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Enantiospecific behaviour of chiral drugs in soil. (2020)
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BERTIN, S., YATES, K. and PETRIE, B. 2020. Enantiospecific behaviour of chiral drugs in soil. Environmental pollution [online], 262, article ID114364. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2020.114364

The importance of stereochemistry on the behaviour and effects of chiral pharmaceutical and illicit drugs in amended agricultural soils has been over looked to date. Therefore, this study was aimed at investigating the enantiospecific behaviour of a... Read More about Enantiospecific behaviour of chiral drugs in soil..

The effect of protozoa on the bacterial composition and hydrolytic activity of the roe deer rumen. (2020)
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MILTKO, R., KOWALIK, B., MAJEWSKA, M.P., KĘDZIERSKA, A., MCEWAN, N.R. and BEŁŻECKI, G. 2020. The effect of protozoa on the bacterial composition and hydrolytic activity of the roe deer rumen. Animals [online], 10(3), article ID 467. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/ani10030467

© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. The purpose of this study was to compare the effect of the presence of protozoa in the rumen of wild roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) on the bacteria composition and digestion rate of the main c... Read More about The effect of protozoa on the bacterial composition and hydrolytic activity of the roe deer rumen..

Experimental investigation of a novel absorptive/reflective solar concentrator: a thermal analysis. (2020)
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DAYANAND, A., AYKAPADATHU, M., SELLAMI, N. and NAZARINIA, M. 2020. Experimental investigation of a novel absorptive/reflective solar concentrator: a thermal analysis. Energies [online], 13(5), article ID e1281. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/en13051281

This paper presents the experimental investigation of a novel cross-compound parabolic concentrator (CCPC). For the first time, a CCPC module was designed to simultaneously work as an electricity generator and collect the thermal energy present in th... Read More about Experimental investigation of a novel absorptive/reflective solar concentrator: a thermal analysis..

Interval type-2 fuzzy sets based multi-criteria decision-making model for offshore wind farm development in Ireland. (2020)
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DEVECI, M, CALI, U., KUCUKSARI, S. and ERDOGAN, N. 2020. Interval type-2 fuzzy sets based multi-criteria decision-making model for offshore wind farm development in Ireland. Energy [online], 198, article 117317. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2020.117317

Offshore wind energy takes up an important place in Ireland’s renewable generation portfolio thanks to its abundant offshore wind resource. Optimal offshore site selection and developing site-specific energy policy instruments are of key importance t... Read More about Interval type-2 fuzzy sets based multi-criteria decision-making model for offshore wind farm development in Ireland..

Social media, social comparison and mental health. (2020)
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WARRENDER, D. and MILNE, R. 2020. Social media, social comparison and mental health. Nursing times [online], 116(3), pages 58-61. Available from: https://www.nursingtimes.net/digital-edition/nursing-times-march-2020/

Social media has become a mainstay of popular culture, with a growing number of users. Yet the understanding of how social media can impact on mental health is at an early stage. This article focuses on social media and how the increased opportunity... Read More about Social media, social comparison and mental health..

Annual energy output simulation of an optical concentrator based PV system for energy security. (2020)
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FOSTER, S., MUHAMMAD-SUKKI, F., RAMIREZ-INIGUEZ, R., FREIER, D., DECIGA-GUSI, J., ABU-BAKAR, S.H., BANI, N.A., MUNIR, A.B., ABUBAKAR MUS'UD, A. and ARDILA-REY, J.A. 2020. Annual energy output simulation of an optical concentrator based PV system for energy security. IOP conference series: materials science and engineering [online], 736(3): proceedings of the 2019 Energy security and chemical engineering congress, 17-19 July 2019, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, article ID 032018. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1088/1757-899X/736/3/032018

Concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) system is an application of PV devices introduced with the aim of reducing the cost of BIPV systems through the use of an optical element to concentrate or focus the solar radiation from a large area, into a smaller a... Read More about Annual energy output simulation of an optical concentrator based PV system for energy security..

Temperature dependence of bend elastic constant in oblique helicoidal cholesterics. (2020)
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IADLOVSKA, O.S., BABAKHANOVA, G., MEHL, G.H., WELCH, C., CRUICKSHANK, E., STRACHAN, G.J., STOREY, J.M.D., IMRIE, C.T., SHIYANOVSKII, S.V. and LAVRENTOVICH, O.D. 2020. Temperature dependence of blend elastic constant in oblique helicoidal cholesterics. Physical review research [online], 2 (1), article 013248. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.013248

Elastic moduli of liquid crystals, known as Frank constants, are of quintessential importance for understanding fundamental properties of these materials and for the design of their applications. Although there are many methods to measure the Frank c... Read More about Temperature dependence of bend elastic constant in oblique helicoidal cholesterics..

Weakly supervised conditional random fields model for semantic segmentation with image patches. (2020)
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XU, X., XUE, Y., HAN, X., ZHANG, Z., XIE, J. and REN, J. 2020. Weakly supervised conditional random fields model for semantic segmentation with image patches. Applied sciences [online], 10(5), article 1679. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/app10051679

Image semantic segmentation (ISS) is used to segment an image into regions with differently labeled semantic category. Most of the existing ISS methods are based on fully supervised learning, which requires pixel-level labeling for training the model... Read More about Weakly supervised conditional random fields model for semantic segmentation with image patches..

Land cover impacts towards thermal variation in the Kuala Lumpur City. (2020)
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ISA, N.A., WAN MOHD, W.M.N., SALLEH, S.A., GEE OOI, M.C. and CHAN, A. 2020. Land cover impacts towards thermal variation in the Kuala Lumpur City. Journal of urban and regional analysis [online], 12(1), pages 91-111. Available from: https://doi.org/10.37043/JURA.2020.12.1.6

Physical geography and urban characteristics influence the urban climate conditions. Built-up areas, green urban parks, forest reserves, streets and terrain constitute the climatic interactions within urban areas. These have led to the variation of t... Read More about Land cover impacts towards thermal variation in the Kuala Lumpur City..

Electronic health records in ambulances: the ERA multiple-methods study. (2020)
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PORTER, A., BADSHAH, A., BLACK, S. et al. 2020. Electronic health records in ambulances: the ERA multiple-methods study. Health services and delivery research [online], 8(10). Available from: https://doi.org/10.3310/hsdr08100

Ambulance services have a vital role in the shift towards the delivery of health care outside hospitals, when this is better for patients, by offering alternatives to transfer to the emergency department. The introduction of information technology in... Read More about Electronic health records in ambulances: the ERA multiple-methods study..

Heterogeneous parallelization for object detection and tracking in UAVs. (2020)
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RABAH, M., ROHAN, A., HAGHBAYAN, M.-H., PLOSILA, J. and KIM, S.-H. 2020. Heterogeneous parallelization for object detection and tracking in UAVs. IEEE access [online], 8, pages 42784-42793. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2977120

Recent technical advancements in both fields of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) control and artificial intelligence (AI) have made a certain realm of applications possible. However, one of the main problems in integration of these two areas is the bot... Read More about Heterogeneous parallelization for object detection and tracking in UAVs..

Pharmacist and data-driven quality improvement in primary care (P-DQIP): a qualitative study of anticipated implementation factors informed by the theoretical domains framework. (2020)
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TANG, J., TOMA, M., GRAY, N.M., DELVAUX, J., GUTHRIE, B., GRANT, A., DUNCAN, E.M. and DREISCHULTE, T. 2020. Pharmacist and data-driven quality improvement in primary care (P-DQIP): a qualitative study of anticipated implementation factors informed by the theoretical domains framework. BMJ open [online], 10(2), article ID e033574. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-033574

Objectives: The quality and safety of drug therapy in primary care are global concerns. The Pharmacist and Data driven Quality Improvement in Primary care (P-DQIP) intervention aims to improve prescribing safety via an informatics tool which facilita... Read More about Pharmacist and data-driven quality improvement in primary care (P-DQIP): a qualitative study of anticipated implementation factors informed by the theoretical domains framework..

Is individualization of sodium bicarbonate ingestion based on time to peak necessary? (2020)
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FARIAS DE OLIVEIRA, L., SAUNDERS, B., YAMAGUCHI, G., SWINTON, P. and GIANNINI ARTIOLI, G. 2020. Is individualization of sodium bicarbonate ingestion based on time to peak necessary? Medicine and science in sports and exercise [online], 52(8), pages 1801-1808. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1249/MSS.0000000000002313

Purpose: To describe the reliability of blood bicarbonate pharmacokinetics in response to sodium bicarbonate (SB) supplementation across multiple occasions and assess, using putative thresholds, whether individual variation indicated a need for indiv... Read More about Is individualization of sodium bicarbonate ingestion based on time to peak necessary?.

Seasonal fluxes and sources apportionment of dissolved inorganic nitrogen wet deposition at different land-use sites in the Three Gorges reservoir area. (2020)
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CUI, J., ZHANG, Y., YANG, F., CHANG, Y., DU, K., CHAN, A. and YAO, D. 2020. Seasonal fluxes and sources apportionment of dissolved inorganic nitrogen wet deposition at different land-use sites in the Three Gorges reservoir area. Ecotoxicology and environmental safety [online], 193, article 110344. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoenv.2020.110344

To identify seasonal fluxes and sources of dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN) wet deposition, concentrations and δ15N signatures of nitrate (NO3−) and ammonium (NH4+) in wet precipitation were measured at four typical land-use types in the Three Gorg... Read More about Seasonal fluxes and sources apportionment of dissolved inorganic nitrogen wet deposition at different land-use sites in the Three Gorges reservoir area..

Introducing mobile fracture prevention services with DXA in Northern Scotland: a comparative study of three rural communities. (2020)
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HOLLICK, R.J., MCKEE, L., SHIM, J., RAMSAY, N., GERRING, S., REID, D.M. and BLACK, A.J. 2020. Introducing mobile fracture prevention services with DXA in northern Scotland: a comparative study of three rural communities. Osteoporosis international [online], 31(7), pages 1305-1314. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00198-020-05316-0

Summary: Mobile fracture prevention services, with DXA, significantly improved access to care for those at high risk of fracture living in rural areas. Introduction of mobile services facilitated access to fracture liaison services and development of... Read More about Introducing mobile fracture prevention services with DXA in Northern Scotland: a comparative study of three rural communities..

Reading underused urban spaces: Aberdeen views. (2020)
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ZECCA, C. and LAING, R. 2020. Reading underused urban spaces: Aberdeen views. Sustainable cities and society [online], 56, article ID 102108. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2020.102108

This paper explores the application of a combination of urban analysis methods in order to gather data and explore the implications of abandonment in a city. Nowadays, in a period of economic recession, developments based on demolitions and reconstru... Read More about Reading underused urban spaces: Aberdeen views..

Animation as a computational framework for architectural design composition. (2020)
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DOUNAS, T. 2020. Animation as a computational framework for architectural design composition. Architectural science review [online], 63(2), pages 222-232. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/00038628.2019.1709037

The paper develops computation, through dynamic grammars, as a third equivalent to syntactical and typological understanding of architectural design. Within theory of architectural design, syntactical and typological understanding of architecture are... Read More about Animation as a computational framework for architectural design composition..

Black boxes and open secrets: trilogues as 'politicised diplomacy'. (2020)
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ROEDERER-RYNNING, C. and GREENWOOD, J. 2021. Black boxes and open secrets: trilogues as 'politicised diplomacy'. West European politics [online], 44(3), pages 485-509. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2020.1716526

Why do EU actors promote secluded fora of decision making even as they have committed themselves to open and public lawmaking? How do they perceive and reconcile the ensuing tensions in practice? These questions, arising amidst growing public controv... Read More about Black boxes and open secrets: trilogues as 'politicised diplomacy'..

Aligning tacit knowledge and competitive advantage: a resource-based view. (2020)
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OSOBAJO, O.A. and BJEIRMI, B. 2021. Aligning tacit knowledge and competitive advantage: a resource-based view. International journal of knowledge management studies [online], 12(3), pages 203-226. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1504/ijkms.2021.116391

This paper investigates the role of tacit knowledge in establishing competitive advantage using the resource-based view (RBV) theory. A framework for studying tacit knowledge, organisational performance, value creation and competitive advantage is in... Read More about Aligning tacit knowledge and competitive advantage: a resource-based view..

Nutrition and physical activity recommendations for cancer survivors in Scotland: feasibility of a short course to promote behaviour change. (2020)
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MASSON, L.F., DOUGLAS, F. and MACLURE, K. 2020. Nutrition and physical activity recommendations for cancer survivors in Scotland: feasibility of a short course to promote behaviour change. Nutrition bulletin [online], 45(1), pages 66-73. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/nbu.12419

More people are living for longer following a cancer diagnosis, however long-term survivors are more likely to experience chronic illnesses. Improving their diet and physical activity behaviours may increase survival and reduce the risk of cancer rec... Read More about Nutrition and physical activity recommendations for cancer survivors in Scotland: feasibility of a short course to promote behaviour change..