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A guide to systematic review and meta-analysis of prediction model performance (2017)
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(2017). A guide to systematic review and meta-analysis of prediction model performance. BMJ, https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.i6460

Validation of prediction models is highly recommended and increasingly common in the literature. A
systematic review of validation studies is therefore helpful, with meta-analysis needed to summarise the
predictive performance of the model being va... Read More about A guide to systematic review and meta-analysis of prediction model performance.

Politics and the Police: Documenting the 17th October 1961 Massacre (2017)
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(2017). Politics and the Police: Documenting the 17th October 1961 Massacre. Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, 599-606. https://doi.org/10.1080/17409292.2016.1218188

The police massacre, in the center of Paris, of hundreds of protesting Algerians on the 17th of October 1961 has become one of the most recognized events of the Algerian War. Amid a wealth of historical and fictional works that treat the event, Jacqu... Read More about Politics and the Police: Documenting the 17th October 1961 Massacre.

DUSTiNGS III: Distribution of Intermediate-Age and Old Stellar Populations in Disks and Outer Extremities of Dwarf Galaxies (2017)
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Van Loon. (2017). DUSTiNGS III: Distribution of Intermediate-Age and Old Stellar Populations in Disks and Outer Extremities of Dwarf Galaxies. Astrophysical Journal, https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/834/1/78

We have traced the spatial distributions of intermediate-age and old stars in nine dwarf galaxies in the distant parts of the Local Group, using multi-epoch 3.6 and 4.5 µm data from the DUST in Nearby Galaxies with Spitzer (DUSTiNGS) survey. Using co... Read More about DUSTiNGS III: Distribution of Intermediate-Age and Old Stellar Populations in Disks and Outer Extremities of Dwarf Galaxies.

A conceptual understanding of criminality and integrity challenges in food supply chains (2017)
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Fassam, L., & Dani, S. (2017). A conceptual understanding of criminality and integrity challenges in food supply chains. British Food Journal, 119(1), 67 - 83. https://doi.org/10.1108/BFJ-07-2016-0314

Purpose: Business, consumers and governmental organisations are harbouring a growing need to gain an appreciation of behaviours connected to food criminality. In order to acquire a cross-functional understanding of these thematic areas (crime and fra... Read More about A conceptual understanding of criminality and integrity challenges in food supply chains.

The cellular magnetic response and biocompatibility of biogenic zinc- and cobalt-doped magnetite nanoparticles. (2017)
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Moise, S., Céspedes, E., Soukup, D., Byrne, J. M., El Haj, A. J., & Telling, N. D. (2017). The cellular magnetic response and biocompatibility of biogenic zinc- and cobalt-doped magnetite nanoparticles. Scientific reports, 7, Article 39922. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep39922

The magnetic moment and anisotropy of magnetite nanoparticles can be optimised by doping with transition metal cations, enabling their properties to be tuned for different biomedical applications. In this study, we assessed the suitability of bacteri... Read More about The cellular magnetic response and biocompatibility of biogenic zinc- and cobalt-doped magnetite nanoparticles..

Binding of Myomesin to Obscurin-Like-1 at the Muscle M-Band Provides a Strategy for Isoform-Specific Mechanical Protection (2017)
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(2017). Binding of Myomesin to Obscurin-Like-1 at the Muscle M-Band Provides a Strategy for Isoform-Specific Mechanical Protection. Structure, 107-120. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.str.2016.11.015

The sarcomeric cytoskeleton is a network of modular proteins that integrate mechanical and signaling roles. Obscurin, or its homolog obscurin-like-1, bridges the giant ruler titin and the myosin crosslinker myomesin at the M-band. Yet, the molecular... Read More about Binding of Myomesin to Obscurin-Like-1 at the Muscle M-Band Provides a Strategy for Isoform-Specific Mechanical Protection.

Incremental Construction of the Unit 10 Peridotite, Rum Eastern Layered Intrusion, NW Scotland (2017)
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Hepworth, L. N., O’Driscoll, B., Gertisser, R., Daly, J. S., & Emeleus, C. H. (2017). Incremental Construction of the Unit 10 Peridotite, Rum Eastern Layered Intrusion, NW Scotland. Journal of Petrology, 58(1), 137-166. https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egx008

The Rum Eastern Layered Intrusion (ELI) is the product of part of an ∼60 Ma open-system magma chamber. The 16 coupled peridotite–troctolite ± gabbro macro-rhythmic units it contains represent crystallization of multiple batches of basaltic and picrit... Read More about Incremental Construction of the Unit 10 Peridotite, Rum Eastern Layered Intrusion, NW Scotland.

Sulfatase-mediated manipulation of the astrocyte-Schwann cell interface. (2017)
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Turnbull, J., & Guimond. (2017). Sulfatase-mediated manipulation of the astrocyte-Schwann cell interface. Glia, 19 - 33. https://doi.org/10.1002/glia.23047

Schwann cell (SC) transplantation following spinal cord injury (SCI) may have therapeutic potential. Functional recovery is limited however, due to poor SC interactions with host astrocytes and the induction of astrogliosis. Olfactory ensheathing cel... Read More about Sulfatase-mediated manipulation of the astrocyte-Schwann cell interface..

Transparency, Investment Protection and the Role of the European Parliament (2017)
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(2017). Transparency, Investment Protection and the Role of the European Parliament. https://doi.org/10.1163/24689017-00201018

This article looks at the role that the European Parliament, as the only democratically elected EU institution, plays in ensuring transparency in the EU's newly concluded free trade and investment agreements (FTIAs). Using the empirically tested find... Read More about Transparency, Investment Protection and the Role of the European Parliament.

Binding Committee Interpretations in the EU’s New Free Trade and Investment Agreements (2017)
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(2017). Binding Committee Interpretations in the EU’s New Free Trade and Investment Agreements. https://doi.org/10.1163/24689017-00201004

The EU’s new Free Trade and Investment Agreements (FTIAs) are meant to tackle many of the issues that led to the contestation of international investment law, by increasing the control of the contracting parties over the agreements. One such mechanis... Read More about Binding Committee Interpretations in the EU’s New Free Trade and Investment Agreements.

Nitrates for the Management of Acute Heart Failure Syndromes, A Systematic Review (2017)
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(2017). Nitrates for the Management of Acute Heart Failure Syndromes, A Systematic Review. Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology and Therapeutics, 20 -27. https://doi.org/10.1177/1074248416644345

Intravenous nitrates are widely used in the management of acute heart failure syndrome (AHFS) yet with lack of robust evidence to support their use. We therefore sought to analyze all randomized studies that evaluated the effects of nitrates on clini... Read More about Nitrates for the Management of Acute Heart Failure Syndromes, A Systematic Review.

Early Paleozoic tectonic reconstruction of Iran: Tales from detrital zircon geochronology (2017)
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(2017). Early Paleozoic tectonic reconstruction of Iran: Tales from detrital zircon geochronology. Lithos, 87 - 101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2016.09.008

In this study we use detrital zircons to probe the Early Paleozoic history of NE Iran and evaluate the link between sediment sources and Gondwanan pre-Cadomian, Cadomian and younger events. U–Pb zircon ages and Hf isotopic compositions are reported f... Read More about Early Paleozoic tectonic reconstruction of Iran: Tales from detrital zircon geochronology.

Comment on Maravelis et al. “Accretionary prism-forearc interactions as reflected in the sedimentary fill of southern Thrace Basin (Lemnos Island, NE Greece)” (2017)
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(2017). Comment on Maravelis et al. “Accretionary prism-forearc interactions as reflected in the sedimentary fill of southern Thrace Basin (Lemnos Island, NE Greece)”. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 387 -388. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-016-1302-7

This contribution is intended to shed light on the content of the paper by Maravelis et al. (2015) about the evolution of the island of Limnos, a small portion of the Cenozoic Thrace Basin (Turkey, Greece and Bulgaria). Although we appreciate their a... Read More about Comment on Maravelis et al. “Accretionary prism-forearc interactions as reflected in the sedimentary fill of southern Thrace Basin (Lemnos Island, NE Greece)”.

The justificandum of the human sciences: Collingwood on reasons for acting (2017)
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D'Oro. (2017). The justificandum of the human sciences: Collingwood on reasons for acting. Collingwood and British Idealism Studies, 41-65

It is sometimes assumed that justification is factive. A negative implication of this claim is that reasons are not psychological entities such as believings or desirings. Another, positive, implication of this claim is that there is an important con... Read More about The justificandum of the human sciences: Collingwood on reasons for acting.

Data-driven region-of-interest selection without inflating Type I error rate (2017)
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Brooks, J., Zoumpoulaki, A., & Bowman, H. (2017). Data-driven region-of-interest selection without inflating Type I error rate. Psychophysiology, 54(1), 100 -113. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.12682

In ERP and other large multidimensional neuroscience data sets, researchers often select regions of interest (ROIs) for analysis. The method of ROI selection can critically affect the conclusions of a study by causing the researcher to miss effects i... Read More about Data-driven region-of-interest selection without inflating Type I error rate.

Delayed maximum northern European summer temperatures during the Last Interglacial as a result of Greenland Ice Sheet melt (2017)
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(2017). Delayed maximum northern European summer temperatures during the Last Interglacial as a result of Greenland Ice Sheet melt. Geology, 23 - 26. https://doi.org/10.1130/G38402.1

Here we report a new quantitative mean July temperature reconstruction using non-biting midges (chironomids) from the Danish Last Interglacial (LIG) site Hollerup (spanning 127–116 ka). We find that peak mean July temperatures of 17.5 °C, similar to... Read More about Delayed maximum northern European summer temperatures during the Last Interglacial as a result of Greenland Ice Sheet melt.

Social Disadvantage Is Associated With Lower Vitamin D Levels in Older People and There Is No Surrogate for Its Measurement (2017)
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Heald, A. H., Anderson, S. G., Scargill, J. J., Short, A., Holland, D., Khan, A., Fryer, A. A., Donn, R. P., & Livingston, M. (2017). Social Disadvantage Is Associated With Lower Vitamin D Levels in Older People and There Is No Surrogate for Its Measurement. Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, https://doi.org/10.1177/2333721417697843

There is increasing evidence concerning adverse health consequences of low vitamin D levels. We determined whether there is any surrogate for measuring vitamin D in people older than 70 years and the relation between index of multiple deprivation (IM... Read More about Social Disadvantage Is Associated With Lower Vitamin D Levels in Older People and There Is No Surrogate for Its Measurement.

Development of tools to automate quantitative analysis of radiation damage in SAXS experiments (2017)
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(2017). Development of tools to automate quantitative analysis of radiation damage in SAXS experiments. Journal of Synchrotron Radiation, 63-72. https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600577516015083

Biological small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) is an increasingly popular technique used to obtain nanoscale structural information on macromolecules in solution. However, radiation damage to the samples limits the amount of useful data that can be c... Read More about Development of tools to automate quantitative analysis of radiation damage in SAXS experiments.