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Reducing cost and size in photovoltaic systems using three-level boost converter based on fuzzy logic controller (2018)
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Samadi, M., & Rakhtala, S. M. (2019). Reducing cost and size in photovoltaic systems using three-level boost converter based on fuzzy logic controller. Iranian Journal of Science and Technology Transactions of Electrical Engineering, 43, 313-323. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40998-018-0145-6

Photovoltaic (PV) systems are dependent on two main factors of temperature and solar radiation, changing the PV system into a nonlinear system. Therefore, it is necessary to propose an intelligent control system for power control of PV systems to tac... Read More about Reducing cost and size in photovoltaic systems using three-level boost converter based on fuzzy logic controller.

Nano-cement composite with graphene oxide produced from epigenetic graphite deposit (2018)
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Qureshi, T. S., Panesar, D. K., Sidhureddy, B., Chen, A., & Wood, P. C. (2019). Nano-cement composite with graphene oxide produced from epigenetic graphite deposit. Composites Part B: Engineering, 159, 248-258. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compositesb.2018.09.095

This study presents the development of a nano-cement composite with graphene oxide (GO) carbon-based nanomaterials synthesized from a high-purity epigenetic graphite deposit. Diamond drill sampled graphite mineralization was upgraded through benefici... Read More about Nano-cement composite with graphene oxide produced from epigenetic graphite deposit.

Flood risk to commercial property: Training and education needs of built environment professionals (2018)
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Bhattacharya-Mis, N., Chan, F., Kreibich, H., Montz, B., Proverbs, D., Wilkinson, S., & Lamond, J. (2018). Flood risk to commercial property: Training and education needs of built environment professionals. International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment, 9(4-5), 385-401. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJDRBE-03-2017-0024

© 2018, Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: Improved management of commercial property at risk from flooding may result from well-targeted advice from built environment (BE) professionals, such as surveyors, valuers and project managers. However, re... Read More about Flood risk to commercial property: Training and education needs of built environment professionals.

A controlled study on the characterisation of bioaerosols emissions from compost (2018)
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Nasir, Z., Rolph, C., Collins, S., Stevenson, D., Gladding, T., Hayes, E., …Tyrrel, S. (2018). A controlled study on the characterisation of bioaerosols emissions from compost. Atmosphere, 9(10), https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos9100379

© 2018 by the authors. Bioaerosol emissions arising from biowaste treatment are an issue of public concern. To better characterise the bioaerosols, and to assess a range of measurement methods, we aerosolised green waste compost under controlled cond... Read More about A controlled study on the characterisation of bioaerosols emissions from compost.

An IoT-oriented data placement method with privacy preservation in cloud environment (2018)
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Xu, X., Fu, S., Qi, L., Zhang, X., Liu, Q., He, Q., & Li, S. (2018). An IoT-oriented data placement method with privacy preservation in cloud environment. Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 124, 148-157. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnca.2018.09.006

© 2018 Elsevier Ltd IoT (Internet of Things) devices generate huge amount of data which require rich resources for data storage and processing. Cloud computing is one of the most popular paradigms to accommodate such IoT data. However, the privacy co... Read More about An IoT-oriented data placement method with privacy preservation in cloud environment.

A Longitudinal Examination of the Relationship between Trauma-Related Cognitive Factors and Internalising and Externalising Psychopathology in Physically Injured Children (2018)
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Hiller, R. M., Creswell, C., Meiser-Stedman, R., Lobo, S., Cowdrey, F., Lyttle, M. D., …Halligan, S. L. (2019). A Longitudinal Examination of the Relationship between Trauma-Related Cognitive Factors and Internalising and Externalising Psychopathology in Physically Injured Children. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 47(4), 683-693. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-018-0477-8

© 2018, The Author(s). Cognitive models of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) highlight maladaptive posttrauma appraisals, trauma memory qualities, and coping strategies, such as rumination or thought suppression, as key processes that maintain PTS... Read More about A Longitudinal Examination of the Relationship between Trauma-Related Cognitive Factors and Internalising and Externalising Psychopathology in Physically Injured Children.

Association of single nucleotide polymorphisms in leptin (LEP) and leptin receptor (LEPR) genes with backfat thickness and daily weight gain in Ukrainian Large White pigs (2018)
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Balatsky, V., Oliinychenko, Y., Sarantseva, N., Getya, A., Saienko, A., Vovk, V., & Doran, O. (2018). Association of single nucleotide polymorphisms in leptin (LEP) and leptin receptor (LEPR) genes with backfat thickness and daily weight gain in Ukrainian Large White pigs. Livestock Science, 217, 157-161. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.livsci.2018.09.015

© 2018 Elsevier B.V. Leptin (LEP) and leptin receptor (LEPR) genes play an important role in the regulation of fat deposition and other commercially important traits in pigs and this regulation is known to be breed-specific. The aim of the present st... Read More about Association of single nucleotide polymorphisms in leptin (LEP) and leptin receptor (LEPR) genes with backfat thickness and daily weight gain in Ukrainian Large White pigs.

Epidemiology and aetiology of paediatric traumatic cardiac arrest in England and Wales (2018)
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Vassallo, J., Webster, M., Barnard, E. B. G., Lyttle, M. D., & Smith, J. E. (2019). Epidemiology and aetiology of paediatric traumatic cardiac arrest in England and Wales. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 104(5), 437-443. https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2018-314985

© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2019. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. Objective To describe the epidemiology and aetiology of paediatric traumatic cardiac arrest (TCA) in England and Wales. Design Population-bas... Read More about Epidemiology and aetiology of paediatric traumatic cardiac arrest in England and Wales.

Micro-entrepreneurship and subjective well-being: Evidence from rural Bangladesh (2018)
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Bhuiyan, M. F., & Ivlevs, A. (2019). Micro-entrepreneurship and subjective well-being: Evidence from rural Bangladesh. Journal of Business Venturing, 34(4), 625-645. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusvent.2018.09.005

© 2019 The Authors Microcredit has long been hailed as a powerful tool to promote livelihoods and reduce poverty through entrepreneurship. However, its impacts on people's subjective well-being remain underexplored. We present a unified theoretical f... Read More about Micro-entrepreneurship and subjective well-being: Evidence from rural Bangladesh.

Lean, green practices and process innovation: A model for green supply chain performance (2018)
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Cherrafi, A., Garza-Reyes, J. A., Kumar, V., Mishra, N., Ghobadian, A., & Elfezazi⁠, S. (2018). Lean, green practices and process innovation: A model for green supply chain performance. International Journal of Production Economics, 206, 79-92. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2018.09.031

© 2018 Elsevier B.V. This paper investigates the relationship between lean, green and process innovation practices and green supply chain (GSC) performance. Data were collected from 374 manufacturing firms and results analyzed using Structural Equati... Read More about Lean, green practices and process innovation: A model for green supply chain performance.

Hopeful City: Meritocracy and Affect in Global Cairo (2018)
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Pettit, H. (2018). Hopeful City: Meritocracy and Affect in Global Cairo. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 42(6), 1048-1063. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.12695

© 2018 Urban Research Publications Limited Contemporary forms of ‘world-class’ or ‘global’ city making have displaced, excluded and imperilled millions of urban inhabitants across the global South. This article departs from conventional approaches in... Read More about Hopeful City: Meritocracy and Affect in Global Cairo.

Psychological and mnemonic benefits of nostalgia for people with dementia (2018)
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Ismail, S., Christopher, G., Dodd, E., Wildschut, T., Sedikides, C., Ingram, T. A., …Cheston, R. (2018). Psychological and mnemonic benefits of nostalgia for people with dementia. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 65(4), 1327-1344. https://doi.org/10.3233/JAD-180075

Background: Studies with non-clinical populations show that nostalgia increases psychological resources, such as self-esteem and social connectedness. Objectives: Our objectives were to find out if the benefits of nostalgia in non-clinical populat... Read More about Psychological and mnemonic benefits of nostalgia for people with dementia.

Impact of Penny Brohn UK's Living Well Course on informal caregivers of people with cancer (2018)
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Jolliffe, R. C., Durrant, J. R., Seers, H. E., Churchward, S. F., Griffiths, M., Naidoo, M., …Zollman, C. (2018). Impact of Penny Brohn UK's Living Well Course on informal caregivers of people with cancer. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 24(9-10), 974-980. https://doi.org/10.1089/acm.2018.0195

Objectives: This study evaluated the change in the concerns, wellbeing, and lifestyle behaviors of informal caregivers of people with cancer attending Penny Brohn UK's Living Well Course (LWC), a self-management education intervention. Design: A p... Read More about Impact of Penny Brohn UK's Living Well Course on informal caregivers of people with cancer.

No clear evidence for correlations between handgrip strength and sexually dimorphic acoustic properties of voices (2018)
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Han, C., Wang, H., Fasolt, V., Hahn, A. C., Holzleitner, I. J., Lao, J., …Jones, B. C. (2018). No clear evidence for correlations between handgrip strength and sexually dimorphic acoustic properties of voices. American Journal of Human Biology, 30(6), https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.23178

Objectives: Recent research on the signal value of masculine physical characteristics in men has focused on the possibility that such characteristics are valid cues of physical strength. However, evidence that sexually dimorphic vocal characteristics... Read More about No clear evidence for correlations between handgrip strength and sexually dimorphic acoustic properties of voices.

Design optimisation and performance appraisal of a combined cooling, heating and power system primed with Maisotsenko combustion turbine cycle (2018)
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Zhu, G., Chow, T. T., Fong, K. F., Lee, C. K., & Luo, X. J. (2018). Design optimisation and performance appraisal of a combined cooling, heating and power system primed with Maisotsenko combustion turbine cycle. Energy Conversion and Management, 177, 91-106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2018.09.048

© 2018 Elsevier Ltd Buildings are the significant primary energy consumption and pollutant emission contributors in a modern city. Distributed multi-generation systems such as combined cooling, heating and power (CCHP) systems are considered an alter... Read More about Design optimisation and performance appraisal of a combined cooling, heating and power system primed with Maisotsenko combustion turbine cycle.

Bi-directional freeze casting of porous alumina ceramics: A study of the effects of different processing parameters on microstructure (2018)
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Algharaibeh, S., Ireland, A. J., & Su, B. (2019). Bi-directional freeze casting of porous alumina ceramics: A study of the effects of different processing parameters on microstructure. Journal of the European Ceramic Society, 39(2-3), 514-521. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2018.09.030

Highly aligned lamellar ceramic scaffolds were produced using a bi-directional freeze casting technique. A specially designed, sloped copper mould was covered with a polymer to modulate the temperature field. Effects of different processing parameter... Read More about Bi-directional freeze casting of porous alumina ceramics: A study of the effects of different processing parameters on microstructure.

Enabling the IPBES conceptual framework to work across knowledge boundaries (2018)
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Dunkley, R., Baker, S., Constant, N., & Sanderson-Bellamy, A. (2018). Enabling the IPBES conceptual framework to work across knowledge boundaries. International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, 18(6), 779-799. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10784-018-9415-z

The IPBES conceptual framework (CF) serves an instrumental value to translate usable knowledge into policy across spatial scales, alongside a normative function to engage diverse knowledge systems, promoting inclusivity and enhancing legitimacy. It h... Read More about Enabling the IPBES conceptual framework to work across knowledge boundaries.

Thermal strain extraction methodologies for bridge structural condition assessment (2018)
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Zhu, Y., Ni, Y. Q., Jesus, A., Liu, J., & Laory, I. (2018). Thermal strain extraction methodologies for bridge structural condition assessment. Smart Materials and Structures, 27(10), https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-665X/aad5fb

This paper presents a feature extraction method to uncover the temperature effects on bridge responses, which combines mode decomposition, data reduction, and blind separation. For mode decomposition, empirical mode decomposition (EMD) and ensemble e... Read More about Thermal strain extraction methodologies for bridge structural condition assessment.

“Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”: The French Constitutional Court confirms the constitutional status and force of the principle of fraternity (2018)
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Dadomo, C. “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”: The French Constitutional Court confirms the constitutional status and force of the principle of fraternity

In its Decision n° 2018-717/718 QPC of 06 juillet 2018 - M. Cédric H. et autre [Délit d'aide à l'entrée, à la circulation ou au séjour irréguliers d'un étranger (Criminal offence of providing assistance to a foreigner entering, moving and residing il... Read More about “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”: The French Constitutional Court confirms the constitutional status and force of the principle of fraternity.