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Proton exchange membrane fuel cell voltage-tracking using artificial neural networks (2011)
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Transients in load and consequently in stack current have a significant impact on the performance and durability of fuel cells. The delays in auxiliary equipments in fuel cell systems (such as pumps and heaters) and back pressures degrade system perf... Read More about Proton exchange membrane fuel cell voltage-tracking using artificial neural networks.

Late Holocene development of a Norwegian alpine alluvial fan affected by proximal glacier variations, episodic distal undercutting, and colluvial activity (2011)
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The late-Holocene, especially post-Little Ice Age, evolution of Nystølen alluvial fan, Langedalen, Jostedalsbreen region, southern Norway, is investigated using a combination of evidence from surface morphology, recent aerial photography, lichenometr... Read More about Late Holocene development of a Norwegian alpine alluvial fan affected by proximal glacier variations, episodic distal undercutting, and colluvial activity.

Enhanced electrochemical reduction of hydrogen peroxide on silver paste electrodes modified with surfactant and salt (2011)
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The modification of silver paste electrodes with a combination of dodecylbenzenesulfonic acid and KCl has been shown to lead to significant enhancements of the electrochemical reduction of hydrogen peroxide. The catalytic enhancement was shown to be... Read More about Enhanced electrochemical reduction of hydrogen peroxide on silver paste electrodes modified with surfactant and salt.

Social inclusion, stigma and discrimination relating to employment and physical health: the experiences of people with a bipolar disorder diagnosis (2011)
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Background/Objectives: To date, schizophrenia and depression have been the main focus of mental illness stigma research. Such research has typically taken a quantitative approach and surveyed public opinion rather the subjective experiences of people... Read More about Social inclusion, stigma and discrimination relating to employment and physical health: the experiences of people with a bipolar disorder diagnosis.

Book review: The Northern Veto (2011)
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Towards a methodological approach: Theorising scenario thinking as a social practice (2011)
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Purpose – The aim of this paper is to draw on the social theory of practice to show scenario thinking as an everyday practice and how the practice could be theorised at the meso-level. Design/methodology/approach – Counterfactual analysis, scenario a... Read More about Towards a methodological approach: Theorising scenario thinking as a social practice.

Group dynamics and record signals in the ant Temnothorax albipennis (2011)
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Many purely physical complex systems, in which there are both stochasticity and local interactions between the components, exhibit record dynamics. The temporal statistics of record dynamics is a Poisson process operating on a logarithmic rather than... Read More about Group dynamics and record signals in the ant Temnothorax albipennis.

The logistics of construction supply chains: the builders' merchant perspective (2011)
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Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to consider the applicability of logistics management in construction and facilitate a better understanding of construction supply chains by studying the logistical functions of builders' merchants. Design/metho... Read More about The logistics of construction supply chains: the builders' merchant perspective.

Pantoea allii sp. nov., isolated from onion plants and seed (2011)
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Eight yellow-pigmented, Gram-negative, rod-shaped, oxidase-negative, motile, facultatively anaerobic bacteria were isolated from onion seed in South Africa and from an onion plant exhibiting centre rot symptoms in the USA. The isolates were assigned... Read More about Pantoea allii sp. nov., isolated from onion plants and seed.

Internal marketing as a new alternative for the service employees' performance: An empirical study (2011)
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The increasing importance of relational marketing in the service sector as underlined by several authors and particularly by Berry (1983) culminates in a new marketing orientation toward internal marketing, even suggesting a significant impact of the... Read More about Internal marketing as a new alternative for the service employees' performance: An empirical study.

Children conceived by gamete donation: Psychological adjustment and mother-child relationships at age 7 (2011)
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An increasing number of babies are being born using donated sperm, where the child lacks a genetic link to the father, or donated eggs, where the child lacks a genetic link to the mother. This study examined the impact of telling children about their... Read More about Children conceived by gamete donation: Psychological adjustment and mother-child relationships at age 7.

Neisseria lactamica attenuates TLR-1/2-induced cytokine responses in nasopharyngeal epithelial cells using PPAR-γ (2011)
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The upper respiratory tract commensal Neisseria lactamica (Nlac) induces protective humoral immunity against pathogenic Nmen serogoup B (Nmen), but whether it also affords anti-inflammatory mucosal protection, as reported for several gut commensals,... Read More about Neisseria lactamica attenuates TLR-1/2-induced cytokine responses in nasopharyngeal epithelial cells using PPAR-γ.

Capacitated lot-sizing and scheduling with sequence-dependent, period-overlapping and non-triangular setups (2011)
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In production planning, sequence dependent setup times and costs are often incurred for switchovers from one product to another. When setup times and costs do not respect the triangular inequality, a situation may occur where the optimal solution inc... Read More about Capacitated lot-sizing and scheduling with sequence-dependent, period-overlapping and non-triangular setups.

Patient satisfaction in relation to nipple reconstruction: The importance of information provision (2011)
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127 women who had previously undergone surgical nipple reconstruction completed self-report questionnaires to assess body image, anxiety, depression, information preference, and satisfaction with surgical outcome, information provision, and the decis... Read More about Patient satisfaction in relation to nipple reconstruction: The importance of information provision.

Refining value-based differentiation in business relationships: A study of the higher order relationship building blocks that influence behavioural intentions (2011)
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Research on the behavioural intentions (BI) of business-to-business customers has focused on the influence and the interactions among constructs driving BI, giving rise to two perspectives for the structural equation modeling of constructs influencin... Read More about Refining value-based differentiation in business relationships: A study of the higher order relationship building blocks that influence behavioural intentions.

The frequency distribution of presenting symptoms in children aged six months to six years to primary care. (2011)
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Primary care providers and researchers wishing to estimate study recruitment rates need estimates of illness frequency in primary care. Previous studies of children's symptoms have found that presentations are most common for the symptoms: cough, fev... Read More about The frequency distribution of presenting symptoms in children aged six months to six years to primary care..

Maturity model for supply chain relationships in construction (2011)
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Following its success in other sectors, the importance of supply chain management (SCM) has increasingly been recognized in the construction industry. A literature review reveals that most studies in this field have been carried out in manufacturing,... Read More about Maturity model for supply chain relationships in construction.

Outcomes from stimulation of the caudal zona incerta and pedunculopontine nucleus in patients with Parkinson's disease (2011)
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Introduction. Axial symptoms including postural instability, falls and failure of gait initiation are some of the most disabling motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD). We performed bilateral deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the pedunculopontine n... Read More about Outcomes from stimulation of the caudal zona incerta and pedunculopontine nucleus in patients with Parkinson's disease.

Digital Games, Gender and Learning in Engineering: Do Females Benefit as Much as Males? (2011)
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The aim of this paper was to explore whether there is a gender difference in the beneficial effects of Racing Academy, which is a video game used to support undergraduate students learning of Mechanical Engineering. One hundred and thirty-eight under... Read More about Digital Games, Gender and Learning in Engineering: Do Females Benefit as Much as Males?.

Blinkered teaching: Tandem running by visually impaired ants (2011)
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During tandem runs, one ant worker recruits another to an important resource. Here, we begin to investigate how dependent are tandem leaders and followers on visual cues by painting over their compound eyes to impair their vision. There are two ways... Read More about Blinkered teaching: Tandem running by visually impaired ants.