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Climate Change and Disappearing Island States: Pursuing Remedial Territory (2018)
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Allen, E. (2018). Climate Change and Disappearing Island States: Pursuing Remedial Territory. https://doi.org/10.1163/23527072-00101008

As at the start of 2018, at least eight low-lying Pacific islands have been found to have disappeared as a result of climate change induced rising sea levels and more seem likely in future to suffer the same fate. Because international law demands te... Read More about Climate Change and Disappearing Island States: Pursuing Remedial Territory.

Effectiveness of formal physical therapy following total shoulder arthroplasty: a systematic review (2018)
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(2018). Effectiveness of formal physical therapy following total shoulder arthroplasty: a systematic review. Shoulder and Elbow, https://doi.org/10.1177/1758573218812038

Background: Physical therapy is considered routine practice following total shoulder arthroplasty (TSA). To date, current regimens are based on clinical opinion, with evidence-based recommendations. The aim of this systematic review was to evaluate t... Read More about Effectiveness of formal physical therapy following total shoulder arthroplasty: a systematic review.

How Quality Management System Components Lead to Improvement in Service Organizations: A System Practitioner Perspective (2018)
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To, W., Yu, B., & Lee, P. (in press). How Quality Management System Components Lead to Improvement in Service Organizations: A System Practitioner Perspective. Administrative Sciences, 8(4), 73. https://doi.org/10.3390/admsci8040073

Service organizations use quality management systems as a part of their overall strategies to improve business processes and operations management. Nevertheless, how quality management components lead to improvement and whether task conflicts influen... Read More about How Quality Management System Components Lead to Improvement in Service Organizations: A System Practitioner Perspective.

Treatment Experiences, Information Needs, Pain and Quality of Life in Men with Metastatic Castrate-resistant Prostate Cancer: Results from the EXTREQOL Study (2018)
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Jenkins, V., Solis-Trapala, I., Payne, H., Mason, M., Fallowfield, L., May, S., …Catt, S. (2019). Treatment Experiences, Information Needs, Pain and Quality of Life in Men with Metastatic Castrate-resistant Prostate Cancer: Results from the EXTREQOL Study. Clinical Oncology, 31(2), 99-107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clon.2018.11.001

Aims Delaying progression, ameliorating symptoms and maintaining quality of life (QoL) are primary aims of treatment for metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). Real-world rather than clinical trial data about symptoms and side-effect... Read More about Treatment Experiences, Information Needs, Pain and Quality of Life in Men with Metastatic Castrate-resistant Prostate Cancer: Results from the EXTREQOL Study.

Treatment experiences, information needs, pain and quality of life in men with mCRPC: Results from the EXTREQOL study (2018)
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(2018). Treatment experiences, information needs, pain and quality of life in men with mCRPC: Results from the EXTREQOL study. Clinical Oncology, 99-107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clon.2018.11.001

Purpose Delaying progression, ameliorating symptoms and maintaining Quality of Life (QoL) are primary aims of treatment for metastatic Castrate Resistant Prostate Cancer (mCRPC). Real world rather than clinical trial data about symptoms and side eff... Read More about Treatment experiences, information needs, pain and quality of life in men with mCRPC: Results from the EXTREQOL study.

Clusters of Legionnaires' disease in period hotels with complex water systems: lessons learnt in the West Midlands, UK (2018)
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Buckley, K., Afza, M., Coetzee, N., Kirrage, D., Knapper, E., Duffin, S., …Foulkes, S. (2018). Clusters of Legionnaires' disease in period hotels with complex water systems: lessons learnt in the West Midlands, UK. The Lancet, 392, S22. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736%2818%2932195-0

Background In 2017 there were two distinct clusters of local travel-associated Legionnaires' disease associated with period hotels built in the 17th and 18th centuries in the West Midlands, UK. Both hotels had undergone frequent structural modificat... Read More about Clusters of Legionnaires' disease in period hotels with complex water systems: lessons learnt in the West Midlands, UK.

Relationship between corporate social responsibility performance and disclosures: commercial banks of Bangladesh (2018)
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Saha, A. K. (2019). Relationship between corporate social responsibility performance and disclosures: commercial banks of Bangladesh. Social Responsibility Journal, 15(4), 451-468. https://doi.org/10.1108/srj-07-2017-0137

Purpose The research investigates the determinants of corporate social responsibility (CSR) spending and CSR disclosures by the Bangladeshi commercial banks. In the process, it explains the relationship between CSR disclosures and CSR expenditure by... Read More about Relationship between corporate social responsibility performance and disclosures: commercial banks of Bangladesh.

Dispersion of elastic waves in a layer interacting with a Winkler foundation (2018)
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Kaplunov. (2018). Dispersion of elastic waves in a layer interacting with a Winkler foundation. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5079640

ABSTRACT Dispersion of plane harmonic waves in an elastic layer interacting with a one- or two-sided Winkler foundation is analyzed. The long-wave low-frequency polynomial approximations of the full transcendental dispersion relations are derived fo... Read More about Dispersion of elastic waves in a layer interacting with a Winkler foundation.

Harmonizing semantic annotations for computational models in biology (2018)
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Misirli. (2018). Harmonizing semantic annotations for computational models in biology. Briefings in bioinformatics, bby087 - bby087. https://doi.org/10.1093/bib/bby087

Life science researchers use computational models to articulate and test hypotheses about the behavior of biological systems. Semantic annotation is a critical component for enhancing the interoperability and reusability of such models as well as for... Read More about Harmonizing semantic annotations for computational models in biology.

Universal Principle of Right: Metaphysics, Politics and Conflict Resolutions (2018)
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Baiasu, S. (2018). Universal Principle of Right: Metaphysics, Politics and Conflict Resolutions. Kantian Review, 23(4), 527-554. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1369415418000390

In spite of its dominance, there are well-known problems with Rawls’s method of reflective equilibrium (MRE), as a method of justification in meta-ethics. One issue in particular has preoccupied commentators, namely, the capacity of this method to pr... Read More about Universal Principle of Right: Metaphysics, Politics and Conflict Resolutions.

Early formation of carbon monoxide in the Centaurus A supernova SN 2016adj (2018)
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(2018). Early formation of carbon monoxide in the Centaurus A supernova SN 2016adj. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 806-808. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty2255

We present near-infrared spectroscopy of the NGC 5128 supernova SN 2016adj in the first 2 months following discovery. We report the detection of first overtone carbon monoxide emission at ~58.2 d after discovery, one of the earliest detections of CO... Read More about Early formation of carbon monoxide in the Centaurus A supernova SN 2016adj.

The sedimentology, architecture and depositional setting of the fluvial Spireslack 1 Sandstone of the Midland Valley, Scotland: insights from Spireslack surface coal mine. (2018)
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Ellen, R., Browne, M., Mitten, A., Clarke, S., Leslie, A., & Callaghan, E. (2018). The sedimentology, architecture and depositional setting of the fluvial Spireslack 1 Sandstone of the Midland Valley, Scotland: insights from Spireslack surface coal mine. Geological Society Special Publications, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP488.2

Spireslack surface coal mine exposes a section in the Carboniferous Lawmuir Formation (Brigantian) into the Upper Limestone Formation (Arnsbergian). This paper describes the stratigraphy exposed at Spireslack for the first time and, in so doing, name... Read More about The sedimentology, architecture and depositional setting of the fluvial Spireslack 1 Sandstone of the Midland Valley, Scotland: insights from Spireslack surface coal mine..

Romantic involvement and adolescents' academic and psychosocial functioning in Chinese societies (2018)
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Li, X., Huang, C. S., & Shen, A. C. (2019). Romantic involvement and adolescents' academic and psychosocial functioning in Chinese societies. Children and Youth Services Review, 96, 108-117. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2018.11.036

This study explores the effects of romantic involvement and dating behaviors on adolescent academic and psychosocial functioning in Chinese societies, where adolescent dating is generally discouraged and believed to generate adverse outcomes. Adolesc... Read More about Romantic involvement and adolescents' academic and psychosocial functioning in Chinese societies.

Can metaphysical structuralism solve the plurality problem? (2018)
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Allen. (2018). Can metaphysical structuralism solve the plurality problem?. International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 722-746. https://doi.org/10.1080/09672559.2018.1544732

Metaphysics has a problem with plurality: in many areas of discourse, there are too many good theories, rather than just one. This embarrassment of riches is a particular problem for metaphysical realists who want metaphysics to tell us the way the w... Read More about Can metaphysical structuralism solve the plurality problem?.

Comorbidities in polymyalgia rheumatica: a systematic review (2018)
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Partington, R., Helliwell, T., Muller, S., Abdul Sultan, A., & Mallen, C. (2018). Comorbidities in polymyalgia rheumatica: a systematic review. Arthritis Research and Therapy, 258 -?. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13075-018-1757-y

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Comorbidities are known to exist in many rheumatological conditions. Polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) is a common inflammatory rheumatological condition affecting older people which, prior to effective treatment, causes severe disabil... Read More about Comorbidities in polymyalgia rheumatica: a systematic review.

Peralkaline felsic magmatism of the Atlantic islands (2018)
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Gertisser. (2018). Peralkaline felsic magmatism of the Atlantic islands. Frontiers in Earth Science, https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2018.00145

The oceanic-island magmatic systems of the Atlantic Ocean exhibit significant diversity in their respective sizes, ages, and the compositional ranges of their eruptive products. Nevertheless, almost all of the Atlantic islands and island groups have... Read More about Peralkaline felsic magmatism of the Atlantic islands.

Machine-learning Approaches to Exoplanet Transit Detection and Candidate Validation in Wide-field Ground-based Surveys (2018)
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Schanche, N., Collier Cameron, A., Hébrard, G., Nielsen, L., Triaud, A. H. M. J., Almenara, J. M., …Wheatley, P. J. Machine-learning Approaches to Exoplanet Transit Detection and Candidate Validation in Wide-field Ground-based Surveys. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty3146. Manuscript submitted for publication

Since the start of the Wide Angle Search for Planets (WASP) program, more than 160 transiting exoplanets have been discovered in the WASP data. In the past, possible transit-like events identified by the WASP pipeline have been vetted by human inspec... Read More about Machine-learning Approaches to Exoplanet Transit Detection and Candidate Validation in Wide-field Ground-based Surveys.

Healthcare professionals' perceptions and perspectives on biosimilar medicines and the barriers and facilitators to their prescribing in UK: a qualitative study. (2018)
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(2018). Healthcare professionals' perceptions and perspectives on biosimilar medicines and the barriers and facilitators to their prescribing in UK: a qualitative study. BMJ Open, e023603 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023603

OBJECTIVE: To investigate UK healthcare professionals' perceptions and perspectives towards biosimilar infliximab, etanercept and insulin glargine and the potential barriers and facilitators to their prescribing. DESIGN: A cross-sectional qualitative... Read More about Healthcare professionals' perceptions and perspectives on biosimilar medicines and the barriers and facilitators to their prescribing in UK: a qualitative study..