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Sulfur-linked cyanobiphenyl-based liquid crystal dimers and the twist-bend nematic phase. (2019)
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CRUICKSHANK, E., SALAMOŃCZYK, M., POCIECHA, D., STRACHAN, G.J., STOREY, J.M.D., WANG, C., FENG, J., ZHU, C., GORECKA, E. and IMRIE, C.T. 2019. Sulfur-linked cyanobiphenyl-based liquid crystal dimers and the twist-bend nematic phase. Liquid crystals [online], 46(10), pages 1595-1609. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2019.1641638

The synthesis and characterisation of two series of cyanobiphenyl-based liquid crystal dimers containing sulfur links between the spacer and mesogenic units, the 4ʹ-[1,ω-alkanediylbis(thio)]bis-[1,1ʹ-biphenyl]-4-carbonitriles (CBSnSCB), and 4ʹ-({ω-[(... Read More about Sulfur-linked cyanobiphenyl-based liquid crystal dimers and the twist-bend nematic phase..

Mixed-methods approach to determine adherence, knowledge and behavioral determinants associated with medication wastage. (2019)
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WEST, L.M., STEWART, D. and CORDINA, M. 2020. Mixed-methods approach to determine adherence, knowledge and behavioral determinants associated with medication wastage. Research in social and administrative pharmacy [online], 16(5), pages 654-662. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sapharm.2019.08.003

Background: While literature quantifying medication wastage and assessing public's knowledge and practices about medication disposal is substantial, less attention is given to the public's knowledge and behavior pertaining to medication wastage preve... Read More about Mixed-methods approach to determine adherence, knowledge and behavioral determinants associated with medication wastage..

Enacting evidence-based practice: pathways for community nurses. (2019)
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TEODOROWSKI, P., CABLE, C., KILBURN, S. and KENNEDY, C. 2019. Enacting evidence-based practice: pathways for community nurses. British journal of community nursing [online], 24(8), pages 370-376. Available from: https://doi.org/10.12968/bjcn.2019.24.8.370

Community nurses are expected to deliver evidence-based practice, which is challenging given the diversity and breadth of the evidence base from which they can draw. This study aimed to explore community nurses' experiences of implementing change in... Read More about Enacting evidence-based practice: pathways for community nurses..

Trunk muscle activation in the back and hack squat at the same relative loads. (2019)
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CLARK, D.R., LAMBERT, M.I. and HUNTER, A.M. 2019. Trunk muscle activation in the back and hack quat at the same relative loads. Journal of strength and conditioning research [online], 33(Supplement), pages S60-S69. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1519/JSC.0000000000002144

The hack squat (HS) is likely to produce a greater 1 repetition maximum (1RM) compared with the back squat (BS). This can be attributed to the support of the trunk during the HS compared with no support during BS. This support, however, may compromis... Read More about Trunk muscle activation in the back and hack squat at the same relative loads..

Optimal distributed generation in green building assessment towards line loss reduction for Malaysian public hospital. (2019)
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AMRAN, M.E., MUHTAZARUDDIN, M.N., BANI, N.A., KAIDI, H.M., HASSAN, M.Z., SARIP, S. and MUHAMMAD-SUKKI, F. 2019. Optimal distributed generation in green building assessment towards line loss reduction for Malaysian public hospital. Bulletin of electrical engineering and informatics [online], 8(4), pages 1180-1188. Available from: https://doi.org/10.11591/eei.v8i4.1624

This paper presents an optimization approach for criteria setting of Renewable Distributed Generation (DG) in the Green Building Rating System (GBRS). In this study, the total line loss reduction is analyzed and set as the main objective function in... Read More about Optimal distributed generation in green building assessment towards line loss reduction for Malaysian public hospital..

Integrative review: identifying the evidence base for policymaking and analysis in health care. (2019)
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KENNEDY, C., O'REILLY, P., O'CONNELL, R., O'LEARY, D., FEALY, G., HEGARTY, J.-M., BRADY, A.-M., NICHOLSON, E., MCNAMARA, M. and CASEY, M. 2019. Integrative review: identifying the evidence base for policymaking and analysis in health care. Journal of advanced nursing [online], 75(12), pages 3231-3245. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.14121

Aim: To identify and synthesise the evidence underpinning the health policymaking process to inform the development of a health related policy analysis framework. Design: A mixed methods review using ‘Best Fit’ Framework synthesis. Data sources: PUBM... Read More about Integrative review: identifying the evidence base for policymaking and analysis in health care..

A new CFD approach for proppant transport in unconventional hydraulic fractures. (2019)
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SURI, Y., ISLAM, S.Z. and HOSSAIN, M. 2019. A new CFD approach for proppant transport in unconventional hydraulic fractures. Journal of natural gas science and engineering [online], 70, article number 102951. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jngse.2019.102951

For hydraulic fracturing design in unconventional reservoirs, the existing proppant transport models ignore the fluid leak-off effect from the fracture side wall and the effect of fracture roughness. In this paper, a model is proposed using three-dim... Read More about A new CFD approach for proppant transport in unconventional hydraulic fractures..

Breast tumor segmentation and shape classification in mammograms using generative adversarial and convolutional neural network. (2019)
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SINGH, V.K., RASHWAN, H.A., ROMANI, S., AKRAM, F., PANDEY, N., SARKER, M.M.K., SALEH, A., ARENAS, M., ARQUEZ, M., PUIG, D. and TORRENTS-BARRENA, J. 2020. Breast tumor segmentation and shape classification in mammograms using generative adversarial and convolutional neural network. Expert systems with applications [online], 139, article number 112855. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2019.112855

Mammogram inspection in search of breast tumors is a tough assignment that radiologists must carry out frequently. Therefore, image analysis methods are needed for the detection and delineation of breast tumors, which portray crucial morphological in... Read More about Breast tumor segmentation and shape classification in mammograms using generative adversarial and convolutional neural network..

Adult dental health survey 2009: association between oral health outcomes and living arrangements of older adults in the UK. (2019)
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AMINU, A.Q. 2019. Adult dental health survey 2009: association between oral health outcomes and living arrangements of older adults in the UK. British dental journal [online], 227(2), pages 115-120. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41415-019-0487-0

Introduction: Considering the growing ageing populations and the impact of oral health in the wellbeing of older adults, there is a need for understanding dental care utilisation among this group. The objective of this study was to examine the relati... Read More about Adult dental health survey 2009: association between oral health outcomes and living arrangements of older adults in the UK..

Pharmacy academics' perspectives toward interprofessional education prior to its implementation in Qatar: a qualitative study. (2019)
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EL-AWAISI, A., JOSEPH, S., EL HAJJ, M.S. and DIACK, L. 2019. Pharmacy academics' perspectives toward interprofessional education prior to its implementation in Qatar: a qualitative study. BMC medical education [online], 19, article ID 278. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-019-1689-5

Background: The aim of this study was to explore the perspectives of faculty members and academic administrators, at Qatar University College of Pharmacy, towards interprofessional education (IPE) and collaborative practice by identifying enablers, b... Read More about Pharmacy academics' perspectives toward interprofessional education prior to its implementation in Qatar: a qualitative study..

Evaluation of interactions between oilfield chemicals and reservoir rocks. (2019)
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WUYEP, E.O., OLUYEMI, G.F., YATES, K. and AKISANYA, A.R. 2020. Evaluation of interactions between oilfield chemicals and reservoir rocks. Natural resources research [online], 29(2), pages 1239-1258. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11053-019-09523-3

Sand failure and production occurs when the formation stress exceeds the strength of the formation which is derived majorly from the natural material that cements the sand grain and cohesive forces. This study investigates the effects of scale inhibi... Read More about Evaluation of interactions between oilfield chemicals and reservoir rocks..

Big data analytics and mining for effective visualization and trends forecasting of crime data. (2019)
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FENG, M., ZHENG, J., REN, J., HUSSAIN, A., LI, X., XI, Y. and LIU, Q. 2019. Big data analytics and mining for effective visualization and trends forecasting of crime data. IEEE access [online], 7, pages 106111-106123. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2930410

Big data analytics (BDA) is a systematic approach for analyzing and identifying different patterns, relations, and trends within a large volume of data. In this paper, we apply BDA to criminal data where exploratory data analysis is conducted for vis... Read More about Big data analytics and mining for effective visualization and trends forecasting of crime data..

Deep learning based single image super-resolution: a survey. (2019)
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HA, V.K., REN, J.-C., XU, X.-Y., ZHAO, S., XIE, G., MASERO, V. and HUSSAIN, A. 2019. Deep learning based single image super-resolution: a survey. International journal of automation and computing [online], 16(4), pages 413-426. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11633-019-1183-x

Single image super-resolution has attracted increasing attention and has a wide range of applications in satellite imaging, medical imaging, computer vision, security surveillance imaging, remote sensing, objection detection, and recognition. Recentl... Read More about Deep learning based single image super-resolution: a survey..

Daphnia magna exudates impact physiological and metabolic changes in microcystis aeruginosa. (2019)
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SAVIC, G.B., EDWARDS, C., BRIAND, E., LAWTON, L., WIEGAND, C. and BORMANS, M. 2019. Daphnia magna exudates impact physiological and metabolic changes in microcystis aeruginosa. Toxins [online], 11(7), article number 421. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/toxins11070421

While the intracellular function of many toxic and bioactive cyanobacterial metabolites is not yet known, microcystins have been suggested to have a protective role in the cyanobacterial metabolism, giving advantage to toxic over nontoxic strains und... Read More about Daphnia magna exudates impact physiological and metabolic changes in microcystis aeruginosa..

Tool wear progression and its effect on energy consumption in turning of titanium alloy (Ti-6Al-4V). (2019)
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YOUNAS, M., JAFFERY, S.H.I., KHAN, M., AHMAD, R., ALI, L., KHAN, Z. and KHAN, A. 2019. Tool wear progression and its effect on energy consumption in turning of titanium alloy (Ti-6Al-4V). Mechanical sciences [online], 10(2), pages 373-382. Available from: https://doi.org/10.5194/ms-10-373-2019

To achieve greater productivity, titanium alloy requires cutting at higher speeds (above 100 m min−1) that affects the tool life and energy consumption during the machining process. This research work correlates the wear progression and Specific Cutt... Read More about Tool wear progression and its effect on energy consumption in turning of titanium alloy (Ti-6Al-4V)..

MFC-GAN: class-imbalanced dataset classification using multiple fake class generative adversarial network. (2019)
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ALI-GOMBE, A. and ELYAN, E. 2019. MFC-GAN: class-imbalanced dataset classification using multiple fake class generative adversarial network. Neurocomputing [online], 361, pages 212-221. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2019.06.043

Class-imbalanced datasets are common across different domains such as health, banking, security and others. With such datasets, the learning algorithms are often biased toward the majority class-instances. Data Augmentation is a common approach tha... Read More about MFC-GAN: class-imbalanced dataset classification using multiple fake class generative adversarial network..

Prescribers' views and experiences of using direct acting oral anticoagulants in the management of nonvalvular atrial fibrillation: a survey in remote and rural Scotland. (2019)
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GENERALOVA, D., CUNNINGHAM, S., LESLIE, S.J., RUSHWORTH, G., MCIVER, L. and STEWART, D. 2019. Prescribers’ views and experiences of using direct acting oral anticoagulants in the management of nonvalvular atrial fibrillation: a survey in remote and rural Scotland. British journal of clinical pharmacology [online], 85(10), pages 2414-2422. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/bcp.14069

A recent systematic review highlighted the lack of robust studies on prescribers' perspectives of direct-acting oral anticoagulants (DOACs) for non-valvular atrial fibrillation (AF). The aim was to determine prescribers' views and experiences of pres... Read More about Prescribers' views and experiences of using direct acting oral anticoagulants in the management of nonvalvular atrial fibrillation: a survey in remote and rural Scotland..

A review of the abundance, behaviour and detection of clostridial pathogens in agricultural soils. (2019)
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PALMER, J.S., HOUGH, R.L., WEST, H.W. and AVERY, L.M. 2019. A review of the abundance, behaviour and detection of clostridial pathogens in agricultural soils. European journal of soil science [online], 70(4), pages 911-929. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/ejss.12847

The soil is a reservoir for various clostridial pathogens, with agricultural soils representing a major source of contamination for overlying crops and grazing livestock. Understanding the prevalence and behaviour of pathogens in these soils is funda... Read More about A review of the abundance, behaviour and detection of clostridial pathogens in agricultural soils..

Dignity, body parts and the actio iniuriarum: a novel solution to a common (law) problem? (2019)
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BROWN, J. 2019. Dignity, body parts and the actio iniuriarum: a novel solution to a common (law) problem? Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics [online], 28(3), pages 522-533. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0963180119000446

The importance of human 'dignity' in disputes concerning biological material has been recognised, but the term 'dignity' itself is oft decried as a 'hopelessly amorphous', 'vacuous concept' which should be 'discarded as a potential foundation for rig... Read More about Dignity, body parts and the actio iniuriarum: a novel solution to a common (law) problem?.

Using cellulose polymorphs for enhanced hydrogen production from photocatalytic reforming. (2019)
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CHANG, C., SKILLEN, N., NAGARAJAN, S., RALPHS, K., IRVINE, J.T.S., LAWTON, L. and ROBERTSON, P.K.J. 2019. Using cellulose polymorphs for enhanced hydrogen production from photocatalytic reforming. Sustainable energy and fuels [online], 3(8), pages 1971-1975. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1039/c9se00377k

Efficient energy production and waste valorisation are the most challenging fields in photocatalysis. Reported here is enhanced hydrogen production from cellulose, achieved through the conversion of cellulose I to II via a simple pretreatment step.