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The Hidden K-edge Signal in K-edge Imaging
(2015)K-edge imaging is commonly used for viewing contrast pharmaceuticals in a variety of multi-energy x-ray imaging techniques, ranging from dual-energy and spectral computed tomography to fluoroscopy. When looking for the ... -
OGLE-2016-BLG-1003: First Resolved Caustic-crossing Binary-source Event Discovered by Second-generation Microlensing Surveys
(2017)We report the analysis of the first resolved caustic-crossing binary-source microlensing event OGLE-2016-BLG-1003. The event is densely covered by the round-the-clock observations of three surveys. The light curve is ... -
A trust-region SQP method for the numerical approximation of viscoplastic fluid flow
(2014)We present a new approach to the problem of stationary viscoplastic duct flow as modelled by the Herschel-Bulkley model, with Bingham fluids included as a special case. While the mathematical formulation of this problem ... -
Alternative Routes for a Proposed Nigerian Superhighway to Limit Damage to Rare Ecosystems and Wildlife
(2017)The Cross River State Government in Nigeria is proposing to construct a ‘‘Cross River Superhighway’’ that would bisect critical remaining areas of tropical rainforest in south eastern Nigeria. We offer and evaluate two ... -
A model to assess tephra clean-up requirements in urban environments
(2017)© 2017, The Author(s).Tephra falls can cause a range of impacts to communities by disrupting, contaminating and damaging buildings and infrastructure systems, as well as posing a potential health hazard. Coordinated clean-up ... -
Effect of transfer agent, temperature and initial monomer concentration on branching in poly(acrylic acid): A study by ¹³C NMR spectroscopy and capillary electrophoresis
(2017)Branching has been investigated in poly(acrylic acid) synthesized by conventional radical polymerization with and without chain transfer agent (CTA) at different temperatures and initial monomer concentrations. The average ... -
Fabrication of polymeric substrates with micro- and nanoscale topography bioimprinted at progressive cell morphologies
(A V S AMER INST PHYSICS, 2012)This work introduces a novel process for the fabrication of polymer cell culture substrates containing physical topography based on timepoint specific cell phenotype replicas. Bioimprinting of human nasal chondrocyte at ... -
Numerical Study of Flow and Pedestrian Level Wind Comfort Inside Uniform and Non-Uniform Street Canyons with Different Street Width to Building Height Aspect Ratios
(2017)The aim of this study is to provide input into knowledge-based expert systems by providing mean wind speed at the entire pedestrian level street width. The air flow around an individual building is complex. Around two ... -
Marginalization in nonlinear mixed-effects models with an application to dose-response analysis
(2017)Inference in hierarchical nonlinear models needs careful consideration about targeting parameters that have either a conditional or population-average interpretation. For the special case of mixed-effects nonlinear sigmoidal ... -
Effect of exercising at minimum recommendations of the multiple sclerosis exercise guideline combined with structured education or attention control education - secondary results of the step it up randomised controlled trial
(2017)Recent exercise guidelines for people with multiple sclerosis (MS) recommend a minimum of 30 min moderate intensity aerobic exercise and resistance exercise twice per week. This trial compared the secondary outcomes of a ... -
Caregiver burden is increased in Parkinson's disease with mild cognitive impairment (PD-MCI)
(2017)There is limited evidence on caregiver outcomes associated with mild cognitive impairment in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD-MCI) and the coping strategies used by these caregivers.To investigate this relationship, ... -
Apparent cosmic acceleration from type Ia supernovae
(2017)Parameters that quantify the acceleration of cosmic expansion are conventionally determined within the standard Friedmann-Lema\^{\i}tre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) model, which fixes spatial curvature to be homogeneous. ... -
Does a species' extinction-proneness predict its contribution to nestedness? A test using a sunbird-tree visitation network
(2017)Animal pollinators and the plants they pollinate depend on networks of mutualistic partnerships and more broadly on the stability of such networks. Based mainly on insect-plant visitation networks, theory predicts that ... -
Dimension hopping and families of strictly positive definite zonal basis functions on spheres
(2017)Positive definite functions of compact support are widely used for radial basis function approximation as well as for estimation of spatial processes in geostatistics. Several constructions of such functions for Rd ... -
The Antarctic Treaty System (The Year in Review 2014)
(University of Canterbury. Gateway Antarctica, 2016)The key Antarctic Treaty System (ATS) events of 2014 were the two annual diplomatic meetings, the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting and the Meeting of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living ... -
Assessment of auditory processing disorder in children using an adaptive filtered speech test
(INFORMA HEALTHCARE, 2013)Objective: One type of test commonly used to assess auditory processing disorder (APD) is the 'filtered words test' (FWT), in which a monaural, low-redundancy speech sample is distorted by using filtering to modify its ... -
Broad-band variability in accreting compact objects
(2014)Cataclysmic variable stars are in many ways similar to X-ray binaries. Both types of systems possess an accretion disk, which in most cases can reach the surface (or event horizon) of the central compact object. The ...
