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Fast conversion for large Canonical OR-coincidence functions. (2006)
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Yang, M., Wang, L. Y., & Almaini, A. E. A. (2006). Fast conversion for large Canonical OR-coincidence functions. Circuits and Systems, 1643-1646. https://doi.org/10.1109/APCCAS.2006.342080

Fixed Polarity Canonical OR-coincidence (COC) expansions based on inclusive-OR and OR operations are dual forms of fixed polarity Reed-Muller expansions. Traditionally, they are obtained from maxterms of Canonical Products-of-sum (CPOS) expansions. T... Read More about Fast conversion for large Canonical OR-coincidence functions..

Librarians need standards (2006)
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Hopkinson, A., & Haynes, D. (2006). Librarians need standards. CILIP Update, 5(11), 31-33

In an increasingly connected electronic environment, standards will become an even more important part of library and information work. David Haynes and Alan Hopkinson provide a clear overiew of the different categories of standards and guidelines u... Read More about Librarians need standards.

Aminoacetic acid as complexing agent in baths for electroless deposition of Ni–W–P coatings (2006)
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Szczygieł, B., & Turkiewicz, A. (2006). Aminoacetic acid as complexing agent in baths for electroless deposition of Ni–W–P coatings. Transactions of the Institute of Metal Finishing, 84(6), 309-312. https://doi.org/10.1179/174591906x149464

Ni–W–P alloy coatings were deposited from a bath containing, nickel sulphate (VI), sodium tungstate (VI), sodium hypophosphite, sodium formate, and a complexing agent. The complexing agents were formic acid, acetic acid, lactic acid, succinic acid, m... Read More about Aminoacetic acid as complexing agent in baths for electroless deposition of Ni–W–P coatings.

Car parking management at airports: A special case? (2006)
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Aldridge, K., Carreno, M., Ison, S., Rye, T., & Straker, I. (2006). Car parking management at airports: A special case?. Transport Policy, 13(6), 511-521. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2006.05.002

The number of employees who daily commute to an airport represents, on average, one quarter to one half of the daily number of passengers. At UK airports it is rare for employees to pay for their car parking, with most employers absorbing the charges... Read More about Car parking management at airports: A special case?.

New role realities: Avenues for extending the reach of information specialists (2006)
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Hall, H., & Abell, A. (2006). New role realities: Avenues for extending the reach of information specialists. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 43(1), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1002/meet.14504301267

As organizations have developed enterprise-wide electronic information environments, a diverse range of job roles has emerged at a variety of levels. Some of these roles are ear-marked for “traditional” information specialists, but many are not – and... Read More about New role realities: Avenues for extending the reach of information specialists.

Racking Performance of Structural Insulated Panels (2006)
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Kermani, A., & Hairstans, R. (2006). Racking Performance of Structural Insulated Panels. Journal of Structural Engineering, 132(11), 1806-1812. https://doi.org/10.1061/%28asce%290733-9445%282006%29132%3A11%281806%29

Formed from a thick layer of polystyrene foam sandwiched between two layers of oriented strand board, structural insulated panels (SIPs) are a viable alternative to traditional wood stud shear walls. Developed in North America, SIPs satisfy building... Read More about Racking Performance of Structural Insulated Panels.

High-resolution multiple-unit EEG in cat auditory cortex reveals large spatio-temporal stochastic interactions (2006)
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Wennekers, T., Ay, N., & Andras, P. (2007). High-resolution multiple-unit EEG in cat auditory cortex reveals large spatio-temporal stochastic interactions. BioSystems, 89(1-3), 190-197. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2006.04.017

It has been argued that information processing in the cortex is optimised with regard to certain information theoretic principles. We have, for instance, recently shown that spike-timing dependent plasticity can improve an information-theoretic measu... Read More about High-resolution multiple-unit EEG in cat auditory cortex reveals large spatio-temporal stochastic interactions.

Structural Orientations and Optical Bandgap of Zinc Phthalocyanine (ZnPc) Thin Films: Modification by Substrate Temperature (2006)
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Sathyamoorthy, R., & Senthilarasu, S. (2007). Structural Orientations and Optical Bandgap of Zinc Phthalocyanine (ZnPc) Thin Films: Modification by Substrate Temperature. Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 154(1), https://doi.org/10.1149/1.2372580

The variations of the structural orientations and optical bandgap values have been reported for the zinc phthalocyanine thin film coated on elevated substrate temperatures. The optical bandgap energy values are estimated from the Q band maximum. The... Read More about Structural Orientations and Optical Bandgap of Zinc Phthalocyanine (ZnPc) Thin Films: Modification by Substrate Temperature.

Effect of substrate temperature on the optical constants of zincphthalocyanine thin films (2006)
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Senthilarasu, S., & Sathyamoorthy, R. (2006). Effect of substrate temperature on the optical constants of zincphthalocyanine thin films. Crystal Research and Technology, 41(11), 1136-1141. https://doi.org/10.1002/crat.200610734

The influence of the film thickness and substrate temperature on optical constants of the vacuum evaporated ZincPhthalocyanine (ZnPc) thin films have been reported in this paper. The direct and allowed optical band gap energy has been evaluated fro... Read More about Effect of substrate temperature on the optical constants of zincphthalocyanine thin films.

Modelling environmental variation in Young’s modulus for Pinus radiata and implications for determination of critical buckling height. (2006)
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Watt, M. S., Moore, J. R., Facon, J., Downes, G. M., Clinton, P. W., Coker, G., …Bown, H. E. (2006). Modelling environmental variation in Young’s modulus for Pinus radiata and implications for determination of critical buckling height. Annals of Botany, 98, 765-775. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcl161

Background and Aims: Although density-specific stiffness, E/, (where E is Young's modulus and is wood density) is often assumed constant by the elastic similarity model, and in determination of critical buckling height (Hcrit), few studies have test... Read More about Modelling environmental variation in Young’s modulus for Pinus radiata and implications for determination of critical buckling height..

Harmonic errors associated with the use of choppers in optical experiments. (2006)
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Benjamin, K., Armitage, A., & South, R. B. (2006). Harmonic errors associated with the use of choppers in optical experiments. Measurement : journal of the International Measurement Confederation, 39, 764-770. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.measurement.2006.02.008

Rotating chopper wheels are used to modulate optical radiation in many experimental systems, typically for measuring the frequency response of an optical system. The assumption is often made that the chopped radiation varies sinusoidally. In practice... Read More about Harmonic errors associated with the use of choppers in optical experiments..

Editorial: Nonlinear adaptive PID control - Part II (2006)
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Hussain, A., Grimble, M., & Zayed, A. (2006). Editorial: Nonlinear adaptive PID control - Part II. Control and Intelligent Systems, 34(3), 175

The article provides an overview of papers about nonlinear adaptive proportional integral derivative (PID) control, published in the August 2006 issue of "Control and Intelligent Systems." Zayed and colleagues wrote an editorial describing a nonlinea... Read More about Editorial: Nonlinear adaptive PID control - Part II.

NetHost-Sensor: Investigating the capture of end-to-end encrypted intrusive data (2006)
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Abimbola, A., Munoz, J., & Buchanan, W. J. (2006). NetHost-Sensor: Investigating the capture of end-to-end encrypted intrusive data. Computers and Security, 25(6), 445-451. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2006.04.001

Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs) are systems that protect against violation of data integrity, confidentiality and availability of resources. In the past 20 years, these systems have evolved with the technology and have become more sophisticated. D... Read More about NetHost-Sensor: Investigating the capture of end-to-end encrypted intrusive data.

Cortical activity pattern computation (2006)
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Andras, P., & Wennekers, T. (2007). Cortical activity pattern computation. BioSystems, 87(2-3), 179-185. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2006.09.012

Neural computations are modelled in various ways, but still there is no clear understanding of how the brain performs its computational tasks. This paper presents new results about analysis of neural processes in terms of activity pattern computation... Read More about Cortical activity pattern computation.

Tauchnitz and Albatross: “a community of interests” in English-language paperback publishing 1934-1951. (2006)
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McCleery, A. (2006). Tauchnitz and Albatross: “a community of interests” in English-language paperback publishing 1934-1951. Library, 7, 297-316. https://doi.org/10.1093/library/7.3.297

This article draws on a variety of archival sources to re-examine the relationship between Tauchnitz Editions and the Albatross Press from 1934 to 1951. In particular, it attempts to revise the account of that relationship given in the bibliography o... Read More about Tauchnitz and Albatross: “a community of interests” in English-language paperback publishing 1934-1951..

Data mining a new pilot agriculture extension data warehouse (2006)
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Abdullah, A., & Hussain, A. (2006). Data mining a new pilot agriculture extension data warehouse. Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology, 38(3), 229-248

Pakistan is the world’s fifth largest cotton producer. To monitor cotton growth, different government departments and agencies in Pakistan have been recording pest scouting, agriculture and metrological data for decades. Coarse estimates of just the... Read More about Data mining a new pilot agriculture extension data warehouse.

Far-right media on the internet: culture, discourse and power (2006)
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Atton, C. (2006). Far-right media on the internet: culture, discourse and power. New Media and Society, 8(4), 573-587. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444806065653

This study examines the discourse of the British National Party’s (BNP) website. It explores the site as a form of alternative media, focusing on how it involves members and supporters in its discursive construction of racism. It finds that the disco... Read More about Far-right media on the internet: culture, discourse and power.

On balancing network traffic in path-based multicast communication (2006)
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Al-Dubai, A., Ould-Khaoua, M., & Mackenzie, L. (2006). On balancing network traffic in path-based multicast communication. Future Generation Computer Systems, 22(7), 805-811. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2006.02.009

This paper presents a new multicast path-based algorithm, referred to here as the Qualified Groups (QG for short), which can achieve a high degree of parallelism and low communication latency over a wide range of traffic loads in the mesh. The QG al... Read More about On balancing network traffic in path-based multicast communication.

Timber Plate Dynamics with Space-Time Finite Element (2006)
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Zhang, H., Ridley-Ellis, D., & Hapca, A. I. (2006). Timber Plate Dynamics with Space-Time Finite Element. Timber Engineering,

A new space-time finite element formulation for dynamic analysis of timber plates is presented. The method is based on an unconventional Hamilton variational principle and a special technique in time domain interpolation is employed. For the simple c... Read More about Timber Plate Dynamics with Space-Time Finite Element.