The Role Of Study Habits In Academic Achievement: A Comparative Study Between Hostel-Living And Day Scholars by Israr Muhammad, Romaisa Jaffar, Palwasha Rahim, Sabina Amir Muhammad

“…Study habit was measured by the Study Habits Inventory (SHI) developed by Jones & Slate (1990), and student academic achievement was measured by the Grade Point Average (GPA). …”
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On the Mediation Price War of 5G Providers by Laszlo Toka, Akos Recse, Mate Cserep, Robert Szabo

“…We infer conditions under which the current transit-peering structure of network providers stays unblemished, and we also draw the specifics of an envisioned setup in which providers create business links among each other starting with a clean slate.…”
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Variable model for mechanical parameters of soft rock and elastoplastic solutions for tunnels considering the influence of confining pressure by Yucang Dong, Hai Zhang, Mingnian Wang, Li Yu, Yongquan Zhu

“…Therefore, this paper firstly investigates the effect of confining pressure on the deformation and strength characteristics of phyllite and slate, using triaxial experiment results and proposed variable models for the mechanical parameters (E, v, c, φ) of soft rock with confining pressure variation. …”
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Hoard of Artifacts of the Beginning of 13th Century from Zolotorevka Fortified Settlement and Mongol Invasion by Belorybkin Gennadiy N., Osipova Tatiana V., Sobol Ariel S.

“…The hoard consists of beads, silver adornments, iron objects and fabric used as wrapping material. A slate spindle was discovered together with beads of various materials. …”
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Timing of Surgery and Pre-operative Physiological Parameters as Clinical Predictors of Surgical Outcomes in Traumatic Subaxial Cervical Spine Fractures and Dislocations by Aman Khanna, Hari Menon, Vijay Chaudhary, Pratik Sidhdhapuria, Kandarp Patel, Chandan Narang

“…They were further subdivided into early and late groups according to the timing of surgery as Uearly, Ulate, Searly and Slate. All the patients were called for follow-up at 1, 6 and 12 months. …”
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Comparing species detection success between molecular markers in DNA metabarcoding of coastal macroinvertebrates by Barbara R. Leite, Pedro E. Vieira, Jesús S. Troncoso, Filipe O. Costa

“…Here we assessed the efficiency of two different marker loci (COI and 18S) and three primer pairs in marine species detection through DNA metabarcoding of the macrozoobenthic communities colonizing three types of artificial substrates (slate, PVC and granite), sampled between 3 and 15 months of deployment. …”
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LOPINGIAN (LATE PERMIAN) PALYNOMORPHS FROM THE CADEBY FORMATION, CADEBY QUARRY, YORKSHIRE, UK by MICHAEL H. STEPHENSON, DUNCAN MCLEAN

“…The assemblages are generally similar to those from the English Midlands described from Kimberley Railway Cutting and the Haughton Hall Borehole, Nottinghamshire and those from the Marl Slate Formation (lower EZ1) of the Durham Sub-basin at Claxheugh Rock and Crime Rigg Quarry and to the mid EZ1 of the Salterford Farm Borehole and Woolsthorpe Bridge Borehole. …”
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Machine learning and hypothesis driven optimization of bull semen cryopreservation media by Frankie Tu, Maajid Bhat, Patrick Blondin, Patrick Vincent, Mohsen Sharafi, James D. Benson

“…To address these challenges, here we demonstrate blank-slate optimization of bull sperm cryopreservation media by supervised machine learning. …”
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Control of rock joint parameters on deformation of tunnel opening by Suman Panthee, P.K. Singh, Ashutosh Kainthola, T.N. Singh

“…Garnetiferous schist and slate characterized using high persistence show the development of large plastic zones but small block size, depending upon joint spacing; whereas low persistence, low spacing and low shear strength in marble and quartzite create rock block fall condition.…”
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Exceptional X-Ray contrast: Radiography imaging of a Middle Triassic mixosaurid from Svalbard by Victoria S. Engelschiøn, Aubrey J. Roberts, Ruben With, Øyvind Hammer

“…Although soft tissues are not preserved, the excellent X-ray contrast in the Middle Triassic specimens is reminiscent of pyritised fossil sites such as the Hunsrück Slate (Devonian), Beecher’s Trilobite Bed (Ordovician), and the La Voulte-sur-Rhône marls (Jurassic).…”
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Meeting for Transformation: A Locality for Ritual Activities During the Early Neolithic Funnel Beaker Culture in Central Sweden by Lars Larsson, Sven-Gunnar Broström

“…Just as the flint axes indicate contact with southern Scandi- navia, slate objects demonstrate the existence of net- works extending to northern Sweden. …”
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STUDY OF GAS POTENCY BASED ON GRAVITY ANOMALY MODELING AND SEISMIC PROFILE ANALYSIS AT BANGGAI-SULA BASIN by Ediar Usman, Panuju Panuju

“…Some traces the migration in the central part of Papua are slate, schist, and gneiss, current movement is facilitated by the Sorong Fault, which runs from the northern part of Papua to eastern part of Sulawesi. …”
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Water jet tunneling: a theoretical advanced rate evaluation by Rafael Pacheco dos Santos, José Marcos Faccin Guimarães, Patrícia de Oliveira Faria, Marcos Aurélio Marques Noronha

“…The analysis utilized four types of rocks (sandstone, slate, meta-sandstone and granite) as geologic scenarium. …”
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Exceptional X-Ray contrast: Radiography imaging of a Middle Triassic mixosaurid from Svalbard. by Victoria S Engelschiøn, Aubrey J Roberts, Ruben With, Øyvind Hammer

“…Although soft tissues are not preserved, the excellent X-ray contrast in the Middle Triassic specimens is reminiscent of pyritised fossil sites such as the Hunsrück Slate (Devonian), Beecher's Trilobite Bed (Ordovician), and the La Voulte-sur-Rhône marls (Jurassic).…”
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Market or Morality - Follow an Unethical Action for the Management? by Engstfeld Lars, Užík Martin, Block Sebastian

“…Research background: With countless standards and rankings for moral behavior of large companies on one side and corporate scandals of immoral actions on the other, the question arises whether it is important at all for stock corporations to keep a clean slate or whether their value might not even be affected by emerging scandals. …”
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Variants of Ranked-Choice Voting from a Strategic Perspective by Jack Santucci

“…Further, such systems can combine with rules to encourage/discourage slate voting. This article describes five major versions used, abandoned, and/or proposed for US public elections: alternative vote, single transferable vote, block-preferential voting, the bottoms-up system, and alternative vote with numbered posts. …”
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Hand skin temperature: A usability for health care services by Ludmila Gerasimova-Meigal, Anna Fedosova, Alexander Meigal

“…So, the diagnostics of the aggravated cold-induced vasoconstriction can be used for detection of premorbid slate of the organism in addition to conventional methods. …”
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Which COVID policies are most effective? A Bayesian analysis of COVID-19 by jurisdiction. by Phebo D Wibbens, Wesley Wu-Yi Koo, Anita M McGahan

“…Most jurisdictions must also implement additional policies, each of which has the potential to reduce weekly COVID growth rate by 10 percentage points or more. The slate of these additional high-impact policies includes targeted or full workplace closings for all but essential workers, stay-at-home requirements, and targeted school closures.…”
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Numerical study of the Martelange mine to be used as underground reservoir for constructing an Underground Pumped Storage Hydropower plant by E. Pujades, P. Orban, P. Archambeau, S. Erpicum, A. Dassargues

“…This work focuses on a real abandoned slate mine located in Martelange (Belgium). The effects of different rehabilitation works to prepare the mine as an underground reservoir are assessed in terms of groundwater exchanges and their associated consequences.…”
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The long-term effects and detection ranges of passive integrated transponders in white-clawed crayfish Austropotamobius pallipes by Nightingale Jen, Stebbing Paul, Taylor Nick, McCabe Gráinne, Jones Gareth

“…Eighteen A. pallipes were tagged with either 8 mm or 12 mm tags and added to different treatments (bare tank, tank with substrate, brick refuge, pipe refuge, pipe refuge plus slate), and the distance to detection was measured. …”
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