Future thinking instructions improve prospective memory performance in adolescents

Funding This work was supported by the German Research Foundation [DFG grants SFB 940/1]. Acknowledgements We would like to thank Lia Kvavilashvili for her helpful comments on this study during the International Conference on Prospective Memory (ICPM4) in Naples, Italy, 2014. We thank Daniel P. Sheppard for proofreading the manuscript.

Calories or protein? The effect of dietary restriction on lifespan in rodents is explained by calories alone

Acknowledgements JRS was supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (grant XDB13030000), a ‘1000 talents’ professorship from the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) of the Chinese government, and a Wolfson award from the Royal Society. SEM was supported by the US National Institute of Health grant R01AG043972 and MM was supported by a TWAS studentship of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, during the preparation of this manuscript. We are grateful to three anonymous referees for their constructive and helpful comments.

Dynamic method of stiffness identification in impacting systems for percussive drilling applications

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Short-term impact of soybean management on ammonia oxidizers in a Brazilian savanna under restoration as revealed by coupling different techniques

Acknowledgments The authors are very grateful to Mr. Fabiano Bielefeld Nardotto, owner of the Tabapuã dos Pireneus farm, for allowing our free movement around the farm and collection of soil samples, as well as providing information about soybean cultivation. The authors also thank Dr. Plínio de Camargo, who performed the isotopic analysis in the CENA laboratory at the University of São Paulo (USP). This work was supported by grants from the National Council of Technological and Scientific Development (CNPq), Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education (CAPES), and Foundation for Research Support of Distrito Federal (FAP-DF).

Soil water dynamics and availability for citrus and peanut along a hillslope at the Sunjia Red Soil Critical Zone Observatory (CZO)

Acknowledgments This work was granted by the China-UK jointed Red Soil Critical Zone project from National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC: 41571130053; 41301233) and from Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC: Code: NE/N007611/1), and by the National Key Technology R&D Program of China (2011BAD31B04). We thank two anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments.

Simultaneous material and structural optimization by multiscale topology optimization

Acknowledgments The authors acknowledge the support from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, grant number EP/M002322/1. The authors would also like to thank Numerical Analysis Group at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory for their FORTRAN HSL packages (HSL, a collection of Fortran codes for large-scale scientific computation. See http://www.hsl.rl.ac.uk/).

Measuring House Price Bubbles

We thank John Clapp, Martijn Dröes, Mika Kortelainen, and Song Shi for helpful comments. Financial support from the Academy of Finland, the OP‐Pohjola Group Research Foundation, the Kluuvi Foundation, and the Emil Aaltonen Foundation is gratefully acknowledged.

The conceptus induces a switch in protein expression and activities of superoxide dismutase 1 and 2 in the sheep endometrium during early pregnancy

Acknowledgements We thank Philippe Bolifraud (INRA, France), Krawiec Angele, Sandra Grange, Laurence Puillet-Anselme (CHU Grenoble, France) and Margaret Fraser (Aberdeen, UK) for their expert technical assistance. The authors also thank the staff of the sheep sheds of Jouy-en-Josas (INRA, France). The authors would also like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their close examination of this article and their useful comments.

Model updating of a full-scale bridge structure using particle swarm optimization

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Finite element model calibration of an instrumented RC building based on seismic excitation including non-structural components and soil-structure- interaction

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Evaluation of thermal gradients and their effects in a bridge box girder using monitoring data

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Ambient vibration tests and analysis of a multiple-span elevated bridge

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Identification of unusual events in multi-channel bridge monitoring data using wavelet transform and outlier analysis

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A framework for modelling mobile radio access networks for intelligent fault management

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Using Doubly-Labeled Water to Measure Energy Expenditure in an Important Small Ectotherm Drosophila melanogaster

Open Access funded by Wellcome Trust for University College London (UCL) authors. Acknowledegements Funding for this work was provided by the Wellcome Trust (MDWP, LP). John Speakman was supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. XDB13030000) a 1000 talents professorship. We are grateful to Peter Thomson and Paula Redman for technical assistance with isotope analysis