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6-DOF extension of memory-based passivation approach for stable haptic interaction (2014)
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© 2014, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. This paper extends previously proposed memory-based passivity approach (MBPA) to 6 degrees-of-freedom (DOF) haptic interactions. By introducing 6-DOF virtual proxy and virtual object, connected with haptic i... Read More about 6-DOF extension of memory-based passivation approach for stable haptic interaction.

Toward a View of Complementarity: Trust and Policy Influence Effects of Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Political Activity (2014)
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© The Author(s) 2014. The extant literature argues that nonmarket strategies can establish, sustain, or enhance a firm’s competitive advantage. Less clear is how and why effective nonmarket strategies influence a firm’s competitiveness. Moreover, the... Read More about Toward a View of Complementarity: Trust and Policy Influence Effects of Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Political Activity.

How does a decision aid help people decide whether to disclose a mental health problem to employers? Qualitative interview study (2014)
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Background Decisions about whether to disclose mental health problems to employers are complex, with potential personal, employment and legal implications. Decision aids are evidence based tools, designed to help individuals make specific choices bet... Read More about How does a decision aid help people decide whether to disclose a mental health problem to employers? Qualitative interview study.

Global economic crisis and corruption (2014)
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© 2014, Springer Science+Business Media New York. We study the effects of the 2008–2009 global economic crisis on the household experience of bribing public officials. The data come from the Life in Transition-2 survey, conducted in 2010 in 30 post-s... Read More about Global economic crisis and corruption.

Neutral space analysis for a Boolean network model of the fission yeast cell cycle network (2014)
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Background Interactions between genes and their products give rise to complex circuits known as gene regulatory networks (GRN) that enable cells to process information and respond to external stimuli. Several important processes for life, depend of... Read More about Neutral space analysis for a Boolean network model of the fission yeast cell cycle network.

Agency and neoliberalism (2014)
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© The Author 2014. The intensification of neoliberalism requires institutions and mental models that are not only complementary, but also interactively reinforcing. Since an individual's agency is the product of her mental models, it stands to reason... Read More about Agency and neoliberalism.

Towards the evolution of vertical-axis wind turbines using supershapes (2014)
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© 2014, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. We have recently presented an initial study of evolutionary algorithms used to design vertical-axis wind turbines (VAWTs) wherein candidate prototypes are evaluated under fan generated wind conditions after... Read More about Towards the evolution of vertical-axis wind turbines using supershapes.

Patients and nursing staff views of using the education needs assessment tool in rheumatology clinics: A qualitative study (2014)
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© 2014 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Aims and objectives: To evaluate the usability of the educational needs assessment tool in clinical practice, from a practitioner and patient perspective and to establish whether patients perceive that they are getting... Read More about Patients and nursing staff views of using the education needs assessment tool in rheumatology clinics: A qualitative study.

Institutional logics and interorganizational learning in technological arenas: Evidence from standard-setting organizations in the mobile handset industry (2014)
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© 2015, INFORMS. Conceptualizing standard-setting organizations (SSOs) as technological arenas within which firms from different countries interact and learn, we offer insights into the interplay between firms' institutional logics and their interorg... Read More about Institutional logics and interorganizational learning in technological arenas: Evidence from standard-setting organizations in the mobile handset industry.

Stereoselective syntheses of substituted succinic acid derivatives of the iron chiral auxiliary [(η5-C5H5)Fe(CO)(PPh3)] (2014)
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© 2014 Elsevier Ltd. A range of alkyl- or aryl-substituted iron succinoyl complexes, incorporating the iron chiral auxiliary [(η5-C5H5)Fe(CO)(PPh3)], were prepared in high regio- and diastereoselectivities by employing four successful strategies: (i)... Read More about Stereoselective syntheses of substituted succinic acid derivatives of the iron chiral auxiliary [(η5-C5H5)Fe(CO)(PPh3)].

Protein arginine methyltransferase 5 is a key regulator of the MYCN oncoprotein in neuroblastoma cells (2014)
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© 2014 The Authors. Approximately half of poor prognosis neuroblastomas (NBs) are characterized by pathognomonic MYCN gene amplification and MYCN over-expression. Here we present data showing that short-interfering RNA mediated depletion of the prote... Read More about Protein arginine methyltransferase 5 is a key regulator of the MYCN oncoprotein in neuroblastoma cells.

Disabled children’s childhood studies: A distinct approach? (2014)
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© 2014, © 2014 Taylor & Francis. This paper suggests that the emergence of disabled children’s childhood studies as an area of study offers a distinct approach to inquiry; it represents a significant shift away from the long-standing deficit discou... Read More about Disabled children’s childhood studies: A distinct approach?.

Exposure to traumatic perinatal experiences and posttraumatic stress symptoms in midwives: Prevalence and association with burnout (2014)
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Background: Midwives provide care in a context where life threatening or stressful events can occur. Little is known about their experiences of traumatic events or the implications for psychological health of this workforce. Objectives: To investigat... Read More about Exposure to traumatic perinatal experiences and posttraumatic stress symptoms in midwives: Prevalence and association with burnout.

Supplier selection based on evidence theory and analytic network process (2014)
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© IMechE 2014. The supplier selection is a key component of the supply chain management. Existing methods for the supplier selection are based on analytic network process. They can handle the interdependence of decision attributes; however, these met... Read More about Supplier selection based on evidence theory and analytic network process.

The geometry of r-adaptive meshes generated using optimal transport methods (2014)
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© 2014 Elsevier Inc. The principles of mesh equidistribution and alignment play a fundamental role in the design of adaptive methods, and a metric tensor and mesh metric are useful theoretical tools for understanding a method's level of mesh alignmen... Read More about The geometry of r-adaptive meshes generated using optimal transport methods.

Atemporal essence and existential freedom in schelling (2014)
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© 2014 BSHP. Although it is clear in Schelling's Freiheitsschrift that he takes an agent's atemporal choice between good and evil to be central to understanding human freedom, there is no consensus in the literature and no adequate account of how to... Read More about Atemporal essence and existential freedom in schelling.

Effect of fibre wrinkling to the spring-in behaviour of L-shaped composite materials (2014)
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© 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. To determine the amount of deformation resulting from fibre wrinkling at corner regions, a set of experiments have been conducted. As known in the conventional lay-up method, the prepregs are laid sequentiall... Read More about Effect of fibre wrinkling to the spring-in behaviour of L-shaped composite materials.

Corporate ownership and control in Victorian Britain (2014)
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© Economic History Society 2014. Using ownership and control data for 890 firm-years, this article examines the concentration of capital and voting rights in British companies in the second half of the nineteenth century. We find that both capital an... Read More about Corporate ownership and control in Victorian Britain.

Serine-arginine protein kinase 1 (SRPK1) inhibition as a potential novel targeted therapeutic strategy in prostate cancer (2014)
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© 2015 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved. Angiogenesis is required for tumour growth and is induced principally by vascular endothelial growth factor A (VEGF-A). VEGF-A pre-mRNA is alternatively spliced at the terminal exon to produce... Read More about Serine-arginine protein kinase 1 (SRPK1) inhibition as a potential novel targeted therapeutic strategy in prostate cancer.

Mental health consequences of overstretch in the UK Armed Forces, 2007-09: A population-based cohort study (2014)
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© 2014 Elsevier Ltd. Background: Concerns have been raised about the effect of tour length on the mental health of the UK armed forces. In 2007, we reported that cumulative length of deployment was associated with mental illness in military personnel... Read More about Mental health consequences of overstretch in the UK Armed Forces, 2007-09: A population-based cohort study.