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Acquisition of UK ports by private equity funds. (2013)
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Baird, A. (2013). Acquisition of UK ports by private equity funds. Research in Transportation Business & Management, 8, 158-165. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rtbm.2013.07.004

Private equity (PE) ownership of port regulatory authorities and port land is primarily a feature in the UK. Most other countries retain public port authorities who lease/concession port land and operations to private terminal operators rather than s... Read More about Acquisition of UK ports by private equity funds..

Fibre optic long period grating-based humidity sensor probe using a Michelson interferometric arrangement. (2013)
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Alwis, L., Sun, T., & Grattan, K. T. V. (2013). Fibre optic long period grating-based humidity sensor probe using a Michelson interferometric arrangement. Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 178, 694-699. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.snb.2012.11.062

Long period gratings (LPG)-based sensors are widely used due to their high sensitivity to a range of suitable measurands. However, a typical configuration involving a single grating-based LPG sensor system frequently has the disadvantage of the probe... Read More about Fibre optic long period grating-based humidity sensor probe using a Michelson interferometric arrangement..

Design and performance evaluation of polyvinyl alcohol/polyimide coated optical fibre grating-based humidity sensors. (2013)
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Alwis, L., Sun, T., & Grattan, K. T. V. (2013). Design and performance evaluation of polyvinyl alcohol/polyimide coated optical fibre grating-based humidity sensors. Review of Scientific Instruments, 84, 25002. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4789768

Optical fibre grating based sensors make a significant contribution to relative humidity measurement for various applications and a number of different designs and sensor configurations have been produced and discussed in the literature. Recent devel... Read More about Design and performance evaluation of polyvinyl alcohol/polyimide coated optical fibre grating-based humidity sensors..

Analysis of Polyimide-Coated Optical Fiber Long-Period Grating-Based Relative Humidity Sensor (2013)
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Alwis, L., Sun, T., & Grattan, K. T. V. (2013). Analysis of Polyimide-Coated Optical Fiber Long-Period Grating-Based Relative Humidity Sensor. IEEE Sensors Journal, 13, 767-771. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2012.2227714

A long-period grating (LPG)-based relative humidity (RH) sensor is developed, based on using a tailored layered polyimide coating on the grating region at the distal end of the fiber probe and allowing it to respond to humidity changes. The attenuati... Read More about Analysis of Polyimide-Coated Optical Fiber Long-Period Grating-Based Relative Humidity Sensor.

Analysis of the Characteristics of PVA-Coated LPG-Based Sensors to Coating Thickness and Changes in the External Refractive Index. (2013)
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Alwis, L., Bremer, K., Sun, T., & Grattan, K. T. V. (2013). Analysis of the Characteristics of PVA-Coated LPG-Based Sensors to Coating Thickness and Changes in the External Refractive Index. IEEE Sensors Journal, 13, 1117-1124. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2012.2230534

Recent research has shown that the transmission spectrum of a long period grating (LPG) written into an optical fiber is sensitive to the thickness and the refractive index (RI) of a thin layer deposited on it, a concept which forms the basis of a nu... Read More about Analysis of the Characteristics of PVA-Coated LPG-Based Sensors to Coating Thickness and Changes in the External Refractive Index..

Assessing risk of victim crossover with children and young people who display Harmful Sexual Behaviours. (2013)
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Allardyce, S., & Yates, P. M. (2013). Assessing risk of victim crossover with children and young people who display Harmful Sexual Behaviours. Child Abuse Review, 22, 255-267. https://doi.org/10.1002/car.2277

Assessments of children and young people who display harmful sexual behaviours need to consider – at a broad level – the safety of other children at home, in the community and in the wider family. To date, issues of victim selection have been margina... Read More about Assessing risk of victim crossover with children and young people who display Harmful Sexual Behaviours..

Modeling and Experimental Verification of Solar Radiation on a Sloped Surface, Photovoltaic Cell Temperature, and Photovoltaic Efficiency. (2013)
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Aldali, Y., Celik, A. N., & Muneer, T. (2013). Modeling and Experimental Verification of Solar Radiation on a Sloped Surface, Photovoltaic Cell Temperature, and Photovoltaic Efficiency. Journal of Energy Engineering, 139, 8-11. https://doi.org/10.1061/%28ASCE%29EY.1943-7897.0000082

This article presents modeling and experimental verification of conversion of solar irradiation from horizontal to sloped surfaces and photovoltaic cell temperature and an analysis of photovoltaic conversion efficiency. Modeling and validation of the... Read More about Modeling and Experimental Verification of Solar Radiation on a Sloped Surface, Photovoltaic Cell Temperature, and Photovoltaic Efficiency..

Some observations on mandatory disclosure practices of Malaysian public Listed companies (2013)
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Abdullah, M., Sulaiman, N. A., Sapiei, N. S., & Minhat, M. (2013). Some observations on mandatory disclosure practices of Malaysian public Listed companies. Middle East journal of scientific research, 17, 1228-1236. https://doi.org/10.5829/idosi.mejsr.2013.17.09.12278

This study investigates the mandatory disclosure practices evident in the annual reports of Malaysian public listed companies. Our findings show that none of the examined companies fully met the mandatory disclosure requirements even though the compa... Read More about Some observations on mandatory disclosure practices of Malaysian public Listed companies.

Measuring compliance with IFRS mandatory disclosure requirements: some evidence from Malaysia (2013)
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Abdullah, M., & Minhat, M. (2013). Measuring compliance with IFRS mandatory disclosure requirements: some evidence from Malaysia. Australian journal of basic and applied sciences / International network for scientific information ; INSInet, 7, 163-169

This study examines 225 Malaysian public listed firms’ compliance with IFRS mandatory disclosure requirements during 2008. Two unweighted methods of measuring compliance are used: the dichotomous method and the partial compliance method. The results... Read More about Measuring compliance with IFRS mandatory disclosure requirements: some evidence from Malaysia.

Evolution Feature Oriented Model Driven Product Line Engineering Approach for Synergistic and Dynamic Service Evolution in Clouds (2013)
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Wei, H., Wang, Z., Liu, X., Chalmers, K., & Cheng, G. (2013). Evolution Feature Oriented Model Driven Product Line Engineering Approach for Synergistic and Dynamic Service Evolution in Clouds. Journal of Industrial and Intelligent Information, 1(1), 6-9.

The proposed research will focus on developing a novel approach to solve Software Service Evolution problems in Computing Clouds. The approach will support dynamic evolution of the software service in clouds via a set of discovered evolution patterns... Read More about Evolution Feature Oriented Model Driven Product Line Engineering Approach for Synergistic and Dynamic Service Evolution in Clouds.

Student destination choices in international education: exploring Brazilian students’ attitudes to study abroad (2013)
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Foster, M. (2013). Student destination choices in international education: exploring Brazilian students’ attitudes to study abroad. Practice and evidence of the scholarship of teaching and learning in higher education, 8, 176-202

Increasing cross-border education and student mobility calls for a better understanding of international student destination choice and the benefits of study abroad to the students. The study reported in this paper examined Brazilian students’ attitu... Read More about Student destination choices in international education: exploring Brazilian students’ attitudes to study abroad.

Immortality, but not oncogenic transformation, of primary human cells leads to epigenetic reprogramming of DNA methylation and gene expression (2013)
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Gordon, K., Clouaire, T., Bao, X. X., Kemp, S. E., Xenophontos, M., de Las Heras, J. I., & Stancheva, I. (2014). Immortality, but not oncogenic transformation, of primary human cells leads to epigenetic reprogramming of DNA methylation and gene expression

Tumourigenic transformation of normal cells into cancer typically involves several steps resulting in acquisition of unlimited growth potential, evasion of apoptosis and non-responsiveness to growth inhibitory signals. Both genetic and epigenetic cha... Read More about Immortality, but not oncogenic transformation, of primary human cells leads to epigenetic reprogramming of DNA methylation and gene expression.

Managerial hyperopia: A potential unintended consequence of foresight in a top management team? (2013)
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Burt, G., Mackay, D. J., & Perchard, A. (2015). Managerial hyperopia: A potential unintended consequence of foresight in a top management team?. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 101, 134-146. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2013.12.001

In this paper we explore the phenomenon of managerial hyperopia. Hyperopia is a metaphorical term adopted from ocular science referring to long-sightedness—a condition of being able to focus clearly on that which is far away but not that which is nea... Read More about Managerial hyperopia: A potential unintended consequence of foresight in a top management team?.

Airborne observations of trace gases over boreal Canada during BORTAS: campaign climatology, air mass analysis and enhancement ratios (2013)
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O'Shea, S., Allen, G., Gallagher, M., Bauguitte, S., Illingworth, S., Le Breton, M., …Lewis, A. (2013). Airborne observations of trace gases over boreal Canada during BORTAS: campaign climatology, air mass analysis and enhancement ratios. Atmospheric Ch

In situ airborne measurements were made over eastern Canada in summer 2011 as part of the BORTAS experiment (Quantifying the impact of BOReal forest fires on Tropospheric oxidants over the Atlantic using Aircraft and Satellites). In this paper we pre... Read More about Airborne observations of trace gases over boreal Canada during BORTAS: campaign climatology, air mass analysis and enhancement ratios.