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Antenna-assisted picosecond control of nanoscale phase transition in vanadium dioxide (2016)
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Muskens, O., Bergamini, L., Wang, Y., Gaskell, J., Zabala, N., de Groot, C., …Aizpurua, J. (2016). Antenna-assisted picosecond control of nanoscale phase transition in vanadium dioxide. Light: Science & Applications (Print), 5(10), e16173. https://doi.org/10.1038/lsa.2016.173

Nanoscale devices in which the interaction with light can be configured using external control signals hold great interest for next-generation optoelectronic circuits. Materials exhibiting a structural or electronic phase transition offer a large mod... Read More about Antenna-assisted picosecond control of nanoscale phase transition in vanadium dioxide.

The acoustic communities : definition, description and ecological role (2016)
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role. BioSystems, 147, 11-20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2016.05.011

An acoustic community is defined as an aggregation of species that produces sound by using internal or extra-body sound-producing tools. Such communities occur in aquatic (freshwater and marine) and terrestrial environments. An acoustic community... Read More about The acoustic communities : definition, description and ecological role.

Stair dimension affects knee kinematics and kinetics in patients with good outcome after TKA similarly as in healthy subjects (2016)
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Trinler, U., Baty, F., Mündermann, A., Fenner, V., Behrend, H., Jost, B., & Wegener, R. (2016). Stair dimension affects knee kinematics and kinetics in patients with good outcome after TKA similarly as in healthy subjects. Journal of Orthopaedic Research, 34(10), 1753-1761. https://doi.org/10.1002/jor.23181

Joint biomechanics during stair walking may contain important information on functional deficits in patients with orthopaedic conditions but depend on the stair dimension. The goal of this study was to compare knee kinematics and kinetics between pat... Read More about Stair dimension affects knee kinematics and kinetics in patients with good outcome after TKA similarly as in healthy subjects.

Effects of strength training on squat and sprint performance in soccer players (2016)
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Styles, W., Matthews, M., & Comfort, P. (2016). Effects of strength training on squat and sprint performance in soccer players. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 30(6), 1534-1539. https://doi.org/10.1519/JSC.0000000000001243

Researchers have demonstrated that increases in strength result in increases in athletic performance, although the development of strength is still neglected in some sports. Our aim was to determine whether a simple in-season strength training progra... Read More about Effects of strength training on squat and sprint performance in soccer players.

A methodology for biomedical ontology reuse (2016)
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Zulkarnain, N., & Meziane, F. (2016). A methodology for biomedical ontology reuse. Lecture notes in computer science, 9612, 3-14. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41754-7_1

The abundance of biomedical ontologies is beneficial to the development of biomedical related systems. However, existing biomedical ontologies such as the National Cancer Institute Thesaurus (NCIT), Foundational Model of Anatomy (FMA) and Systemat... Read More about A methodology for biomedical ontology reuse.

Validating the learning outcomes of an e-learning system using NLP (2016)
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Aeiad, E., & Meziane, F. (2016). Validating the learning outcomes of an e-learning system using NLP. Lecture notes in computer science, 9612, 292-300. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41754-7_27

Despite the development and the wide use of E-Learning, developing an adaptive personalised E-Learning system tailored to the needs of individual learners remains a challenge. In an early work, the authors proposed APELS that extracts freely avail... Read More about Validating the learning outcomes of an e-learning system using NLP.

Making connections and promoting the profession : social media use by World Federation of Occupational Therapists member organisations (2016)
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Hamilton, A., Burwash, S., Penman, M., Jacobs, K., Hook, A., Bodell, S., …Pattison, M. (2016). Making connections and promoting the profession : social media use by World Federation of Occupational Therapists member organisations. Digital Health, 2, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1177/2055207616653844

Background World Federation of Occupational Therapists (WFOT) member organisations comprise 77 national occupational therapy organisations across the world. Each national organisation interacts with its members and the public using diverse methods. I... Read More about Making connections and promoting the profession : social media use by World Federation of Occupational Therapists member organisations.

Numerical solution of thermo-solutal mixed convective slip flow from a radiative plate with convective boundary condition (2016)
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Uddin, M., Beg, A., Uddin, M., & Ismail, A. (2016). Numerical solution of thermo-solutal mixed convective slip flow from a radiative plate with convective boundary condition. Journal of Hydrodynamics, 28(3), 451-461. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1001-6058%2816%2960649-2

A mathematical model for mixed convective slip flow with heat and mass transfer in the presence of thermal radiation is presented. A convective boundary condition is included and slip is simulated via the hydrodynamic slip parameter. Heat generation... Read More about Numerical solution of thermo-solutal mixed convective slip flow from a radiative plate with convective boundary condition.

Early ontogeny and swimming behavior of larvae of the neotropical fish Prochilodus costatus Valenciennes 1850 and Prochilodus argenteus Spix & Agassiz 1829 (Characiformes: Prochilodontidae) (2016)
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Santos, J., Sales, N. G., Santos, M., Arantes, F., & Godinho, H. (2016). Early ontogeny and swimming behavior of larvae of the neotropical fish Prochilodus costatus Valenciennes 1850 and Prochilodus argenteus Spix & Agassiz 1829 (Characiformes: Prochilodontidae). Revista de Biología Tropical, 64(2), 537-546. https://doi.org/10.15517/rbt.v64i2.19052

Early development of fish larvae is a highly dynamic process and its study may provide important information about ontogenetic development, bioenergetic growth, behaviour, taxonomic characteristics for identification in natural environments, identifi... Read More about Early ontogeny and swimming behavior of larvae of the neotropical fish Prochilodus costatus Valenciennes 1850 and Prochilodus argenteus Spix & Agassiz 1829 (Characiformes: Prochilodontidae).

Effect of monoglycerides and fatty acids on a ceramide bilayer (2016)
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ceramide bilayer. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 18, 17446 -17460. https://doi.org/10.1039/c6cp01238h

Monoglycerides and unsaturated fatty acids, naturally present in trace amounts in the stratum corneum (top layer of skin) lipid matrix, are commonly used in pharmaceutical, cosmetic and health care formulations. However, a detailed molecular understa... Read More about Effect of monoglycerides and fatty acids on a ceramide bilayer.

The eye of Persepolis’ tiger : how melancholy and nostalgia resonate through Satrapi’s animated film (2016)
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Kosmidou, S., & Corbin, K. (2016). The eye of Persepolis’ tiger : how melancholy and nostalgia resonate through Satrapi’s animated film. Scene, 4(1), 51-61. https://doi.org/10.1386/scene.4.1.51_1

Will Eisner coined the term sequential art to refer to comic strips/books and graphic novels, while arguing that this distinct discipline not only has much in common with film-making but it is in fact a forerunner to film-making. Sequential art is a... Read More about The eye of Persepolis’ tiger : how melancholy and nostalgia resonate through Satrapi’s animated film.

Troubling ideas for widening participation : how higher education institutions in England engage with research in their access agreements (2016)
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Wardrop, A., Hutchings, M., Collins, B., Eccles, S., Heaslip, V., Hunt, C., & Pritchard, C. (2016). Troubling ideas for widening participation : how higher education institutions in England engage with research in their access agreements. Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning, 18(2), 84-110. https://doi.org/10.5456/wpll.18.2.84

This article explores how higher education institutions in England engage with research in their access agreements. Through an analysis of access agreements from 2014-15 to 2016-17, a picture of how research is understood, undertaken and documented e... Read More about Troubling ideas for widening participation : how higher education institutions in England engage with research in their access agreements.

Troubling ideas for widening participation: how higher education institutions in England engage with research in their access agreements (2016)
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Wardrop, A., Hutchings, M., Collins, B., Eccles, S., Heaslip, V., Hunt, C., & Pritchard, C. (2016). Troubling ideas for widening participation: how higher education institutions in England engage with research in their access agreements. Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning, 18(2), 84-110. https://doi.org/10.5456/WPLL.18.2.84

This article explores how higher education institutions in England engage with research in their access agreements. Through an analysis of access agreements from 2014-15 to 2016-17, a picture of how research is understood, undertaken and documented e... Read More about Troubling ideas for widening participation: how higher education institutions in England engage with research in their access agreements.

Acute Physiological Responses to Strongman Training Compared to Traditional Strength Training (2016)
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Harris, N. K., Woulfe, C. J., Wood, M. R., Dulson, D. K., Gluchowski, A. K., & Keogh, J. B. (2016). Acute Physiological Responses to Strongman Training Compared to Traditional Strength Training. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 30(5), 1397-1408. https://doi.org/10.1519/jsc.0000000000001217

Strongman training (ST) has become an increasingly popular modality, but data on physiological responses are limited. This study sought to determine physiological responses to an ST session compared to a traditional strength exercise training (RST) s... Read More about Acute Physiological Responses to Strongman Training Compared to Traditional Strength Training.

Comparative study of the production of rhamnolipid biosurfactants by B. thailandensis E264 and P. aeruginosa ATCC 9027 using foam fractionation (2016)
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de Rienzo, M., Kalalanathan, I., & Martin, P. (2016). Comparative study of the production of rhamnolipid biosurfactants by B. thailandensis E264 and P. aeruginosa ATCC 9027 using foam fractionation. Process Biochemistry, 51(7), 820-827. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procbio.2016.04.007

Biosurfactants are surface-active agents that are produced by a variety of microorganisms including yeasts, filamentous fungi and bacteria. In this work, we report on the ability of Pseudomonas aeruginosa ATCC 9027 and Burkholderia thailandensis E264... Read More about Comparative study of the production of rhamnolipid biosurfactants by B. thailandensis E264 and P. aeruginosa ATCC 9027 using foam fractionation.

The influence of the media on practice in mental health : a bricolage of a single case study (2016)
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health : a bricolage of a single case study. Reflective Practice, 17(5), 557-569. https://doi.org/10.1080/14623943.2016.1184633

This paper has its genesis in the convergence of two individuals’interests – one with a long-standing interest in representations of mental health and one with an interest in the use of bricolage as a research approach. These interests converged arou... Read More about The influence of the media on practice in mental health : a bricolage of a single case study.

The cable that wired the world (2016)
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Linge, N., & Burns, B. (2016). The cable that wired the world. ˜The œjournal (Institute of Telecommunications Professionals), 10(2), 41-45

Evaluating a distortion-weighted glimpsing metric for predicting binaural speech intelligibility in rooms (2016)
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Tang, Y., Hughes, R., Fazenda, B., & Cox, T. (2016). Evaluating a distortion-weighted glimpsing metric for predicting binaural speech intelligibility in rooms. Speech Communication, 82, 26-37. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.specom.2016.04.003

A distortion-weighted glimpse proportion metric (BiDWGP) for predicting binaural speech intelligibility were evaluated in simulated anechoic and reverberant conditions, with and without a noise masker. The predictive performance of BiDWGP was compare... Read More about Evaluating a distortion-weighted glimpsing metric for predicting binaural speech intelligibility in rooms.