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Oil well characterization and artificial gas lift optimization using neural networks combined with genetic algorithm (2014)
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This paper examines the characterization of six oil wells and the allocation of gas considering limited and unlimited case scenario. Artificial gas lift involves injecting high-pressured gas from the surface into the producing fluid column through on... Read More about Oil well characterization and artificial gas lift optimization using neural networks combined with genetic algorithm.

Microbial acetone oxidation in coastal seawater (2014)
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Acetone is an important oxygenated volatile organic compound (OVOC) in the troposphere where it influences the oxidizing capacity of the atmosphere. However, the air-sea flux is not well quantified, in part due to a lack of knowledge regarding which... Read More about Microbial acetone oxidation in coastal seawater.

Fluvial style in the Lower Old Red Sandstone: Examples from southwest Wales, UK (2014)
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© 2014 The Geologists' Association. Studies of the behaviour of different types of present-day river channels with regard to sediment transport and depositional processes enable interpretation of fluvial deposits throughout the stratigraphic record.... Read More about Fluvial style in the Lower Old Red Sandstone: Examples from southwest Wales, UK.

Dreaming fairness and re-imagining equality and diversity through participative aesthetic inquiry (2014)
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© The Author(s) 2013. This article presents the findings of a participative action research project into how arts-based inquiry can revitalise equality and diversity organisational practices. We demonstrate that the arts-based methodologies introduce... Read More about Dreaming fairness and re-imagining equality and diversity through participative aesthetic inquiry.

The Organizing Dimensions of Strategic Foresight in High-Velocity Environments (2014)
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Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd Strategic foresight promotes the enactment of organizationally useful actions and repertoires which enhance the entrepreneurial capabilities of firms embedded in high-velocity environments.

Conceptualizing Strategic Foresight: An Integrated Framework (2014)
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Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd An integrative framework is proposed to generate a more complete picture of strategic foresight as an organizing capability in high-velocity environments.

The Battle for Brainpower: The Role of Market Intermediaries in Lateral Hiring (2014)
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Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd The utilization of market intermediaries to identify and recruit top talent is essential in winning the global talent race.

NetTweens: The Internet and Body Image Concerns in Preteenage Girls (2014)
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The aim of the study was to examine the relationship between media exposure and body image concerns in preteenage girls, with a particular focus on the Internet. A sample of 189 girls (aged 10-12 years) completed questionnaire measures of media consu... Read More about NetTweens: The Internet and Body Image Concerns in Preteenage Girls.

Nasogastric tube depth: The 'NEX' guideline is incorrect (2014)
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© 2014 MA Healthcare Ltd. Misplacing 17-23% of nasogastric (NG) tubes above the stomach (Rollins et al, 2012; Rayner, 2013) represents a serious risk in terms of aspiration, further invasive (tube) procedures, irradiation from failed X-ray confirmati... Read More about Nasogastric tube depth: The 'NEX' guideline is incorrect.

The use of a gas chromatograph coupled to a metal oxide sensor for rapid assessment of stool samples from irritable bowel syndrome and inflammatory bowel disease patients (2014)
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There is much clinical interest in the development of a low-cost and reliable test for diagnosing inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), two very distinct diseases that can present with similar symptoms. The assessment o... Read More about The use of a gas chromatograph coupled to a metal oxide sensor for rapid assessment of stool samples from irritable bowel syndrome and inflammatory bowel disease patients.

Designing and delivering an educational package to meet the needs of primary care health professionals in the diagnosis and management of those with complex regional pain syndrome (2014)
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Towards point of care testing for C. difficile infection by volatile profiling, using the combination of a short multi-capillary gas chromatography column with metal oxide sensor detection (2014)
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Rapid volatile profiling of stool sample headspace was achieved using a combination of short multi-capillary chromatography column (SMCC), highly sensitive heated metal oxide semiconductor sensor and artificial neural network software. For direct ana... Read More about Towards point of care testing for C. difficile infection by volatile profiling, using the combination of a short multi-capillary gas chromatography column with metal oxide sensor detection.

Surface flattening of the human left atrium and proof-of-concept clinical applications (2014)
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Surface flattening in medical imaging has seen widespread use in neurology and more recently in cardiology to describe the left ventricle using the bull's-eye plot. The method is particularly useful to standardize the display of functional informatio... Read More about Surface flattening of the human left atrium and proof-of-concept clinical applications.

I would give up...: Tim Hope, Chris Stanley, Tracey McMahon, Ben Bowling, J M Moore and Jordan Beaumont offer their choices of what they would dispense of in the criminal justice system (2014)
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As part of our Justice Matters initiative we are challenging people to think about a criminal justice practice, policy or institution to abolish or abstain from, here contributors offer their choices.... © 2013 ©2013 Centre for Crime and Justice Stud... Read More about I would give up...: Tim Hope, Chris Stanley, Tracey McMahon, Ben Bowling, J M Moore and Jordan Beaumont offer their choices of what they would dispense of in the criminal justice system.

A journey to citizenship: Constructions of citizenship and identity in the British Citizenship Test (2014)
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The British Citizenship Test was introduced in 2005 as one of a raft of new procedures aimed at addressing the perceived problems of integration and social cohesion in migrant communities. In this study, we argue that this new citizenship procedure s... Read More about A journey to citizenship: Constructions of citizenship and identity in the British Citizenship Test.

Conceptualizing future labour markets (2014)
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© W. S. Maney & Son Ltd 2014. An enquiry into what future labour markets might look like is, necessarily, an enquiry into what future labour market institutions might look like. Any such enquiry requires a conceptual apparatus (i.e. theory, metathe... Read More about Conceptualizing future labour markets.

The challenges of providing palliative care for people with intellectual disabilities: A literature review (2014)
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© 2014 MA Healthcare Ltd. People with intellectual disabilities are often marginalised from mainstream health-care services because of the complexities of their disability. They are under-referred to specialist palliative care owing to a limited unde... Read More about The challenges of providing palliative care for people with intellectual disabilities: A literature review.

Blending moving least squares techniques with NURBS basis functions for nonlinear isogeometric analysis (2014)
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IsoGeometric Analysis (IGA) is increasing its popularity as a new numerical tool for the analysis of structures. IGA provides: (i) the possibility of using higher order polynomials for the basis functions; (ii) the smoothness for contact analysis; (i... Read More about Blending moving least squares techniques with NURBS basis functions for nonlinear isogeometric analysis.

Effect of mental challenge induced by movie clips on action potential duration in normal human subjects independent of heart rate (2014)
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Background-Mental stress and emotion have long been associated with ventricular arrhythmias and sudden death in animal models and humans. The effect of mental challenge on ventricular action potential duration (APD) in conscious healthy humans has no... Read More about Effect of mental challenge induced by movie clips on action potential duration in normal human subjects independent of heart rate.

Practices and perceptions of living apart together (2014)
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© 2014, © 2014 The Author(s). Published by Routledge. This paper examines how people living apart together (LATs) maintain their relationships, and describes how they view this living arrangement. It draws on a 2011 survey on LAT in Britain, suppleme... Read More about Practices and perceptions of living apart together.