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Knowledge intensive regeneration for knowledge societies and economies (2014)
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and economies. Global built environment review (Online), 9(1), 68-85

Regeneration is deemed as the enabler to transform for societies from industrial age to knowledge. Knowledge intensive regeneration is one of the latest urban regeneration models, called “Ideopolises”, to make progress and achieve the transformatio... Read More about Knowledge intensive regeneration for knowledge societies and economies.

Biogeography of squirrel monkeys (genus Saimiri): South-central Amazon origin and rapid pan-Amazonian diversification of a lowland primate (2014)
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Lynch Alfaro, J., Boubli, J., Paim, F., Ribas, C., Silva, M., Messias, M., …Farias, I. (2015). Biogeography of squirrel monkeys (genus Saimiri): South-central Amazon origin and rapid pan-Amazonian diversification of a lowland primate. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 82(Part B), 436-454. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2014.09.004

The squirrel monkey, Saimiri, is a pan-Amazonian Pleistocene radiation. We use statistical phylogeographic methods to create a mitochondrial DNA-based timetree for 118 squirrel monkey samples across 68 localities spanning all Amazonian centers of end... Read More about Biogeography of squirrel monkeys (genus Saimiri): South-central Amazon origin and rapid pan-Amazonian diversification of a lowland primate.

A comparison of different chemometrics approaches for the robust classification of electronic nose data (2014)
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Gromski, P., Correa, E., Vaughan, A., Wedge, D., Turner, M., & Goodacre, R. (2014). A comparison of different chemometrics approaches for the robust classification of electronic nose data. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 406(29), 7581-7590. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00216-014-8216-7

Accurate detection of certain chemical vapours is important, as these may be diagnostic for the presence of weapons, drugs of misuse or disease. In order to achieve this, chemical sensors could be deployed remotely. However, the readout from such sen... Read More about A comparison of different chemometrics approaches for the robust classification of electronic nose data.

Extending the natural range of a declining species : Genetic evidence that great crested newt (Triturus cristatus) populations in the Scottish highlands are native (2014)
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O'Brien, C., Hall, J., Orchard, D., Barratt, C., Arntzen, J., & Jehle, R. (2015). Extending the natural range of a declining species : Genetic evidence that great crested newt (Triturus cristatus) populations in the Scottish highlands are native. European Journal of Wildlife Research, 61(1), 27-33. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10344-014-0863-7

Determining whether isolated populations of a species are native or introduced is important for conservation, as non-native occurrences are likely to be of lower priority for conservation organisations with limited resources. The great crested newt T... Read More about Extending the natural range of a declining species : Genetic evidence that great crested newt (Triturus cristatus) populations in the Scottish highlands are native.

Spatial and temporal patterns of diversification on the Amazon : a test of the riverine hypothesis for all diurnal primates of Rio Negro and Rio Branco in Brazil (2014)
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Boubli, J., Ribas, C., Lynch Alfaro, J., Alfaro, M., Da Silva, M., Pinho, G., & Farias, I. (2015). Spatial and temporal patterns of diversification on the Amazon : a test of the riverine hypothesis for all diurnal primates of Rio Negro and Rio Branco in Brazil. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 82(Part B), 400-412. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2014.09.005

The role of Amazonian rivers as drivers of speciation through vicariance remains controversial. Here we explore the riverine hypothesis by comparing spatial and temporal concordances in pattern of diversification for all diurnal primates of Rio Negro... Read More about Spatial and temporal patterns of diversification on the Amazon : a test of the riverine hypothesis for all diurnal primates of Rio Negro and Rio Branco in Brazil.

A novel feature selection method for text classification using association rules and clustering (2014)
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Sheydaei, N., Saraee, M., & Shahgholian, A. (2015). A novel feature selection method for text classification using association rules and clustering. Journal of Information Science, 41(1), 3-15. https://doi.org/10.1177/0165551514550143

Readability and accuracy are two important features of a good classifier. For reasons such as acceptable accuracy, rapid training and high interpretability, associative classifiers have been recently used in many categorization tasks. These features... Read More about A novel feature selection method for text classification using association rules and clustering.

Effects of visible implanted elastomer marking on physiological traits of frogs (2014)
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Antwis, R., Purcell, R., Walker, S., Fidgett, A., & Preziosi, R. (2014). Effects of visible implanted elastomer marking on physiological traits of frogs. Conservation Physiology, 2(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/conphys/cou042

Amphibians possess innate immune defences, including antimicrobial peptides and symbiotic bacterial communities, that can protect them from infectious diseases, including chytridiomycosis. On-going research is attempting to use amphibian symbiotic ba... Read More about Effects of visible implanted elastomer marking on physiological traits of frogs.

Peatland restoration : controls on sediment production and reductions in carbon and pollutant export (2014)
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Shuttleworth, E., Evans, M., Hutchinson, S., & Rothwell, J. (2015). Peatland restoration : controls on sediment production and reductions in carbon and pollutant export. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 40(4), 459-472. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.3645

Peatlands are an important store of soil carbon, and play a vital role in global carbon cycling, and when located in close proximity to urban and industrial areas, can also act as sinks of atmospherically deposited heavy metals. Large areas of the UK... Read More about Peatland restoration : controls on sediment production and reductions in carbon and pollutant export.

Demographic and growth analysis of broad snouted caiman (Caiman latirostris) in a disturbed environment in southeastern Brazil (2014)
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southeastern Brazil. Herpetological journal, 24(4), 223-228

Crocodilian life history traits exhibit strong size and age dependence, which is determined, ultimately, by how fast individuals grow. Crocodilian population dynamics are dependent on environmental conditions such as local temperatures and hydrology... Read More about Demographic and growth analysis of broad snouted caiman (Caiman latirostris) in a disturbed environment in southeastern Brazil.

Electroluminescence from an electrostatically doped carbon nanotube field-effect transistor (2014)
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carbon nanotube field-effect transistor. Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Letters, 6(10), 881-886. https://doi.org/10.1166/nnl.2014.1831

We report electroluminescence (EL) from a carbon nanotube field-effect transistor with split-gates. EL is generated by the electrostatic doping technique. Six EL bands could be observed, with the strongest band peaking between 0.867 and 0.850 eV wi... Read More about Electroluminescence from an electrostatically doped carbon nanotube field-effect transistor.

Pluripotent stem cell miRNAs and metastasis in invasive breast cancer (2014)
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Volinia, S., Nuovo, G., Drusco, A., Costinean, S., Abujarour, R., Desponts, C., …Croce, C. (2014). Pluripotent stem cell miRNAs and metastasis in invasive breast cancer. JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 106(12), https://doi.org/10.1093/jnci/dju324

Background The purpose of this study is to determine whether microRNA for pluripotent stem cells are also expressed in breast cancer and are associated with metastasis and outcome. Methods We studied global microRNA profiles during differentiati... Read More about Pluripotent stem cell miRNAs and metastasis in invasive breast cancer.

Persian sentiment analyzer : a framework based on a novel feature selection method (2014)
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feature selection method. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence, 12(2), 115-129

In the recent decade, with the enormous growth of digital content in internet and databases, sentiment analysis has received more and more attention between information retrieval and natural language processing researchers. Sentiment analysis aims... Read More about Persian sentiment analyzer : a framework based on a novel feature selection method.

Aspergillus fumigatus proteases, Asp f 5 and Asp f 13, are essential for airway inflammation and remodelling in a murine inhalation model (2014)
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Namvar, S., Warn, P., Farnell, E., Bromley, M., Fraczek, M., Bowyer, P., & Herrick, S. (2015). Aspergillus fumigatus proteases, Asp f 5 and Asp f 13, are essential for airway inflammation and remodelling in a murine inhalation model. Clinical and Experimental Allergy, 45(5), 982-993. https://doi.org/10.1111/cea.12426

BACKGROUND: In susceptible individuals, exposure to Aspergillus fumigatus can lead to the development of atopic lung diseases such as allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) and severe asthma with fungal sensitization (SAFS). Protease allergen... Read More about Aspergillus fumigatus proteases, Asp f 5 and Asp f 13, are essential for airway inflammation and remodelling in a murine inhalation model.

Tracking timbral changes in metal productions from 1990 to 2013 (2014)
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Williams, D. (2014). Tracking timbral changes in metal productions from 1990 to 2013. Metal music studies (Online), 1(1), 39-68. https://doi.org/10.1386/mms.1.1.39_1

The metal scene has undergone an evolution in sonic characteristics that is partially rooted in music technology developments and associated production techniques that have given rise to a set of identifiably distinct ‘metal’ timbres. The science of... Read More about Tracking timbral changes in metal productions from 1990 to 2013.

A random forest approach for predicting the presence of Echinococcus multilocularis intermediate host Ochotona spp. presence in relation to landscape characteristics in western China (2014)
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Marston, C., Danson, F., Armitage, R., Giradoux, P., Pleydell, D., Wang, Q., …Craig, P. (2014). A random forest approach for predicting the presence of Echinococcus multilocularis intermediate host Ochotona spp. presence in relation to landscape characteristics in western China. Applied Geography, 55, 176-183. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2014.09.001

Understanding distribution patterns of hosts implicated in the transmission of zoonotic disease remains a key goal of parasitology. Here, random forests are employed to model spatial patterns of the presence of the plateau pika (Ochotona spp.) smal... Read More about A random forest approach for predicting the presence of Echinococcus multilocularis intermediate host Ochotona spp. presence in relation to landscape characteristics in western China.

An assessment of land use sources of barriers and the community-based housing model in the UK (2014)
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Oladotun, A., & Ahmed, V. (2014). An assessment of land use sources of barriers and the community-based housing model in the UK. International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis, 7(4), 539 -558. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJHMA-02-2013-0012

Purpose – The aim of this study is to define land use policy sources of barriers to community-based housing options in practice. Design/methodology/approach – The paper accentuated the need to tackle land use sources of barrier to Community La... Read More about An assessment of land use sources of barriers and the community-based housing model in the UK.

Environmental factors influencing the recruitment and catch of tropical Panulirus lobsters in southern Java, Indonesia (2014)
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Milton, D., Satria, F., Proctor, C., Prasetyo, A., Utama, A., & Fauzi, M. (2014). Environmental factors influencing the recruitment and catch of tropical Panulirus lobsters in southern Java, Indonesia. Continental Shelf Research, 91, 247-255. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2014.09.011

Tropical Panulirus lobster fisheries in many parts of the world are open-access and poorly-regulated. This is in part because tropical Panulirus lobsters have an extended pelagic larval phase (up to 9 months) and their larval settlement may take plac... Read More about Environmental factors influencing the recruitment and catch of tropical Panulirus lobsters in southern Java, Indonesia.

Comparing the export coefficient approach with the soil and water assessment tool to predict phosphorous pollution : the Kan Watershed case study (2014)
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Delkash, M., Al-Faraj, F., & Scholz, M. (2014). Comparing the export coefficient approach with the soil and water assessment tool to predict phosphorous pollution : the Kan Watershed case study. Water, Air, and Soil Pollution, 225(10), 21-22. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-014-2122-7

Water quality protection has become a key concern in water resources development and management. Uncontrolled nutrient input may challenge the quality of some water bodies. This study uses the relatively steep Kan watershed located in the north-west... Read More about Comparing the export coefficient approach with the soil and water assessment tool to predict phosphorous pollution : the Kan Watershed case study.

Control of wheel motors for the provision of traction and steering of railway vehicles (2014)
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Mei, T., Qu, K., & Li, H. (2014). Control of wheel motors for the provision of traction and steering of railway vehicles. IET Power Electronics, 7(9), 2279-2287. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-pel.2013.0882

This study presents the development of a control system for permanent magnet motors embedded in railway wheels for integrated traction and steering of rail vehicles. The overall control scheme and the control strategies for the provision of traction... Read More about Control of wheel motors for the provision of traction and steering of railway vehicles.

Longstanding complex regional pain syndrome is associated with activating autoantibodies against alpha-1a adrenoceptors (2014)
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Dubuis, E., Thompson, V., Leite, M., Blaes, F., Maihöfner, C., Greensmith, D., …Goebel, A. (2014). Longstanding complex regional pain syndrome is associated with activating autoantibodies against alpha-1a adrenoceptors. PAIN, 155(11), 2408-2417. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pain.2014.09.022

Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is a limb-confined posttraumatic pain syndrome with sympathetic features. The cause is unknown, but the results of a randomized crossover trial on low-dose intravenous immunoglobulins (IVIG) treatment point to a... Read More about Longstanding complex regional pain syndrome is associated with activating autoantibodies against alpha-1a adrenoceptors.