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The "Buen Vivir" and "Twenty-First Century Socialism": Discursive legitimation and UK broadsheet newspaper reporting of "post-neoliberal" politics in Ecuador, Venezuela and Bolivia (2016)
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(2016). The "Buen Vivir" and "Twenty-First Century Socialism": Discursive legitimation and UK broadsheet newspaper reporting of "post-neoliberal" politics in Ecuador, Venezuela and Bolivia. Journalism Studies, 1160 - 1179. https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2016.1264273

In this article, I draw from Critical Discourse Analysis and Cultural Political Economy to examine the representation of “post-neoliberal” politics in UK broadsheet newspapers during their reporting of the 2013 and 2014 presidential elections in Boli... Read More about The "Buen Vivir" and "Twenty-First Century Socialism": Discursive legitimation and UK broadsheet newspaper reporting of "post-neoliberal" politics in Ecuador, Venezuela and Bolivia.

An Archipelago of Care: Filipino Migrants and Global Networks (2016)
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McKay. (2016). An Archipelago of Care: Filipino Migrants and Global Networks

Focusing on the experience of Filipino caregivers in London, some of whom are living and working illegally in their host country, Deirdre McKay considers what migrant workers must do to navigate their way in a global marketplace. She draws on intervi... Read More about An Archipelago of Care: Filipino Migrants and Global Networks.

An Archipelago of Care: Filipino Migrants and Global Netowrks (2016)
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(2016). An Archipelago of Care: Filipino Migrants and Global Netowrks

Focusing on the experience of Filipino caregivers in London, some of whom are living and working illegally in their host country, Deirdre McKay considers what migrant workers must do to navigate their way in a global marketplace. She draws on intervi... Read More about An Archipelago of Care: Filipino Migrants and Global Netowrks.

Twitter as a sociolinguistic research tool: pros and cons (2016)
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Nobajas. (2016). Twitter as a sociolinguistic research tool: pros and cons. Treballs de Sociolingüística Catalana, 26, 89 -101. https://doi.org/10.2436/20.2504.01.110

Due to the recent popularization of social networks, many people across the world are sharing huge amounts of information using the Internet. A large proportion of this information is in textual form and is easily accessible, so sociolinguistic resea... Read More about Twitter as a sociolinguistic research tool: pros and cons.

The ALMA detection of CO rotational line emission in AGB stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (2016)
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Van Loon. (2016). The ALMA detection of CO rotational line emission in AGB stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Astronomy and Astrophysics, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201629590

Context. Low- and intermediate-mass stars lose most of their stellar mass at the end of their lives on the asymptotic giant branch (AGB). Determining gas and dust mass-loss rates (MLRs) is important in quantifying the contribution of evolved stars to... Read More about The ALMA detection of CO rotational line emission in AGB stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Geothermal Energy from the Main Karoo Basin (South Africa): An Outcrop Analogue Study of Permian Sandstone Reservoir Formations (2016)
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(2016). Geothermal Energy from the Main Karoo Basin (South Africa): An Outcrop Analogue Study of Permian Sandstone Reservoir Formations. Energy Procedia, 186 -193. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2016.10.050

The geothermal potential of the Main Karoo Basin has not been addressed in the past. A first assessment of Permian sandstone formations in the Eastern Cape Province, including down-hole temperature data from deep boreholes, and evaluation of groundwa... Read More about Geothermal Energy from the Main Karoo Basin (South Africa): An Outcrop Analogue Study of Permian Sandstone Reservoir Formations.

Brief Communication: Evidence of a developing Polynya off Commonwealth Bay, East Antarctica, triggered by grounding of iceberg (2016)
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(2016). Brief Communication: Evidence of a developing Polynya off Commonwealth Bay, East Antarctica, triggered by grounding of iceberg. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-2603-2016

The dramatic calving of the Mertz Glacier tongue in 2010, precipitated by the movement of iceberg B09B, reshaped the oceanographic regime across the Mertz Polynya and Commonwealth Bay, regions where high-salinity shelf water (HSSW) – the precursor to... Read More about Brief Communication: Evidence of a developing Polynya off Commonwealth Bay, East Antarctica, triggered by grounding of iceberg.

Matchout deuterium labelling of proteins for small-angle neutron scattering studies using prokaryotic and eukaryotic expression systems and high cell-density cultures. (2016)
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(2016). Matchout deuterium labelling of proteins for small-angle neutron scattering studies using prokaryotic and eukaryotic expression systems and high cell-density cultures. European Biophysics Journal, 425-432. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00249-016-1186-2

Small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) is a powerful technique for the characterisation of macromolecular structures and interactions. Its main advantage over other solution state approaches is the ability to use D2O/H2O solvent contrast variation to... Read More about Matchout deuterium labelling of proteins for small-angle neutron scattering studies using prokaryotic and eukaryotic expression systems and high cell-density cultures..

Species-Specific Cuticular Hydrocarbon Stability within European Myrmica Ants. (2016)
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Drijfhout. (2016). Species-Specific Cuticular Hydrocarbon Stability within European Myrmica Ants. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 1052 - 1062. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10886-016-0784-x

Recognition is a fundamental process on which all subsequent behaviors are based at every organizational level, from the gene up to the super-organism. At the whole organism level, visual recognition is the best understood. However, chemical communic... Read More about Species-Specific Cuticular Hydrocarbon Stability within European Myrmica Ants..

Pulsation versus metallicism in Am stars as revealed by LAMOST and WASP (2016)
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Smalley, B., Antoci, V., L. Holdsworth, D., W. Kurtz, D., J. Murphy, S., De Cat, P., …J. Wheatley, P. (2017). Pulsation versus metallicism in Am stars as revealed by LAMOST and WASP. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 465(3), 2662-2670. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw2903

We present the results of a study of a large sample of A and Am stars with spectral types from LAMOST and light curves from WASP. We find that, unlike normal A stars, d Sct pulsations in Am stars are mostly confined to the effective temperature range... Read More about Pulsation versus metallicism in Am stars as revealed by LAMOST and WASP.

Brief communication: Impacts of a developing polynya off Commonwealth Bay, East Antarctica, triggered by grounding of iceberg B09B (2016)
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(2016). Brief communication: Impacts of a developing polynya off Commonwealth Bay, East Antarctica, triggered by grounding of iceberg B09B. Cryosphere, 2603 -2609. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-2603-2016

The dramatic calving of the Mertz Glacier tongue in 2010, precipitated by the movement of iceberg B09B, reshaped the oceanographic regime across the Mertz Polynya and Commonwealth Bay, regions where high-salinity shelf water (HSSW) - the precursor to... Read More about Brief communication: Impacts of a developing polynya off Commonwealth Bay, East Antarctica, triggered by grounding of iceberg B09B.

Formation of Copper Nanoparticles in LTL Nanosized Zeolite: Kinetics Study (2016)
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Kharchenko, A., Zholobenko, V., Lebedev, O., de Waele, V., & Mintova, S. (2016). Formation of Copper Nanoparticles in LTL Nanosized Zeolite: Kinetics Study. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 26300-26308. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b08045

The kinetics of formation of copper nanoparticles in LTL type nanosized zeolite (Cu0-LTL) was investigated. The water suspensions containing copper ion exchanged zeolite crystals (Cu2+-LTL) were treated with three reducing agents (hydrazine monohydra... Read More about Formation of Copper Nanoparticles in LTL Nanosized Zeolite: Kinetics Study.

SEC-SANS: size exclusion chromatography combined in situ with small-angle neutron scattering (2016)
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(2016). SEC-SANS: size exclusion chromatography combined in situ with small-angle neutron scattering. Journal of Applied Crystallography, 2015-2020. https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600576716016514

The first implementation and use of an in situ size exclusion chromatography (SEC) system on a small-angle neutron scattering instrument (SANS) is described. The possibility of deploying such a system for biological solution scattering at the Institu... Read More about SEC-SANS: size exclusion chromatography combined in situ with small-angle neutron scattering.

The mass-loss rates of red supergiants at low metallicity: detection of rotational CO emission from two red supergiants in the Large Magellanic Cloud (2016)
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Van Loon. (2016). The mass-loss rates of red supergiants at low metallicity: detection of rotational CO emission from two red supergiants in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2995 - 3005. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw1853

Using the PACS and SPIRE spectrometers on-board the Herschel Space Observatory, we obtained spectra of two red supergiants (RSGs) in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Multiple rotational CO emission lines (J = 6–5 to 15-14) and 15 H2O lines were dete... Read More about The mass-loss rates of red supergiants at low metallicity: detection of rotational CO emission from two red supergiants in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Age estimation of Calliphora (Diptera: Calliphoridae) larvae using cuticular hydrocarbon analysis and Artificial Neural Networks. (2016)
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Moore, H. E., Butcher, J. B., Adam, C. D., Day, C. R., & Drijfhout, F. P. (2016). Age estimation of Calliphora (Diptera: Calliphoridae) larvae using cuticular hydrocarbon analysis and Artificial Neural Networks. Forensic Science International, 81 - 91. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2016.09.012

Cuticular hydrocarbons were extracted daily from the larvae of two closely related blowflies Calliphora vicina and Calliphora vomitoria (Diptera: Calliphoridae). The hydrocarbons were then analysed using Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS),... Read More about Age estimation of Calliphora (Diptera: Calliphoridae) larvae using cuticular hydrocarbon analysis and Artificial Neural Networks..

Detection of Solar-Like Oscillations, Observational Constraints, and Stellar Models for theta Cyg, the Brightest Star Observed by the Kepler Mission (2016)
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Smalley. (2016). Detection of Solar-Like Oscillations, Observational Constraints, and Stellar Models for theta Cyg, the Brightest Star Observed by the Kepler Mission. Astrophysical Journal, https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/831/1/17

? Cygni is an F3 spectral type magnitude V = 4.48 main-sequence star that was the brightest star observed by the original Kepler spacecraft mission. Short-cadence (58.8 s) photometric data using a custom aperture were first obtained during Quarter 6... Read More about Detection of Solar-Like Oscillations, Observational Constraints, and Stellar Models for theta Cyg, the Brightest Star Observed by the Kepler Mission.

Dark-matter haloes and the M-sigma relation for supermassive black holes (2016)
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(2016). Dark-matter haloes and the M-sigma relation for supermassive black holes. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1864 -1881. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw1749

We develop models of two-component spherical galaxies to establish scaling relations linking the properties of spheroids at z = 0 (total stellar masses, effective radii Re and velocity dispersions within Re) to the properties of their dark-matter hal... Read More about Dark-matter haloes and the M-sigma relation for supermassive black holes.

The Complex Circumnuclear Environment Of The Broad-line Radio Galaxy 3C 390.3 Revealed By Chandra Hetg (2016)
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(2016). The Complex Circumnuclear Environment Of The Broad-line Radio Galaxy 3C 390.3 Revealed By Chandra Hetg. Astrophysical Journal, https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637x/830/2/98

We present the first high spectral resolution X-ray observation of the broad-line radio galaxy 3C 390.3 obtained with the high-energy transmission grating spectrometer on board the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The spectrum shows complex emission and ab... Read More about The Complex Circumnuclear Environment Of The Broad-line Radio Galaxy 3C 390.3 Revealed By Chandra Hetg.

Fluid-induced breakdown of white mica controls nitrogen transfer during fluid-rock interaction in subduction zones (2016)
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Halama, R., Bebout, G., Marschall, H., & John, T. (2016). Fluid-induced breakdown of white mica controls nitrogen transfer during fluid-rock interaction in subduction zones. International Geology Review, 702-720. https://doi.org/10.1080/00206814.2016.1233834

In order to determine the effects of fluid–rock interaction on nitrogen elemental and isotopic systematics in high-pressure metamorphic rocks, we investigated three different profiles representing three distinct scenarios of metasomatic overprinting.... Read More about Fluid-induced breakdown of white mica controls nitrogen transfer during fluid-rock interaction in subduction zones.

Discovery of WASP-113b and WASP-114b, two inflated hot-Jupiters with contrasting densities (2016)
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Hellier, & Smalley. (2016). Discovery of WASP-113b and WASP-114b, two inflated hot-Jupiters with contrasting densities. Astronomy and Astrophysics, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526517

Aims. We present the discovery and characterisation of the exoplanets WASP-113b and WASP-114b by the WASP surveys, SOPHIE and CORALIE. Methods. The planetary nature of the systems was established by performing follow-up photometric and spectroscop... Read More about Discovery of WASP-113b and WASP-114b, two inflated hot-Jupiters with contrasting densities.