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Uncertainty and disturbance estimator-based control of a flapping-wing aerial vehicle withwith unknown backlash-like hysteresis (2019)
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Robust and accurate control of a flapping-wing aerial vehicle (FWAV) system is a challenging problem due to the existence of backlash-like hysteresis nonlinearity. This paper proposes uncertainty and disturbance estimator (UDE)-based control with out... Read More about Uncertainty and disturbance estimator-based control of a flapping-wing aerial vehicle withwith unknown backlash-like hysteresis.

Identifying Verticillium dahliae resistance in strawberry through disease screening of multiple populations and image based phenotyping (2019)
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© 2019 Cockerton, Li, Vickerstaff, Eyre, Sargent, Armitage, Marina-Montes, Garcia-Cruz, Passey, Simpson and Harrison. Verticillium dahliae is a highly detrimental pathogen of soil cultivated strawberry (Fragaria x ananassa). Breeding of Verticillium... Read More about Identifying Verticillium dahliae resistance in strawberry through disease screening of multiple populations and image based phenotyping.

Blockchain enabled industrial Internet of Things technology (2019)
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The emerging blockchain technology shows promising potential to enhance industrial systems and the Internet of things (IoT) by providing applications with redundancy, immutable storage, and encryption. In the past a few years, many more applications... Read More about Blockchain enabled industrial Internet of Things technology.

Remote sensing for drought monitoring & impact assessment: Progress, past challenges and future opportunities (2019)
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© 2019 Elsevier Inc. Drought is a common hydrometeorological phenomenon and a pervasive global hazard. As our climate changes, it is likely that drought events will become more intense and frequent. Effective drought monitoring is therefore critical,... Read More about Remote sensing for drought monitoring & impact assessment: Progress, past challenges and future opportunities.

Artificial neural network simulating microbial fuel cells with different membrane materials and electrode configurations (2019)
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© 2019 Elsevier B.V. Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) are gaining interest due to higher power production achieved by deep analysis of their characteristics and their effect on the overall efficiency. To date, investigations on MFC efficiency, can only be... Read More about Artificial neural network simulating microbial fuel cells with different membrane materials and electrode configurations.

Estimating lifetimes and stock turnover dynamics of urban residential buildings in China (2019)
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Building lifetime and stock turnover are both key determinants in modelling building energy and carbon. However in China, aside from anecdotal claims that urban residential buildings are generally short-lived, there are no recent official statistics,... Read More about Estimating lifetimes and stock turnover dynamics of urban residential buildings in China.

Are we seeing the whole picture in land-sea systems? Opportunities and challenges for operationalizing the ES concept (2019)
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The concept of Ecosystem Services (ES) highlights that human wellbeing depends on nature and is a ‘whole system aware’ view. Land-sea systems are examples of complex systems including interfaces that can be perceived as boundaries, overlooking connec... Read More about Are we seeing the whole picture in land-sea systems? Opportunities and challenges for operationalizing the ES concept.

Beer? Over here! Examining attentional bias towards alcoholic and appetitive stimuli in a visual search eye-tracking task (2019)
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© 2019, The Author(s). Rationale: Experimental tasks that demonstrate alcohol-related attentional bias typically expose participants to single-stimulus targets (e.g. addiction Stroop, visual probe, anti-saccade task), which may not correspond fully w... Read More about Beer? Over here! Examining attentional bias towards alcoholic and appetitive stimuli in a visual search eye-tracking task.

Between Scylla and Charybdis: Losing balance in an age of extremes (2019)
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This article charts a course from the literature of the classical world through to a select number of classic texts in sociology by Marx, Weber and Bauman, and some more recent psychoanalytically informed studies, to offer a metaphor for the vicissit... Read More about Between Scylla and Charybdis: Losing balance in an age of extremes.

Kneeling ability after total knee replacement (2019)
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Kneeling ability is consistently the poorest patient-rated outcome after total knee replacement (TKR), with 60–80% of patients reporting difficulty kneeling or an inability to kneel

When urban environments meet pedestrian’s thoughts: implications for pedestrian affect (2019)
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© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This UK-based study explores the ways in which urban environments and pedestrians’ thoughts interact. Such interactions have implications for hedonic well-being and affect. Analy... Read More about When urban environments meet pedestrian’s thoughts: implications for pedestrian affect.

The newcomer understanding and integration scale: Psychometric evidence across six samples (2019)
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Models of organizational socialization situate newcomer understanding and social integration as critical proximal outcomes, yet researchers have identified both theoretical and psychometric weaknesses in existing survey measures. Drawing on prior res... Read More about The newcomer understanding and integration scale: Psychometric evidence across six samples.

Strain evolution of brick masonry under cyclic compressive loading (2019)
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Long-term fatigue tests in compression were performed on low-strength brick masonry prisms under laboratory conditions at different maximum stress levels. The maximum and minimum total longitudinal deformations with the loading cycles were recorded.... Read More about Strain evolution of brick masonry under cyclic compressive loading.

Bi-objective optimization model for optimal placement of thyristor-controlled series compensator devices (2019)
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Exposure to extreme weather conditions increases power systems’ vulnerability in front of high impact, low probability contingency occurrence. In the post-restructuring years, due to the increasing demand for energy, competition between electricity m... Read More about Bi-objective optimization model for optimal placement of thyristor-controlled series compensator devices.

Do infants with transposition of the great arteries born outside a specialist centre have different outcomes? (2019)
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© Cambridge University Press 2019. Background: Infants born with undiagnosed transposition of the great arteries continue to be born in district general hospitals despite the improvements made in antenatal scanning. Evidence indicates improved outcom... Read More about Do infants with transposition of the great arteries born outside a specialist centre have different outcomes?.

Inhaled methoxyflurane (Penthrox®) versus placebo for injury-associated analgesia in children - The MAGPIE trial (MEOF-002): Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial (2019)
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Background
Pain from injuries is one of the commonest symptoms in children attending emergency departments (EDs), and this is often inadequately treated in both the pre-hospital and ED settings, in part due to challenges of continual assessment and... Read More about Inhaled methoxyflurane (Penthrox®) versus placebo for injury-associated analgesia in children - The MAGPIE trial (MEOF-002): Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.

Toward controllable morphogenesis in large robot swarms (2019)
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Morphogenetic engineering aims to achieve functional, self-organized but controllable structures in human-designed systems. Controlling the structures is crucial if they are to be used for real-world applications. Building on previous work on morphog... Read More about Toward controllable morphogenesis in large robot swarms.

Maritime transportation and the Nigerian economy: Matters arising (2019)
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Appraisal of the importance of maritime transportation to Nigeria’s economy is an effort in assessing the extent to which maritime transportation has contributed to Nigeria’s economy through gross domestic product (GDP) output. The paper x-rayed some... Read More about Maritime transportation and the Nigerian economy: Matters arising.

Mobile device and app use in paediatric emergency care: A survey of departmental practice in the UK and Ireland (2019)
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Introduction Mobile devices and medical apps are used by healthcare professionals in adult and paediatric emergency departments worldwide. Recently, there has been a drive toward increased digitalisation especially in the UK. This point prevalence su... Read More about Mobile device and app use in paediatric emergency care: A survey of departmental practice in the UK and Ireland.

Repurchase agreements and the (de)construction of financial markets (2019)
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© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The safety of repurchase agreements (repos) depends on the neoclassical premise that markets are reliable sources of liquidity; repos in practice disprove the theory by generatin... Read More about Repurchase agreements and the (de)construction of financial markets.