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The Bumps and BaBies Longitudinal Study (BaBBLeS): A multi-site cohort study of first-time mothers to evaluate the effectiveness of the Baby Buddy app (2019)
Journal Article

Background: Health mobile applications (apps) have become very popular, including apps specifically designed to support women during the ante- and post-natal periods. However, there is currently limited evidence for the effectiveness of such apps at... Read More about The Bumps and BaBies Longitudinal Study (BaBBLeS): A multi-site cohort study of first-time mothers to evaluate the effectiveness of the Baby Buddy app.

Characteristics of tail pipe (Nitric oxide) and resuspended dust emissions from urban roads – A case study in Delhi city (2019)
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Introduction: Personal exposure to elevated vehicle exhaust and non-exhaust emissions at urban roadside leads to carcinogenic health effects, respiratory illness and nervous system disorders. In this paper, an attempt has been made to investigate the... Read More about Characteristics of tail pipe (Nitric oxide) and resuspended dust emissions from urban roads – A case study in Delhi city.

Modelling of a sustainable refugee camp drainage system for stormwater management (2019)
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© 2019 The Royal Society of Chemistry. A novel decentralised Sustainable Refugee Camp Drainage System (SRCDS) has been developed for the effective management of stormwater in the Dadaab refugee camp, Kenya. The SRCDS uses the principle of Best Manage... Read More about Modelling of a sustainable refugee camp drainage system for stormwater management.

Electrical Properties of Solvated Tectomers: Toward Zettascale Computing (2019)
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© 2019 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim Liquid cybernetic systems with embodied intelligence solutions mimicking biologic systems, in response to future increasingly distributed sensing and the resulting data to be managed, has been propo... Read More about Electrical Properties of Solvated Tectomers: Toward Zettascale Computing.

An assessment of engaged social science research in nanoscale science and engineering communities (2019)
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© 2019 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. Increased funding of nanotechnology research in the USA at the turn of the millennium was paired with a legislative commitment to and a novel societal research policy fo... Read More about An assessment of engaged social science research in nanoscale science and engineering communities.

Effect of thermodynamic parameters on the concentration of pollutants in produced water from crude oil production (2019)
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Thermodynamic parameters such as temperature and pressure of petroleum reservoirs are among the most important physical characteristics which are required to effectively produce crude oil from the reservoirs. Oil and gas reservoir pressures determine... Read More about Effect of thermodynamic parameters on the concentration of pollutants in produced water from crude oil production.

Evaluation of additives on reversed-phase chromatography of monoclonal antibodies using a 1000 Å stationary phase (2019)
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© 2019 Elsevier B.V. A wide pore (1000 Å) diphenyl stationary phase was evaluated for the analysis of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs), comparing a conventional mobile phase of acetonitrile-water containing overall 0.1% trifluoracetic acid (TFA) with a s... Read More about Evaluation of additives on reversed-phase chromatography of monoclonal antibodies using a 1000 Å stationary phase.

The differential DNA hypermethylation patterns of 2 microRNA-137 and microRNA-342 locus in early 3 colorectal lesions and tumours (2019)
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Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer worldwide, representing 13% of all cancers. The role of epigenetics in cancer diagnosis and prognosis is well established. MicroRNAs in particular influence numerous cancer associate... Read More about The differential DNA hypermethylation patterns of 2 microRNA-137 and microRNA-342 locus in early 3 colorectal lesions and tumours.

A Pilot Study of a Trauma Training for Healthcare Workers Serving Refugees in Greece: Perceptions of Feasibility of Task-Shifting Trauma Informed Care (2019)
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© 2019, © 2019 Taylor & Francis. Few studies to date have investigated trauma training programs for healthcare workers who serve refugees. The purpose of this pilot study was to investigate the feasibility of a Train-the Trainer (TTT) seminar desig... Read More about A Pilot Study of a Trauma Training for Healthcare Workers Serving Refugees in Greece: Perceptions of Feasibility of Task-Shifting Trauma Informed Care.

Bitter cucumber in diabetes (2019)
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The press office of the University of Giessen "advertises" an allegedly promising clinical study which was the first "scientifically tenable" study to show the blood sugar-lowering effect of bitter cucumber [Fig. 1] as "significant". The authors of t... Read More about Bitter cucumber in diabetes.

Bees, extinction and ambient soundscapes: An exploratory environmental communication workshop (2019)
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As a response to the challenges that visual communication, popularly used in environmental communications, poses for more embodied engagements with climate change, this article focuses upon the neglected role of sound within environmental and climate... Read More about Bees, extinction and ambient soundscapes: An exploratory environmental communication workshop.

Stakeholder requirements for an ethical framework to sustain multiple research projects in an emerging living lab involving older adults (2019)
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© The Author(s) 2019. Living Lab (LL) research should follow clear ethical guidelines and principles. While these exist in specific disciplinary contexts, there is a lack of tailored and specific ethical guidelines for the design, development, and im... Read More about Stakeholder requirements for an ethical framework to sustain multiple research projects in an emerging living lab involving older adults.

Influence of blends of diesel and renewable fuels on compression ignition engine emissions over transient engine conditions (2019)
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© 2019 Elsevier Ltd To reduce the amount of carbon dioxide released from transportation the EU has implemented legislation to mandate the renewable content of petrol and diesel fuels. However, due to the complexity of the combustion process the addit... Read More about Influence of blends of diesel and renewable fuels on compression ignition engine emissions over transient engine conditions.

Organising counter-cultures: Challenges of structure, organisation and sustainability in the Independent Filmmakers Association and the Radical Film Network (2019)
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The Independent Filmmakers Association (IFA) was formed in London in 1974 to represent the various strands of predominantly leftist and experimental independent filmmaking in post-war Britain. For the next fifteen years, the IFA played a key role in... Read More about Organising counter-cultures: Challenges of structure, organisation and sustainability in the Independent Filmmakers Association and the Radical Film Network.

Clay mineralogy and geochemistry of the Lower Pleistocene Loess in the Iranian Loess Plateau (Agh Band section) and implications for its provenance and paleoclimate change (2019)
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The clay mineralogy and geochemistry of loess is sensitive to variations in sediment source area, transport processes and weathering regime over time, and thus careful study of them can provide some insight into past climate variability. The well-kno... Read More about Clay mineralogy and geochemistry of the Lower Pleistocene Loess in the Iranian Loess Plateau (Agh Band section) and implications for its provenance and paleoclimate change.

Improving the new product development using big data: A case study of a food company (2019)
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Purpose Recently, the concept of big data (BD) has evolved and started to play an essential role in the advancement of new product development (NPD) in various sectors contributing to value creation, idea generation and competitive advantage. However... Read More about Improving the new product development using big data: A case study of a food company.

Neuromorphic liquid marbles with aqueous carbon nanotube cores (2019)
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Neuromorphic computing devices attempt to emulate features of biological nervous systems through mimicking the properties of synapses, towards implementing the emergent properties of their counterparts, such as learning. Inspired by recent advances i... Read More about Neuromorphic liquid marbles with aqueous carbon nanotube cores.

Critical success factors for ensuring bankable completion risk in PFI/PPP megaprojects (2019)
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© 2019 American Society of Civil Engineers. This study investigates project financiers' perspectives on the bankability of completion risk in private finance initiative and public-private partnership (PFI/PPP) megaprojects. Using a mixed methodology... Read More about Critical success factors for ensuring bankable completion risk in PFI/PPP megaprojects.

Pedagogic partnership in higher education: encountering emotion in learning and enhancing student wellbeing (2019)
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© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Despite emotion being recognized as fundamental to learning, the affective aspects of learning have often been side-lined in higher education. In the context of rising student we... Read More about Pedagogic partnership in higher education: encountering emotion in learning and enhancing student wellbeing.

Screen-printed graphite nanoplate conductive ink for machine learning enabled wireless radiofrequency-identification sensors (2019)
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In this study, we demonstrate sustainable conductive screen printing ink containing graphite nanoplates (GNPs) prepared by means of combining shear and ultrasonication exfoliation processes with the aid of mixed-solvent strategy of isopropanol (IPA)-... Read More about Screen-printed graphite nanoplate conductive ink for machine learning enabled wireless radiofrequency-identification sensors.