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Open innovation and knowledge integration. A comparative study in the cosmetics sector in Brazil (2014)
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Celadon, K. L. (2014). Open innovation and knowledge integration. A comparative study in the cosmetics sector in Brazil. International journal of enhanced research in science technology and engineering, 3(9), 66-70

This article is based on a PhD thesis that examined open innovation in the Brazilian cosmetics sector a nd its relationship with knowledge integration, comparing less open and more open firms. The ability to integrate knowledge is related to compet... Read More about Open innovation and knowledge integration. A comparative study in the cosmetics sector in Brazil.

On the reliability of reynolds-averaged navier stokes prediction of mean flow characteristics of a rectangular turbulent jet in crossflow (2014)
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Khali, E., Yao, Y. F., Khali, E. H., & Yao, Y. (2014). On the reliability of reynolds-averaged navier stokes prediction of mean flow characteristics of a rectangular turbulent jet in crossflow. American Journal of Applied Sciences, 11(9), 1645-1658. https://doi.org/10.3844/ajassp.2014.1645.1658

© 2014 Khali and Yao. A jet of fluid discharging into a cross stream, also known as Jet In Crossflow (JICF), has received many experimental and numerical investigations. In addition to the fundamental understanding of three-dimensional mixing and she... Read More about On the reliability of reynolds-averaged navier stokes prediction of mean flow characteristics of a rectangular turbulent jet in crossflow.

Integrated eco-design decision-making for sustainable product development (2014)
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Romli, A., Prickett, P., Setchi, R., & Soe, S. (2015). Integrated eco-design decision-making for sustainable product development. International Journal of Production Research, 53(2), 549-571. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207543.2014.958593

This paper presents an integrated eco-design decision-making (IEDM) methodology that is formed using three stages: life cycle assessment, an eco-design process (Eco-Process) model and an enhanced eco-design quality function deployment process. All pr... Read More about Integrated eco-design decision-making for sustainable product development.

Extracting and selecting distinctive EEG features for efficient epileptic seizure prediction (2014)
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Wang, N., & Lyu, M. R. (2015). Extracting and selecting distinctive EEG features for efficient epileptic seizure prediction. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 19(5), 1648-1659. https://doi.org/10.1109/JBHI.2014.2358640

© 2013 IEEE. This paper presents compact yet comprehensive feature representations for the electroencephalogram (EEG) signal to achieve efficient epileptic seizure prediction performance. The initial EEG feature vectors are formed by acquiring the do... Read More about Extracting and selecting distinctive EEG features for efficient epileptic seizure prediction.

An anthropomorphic design for a minimally invasive surgical system based on a survey of surgical technologies, techniques and training (2014)
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Tzemanaki, A., Walters, P., Pipe, A. G., Melhuish, C., & Dogramadzi, S. (2014). An anthropomorphic design for a minimally invasive surgical system based on a survey of surgical technologies, techniques and training. International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery, 10(3), 368-378. https://doi.org/10.1002/rcs.1544

© 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Background: Over the past century, abdominal surgery has seen a rapid transition from open procedures to less invasive methods, such as robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery (MIS). This study aimed to investigate... Read More about An anthropomorphic design for a minimally invasive surgical system based on a survey of surgical technologies, techniques and training.

The geometry of r-adaptive meshes generated using optimal transport methods (2014)
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Budd, C. J., Russell, R. D., & Walsh, E. (2014). The geometry of r-adaptive meshes generated using optimal transport methods

The principles of mesh equidistribution and alignment play a fundamental role in the design of adaptive methods, and a metric tensor M and mesh metric are useful theoretical tools for understanding a methods level of mesh alignment, or anisotropy. We... Read More about The geometry of r-adaptive meshes generated using optimal transport methods.

Combining unsupervised learning and discrimination for 3D action recognition (2014)
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Chen, G., Clarke, D., Giuliani, M., Gaschler, A., & Knoll, A. (2015). Combining unsupervised learning and discrimination for 3D action recognition. Signal Processing, 110, 67-81. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sigpro.2014.08.024

© 2014 Elsevier B.V. Previous work on 3D action recognition has focused on using hand-designed features, either from depth videos or 2D videos. In this work, we present an effective way to combine unsupervised feature learning with discriminative fea... Read More about Combining unsupervised learning and discrimination for 3D action recognition.

Lock-in amplifier as a sensitive instrument for biomedical measurement: Analysis and implementation (2014)
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Abd Djawad, Y., Kiely, J., Luxton, R., & Wraith, P. (2014). Lock-in amplifier as a sensitive instrument for biomedical measurement: Analysis and implementation

A measuring instrument plays important role in the biomedical measurement since the biological process in living organism generates very weak signal. Therefore, a reliable and sensitive measuring instrument is needed. In this study, a lock-in amplifi... Read More about Lock-in amplifier as a sensitive instrument for biomedical measurement: Analysis and implementation.

Investigation of low-dissipation monotonicity-preserving scheme for direct numerical simulation of compressible turbulent flows (2014)
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Fang, J., Yao, Y., Li, Z., & Lu, L. (2014). Investigation of low-dissipation monotonicity-preserving scheme for direct numerical simulation of compressible turbulent flows. Computers and Fluids, 104, 55-72. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compfluid.2014.07.024

© 2014 Elsevier Ltd. The influence of numerical dissipation on direct numerical simulation (DNS) of decaying isotropic turbulence and turbulent channel flow is investigated respectively by using the seventh-order low-dissipation monotonicity-preservi... Read More about Investigation of low-dissipation monotonicity-preserving scheme for direct numerical simulation of compressible turbulent flows.

Performance evaluation of activated carbon-based electrodes with novel power management system for long-term benthic microbial fuel cells (2014)
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Li, B., Wang, L., Kölln, M., Umaz, R., Muto, E., Karra, U., & Santoro, C. (2014). Performance evaluation of activated carbon-based electrodes with novel power management system for long-term benthic microbial fuel cells. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 39(36), 21847-21856. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2014.06.095

© 2014, Hydrogen Energy Publications, LLC. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Underwater benthic microbial fuel cell (BMFC) systems were studied as a long-term sustainable power source for low-energy aquatic instruments (e.g. sensors). D... Read More about Performance evaluation of activated carbon-based electrodes with novel power management system for long-term benthic microbial fuel cells.

Surface modification of microbial fuel cells anodes: Approaches to practical design (2014)
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Schuler, A. J., Atanassov, P., Artyushkova, K., Babanova, S., Grattieri, M., Li, B., …Santoro, C. (2014). Surface modification of microbial fuel cells anodes: Approaches to practical design. Electrochimica Acta, 134, 116-126. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electacta.2014.04.136

Anode modification was explored as an approach to enhance the startup and improve the performance of microbial fuel cells (MFCs) inoculated with mixed cultures for wastewater treatment. Carbon cloth (CC) anodes were modified by electrochemical oxidat... Read More about Surface modification of microbial fuel cells anodes: Approaches to practical design.

Dietary patterns and changes in body composition in children between 9 and 11 years (2014)
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Smith, A. D. A. C., Emmett, P. M., Newby, P. K., & Northstone, K. (2014). Dietary patterns and changes in body composition in children between 9 and 11 years. Food and Nutrition Research, 58, 22769. https://doi.org/10.3402/fnr.v58.22769

Objective: Childhood obesity is rising and dietary intake is a potentially modifiable factor that plays an important role in its development. We aim to investigate the association between dietary patterns, obtained through principal components analys... Read More about Dietary patterns and changes in body composition in children between 9 and 11 years.

Study on dimensional and corrosion properties of thixoformed A356 and AA7075 aluminum bipolar plates for proton exchange membrane fuel cells (2014)
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Bolouri, A., & Kang, C. G. (2014). Study on dimensional and corrosion properties of thixoformed A356 and AA7075 aluminum bipolar plates for proton exchange membrane fuel cells. Renewable Energy, 71, 616-628. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2014.06.021

Metallic bipolar plates for polymer exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells are currently manufactured by stamping of thin sheets. However, there are dimensional and shape errors of microchannels because of forming limitation such as spring back of thin s... Read More about Study on dimensional and corrosion properties of thixoformed A356 and AA7075 aluminum bipolar plates for proton exchange membrane fuel cells.

Environmental auditing of a packaging system for redesign: A case study exploration (2014)
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Matthews, J., Parr, C., Araoye, O., & McManus, M. (2014). Environmental auditing of a packaging system for redesign: A case study exploration. https://doi.org/10.7763/JOCET.2014.V2.138

Within the United Kingdom a significant portion of the energy consumed each year is done so through industry. It is therefore desirable to take measures that reduce this consumption. A process common to all manufacturing sectors is that of packaging,... Read More about Environmental auditing of a packaging system for redesign: A case study exploration.

Feature extraction and selection for emotion recognition from EEG (2014)
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Jenke, R., Peer, A., & Buss, M. (2014). Feature extraction and selection for emotion recognition from EEG. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 5(3), 327-339. https://doi.org/10.1109/TAFFC.2014.2339834

© 2014 IEEE. Emotion recognition from EEG signals allows the direct assessment of the 'inner' state of a user, which is considered an important factor in human-machine-interaction. Many methods for feature extraction have been studied and the selecti... Read More about Feature extraction and selection for emotion recognition from EEG.

Algal 'lagoon' effect for oxygenating MFC cathodes (2014)
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Gajda, I., Stinchcombe, A., Greenman, J., Melhuish, C., & Ieropoulos, I. (2014). Algal 'lagoon' effect for oxygenating MFC cathodes. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 39(36), 21857-21863. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2014.05.173

© 2014, Hydrogen Energy Publications, LLC. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This paper describes the active oxygenation performed by photosynthetic organisms in the cathode of a two-chamber Microbial Fuel Cell system. The algal biomass... Read More about Algal 'lagoon' effect for oxygenating MFC cathodes.

An experimental investigation into size effects in quasi-isotropic carbon/epoxy laminates with sharp and blunt notches (2014)
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Xu, X., Wisnom, M. R., Mahadik, Y., & Hallett, S. R. (2014). An experimental investigation into size effects in quasi-isotropic carbon/epoxy laminates with sharp and blunt notches. Composites Science and Technology, 100, 220-227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compscitech.2014.06.002

An experimental investigation into size effects in notched [45/90/-45/0]4s carbon/epoxy laminates is carried out. The in-plane dimensions of the quasi-isotropic laminates are scaled up by a factor of up to 8. Larger Scale 16 specimens with only their... Read More about An experimental investigation into size effects in quasi-isotropic carbon/epoxy laminates with sharp and blunt notches.

A novel photometric stereo imaging sensor for endoscopy imaging: Proof of concept studies on a porcine model (2014)
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Poullis, A., Groves, C., Slabaugh, G., Emrith, K., & Smith, M. (2014). A novel photometric stereo imaging sensor for endoscopy imaging: Proof of concept studies on a porcine model. Gut, 63(S1), A46-A47. https://doi.org/10.1136/gutjnl-2014-307263.96

The American Society of Gastroenterology Endoscopy led Preservation and Incorporation of Valuable Endoscopy Innovations initiative has identified real time poly diagnosis as one of the next major technology driven changes in endoscopy (1). A number o... Read More about A novel photometric stereo imaging sensor for endoscopy imaging: Proof of concept studies on a porcine model.

SMARTPOP: Inferring the impact of social dynamics on genetic diversity through high speed simulations (2014)
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Cox, M. P., Guillot, E. G., Guillot, E., & Cox, M. P. (2014). SMARTPOP: Inferring the impact of social dynamics on genetic diversity through high speed simulations. BMC Bioinformatics, 15(1), 175. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-15-175

Background: Social behavior has long been known to influence patterns of genetic diversity, but the effect of social processes on population genetics remains poorly quantified - partly due to limited community-level genetic sampling (which is increas... Read More about SMARTPOP: Inferring the impact of social dynamics on genetic diversity through high speed simulations.

Pre-processing studies for selective laser sintering of glass beads-filled polyamide 12 composites (2014)
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Mousa, A. A., Pham, D. T., & Soe, S. (2014). Pre-processing studies for selective laser sintering of glass beads-filled polyamide 12 composites. International Journal of Rapid Manufacturing, 4(1), 28-48

The paper provides the background needed on the investigation of mechanical properties and geometric accuracy of glass bead filled polyamide 12 composites. It introduces the topic of determination of material and process parameters, describes the pre... Read More about Pre-processing studies for selective laser sintering of glass beads-filled polyamide 12 composites.