend nematic, Ntb, phase show unusual optical textures related to the formation of arrays of focal conic defects (FCDs). Some of the focal conics exhibit submicron internal structure with 8 nm periodicity, which is ver... Read More about Do the short helices exist in the nematic TB phase?.

Victim responses to violence : the effect of alcohol context on crime labeling (2015)
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Brennan, I. (2016). Victim responses to violence : the effect of alcohol context on crime labeling. Journal of interpersonal violence, 31(6), 1116-1140. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260514564068

The labeling of an incident as a crime is an essential precursor to the use of criminal law, but the contextual factors that influence this decision are unknown. One such context that is a frequent setting for violence is the barroom. This study expl... Read More about Victim responses to violence : the effect of alcohol context on crime labeling.

Long-term follow-up of multi-disciplinary outpatient treatment for chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalopathy (2015)
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Houlton, A., Christie, M. M., Smith, B., & Gardiner, E. (2015). Long-term follow-up of multi-disciplinary outpatient treatment for chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalopathy. Fatigue: Biomedicine, Health and Behavior, 3(1), 47-58. https://doi.org/10.1080/21641846.2014.993873

Aims: The current study evaluated the long-term effectiveness of a multi-disciplinary approach to chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalopathy (CFS/ME) in a UK outpatient service. Methods: A longitudinal questionnaire survey was posted to 300 pati... Read More about Long-term follow-up of multi-disciplinary outpatient treatment for chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalopathy.

Positive and negative allosteric effects of thiacalix[4]arene-based receptors having urea and crown-ether moieties (2015)
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Tomiyasu, H., Zhao, J., Ni, X., Zeng, X., Elsegood, M. R. J., Jones, B., …Yamato, T. (2015). Positive and negative allosteric effects of thiacalix[4]arene-based receptors having urea and crown-ether moieties. RSC advances, 5(19), 14747-14755. https://doi.org/10.1039/c4ra15905e

Heteroditopic receptors (4ₐ₋ₑ) based on a thiacalix[4]arene in the 1,3-alternate conformation, which have two urea moieties linking various phenyl groups substituted with either electron-donating or -withdrawing groups at their m-, or p-positions wit... Read More about Positive and negative allosteric effects of thiacalix[4]arene-based receptors having urea and crown-ether moieties.

A fibre forming smectic twist-bent liquid crystalline phase (2015)
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Tamba, M. G., Salili, S. M., Zhang, C., Jákli, A., Mehl, G. H., Stannarius, R., & Eremin, A. (2015). A fibre forming smectic twist-bent liquid crystalline phase. RSC advances, 5(15), 11207-11211. https://doi.org/10.1039/c4ra14669g

We demonstrate the nanostructure and filament formation of a novel liquid crystal phase of a dimeric mesogen below the twist–bend nematic phase. The new fibre-forming phase is distinguished by a short-correlated smectic order combined with an additio... Read More about A fibre forming smectic twist-bent liquid crystalline phase.

Dementia prediction for people with stroke in populations: is mild cognitive impairment a useful concept? (2015)
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Stephan, B. C., Minett, T., Terrera, G. M., Matthews, F. E., & Brayne, C. (2015). Dementia prediction for people with stroke in populations: is mild cognitive impairment a useful concept?. Age and ageing, 44(1), 78-83. https://doi.org/10.1093/AGEING/AFU085

Background: criteria for mild cognitive impairment (MCI) capture an intermediate cognitive state between normal ageing and dementia, associated with increased dementia risk. Whether criteria for MCI are applicable in the context of stroke and can be... Read More about Dementia prediction for people with stroke in populations: is mild cognitive impairment a useful concept?.

Identification of globular cluster stars in RAVE data - I. Application to stellar parameter calibration (2015)
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Anguiano, B., Zucker, D. B., Scholz, R. D., Grebel, E. K., Seabroke, G., Kunder, A., …Watson, F. (2015). Identification of globular cluster stars in RAVE data - I. Application to stellar parameter calibration. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 451(2), 1229-1246. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv800

We present the identification of potential members of nearby Galactic globular clusters using radial velocities from the RAdial Velocity Experiment Data Release 4 (RAVE-DR4) survey data base. Our identifications are based on three globular clusters –... Read More about Identification of globular cluster stars in RAVE data - I. Application to stellar parameter calibration.

On the functional overlap between complement and anti-microbial peptides (2015)
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Stover, C. M., Hobkirk, J., Browning, M. J., Mohamed, F., & Zimmer, J. (2015). On the functional overlap between complement and anti-microbial peptides. Frontiers in immunology, 5(JAN), Article 689. https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2014.00689

Intriguingly, activated complement and anti-microbial peptides share certain functionalities; lytic, phagocytic, and chemo-attractant activities and each may, in addition, exert cell instructive roles. Each has been shown to have distinct LPS detoxif... Read More about On the functional overlap between complement and anti-microbial peptides.

Differential modulation of performance in insight and divergent thinking tasks with tDCS (2015)
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Eimontaite, I., Goel, V., Schindler, I., & Goel, A. (2015). Differential modulation of performance in insight and divergent thinking tasks with tDCS. Journal of Problem Solving, 8(1), 23-35. https://doi.org/10.7771/1932-6246.1172

While both insight and divergent thinking tasks are used to study creativity, there are reasons to believe that the two may call upon very different mechanisms. To explore this hypothesis, we administered a verbal insight task (riddles) and a diverge... Read More about Differential modulation of performance in insight and divergent thinking tasks with tDCS.

Locating post-16 professionalism: public spaces as dissenting spaces (2015)
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Dennis, C. A. (2015). Locating post-16 professionalism: public spaces as dissenting spaces. Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 20(1), 64-77. https://doi.org/10.1080/13596748.2015.993875

Locating post-16 professionalism explores the ways in which teachers in the UK and the USA engaged in digitally mediated communication incidentally narrate their professional selves during extended exchanges about the process of post-qualification re... Read More about Locating post-16 professionalism: public spaces as dissenting spaces.

Symphony of sirens: uses and problems of sound in teaching and learning about music and politics (2015)
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Baker, C. (2015). Symphony of sirens: uses and problems of sound in teaching and learning about music and politics. Radical history review, 2015(121), 197-208. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2800108

I have been teaching courses about music and politics since 2011, firstly as a part-time instructor replacing a faculty member during her research leave and later at a different institution as a faculty member myself. This piece considers some of the... Read More about Symphony of sirens: uses and problems of sound in teaching and learning about music and politics.

A situation that we had never imagined: Post-Fukushima virtual collaborations for determining robot task metrics (2015)
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Martin, S., Naamani, C., & Vallance, M. (2015). A situation that we had never imagined: Post-Fukushima virtual collaborations for determining robot task metrics. International Journal of Learning Technology, 10(1), 30-49. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJLT.2015.069453

There is no consensus regarding a common set of metrics for robot task complexity in associated human-robot interactions. This paper is an attempt to address this issue by proposing a new metric so that the educational potential when using robots can... Read More about A situation that we had never imagined: Post-Fukushima virtual collaborations for determining robot task metrics.

AMS radiocarbon dating from the Neolithic of eastern Ukraine casts doubts on existing chronologies (2015)
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Lillie, M., Motuzaite-Matuzeviciute, G., & Telizhenko, S. (2015). AMS radiocarbon dating from the Neolithic of eastern Ukraine casts doubts on existing chronologies. Radiocarbon, 57(4), 657-664. https://doi.org/10.2458/azu_rc.57.18438

The Seversky Donets River (Northern Donets) basin in eastern Ukraine and the Lower Don River valley in Russia were inhabited by populations that have been considered to be one of the earliest pottery-using cultures in Europe. The early pottery sites... Read More about AMS radiocarbon dating from the Neolithic of eastern Ukraine casts doubts on existing chronologies.

Cognitive function in a general population of men and women: A cross sectional study in the European Investigation of Cancer-Norfolk cohort (EPIC-Norfolk) (2015)
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Hayat, S. A., Luben, R., Moore, S., Dalzell, N., Bhaniani, A., Anuj, S., …Brayne, C. (2015). Cognitive function in a general population of men and women: A cross sectional study in the European Investigation of Cancer-Norfolk cohort (EPIC-Norfolk). BMC Geriatrics, 14(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2318-14-142

Background: Although ageing is strongly associated with cognitive decline, a wide range of cognitive ability is observed in older populations with varying rates of change across different cognitive domains. Methods: Cognitive function was measured as... Read More about Cognitive function in a general population of men and women: A cross sectional study in the European Investigation of Cancer-Norfolk cohort (EPIC-Norfolk).