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Serendipitous discovery of a dusty disc around WDJ181417.84-735459.83
(2020-12-12)
Spectroscopic observations of white dwarfs reveal that many of them are polluted by exoplanetary material, whose bulk composition can be uniquely probed this way. We present a spectroscopic and photometric analysis of the ...
Retrieval of SDSS J1416+1348AB
(2020-12-10)
We present the distance-calibrated spectral energy distribution (SED) of the d/sdL7 SDSS J14162408+1348263A (J1416A) and an updated SED for SDSS J14162408+1348263B (J1416B). We also present the first retrieval analysis of ...
Resource-efficient business models in times of pandemics
(2020-12-10)
Research in sustainable production and consumption focuses on sustainable business models, which describe how a firm provides value to customers, connects to suppliers and acquires resources in a profitable and environmentally ...
"New human possibilities" in Patočka's philosophy of literature
(2020-12-10)
This article considers Patočka's phenomenological account of literature in "The Writer's Concern" to defend the idea that literary writing offers a distinctive philosophical contribution. In this text, Patočka gives the ...
A combination of urinary biomarker panel and PancRISK score for earlier detection of pancreatic cancer : A case-control study
(2020-12-10)
BACKGROUND: Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is one of the deadliest cancers, with around 9% of patients surviving >5 years. Asymptomatic in its initial stages, PDAC is mostly diagnosed late, when already a locally ...
Football must not forget its inclusive responsibilities in the rush to get fans back into stadiums
(2020-12-09)
It is imperative that the English Premier League and the Football League clubs consider disabled supporters when planning for the return of fans in stadiums. While it is understandable that the English football clubs are ...
Endogenous fibrinolysis - relevance to clinical thrombosis risk assessment
(2020-12-09)
The development of an obstructive luminal thrombus is pathological and considered a failure of endogenous fibrinolysis. The consequences may be fatal, or result in lasting downstream organ damage. Therefore, assessment of ...
A Multimodal User Interface for an Assistive Robotic Shopping Cart
(2020-12-08)
This paper presents the research and development of the prototype of the assistive mobile information robot (AMIR). The main features of the presented prototype are voice and gesture-based interfaces with Russian speech ...
Critical perspectives on resilience
(Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020-12-08)
This chapter aims to contribute to the critical discussion of the concept of resilience and its pertinence and usefulness to contexts of socioeconomic hardship. Starting from an approach that contrasts the poverty studies ...
Socio-economic practices of households coping with hardship
(Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020-12-08)
Top-down responses to major shocks have been of major interest to social scientists and they contributed to our understanding of restructuring, transformation and development. Research into socio-economic practices of ...