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Is Kant’s Metaphysics Profoundly Unsatisfactory?: Critical Discussion of A. W. Moore’s Critique of Kant (2016)
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Baiasu. (2016). Is Kant’s Metaphysics Profoundly Unsatisfactory?: Critical Discussion of A. W. Moore’s Critique of Kant. Kantian Review, 21(3), 465 -481. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1369415416000194

In his recent book, The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics, Adrian W. Moore takes Kant to play a crucial role in the evolution of modern philosophy; yet, for him, Kant’s metaphysics is ultimately and profoundly unsatisfactory. In this article, I examine... Read More about Is Kant’s Metaphysics Profoundly Unsatisfactory?: Critical Discussion of A. W. Moore’s Critique of Kant.

Evaluation of a motivational pre-exercise music intervention (2016)
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Hallett, R., & Lamont, A. (2019). Evaluation of a motivational pre-exercise music intervention. Journal of Health Psychology, 24(3), 309-320. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105316674267

While music has been found to motivate exercisers during workouts, its potential as a pre-exercise motivator has rarely been investigated. This study evaluated a self-selected, pre-exercise music intervention against implementation intentions (writin... Read More about Evaluation of a motivational pre-exercise music intervention.

CONSORT 2010 statement: extension to randomised pilot and feasibility trials. (2016)
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(2016). CONSORT 2010 statement: extension to randomised pilot and feasibility trials. BMJ, 64 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.i5239

The Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) statement is a guideline designed to improve the transparency and quality of the reporting of randomised controlled trials (RCTs). In this article we present an extension to that statement for... Read More about CONSORT 2010 statement: extension to randomised pilot and feasibility trials..

Transstadial Transmission and Long-term Association of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus in Ticks Shapes Genome Plasticity. (2016)
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Forrester-Soto. (2016). Transstadial Transmission and Long-term Association of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus in Ticks Shapes Genome Plasticity. Scientific reports, 35819 - 35819. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep35819

The trade-off hypothesis, the current paradigm of arbovirus evolution, proposes that cycling between vertebrate and invertebrate hosts presents significant constraints on genetic change of arboviruses. Studying these constraints in mosquito-borne vir... Read More about Transstadial Transmission and Long-term Association of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus in Ticks Shapes Genome Plasticity..

Analysis of the dynamics of temporal relationships of neural activities using optical imaging data (2016)
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(2016). Analysis of the dynamics of temporal relationships of neural activities using optical imaging data. Journal of Computational Neuroscience, 107 - 121. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10827-016-0630-8

The temporal relationship between the activities of neurons in biological neural systems is critically important for the correct delivery of the functionality of these systems. Fine measurement of temporal relationships of neural activities using mic... Read More about Analysis of the dynamics of temporal relationships of neural activities using optical imaging data.

Analysis of the dynamics of temporal relationships of neural activities using optical imaging data (2016)
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(2016). Analysis of the dynamics of temporal relationships of neural activities using optical imaging data. Journal of Computational Neuroscience, 107-121. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10827-016-0630-8

The temporal relationship between the activities of neurons in biological neural systems is critically important for the correct delivery of the functionality of these systems. Fine measurement of temporal relationships of neural activities using mic... Read More about Analysis of the dynamics of temporal relationships of neural activities using optical imaging data.

To debt or not to debt: Are Islamic banks less risky than conventional banks? (2016)
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Sorwar, G., Pappas, V., Pereira, J., & Nurullah, M. (2016). To debt or not to debt: Are Islamic banks less risky than conventional banks?. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 113 - 126. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2016.10.012

We empirically analyze the market risk profiles of Islamic banks with two sets of conventional banks taken from the same geographical locations as Islamic banks and from a random global sample respectively for the period 2000–2013. Moreover, we divid... Read More about To debt or not to debt: Are Islamic banks less risky than conventional banks?.

Accelerated oral nanomedicine discovery from miniaturized screening to clinical production exemplified by paediatric HIV nanotherapies (2016)
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(2016). Accelerated oral nanomedicine discovery from miniaturized screening to clinical production exemplified by paediatric HIV nanotherapies. Nature communications, https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13184

Considerable scope exists to vary the physical and chemical properties of nanoparticles, with subsequent impact on biological interactions; however, no accelerated process to access large nanoparticle material space is currently available, hamp... Read More about Accelerated oral nanomedicine discovery from miniaturized screening to clinical production exemplified by paediatric HIV nanotherapies.

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.

Are foot and ankle characteristics associated with falls in people with rheumatoid arthritis? A prospective study. (2016)
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(2016). Are foot and ankle characteristics associated with falls in people with rheumatoid arthritis? A prospective study. Arthritis Care and Research, 1150-1155. https://doi.org/10.1002/acr.23131

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether foot and ankle characteristics are associated with falls in people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS: Two hundred and one adults with RA were recruited from rheumatology outpatient clinics in Auckland, New Zealan... Read More about Are foot and ankle characteristics associated with falls in people with rheumatoid arthritis? A prospective study..

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.

The wind speeds, dust content, and mass-loss rates of evolved AGB and RSG stars at varying metallicity (2016)
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Goldman, S. R., van Loon, J. T., Zijlstra, A. A., Green, J. A., Wood, P. R., Nanni, A., Imai, H., Whitelock, P. A., Matsuura, M., Groenewegen, M. A. T., & Gómez, J. F. (2017). The wind speeds, dust content, and mass-loss rates of evolved AGB and RSG stars at varying metallicity. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 465(1), 403-433. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw2708

We present the results of our survey of 1612-MHz circumstellar OH maser emission from asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars and red supergiants (RSGs) in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). We have discovered four new circumstellar maser sources in the L... Read More about The wind speeds, dust content, and mass-loss rates of evolved AGB and RSG stars at varying metallicity.

Optical biosensing strategies for DNA methylation analysis (2016)
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Islam, M. N., Yadav, S., Haque, M. H., Munaz, A., Islam, F., Al Hossain, M. S., Gopalan, V., Lam, A. K., Nguyen, N.-T., & Shiddiky, M. J. (2016). Optical biosensing strategies for DNA methylation analysis. Biosensors & bioelectronics, 92(15 June 2017), 668-678. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bios.2016.10.034

DNA methylation is an epigenetic modification of DNA, where a methyl group is added at the fifth carbon of the cytosine base to form 5 methyl cytosine (5mC) without altering the DNA sequences. It plays important roles in regulating many cellular proc... Read More about Optical biosensing strategies for DNA methylation analysis.

A solar twin in the eclipsing binary LL Aquarii (2016)
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Graczyk, D., Smolec, R., Pavlovski, K., Southworth, J., Pietrzyński, G., Maxted, P., Konorski, P., Gieren, W., Pilecki, B., Taormina, M., Suchomska, K., Karczmarek, P., Górski, M., Wielgórski, P., & Anderson, R. (2016). A solar twin in the eclipsing binary LL Aquarii. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 594, Article A92. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201628918

Aims. In the course of a project to study eclipsing binary stars in vinicity of the Sun, we found that the cooler component of LL Aqr is a solar twin candidate. This is the first known star with properties of a solar twin existing in a non-interactin... Read More about A solar twin in the eclipsing binary LL Aquarii.

The junior doctor contract in the National Health Service. (2016)
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Mughal, Z., & Mughal, F. (2016). The junior doctor contract in the National Health Service. Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 225 - 227. https://doi.org/10.4103/2249-4863.192329

The progression of the junior doctor contract negotiations within the National Health Service (NHS) has been widely reported. We aim to provide a comprehensive summary of the current state of affairs with the contract negotiations and hope to inform... Read More about The junior doctor contract in the National Health Service..