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Prospects for Engineering Thermoelectric Properties in La <sub>1/3</sub>NbO <sub>3</sub> Ceramics Revealed via Atomic-Level Characterization and Modeling
Demie Kepaptsoglou, Jakub Baran, F Azough, Dursun Ekren, Deepanshu Srivastava, Marco Molinari, Stephen C. Parker, Quentin Mathieu Ramasse, R Freer
Jan 02, 2018
A combination of experimental and computational techniques has been employed to explore the crystal structure and thermoelectric properties of A-site-deficient perovskite La 1/3NbO 3 ceramics....
Highly Active N,O Zinc Guanidine Catalysts for the Ring-Opening Polymerization of Lactide
Pascal M Schäfer, Martin Fuchs, Andreas Ohligschläger, Ruth Rittinghaus, Paul McKeown, Enver Akin, Maximilian Schmidt, Alexander Hoffmann, Marcel A. Liauw, Matthew Jones, Sonja Herres-Pawlis
Sep 22, 2017
New zinc guanidine complexes with N,O donor functionalities were prepared, characterized by X-Ray crystallography, and examined for their catalytic activity in the solvent-free ring-opening polymerization (ROP) of...
Changes in consumption of added sugars from age 13 to 30 years
Added sugar intake during adolescence has been associated with weight gain and cardiometabolic risk factors. Moreover, dietary habits may persist into adulthood, increasing chronic disease risk in later life. This systematic...
The crucial role of the micro caregiving environment
The distribution of attachment styles has been shown to differ between groups of children living with their parents and children placed in alternative care (AC), defined as residential or foster. However, this is the first study...
Absence management of migrant agency workers in the food manufacturing sector
Temporary workers in low-skilled roles often experience ‘hard’ HRM practices, for example the use of the Bradford Factor to monitor absence, rather than using incentives to reward attendance. However, this peripheral workforce...
It’s a family affair
Teresa Ridge
Jul 01, 2007
This article presents new empirical findings from a qualitative, longitudinal study of low-income working family life. It explores the experiences and perceptions of a group of children living in low-income, working, lone-mother...
Women acting for women? An analysis of gender and debate participation in the British House of Commons 2005–2007
Ana Catalano Weeks
Mar 01, 2009
The recent push for more women parliamentarians around the world via positive action measures such as gender quotas naturally begs the question of whether the increased descriptive representation of women in parliament is making...
The response of Physical Science post-graduates to training courses and the connection to their PhD studies
Training in both employability and discipline-specific skills has been provided and expanded over a number of years for post-graduate research students, (PGRs) in the Faculty of Physical Sciences administered by the Physical...
Published by: University of Cambridge
The international universities walking project
W J Brown, G Faulkner, J McKenna, M Murphy, A Pringle, K Proper, A Puig-Ribera, Afroditi Stathi, M R Umstattd
Jul 01, 2010
Background: This paper aimed to use the Delphi technique to develop a consensus framework for a multinational, workplace walking intervention.
Methods: Ideas were gathered and ranked from eight recognized and emerging...
Religion, Mindfulness, and Resilience as Strategies to Cope With Anxiety
This study examined mindfulness, resilience, and anxiety in adults adhering to either traditional or progressive, more flexible, faith beliefs. Participants (n = 98) were college students (64% Caucasian; 85% women) with a mean...
Published by: Winthrop University
Evidence of dispersion and refraction of a spectrally broad gravity wave packet in the mesopause region observed by the Na lidar and Mesospheric Temperature Mapper above Logan, Utah
T. Yuan, C. J. Heale, J. B. Snively, X. Cai, P. D. Pautet, C. Fish, Y. Zhao, M. J. Taylor, W. R. Pendleton, V. Wickwar, N. J. Mitchell
Jan 27, 2016
Gravity wave packets excited by a source of finite duration and size possess a broad frequency and wave number spectrum and thus span a range of temporal and spatial scales. Observing at a single location relatively close to...
HR Differentiation: A Double-Edged Sword?
Yasin Rofcanin
Mar 01, 2017
This thesis presents three studies which explore the effects of individualized human resource management (HRM) practices from recipients’ and non-recipients’ perspectives. The first two studies, focusing on the concept of...
HR Differentiation: A Double-Edged Sword?
Yasin Rofcanin
Mar 01, 2017
This thesis presents three studies which explore the effects of individualized human resource management (HRM) practices from recipients’ and non-recipients’ perspectives. The first two studies, focusing on the concept of...
An Introduction to Anti-Black Sanism
Sanism is an oppression. It makes normal the practice of discrimination, rejection, silencing, exclusion, low expectations, incarceration, and other forms of violence against people who are othered through mental ‘illness’...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Nonparametric Bayesian inference of the microcanonical stochastic block model
Tiago P. Peixoto
Jan 17, 2017
A principled approach to characterize the hidden modular structure of networks is to formulate generative models, and then infer their parameters from data. When the desired structure is composed of modules or "communities", a...
Statistical Analysis of Paradigmatic Class Richness Supports Greater Paleoindian Projectile-Point Diversity in the Southeast
M. I. Eren, A. Chao, C. H. Chiu, R. K. Colwell, B. Buchanan, M. T. Boulanger, J. Darwent, Michael J. O'Brien
Jan 01, 2016
Ronald Mason's hypothesis from the 1960s that the southeastern United States possesses greater Paleoindian projectile-point diversity than other regions is regularly cited, and often assumed to be true, but in fact has never...
Published by: Digital Commons @ Texas A&M University-San Antonio
Negotiating access in ethnographic research with 'hard to reach' young people
Negotiating access to participants poses challenges for all social research, but this can be particularly exacting in ethnographic projects which require participants to consent to prolonged research encounters that can be...
A review of young people's vulnerabilities to online grooming
This review explores risk factors that may make a young person vulnerable to being groomed online. Even though research in this area is extremely limited, adolescents appear to be the age group most vulnerable to online...
The longitudinal development of emotion regulation capacities in children at risk for externalizing disorders
Sarah L. Halligan, Peter J. Cooper, Pasco Fearon, Sarah L. Wheeler, Michelle Crosby, Lynne Murray
May 01, 2013
The development of emotional regulation capacities in children at high versus low risk for externalizing disorder was examined in a longitudinal study investigating: (a) whether disturbances in emotion regulation precede and...
Choice and compassion at the end of life
End of life care in England has recently been framed by two very different discourses. One (connected to advance care planning) promotes personal choice, the other promotes compassionate care; both are prominent in professional...
Characterization of BU09059
Joseph J Casal-Dominguez, Daniel Furkert, Mehrnoosh Ostovar, Linnea Teintang, Mary J Clarke, John R Traynor, Stephen M Husbands, Sarah J Bailey
Mar 19, 2014
Kappa-opioid receptor (κ) antagonists are potential therapeutic agents for a range of psychiatric disorders. The feasibility of developing κ-antagonists has been limited by the pharmacodynamic properties of prototypic...
Impact of anti-centromere antibodies on pulmonary function test results in patients with systemic sclerosis without established or suspected pulmonary disease
Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) occurs in approximately 15 % of patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc). Annual screening with pulmonary function tests (PFT) is recommended to help identify those patients at risk of PAH....
Comparison of effects of Enalapril, Ramipril and Amlodipine on blood sugar levels in ill-controlled type 2 Diabetes mellitus patients
Introduction: Insulin resistance, dyslipidemia and hypertension may co-exist in 15-25 % of individuals in industrialized countries. Vasodilator amodipine, ramipril and enalapril being commonly used drugs, were selected to see...
Published by: IJHS Medical Association
Mental imagery scanning in autism spectrum disorder
Navigational impairments have previously been reported in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The present study examined the ability of individuals with ASD to generate and scan their mental image of a previously viewed map....
Raman spectra of monolayer, few-layer, and bulk ReSe<sub>2</sub>
Rhenium diselenide (ReSe2) is a layered indirect gap semiconductor for which micromechanical cleavage can produce monolayers consisting of a plane of rhenium atoms with selenium atoms above and below....
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