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The effects of rational and irrational coach team talks on the cognitive appraisal and achievement goal orientation of varsity football athletes (2018)
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Evans, A., Turner, M., Pickering, R., & Powditch, R. (2018). The effects of rational and irrational coach team talks on the cognitive appraisal and achievement goal orientation of varsity football athletes. International journal of Sports Science & Coaching, 13(3), 431-438. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747954118771183

The effects of rational and irrational coach team talks on cognitive appraisal and achievement goal orientation were examined. During the half-time interval of a 60-minute football match, 25 male varsity football athletes (Mage = 20.20; SD ± 1.38 yea... Read More about The effects of rational and irrational coach team talks on the cognitive appraisal and achievement goal orientation of varsity football athletes.

Experiences from the frontline : an exploration of personal advisers’ practice with claimants who have health-related needs within UK welfare-to-work provision (2018)
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Ceolta-Smith, J., Salway, S., & Tod, A. (2018). Experiences from the frontline : an exploration of personal advisers’ practice with claimants who have health-related needs within UK welfare-to-work provision. Health and Social Care in the Community, 26(4), 598-608. https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.12579

Recent UK welfare reforms have been less successful than expected by the Government in supporting unemployed people with long-term illness into work. Frontline workers remain a core element of the new welfare-to-work machinery, but operate within a c... Read More about Experiences from the frontline : an exploration of personal advisers’ practice with claimants who have health-related needs within UK welfare-to-work provision.

Morphodynamic simulation of sediment deposition patterns on a recently stripped bedrock anastomosed channel (2018)
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channel. Proceedings of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences, 377, 51-56. https://doi.org/10.5194/piahs-377-51-2018

Some mixed bedrock-alluvial dryland rivers are known to undergo cycles of alluvial building during low flow periods, punctuated by stripping events during rare high magnitude flows. We focus on the Olifants River, Kruger National Park, South Africa,... Read More about Morphodynamic simulation of sediment deposition patterns on a recently stripped bedrock anastomosed channel.

Linguistic validation, validity and reliability of the British English versions of the Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand (DASH) questionnaire and QuickDASH in people with rheumatoid arthritis (2018)
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Hammond, A., Prior, Y., & Tyson, S. (2018). Linguistic validation, validity and reliability of the British English versions of the Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand (DASH) questionnaire and QuickDASH in people with rheumatoid arthritis. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 19, 118. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12891-018-2032-8

Background: Although the Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand (DASH) questionnaire is widely used in the UK, no British English version is available. The aim of this study was to linguistically validate the DASH into British English and then te... Read More about Linguistic validation, validity and reliability of the British English versions of the Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand (DASH) questionnaire and QuickDASH in people with rheumatoid arthritis.

Malcontented agents : from the novellas to Much Ado about Nothing and The Duchess of Malfi (2018)
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Nigri, L. (2018). Malcontented agents : from the novellas to Much Ado about Nothing and The Duchess of Malfi. ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, 31(3), 176-181

Shakespeare’s Much Ado about Nothing (c.1598) and Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi (c. 1613) are two plays in which Matteo Bandello’s portrayal of evil agents in his novellas exert a constant, even if not immediately obvious, influence. Remote from ea... Read More about Malcontented agents : from the novellas to Much Ado about Nothing and The Duchess of Malfi.

“He is just the nowhere man of British politics” : personal attacks in Prime Minister’s Questions (2018)
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Waddle, M., Bull, P., & Böhnke, J. (2018). “He is just the nowhere man of British politics” : personal attacks in Prime Minister’s Questions. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 38(1), 61-84. https://doi.org/10.1177/0261927x18767472

Views from the media, the public, and from inside Parliament have expressed discontent with, reportedly, recent high levels of personally antagonistic behavior in Prime Minister’s Questions. The focus of this study is a fine-grained analysis of langu... Read More about “He is just the nowhere man of British politics” : personal attacks in Prime Minister’s Questions.

Book review: Getting welfare to work: Street-level governance in Australia, the UK, and the Netherlands By Mark Considine, Jenny M. Lewis, Siobhan O'Sullivan, Els Sol, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. ISBN 978-0-19-874370-5; £64 (hbk). (2018)
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Ceolta-Smith, J. (2018). Book review: Getting welfare to work: Street-level governance in Australia, the UK, and the Netherlands By Mark Considine, Jenny M. Lewis, Siobhan O'Sullivan, Els Sol, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. ISBN 978-0-19-874370-5; £64 (hbk). Social Policy and Administration, 52(3), 826-827. https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12392

Book review - no abstract available.

Introduction : towards a better understanding of corruption and anti-corruption (2018)
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Bull, M., & Heywood, P. (2019). Introduction : towards a better understanding of corruption and anti-corruption. European Political Science, 18, 185-188. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41304-018-0152-0

Despite widespread interest in corruption and how to root it out, the problem continues to grow. Anti-corruption strategies and methods have proved ineffective in achieving lasting reductions in corruption. Anti-corruption academic research has not b... Read More about Introduction : towards a better understanding of corruption and anti-corruption.

Free convection heat and mass transfer of a nanofluid past a horizontal cylinder embedded in a non-Darcy porous medium (2018)
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Rao, A., Prasad, V., Beg, O., & Rashidi, M. (2018). Free convection heat and mass transfer of a nanofluid past a horizontal cylinder embedded in a non-Darcy porous medium. Journal of Porous Media, 21(3), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1615/JPorMedia.v21.i3.60

In the present paper, we analyzed the laminar boundary layer flow and heat transfer from a horizontal cylinder in a nanofluid-saturated non-Darcy porous medium in the presence of thermal radiation. This is the first paper presenting non-similar solution... Read More about Free convection heat and mass transfer of a nanofluid past a horizontal cylinder embedded in a non-Darcy porous medium.

Numerical and experimental transition results evaluation for a morphing wing and aileron system (2018)
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Botez, R., Koreanschi, A., Sugar-Gabor, O., Mebarki, Y., Mamou, M., Tondji, Y., …Concilio, A. (2018). Numerical and experimental transition results evaluation for a morphing wing and aileron system. Aeronautical Journal, 122(1251), 747-784. https://doi.org/10.1017/aer.2018.15

A new wing-tip concept with morphing upper surface and interchangeable conventional and morphing ailerons was designed, manufactured, bench and wind tunnel tested. The development of this wing tip model was performed in the frame of an international... Read More about Numerical and experimental transition results evaluation for a morphing wing and aileron system.

How to identify and support your anxious patient (2018)
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Stonehouse, D. (2018). How to identify and support your anxious patient. British Journal of Healthcare Assistants, 12(4), 186-188. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjha.2018.12.4.186

This article examines the importance of identifying the anxious patient and how to support them. Recognition of physical signs will be explained. The important areas of giving enough time, developing a therapeutic relationship, always acting in the p... Read More about How to identify and support your anxious patient.

Deep learning meets ontologies : experiments to anchor the cardiovascular disease ontology in the biomedical literature (2018)
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Arguello Casteleiro, M., Demetriou, G., Read, W., Fernandez-Prieto, M., Maroto, N., Maseda Fernandez, D., …Stevens, R. (2018). Deep learning meets ontologies : experiments to anchor the cardiovascular disease ontology in the biomedical literature. Journal of Biomedical Semantics, 9(13), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13326-018-0181-1

Background Automatic identification of term variants or acceptable alternative free-text terms for gene and protein names from the millions of biomedical publications is a challenging task. Ontologies, such as the Cardiovascular Disease Ontology (C... Read More about Deep learning meets ontologies : experiments to anchor the cardiovascular disease ontology in the biomedical literature.

Market imperfections and crowdfunding (2018)
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Miglo, A., & Miglo, V. (2019). Market imperfections and crowdfunding. Small Business Economics, 53(1), 51-79. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-018-0037-1

This article is the first one that considers the choice between the different types of crowdfunding and traditional financing under different types of market imperfections. In contrast to most existing literature, we focus on financial aspects of cro... Read More about Market imperfections and crowdfunding.

Unsteady reactive magnetic radiative micropolar flow, heat and mass transfer from an inclined plate with joule heating: a model for magnetic polymer processing (2018)
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Shamshuddin, M., Mishra, S., Beg, O., & Kadir, A. (2018). Unsteady reactive magnetic radiative micropolar flow, heat and mass transfer from an inclined plate with joule heating: a model for magnetic polymer processing. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, 233(4), 1246-1261. https://doi.org/10.1177/0954406218768837

Magnetic polymer materials processing involves many multi-physical and chemical effects. Motivated by such applications, in the present work a theoretical analysis is conducted of combined heat and mass transfer in unsteady mixed convection flow of m... Read More about Unsteady reactive magnetic radiative micropolar flow, heat and mass transfer from an inclined plate with joule heating: a model for magnetic polymer processing.

Knowledge exchange partnership leads to digital transformation at Hydro-X Water Treatment, Ltd (2018)
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Heinze, A., Griffiths, M., Fenton, A., & Fletcher, G. (2018). Knowledge exchange partnership leads to digital transformation at Hydro-X Water Treatment, Ltd. Global Business and Organizational Excellence, 37(4), 6-13. https://doi.org/10.1002/joe.21859

To attract a generation of workers and consumers who have never known a world without Wi-Fi, smartphones, or social media, organizations increasingly have no choice but to incorporate digital technology into every aspect of their operations and proce... Read More about Knowledge exchange partnership leads to digital transformation at Hydro-X Water Treatment, Ltd.

Three-layered electro-osmosis modulated blood flow through a micro-channel (2018)
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Tripathi, D., Jhorar, R., Borode, A., & Beg, O. (2018). Three-layered electro-osmosis modulated blood flow through a micro-channel. European Journal of Mechanics - B/Fluids, 72, 391-402. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euromechflu.2018.03.016

Electrokinetic peristaltic multi-layered transport is considered in a micro-channel under the action of an axial electrical field. Three different layers i.e. the core layer, intermediate layer and peripheral layer are simulated with three different... Read More about Three-layered electro-osmosis modulated blood flow through a micro-channel.

Modelling inspection and replacement quality for a protection system (2018)
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Alberti, A., Cavalcante, C., Scarf, P., & Silva, A. (2018). Modelling inspection and replacement quality for a protection system. Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 176, 145-153. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ress.2018.04.002

An inspection and replacement policy for a protection system is described by a mathematical model that incorporates multiple aspects of maintenance quality. A three-state component failure model is assumed, with a defective state preceding failure. T... Read More about Modelling inspection and replacement quality for a protection system.

Mathematical modelling of pressure-driven micropolar biological flow due to metachronal wave propulsion of beating cilia (2018)
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Akbar, N., Tripathi, D., Khan, Z., & Beg, O. (2018). Mathematical modelling of pressure-driven micropolar biological flow due to metachronal wave propulsion of beating cilia. Mathematical Biosciences, 301, 121-128. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mbs.2018.04.001

In this paper, we present an analytical study of pressure-driven flow of micropolar non-Newtonian physiological fluids through a channel comprising two parallel oscillating walls. The cilia are arranged at equal intervals and protrude normally from b... Read More about Mathematical modelling of pressure-driven micropolar biological flow due to metachronal wave propulsion of beating cilia.

Impacts of natural history and exhibit factors on carnivore welfare (2018)
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Miller, L., Ivy, J., Vicino, G., & Schork, I. (2019). Impacts of natural history and exhibit factors on carnivore welfare. Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science, 22(2), 188-196. https://doi.org/10.1080/10888705.2018.1455582

To improve the welfare of nonhuman animals under professional care, zoological institutions are continuously utilizing new methods to identify factors that lead to optimal welfare. Comparative methods have historically been used in the field of evolu... Read More about Impacts of natural history and exhibit factors on carnivore welfare.