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Mathematical modelling of pressure-driven micropolar biological flow due to metachronal wave propulsion of beating cilia (2018)
Journal Article
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.

Experimental study of improved rheology and lubricity of drilling fluids enhanced with nano-particles (2018)
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Beg, O., Sanchez Espinoza, D., Kadir, A., Shamshuddin, M., & Sohail, A. (2018). Experimental study of improved rheology and lubricity of drilling fluids enhanced with nano-particles. Applied Nanoscience, 8(5), 1069-1090. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13204-018-0746-4

An experimental study of the rheology and lubricity properties of a drilling fluid is reported, motivated by applications in highly deviated and extended reach wells. Recent developments in nanofluids have identified that the judicious injection of n... Read More about Experimental study of improved rheology and lubricity of drilling fluids enhanced with nano-particles.

Design, fabrication and testing of a 2 DOF compliant flexural microgripper (2018)
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Dsouza, R., Navin, K., Theodoridis, T., & Sharma, P. (2018). Design, fabrication and testing of a 2 DOF compliant flexural microgripper. Microsystem Technologies, 24(9), 3867-3883. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00542-018-3861-y

This paper presents the development of a monolithic two degrees of freedom (2 DOF), piezoelectric actuated microgripper for the manipulation of micro-objects. Micromanipulation and microassembly are the major subjects of interest in recent times and... Read More about Design, fabrication and testing of a 2 DOF compliant flexural microgripper.

Strategies for connecting low income communities to the creative economy through play : two case studies in Northern England (2018)
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Symons, J., & Hurley, U. (2018). Strategies for connecting low income communities to the creative economy through play : two case studies in Northern England. Creative Industries Journal, 11(2), 121-136. https://doi.org/10.1080/17510694.2018.1453770

This ground-breaking research defines a new approach for engaging low income and
disenfranchised communities in the creative economy. The authors propose that
demystifying creativity and reframing it as an adaptive productive process can lead to a... Read More about Strategies for connecting low income communities to the creative economy through play : two case studies in Northern England.

Conducta antisocial adolescente bajo un enfoque integrador de tres teorías criminológicas (2018)
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Morillo, S., & Birkbeck, C. (2018). Conducta antisocial adolescente bajo un enfoque integrador de tres teorías criminológicas. Revista de ciencias sociales (Maracaibo), 23(3), 76-88

In order to test the theories of Differential Association, Social Control and General Crime, the
relationship between antisocial behavior and key constructs of the theories was analyzed, namely, “favourable definitions” (differential association), “... Read More about Conducta antisocial adolescente bajo un enfoque integrador de tres teorías criminológicas.

Bergamot natural products eradicate cancer stem cells (CSCs) by targeting mevalonate, Rho-GDI-signalling and mitochondrial metabolism (2018)
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Fiorillo, M., Peiris-Pagès, M., Sanchez-Alvarez, R., Bartella, L., Di Donna, L., Dolce, V., …Lisanti, M. (2018). Bergamot natural products eradicate cancer stem cells (CSCs) by targeting mevalonate, Rho-GDI-signalling and mitochondrial metabolism. BBA - Bioenergetics, 1859(9), 984-996. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbabio.2018.03.018

Here, we show that a 2:1 mixture of Brutieridin and Melitidin, termed “BMF”, has a statin-like properties, which
blocks the action of the rate-limiting enzyme for mevalonate biosynthesis, namely HMGR (3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-
CoA-reductase). Mor... Read More about Bergamot natural products eradicate cancer stem cells (CSCs) by targeting mevalonate, Rho-GDI-signalling and mitochondrial metabolism.

Rotating unsteady multi-physico-chemical magneto-micropolar transport in porous media : Galerkin finite element study (2018)
Journal Article
Beg, O., Shamshuddin, M., Reddy, S., & Kadir, A. (2018). Rotating unsteady multi-physico-chemical magneto-micropolar transport in porous media : Galerkin finite element study. Computational Thermal Sciences, 10(2), 167-197. https://doi.org/10.1615/ComputThermalScien.2017019576

In this paper, a mathematical model is developed for magnetohydrodynamic (MHD), incompressible, dissipative and chemically reacting micropolar fluid flow, heat and mass transfer through a porous medium from a vertical plate with Hall current, Soret a... Read More about Rotating unsteady multi-physico-chemical magneto-micropolar transport in porous media : Galerkin finite element study.

British digital game studies (2018)
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Crawford, G., MacCallum-Stewart, E., & Ruffino, P. (2018). British digital game studies. ToDiGRA (Online), 3(3), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.26503/todigra.v3i3.76

This paper provides a short and potted recent history of digital games research in Great Britain. We begin this story in 2001. Though a substantial amount of research and writing on digital games was taking in Britain since at least the 1980s, for us... Read More about British digital game studies.

Personalising Twitter communication : an evaluation of ‘rotation-curation’ for enhancing social media engagement within higher education (2018)
Journal Article
Condie, J., Ayodele, I., Chowdhury, S., Powe, S., & Cooper, A. (2018). Personalising Twitter communication : an evaluation of ‘rotation-curation’ for enhancing social media engagement within higher education. Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, 28(2), 192-209. https://doi.org/10.1080/08841241.2018.1453910

Social media content generated by learning communities within universities is serving both pedagogical and marketing purposes. There is currently a dearth of literature related to social media use at the departmental level within Higher Education Ins... Read More about Personalising Twitter communication : an evaluation of ‘rotation-curation’ for enhancing social media engagement within higher education.

Design and construction of a new partial foot prosthesis based on high-pressure points in a patient with diabetes with transmetatarsal amputation : a technical note (2018)
Journal Article
Zarezadeh, F., Arazpour, M., Bahramizadeh, M., Mardani, M., & Head, J. (2018). Design and construction of a new partial foot prosthesis based on high-pressure points in a patient with diabetes with transmetatarsal amputation : a technical note. Journal of Prosthetics and Orthotics, 30(2), 108-113. https://doi.org/10.1097/JPO.0000000000000183

Introduction: Diabetic foot ulcers are significant complications of diabetes that can lead to amputation. Partial foot prostheses can be used to redistribute the plantar pressure on the residual limb to alleviate local pressures. The aim of this stud... Read More about Design and construction of a new partial foot prosthesis based on high-pressure points in a patient with diabetes with transmetatarsal amputation : a technical note.

Waiting for a career epiphany - a barrier to decision-making? (2018)
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Houston, K., & Cunningham, E. (2018). Waiting for a career epiphany - a barrier to decision-making?. Journal of the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling, 40, 25-32

The desire for a career epiphany, a sudden realisation of a future career, can often feature as an unspoken wish in career conversations with students and graduates. This yearning for certainty causes indecisiveness, a fear of making the wrong decisi... Read More about Waiting for a career epiphany - a barrier to decision-making?.

A view from Northeast Europe : the Baltic States and the Russian regime (2018)
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Corum, J. (2018). A view from Northeast Europe : the Baltic States and the Russian regime. South Central Review, 35(1), 127-146. https://doi.org/10.1353/scr.2018.0007

The article discusses the position of the Baltic States in regards to their relations with the Putin Regime and how the Putin regime has taken an increasingly hostile stance towards the three Baltic States.

Query expansion using medical information extraction for improving information retrieval in French medical domain (2018)
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Ghoulam, A., Barigou, F., Belalem, G., & Meziane, F. (2018). Query expansion using medical information extraction for improving information retrieval in French medical domain. International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies, 14(3), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.4018/IJIIT.2018070101

Many users’ queries contain references to named entities, and this is particularly true in the medical field. Doctors express their information needs using medical entities as they are elements rich with information that helps to better target the re... Read More about Query expansion using medical information extraction for improving information retrieval in French medical domain.

Asking the right questions: challenges of survey methods for widening participation research (2018)
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Collins, B., Hunt, C., Wardrop, A., Gauntlett, E., Heaslip, V., Hutchings, M., & Pritchard, C. (2018). Asking the right questions: challenges of survey methods for widening participation research. International studies in widening participation (Online), 5(2), 55-69

The development of an institution-wide survey at one English university raised questions for the researchers in relation to how to ask students about their background. The survey was to focus future widening participation (WP) practice. A detailed it... Read More about Asking the right questions: challenges of survey methods for widening participation research.

Altruism, honesty and religiosity in nursing students (2018)
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Timmins, F., King, C., de Vries, J., Johnson, M., Cullen, J., & Haigh, C. (2018). Altruism, honesty and religiosity in nursing students. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 27(19-20), 3687-3698. https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.14374

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Nursing is informed by values that guide care ethos and activities. Embodiment of these core values, has become a matter of concern. Reports outlining deficiencies in health care followed by polemics in nursing journals have called int... Read More about Altruism, honesty and religiosity in nursing students.

The materiality of debt to Jews in England, 1194-1276 (2018)
Journal Article
Irwin, D. (2018). The materiality of debt to Jews in England, 1194-1276. #Journal not on list, 49, 56-71. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.jhs.2017v49.045

Acknowledgements of debt have long been used in the study of medieval Anglo-Jewish moneylending activities. Such studies have been primarily based upon a socio-economic approach. In contrast, this paper is based upon an analysis of the material, pala... Read More about The materiality of debt to Jews in England, 1194-1276.

Long term durability properties of concrete modified with metakaolin and polymer admixture (2018)
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Al Menhosh, A., Wang, Y., Wang, Y., & Augusthus Nelson, L. (2018). Long term durability properties of concrete modified with metakaolin and polymer admixture. Construction and Building Materials, 172, 41-51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2018.03.215

Previous studies show that both metakaolin (MK) and polymer can respectively improve certain mechanical and durability properties of concrete. Also, recent studies show that a combination of MK and polymer further enhances the mechanical properties b... Read More about Long term durability properties of concrete modified with metakaolin and polymer admixture.

Disproportionate collapse analysis of mid-rise cross-laminated timber buildings (2018)
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Mpidi Bita, H., Currie, N., & Tannert, T. (2018). Disproportionate collapse analysis of mid-rise cross-laminated timber buildings. Structure and Infrastructure Engineering, 14(11), 1547-1560. https://doi.org/10.1080/15732479.2018.1456553

This paper investigates the structural behaviour of a twelve-storey Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) building subjected to sudden removal of internal and external ground floor loadbearing walls, and computes the probability of disproportionate collapse.... Read More about Disproportionate collapse analysis of mid-rise cross-laminated timber buildings.

Latency reduction by dynamic channel estimator selection in C-RAN networks using fuzzy logic (2018)
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Mahmood, A., Al-Yasiri, A., & Alani, O. (2018). Latency reduction by dynamic channel estimator selection in C-RAN networks using fuzzy logic. Computer Networks, 138, 44-56. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2018.03.027

Due to a dramatic increase in the number of
mobile users, operators are forced to expand their networks
accordingly. Cloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN) was
introduced to tackle the problems of the current generation of
mobile networks and to supp... Read More about Latency reduction by dynamic channel estimator selection in C-RAN networks using fuzzy logic.