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'Always Sea and Sea': The Night Land as Sea-scape (2013)
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Alder, E. (2013). 'Always Sea and Sea': The Night Land as Sea-scape. Sargasso: The Journal of William Hope Hodgson Studies, 1(1), 89-101

Biographical accounts of William Hope Hodgson naturally tend to focus on two main features of his career before he became a full-time writer: sailing and physical culture (Everts). Both provide useful contexts for reading Hodgson’s fiction. In some e... Read More about 'Always Sea and Sea': The Night Land as Sea-scape.

Mental Health Engagement Network (MHEN) (2013)
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Forchuk, C., Edwards, B., Rudnick, A., Osuch, E., Hoch, J., Norman, R., …McKillop, M. (2013). Mental Health Engagement Network (MHEN). International Journal on Advances in Life Sciences, 5(1&2), 1-10

This research study introduces, delivers, and evaluates the benefits of using web and mobile technology to provide consistent supportive health care to individuals living within London, Ontario and the surrounding area who have been diagnosed with a... Read More about Mental Health Engagement Network (MHEN).

Beyond the playlist: Looking at user-generated collocation of cultural products through social tagging (2013)
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Desrochers, N., Quan-Haase, A., Pennington, D. R., Laplante, A., Martin, K., & Spiteri, L. (2013). Beyond the playlist: Looking at user-generated collocation of cultural products through social tagging. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 50(1), 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1002/meet.14505001014

Social tagging has become a common practice across a variety of platforms on the Web. In this panel, we propose to start with one title, Casino Royale, a James Bond novel by Ian Fleming, and the other cultural products that emanated from it (e.g., tw... Read More about Beyond the playlist: Looking at user-generated collocation of cultural products through social tagging.

Myth, Rhetoric and Human Tragedy in Lithuanian Museums and Sites of Memory (2013)
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Wight, C. (2013). Myth, Rhetoric and Human Tragedy in Lithuanian Museums and Sites of Memory. Acta Turistica, 25(2), 191-209

Mit se može smatrati prihvaćenom manifestacijom,,istine" koja je legitimizirana u popularnoj kulturi kroz filmove, knjige, televiziju, turizam te posjete muzejima i memorijalnim središtima.,,Mit" je u tom kontekstu korpus znanja koje konstruira speci... Read More about Myth, Rhetoric and Human Tragedy in Lithuanian Museums and Sites of Memory.

Keratin 8 modulates β-cell stress responses and normoglycaemia (2013)
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Alam, C. M., Silvander, J. S., Daniel, E. N., Tao, G., Kvarnström, S. M., Alam, P., …Toivola, D. M. (2013). Keratin 8 modulates β-cell stress responses and normoglycaemia. Journal of Cell Science, 126(24), 5635-5644. https://doi.org/10.1242/jcs.132795

Keratin intermediate filament (IF) proteins are epithelial cell cytoskeletal components that provide structural stability and protection from cell stress, among other cellular and tissue-specific functions. Numerous human diseases are associated with... Read More about Keratin 8 modulates β-cell stress responses and normoglycaemia.

Storisphere: From TV watching to community story telling (2013)
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Mu, M., Simpson, S., Bojko, C., Broadbent, M., Brown, J., Mauthe, A., …Hutchison, D. (2013). Storisphere: From TV watching to community story telling. IEEE Communications Magazine, 51(8), 112-119. https://doi.org/10.1109/MCOM.2013.6576348

Conventional television services have been increasingly challenged by the more interactive and user-centric video sharing applications. With the growing popularity of social networks and video services, users are becoming the editors and broadcasters... Read More about Storisphere: From TV watching to community story telling.

Entrepreneurial orientation and the franchise system: Organisational antecedents and performance outcomes (2013)
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Dada, O., & Watson, A. (2013). Entrepreneurial orientation and the franchise system: Organisational antecedents and performance outcomes. European Journal of Marketing, 47(5/6), 790-812. https://doi.org/10.1108/03090561311306877

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand the franchisor's perception of the role of entrepreneurial strategic orientation (EO) – innovative, risk‐taking, and proactive actions – within the special case of franchised firms, given the opposi... Read More about Entrepreneurial orientation and the franchise system: Organisational antecedents and performance outcomes.

The Blue Marble: a model for primary school STEM outreach (2013)
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Muller, C. L., Roberts, S., Wilson, R., Remedios, J., Illingworth, S., Graves, R., …Desai, A. (2013). The Blue Marble: a model for primary school STEM outreach. Physics Education, 48(2), 176. https://doi.org/10.1088/0031-9120/48/2/176

As part of 'The Blue Marble' project, the Universities of Leicester and Nottingham, UK, have developed day-long, interdisciplinary, hands-on workshops for primary schools to introduce space technology and the role of the research scientist. The works... Read More about The Blue Marble: a model for primary school STEM outreach.

Value Creation for Luxury Brands through Brand Extensions: An Investigation of Forward and Reciprocal Effects (2013)
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Albrecht, C., Backhaus, C., Gurzki, H., & Woisetschläger, D. M. (2013). Value Creation for Luxury Brands through Brand Extensions: An Investigation of Forward and Reciprocal Effects. Marketing ZFP, 35(2), 91-103. https://doi.org/10.15358/0344-1369_2013_2_91

Luxury brands such as Louis Vuitton, Gucci, or Chanel regularly expand beyond their core business and nowadays offer a wide range of products including accessories, perfumes, watches or jewelry, and even services. The use of brand extensions has beco... Read More about Value Creation for Luxury Brands through Brand Extensions: An Investigation of Forward and Reciprocal Effects.

Improved Grating Monopole antenna with zigzag for DVB-T application (2013)
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Zebiri, C., Ney, M., Abd-Alhameed, R. A., Benabdelaziz, F., Lashab, M., & See, C. H. (2013). Improved Grating Monopole antenna with zigzag for DVB-T application. Progress In Electromagnetics Research Letters, 41, 39-49. https://doi.org/10.2528/PIERL13050107

This work presents a novel broadband monopole antenna for digital video broadcasting-terrestrial (DVB-T) application. The proposed antenna consists of a grating zigzag patch and a concave rectangular ground plane. The zigzag patch is used to enable t... Read More about Improved Grating Monopole antenna with zigzag for DVB-T application.

Hybrid computational scheme for antenna-human body interaction. (2013)
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Ramli, K., Abd-Alhameed, R., See, C., Excell, P., & Noras, J. (2013). Hybrid computational scheme for antenna-human body interaction. Progress in electromagnetics research B: PIER B, 133, 117-136

A new hybrid method of moments (MoM)/finite-difference time-domain (FDTD), with a sub-gridded finite-difference time-domain (SGFDTD) approach is presented. The method overcomes the drawbacks of homogeneous MoM and FDTD simulations, and so permits acc... Read More about Hybrid computational scheme for antenna-human body interaction..

Tables and chairs go au naturel (2013)
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Hussain, A. (2013). Tables and chairs go au naturel. InTents, 20,

Functional and aesthetic—tables and chairs provide structure and warmth to an event. Tables and chairs are the bones of an event. They provide the foundation upon which the rest of the event can be built. While glitz and glam still have their place,... Read More about Tables and chairs go au naturel.

A novel SAR target detection algorithm based on contextual knowledge (2013)
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Gao, F., Ru, A., Sun, J., & Hussain, A. (2013). A novel SAR target detection algorithm based on contextual knowledge. Progress In Electromagnetics Research, 142, 123-140. https://doi.org/10.2528/PIER13062403

This paper proposes a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) vehicle target detection algorithm based on contextual knowledge. The proposed algorithm firstly obtains the general classification of SAR image with a Markov Random Field (MRF)-based segmentation... Read More about A novel SAR target detection algorithm based on contextual knowledge.

Statistical analysis of refractivity gradient and β₀ parameter in the Gulf Region. (2013)
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AbouAlmal, A., Abd-Alhameed, R. A., Al-Ansari, K., AlAhmad, H., See, C. H., Jones, S. M. R., & Noras, J. M. (2013). Statistical analysis of refractivity gradient and β₀ parameter in the Gulf Region. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 61(12), 6250-6254. https://doi.org/10.1109/tap.2013.2279999

In this communication, nine years of local radiosonde meteorological data, from 1997 to 2005, have been used to calculate the vertical refractivity gradient, ΔΝ, in the lowest atmospheric layer above the ground surface. The values obtained are used t... Read More about Statistical analysis of refractivity gradient and β₀ parameter in the Gulf Region..

Lessons from China: Understanding what Chinese students want (2013)
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Stanley, P. (2013). Lessons from China: Understanding what Chinese students want. English Australia Journal : the Australian Journal of English Language Teaching, 28(2), 38-52

Students from the People's Republic of China are the single largest cohort of international students in Australia, and although attempts have been made to understand their needs and desires in situ, few scholars have considered the recently reformed... Read More about Lessons from China: Understanding what Chinese students want.

Conical Nanoparticles for Blood Disease Detection (2013)
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Spada, L. L., Iovine, R., Tarparelli, R., & Vegni, L. (2013). Conical Nanoparticles for Blood Disease Detection. Advances in nanoparticles, 02(03), 259-265. https://doi.org/10.4236/anp.2013.23036

Metallic nanoparticles play an important role in the design of sensing platforms. In this paper, a new electromagnetic study for conical metal nanoparticles, working in the Near Infrared and Visible frequency regime, is proposed. The structures consi... Read More about Conical Nanoparticles for Blood Disease Detection.

The Injury/Illness Performance Project (IIPP): A Novel Epidemiological Approach for Recording the Consequences of Sports Injuries and Illnesses (2013)
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Palmer-Green, D., Fuller, C., Jaques, R., & Hunter, G. (2013). The Injury/Illness Performance Project (IIPP): A Novel Epidemiological Approach for Recording the Consequences of Sports Injuries and Illnesses. Journal of sports medicine, 2013, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/523974

Background. Describing the frequency, severity, and causes of sports injuries and illnesses reliably is important for quantifying the risk to athletes and providing direction for prevention initiatives. Methods. Time-loss and/or medical-attention de... Read More about The Injury/Illness Performance Project (IIPP): A Novel Epidemiological Approach for Recording the Consequences of Sports Injuries and Illnesses.

Negotiating communication and building relation across cultures (2013)
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Victoria, M. (2013). Negotiating communication and building relation across cultures. CMU Journal of Science, 17, 19-33

There have been a number of studies that explores how people from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds communicate. However, many of these investigations tend to focus on socio-pragmatic failures, communication breakdowns, and the negative c... Read More about Negotiating communication and building relation across cultures.