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N*-(carboxymethyl)lysine content of foods commonly consumed in a Western style diet (2012)
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The potential adverse effects on health of diet-derived advanced glycation end-products (AGEs) is of current interest, due to their proposed involvement in the disease progression of diabetic and uraemic conditions. However, accurate information abou... Read More about N*-(carboxymethyl)lysine content of foods commonly consumed in a Western style diet.

Directing the War from Trafalgar Square? Vincent Massey and the Canadian High Commission, 1939-42 (2012)
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This article explores a number of key facets of Vincent Massey's tenure as Canada's wartime high commissioner in London between 1939 and 1942. Using the personal tensions and mutual suspicions which existed between Massey and the mercurial Canadian p... Read More about Directing the War from Trafalgar Square? Vincent Massey and the Canadian High Commission, 1939-42.

Dirigiste and smart growth approaches to urban sprawl: Lessons from Scotland and British Columbia (2012)
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Two communities operating under diverse planning systems, St. Andrews in Scotland and Prince George in British Columbia (BC), provide case studies for examining how planning tools are used in these jurisdictions to address urban containment issues. T... Read More about Dirigiste and smart growth approaches to urban sprawl: Lessons from Scotland and British Columbia.

Neoliberal Globalization and Trade Unionism: Toward Radical Political Unionism? (2012)
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This article revisits the question of changing forms of trade unionism within the context of neoliberal globalization. While broadly accepting the argument that globalization might encourage the development of more radical forms of unionism as surviv... Read More about Neoliberal Globalization and Trade Unionism: Toward Radical Political Unionism?.

Grammatical collocations and verb-particle constructions in Brussels French: A corpus-linguistic approach to transfer (2012)
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This article shows how a corpus-linguistic approach to transfer based on Jarvis (2000), Jarvis and Pavlenko (2008) and Mougeon, Nadasdi, and Rehner (2005) can help to disentangle internal and external explanations in language variation and change. Th... Read More about Grammatical collocations and verb-particle constructions in Brussels French: A corpus-linguistic approach to transfer.

Flow topology and secondary separation modelling at crossing shock wave/turbulent boundary layer interaction conditions (2012)
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Steady RANS modelling has been carried out for a symmetrical double-sharp-fin configuration with an inclination angle 15°, Mach 3.92 and Reynolds number Reδ = 3.08 x 105. Grid refinement and turbulence model influences using ω-based Reynolds Stress m... Read More about Flow topology and secondary separation modelling at crossing shock wave/turbulent boundary layer interaction conditions.

Primary history at key stage 1 (2012)
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A new procedure for multi-mode sequential flocking with application to multiple non-holonomic mobile robot motion control: Mode description and integration principle (2012)
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This is the first of two-part paper that investigates the multi-mode sequential flocking with application to multiple non-holonomic mobile robot motion control. To provide a new procedure to avoid collisions and obstacles in the process of multi-robo... Read More about A new procedure for multi-mode sequential flocking with application to multiple non-holonomic mobile robot motion control: Mode description and integration principle.

Transport-related social exclusion amongst older people in rural Southwest England and Wales (2012)
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Rural dwelling and older age are both associated with a higher risk of social exclusion, with accessibility identified as having an important facilitating role. The interactions between transport-related exclusion and older age, particularly in a rur... Read More about Transport-related social exclusion amongst older people in rural Southwest England and Wales.

A political ecology of water equity and tourism: A case study from Bali (2012)
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Many island destinations are struggling with tourism's water demands. A political ecology approach is used to understand how social power and ecology come together and result in inequitable and unsustainable water distribution on the island of Bali.... Read More about A political ecology of water equity and tourism: A case study from Bali.

Credit risk and shareholders' value in a developing economy: Evidence from Pakistani banking system (2012)
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The present study examines the role of credit risk in value creation process in banking system of Pakistan. This study here develops a conceptual model with three antecedents to credit risk. These antecedents are loan loss provision, advances, and ca... Read More about Credit risk and shareholders' value in a developing economy: Evidence from Pakistani banking system.

Perceived barriers to self-management for people with dementia in the early stages (2012)
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People with dementia in the early stages currently experience a care gap, which self-management may address. We explore perceived barriers to self-management. Using a systematic approach (logic mapping), 19 participants (people with dementia, carers,... Read More about Perceived barriers to self-management for people with dementia in the early stages.

The critical scale of small-scale spatial variation in ecological patterns and processes in intertidal macrobenthic seagrass assemblages (2012)
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Earlier work on benthic faunal assemblages in intertidal seagrass beds has shown maximal structural variation at spatial scales

Governing biosecurity in a neoliberal world: Comparative perspectives from Australia and the United Kingdom (2012)
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International trade poses a serious and growing threat to biosecurity through the introduction of invasive pests and disease: these have adverse impacts on plant and animal health and public goods such as biodiversity, as well as food production capa... Read More about Governing biosecurity in a neoliberal world: Comparative perspectives from Australia and the United Kingdom.

An operative method to obtain sharp nonlinear stability for systems with spatially dependent coefficients (2012)
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This paper explores an operative technique for deriving nonlinear stability by studying double-diffusive porous convection with a concentration-based internal heat source. Previous stability analyses on this problem have yielded regions of potential... Read More about An operative method to obtain sharp nonlinear stability for systems with spatially dependent coefficients.

Adherence therapy for medication non-compliant patients with hypertension: A randomised controlled trial (2012)
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The objective of this study is to establish the efficacy of adherence therapy (AT) compared with treatment as usual (TAU) in reducing blood pressure (BP) in non-compliant hypertensive patients. This study was designed as a parallel-group single-blind... Read More about Adherence therapy for medication non-compliant patients with hypertension: A randomised controlled trial.

Unsupervised sub-segmentation for pigmented skin lesions (2012)
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Background: Early identification of malignant melanoma with the surgical removal of thin lesions is the most effective treatment for skin cancers. A computer-aided diagnostic system assists to improve the diagnostic accuracy, where segmenting lesion... Read More about Unsupervised sub-segmentation for pigmented skin lesions.

Environment-driven distributed evolutionary adaptation in a population of autonomous robotic agents (2012)
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This article is concerned with a fixed-size population of autonomous agents facing unknown, possibly changing, environments. The motivation is to design an embodied evolutionary algorithm that can cope with the implicit fitness function hidden in the... Read More about Environment-driven distributed evolutionary adaptation in a population of autonomous robotic agents.

Direct design of a U-model-based generalized predictive controller for a class of non-linear (polynomial) dynamic plants (2012)
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Facing the big challenge of directly designing a generalized predictive controller (GPC) for a class of smooth non-linear dynamic plants described with polynomial models, this study reformulates the classical GPC into a U-model-based implementation.... Read More about Direct design of a U-model-based generalized predictive controller for a class of non-linear (polynomial) dynamic plants.

Long-term follow-up for mortality and cancer in a randomized placebo-controlled trial of vitamin D3 and/or calcium (RECORD Trial) (2012)
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Context: Vitamin D or calcium supplementation may have effects on vascular disease and cancer. Objective: Our objective was to investigate whether vitamin D or calcium supplementation affects mortality, vascular disease, and cancer in older people. D... Read More about Long-term follow-up for mortality and cancer in a randomized placebo-controlled trial of vitamin D3 and/or calcium (RECORD Trial).