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3A laboratory method to simulate natural exposure of roofing materials has been reported in a companion article. In the current article, we describe the results of an international, nine-participant interlaboratory study conducted in accordance with ASTM Standard E691-09 to establish the precision and reproducibility of this protocol. The accelerated soiling and weathering method was applied four times by each laboratory to replicate coupons of 12 products representing a wide variety of roofing c…Read more
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2As the least expensive category of high-slope roofing in the U.S., shingles are found on the roofs of about 80% of U.S. homes, and constitute about 80% of this market. Shingles are also among the least reflective high-slope roofing products, with few cool options on the market. The widespread use of cool roofs in the two warmest U.S. climate zones could reduce annual residential cooling energy use in these zones by over 7%. This project targets the development of high-performance cool shingles w…Read more
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© 2014 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved. Stem cells regulate their fate by binding to, and contracting against, the extracellular matrix. Recently, it has been proposed that in addition to matrix stiffness and ligand type, the degree of coupling of fibrous protein to the surface of the underlying substrate, that is, tethering and matrix porosity, also regulates stem cell differentiation. By modulating substrate porosity without altering stiffness in polyacrylamide gels, we show …Read more
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© 2016 American Physical Society.An extreme magnetoresistance has recently been observed in several nonmagnetic semimetals. Increasing experimental and theoretical evidence indicates that the XMR can be driven by either topological protection or electron-hole compensation. Here, by investigating the electronic structure of a XMR material, YSb, we present spectroscopic evidence for a special case which lacks topological protection and perfect electron-hole compensation. Further investigations rev…Read more
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34Serration behaviours in metallic glasses with different plasticityPhilosophical Magazine 96 (21): 2243-2255. 2016.
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16Auditory and motor priming of metric structure improves understanding of degraded speechCognition 248 (C): 105793. 2024.
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Neural Networks-Fast Kernel Classifier Construction Using Orthogonal Forward Selection to Minimise Leave-One-Out Misclassification RateIn O. Stock & M. Schaerf (eds.), Lecture Notes In Computer Science, Springer Verlag. pp. 4113--106. 2006.
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69Locke's political arguments for tolerationHistory of Political Thought 19 (2): 167-185. 1998.This paper argues for a new perspective on Locke's account of toleration by looking at a set of important but neglected arguments for toleration. Standard accounts which view Lockean toleration as justified solely on considerations of conscience fail to explain Locke's preferred form of toleration, the process by which he overcame his earlier objections to toleration, and the importance of considerations regarding the practicability of religious toleration. The paper argues that attention to Loc…Read more
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15Urban Nature Experiences Reduce Stress in the Context of Daily Life Based on Salivary BiomarkersFrontiers in Psychology 10. 2019.
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