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Contributions of foot muscles and plantar fascia morphology to foot posture (2018)
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Angin, S., Mickle, K., & Nester, C. (2018). Contributions of foot muscles and plantar fascia morphology to foot posture. Gait & Posture, 61, 238-242. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gaitpost.2018.01.022

Background: The plantar foot muscles and plantar fascia differ between different foot postures.
However, how each individual plantar structure contribute to foot posture has not been explored. The
purpose of this study was to investigate the associ... Read More about Contributions of foot muscles and plantar fascia morphology to foot posture.

An integrative review exploring the physical and psychological harm inherent in using restraint in mental health inpatient settings (2018)
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Cusack, P., Cusack, F., McAndrew, S., McKeown, M., & Duxbury, J. (2018). An integrative review exploring the physical and psychological harm inherent in using restraint in mental health inpatient settings. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 27(3), 1162-1176. https://doi.org/10.1111/inm.12432

In Western society, policy and legislation seeks to minimize restrictive interventions, including physical restraint; yet research suggests the use of such practices continues to raise concerns. Whilst international agreement has sought to define phys... Read More about An integrative review exploring the physical and psychological harm inherent in using restraint in mental health inpatient settings.

Mitochondrial fission as a driver of stemness in tumor cells : mDIVI1 inhibits mitochondrial function, cell migration and cancer stem cell (CSC) signalling (2018)
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Peiris-Pagès, M., Bonuccelli, G., Sotgia, F., & Lisanti, M. (2018). Mitochondrial fission as a driver of stemness in tumor cells : mDIVI1 inhibits mitochondrial function, cell migration and cancer stem cell (CSC) signalling. Oncotarget, 9(17), 13254-13275. https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.24285

Mitochondria are dynamic organelles frequently undergoing fission and fusion events to maintain their integrity, bioenergetics and spatial distribution, which is fundamental to the processes of cell survival. Disruption in mitochondrial dynamics play... Read More about Mitochondrial fission as a driver of stemness in tumor cells : mDIVI1 inhibits mitochondrial function, cell migration and cancer stem cell (CSC) signalling.

How Brexit puts the UK at risk of more collapses like Carillion (2018)
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Abualqumboz, M. (2018). How Brexit puts the UK at risk of more collapses like Carillion

An audio-visual system for object-based audio : from recording to listening (2018)
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Object-based audio is an emerging representation for
audio content, where content is represented in a reproduction format-agnostic way and, thus, produced once for consumption on many different kinds of devices. This affords new opportunities for im... Read More about An audio-visual system for object-based audio : from recording to listening.

Genetic homogeneity in the deep-sea grenadier Macrourus berglax across the North Atlantic Ocean (2018)
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Paucity of data on population structure and connectivity in deep sea species remains a major obstacle to their sustainable management and conservation in the face of ever increasing fisheries pressure and other forms of impacts on deep sea ecosystems... Read More about Genetic homogeneity in the deep-sea grenadier Macrourus berglax across the North Atlantic Ocean.

Community heterogeneity of aquatic macroinvertebrates in urban ponds at a multi-city scale (2018)
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Purpose: Urbanisation is a leading cause of biotic homogenisation in urban ecosystems. However, there has been little research examining the effect of urbanisation and biotic homogenisation on aquatic communities, and few studies have compared findin... Read More about Community heterogeneity of aquatic macroinvertebrates in urban ponds at a multi-city scale.

Comparison of the force-, velocity- and power-time curves between the concentric-only and eccentric-concentric bench press exercises (2018)
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Pérez-Castilla, A., Comfort, P., McMahon, J., Pestaña-Melero, F., & García-Ramos, A. (2020). Comparison of the force-, velocity- and power-time curves between the concentric-only and eccentric-concentric bench press exercises. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 34(6), 1618-1624. https://doi.org/10.1519/JSC.0000000000002448

The aim of this study was to compare the temporal and mechanical variables between the concentric-only and eccentric-concentric bench press (BP) variants. Twenty-one men (age: 22.0±4.2 years, body mass: 73.4±7.7 kg, height: 177.2±8.0 cm; one-repetiti... Read More about Comparison of the force-, velocity- and power-time curves between the concentric-only and eccentric-concentric bench press exercises.

An investigation of air and water dual adjustment decoupling control of surface heat exchanger (2018)
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Fang, Z., Xu, X., Li, Q., You, X., & Oladokun, M. (2018). An investigation of air and water dual adjustment decoupling control of surface heat exchanger. Applied Thermal Engineering, 133, 418-427. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2018.01.045

The terminal equipment of central cooling system accounts for a significant proportion of the total system's energy consumption. Therefore, it is important to reduce the terminal equipment energy consumption in central air conditioning system. In thi... Read More about An investigation of air and water dual adjustment decoupling control of surface heat exchanger.

Semi-supervised identification of cancer subgroups using survival outcomes and overlapping grouping information (2018)
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Identification of cancer patient subgroups using high throughput genomic data is of critical importance to clinicians and scientists because it can offer opportunities for more personalized treatment and overlapping treatments of cancers. In spite of... Read More about Semi-supervised identification of cancer subgroups using survival outcomes and overlapping grouping information.

Pneumatically powered drilling of carbon fibre composites using synthetic biodegradable lubricating oil : an experimental study (2018)
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Morrell, C., & Hampson, P. (2018). Pneumatically powered drilling of carbon fibre composites using synthetic biodegradable lubricating oil : an experimental study. Aerospace, 5(1), https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace5010009

Carbon fibre composites are a key component of aircraft structures because of their enhanced material properties such as favourable strength to weight ratios when compared to metal alloys. During the assembly process of an aircraft, carbon fibre comp... Read More about Pneumatically powered drilling of carbon fibre composites using synthetic biodegradable lubricating oil : an experimental study.

Recent applications of mineral magnetic methods in sediment pollution studies : a review (2018)
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Zhang, W., Dong, C., Hutchinson, S., Ge, C., Wang, F., & Feng, H. (2018). Recent applications of mineral magnetic methods in sediment pollution studies : a review. Current Pollution Reports, 4(1), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40726-018-0075-y

This paper reviews recent progress in applying mineral magnetic methods in sediment pollution studies. Such applications include its use as a dating marker, as a proxy for heavy metal concentrations and to trace metal pollutant dispersal. The mineral... Read More about Recent applications of mineral magnetic methods in sediment pollution studies : a review.

General practitioners' use of risk prediction tools and their application to Barretts Oesophagus : a qualitative study (2018)
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Ireland, C., Laws, T., Gordon, A., Thompson, S., & Esterman, A. (2018). General practitioners' use of risk prediction tools and their application to Barretts Oesophagus : a qualitative study. Journal of primary health care & general practice, 2(1), 014

Background: Risk prediction tools are widely used for the early identification of disease and expediting referrals to medical specialists for further assessment. This study provides an understanding of general practitioners preferences for using some... Read More about General practitioners' use of risk prediction tools and their application to Barretts Oesophagus : a qualitative study.

The role of human influence factors on overall listening experience (2018)
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Walton, T., & Evans, M. (2018). The role of human influence factors on overall listening experience. Quality and User Experience, 3(1), https://doi.org/10.1007/s41233-017-0015-4

Overall listening experience (OLE) is an evaluation measure specific to the evaluation of audio, which aims to include all
possible factors that may influence listeners’ ratings of stimuli. As with quality of experience in general, OLE ratings are u... Read More about The role of human influence factors on overall listening experience.

Ocean zoning within a sparing versus sharing framework (2018)
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The land-sparing versus land-sharing debate centers around how different intensities of habitat use can be coordinated to satisfy competing demands for biodiversity persistence and food production in agricultural landscapes. We apply the broad concep... Read More about Ocean zoning within a sparing versus sharing framework.

Fetal development of the Poeppig's woolly monkey ( Lagothrix poeppigii ) (2018)
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Andrade, R., Monteiro, F., Rocha El Bizri, H., Vicente, W., Guimaraes, D., & Mayor, P. (2018). Fetal development of the Poeppig's woolly monkey ( Lagothrix poeppigii ). Theriogenology, 110, 34-43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.theriogenology.2017.12.022

The intrauterine development is an evolutionary strategy that prepares the neonate for extra-uterine life, thus providing important information on the life history of species. In this study, we described the external and internal morphology of 25 fet... Read More about Fetal development of the Poeppig's woolly monkey ( Lagothrix poeppigii ).

B-spline collocation simulation of non-linear transient magnetic nanobio-tribological squeeze-film flow (2018)
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Beg, O., Sohail, A., Kadir, A., Beg, T., & Ravindran, S. (2018). B-spline collocation simulation of non-linear transient magnetic nanobio-tribological squeeze-film flow. Journal of Mechanics in Medicine and Biology, 18(1), https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219519418500070

A mathematical model is presented for magnetized nanofluid bio-tribological squeeze film flow between two approaching disks. The nanofluid comprises a suspension of metal oxide nanoparticles with an electrically-conducting base fluid, making the nano... Read More about B-spline collocation simulation of non-linear transient magnetic nanobio-tribological squeeze-film flow.

Reaching women with perinatal mental illness at the booking-in appointment (2018)
Journal Article
Haynes, E. (2018). Reaching women with perinatal mental illness at the booking-in appointment. International Journal of Health Governance, 23(1), 38-45. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJHG-08-2017-0044

Purpose
The paper looks at the positive future gains of reaching women with perinatal mental illness at the first midwifery booking-in appointment, a unique opportunity that could be more widely used as a point of detection, awareness and preventio... Read More about Reaching women with perinatal mental illness at the booking-in appointment.

A new, large-bodied omnivorous bat (Noctilionoidea: Mystacinidae) reveals lost morphological and ecological diversity since the Miocene in New Zealand (2018)
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A new genus and species of fossil bat is described from New Zealand's only pre-Pleistocene Cenozoic terrestrial fauna, the early Miocene St Bathans Fauna of Central Otago, South Island. Bayesian total evidence phylogenetic analysis places this new So... Read More about A new, large-bodied omnivorous bat (Noctilionoidea: Mystacinidae) reveals lost morphological and ecological diversity since the Miocene in New Zealand.

Designing Resilience of the Built Environment to Extreme Weather Events (2018)
Journal Article
Jankovic, L. (2018). Designing Resilience of the Built Environment to Extreme Weather Events. Sustainability, 10(1), Article 141. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10010141

Built environment comprises of a multitude of complex networks of buildings and processes in and between buildings. The paper looks at resilience design on three different levels: the building, the site, and the region. The building resilience design... Read More about Designing Resilience of the Built Environment to Extreme Weather Events.