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Management entrenchment, firm characteristics and earnings management of conglomerate companies in Nigeria. (2020)
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FAGBEMI, T.O., OSEMENE, O.F. and AGBAJE, O. 2020. Management entrenchment, firm characteristics and earnings management of conglomerate companies in Nigeria. Jurnal administrasi bisnis [online], 9(1), pages 1-14. Available from: https://doi.org/10.14710/jab.v9i1.28576

Sometimes the rivalry between shareholders and management is an indication of the level of entrenchment within the corporate environment. Managers are believed to routinely manipulate earnings in order to mislead shareholders about their company's ac... Read More about Management entrenchment, firm characteristics and earnings management of conglomerate companies in Nigeria..

Caroline Phillips: balancing life as a journalist and a suffragette in a Scottish city. (2020)
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PEDERSEN, S. 2020. Caroline Phillips: balancing life as a journalist and a suffragette in a Scottish city. Women's history review [online], 29(6): the women's suffrage campaign in Britain and Ireland: new perspectives, pages 940-954. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2020.1745401

© 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Aberdeen Art Gallery holds a unique collection in the history of the Scottish women’s suffrage movement: the correspondence of Caroline Phillips, journalist and honorary secretary of the... Read More about Caroline Phillips: balancing life as a journalist and a suffragette in a Scottish city..

Editorial. (2020)
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REID, P. and DYE, J. 2020. Editorial. Library and information history [online], 36(1), page iii. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3366/lih.2020.0002

This edition of Library and Information History marks the journal's move to Edinburgh University Press as the publisher. The process of moving to EUP has been conducted behind-the-scenes over the last couple of years and I must pay tribute to the mem... Read More about Editorial..

Made-up rubbish: design fiction as a tool for participatory Internet of Things research. (2020)
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JACOBS, N., MARKOVIC, M., COTTRILL, C.D., EDWARDS, P., CORSAR, D. and SALT, K. 2020. Made-up rubbish, design fiction as a tool for participatory Internet of Things research. Design journal [online], 23(3), pages 419-440. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/14606925.2020.1744259

As Internet of Things (IoT) technologies become embedded in public infrastructure, it is important that we consider how they may introduce new challenges in areas such as privacy and governance. Public technology implementations can be more democrati... Read More about Made-up rubbish: design fiction as a tool for participatory Internet of Things research..

Tourism trends: lifestyle developments and the links to solo tourism. (2020)
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LEITH, C. 2020. Tourism trends: lifestyle developments and the links to solo tourism. Journal of tourism futures [online], 6(3), pages 251-255. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1108/JTF-11-2019-0126

The purpose of this paper is to propose drivers that may impact the development of solo tourism in the near future. This paper identifies and briefly examines four key factors that, it is suggested, will be significant in solo tourism in the near fut... Read More about Tourism trends: lifestyle developments and the links to solo tourism..

Design method of a compact static nonimaging concentrator for portable photovoltaics using parameterisation and numerical optimisation. (2020)
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FREIER RAINE, D., RAMIREZ-INIGUEZ, R., JAFRY, T., MUHAMMAD-SUKKI, F. and GAMIO, C. 2020. Design method of a compact static nonimaging concentrator for portable photovoltaics using parameterisation and numerical optimisation. Applied energy [online], 266, article ID 114821. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2020.114821

Portable solar chargers are one of the technologies that can help to achieve universal access to electricity by 2030. However, the large number of solar photovoltaic devices required and their short life-span make achieving this goal a resource and e... Read More about Design method of a compact static nonimaging concentrator for portable photovoltaics using parameterisation and numerical optimisation..

Economic sanctions arbitrability and public policy. (2020)
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KOTELNIKOV, A. 2020. Economic sanctions, arbitrability and public policy. International arbitration law review [online], 23(1), pages 19-39. Available from: http://westlaw.co.uk

This article, through an overview of international experience, considers the interplay between economic sanctions and international commercial arbitration, in particular, the effect of sanctions on the arbitrability of disputes and the public policy... Read More about Economic sanctions arbitrability and public policy..

Coherent interface strengthening of ultrahigh pressure heat-treated Mg-Li-Y alloys. (2020)
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ZHANG, S., SUN, Y., WU, R., WANG, X., CHEN, X.-B., FERNANDEZ, C. and PENG, Q. 2020. Coherent interface strengthening of ultrahigh pressure heat-treated Mg-Li-Y alloys. Journal of materials science and technology [online], 51, pages 79-83. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmst.2020.02.039

Achieving good strength-ductility of Mg alloys has always been a crucial issue for the widespread applications of Mg-based structural materials. Herein, an unexpected double-stage strengthening phenomenon was discovered in Mg-8Li-1Y(wt.%) alloys thro... Read More about Coherent interface strengthening of ultrahigh pressure heat-treated Mg-Li-Y alloys..

Adaptive distance-based band hierarchy (ADBH) for effective hyperspectral band selection. (2020)
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SUN, H., REN, J., ZHAO, H., SUN, G., LIAO, W., FANG, Z. and ZABALZA, J. 2022. Adaptive distance-based band hierarchy (ADBH) for effective hyperspectral band selection. IEEE transactions on cybernetics [online], 52(1), pages 215-227. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/TCYB.2020.2977750

Band selection has become a significant issue for the efficiency of the hyperspectral image (HSI) processing. Although many unsupervised band selection (UBS) approaches have been developed in the last decades, a flexible and robust method is still la... Read More about Adaptive distance-based band hierarchy (ADBH) for effective hyperspectral band selection..

Fifty years of social work education: analysis of motivations and outcomes. (2020)
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BUTLER-WARKE, A. and BOLGER, J. 2021. Fifty years of social work education: analysis of motivations and outcomes. Journal of social work [online], 21(5), pages 1019-1040. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/1468017320911603

Summary: This article uses the 50th anniversary of social work education provision at one of north-east Scotland’s universities as an opportunity to reflect on social work education outcomes and motivations for undertaking training. This empirical as... Read More about Fifty years of social work education: analysis of motivations and outcomes..

The quality of Botswana's environmental protection regulatory framework. (2020)
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MADEBWE, T. 2020. The quality of Botswana's environmental protection regulatory framework. Journal of African law [online], 64(2), pages 215-228. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021855320000078

This article explores why Botswana's environmental protection regulatory framework is failing to stem environmental deterioration. Based on the observation that such deterioration persists despite the fact that there is a framework in place, the disc... Read More about The quality of Botswana's environmental protection regulatory framework..

Lightning protection methods for wind turbine blades: an alternative approach. (2020)
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MUCSI, V., AYUB, A.S., MUHAMMAD-SUKKI, F., ZULKIPLI, M., MUHTAZARUDDIN, M.N., SAUDI, A.S.M. and ARDILA-REY, J.A. 2020. Lighting protection methods for wind turbine blades: an alternative approach. Applied sciences [online], 10(6), article ID 2130. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/app10062130

Lightning strikes happens in a fraction of time, where they can transfer huge amounts of charge and high currents in a single strike. The chances for a structure to be struck by lightning increases as the height increases; thus, tall structures are m... Read More about Lightning protection methods for wind turbine blades: an alternative approach..

VIV of flexible structures in 2D uniform flow. (2020)
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KURUSHINA, V., PAVLOVSKAIA, E. and WIERCIGROCH, M. 2020. VIV of flexible structures in 2D uniform flow. International journal of engineering science [online], 150, article number 103211. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijengsci.2019.103211

The paper investigates Vortex-Induced Vibration (VIV) of a horizontal flexible structure with pinned-pinned ends in uniform flow. The fluid–structure interaction is modelled using the wake oscillator approach to describe fluctuations of the fluid for... Read More about VIV of flexible structures in 2D uniform flow..

What have games got to do with me? (2020)
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MCCUTCHEON, V. and BRAY, G. 2020. What have games got to do with me? Patterns [online], 1(1), articles ID 100002. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2020.100002

Researchers are often busy people, who are under significant time pressure and managing hefty workloads. It can therefore be a challenge for them to find the time to engage with the myriad requirements and opportunities that are relevant to what the... Read More about What have games got to do with me?.

Motor development in infancy and spine shape in early old age: findings from a British birth cohort study. (2020)
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SAUNDERS, F.R., GREGORY, J.S., PAVLOVA, A.V., MUTHURI, S.G., HARDY, R.J., MARTIN, K.R., BARR, R.J., ADAMS, J.E., KUH, D., ASPDEN, R.M., COOPER, R. and IRELAND, A. 2020. Motor development in infancy and spine shape in early old age: findings from a British birth cohort study. Journal of orthopaedic research [online], 38(12), pages 2740-2748. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/jor.24656

Spine shape changes dramatically in early life, influenced by attainment of developmental milestones such as independent walking. Whether these associations persist across life is unknown. Therefore, we investigated associations between developmental... Read More about Motor development in infancy and spine shape in early old age: findings from a British birth cohort study..

Interaction between amorphous zirconia nanoparticles and graphite: electrochemical applications for gallic acid sensing using carbon paste electrodes in wine. (2020)
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CHIKERE, C.O., FAISAL, N.H., KONG THOO LIN, P. and FERNANDEZ, C. 2020. Interaction between amorphous zirconia nanoparticles and graphite: electrochemical applications for gallic acid sensing using carbon paste electrodes in wine. Nanomaterials [online], 10(3), article ID 537. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10030537

Amorphous zirconium oxide nanoparticles (ZrO2) have been used for the first time, to modify carbon paste electrode (CPE) and used as a sensor for the electrochemical determination of gallic acid (GA). The voltammetric results of the ZrO2 nanoparticle... Read More about Interaction between amorphous zirconia nanoparticles and graphite: electrochemical applications for gallic acid sensing using carbon paste electrodes in wine..

Use of normalization process theory to explore key stakeholders’ perceptions of the facilitators and barriers to implementing electronic systems for medicines management in hospital settings. (2020)
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HOGAN-MURPHY, D., STEWART, D., TONNA, A., STRATH, A. and CUNNINGHAM, S. 2021. Use of normalization process theory to explore key stakeholders’ perceptions of the facilitators and barriers to implementing electronic systems for medicines management in hospital settings. Research in social and administrative pharmacy [online], 17(2), pages 398-405. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sapharm.2020.03.005

Background: Limited data exist on the facilitators and barriers to implementing electronic systems for medicines management in hospitals. Whilst numerous studies advocate system use in improved patient safety and efficiency within the health service,... Read More about Use of normalization process theory to explore key stakeholders’ perceptions of the facilitators and barriers to implementing electronic systems for medicines management in hospital settings..

Credit risk management and entrepreneurship development in Nigeria: a case study of small and medium scale industries in Ondo State. (2020)
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KAYODE, O.J., POPOLLA, M.A. and ADEYINKA, A.J. 2020. Credit risk management and entrepreneurship development in Nigeria: a case study of small and medium scale industries in Ondo State. International journal of small and medium enterprises [online], 3(1), pages 18-33. Available from: https://doi.org/10.46281/ijsmes.v3i1.512

The paper summarizes the arguments and counterarguments within the scientific discussion on credit risk management and entrepreneurship development in Nigeria with focus on small and medium scale industries in Ondo State. The objective of the study i... Read More about Credit risk management and entrepreneurship development in Nigeria: a case study of small and medium scale industries in Ondo State..

Urban PM2.5 concentration prediction via attention-based CNN–LSTM. (2020)
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LI, S., XIE, G., REN, J., GUO, L., YANG, Y. and XU, X. 2020. Urban PM2.5 concentration prediction via attention-based CNN–LSTM. Applied sciences [online], 10(6), article 1953. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/app10061953

Urban particulate matter forecasting is regarded as an essential issue for early warning and control management of air pollution, especially fine particulate matter (PM2.5). However, existing methods for PM2.5 concentration prediction neglect the eff... Read More about Urban PM2.5 concentration prediction via attention-based CNN–LSTM..

Exemplar-supported representation for effective class-incremental learning. (2020)
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GUO, L., XIE, G., XU, X. and REN, J. 2020. Exemplar-supported representation for effective class-incremental learning. IEEE access [online], 8, pages 51276-51284. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2980386

Catastrophic forgetting is a key challenge for class-incremental learning with deep neural networks, where the performance decreases considerably while dealing with long sequences of new classes. To tackle this issue, in this paper, we propose a new... Read More about Exemplar-supported representation for effective class-incremental learning..