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Supplemental Material - Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy and Principal Component Analysis to Retrospectively Determine Production History of Plutonium Dioxide
No full textSupplemental Material for Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy and Principal Component Analysis to Retrospectively Determine Production History of Plutonium Dioxide by Eliel Villa-Aleman, Jonathan H. Christian Jason R. Darvin, Bryan J. Foley, Don D. Dick, Brent Fallin, and Kimberly A. S. Fessler in Applied Spectroscopy</p
Emergence of the Scottish economic imaginary
No full textScotland’s economic capacity to prosper independently of Britain has become a key political
issue, dominating the independence referendum of 2014 and continuing to influence British
politics since. Often, that debate centres on the contested terms of how we imagine or
construct Scotland as an economic entity. Thus, it offers a major opportunity to study the
broader issue in critical social science of how economies are “imagined”. However, to date
most studies of Scotland’s economy comes from the discipline of economics or from the
policy profession. This study aims to address this gap. It highlights the comparatively recent
history of professional interest in the Scottish economy; asks what these professionals are
“doing” or “constructing”; and looks at how this influences Scotland’s conformity with and
deviance from mainstream British politics. Using Jessop’s concept of “economic imaginary”,
and drawing on cultural political economy, I thus examine the current Scottish economic
debate’s conditions of possibility. These include the emergence of British regional policy, the
discovery of North Sea oil, discourses of competitive regions in Europe and the elective
affinities between devolution and “enterprise”. I pay particular attention to a general shift in
attitudes away from top-down plans to equalise growth across Britain to a focus on the
“spirit” of enterprising regions. My research used critical discourse analysis to analyse 100
key documents that played important roles in or highlight key issues in Scottish economic
development. I also drew on 23 in-depth
semi-structured
interviews with professionals and
journalists. My original contribution is to examine the path-shaping
role of Scotland’s
economic imaginary, how choices were made and how alternative paths were closed off. By
looking at one contested case, we can gain insights into broader imaginative processes in
national and regional economies
sj-docx-2-eso-10.1177_23969873231186911 – Supplemental material for Symptomatic Carotid Atheroma Inflammation Lumen-stenosis score compared with Oxford and Essen risk scores to predict recurrent stroke in symptomatic carotid stenosis
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-2-eso-10.1177_23969873231186911 for Symptomatic Carotid Atheroma Inflammation Lumen-stenosis score compared with Oxford and Essen risk scores to predict recurrent stroke in symptomatic carotid stenosis by Sarah Gorey, John J McCabe, Pol Camps-Renom, Nicola Giannotti, Jonathan P McNulty, Mary Barry, Tim Cassidy, Simon Cronin, Eamon Dolan, Alejandro Fernández-León, Shane Foley, Joseph Harbison, Martin O’Connell, David J Williams, Michael Marnane, Joan Martí-Fabregas and Peter J Kelly in European Stroke Journal</p
sj-docx-1-eso-10.1177_23969873231186911 – Supplemental material for Symptomatic Carotid Atheroma Inflammation Lumen-stenosis score compared with Oxford and Essen risk scores to predict recurrent stroke in symptomatic carotid stenosis
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-eso-10.1177_23969873231186911 for Symptomatic Carotid Atheroma Inflammation Lumen-stenosis score compared with Oxford and Essen risk scores to predict recurrent stroke in symptomatic carotid stenosis by Sarah Gorey, John J McCabe, Pol Camps-Renom, Nicola Giannotti, Jonathan P McNulty, Mary Barry, Tim Cassidy, Simon Cronin, Eamon Dolan, Alejandro Fernández-León, Shane Foley, Joseph Harbison, Martin O’Connell, David J Williams, Michael Marnane, Joan Martí-Fabregas and Peter J Kelly in European Stroke Journal</p
Division of labour and sharing of knowledge for synchronous collaborative information retrieval
No full textSynchronous collaborative information retrieval (SCIR) is concerned with supporting two or more users who search together at the same time in order to satisfy a shared information need. SCIR systems represent a paradigmatic shift in the way we view information retrieval, moving from an individual to a group process and as such the development of novel IR techniques is needed to support this. In this article we present what we believe are two key concepts for the development of effective SCIR namely division of labour (DoL) and sharing of knowledge (SoK). Together these concepts enable coordinated SCIR such that redundancy across group members is reduced whilst enabling each group member to benefit from the discoveries of their collaborators. In this article we outline techniques from state-of-the-art SCIR systems which support these two concepts, primarily through the provision of awareness widgets. We then outline some of our own work into system-mediated techniques for division of labour and sharing of knowledge in SCIR. Finally we conclude with a discussion on some possible future trends for these two coordination techniques
Carbolithiation of S-Alkenyl-N-aryl Thiocarbamates: Carbanion Arylation in a Connective Route to Tertiary Thiols
No full textS-Alkenyl-N-arylthiocarbamates are formed from allylic alcohols by sigmatropic rearrangement and isomerization or C═C bond cleavage. They undergo carbolithiation with a range of organolithium reagents, generating benzyllithium intermediates in a stereospecific manner which may undergo N to C aryl migration to yield thiocarbamates with tertiary substituents. A simple base-promoted alcoholysis reveals a series of hindered tertiary thiols with branched carbon skeletons
Connecting people: Tackling exclusion? An examination of the impact on and use of the internet by socially excluded groups in London
No full textFoley lead author.
Foreword by Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London and response by Clive Ansell, Director BT, London.
Commisioned by: Greater London Authority, London Development Agency, LondonConnects and BThttp://static.london.gov.uk/gla/publications/e-london/connecting-commties.pd
The shadows of risk and inequality within salutogenic coastal waters
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Routledge via the link in this recordEconomic and Social Research Council (ESRC
In Vitro lipolysis is associated with whole-body lipid oxidation and weight gain in humans
No full textObjective
To assess the association of adipocyte size with cellular lipolysis and between cellular lipolysis and whole‐body lipid oxidation. This study also assessed the association between adipocyte size and cellular lipolysis with weight and fat mass gain.
Methods
Subjects had assessment of percent body fat (%fat) and adipose tissue biopsy for in vitro lipolysis (n = 325), and a subset of subjects had measurement of whole‐body lipid oxidation (n = 112). A subset of subjects (n = 243) returned for repeated measurements of body weight and composition (mean follow‐up 8.2 ± 5.5 years).
Results
In vitro lipolysis (r = 0.47, P < 0.0001) and adipocyte size (r = 0.49, P < 0.0001) were strongly associated with %fat. In vitro lipolysis (P = 0.04) but not adipocyte size (P = 0.44) was associated with whole‐body fat oxidation. Adipocyte size was not associated with rate of percent weight gain (P = 0.20) but was negatively associated with rate of percent fat mass gain (P = 0.01). In vitro lipolysis was negatively associated with rate of percent weight gain (P = 0.02) and had a marginal negative association with rate of percent fat mass gain (P = 0.08).
Conclusions
These results indicate inherent characteristics of adipocytes, including size and lipolytic activity, may be important determinants of whole‐body lipid oxidation and subsequent weight gain
Author Co-Citation Analysis (ACA): a powerful tool for representing implicit knowledge of scholar knowledge workers
No full textIn the last decade, knowledge has emerged as one of the most important and valuable organizational assets. Gradually this importance caused to emergence of new discipline entitled ―knowledge management‖. However one of the major challenges of knowledge management is conversion implicit or tacit knowledge to explicit knowledge. Thus Making knowledge visible so that it can be better accessed, discussed, valued or generally managed is a long-standing objective in knowledge management. Accordingly in this paper author co- citation analysis (ACA) will be proposed as an efficient technique of knowledge visualization in academia (Scholar knowledge workers)
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