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Dynamic capabilities for SME participation in public procurement (2020)
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Akenroye, T., Owens, J., Elbaz, J., & Durowoju, O. (2020). Dynamic capabilities for SME participation in public procurement. Business Process Management Journal, 26(4), 857-888. https://doi.org/10.1108/bpmj-10-2019-0447

Purpose – Although small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play major roles in most economies in terms of job creation, innovation and contribution to national income, they are often underrepresented in public procurement markets. This paper aim... Read More about Dynamic capabilities for SME participation in public procurement.

Non-adjacent dependency learning in infancy, and its link to language development (2020)
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Frost, R., Jessop, A., Durrant, S., Peter, M., Bidgood, A., Pine, J., …Monaghan, P. (2020). Non-adjacent dependency learning in infancy, and its link to language development. Cognitive Psychology, 120, 101291. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogpsych.2020.101291

To acquire language, infants must learn how to identify words and linguistic structure in speech. Statistical learning has been suggested to assist both of these tasks. However, infants’ capacity to use statistics to discover words and structure toge... Read More about Non-adjacent dependency learning in infancy, and its link to language development.

Genetic landscape of autism spectrum disorder in Vietnamese children (2020)
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Tran, K., Le, V., Bui, H., Do, D., Ly, H., Nguyen, H., …Nguyen, L. (2020). Genetic landscape of autism spectrum disorder in Vietnamese children. Scientific reports, 10(1), 5034. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-61695-8

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a complex disorder with an unclear aetiology and an estimated global prevalence of 1%. However, studies of ASD in the Vietnamese population are limited. Here, we first conducted whole exome sequencing (WES) of 100 ch... Read More about Genetic landscape of autism spectrum disorder in Vietnamese children.

Stable species boundaries despite ten million years of hybridisation in tropical eels (2020)
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Barth, J., Gubili, C., Matschiner, M., Torresen, O., Watanabe, S., Egger, B., …Schabetsberger, R. (2020). Stable species boundaries despite ten million years of hybridisation in tropical eels. Nature communications, 11, 1433. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15099-x

Genomic evidence is increasingly underpinning that hybridization between taxa is commonplace, challenging our views on the mechanisms that maintain their boundaries. Here, we focus on seven catadromous eel species (genus Anguilla) and use genome-wide... Read More about Stable species boundaries despite ten million years of hybridisation in tropical eels.

A service-oriented approach for sensing in the Internet of Things : intelligent transportation systems and privacy use cases (2020)
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Hammoudeh, M., Epiphaniou, G., Belguith, S., Unal, D., Adebisi, B., Baker, T., …Watters, P. (2021). A service-oriented approach for sensing in the Internet of Things : intelligent transportation systems and privacy use cases. IEEE Sensors Journal, 21(14), 15753-15761. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2020.2981558

This paper presents a Sensing-as-a-Service run-time Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), called 3SOA, for the development of Internet of Things (IoT) applications. 3SOA aims to allow interoperability among various IoT platforms and support service-or... Read More about A service-oriented approach for sensing in the Internet of Things : intelligent transportation systems and privacy use cases.

Neighbourhoods as relational places for people living with dementia (2020)
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Clark, A., Campbell, S., Keady, J., Kullberg, A., Manji, A., Rummery, K., & Ward, R. (2020). Neighbourhoods as relational places for people living with dementia. Social Science and Medicine, 252, 112927. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.112927

An increase in the number of people living independently with dementia across the developed world has focused attention on the relevance of neighbourhood context for enabling or facilitating social health and wellbeing. Taking the lived experiences... Read More about Neighbourhoods as relational places for people living with dementia.

Relationship between physical fitness and the physical demands of 50-over cricket in fast bowlers (2020)
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Webster, T., Comfort, P., & Jones, P. (2020). Relationship between physical fitness and the physical demands of 50-over cricket in fast bowlers. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, https://doi.org/10.1519/JSC.0000000000003542

Professional cricket is constantly evolving and resulting in increased physiological demand placed on players. Fast bowlers experience the greatest physical demand during match-play; despite this, research has overlooked the importance of specific ph... Read More about Relationship between physical fitness and the physical demands of 50-over cricket in fast bowlers.

Coronavirus : how does procurement pivot from cars to ventilators? (2020)
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Green, W., Wilding, R., & Owens, J. (2020). Coronavirus : how does procurement pivot from cars to ventilators?

The UK government’s call for industry to help increase production of ventilators in response to the coronavirus outbreak will put procurement professionals centre stage.

Seeking invention: creating an informed citizenry in the governance of security at sporting mega-events (2020)
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Aitken, A. (2020). Seeking invention: creating an informed citizenry in the governance of security at sporting mega-events. Policing and Society, 31(3), 354-368. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2020.1741586

There exists a small cottage industry of case studies of mega-sporting event security at respective Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games or FIFA World Cups. This literature provides detailed accounts of the different security governance networks and met... Read More about Seeking invention: creating an informed citizenry in the governance of security at sporting mega-events.

Transitory Prints (2020)
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Cherniwchan, C. (2020). Transitory Prints. #Journal not on list, 29(113),

Print Dialogues (2020)
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Cherniwchan, C. (2020). Print Dialogues. #Journal not on list, 29(113),

Topographic, hydraulic, and vegetative controls on bar and island development in mixed bedrock‐alluvial, multi‐channeled, dryland rivers (2020)
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Milan, D., Tooth, S., & Heritage, G. (2020). Topographic, hydraulic, and vegetative controls on bar and island development in mixed bedrock‐alluvial, multi‐channeled, dryland rivers. Water Resources Research, 56(5), e2019WR026101. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019wr026101

We investigate processes of bedrock‐core bar and island development in a bedrock‐influenced anastomosed reach of the Sabie River, Kruger National Park (KNP), eastern South Africa. For sites subject to alluvial stripping during an extreme flood event... Read More about Topographic, hydraulic, and vegetative controls on bar and island development in mixed bedrock‐alluvial, multi‐channeled, dryland rivers.

MHD free convection-radiation interaction in a porous medium - part I : numerical investigation (2020)
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Vasu, B., Gorla, R., Murthy, P., Prasad, V., Beg, O., & Siddiqa, S. (2020). MHD free convection-radiation interaction in a porous medium - part I : numerical investigation. International Journal of Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 25(1), 198-218. https://doi.org/10.2478/ijame-2020-0013

A numerical investigation of two dimensional steady magnetohydrodynamics heat and mass transfer by laminar free convection from a radiative horizontal circular cylinder in a non-Darcy porous medium is presented by taking into account the Soret/Dufo... Read More about MHD free convection-radiation interaction in a porous medium - part I : numerical investigation.

A multilabel fuzzy relevance clustering system for malware attack attribution in the edge layer of cyber-physical networks (2020)
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Alaeiyan, M., Dehghantanha, A., Dargahi, T., Conti, M., & Parsa, S. (2020). A multilabel fuzzy relevance clustering system for malware attack attribution in the edge layer of cyber-physical networks. ACM transactions on cyber-physical systems, 4(3), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1145/3351881

The rapid increase in the number of malicious programs has made malware forensics a daunting task and caused users’ systems to become in danger. Timely identification of malware characteristics including its origin and the malware sample family would... Read More about A multilabel fuzzy relevance clustering system for malware attack attribution in the edge layer of cyber-physical networks.

Changes in early and maximal isometric force production in response to moderate- and high-load strength and power training (2020)
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Comfort, P., Jones, P., Thomas, C., Dos'Santos, T., McMahon, J., & Suchomel, T. (2020). Changes in early and maximal isometric force production in response to moderate- and high-load strength and power training. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, https://doi.org/10.1519/JSC.0000000000003544

The aims of this study were to determine the changes in early (50-, 100-, 150-, 200-, 250 ms) and maximal isometric force production, in response to a 4-week period of moderate-load resistance training (60-82.5% 1 repetition maximum [1RM]), followed... Read More about Changes in early and maximal isometric force production in response to moderate- and high-load strength and power training.

Urban heritage conservation and rapid urbanization : insights from Surat, India (2020)
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Udeaja, C., Trillo, C., Gyau, K., Makore, B., Patel, D., Mansouri, L., & Jha, K. (2020). Urban heritage conservation and rapid urbanization : insights from Surat, India. Sustainability, 12(6), 2172. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12062172

Currently, heritage is challenged in the Indian city of Surat due to diverse pressures,  including rapid urbanization, increasing housing demand, and socio‐cultural and climate changes.  Where rapid demographic growth of urban areas is happening, her... Read More about Urban heritage conservation and rapid urbanization : insights from Surat, India.

Computation of transient radiative reactive thermo-solutal magnetohydrodynamic convection in inclined mhd hall generator flow with dissipation and cross diffusion (2020)
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Beg, O., Sheri, S., Modugula, P., & Kadir, A. (2020). Computation of transient radiative reactive thermo-solutal magnetohydrodynamic convection in inclined mhd hall generator flow with dissipation and cross diffusion. Computational Thermal Sciences, 11(6), 541-563. https://doi.org/10.1615/ComputThermalScien.2019026405

The present article investigates the collective influence of chemical reaction, viscous dissipation and Hall current magnetic effects on timedependent radiative magnetohydrodynamic flow, heat and mass transfer from an inclined wall embedded in a homo... Read More about Computation of transient radiative reactive thermo-solutal magnetohydrodynamic convection in inclined mhd hall generator flow with dissipation and cross diffusion.

Study of general practitioner consultations for tick bites at high, medium and low incidence areas for Lyme borreliosis in England and Wales (2020)
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Gillingham, E., Hall, J., Birtles, R., Bown, K., Medlock, J., Smith, R., …Pietzsch, M. (2020). Study of general practitioner consultations for tick bites at high, medium and low incidence areas for Lyme borreliosis in England and Wales. Zoonoses and Public Health, 67(5), 591-599. https://doi.org/10.1111/zph.12694

Lyme borreliosis (LB) is a tick‐borne disease caused by Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato complex. In Europe, it is predominately transmitted by the sheep tick, Ixodes ricinus. Compared with other European countries, the United Kingdom (UK) is consider... Read More about Study of general practitioner consultations for tick bites at high, medium and low incidence areas for Lyme borreliosis in England and Wales.

Fishing for mammals : landscape-level monitoring of terrestrial and semi-aquatic communities using eDNA from riverine systems (2020)
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Sales, N., McKenzie, M., Drake, J., Harper, L., Browett, S., Coscia, I., …McDevitt, A. (2020). Fishing for mammals : landscape-level monitoring of terrestrial and semi-aquatic communities using eDNA from riverine systems. Journal of Applied Ecology, 57(4), 707-716. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13592

1. Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding has revolutionised biomonitoring in both marine and freshwater ecosystems. However, for semi-aquatic and terrestrial animals, the application of this technique remains relatively untested. 2. We first ass... Read More about Fishing for mammals : landscape-level monitoring of terrestrial and semi-aquatic communities using eDNA from riverine systems.

Neonatal chest radiography : influence of standard clinical protocols and radiographic equipment on pathology visibility and radiation dose using a neonatal chest phantom (2020)
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Al-Murshedi, S., Hogg, P., & England, A. (2020). Neonatal chest radiography : influence of standard clinical protocols and radiographic equipment on pathology visibility and radiation dose using a neonatal chest phantom. Radiography, 26(4), 282-287. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radi.2020.02.005

Introduction: Little is known about the variations in pathology visibility (PV) and their corresponding radiation dose values for neonatal chest radiography, between and within hospitals. Large variations in PV could influence the diagnostic outcome... Read More about Neonatal chest radiography : influence of standard clinical protocols and radiographic equipment on pathology visibility and radiation dose using a neonatal chest phantom.