Braquiterapia endoluminal HDR no tratamento de tumores primários ou recidivas na árvore traqueobrônquica by Maria Fortunato, Salvato Feijó, Telma Almeida, Vera Mendonça, Margarida Aguiar, Marília Jorge, Isabel Monteiro Grillo

“…Patients under-went EBT with HDR for primary or recurrent therapy in association with external radiotherapy, laser therapy and chemotherapy with palliative or curative intention. …”
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Determining factors and consequences of risk perception in annual reports: Structural equation modeling approach by mohammad ostadjafari, omid faraji, Meysam Arabzadeh, hosein jabbari, Hassan Ghanimati

“…Third, most studies have examined the effect of auditor switching on either external or internal dynamics of the company, not both. …”
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Structural Relationship of Negative Affect, Dysfunctional Attitudes, Negative Automatic Thoughts, and Depressive Symptoms: Mediating Role of Emotion Dysregulation by Ali Mehrabi, Parvaneh Mohammadkhani, Behrooz Dolatshahi, Abbas Pourshahbaz, Gholamreza Kheirabadi

“…Thus, maintaining this combination in the research increases its external validity. At the same time, this advantage can also be presented as a limitation, which is the reduction of the internal validity of the study; if this gender difference between the two groups is related to other factors not measured in this work, it might have left an unwanted systematic effect on the results. …”
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Structural Relationships of Personality Factors with Antisocial Personality Disorder Due to the Role of Schadenfreude by Narges Yeganeh

“…Besides, it can be probable representative of some of the personality disorder's symptoms.Thus, the purpose of the present study is to investigate of structural relationships between Big Five personality factors with symptoms of antisocial personality disorder with mediating the role of Schadenfreude in female students, in which, predisposed personality features (vulnerability factor) with the meditation of external and possible motivating factors (stress factor), lead to the onset of antisocial personality disorder symptoms.Schadenfreude has a connection with the psycho-social areas of humans. …”
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Policy Making in the Field of Administrative Integrity System by Zahra Rajaei, Kramollah Daneshfard, Abolhasan Faghihi

“…In each round Delphi, indices which had average lower than 3, were omitted of the model. in second step, in finalized questionnaire, paired comparisons (according to Saaty 9 grade spectrum), we have used the final questionnaire with Triangular fuzzy numbers of Lee and etal (2008, 101). in the third step, upon assistance of modeling experts, of appropriate formation of policy in the area of administrative integrity system extracted from the final dimensions ad factors in two previous levels was collected in the said spectrums, the questionnaire spectrum in this step has been collected considering one outcome I.e. policy formation (“Effective”, “Relatively Effective” and “not Effective”) and four entrances: 1- roles of external changes (“Strong”, “Average”, “Weak”), 2- structural institutional Capacity (“Enough and developing”, “not enough and developing” and “not enough and not developing”), 3- policy features (“Clear”, “relatively clear” and “vague”), 4- internal substructures (“Strong”, “Average”, “Weak”).   …”
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A Benchmark Study of Computer Codes for System Analysis of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle by Guérin, Laurent, Feng, Bo, Hejzlar, Pavel, Forget, Benoit, Kazimi, Mujid S., Van Den Durpel, Luc, Yacout, Abdellatif, Taiwo, Temi, Dixon, Brent W., Matthern, Grechen, Boucher, Lionel, Delpech, Marc, Girieud, Richard, Meyer, Maryan

“…The fact that reprocessing capacity profiles were externally provided may have disturbed some of the codes designed to internally calculate this variable. …”
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Low-power circuits for neuromorphic vision sensor based internet of video things by Zhang, Xueyong

“…The CCO can be tuned by both input voltage and external variable resistor. The measurement results show our work achieves 11% frequency improvement and 13% energy-efficient without degrading the jitter and phase noise characteristics. …”
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Surface engineering to manipulate solar energy for thermal management by Fei, Jipeng

“…The main contribution and finding of this work are an effective enthalpy reduction method through applying an external field that could be universally applied to different solar steam generators. …”
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Carotid atherosclerosis : an ultrasonographic window for subclinical atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease by Dalan, Rinkoo

“…Additionally, comparison was performed with normative values in Asian and European populations to seek external validity. Aim 2: Multivariable linear regression models were used to study associations with various cardiometabolic determinants adjusting for confounders. …”
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High power gallium nitride light-emitting diodes for efficient solid state lighting and displays by Ji, Yun

“…One of the challenges is to reduce the efficiency droop, the phenomenon of reduction of external quantum efficiency at high current levels, such that the device could maintain high luminous efficacy for high brightness lighting applications. …”
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3D audio reproduction using frontal projection headphones by Kaushik Sunder

“…In this way, the frontal horizontal plane HRTFs can be modeled without any need for external individualized measurements. However, in order to model the rear HRTFs, a rear-directional filter is required. …”
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Investigating the open-circuit voltage deficit in Cu2ZnSn(S,Se)4 solar cells by Tai, Kong Fai

“…As shunt conductance was severe in high bandgap S-rich CZTSSe solar cell, it further lowers the VOC by external device leakage path. Physical characterizations suggested the formation of shunting secondary phases at the CZTSSe/CdS interface which provides such leakage path. …”
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Monte Carlo simulation and dosimetric studies for small fields in lung stereotactic body radiation therapy by Soh, Roger Cai Xiang

“…Finally, TLD corrected measurements and radiochromic films (Gafchromic External Beam Therapy 3 (EBT3), International Specialty Products, Wayne, NJ) were used to verify the MC and TPS simulated depth doses in the respiratory lung motion phantom. …”
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PENGEMBANGAN METODE UJI BARU UNTUK PENENTUAN MUTU MINYAK GORENG BERDASARKAN SIFAT ELEKTROOPTIS by , K. Sofjan Firdausi, , Dr. Eng. Kuwat Triyana, M.Si.

“…A  Determination  of  fraction  of  transmitted  light  intensity, ζ,  as  an  alternative  parameter test of frying oil quality has been conducted based on electrooptics  parameter.  The  samples  used  here  were  several  palm  oils,  coconuts  oil,  refine  olive oil, and corn oil. The ζâ��s value was obtained through measurement of the  change  polarisation  of  ligth  against  the  magnitude  of  applied  external  electric  field on the samples. The electric field was produced by high DC voltage power  supply on two parallel plates in a separated distance of 1,2 cm and in area of 3  cmÃ�5 cm. The sources of ligth used in the experiment were red diode laser 5 mW  (λ=650 nm), green laser diode 5 mW (λ=532 nm), Heâ��Ne laser 1 mW (λ=633 nm),  dan ligth bulp 100 W (λâ��580 nm). The experimental results show that ζ increases  polynomial  in  3rd  or  4th  order  against  the  increasing  of  electric  potential  difference between plates. The average value of Î�ζ at 26 0 C in the range of 0â��9 kV  was  slightly  higher  than  Î�ζ  at  22 0 C,  and  also  apparently  decreased  with  increasing the wavelength of ligth. For palm oils, Î�ζ was approximately between  3Ã�10 â��4  and 8Ã�10 â��4  kV â��1 . For coconuts oil and corn oil, Î�ζ was in the range value of  palm oil, however for refine olive oil, Î�ζ was the smallest and out of the range of  palm  oil.  The  increasing  of  transmitted  intensity  or  free  radicalsâ��  number  was  proportional to the oil concentration between 40% and 100%. According to the  hipothese, Î�ζ was proportional to the number of saturated fatty acid of oil with  the best corelation coefficient of 0,8 until 0,9. This method has some advantages,  i.e. it is an alternative quality test of frying oil without previous treatment and is  relative  simply.  However,  the  method  is  still  in  the  previous  phase  for  an  alternative  test  of  frying  oil  quality  based  on  electrooptics  and  still  to  be  evaluated and optimized using various variables, in order to obtain an alternative  complete  test  for  quality.  In  future,  it  is  needed  to  design  a  simple  portable  equipment for fast determination of Î�ζ. It opens also possibilities to study and to  develope applications in many purposes of various fields.Â…”

Economic development in the backward regions of Yugoslavia, 1953-64 by MacDonald, M, MacDonald, Mary

“…</p><p>On strictly economic grounds, the defence can be offered that a period of twelve years, even of an active development policy, is much too short to achieve the elimination of disparities which have built up over generations, and that investment for "catching-up" in the provision of overhead capital and the time required for the external economies of development to be gained bring a temporary overstatement of the investment cost of development policy. …”

Capturing the interconnected and interpersonal nature of emotion concepts: implications for social-emotional learning by O'Grady, AM

“…EU areas most frequently targeted were: ‘Recognition’ (38 programmes), ‘Regulation’ (33 programmes), ‘Decision/Action’ (33 programmes), ‘External Cause’ (30 programmes), and ‘Belief’ (26 programmes). …”

The transformation of the medieval sermon by D'Avray, D

“…In the first two sub sections of the thesis (pp.1-22) I give a brief selective narrative of the external history of this transformation of preaching, but the greater part of the thesis is devoted to the less obvious changes which lay behind the revival. …”

The metabolism of amino sugars by Bates, C

“…</p> <p>The radioactivity from N-acetyl-1-¹⁴C-D-glucosamine is incorporated rapidly and the rate of incorporation is proportional to the external concentration over a wide range. Both compounds are incorporated more rapidly in cells pregrown in the presence of amino sugars than in cells pregrown without amino sugar.…”

Improving the understanding and management of back pain in older adults: the BOOST research programme including RCT and OPAL cohort by Williamson, E, Sanchez-Santos, MT, Marian, IR, Maredza, M, Srikesavan, C, Garrett, A, Morris, A, Boniface, G, Dutton, SJ, Griffiths, F, Collins, GS, Petrou, S, Bruce, J, Fairbank, J, Hansen, Z, Barker, K, Hutchinson, C, Mallen, C, Ward, L, Gagen, R, Fitch, J, French, DP, Lamb, SE

“…<br> Optimisation of the Better Outcomes for Older people with Spinal Trouble programme to better target pain-related disability.<br> External validation of the Oxford Pain Activity and Lifestyle prognostic tool.…”

Enrichment of Oleic Acid in Palm Olein Hydrolysate through Selective Hydrolysis Using Mycelium-Bound Lipase from an Indigenous Geotrichum Candidum by Loo, Joo Ling

“…Reproducibility of MBL from G. candidum was possible since the replicate batches of MBL exemplified similar catalytic properties, regio-, and substrate selectivities as its purified, externally immobilised counterpart. Study on the effect of storage on the stability of MBL showed that its activity degraded by 30% after eight months of storage.MBL of G. candidum was found to achieve optimum selective hydrolysis of refined, bleached and deodorised (RBD) palm olein at 3% (w/w) lipase concentration with 90% (w/v) olein-in-n-hexane and 60% (v/v) phosphate buffer at pH 7.2 in 30°C water bath with shaking at 200 rpm for 24 hours. …”
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