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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 ...
Silicon builds resilience in strawberry plants against both strawberry powdery mildew Podosphaera aphanis and two-spotted spider mites Tetranychus urticae
(2020-12-08)
Silicon is found in all plants and the accumulation of silicon can improve plant tolerance to biotic stress. Strawberry powdery mildew (Podosphaera aphanis) and two-spotted spider mite (Tetranychus urticae) are both ...
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 ...
Design and field campaign validation of a multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle and optical particle counter
(2020-12-07)
Small unmanned aircraft (SUA) have the potential to be used as platforms for the measurement of atmospheric particulates. The use of an SUA platform for these measurements provides benefits such as high manoeuvrability, ...
Goal-directed Empowerment: combining Intrinsic Motivation and Task-oriented Behaviour
(2020-12-07)
Empowerment is an information-theoretic measure representing the capacity of an agent to affect its environment. It quantifies its ability to inject information in the environment via its actions and to recapture this ...
A qualitative study of the views of patients with medically unexplained symptoms on The BodyMind Approach®: Employing embodied methods and arts practices for self-management
(2020-12-07)
The arts provide openings for symbolic expression by engaging the sensory experience in the body they become a source of insight through embodied cognition and emotion, enabling meaning-making, and acting as a catalyst for ...
Design and field campaign validation of a multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle and optical particle counter
(2020-12-07)
Small unmanned aircraft (SUA) have the potential to be used as platforms for the measurement of atmospheric particulates. The use of an SUA platform for these measurements provides benefits such as high manoeuvrability, ...
Development of a novel risk score to predict mortality in patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19
(2020-12-07)
Patients hospitalised with COVID-19 have a high mortality. Identification of patients at increased risk of adverse outcome would be important, to allow closer observation and earlier medical intervention for those at risk, ...