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Are men difficult to find? Identifying male-specific studies in MEDLINE and Embase. (2014)
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STEWART, F., FRASER, C., ROBERTSON, C., AVENELL, A., ARCHIBALD, D., DOUGLAS, F., HODDINOTT, P., VAN TEIJLINGEN, E. and BOYERS, D. 2014. Are men difficult to find? Identifying male-specific studies in MEDLINE and Embase. Systematic reviews [online], 3, article 78. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1186/2046-4053-3-78

Background: Systematic reviews often investigate the effectiveness of interventions for one sex. However, identifying interventions with data presented according to the sex of study participants can be challenging due to suboptimal indexing in biblio... Read More about Are men difficult to find? Identifying male-specific studies in MEDLINE and Embase..

The regional offices in Brussels: from 'push and pull' to 'people and place'. (2014)
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GREENWOOD, J. 2014. The regional offices in Brussels: from 'push and pull' to 'people and place'. Regions and cohesion [online], 4(3), pages 1-16. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3167/reco.2014.040301

The potential of 'people and place' is assessed as a means to broaden research about regional political actors into key questions about their role in European integration, largely dormant since the European Commission's 2001 White Paper on Governance... Read More about The regional offices in Brussels: from 'push and pull' to 'people and place'..

Evolution of economic development aims: assessment of the smart growth. (2014)
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KURUSHINA, E.V. and KURUSHINA, V.A. 2014. Evolution of economic development aims: assessment of the smart growth. Life science journal [online], 11(11), pages 517-521. Available from: https://doi.org/10.7537/marslsj111114.88

The paper investigated the global trends of changing aims for evaluating economic development. Approaches to assessing the level of innovation are systematized. Classifications of innovations are given. The approach to the assessment of smart growth... Read More about Evolution of economic development aims: assessment of the smart growth..

The social, political and legal aspects of text and data mining (TDM). (2014)
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BROCK, M., MURRAY-RUST, P. and OPPENHEIM, C. 2014. The social, political and legal aspects of text and data mining (TDM). D-Lib Magazine [online], 20(11/12). Available from: https://doi.org/10.1045/november14-brook

The ideas of textual or data mining (TDM) and subsequent analysis go back hundreds if not thousands of years. Originally carried out manually, textual and data analysis has long been a tool which has enabled new insights to be drawn from text corpora... Read More about The social, political and legal aspects of text and data mining (TDM)..

Dynamics of rising CO2 bubble plumes in the QICS field experiment: part 2; modelling. (2014)
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DEWAR, M., SELLAMI, N. and CHEN, B. 2015. Dynamics of rising CO2 bubble plumes in the QICS field experiment: part 2; modelling. International journal of greenhouse gas control [online], 38, pages 52-63. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2014.11.003

An oceanic two-phase plume model is developed to include bubble size distribution and bubble interactions, applied to the prediction of CO2 bubble plume and CO2 solution dynamics observed from the recent QICS field experiment in the Scottish sea at A... Read More about Dynamics of rising CO2 bubble plumes in the QICS field experiment: part 2; modelling..

The accessibility and acceptability of self-management support interventions for men with long-term conditions: a systematic review and meta-synthesis of qualitative studies. (2014)
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GALDAS, P., DARWIN, Z., KIDD, L., BLICKEM, C., MCPHERSON, K., HUNT, K., BOWER, P., GILBODY, S. and RICHARDSON, G. 2014. The accessibility and acceptability of self-management support interventions for men with long-term conditions: a systematic review and meta-synthesis of qualitative studies. BMC public health [online], 14, Article 1230. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14-1230

Background: Self-management support interventions can improve health outcomes, but their impact is limited by the numbers of people able or willing to access them. Mens attendance at existing self-management support services appears suboptimal despit... Read More about The accessibility and acceptability of self-management support interventions for men with long-term conditions: a systematic review and meta-synthesis of qualitative studies..

Learning pseudo-tags to augment sparse tagging in hybrid music recommender systems. (2014)
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HORSBURGH, B., CRAW, S. and MASSIE, S. 2015. Learning pseudo-tags to augment sparse tagging in hybrid music recommender systems. Artificial intelligence [online], 219, pages 25-39. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2014.11.004

Online recommender systems are an important tool that people use to find new music. To generate recommendations, many systems rely on tag representations of music. Such systems however suffer from tag sparsity, whereby tracks lack a strong tag repres... Read More about Learning pseudo-tags to augment sparse tagging in hybrid music recommender systems..

Synthesis of gas transport through nano composite ceramic membrane for esterification and volatile organic compound separations. (2014)
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OKON, E., SHEHU, H. and GOBINA, E. 2014. Synthesis of gas transport through nano composite ceramic membrane for esterification and volatile organic compound separations. Journal of mechanics engineering and automation [online], 4(11), pages 905-913. Available from: https://doi.org/10.17265/2161-623X/2014.11.007

The transport behaviour of carrier gases with inorganic catalytic ceramic membrane used for ethyl lactate production and VOC (volatile organic compound) recovery in the gauge pressure range of 0.10-1.00 bar and temperature range of 333 K was investig... Read More about Synthesis of gas transport through nano composite ceramic membrane for esterification and volatile organic compound separations..

The corporate reputation of Islamic banks: a measurement scale. (2014)
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ALMAHY, J.A.M., AL-SAHN, F. and BELOUCIF, A. 2014. The corporate reputation of Islamic banks: a measurement scale. International journal of marketing studies [online], 6(6), pages 91-103. Available from: https://doi.org/10.5539/ijms.v6n6p91

During the last few years, the concept of corporate reputation has received considerable attention from marketing academics and practitioners alike. This is not surprising in view of the concept enormous practical implications. Suffice it to say, tha... Read More about The corporate reputation of Islamic banks: a measurement scale..

Kinetic and kinematic changes during a 30-repetition bout of the barbell clean. (2014)
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SWINTON, P.A., SHITANSHI, D., DOLAN, E., BURGESS, K., SINGH, B. and ASPE, R. 2016. Kinetic and kinematic changes during a 30-repetition bout of the barbell clean. Journal of athletic enhancement [online], 5(1). Available from: https://doi.org/10.4172/2324-9080.1000220

The purpose of this stduy was to investigate the biomechanical effects of performing a large number of repetitions with a technically demanding exercise, as is recommended in many extreme conditioning programs. Sixteen trained male participants (age:... Read More about Kinetic and kinematic changes during a 30-repetition bout of the barbell clean..

Contemporary practice education: exploring student perceptions of an industrial radiography placement for final year diagnostic radiography students. (2014)
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WAREING, A.K. and HENDERSON, I. 2015. Contemporary practice education: exploring student perceptions of an industrial radiography placement for final year diagnostic radiography students. Radiography [online], 21(2), pages 176-180. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radi.2014.10.008

Introduction: There is a paucity of evidence in diagnostic radiography evaluating a career path into industrial imaging despite several higher education institutes stating this route as a career option on graduation. The link between a career in indu... Read More about Contemporary practice education: exploring student perceptions of an industrial radiography placement for final year diagnostic radiography students..

Supporting the open innovation process in small and medium enterprises. (2014)
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KEARNEY, G. and MCHATTIE, L.-S. 2014. Supporting the open innovation process in small and medium enterprises. International journal of entrepreneurship and small business[online], 23(4), pages 552-567. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1504/IJESB.2014.065680

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) encounter specific barriers in engaging in innovation. This paper explores the concept of open innovation and how best conditions conducive to this can be created to support SMEs to engage in innovation. It present... Read More about Supporting the open innovation process in small and medium enterprises..

General practitioner views of an electronic high-risk medicine proforma to facilitate information transfer. (2014)
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RUSHWORTH, G.F., DIACK, L., RUDD, I.G. and STEWART, D. 2015. General practitioner views of an electronic high-risk medicine proforma to facilitate information transfer. International journal of clinical pharmacy [online], 37(1), pages 4-7. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11096-014-0033-8

Background The potential of warfarin related harm is increased if clinicians lack the full patient specific information to make informed decisions—an e-proforma has been developed to communicate this information on hospital discharge. Objective To de... Read More about General practitioner views of an electronic high-risk medicine proforma to facilitate information transfer..

Sliding wear investigation of suspension sprayed WC-Co nanocomposite coatings. (2014)
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AHMED, R., ALI, O., FAISAL, N.H., AL-ANAZI, N.M., AL-MUTAIRI, S., TOMA, F.-L., BERGER, L.-M., POTTHOFF, A. and GOOSEN, M.F.A. 2015. Sliding wear investigation of suspension sprayed WC-Co nanocomposite coatings. Wear [online], 322-323, pages 133-150. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wear.2014.10.021

Sliding wear evaluation of nanostructured coatings deposited by Suspension High Velocity Oxy-Fuel (S-HVOF) and conventional HVOF (Jet Kote (HVOF-JK) and JP5000 (HVOF-JP)) spraying were evaluated. S-HVOF coatings were nanostructured and deposited via... Read More about Sliding wear investigation of suspension sprayed WC-Co nanocomposite coatings..

A progressive study into offshore wind farm maintenance optimisation using risk based failure analysis. (2014)
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SINHA, Y. and STEEL, J.A. 2015. A progressive study into offshore wind farm maintenance optimisation using risk based failure analysis. Renewable and sustainable energy reviews [online], 42, pages 735-742. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2014.10.087

Offshore Wind Farm consists of an array of Wind Turbines electrical, communication, command and control systems. At present the cost of maintaining Wind Turbines in the offshore locations is very high (about 35% of lifetime costs). This work puts emp... Read More about A progressive study into offshore wind farm maintenance optimisation using risk based failure analysis..

Structure property relationship of suspension thermally sprayed WC-Co nanocomposite coatings. (2014)
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AHMED, R., FAISAL, N.H., AL-ANAZI, N.M., AL-MUTAIRI, S., TOMA, F.-L., BERGER, L.-M., POTTHOFF, A., POLYCHRONIADIS, E.K., SALL, M., CHALIAMPALIAS, D. and GOOSEN, M.F.A. 2015. Structure property relationship of suspension thermally sprayed WC-Co nanocomposite coatings. Journal of thermal spray technology [online], 24(3), pages 357-377. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11666-014-0174-2

Tribomechanical properties of nanostructured coatings deposited by suspension high velocity oxy-fuel (S-HVOF) and conventional HVOF (Jet Kote) spraying were evaluated. Nanostructured S-HVOF coatings were obtained via ball milling of the agglomerated... Read More about Structure property relationship of suspension thermally sprayed WC-Co nanocomposite coatings..

Retrieving haystacks: a data driven information needs model for faceted search. (2014)
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CLEVERLEY, P. H. and BURNETT, S., 2015. Retrieving haystacks: a data driven information needs model for faceted search. Journal of information science [online], 41(1), pages 97-113. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/0165551514554522

The research aim was to develop an understanding of information need characteristics for word co-occurrence-based search result filters (facets). No prior research has been identified into what enterprise searchers may find useful for exploratory sea... Read More about Retrieving haystacks: a data driven information needs model for faceted search..

The case for a risk-assessed approach to organizational records management in the oil and gas sector. (2014)
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MUIR, L., COUSINS, F. and LAING, A., 2014. The case for a risk-assessed approach to organizational records management in the oil and gas sector. Information research [online], 19(4). Available from: http://www.informationr.net/ir/19-4/paper647.html

Processes and practices for information management service delivery, including retention, retrieval and disposal of documents and records, are not easily quantified for benchmarking and performance improvement. A mainly qualitative approach was appli... Read More about The case for a risk-assessed approach to organizational records management in the oil and gas sector..

Constitutionalism and the new Zimbabwean constitution. (2014)
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MADEBWE, T. 2014. Constitutionalism and the new Zimbabwean constitution. Midlands State University law review [online], 1, pages 6-19. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11408/508

Codified constitutions are arguably the most celebrated type of constitution in the world. This is probably because codified constitutions are contained in one document called 'The Constitution.' As such, they offer a primary and singular source from... Read More about Constitutionalism and the new Zimbabwean constitution..

Real-time vehicle license plate detection based on background subtraction and cascade of boosted classifiers. (2014)
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SARKER, M.M. and SONG, M.K. 2014. Real-time vehicle license plate detection based on background subtraction and cascade of boosted classifiers. Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences [online], 39C(10), pages 909-919. Available from: https://doi.org/10.7840/kics.2014.39c.10.909

License plate (LP) detection is the most imperative part of an automatic LP recognition (LPR) system. Typical LPR contains two steps, namely LP detection (LPD) and character recognition. In this paper, we propose an efficient Vehicle-to-LP detection... Read More about Real-time vehicle license plate detection based on background subtraction and cascade of boosted classifiers..