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Gregarines (Apicomplexa, Gregarinasina) in psocids (Insecta, Psocoptera) including a new species description and their potential use as pest control agents (2017)
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Devetak, D., Rueckert, S., & Devetak, D. (2017). Gregarines (Apicomplexa, Gregarinasina) in psocids (Insecta, Psocoptera) including a new species description and their potential use as pest control agents. European Journal of Protistology, 60, 60-67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejop.2017.05.007

Gregarine apicomplexans are unicellular organisms that infect invertebrate hosts in marine, freshwater and terrestrial habitats. The largest group of invertebrates infested on land is the insects. The insect order Psocoptera (booklice) has recently... Read More about Gregarines (Apicomplexa, Gregarinasina) in psocids (Insecta, Psocoptera) including a new species description and their potential use as pest control agents.

Positive psychology and career development (2017)
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Robertson, P. J. (2018). Positive psychology and career development. British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 46(2), 241-254. https://doi.org/10.1080/03069885.2017.1318433

Positive psychology has been an influential movement within psychology in the early years of the 21st century. It is now timely to assess the value of its contribution to career education and guidance. This paper provides a critique of this perspecti... Read More about Positive psychology and career development.

The Digital Library (2017)
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Ennis, L. (2017). The Digital Library. Teaching fellows journal,

The meteoric rise of the internet has meant that we have access to more information than ever. Our informational lives, and those of our students are complex – fraught with issues of access, immediacy, discoverability, and quality. Increasingly, to b... Read More about The Digital Library.

Contra Bentham: ethical information policy in the PanopticEon (2017)
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Duff, A. S., & Bentham, C. (2017). Contra Bentham: ethical information policy in the PanopticEon. Journal of Information Ethics, 26(1), 93-111

The article addresses the problem of surveillance within the framework of ethical information policy. Jeremy Bentham’s plan for a panoptic penitentiary is subjected to forensic analysis, using primary as well as published sources. The panopticon, it... Read More about Contra Bentham: ethical information policy in the PanopticEon.

Educational preparation, roles, and competencies to guide career development for cardiac rehabilitation nurses. (2017)
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Lin, S. H. M., Neubeck, L., & Gallagher, R. (2017). Educational preparation, roles, and competencies to guide career development for cardiac rehabilitation nurses. Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 32(3), 244-259. https://doi.org/10.1097/jcn.0000000000000346

Background: Cardiac rehabilitation is one of the most widely recommended strategies to reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease. The multicomponent nature of cardiac rehabilitation programs requires a multidisciplinary team of healthcare professio... Read More about Educational preparation, roles, and competencies to guide career development for cardiac rehabilitation nurses..

Corporate conflict management on social media brand fan pages (2017)
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Dineva, D. P., Breitsohl, J., & Garrod, B. (2017). Corporate conflict management on social media brand fan pages. Journal of Marketing Management, 33(9-10), 679-698. https://doi.org/10.1080/0267257x.2017.1329225

A recent development in the literature on social-media brand fan pages is the investigation of hostile consumer-to-consumer interactions. Existing research has thus far concentrated on the reasons why consumers engage in such online conflicts. In com... Read More about Corporate conflict management on social media brand fan pages.

Evaluation of a Novel Controlled Cutting Fluid Impinging Supply System When Machining Titanium Alloys (2017)
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Gariani, S., Shyha, I., Inam, F., & Huo, D. (2017). Evaluation of a Novel Controlled Cutting Fluid Impinging Supply System When Machining Titanium Alloys. Applied Sciences, 7(6), Article 560. https://doi.org/10.3390/app7060560

Following a comprehensive review on titanium machining and methods of cutting fluid application, this paper presents a new Controlled cutting fluid impinging supply system (Cut‐list) developed to deliver an accurate amount of cutting fluid into the m... Read More about Evaluation of a Novel Controlled Cutting Fluid Impinging Supply System When Machining Titanium Alloys.

Sexual Orientation Change Efforts, Conservative Christianity and Resistance to Sexual Justice (2017)
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Clucas, R. (2017). Sexual Orientation Change Efforts, Conservative Christianity and Resistance to Sexual Justice. Social Sciences, 6(2), Article 54. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci6020054

In this article, I situate the practice of sexual orientation conversion efforts (SOCE), sometimes known as conversion or reparative therapy, within historical, cultural, religious and political attitudes to non-heterosexuality. Using documentary ana... Read More about Sexual Orientation Change Efforts, Conservative Christianity and Resistance to Sexual Justice.

Telomere length measurement by qPCR in birds is affected by storage method of blood samples (2017)
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Reichert, S., Froy, H., Boner, W., Burg, T. M., Daunt, F., Gillespie, R., Griffiths, K., Lewis, S., Phillips, R. A., Nussey, D. H., & Monaghan, P. (2017). Telomere length measurement by qPCR in birds is affected by storage method of blood samples. Oecologia, 184(2), 341-350. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-017-3887-3

Given the potential role of telomeres as biomarkers of individual health and ageing, there is an increasing interest in studying telomere dynamics in a wider range of taxa in the fields of ecology and evolutionary biology. Measuring telomere length a... Read More about Telomere length measurement by qPCR in birds is affected by storage method of blood samples.

Resource Description and Access in Europe: Implementations and perceptions (2017)
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Ducheva, D. P., & Pennington, D. R. (2019). Resource Description and Access in Europe: Implementations and perceptions. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 51(2), 387-402. https://doi.org/10.1177/0961000617709060

This research explored the implementations and perceptions of the Resource Description and Access (RDA) cataloguing standard in Europe. It refers to the development and implementation of the standard among Anglo-American libraries and draws compariso... Read More about Resource Description and Access in Europe: Implementations and perceptions.

Learning analytics: challenges and limitations (2017)
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Wilson, A., Watson, C., Thompson, T. L., Drew, V., & Doyle, S. (2017). Learning analytics: challenges and limitations. Teaching in Higher Education, 22(8), 991-1007. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2017.1332026

Learning analytic implementations are increasingly being included in learning management systems in higher education. We lay out some concerns with the way learning analytics – both data and algorithms – are often presented within an unproblematized... Read More about Learning analytics: challenges and limitations.

To screen or not to screen? Examining the arguments against screening for atrial fibrillation. (2017)
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Neubeck, L., Orchard, J., Lowres, N., & Freedman, S. B. (2017). To screen or not to screen? Examining the arguments against screening for atrial fibrillation. Heart, Lung and Circulation, 26(9), 880-886. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hlc.2017.05.118

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia, with a lifetime risk of 1 in 4 of developing AF over the age of 40 years. Around 40% of patients are asymptomatic, which is of concern as AF is a major risk factor for stroke. Early dete... Read More about To screen or not to screen? Examining the arguments against screening for atrial fibrillation..

Foraging in the tropics: relationships among species’ abundances, niche asymmetries and body condition in an urban avian assemblage (2017)
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Pagani-Núñez, E., He, C., Wu, Y. W., Peabotuwage, I., & Goodale, E. (2017). Foraging in the tropics: relationships among species’ abundances, niche asymmetries and body condition in an urban avian assemblage. Urban Ecosystems, 20(6), 1301-1310. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11252-017-0682-1

Two main theories attempt to explain species coexistence: the neutral theory considers all the species as equivalents so biodiversity is mainly regarded as a function of total available resources (i.e. niche expansion), while the niche theory stresse... Read More about Foraging in the tropics: relationships among species’ abundances, niche asymmetries and body condition in an urban avian assemblage.

Noise Reduction on G-Buffers for Monte Carlo Filtering: Noise Reduction on G-Buffers for Monte Carlo Filtering (2017)
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Moon, B., Iglesias-Guitian, J. A., McDonagh, S., & Mitchell, K. (2017). Noise Reduction on G-Buffers for Monte Carlo Filtering: Noise Reduction on G-Buffers for Monte Carlo Filtering. Computer Graphics Forum, 36(8), 600-612. https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.13155

We propose a novel pre-filtering method that reduces the noise introduced by depth-of-field and motion blur effects in geometric buffers (G-buffers) such as texture, normal and depth images. Our pre-filtering uses world positions and their variances... Read More about Noise Reduction on G-Buffers for Monte Carlo Filtering: Noise Reduction on G-Buffers for Monte Carlo Filtering.

Real-Time Multi-View Facial Capture with Synthetic Training (2017)
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Klaudiny, M., McDonagh, S., Bradley, D., Beeler, T., & Mitchell, K. (2017). Real-Time Multi-View Facial Capture with Synthetic Training. Computer Graphics Forum, 36(2), 325-336. https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.13129

We present a real-time multi-view facial capture system facilitated by synthetic training imagery. Our method is able to achieve high-quality markerless facial performance capture in real-time from multi-view helmet camera data, employing an actor sp... Read More about Real-Time Multi-View Facial Capture with Synthetic Training.

Sensor Fault Classification Based on Support Vector Machine and Statistical Time-Domain Features (2017)
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Jan, S. U., Lee, Y., Shin, J., & Koo, I. (2017). Sensor Fault Classification Based on Support Vector Machine and Statistical Time-Domain Features. IEEE Access, 5, 8682-8690. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2017.2705644

This paper deals with the problem of fault detection and diagnosis in sensors considering erratic, drift, hard-over, spike, and stuck faults. The data set containing samples of the above mentioned fault signals was acquired as follows: normal data si... Read More about Sensor Fault Classification Based on Support Vector Machine and Statistical Time-Domain Features.

Efficient service discovery in decentralized online social networks (2017)
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Yuan, B., Liu, L., & Antonopoulos, N. (2018). Efficient service discovery in decentralized online social networks. Future Generation Computer Systems, 86, 775-791. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2017.04.022

Online social networks (OSN) have attracted millions of users worldwide over the last decade. There are a series of urgent issues faced by existing OSN such as information overload, single-point of failure and privacy concerns. The booming Internet o... Read More about Efficient service discovery in decentralized online social networks.

How to implement live video recording in the clinical environment: A practical guide for clinical services (2017)
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Lloyd, A., Dewar, A., Edgar, S., Caesar, D., Gowens, P., & Clegg, G. (2017). How to implement live video recording in the clinical environment: A practical guide for clinical services. International Journal of Clinical Practice, 71(6), Article e12951. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijcp.12951

Background: The use of video in healthcare is becoming more common, particularly in simulation and educational settings. However, video recording live episodes of clinical care is far less routine. Aim To provide a practical guide for clinical servic... Read More about How to implement live video recording in the clinical environment: A practical guide for clinical services.

Buggy walking groups: An asset-based approach to health care (2017)
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McInnes, R. J., Dickson, C., & Barclay, C. (2017). Buggy walking groups: An asset-based approach to health care. Journal of Health Visiting, 5(5), 236-243. https://doi.org/10.12968/johv.2017.5.5.236

Postnatal buggy walking is an accessible activity for new mothers, but there has been limited assessment of its impact on wellbeing in healthy postnatal populations or on community based health services. This evaluation explored women's perceptions o... Read More about Buggy walking groups: An asset-based approach to health care.