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Experimental verification of the vibro-impact capsule model. (2015)
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LIU, Y., PAVLOVSKAIA, E. and WIERCIGROCH, M. 2016. Experimental verification of the vibro-impact capsule model. Nonlinear dynamics [online], 83(1-2), pages 1029-1041. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11071-015-2385-6

In this paper, an experimental verification of the vibro-impact capsule model proposed by Liu et al. in [1-3] is presented. The capsule dynamics is investigated experimentally by varying the stiffness of the support spring, and the frequency and the... Read More about Experimental verification of the vibro-impact capsule model..

Fuel consumption tabulation in laboratory conditions. (2015)
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ALGHADHI, M., BALL, A., KOLLAR, L.E., MISHRA, R. and ASIM, T. 2015. Fuel consumption tabulation in laboratory conditions. International research journal of electronics and computer engineering [online], 1(2), pages 10-14. Available from: https://doi.org/10.24178/irjece.2015.1.2.10

Environmental degradation has come about for a number of factors including the use of fossil fuels in vehicles for everyday use. This paper attempts to understand the relationship between fuel consumption and various engine performance parameters und... Read More about Fuel consumption tabulation in laboratory conditions..

Music information seeking behaviour as motivator for musical creativity: conceptual analysis and literature review. (2015)
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LAVRANOS, C., KOSTAGIOLAS, P.A., MARTZOUKOU, K. and PAPADATOS, J. 2015. Music information seeking behaviour as motivator for musical creativity: conceptual analysis and literature review. Journal of documentation [online], 71(5), pages 1070-1093. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-10-2014-0139

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the connection between musicians' information seeking behaviour and the creative process in music, providing a framework for understanding the role of information needs satisfaction in musical creativity. A... Read More about Music information seeking behaviour as motivator for musical creativity: conceptual analysis and literature review..

Intra- and inter-regional return and volatility spillovers across emerging and developed markets: evidence from stock indices and stock index futures. (2015)
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YAROVAYA, L., BRZESZCZYNSKI, J. and LAU, C.K.M. 2016. Intra- and inter-regional return and volatility spillovers across emerging and developed markets: evidence from stock indices and stock index futures. International review of financial analysis [online], 43, pages 96-114. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2015.09.004

We provide empirical evidence on the patterns of intra- and inter-regional transmission of information across 10 developed and 11 emerging markets in Asia, the Americas, Europe and Africa using both stock indices and stock index futures. The main tra... Read More about Intra- and inter-regional return and volatility spillovers across emerging and developed markets: evidence from stock indices and stock index futures..

A case study of Facebook use: outlining a multi-layer strategy for higher education. (2015)
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MENZIES, R., PETRIE, K. and ZARB, M. 2017. A case study of Facebook use: outlining a multi-layer strategy for higher education. Education and information technologies [online], 22(1), pages 39-53. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-015-9436-y

Many students are looking to appropriate social networking sites, amongst them, Facebook, to enhance their learning experience. A growing body of literature reports on the motivation of students and staff to engage with Facebook as a learning platfor... Read More about A case study of Facebook use: outlining a multi-layer strategy for higher education..

Resin characterization and tubular membrane transport with single gases for ethyl lactate separations for industrial purposes. (2015)
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OKON, E., SHEHU, H., NWOGU, N., KAJAMA, M., ORAKWE, I. and GOBINA, E. 2015. Resin characterization and tubular membrane transport with single gases for ethyl lactate separations for industrial purposes. Journal of materials science and chemical engineering [online], 3(9), pages 8-14. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4236/msce.2015.39002

The dip-coating method has been used to prepare silica membrane. The gas flow rate relationship with the gauge pressure showed a Knudsen type of mechanism of gas transport. The flux was found to decrease with respect to temperature indicating non-act... Read More about Resin characterization and tubular membrane transport with single gases for ethyl lactate separations for industrial purposes..

We can tell them to get lost, but we won't do that: cultural control and resistance in voluntary work. (2015)
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O'TOOLE, M. and GREY, C. 2016. We can tell them to get lost, but we won't do that: cultural control and resistance in voluntary work. Organization studies [online], 37(1), pages 55-75. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840615604507

Although cultural control and resistance in organizations have been widely researched, this has invariably been within the context of paid work. This paper examines how they operate within voluntary work, using the case of the Royal National Lifeboat... Read More about We can tell them to get lost, but we won't do that: cultural control and resistance in voluntary work..

Enterprise education with Chinese characteristics; policy, practices and uneven development in PRC. (2015)
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ANDERSON, A.R. and ZHANG, X. 2015. Enterprise education with Chinese characteristics: policy, practices and uneven development in PRC. Journal of entrepreneurship in emerging economies [online], 7(3), pages 276-292. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1108/JEEE-12-2014-0047

Purpose: The paper aims to review the emergence and nature of entrepreneurship education in China. This paper considers the variability of developments in practices despite policy. In turn, this allows one to consider the implications of this uneven... Read More about Enterprise education with Chinese characteristics; policy, practices and uneven development in PRC..

Everything was fine: an analysis of the drill crew's situation awareness on Deepwater Horizon. (2015)
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ROBERTS, R., FLIN, R. and CLELAND, J. 2015. Everything was fine: an analysis of the drill crew's situation awareness on Deepwater Horizon. Journal of loss prevention in the process industries [online], 38, pages 87-100. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jlp.2015.08.008

Purpose: Investigation reports into the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig disaster identified issues with the drill crew's situation awareness (SA). The aim was to (1) apply the Driller's Situation Awareness (DSA) model to the cognitive data extracted f... Read More about Everything was fine: an analysis of the drill crew's situation awareness on Deepwater Horizon..

Development and evaluation of a nurse-led, tailored stroke self-management intervention. (2015)
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KIDD, L., LAWRENCE, M., BOOTH, J., ROWAT, A. and RUSSELL, S. 2015. Development and evaluation of a nurse-led, tailored stroke self-management intervention. BMC health services research [online], 15, Article 359. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-015-1021-y

Background: Community nurses are well placed to promote and support stroke survivors to engage in self-management. The aim of this study was to develop a stroke self-management intervention that could be tailored towards stroke survivors' self-manage... Read More about Development and evaluation of a nurse-led, tailored stroke self-management intervention..

The experiences of support persons of people newly diagnosed with multiple sclerosis: an interpretative phenomenological study. (2015)
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STRICKLAND, K., WORTH, A. and KENNEDY, C. 2015. The experiences of support persons of people newly diagnosed with multiple sclerosis: an interpretative phenomenological study. Journal of advanced nursing [online], 71(12), pages 2811-2821. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.12758

Aim: This study explores the experience of the diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis for the support person and identifies the impact on their lives. Background: At the time of diagnosis, the support person may not be readily identified in a traditional ca... Read More about The experiences of support persons of people newly diagnosed with multiple sclerosis: an interpretative phenomenological study..

The evolution of the market for commercial computerized physician order entry and computerized decision support systems for prescribing. (2015)
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MOZAFFAR, H., WILLIAMS, R., CRESSWELL, K., MORRISON, Z., BATES, D.W. and SHEIKH, A. 2016. The evolution of the market for commercial computerized physician order entry and computerized decision support systems for prescribing. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association [online], 23(2), pages 349-355. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocv095

Objective: To understand the evolving market of commercial off-the-shelf Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) and Computerized Decision Support (CDS) applications and its effects on their uptake and implementation in English hospitals. Methods:... Read More about The evolution of the market for commercial computerized physician order entry and computerized decision support systems for prescribing..

Futuristic nanomaterials and composites: part I. (2015)
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LEHMHUS, D., NJUGUNA, J. and PARAMSOTHY, M. 2015. Futuristic nanomaterials and composites: part I. JOM: journal of the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society [online], 67(12), pages 2844-2847. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-015-1619-x

The present special topic 'Futuristic Nanomaterials and Composites: Part I' captures the structural as well as functional aspects of nanomaterials and nanocomposites that are unique in some specific way when compared to their microscale counterparts.... Read More about Futuristic nanomaterials and composites: part I..

Great expectations or small country living? Enabling small rural creative businesses with ICT. (2015)
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ANDERSON, A.R., WALLACE, C. and TOWNSEND, L. 2016. Great expectations or small country living? Enabling small rural creative businesses with ICT. Sociologia ruralis [online], 56(3), pages 450-468. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/soru.12104

Small businesses are prototypical rural business, but limited by distance. However, creative businesses are less constrained by space and hold great promise for rural development. Indeed, the rural is an attractive creative aesthetic milieu. Moreover... Read More about Great expectations or small country living? Enabling small rural creative businesses with ICT..

Evaluating degrees of isolation between tenants enabled by multitenancy patterns for cloud-hosted version control systems (VCS). (2015)
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OCHEI, L.C., PETROVSKI, A. and BASS, J.M. 2015. Evaluating degrees of isolation between tenants enabled by multitenancy patterns for cloud-hosted version control systems (VCS). International journal of intelligent computing research [online], 6(3), pages 601-612. Available from: https://doi.org/10.20533/ijicr.2042.4655.2015.0075

When implementing multitenancy for cloud-hosted applications, one of the main challenges to overcome is how to enable the required degree of isolation between tenants so that the required performance, resource utilization, and access privileges of on... Read More about Evaluating degrees of isolation between tenants enabled by multitenancy patterns for cloud-hosted version control systems (VCS)..

Conversational mapping: revaluing the social aspects of art. (2015)
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GAUSDEN, C. and SMITH, H. 2015. Conversational mapping: revaluing the social aspects of art. Hyperrhiz: new media cultures [online], 12. Available from: https://doi.org/10.20415/hyp/012.cm03

This submission, part audio, part text continues a dialogue between artist Helen Smith and critical theorist Caroline Gausden delivered at the 2014 Mapping Culture Conference in Coimbra, which compared two distinct geographies through the lens of art... Read More about Conversational mapping: revaluing the social aspects of art..

Optimisation of the performance of a novel rotationally asymmetrical optical concentrator design for building integrated photovoltaic system. (2015)
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ABU-BAKAR, S.H., MUHAMMAD-SUKKI, F., FREIER, D., RAMIREZ-INIGUEZ, R., MALLICK, T.K., MUNIR, A.B., YASIN, S.H. M., MAS'UD, A.A. and YUNUS, N.M. 2015. Optimisation of the performance of a novel rotationally asymmetrical optical concentrator design for building integrated photovoltaic system. Energy [online], 90(Part 1), pages 1033-1045. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2015.07.133

Solar energy is one of the renewable energy sources that has shown promising potential in addressing the world's energy needs, particularly via the solar PV (photovoltaic) technology. However, the high cost of installation is still being considered a... Read More about Optimisation of the performance of a novel rotationally asymmetrical optical concentrator design for building integrated photovoltaic system..

Family entrepreneurship as a field of research: exploring its contours and contents. (2015)
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RANDERSON, K., BETTINELLIB, C., FAYOLLE, A. and ANDERSON, A. 2015. Family entrepreneurship as a field of research: exploring its contours and contents. Journal of family business strategy [online], 6(3), pages 143-154. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfbs.2015.08.002

This research note presents some food for thought about linking and relating the family, family business and entrepreneurship fields. Although each field has developed an important body of knowledge and some work has been done at the intersections, w... Read More about Family entrepreneurship as a field of research: exploring its contours and contents..

Detection and recognition of illegally parked vehicles based on an adaptive gaussian mixture model and a seed fill algorithm. (2015)
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SARKER, M.M.K., WEIHUA, C. and SONG, M.K. 2015. Detection and recognition of illegally parked vehicles based on an adaptive gaussian mixture model and a seed fill algorithm. Journal of information and communication convergence engineering [online], 13(3), pages 197-204. Available from: https://doi.org/10.6109/jicce.2015.13.3.197

In this paper, we present an algorithm for the detection of illegally parked vehicles based on a combination of some image processing algorithms. A digital camera is fixed in the illegal parking region to capture the video frames. An adaptive Gaussia... Read More about Detection and recognition of illegally parked vehicles based on an adaptive gaussian mixture model and a seed fill algorithm..

Rapid bioassay-guided isolation of antibacterial clerodane type diterpenoid from Dodonaea viscosa (L.) Jaeq. (2015)
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KHURRAM, M., LAWTON, L.A., EDWARDS, C., IRITI, M., HAMEED, A., KHAN, M.A., KHAN, F.A. and RAHMAN, S.U. 2015. Rapid bioassay-guided isolation of antibacterial clerodane type diterpenoid from Dodonaea viscosa (L.) Jaeq. International journal of molecular science [online], 16(9), pages 20290-20307. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms160920290

Plant extracts are complex matrices and, although crude extracts are widely in use, purified compounds are pivotal in drug discovery. This study describes the application of automated preparative-HPLC combined with a rapid off-line bacterial bioassay... Read More about Rapid bioassay-guided isolation of antibacterial clerodane type diterpenoid from Dodonaea viscosa (L.) Jaeq..