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Universal Credit: The health impacts for people who are experiencing homelessness
(Groundswell, 2020-06-01)
People who are homeless face challenges in accessing and maintaining Universal Credit which is having a severe impact on physical and mental wellbeing. Groundswell, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and ...
'If the cap fits?' Probation staff and the changing nature of supervision in a Community Rehabilitation Company
(2020-06-01)
This article explores the changing nature of supervision in a Community Rehabilitation Company (CRC) following the Transforming Rehabilitation (TR) reforms to probation services in England and Wales. Based on an ethnographic ...
Self-organising floor plans in care homes
(2020-06-01)
This paper presents and discusses an optimisation approach applied to spatial layouts in care home building design. With this study, we introduce a method for increasing the floor plan efficiency using a self-organising ...
Firing multistability in a locally active memristive neuron model
(2020-06-01)
The theoretical, numerical and experimental demonstrations of firing dynamics in isolated neuron are of great significance for the understanding of neural function in human brain. In this paper, a new type of locally active ...
Why do extremely massive disc galaxies exist today?
(2020-06-01)
Galaxy merger histories correlate strongly with stellar mass, largely regardless of morphology. Thus, at fixed stellar mass, spheroids and discs share similar assembly histories, both in terms of the frequency of mergers ...
Experimental and Analytical Study of Dual Compensation Chamber Loop Heat Pipe under acceleration force assisted condition
(2020-06-01)
In this article, a combined experimental and theoretical study has been conducted to investigate the operating characteristics of a dual compensation chamber loop heat pipe (DCCLHP) with ammonia as the working fluid under ...
Conceptualizing the Business Corporation: Insights from History
(2020-06-01)
The purpose of this symposium is to shed light on the genealogy of the idea of a business corporation, an economic institution which has long been regarded with a mixture of awe and apprehension. Each of the four original ...
Experimental and numerical study of behaviour of reinforced masonry walls with NSM CFRP strips subjected to combined loads
(2020-06-01)
Near surface mounted (NSM) carbon fibers reinforced polymer (CFRP) reinforcement is one of the techniques for reinforcing masonry structures and is considered to provide significant advantages. This paper is composed of ...
Long-term analysis of clear nights using satellite data considering astronomical sites in western China
(2020-06-01)
A large ground-based optical/infrared telescope is being planned for a world-class astronomical site in China. The cloud-free night percentage is the primary meteorological consideration for evaluating candidate sites. The ...
Data processing and data products from 2017 to 2019 campaign of astronomical site testing at Ali, Daocheng and Muztagh-ata
(2020-06-01)
Based on previous site testing and satellite cloud data, Ali, Daocheng and Muztagh-ata have been selected as candidate sites for the Large Optical/Infrared Telescope (LOT) in China. We present the data collection, processing, ...