Influence of the type of training task on intermanual transfer effects in upper-limb prosthesis training: A randomized pre-posttest study. by Sietske Romkema, Raoul M Bongers, Corry K van der Sluis

“…One control group performed a sham training (a dummy training without the prosthesis simulator) and another control group received no training at all. …”
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IFRS adoption and the value-relevance of financial statements figures in Nigeria by Japhet Imhanzenobe, Olusegun Vincent, Olalekan Aworinde

“…The interactions of the IFRS dummy with earnings, book values, and cash flows were also estimated separately to detect the significance of IFRS interaction with the accounting figures. …”
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Financial indicators, informational environment of emerging markets and stock returns by Renata Turola Takamatsu, Luiz Paulo Lopes Fávero

“…The research sought to contribute to strengthen this dimension, presenting evidence that the dummy variable included to capture the adoption of international standards had a positive effect on the relationship.…”
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Housing debt and depressive symptoms: evidence from the China family panel studies by Huan Chen, Yuehua Zhang, Kang Cao

“…Housing debt was measured by dummy variables, indicating whether an individual had housing debt, and continuous variables, which were the logarithm of the total amount of housing debt. …”
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Novel design of weld vector route for dissimilar nonferrous plates laser welding in battery manufacturing for electric vehicles by Zhenhua Lai, Dequn Kong, Jian Zhou, Weiwei Song

“…In tensile shear test, the dummy specimens have achieved an excellent performance with a maximum load force of 1380 N and a prominent plasticity owning a certain degree of dimple-like ductile fracture composition during deformation to break. …”
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Identification of candidate genes on the basis of SNP by time-lagged heat stress interactions for milk production traits in German Holstein cattle. by Kathrin Halli, Seyi Fridaius Vanvanhossou, Mehdi Bohlouli, Sven König, Tong Yin

“…The HS indicator was the temperature humidity index (THI) for each week. A dummy variable with the code = 1 for the respective week for THI ≥ 60 indicated HS, otherwise, for no HS, the code = 0 was assigned. …”
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Simulation Research of Game-Theoretic Models on the Basis of Wolfram-Technologies by Dmitry Vlasov, Alexander Sinchukov

“…The principles of imitation modeling for the study of neoclassical game situations are highlighted: "Trend Study", "Imitation", "Static Perception and Immediate Benefit", "Dummy Playing", "Rational Training". In development of the innovation components of professional competence of the IT specialist at Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, we were faced with the need to strengthen the applied professional orientation of mathematical training. …”
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A field evaluation of an external and neutrally buoyant acoustic transmitter for juvenile salmon: implications for estimating hydroturbine passage survival. by Richard S Brown, Z Daniel Deng, Katrina V Cook, Brett D Pflugrath, Xinya Li, Tao Fu, Jayson J Martinez, Huidong Li, Bradly A Trumbo, Martin L Ahmann, Adam G Seaburg

“…An additional group of fish affixed with neutrally-buoyant dummy external tags were implanted with passive integrated transponder (PIT) tags and recovered further downstream to assess external tag retention and injury. …”
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A user-friendly tool to transform large scale administrative data into wide table format using a mapreduce program with a pig latin based script by Horiguchi Hiromasa, Yasunaga Hideo, Hashimoto Hideki, Ohe Kazuhiko

“…</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Having prepared dummy discharge summary data for 2.3 million inpatients and medical activity log data for 950 million events, we used the Elastic Compute Cloud environment provided by Amazon Inc. to execute processing speed and scaling benchmarks. …”
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Immediate versus conditional treatment of uncomplicated urinary tract infection - a randomized-controlled comparative effectiveness study in general practices by Gágyor Ildikó, Hummers-Pradier Eva, Kochen Michael M, Schmiemann Guido, Wegscheider Karl, Bleidorn Jutta

“…</p> <p>Methods/design</p> <p>This is a randomized-controlled, double-blind, double dummy multicentre trial assessing the comparative effectiveness of immediate vs. conditional antibiotic therapy in uncomplicated UTI. …”
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Glyphosate Use Predicts ADHD Hospital Discharges in the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Net (HCUPnet): A Two-Way Fixed-Effects Analysis. by Keith R Fluegge, Kyle R Fluegge

“…We used rural-urban continuum codes from the USDA-Economic Research Service when exploring the effect of urbanization on the relationship between herbicide use and ADHD. Least squares dummy variable (LSDV) method and within method using two-way fixed effects was used to elucidate the relationship between glyphosate use and all-listed ADHD hospital discharges. …”
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Institutional Response of Regional Socio-Economic Systems to Investing in Human Capital Increment: Assessment Technique by Petrov Mikhail B., Kurushina Elena V., Druzhinina Irina V.

“…The authors’ method of studying the responses of socio-economic systems to changes in the institutional conditions of human capital increment helps determine the ranking of the impact of material and institutional factors applying the methodological tools of regression analysis using dummy variables. Moreover, the study based on the proposed method makes it possible to take into account the heterogeneous nature of the socio-economic space of Russian regions in the context of human-oriented development paradigm in assessing the effectiveness of institutions based on comparative analysis of standardized coefficients of institutional variables in the regression models of the managed characteristics of human capital by regional clusters. …”
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Joint effect of paid working hours and multiple job holding on work absence due to health problems among basic education teachers in Brazil: the Educatel Study by Lucía Rodríguez-Loureiro, Lucía Artazcoz, María López-Ruiz, Ada Ávila Assunção, Fernando G. Benavides

“…This study is based on a survey carried out over a representative sample of 5,116 active basic education teachers in Brazil between 2015 and 2016 (Educatel Study). We created a dummy variable to assess the joint effect of weekly paid working hours [standard (35-40 hours); part-time (< 35 hours); moderately long (41-50 hours); and very long (> 50 hours)] and multiple job holding (working in several schools - no/yes). …”
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A thermal comfort evaluation on vehicular environments based on local human body thermal sensations by Chaoqing Feng, Fengge Ma, Rui Wang, Wei Li, Jianfeng Gao

“…The local and whole-body equivalent space temperature of the co-driver seat in the vehicle was tested with a warm dummy, through which whole-body and local thermal sensation values were predicted. …”
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Three-Dimensional Porous PVDF Foam Imprinted Membranes with High Flux and Selectivity toward Artemisinin/Artemether by Weibai Bian, Ruixuan Zhang, Xiaohui Chen, Chuanxun Zhang, Minjia Meng

“…In the PPIM, the pre-synthesized molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) with artesunate (ARU) as a dummy template were uniformly loaded on the interior of the membrane, avoiding the defects of recognition site encapsulation found in the conventional membrane. …”
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Simultaneous treatment to attain blood pressure and lipid goals and reduced CV risk burden using amlodipine/atorvastatin single-pill therapy in treated hypertensive participants in... by Richard Grimm, Mobin Malik, Carla Yunis, et al

“…TOGETHER was a 6-week, randomized, double-blind, double-dummy trial using hypertensive participants with additional CV risk factors without CVD/diabetes. …”
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Coating Material Development by Pulsed Laser Deposition for JIS SKD61 Steel Insert Pins Used in Aluminum Casting Industry by Rusman Kosasih, Dedi Priadi, Maria Margaretha Suliyanti

“…The study began with the dummy blocks from SKD61 as research samples, followed by PVD-PLD with three coating materials as alternatives: Al/Cr (70:30), Al/Ti1 (50:50), and Al/Ti2 (63:37), all without active gases (N and C). …”
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It’s okay to breastfeed in public but… by Athena Sheehan, Karleen Gribble, Virginia Schmied

“…Suggestions for not breastfeeding in public were timing your outings so feeding could take place at home, expressing breastmilk or using the dummy. When breastfeeding in public was considered acceptable, there were requisite social norms. …”
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Efeitos do Modelo de Fleuriet e Índices de Liquidez na Agressividade Tributária by Viviane Ferreira de Oliveira Chiachio, Antonio Lopo Martinez

“…Como variáveis de interesse utilizaram-se variáveis dummy, uma para cada tipo de estrutura financeira proposta pelo Modelo Fleuriet. …”
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Assessment of impact of tax rates changes on cigarette prices in the Czech Republic by Petr David, Luboš Střelec, Pavel Kolman

“…Single legislative changes are realized through the use of synthetic (dummy) variables performing as explanatory variables. …”
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