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‘Prison is the worst place a Traveller could be’: The experiences of Irish Travellers in prison in England and Wales (2019)
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Irish prisoners are the second most represented foreign national group in the prison system in England and Wales, and while no precise statistics are available, it is estimated that Irish Travellers make up a considerable percentage of the prisoners... Read More about ‘Prison is the worst place a Traveller could be’: The experiences of Irish Travellers in prison in England and Wales.

University-industry collaboration through Knowledge Transfer Partnerships in the UK: An extension of activity theory (2019)
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The mechanisms for stimulating innovation are perennial subjects of concern. Despite the recognition of their importance they remain troublesome undertakings for individual organisations and national economies. The literature has only recently begun... Read More about University-industry collaboration through Knowledge Transfer Partnerships in the UK: An extension of activity theory.

Soil microbial biomass increases along elevational gradients in the tropics and subtropics but not elsewhere (2019)
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Aim: Our aim is to use elevational gradients to quantify the relationship between temperature and ecosystem functioning. Ecosystem functions such as decomposition, nutrient cycling and carbon storage are linked with the amount of microbial biomass in... Read More about Soil microbial biomass increases along elevational gradients in the tropics and subtropics but not elsewhere.

Microbial fuel cells directly powering a microcomputer (2019)
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© 2019 The Authors Many studies have demonstrated that microbial fuel cells (MFC) can be energy-positive systems and power various low power applications. However, to be employed as a low-level power source, MFC systems rely on energy management circ... Read More about Microbial fuel cells directly powering a microcomputer.

Understanding unconventional preprocessors in deep convolutional neural networks for face identification (2019)
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Deep convolutional neural networks have achieved huge successes in application domains like object and face recognition. The performance gain is attributed to different facets of the network architecture such as: depth of the convolutional layers, ac... Read More about Understanding unconventional preprocessors in deep convolutional neural networks for face identification.

The use and impact of Goodreads rating and reviews, for readers of Arabic Books (2019)
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Provision of care for families affected by craniofacial conditions: The views of nonspecialist health professionals (2019)
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Objective: A diagnosis of a congenital craniofacial condition can have a significant impact on the psychological wellbeing of the affected family. As the first health professionals likely to come into contact with families, non-specialists, such as... Read More about Provision of care for families affected by craniofacial conditions: The views of nonspecialist health professionals.

Farm and farmer characteristics and off-farm work: Evidence from Algeria (2019)
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© 2019 Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society Inc. Off-farm work is a widespread, two-edged, phenomenon that can help both the survival and the demise of small- and medium-sized agricultural exploitations. Given the prevalence of po... Read More about Farm and farmer characteristics and off-farm work: Evidence from Algeria.

Vibration transmission and power flow in impact oscillators with linear and nonlinear constraints (2019)
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This paper investigates the vibration transmission and power flow behaviour of impact oscillators comprising linear or quasi-zero-stiffness (QZS) nonlinear constraints. The steady-state responses of the systems subjected to a harmonic excitation are... Read More about Vibration transmission and power flow in impact oscillators with linear and nonlinear constraints.

A comprehensive study of custom-made ceramic separators for microbial fuel cells: Towards "living" bricks (2019)
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Towards the commercialisation of microbial fuel cell (MFC) technology, well-performing, cost-effective, and sustainable separators are being developed. Ceramic is one of the promising materials for this purpose. In this study, ceramic separators made... Read More about A comprehensive study of custom-made ceramic separators for microbial fuel cells: Towards "living" bricks.

Transdisciplinary agricultural research in Lao PDR (2019)
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© 2019 Elsevier Ltd Transdisciplinary research focussing on improving smallholder farmers' uptake of technological innovations enables the integration of knowledge systems and the co-design and delivery of creative solutions. In this paper, we illust... Read More about Transdisciplinary agricultural research in Lao PDR.

Valuing a translingual mindset in researcher education in Anglophone higher education: Supervision perspectives (2019)
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This article explores some implications of plurilingualism and translingual practice for teaching and learning in higher education. Research in this area tends to focus on the undergraduate experience whereas our focus is on doctoral supervision, a l... Read More about Valuing a translingual mindset in researcher education in Anglophone higher education: Supervision perspectives.

An evaluation of a training intervention to support the use of evidence in healthcare commissioning in England (2019)
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AIM: Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in England are responsible for the health of their populations through the services they provide, yet we know that the use of evidence to inform commissioning decisions is low. A programme of training in seve... Read More about An evaluation of a training intervention to support the use of evidence in healthcare commissioning in England.

Threats on the horizon: Understanding security threats in the era of cyber-physical systems (2019)
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Disruptive innovations of the last few decades, such as smart cities and Industry 4.0, were made possible by higher integration of physical and digital elements. In today's pervasive cyber-physical systems, connecting more devices introduces new vuln... Read More about Threats on the horizon: Understanding security threats in the era of cyber-physical systems.

Managing the column equilibration time in hydrophilic interaction chromatography (2019)
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For a wide variety of hydrophilic interaction chromatography stationary phases, a repeatable partial equilibration was demonstrated in gradient elution after purging with as little as 12 column volumes of mobile phase. Relative standard deviations of... Read More about Managing the column equilibration time in hydrophilic interaction chromatography.

Identifying the origins of extreme rainfall using storm track classification (2019)
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Identifying patterns in data relating to extreme rainfall is important for classifying and estimating rainfall and flood frequency distributions routinely used in civil engineering design and flood management. This study demonstrates the novel use of s... Read More about Identifying the origins of extreme rainfall using storm track classification.

Higher education teaching and training system and economic performance: An empirical investigation (2019)
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© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This paper investigates the impact of higher education characteristics on economic performance. Despite a relatively plethoric literature, there is still a clear lack of understa... Read More about Higher education teaching and training system and economic performance: An empirical investigation.

Teaching robots social autonomy from in situ human guidance (2019)
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Striking the right balance between robot autonomy and human control is a core challenge in social robotics, in both technical and ethical terms. On the one hand, extended robot autonomy offers the potential for increased human productivity and for th... Read More about Teaching robots social autonomy from in situ human guidance.

A web-based design for occupational safety and health capability maturity indicator (2019)
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It has been established that design contributes to the occurrence of occupational injuries and illnesses in the construction sector. This has resulted in the need for designers to implement design for occupational safety and health (DfOSH), which is... Read More about A web-based design for occupational safety and health capability maturity indicator.

Bayesian estimation of human impedance and motion intention for human-robot collaboration (2019)
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This article proposes a Bayesian method to acquire the estimation of human impedance and motion intention in a human-robot collaborative task. Combining with the prior knowledge of human stiffness, estimated stiffness obeying Gaussian distribution is... Read More about Bayesian estimation of human impedance and motion intention for human-robot collaboration.