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Tourism and islandscapes: Cultural realignment, social-ecological resilience and change (2017)
Journal Article
Reeves, K. J., Cheer, J. M., Cole, S., & Kato, K. (2017). Tourism and islandscapes: Cultural realignment, social-ecological resilience and change. Shima, 11(1), 40-54. https://doi.org/10.21463/shima.11.1.07

If, as according to Robin (2015: online), "islands are idealised ecological worlds, the Edens of a fallen planet'", the rationale underpinning tourism expansion should acknowledge MacLeod's (2013) notion of "cultural realignment" that calls for optim... Read More about Tourism and islandscapes: Cultural realignment, social-ecological resilience and change.

A comparative study of android users’ privacy preferences under the runtime permission model (2017)
Journal Article
Andriotis, P., Li, S., Spyridopoulos, T., & Stringhini, G. (2017). A comparative study of android users’ privacy preferences under the runtime permission model. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 10292 LNCS, 604-622. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58460-7_42

© Springer International Publishing AG 2017. Android users recently were given the ability to selectively grant access to sensitive resources of their mobile devices when apps request them at runtime. The Android fine-grained runtime permission model... Read More about A comparative study of android users’ privacy preferences under the runtime permission model.

Privacy decision-making in the digital era: A game theoretic review (2017)
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Anastasopoulou, K., Kokolakis, S., & Andriotis, P. (2017). Privacy decision-making in the digital era: A game theoretic review. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 10292 LNCS, 589-603. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58460-7_41

© Springer International Publishing AG 2017. Information privacy is constantly negotiated when people interact with enterprises and government agencies via the Internet. In this context, all relevant stakeholders take privacy-related decisions. Indiv... Read More about Privacy decision-making in the digital era: A game theoretic review.

Control Optimization of Combined Cooling and Power System with Prime Mover of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell-gas Turbine for Building Application (2017)
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Luo, X. J., & Fong, K. F. (2017). Control Optimization of Combined Cooling and Power System with Prime Mover of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell-gas Turbine for Building Application. Energy Procedia, 105, 1883-1888. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2017.03.552

© 2017 The Authors. This paper presents a control strategy for a combined cooling and power (CCP) system using a prime mover of solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) with bottoming cycle of gas turbine (GT) for building application. Dynamic simulation model o... Read More about Control Optimization of Combined Cooling and Power System with Prime Mover of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell-gas Turbine for Building Application.

Dynamic, interactive and visual analysis of population distribution and mobility dynamics in an urban environment using the mobility explorer framework (2017)
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Peters-Anders, J., Khan, Z., Loibl, W., Augustin, H., & Breinbauer, A. (2017). Dynamic, interactive and visual analysis of population distribution and mobility dynamics in an urban environment using the mobility explorer framework. Information, 8(2), 56. https://doi.org/10.3390/info8020056

© 2017 by the authors. This paper investigates the extent to which a mobile data source can be utilised to generate new information intelligence for decision-making in smart city planning processes. In this regard, the Mobility Explorer framework is... Read More about Dynamic, interactive and visual analysis of population distribution and mobility dynamics in an urban environment using the mobility explorer framework.

Urban rainwater harvesting systems: Research, implementation and future perspectives (2017)
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Campisano, A., Butler, D., Ward, S., Burns, M. J., Friedler, E., DeBusk, K., …Han, M. (2017). Urban rainwater harvesting systems: Research, implementation and future perspectives. Water Research, 115, 195-209. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2017.02.056

© 2017 While the practice of rainwater harvesting (RWH) can be traced back millennia, the degree of its modern implementation varies greatly across the world, often with systems that do not maximize potential benefits. With a global focus, the pertin... Read More about Urban rainwater harvesting systems: Research, implementation and future perspectives.

Self-powered, autonomous Biological Oxygen Demand biosensor for online water quality monitoring (2017)
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Pasternak, G., Greenman, J., & Ieropoulos, I. (2017). Self-powered, autonomous Biological Oxygen Demand biosensor for online water quality monitoring. Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 244, 815-822. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.snb.2017.01.019

© 2017 The Authors Standard Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD) analysis requires 5days to complete. To date, microbial fuel cell biosensors used as an alternative method for BOD assessment requires external apparatus, which limits their use for on-line m... Read More about Self-powered, autonomous Biological Oxygen Demand biosensor for online water quality monitoring.

Two-source surface reconstruction using polarisation (2017)
Journal Article
Atkinson, G. A., & Atkinson, G. (2017). Two-source surface reconstruction using polarisation. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 10270 LNCS, 123-135. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59129-2_11

© Springer International Publishing AG 2017. Polarisation vision aims to capture and interpret the polarisation state of incoming light as part of a computer vision system. In this paper, polarisation information is fused with two-source photometric... Read More about Two-source surface reconstruction using polarisation.

Industrial wireless sensor networks 2016 (2017)
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Nallanathan, A., Xu, L., Zhao, S., Sun, Q., Li, S., Shanshan, Z., & Sun, H. (2017). Industrial wireless sensor networks 2016. International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, 13(6), 1-2. https://doi.org/10.1177/1550147717709545

The industrial wireless sensor network (IWSN) is the next frontier in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), which is able to help industrial organizations to gain competitive advantages in industrial manufacturing markets by increasing productivi... Read More about Industrial wireless sensor networks 2016.

Spatial analysis of fluoride concentrations in drinking water and population at risk in Namibia (2017)
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Wanke, H., Ueland, J. S., & Hipondoka, M. H. T. (2017). Spatial analysis of fluoride concentrations in drinking water and population at risk in Namibia. Water S.A, 43(3), 413-422. https://doi.org/10.4314/wsa.v43i3.06

© 2017, South African Water Research Commission. All rights reserved. Namibia, the driest country in sub-Saharan Africa, is largely reliant on groundwater for its potable water demand and groundwater is a major source of naturally-occurring fluoride.... Read More about Spatial analysis of fluoride concentrations in drinking water and population at risk in Namibia.

Emergency treatment with levetiracetam or phenytoin in status epilepticus in children-the EcLiPSE study: Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial (2017)
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Bacon, N. E., Lyttle, M., Gamble, C., Messahel, S., Hickey, H., Iyer, A., …Appleton, R. E. (2017). Emergency treatment with levetiracetam or phenytoin in status epilepticus in children-the EcLiPSE study: Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Trials, 18(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-017-2010-8

© The Author(s). 2017. Background: Convulsive status epilepticus (CSE) is the most common life-threatening neurological emergency in childhood. These children are also at risk of significant morbidity, with acute and chronic impact on the family and... Read More about Emergency treatment with levetiracetam or phenytoin in status epilepticus in children-the EcLiPSE study: Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.

Design of iron(II) phthalocyanine-derived oxygen reduction electrocatalysts for high-power-density microbial fuel cells (2017)
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Atanassov, P., Artyushkova, K., Serov, A., Licoccia, S., D'Epifanio, A., Mecheri, B., …Santoro, C. (2017). Design of iron(II) phthalocyanine-derived oxygen reduction electrocatalysts for high-power-density microbial fuel cells. ChemSusChem, 10(16), 3243-3251. https://doi.org/10.1002/cssc.201700851

© 2017 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim Iron(II) phthalocyanine (FePc) deposited onto two different carbonaceous supports was synthesized through an unconventional pyrolysis-free method. The obtained materials were studied in the oxygen r... Read More about Design of iron(II) phthalocyanine-derived oxygen reduction electrocatalysts for high-power-density microbial fuel cells.

Non-financial risk disclosure: The case of the UK’s distressed banks (2017)
Journal Article
Adelopo, I. (2017). Non-financial risk disclosure: The case of the UK’s distressed banks. Australasian Accounting, Business and Finance Journal, 11(2), 23-42. https://doi.org/10.14453/aabfj.v11i2.3

© 2017 Australasian Accounting Business and Finance Journal and Authors. This study investigates the narratives risk disclosures of the four British financial institutions that were adversely affected during the 2008 banking crisis. This investigatio... Read More about Non-financial risk disclosure: The case of the UK’s distressed banks.

Popular books on English place-names — a serious issue in onomastics (2017)
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Coates, R. (2017). Popular books on English place-names — a serious issue in onomastics. Voprosy Onomastiki, 14(2), 143-158. https://doi.org/10.15826/vopr_onom.2017.14.2.016

© 2017, Ural University Press. All rights reserved. This article reflects on a recent spate of books on English place-names produced by a nonprofessional writer, showing in considerable detail, for five counties, in what ways these books are deficien... Read More about Popular books on English place-names — a serious issue in onomastics.

Microbial fuel cells: From fundamentals to applications. A review (2017)
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Santoro, C., Arbizzani, C., Erable, B., & Ieropoulos, I. (2017). Microbial fuel cells: From fundamentals to applications. A review. Journal of Power Sources, 356, 225-244. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2017.03.109

© 2017 The Author(s) In the past 10–15 years, the microbial fuel cell (MFC) technology has captured the attention of the scientific community for the possibility of transforming organic waste directly into electricity through microbially catalyzed an... Read More about Microbial fuel cells: From fundamentals to applications. A review.

Allometric scaling of microbial fuel cells and stacks: The lifeform case for scale-up (2017)
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Greenman, J., & Ieropoulos, I. A. (2017). Allometric scaling of microbial fuel cells and stacks: The lifeform case for scale-up. Journal of Power Sources, 356, 365-370. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2017.04.033

© 2017 Elsevier B.V. This case study reports for the first time on the comparison between allometric scaling of lifeforms and scale-up of microbial fuel cell entities; enlarging individual units in volume, footprint and electrode surface area but als... Read More about Allometric scaling of microbial fuel cells and stacks: The lifeform case for scale-up.

Three-dimensional graphene nanosheets as cathode catalysts in standard and supercapacitive microbial fuel cell (2017)
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Atanassov, P., Serov, A., Soavi, F., Kabir, S., Kodali, M., & Santoro, C. (2017). Three-dimensional graphene nanosheets as cathode catalysts in standard and supercapacitive microbial fuel cell. Journal of Power Sources, 356, 371-380. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2017.03.135

© 2017 The Authors Three-dimensional graphene nanosheets (3D-GNS) were used as cathode catalysts for microbial fuel cells (MFCs) operating in neutral conditions. 3D-GNS catalysts showed high performance towards oxygen electroreduction in neutral medi... Read More about Three-dimensional graphene nanosheets as cathode catalysts in standard and supercapacitive microbial fuel cell.

Immigrants’ socio-economic achievements and cultural diversity: Economic effects of individual and local cultural capital (2017)
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Tubadji, A., Nijkamp, P., & Gheasi, M. (2017). Immigrants’ socio-economic achievements and cultural diversity: Economic effects of individual and local cultural capital. International Journal of Manpower, 38(5), 712-728. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJM-12-2015-0232

© 2017, © Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: An interest in social transmission as a source of welfare and income inequality in a society has re-emerged recently with new vigour in leading economic research (see Piketty, 2014). This paper presents... Read More about Immigrants’ socio-economic achievements and cultural diversity: Economic effects of individual and local cultural capital.

Synthesis and biological evaluation of pyrrole-based chalcones as CYP1 enzyme inhibitors, for possible prevention of cancer and overcoming cisplatin resistance (2017)
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Satti, N. K., Williams, I. S., Joshi, P., Gatchie, L., Sharma, M., Vishwakarma, R. A., …Bharate, S. B. (2017). Synthesis and biological evaluation of pyrrole-based chalcones as CYP1 enzyme inhibitors, for possible prevention of cancer and overcoming cisplatin resistance. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 27(16), 3683-3687. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bmcl.2017.07.010

© 2017 Elsevier Ltd Inhibitors of CYP1 enzymes may play vital roles in the prevention of cancer and overcoming chemo-resistance to anticancer drugs. In this letter, we report synthesis of twenty-three pyrrole based heterocyclic chalcones which were s... Read More about Synthesis and biological evaluation of pyrrole-based chalcones as CYP1 enzyme inhibitors, for possible prevention of cancer and overcoming cisplatin resistance.