No fingers, no SNARC? Neither the finger counting starting hand, nor its stability robustly affect the SNARC effect by Mateusz Hohol, Kinga Wołoszyn, Krzysztof Cipora

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Regional specificity of cathodal transcranial direct current stimulation effects on spatial–numerical associations: comparison of four stimulation sites by Maryam Farshad, Christina Artemenko, Krzysztof Cipora, Jennifer Svaldi, Philipp A Schroeder

“…However, neither NDE nor SSRT were modulated in the main analyses. Post hoc contrasts and exploratory analyses showed that cathodal tDCS over the right PFC had a time-dependent effect by delayed practice-related improvements in SSRT. …”
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An impedance model for analysis of EIS of polymer electrolyte fuel cells under platinum oxidation and hydrogen peroxide formation in the cathode by Samuel Cruz-Manzo, Cesar Perezmitre-Cruz, Paul S. Greenwood, Rui Chen

“…In this study, an impedance model based on electrochemical theory of platinum oxide formation has been developed and combined with the impedance model based on hydrogen peroxide formation during the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and reported in a previous study to characterise inductive loops in impedance spectra of polymer electrolyte fuel cells (PEFCs). …”
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A robotic vehicle system for operation with gas pipelines by Jiun Keat Ong

“…A selection of cable-free methods has been examined in this dissertation to offer solution in the aspect of communication. …”
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The lost bodies in sports, Taiwan: the history of sports for individuals with physical disabilities between 1945 and 2007 by Cheng-Hao Huang

“…Primary data was collected from personal archives of key informants who had lived experience with the developments during this period and with whom interviews were also conducted. …”
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Benefits and barriers of building information modelling by Han Yan, Peter Demian

“…It is found that BIM adoption is much higher in the US than in the rest of the world. Still, the majority of companies were neither currently using BIM technology, nor did they have any plans to use BIM in the future. …”
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Professional mathematicians do not differ from others in the symbolic numerical distance and size effects by Mateusz Hohol, Klaus Willmes, Edward Nęcka, Bartosz Brożek, Hans-Christoph Nuerk, Krzysztof Cipora

“…Previously this relationship has only been studied in participants with normal or poor mathematical skills, not in mathematicians. …”
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Rayleigh's bell model revisited by R. Perrin, Gerry Swallowe

“…Rather he focussed on using it to explain the fact that the Hum note never has any nodal circles. …”
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Thanatology and its thesis of the repression of death: a discursive and generic analysis by Irina Romanova

“…This has wider implications for understanding how new disciplines can be constructed and promoted both within and beyond the academic world.…”
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Paul Goodman: Prefiguring the past by Ruth Kinna, Paola Chiarella

“…Yet his utopianism is peculiar because Goodman abjures the blueprint he sketches and he offers countless practical proposals for social change whilst remaining profoundly pessimistic about its achievement, finding neither an agent capable of delivering social transformation, nor a route for imaginative escape.…”
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An Introduction to Andalusi Hebrew Metrics (PDF) by José Martínez Delgado

“…Whilst twentieth-century scholars spoke about the adaptation of Arabic metrics to Hebrew, he instead approaches these compositions by Andalusi Jews (10th-13th c.) as Arabic metrics written in Hebrew, thus emphasising how Hebrew poetry of the Andalusi Jews can help us to understand the general evolution of Arabic strophic poetry, and its experimental evolution, which is quite unlike classical and strophic Arabic poetry. …”
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A design by features approach to the building of feature data models for process planning by James Gao, Keith Case, N. Gindy

“…Unfortunately, neither has a feature representation scheme (or standard) yet been generally accepted, nor has a CAD system successfully represented feature information. …”
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Japanese childrens historical fiction up to 1983: a critical assessment of its place within Japanese childrens literature by Wakiko Ohashi Collins

“…The publishing of children's books in Japan has had a relatively short history, beginning only in the late nineteenth century. …”
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Modelling damage and fracture evolution in plasma-sprayed ceramic coatings: effect of microstructure by Jian Zhao

“…However, there has been neither a standard account for the effect of microstructure on damage and fracture evolution in coatings nor an adequate quantitative description of that effect. …”
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The measurement of approximate number system acuity across the lifespan is compromised by congruency effects by Jade E. Norris, Sarah Clayton, Camilla Gilmore, Matthew Inglis, Julie Castronovo

“…Previous studies assessing ANS acuity in ageing have all applied stimuli generated by the Panamath protocol, which does not control nor measure the influence of convex hull. Crucially, convex hull has recently been identified as an influential visual cue present in dot arrays, with its impact on older adults’ ANS acuity yet to be investigated. …”
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A diagnostic service tool using FMEA by Keith Case, Amin Nor, Ping C. Teoh

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Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) in maintenance and diagnostics by Keith Case, Amin Nor

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Sustainable operation and maintenance of urban infrastructure : myth or reality? by M. Sohail, Sue Cavill, Andrew Cotton

“…However, evidence of the success of such schemes is rather patchy. It has been recognised that neither community nor government alone can ensure the sustainability of infrastructure; a partnership approach is needed. …”
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Financial markets’ shutdown and reaccess by Luca Agnello, Vitor Castro, Ricardo M. Sousa

“…We also show that: (i) shutdown episodes are longer when economic prospects are poor and the degree of financial openness falls, the chief executive has been in office for long periods, and the country has a default history; and (ii) spells of re-access tend to be longer when economic growth improves and financial openness increases, there are neither government crises nor government instability, and the country did not default in the past.…”
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Water bath modelling of transient and time dependent natural ventilation flows by Stephen P. Todd

“…Since electricity was first harnessed, humanity has developed a lifestyle which can not exist without it. …”
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Remote measurement of temperature using laser-induced luminescence by Alison Bethell

“…Laser induced fluorescence (LIF) has been used successfully on rotating objects, but at speeds much less than the speeds which are required for implementation on a running compressor. …”
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Outcomes for looked after children: the longitudinal study at the third data collection point by Tricia Skuse, Ian Macdonald, Harriet Ward

“…However, the requirement to produce additional statistical returns, intended to demonstrate how far government objectives for children’s services have been met, has not yet resulted in significant improvements in recording on individual case files. …”
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Thermal debonding in compacted graphite iron: effect of interaction of graphite inclusions by Evangelia Palkanoglou, Konstantinos Baxevanakis, Vadim Silberschmidt

“…This paper focuses on investigation of the interaction effect of graphite inclusions on failure of compacted graphite iron (CGI) subjected to thermal load. Although CGI has been used extensively in industrial applications and studied for many years, its failure under pure thermal load has not yet been fully understood, nor has the influence of interacting graphite particles on it. …”
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A linguistic-based decision-support framework for enhancing production ramp-up effort by Melanie Zimmer

“…Second, it has been investigated how these captured data can be further analysed using natural language processing. …”
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Does the UK sport delivery system's approach to sport provision influence individuals’ sport participation and their outcomes differently? A case study of a County Sport Partnershi... by Harish Kumar

“…There is a lack of knowledge on how alternative forms of sports facility provision influences end user's sports and physical activity behaviour, and the consequent impact this has on their health, well-being and social capital. …”
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Harnessing applied potential to oxidation in water by Benjamin Buckley, Yohan Chan, Nicolas Dreyfus, Claire Elliott, Frank Marken, Philip C. Bulman Page

“…Excellent yields are obtained for a variety of substrates, and neither over-oxidation to sulfone nor formation of diol by-products from alkene oxidation is observed. …”
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FMEA in automatic transmission diagnostics by Keith Case, Amin Nor

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FMEA in design for service by Keith Case, Amin Nor

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A design approach for integration of the HMI to multiple driver systems by Tracy Ross, Andrew May

“…No other such design process has been documented in the publicly available literature, nor within automotive R&D departments in the UK. …”
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Exploiting email: extracting knowledge to support knowledge sharing by Sara Tedmori

“…Through industry involvement, this research has explored and validated email content as a source for expertise profiling. …”
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Developing innovative services and managing change by Graham Walton

“…The drive to innovate has existed for many years. Indeed Machiavelli was aware of the pressure in the Middle Ages: "There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate new order of things." …”
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Design for service: integrating product design and diagnostics by Md Amin Md Nor

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A pyrene-based approach to tune emission color from blue to yellow by Chuan-Zeng Wang, Hisashi Ichiyanagi, Koya Sakaguchi, Xing Feng, Mark Elsegood, Carl Redshaw, Takehiko Yamato

“…Herein, a facile strategy to tune the emission color of pyrene-based chromophores has been es-tablished by simple functional group modification at the para position to the diphenylamino on the do-nor building block. …”
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Oxo-degradable plastics: degradation, environmental impact and recycling by Noreen Thomas, Jane Clarke, Andrew R. McLauchlin, Stuart G. Patrick

“…The approach used in the study has been to review the published research on oxo-degradable plastics, assess other literature available in the public domain, and also to engage with stakeholders throughout the life cycle of the product. …”
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Toward a sustainable educational engineer archetype through Industry 4.0 by Francesco Lupi, Mabkhot M. Mabkhot, Miha Finžgar, Paolo Minetola, Dorota Stadnicka, Antonio Maffei, Paweł Litwin, Eleonora Boffa, Pedro Ferreira, Primož Podržaj, Riccardo Chelli, Niels Lohse, Michele Lanzetta

“…Therefore, the need to rethink the professional figures of an engineer has become a necessity. Unfortunately, neither a formal methodology to define a standard engineer archetype nor procedural methods to evaluate such archetypes’ contribution to SD are investigated. …”
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Global effects of income and income inequality on adult height and sexual dimorphism in height by Barry Bogin, Christiane Scheffler, Michael Hermanussen

“…We analyze data from 169 countries for national average heights of men and women and national-level economic factors to test two hypotheses: (1) income inequality has a greater association with average adult height than does absolute income; and (2) neither income nor income inequality has an effect on sexual dimorphism in height. …”
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Love and its Critics: From the Song of Songs to Shakespeare and Milton’s Eden (PDF) by Michael Bryson, Arpi Movsesian

“…Neither eros nor agape, neither exclusively of the body, nor solely of the spirit, this love is a middle path. …”
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Love and its Critics: From the Song of Songs to Shakespeare and Milton’s Eden (XML) by Michael Bryson, Arpi Movsesian

“…Neither eros nor agape, neither exclusively of the body, nor solely of the spirit, this love is a middle path. …”
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Plotting the trajectory of youth justice in the 19th and 20th centuries by the making of legislation: a process in five acts by Justin Brett

“…This thesis therefore takes the legislation governing youth justice as its starting point and asks what the making of legislation can tell us about how and why youth justice has developed over time. …”
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Clothing heat exchange models for research and application by George Havenith

“…In this context, clothing has allowed mankind to expand its habitat around the world and has had a positive influence on its development. …”
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Design thinking: standing on the shoulders of … graphic design! by Robert G. Harland, Yaron Meron

“…The arguments presented in this paper offer a timely critical perspective on a frequently unchallenged prevailing discourse that has echoed consistent assumptions over several decades. …”
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Development and implementation of the UK on the spot accident data collection study - phase I by Julian Hill, Richard Cuerden

“…The study is thus still retrospective, in that the accident has already happened, but the timing is such that it should be possible to gather information on the environmental and behavioural conditions prevailing just before the crash. …”
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Climate-based daylight modelling and its discontents by John Mardaljevic

“…This is believed to be the first major upgrade to mandatory daylight requirements since the introduction of the daylight factor more than half a century ago. In the US, a climate-based daylight metric approved by the IESNA has appeared in the latest version of LEED. …”
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Feature-based designer's intents by Marcelo da Silva Hounsell, Keith Case

“…Features are considered to be a medium that carries designer’s intents, but neither features nor designer’s intent have widely accepted definitions. …”
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Building a boundaryless manufacturing organisation through HITOP method by Yiyang Zhang

“…There is little empirical research to support the allegation that ‘leagile’ manufacturing organisations thrive in hostile environments, nor has it been demonstrated that organisation processes (referred to as enablers) actually support ‘leagile’ performance. …”
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An innovative methodology for the development of information systems with an application to the Teachers Training College in Makkah Al-Mukkaramah, Saudi Arabia by Fatin A.A. Mandoora

“…The senior management of the Teachers' Training College knows that the organisation has information-related problems, with information overload being a particularly prominent issue. …”
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Modeling golf ball roll with a variable coefficient of friction by Alyssa Burritt, Erik Henrikson

“…Hubbard and Always (1999) found that using a constant coefficient of friction models a putt well, but a high speed camera showed thisrolling coefficient of friction can vary about 10% over the course of a putt. It has not been investigated whether this range is the same for all putting surface types, nor whether incorporating this range has any significant effect on the ability of a model to predict a putt’s length given some initial conditions. …”
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Algebraic issues in linear multi-dimensional system theory by Iman M.O. El-Nabrawy

“…By contrast to the 1-D system theory, the n-D system theory is less developed and its main aspects are not yet complete, where generalising the results from 1-D to n-D has proved to be not straight forward nor smooth. …”
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"What do you expect from physiotherapy?": a detailed analysis of goal setting in physiotherapy by Veronika Schoeb, Liliana Staffoni, Ruth Parry, Alison Pilnick

“…However, not much is known about how this process is accomplished in practice. The purpose of this study is to analyse patient–physiotherapist consultations and to identify how physiotherapists enquire about goals and how patients respond to these enquiries. …”
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Pre-assembly in Construction (CRISP) by Alistair Gibb

“…By contrast, there has been little work on the link between pre-assembly and formal or contractual requirements, nor on the effect of legislation. …”
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