The colouring, sealing and abrasion resistance of anodic oxide coatings by Smith, Marilyn

“…It has been found that for batches having a range of thicknesses but a common sealing time, the linear relation is a reasonable assumption when the gradient is <+10. The admittance values of electrocoloured tin black film s have been found to be anomalous. …”
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Lithium and indium quinoneoximic complexes and their application in scintillation counting by Gaganatsou, Paraskevi

“…The latter two set of complexes proved promising for loading liquid scintillation counters, when present as 'solid' in the scintillator mixture.…”
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Studies on fungal biomass and activity associated with the decomposition of plant litter in freshwater by Cook, Paul Edward

“…No differences were found in biomass when animals were excluded although this influenced Ingoldian fungi. …”
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Psychological implications of acquired deafness for adults of employment age by Thomas, Alan J.

“…Studies concerning the relationship between other handicaps and psychological disturbance are reviewed briefly. When the findings from these studies are used as a yardstick it is concluded that if the criterion of psychological disturbance is employed then acquired deafness is indeed a serious handicap.…”
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The calcinogenic principles of Trisetum flavescens by Levack, Valerie M.

“…This substance was found to be unlike vitamin D3 or its hydroxy - metabolites in that it did not promote intestinal calcium transport, or bone resorption when studied in vitro. This substance did decrease plasma alkaline phosphatase levels in vitamin D3-deficient chicks however. …”
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User perceptions of technology and the office by Smith, Heather Alison

“…The thesis highlights the role of understanding user perceptions when evaluating technology and considering office work.…”
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The synthesis and fungicidal activity of some novel phosphoramidates by Eccles, Peter John

“…Similar side reactions occurred, but to a lesser extent, when chloral was condensed with 0-ethyl N, N-dimethylphosphorodiamidate, and one derivative was prepared containing the 1,1,1-trichloro-2-(ethoxydimethylaminophosphinylamino)ethyl group. …”
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The synthesis of fungicidal aminophosphonic acid derivatives by Volckman, Janis F.

“…Results showed that all the phosphonopeptides prepared had moderate to good antifungal activity, with the L-alanine di- and tripeptides of l-aminopropanephosphonic acid having superior activity to the commercial fungicide imazalil when tested against D. teres and D. avenae. The proton, carbon-13 and phosphorus-31 nmr spectroscopy of the compounds prepared was examined in detail with carbon-13 proving particularly useful. …”
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The Euro Crisis and the Future of EU Foreign Policy by Victor, Kyle

“…For scholars interested in European foreign policy, it is crucial to note that he trouble in the Eurozone struck at a time when European foreign policy was already in flux: Greece reached agreement with the IMF over its first bailout package only five months after the Lisbon Treaty went into effect, creating the European External Action Service (EEAS) and the post of High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (HR). …”
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Modelling and trading the Greek stock market with mixed neural network models by Dunis, Christian L., Laws, Jason, Karathanasopoulos, Andreas

“…The motivation for this paper is to investigate the use of alternative novel neural network architectures when applied to the task of forecasting and trading the ASE 20 Greek Index using only autoregressive terms as inputs. …”
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A note on the pricing of contingent claims with a mixture of distributions in a discrete-time general equilibrium framework by Vitiello, Luiz, Poon, Ser-Huang

“…We show that by restricting the value of some distributional parameters, it is possible to obtain a risk neutral valuation relationship for the pricing of contingent claims when the terminal price of the underlying asset has a mixture of transformed normal distributions. …”
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Sustained-release multiple-component cellulose acetate nanofibers fabricated using a modified coaxial electrospinning process by Yan, Jie, White, Kenneth, Yu, Deng-Guang, Zhao, Xu-Yao

“…Two drawbacks of the traditional electrospinning process when used for producing nanofibers for drug release are that clogging of the spinneret is often experienced, and the fibers produced often exhibit a tailing-off of drug release over sustained periods. …”
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Improved aerosol optical depth and Ångstrom exponent retrieval over land from MODIS based on the non-Lambertian forward model by Yang, Leiku, Xue, Yong, Guang, Jie, Kazemian, Hassan, Zhang, Jiahua, Li, Chi

“…In this letter, an improved algorithm for aerosol retrieval is presented by employing the non-Lambertian forward model (forward model) (NL_FM) in the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) dark target (DT) algorithm to reduce the uncertainties induced when using the Lambertian FM (L_FM). This new algorithm was applied to MODIS measurements of the whole year of 2008 over Eastern China. …”
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Quasi-elliptic ultra-wideband bandpass filter with super-wide stopband by Riaz, Muhammad, Virdee, Bal Singh, Shukla, Pancham, Onadim, Muhittin

“…The resulting transmission response is highly selective with a low-loss (0.4 dB) passband across 3.60 GHz – 11.3 GHz when fabricated on a conventional dielectric substrate, which is otherwise only possible using high temperature superconductors. …”
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Cannabidiol Is a novel modulator of bacterial membrane vesicles by Kosgodage, Uchini S., Matewele, Paul, Awamaria, Brigitte, Kraev, Igor, Warde, Purva, Mastroianni, Giulia, Nunn, Alistair V., Guy, Geoffrey W., Bell, Jimmy D., Inal, Jameel, Lange, Sigrun

“…We found that CBD is a strong inhibitor of MV release from Gram-negative bacteria (E. coli VCS257), while inhibitory effect on MV release from Gram-positive bacteria (S. aureus subsp. aureus Rosenbach) was negligible. When used in combination with selected antibiotics, CBD significantly increased the bactericidal action of several antibiotics in the Gram-negative bacteria. …”
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How do gay men experience ruptures in the relationship with their therapist? An interpretative phenomenological study by Brooke, Philip

“…The researcher links the findings to minority stress theory, and suggests that an over-emphasis on the transferential relationship in therapy, and rigidity in therapeutic approach, can impede the collaborative process that is more likely to lead to reparation with this client group, especially when they are at an early stage in their gay identity development. …”
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Digital religion - blessed are the heretics! by Baldwin, Jon

“…Ernst Bloch (2009: 122) The consideration of religion, especially when entwined with technology, has as Bloch suggests, spawned much heresy, and this paper considers the constructive heresies of Jean Baudrillard, as well as Ernst Bloch, Byung-Chul Han, and Peter Sloterdijk. …”
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(Re)invoking humanism in modernity: architecture and spectacle in Fascist Italy by Temple, Nicholas, Tracada, Eleni

“…This substantial co-authored chapter examines the influence of early 20th century debates on Humanism on developments in architecture and spectacle in Fascist Italy. During a time when eminent philosophers and historians of Renaissance culture were engaged in disputes about the meaning and philosophical value of Renaissance Humanism, parallel architectural developments were taking place (specially in Italy) on the inter-relationships between modernism and classicism. …”
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Motion sickness susceptibility in healthy subjects and vestibular patients: effects of gender, age and trait-anxiety by Paillard, Aurore, Quarck, Gaëlle, Paolino, F., Denise, Pierre, Paolino, M., Golding, John F., Ghulyan-Bedikian, V.

“…Healthy subjects (n = 167) and chronic dizzy patients with various vestibulopathies (n = 94), aged from 20 to 92 years old, were asked to complete Motion Sickness Susceptibility questionnaire (MSSQ) and trait-anxiety questionnaire (STAI-B). When patients were divided into those who had vestibular loss (n = 51) vs. patients without vestibular loss (n = 43), the MSSQ scores (mean ± SD) for patients with vestibular loss (18.8 ± 30.9) were lower than healthy subjects (36.4 ± 34.8), who were lower than vestibular patients without vestibular loss (59.0 ± 39.7). …”
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High-gain on-chip antenna design on silicon layer with aperture excitation for terahertz applications by Alibakhshikenari, Mohammad, Virdee, Bal Singh, Khalily, Mohsen, See, Chan, Abd-Alhameed, Raed, Falcone, Francisco, Denidni, Tayeb A., Limiti, Ernesto

“…An open ended microstrip line, which is orthogonal to the metal slot-line, is implemented on the underside of the silicon substrate. When the open ended microstrip line is excited it couples the signal to the metal slot-line which is subsequently coupled and radiated by the patch array. …”
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