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Mechanisms for residence volume reduction in shallow sump (2018)
Journal Article
Chandra, B., Simmons, K., & Murphy, A. (2018). Mechanisms for residence volume reduction in shallow sump. Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, 140(3), https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4037871

© 2018 by ASME. Gas turbine aero-engines employ fast rotating shafts that are supported by bearings at several axial locations along the engine. Due to extreme load and heat, oil is injected to the bearings to aid lubrication and cooling. The oil is... Read More about Mechanisms for residence volume reduction in shallow sump.

Towards digital transformation: Lessons learned from traditional organizations (2018)
Journal Article
Loonam, J., Eaves, S., Kumar, V., & Parry, G. (2018). Towards digital transformation: Lessons learned from traditional organizations. Strategic Change, 27(2), 101-109. https://doi.org/10.1002/jsc.2185

© 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Digitally enabled organizations are supported by new information and communication technologies, referred to as digital technologies, which increasingly promise enormous opportunities for growth. The study reviews 10... Read More about Towards digital transformation: Lessons learned from traditional organizations.

Alcohol mixed with energy drink (AMED): A critical review and meta-analysis (2018)
Journal Article
Verster, J. C., Benson, S., Johnson, S. J., Alford, C., Godefroy, S. B., & Scholey, A. (2018). Alcohol mixed with energy drink (AMED): A critical review and meta-analysis. Human Psychopharmacology: Clinical and Experimental, 33(2), e2650. https://doi.org/10.1002/hup.2650

© 2018 The Authors Human Psychopharmacology: Clinical and Experimental Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. The purpose of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to critically review the (1) prevalence of alcohol mixed with energy drink (AMED)... Read More about Alcohol mixed with energy drink (AMED): A critical review and meta-analysis.

Digital business models: Taxonomy and future research avenues (2018)
Journal Article
Vendrell-Herrero, F., Parry, G., Bustinza, O. F., & Gomes, E. (2018). Digital business models: Taxonomy and future research avenues. Strategic Change, 27(2), 87-90. https://doi.org/10.1002/jsc.2183

© 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Digital technologies reshape the competitive landscape as firms develop new means of value creation, delivery, and capture. The implementation and suitability of digital business models depend largely on the resources... Read More about Digital business models: Taxonomy and future research avenues.

Windowing television content: Lessons for digital business models (2018)
Journal Article
Parry, G., Pogrebna, G., & Vendrell-Herrero, F. (2018). Windowing television content: Lessons for digital business models. Strategic Change, 27(2), 151-160. https://doi.org/10.1002/jsc.2190

© 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. There is a market for successful distribution of television content using a Windowing strategy. This article investigates if a strategy where content is made available to consumers through different channels over time... Read More about Windowing television content: Lessons for digital business models.

Enhancement of microbial fuel cell performance by introducing a nano-composite cathode catalyst (2018)
Journal Article
Mounika, K., Herrera, S., Kabir, S., Serov, A., Santoro, C., Ieropoulos, I., & Atanassov, P. (2018). Enhancement of microbial fuel cell performance by introducing a nano-composite cathode catalyst. Electrochimica Acta, 265, 56-64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electacta.2018.01.118

© 2018 The Authors Iron aminoantipyrine (Fe-AAPyr), graphene nanosheets (GNSs) derived catalysts and their physical mixture Fe-AAPyr-GNS were synthesized and investigated as cathode catalysts for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) with the activated car... Read More about Enhancement of microbial fuel cell performance by introducing a nano-composite cathode catalyst.

Factor structure and convergent validity of the Derriford Appearance Scale-24 using standard scoring versus treating not applicable' responses as missing data: A Scleroderma Patient-centered Intervention Network (SPIN) cohort study (2018)
Journal Article
Merz, E., Kwakkenbos, L., Carrier, M. E., Gholizadeh, S., Mills, S. D., Fox, R. S., …Malcarne, V. L. (2018). Factor structure and convergent validity of the Derriford Appearance Scale-24 using standard scoring versus treating not applicable' responses as missing data: A Scleroderma Patient-centered Intervention Network (SPIN) cohort study. BMJ Open, 8(3), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-018641

© 2018 Article author(s) (or their employer(s) unless otherwise stated in the text of the article). All rights reserved. Objective Valid measures of appearance concern are needed in systemic sclerosis (SSc), a rare, disfiguring autoimmune disease. Th... Read More about Factor structure and convergent validity of the Derriford Appearance Scale-24 using standard scoring versus treating not applicable' responses as missing data: A Scleroderma Patient-centered Intervention Network (SPIN) cohort study.

Mixed play spaces: Augmenting digital storytelling with tactile objects (2018)
Journal Article
Glowacki, B. R. (2018). Mixed play spaces: Augmenting digital storytelling with tactile objects. InterActions, 25(2), 58-63. https://doi.org/10.1145/3178556

Young children tend to use mobile devices for solitary media consumption, yet they develop through social interactions. The presence of tangible objects in Bear Abouts invited imaginative play in a triangulation between device and child, and between... Read More about Mixed play spaces: Augmenting digital storytelling with tactile objects.

A rapidly acquired foraging-based working memory task, sensitive to hippocampal lesions, reveals age-dependent and age-independent behavioural changes in a mouse model of amyloid pathology (2018)
Journal Article
Evans, C., Hvoslefeide, M., Thomas, R. S., Kidd, E., & Good, M. (2018). A rapidly acquired foraging-based working memory task, sensitive to hippocampal lesions, reveals age-dependent and age-independent behavioural changes in a mouse model of amyloid pathology. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 149, 46-57. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2018.02.004

© 2018 Elsevier Inc. Three experiments examined the ability of mice to forage efficiently for liquid rewards in pots located in an open field arena. Search behaviour was unconstrained other than by the walls of the arena. All mice acquired the task w... Read More about A rapidly acquired foraging-based working memory task, sensitive to hippocampal lesions, reveals age-dependent and age-independent behavioural changes in a mouse model of amyloid pathology.

Slime mould: The fundamental mechanisms of biological cognition (2018)
Journal Article
Vallverdú, J., Castro, O., Mayne, R., Talanov, M., Levin, M., Baluška, F., …Adamatzky, A. (2018). Slime mould: The fundamental mechanisms of biological cognition. BioSystems, 165, 57-70. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2017.12.011

© 2018 Elsevier B.V. The slime mould Physarum polycephalum has been used in developing unconventional computing devices for in which the slime mould played a role of a sensing, actuating, and computing device. These devices treated the slime mould as... Read More about Slime mould: The fundamental mechanisms of biological cognition.

Biomechanical characteristics of lower limb gait waveforms: Associations with body fat in children (2018)
Journal Article
Mahaffey, R., Morrison, S. C., Bassett, P., Drechsler, W. I., & Cramp, M. (2018). Biomechanical characteristics of lower limb gait waveforms: Associations with body fat in children. Gait and Posture, 61, 220-225. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gaitpost.2018.01.019

© 2018 Elsevier B.V. Background: Childhood obesity is associated with musculoskeletal dysfunction and altered lower limb biomechanics during gait. Few previous studies have explored relationships between childhood obesity measured by body fat and low... Read More about Biomechanical characteristics of lower limb gait waveforms: Associations with body fat in children.

Fully-deterministic execution of IEC-61499 models for Distributed Avionics Applications (2018)
Journal Article
Insaurralde, C. C. (2018). Fully-deterministic execution of IEC-61499 models for Distributed Avionics Applications. Aerospace, 5(1), 15. https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace5010015

© 2018 by the authors. The development of time-critical Distributed Avionics Applications (DAAs) pushes beyond the limit of existing modeling methodologies to design dependable systems. Aerospace and industrial automation entail high-integrity applic... Read More about Fully-deterministic execution of IEC-61499 models for Distributed Avionics Applications.

Of course, trust is not the whole story: Narratives of dancing with a critical friend in social enterprise-public sector collaboration (2018)
Book Chapter
Seanor, P. (2018). Of course, trust is not the whole story: Narratives of dancing with a critical friend in social enterprise-public sector collaboration. In P. Dey, & C. Steyaert (Eds.), Social Entrepreneurship An affirmative critique (159-181). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing

The chapter questions the adequacy of academic narratives which frame trust in univocally positive terms by conceiving it as an essential lubricant in cooperative relations between social enterprises and government. Based on interviews with social en... Read More about Of course, trust is not the whole story: Narratives of dancing with a critical friend in social enterprise-public sector collaboration.

qvm: A command line tool for the provisioning of virtual machines (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Ogunshile, E. (2018). qvm: A command line tool for the provisioning of virtual machines. In V. Méndez Muñoz, D. Ferguson, M. Helfert, & C. Pahl (Eds.), Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (287-298). https://doi.org/10.5220/0006640902870298

The purpose of this paper is to create and demonstrate a command line utility that uses freely available cloud images—typically intended for deployment within public and private cloud environments—to rapidly provision virtual machines on a local serv... Read More about qvm: A command line tool for the provisioning of virtual machines.

Viability of small-scale HPC cloud infrastructures (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Ogunshile, E. K. A. (2018). Viability of small-scale HPC cloud infrastructures. In V. Méndez Muñoz, D. Ferguson, M. Helfert, & C. Pahl (Eds.), Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER (275-286). https://doi.org/10.5220/0006640802750286

RDMA networking has historically been linked closely and almost exclusively with HPC infrastructures. However, as demand for RDMA networking increases in fields outside of HPC, such as with Hadoop in the Big Data space, an increasing number of organi... Read More about Viability of small-scale HPC cloud infrastructures.

Developing a power efficient private cloud ready infrastructure for small-medium sized enterprises (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Ogunshile, E. (2018). Developing a power efficient private cloud ready infrastructure for small-medium sized enterprises. In V. Méndez Muñoz, D. Ferguson, M. Helfert, & C. Pahl (Eds.), Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (299-309). https://doi.org/10.5220/0006641002990309

Digital technology is advancing and the means of powering it so. For small-medium enterprise (SME) to remain competitive in today’s economic climate it is paramount they can respond to business challenges with agility and efficiency. Despite knowing... Read More about Developing a power efficient private cloud ready infrastructure for small-medium sized enterprises.

A potent mix: When science and poetry combine (2018)
Journal Article
Jones, V. (2018). A potent mix: When science and poetry combine. Primary Science, 152, 16-18

Teaching science through the unexpected route of poetry can establish new and interesting understandings for learners. This article considers how to merge these two disciplines.

Epilogue: the new frontiers of behavioral research on the interrelationships between ICT, activities, time use and mobility (2018)
Journal Article
Ben-Elia, E., Lyons, G., & Mokhtarian, P. (2018). Epilogue: the new frontiers of behavioral research on the interrelationships between ICT, activities, time use and mobility. Transportation, 45(2), 479-497. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11116-018-9871-x

© 2018, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature. This special issue is a product of the international symposium on “ICT, Activities, Time Use and Travel” that was hosted by Nanjing University from 16 to 18 July 2016. The symposi... Read More about Epilogue: the new frontiers of behavioral research on the interrelationships between ICT, activities, time use and mobility.

Effect of pH on the activity of platinum group metal-free catalysts in oxygen reduction reaction (2018)
Journal Article
Atanassov, P., Matanovic, I., Serov, A., Artyushkova, K., Rojas-Carbonell, S., & Santoro, C. (2018). Effect of pH on the activity of platinum group metal-free catalysts in oxygen reduction reaction. ACS Catalysis, 8(4), 3041-3053. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.7b03991

© 2018 American Chemical Society. The impact of the electrolyte's pH on the catalytic activity of platinum group metal-free (PGM-free) catalysts toward the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) was studied. The results indicate that the ORR mechanism is de... Read More about Effect of pH on the activity of platinum group metal-free catalysts in oxygen reduction reaction.

Branding in a digital world: Discussion based on an interview with Paul Geddes CEO of Direct Line Group (2018)
Journal Article
Hughes, T., & O'Regan, N. (2018). Branding in a digital world: Discussion based on an interview with Paul Geddes CEO of Direct Line Group. Marketing Review, 18(1), 41-53. https://doi.org/10.1362/146934718X15208754808199

In an interview, Paul Geddes, CEO of Direct Line outlines his thoughts on how branding has changed since he started his career in fast moving consumer goods, at Procter and Gamble. The purpose of the article is to present a leading practitioner’s vie... Read More about Branding in a digital world: Discussion based on an interview with Paul Geddes CEO of Direct Line Group.