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Highly replicable, low-cost, portable, general-purpose, high-resolution spectrometer with applications in stellar studies and exoplanet science
(SPIE, 2019-09-09)High-resolution spectrometers have proven to be an important tool for astronomical observations and continue to have an ever expanding set of applications, such as high resolution IFS (Integral Field Spectroscopy). With ... -
Highly variable young massive stars in ATLASGAL clumps
(2016-12-05)High-amplitude variability in Young Stellar Objects (YSOs) is usually associated with episodic accretion events. It has not been observed so far in massive YSOs. Here, the high-amplitude variable star sample of ContrerasPena ... -
High‐Throughput Miniaturized Screening of Nanoparticle Formation via Inkjet Printing
(2018-08-01)The self‐assembly of specific polymers into well‐defined nanoparticles (NPs) is of great interest to the pharmaceutical industry as the resultant materials can act as drug delivery vehicles. In this work, a high‐throughput ... -
HII Region Metallicity Constraints Near the Site of the Strongly Lensed Supernova "SN Refsdal" at Redshift 1.49
(2015-04-27)We present the local HII region metallicity near the site of the recently discovered multiply lensed supernova (SN; "SN Refsdal") at redshift 1.49. "SN Refsdal" is located at the outer spiral arm ($\sim$7 kpc) of the lensed ... -
HII Regions in the Pilot Ku-band Galactic Reconnaissance Survey
(2018-06-15)This thesis presents data from the Ku-band Galactic Reconnaissance Survey (KuGARS), a large area survey observed on the Jansky Very Large Array (JVLA). KuGARS is the first galactic plane survey to explore the sub-arcsecond ... -
Hippocampal and prefrontal processing of network topology to simulate the future.
(2017-03-21)Topological networks lie at the heart of our cities and social milieu. However, it remains unclear how and when the brain processes topological structures to guide future behaviour during everyday life. Using fMRI in humans ... -
The hippocampus and entorhinal cortex encode the path and euclidean distances to goals during navigation
(2014-06-16)Background: Despite decades of research on spatial memory, we know surprisingly little about how the brain guides navigation to goals. While some models argue vectors are represented for navigational guidance, other models ... -
Histamine and its receptors
(2006)This article reviews the development of our knowledge of the actions of histamine which have taken place during the course of the 20th century. Histamine has been shown to have a key physiological role in the control of ... -
Histogram based classification of tactile patterns on periodically distributed skin sensors for a humanoid robot
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2011)The main target of this work is to improve human-robot interaction capabilities, by adding a new modality of sense, touch, to KASPAR, a humanoid robot. Large scale distributed skin-like sensors are designed and integrated ... -
The Historical Association Between Class Origins and Male Career Trajectories in UK Film Production
(2020-08-03)The characterisation of the contemporary creative and cultural industries (CCIs) as ‘cool, creative and egalitarian’ (Gill, 2002) has been unpicked in recent literature (Grugulis and Stoyanova, 2012; Eikhof and Warhurst, ... -
An Historical Atlas of Hertfordshire
(University of Hertfordshire Press, 2011)The publication of this new historical atlas brings Hertfordshire into the relatively small group of English counties that have anatomised their history using cartography. With over eighty maps and accompanying articles ... -
A Historical Database of Sociocultural Evolution
(2012)The origin of human ultrasociality—the ability to cooperate in huge groups of genetically unrelated individuals—has long interested evolutionary and social theorists, but there has been little systematic empirical research ... -
Historical development of judo
(Routledge, 2018-06-14)Judo has its roots in the pre-history and mythology of Japan. Legend has it that the origin of the Imperial line is the result of a hand-to-hand wrestling match between two gods, when Takemikazuchi threw Takenimakata ... -
Historical Entanglements, Conflicting Agendas & Visions : Radio Botswana & the Making of a National Radio Station
(2016-03-01)Botswana’s government as one of the celebrated postcolonial democracies in Southern Africa continues to have the state owning and controlling the media – in particular, broadcast media. The history of government-owned and ... -
The historical impacts of hydroelectric power development on traditional mountain irrigation in the Valais, Switzerland
(2001-02)In many Western European mountains, ancient irrigation practices have been the basis for sustainable subsistence-based mountain agriculture, especially up to the beginning of the 20th century. These mountain zones have ... -
The historical importance of multi-employer, national pay bargaining to the UK general printing sector
(University of Hertfordshire, 2001)This paper aims to show how the historical development of multi-employer national pay bargaining has shaped contemporary patterns of pay regulation in general print. The resilience of national pay bargaining is set against ... -
Historical Institutional Determinants of Financial System Development in Africa
(2018-04-01)The literature on the determinants of cross-country variation in financial system development identifies historical institutional factors, mostly rooted in colonial effects, as key causes. Using a sample of 39 African ... -
Historical Memory and the Expulsion of Ethnic Germans in Europe, 1944 - 1947
(2010-04-22)As the Second World War in Europe came to an end the Russians advanced from the east towards Berlin. German occupation of Poland and Czechoslovakia had been particularly brutal. Both of these countries, products of German ... -
Historical review of ‘the higher-density housing agenda and the “urban renaissance”’
(2019-12-01)A review article exploring a notable paper from the Institute of Civil Engineers journals' back catalogue.