Development of muscle mass and body fat reference curves for white male UK firefighters by Lessons, Greg Richard, Bhakta, Dee, McCarthy, H. David

“…Between 40 and 49 years, firefighter FMI is 0.1 units greater than the UK white male age-matched general population, which becomes identical (7 units) between 50 and 54 years. …”
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Vulnerability to substance dependence by Lusher, Joanne

“…Heroin users were found to be significantly higher impulsive sensation seekers than all other groups and all substance-using groups were found to be significantly higher sensation seekers than controls. …”
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Plasticity and impact test studies on thermoplastic materials, finite element analysis and experimental correlation by Osa, Aitor Arriaga

“…Finally, the Drucker-Prager criterion was able to capture in a more precise way bending dominated problems than the usual Von Mises yielding criteria.…”
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The role of export associations as supporters of SME exporters in Ghana's non-traditional export sector by Martins, Albert

“…The research revealed that 'vertical trust' had a stronger influence on export performance than 'horizontal trust.' 'Leadership characteristics' and 'Access to resource-support' emerged as additional EA factors influencing SMEs' export performance. …”
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A comparative study of London and Paris in the works of Henry James and Emile Zola: with special reference to "the Princess Casamassima" and "L'Assommoir" by Davies, David J.

“…The thesis contends that, through the detailed description of the role of the city in their fiction, there is a far stronger link between James and Zola than has previously been made; and that in this and other areas, both authors deal with similar subjects in similar ways. …”
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Measuring the financial impact of equipment performance improvement: ISB and IEB metrics by Luis Alejandro, Gólcher-Barguil, Nadeem, Simon Peter, Garza-Reyes, Jose Arturo, Samadhiya, Ashutosh, Kumar, Anil

“…The measure ISB indicates savings from performance increases when equipment capacity is greater than product demand. IEB is utilised when equipment capacity is less than product demand. …”
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Association between iron metabolism and SARS-COV-2 infection, determined by ferritin, hephaestin and hypoxia-induced factor-1 alpha levels in COVID-19 patients by Aslan, Elif Sibel, Aydm, Huseyn, Tekin, Yusuf Kenan, Keles, Sami, White, Kenneth, Hekim, Nezih

“…COVID-19 patients had higher serum levels of ferritin than those levels in control group (P < 0.0001). …”
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Co-creating an art-based livelihood development in West Bengal: an actor-oriented ethnographic approach by Rowan, Jane M.

“…Not only does the analysis of a tourism-based livelihood development model demonstrate that social enterprises transform destinations through creating value, but it also reinforces top-down development structures rather than challenging them.…”
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Cloud Spark Cluster to analyse English prescription big data for NHS intelligence by Fernando, Sandra, Sowinski-Mydlarz, Viktor, Virdee, Bal Singh

“…Spark is a large-scale data processing engine that is at least a hundred times faster than the Hadoop big data processing engine. Even though Spark is a complete in-memory framework, although limited with its big data platforms facilities compared to Hadoop, Spark analytics engine with Ha-doop distributed file system gives better throughput than Hadoop alone. …”
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Sex differences in social brain neural responses in autism: temporal profiles of configural face-processing within data-driven time windows by Del Bianco, Teresa, Lai, Meng-Chuan, Mason, Luke, Johnson, Mark, Charman, Tony, Loth, Eva, Banaschewski, Tobias, Buitelaar, Jan, Murphy, Declan G. M., Jones, Emily J. H.

“…These findings indicate that sex and neurotype influence longer latency face processing and implicates cognitive rather than perceptual processing. Sex may have more overarching effects than neurotype on configural face processing.…”
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Classification of water quality using artificial neural network by Sulaiman, Khadijah

“…In addition, it is more flexible than existing approaches and can be implemented easily and quickly.…”
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Vibration behaviour of pre-stressed precast hollow core floor with concrete topping thickness and boundary condition by Rahimi, Muhammad Imran

“…In both analyses, natural floor frequency was found lower than 10Hz, and a correlation between the EMA and FEA is accepted. …”
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Performance evaluation of semi-automated filling machine for “Otak-Otak” Production by Ishak, Nazrul Iszhar

“…The value-added time of semi-automation operation is also shorter than the value-added time of manual operation with the smallest difference of 0.88 seconds and the biggest difference of 1.49 seconds besides, 37.25 percent to 75.80 percent improvement for waiting time. …”
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Real driving emissions tests of a light truck operating using a Euro-IV compliant CI engine by Ang, Chuen Yuen

“…CO and PM2.5 obtained in this study were lower than the regulated emission limit. However, HC emission results obtained were found to be 6 times higher than the regulated EURO IV limit. …”
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Enhancement of fexural modulus and strength of epoxy nanocomposites with the inclusion of functionalized GNPs using Tween 80 by Wan Ab Halim, Wan Zateel Aqmaer, Junid, Ramli, Sazali, Norazliane, Januar Parlaungan Siregar, Januar Parlaungan Siregar, Abd Razak, Jeeferie, Deni Fajar Fitriyana, Deni Fajar Fitriyana, Tezara Cionita, Tezara Cionita, Jaafar, Jamiluddin

“…Elementally, both ARGNPs and T80GNPs were found to contain carbon, oxygen, and sulfur, as indicated by the EDX spectrum, with the C/O ratio for T80GNPs being 34.7% higher than that for ARGNPs, suggesting the adsorption of Tween 80 molecules on the GNPs after functionalization. …”
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Equilibrium and Mechanism of Removal of Total Dissolved Solids and Hardness by Adsorption onto Neem Seed Powder Adsorbent by Urooj Gul Sandilo, Urooj Gul Sandilo, Amir Detho, Amir Detho, Memon, Asif Ali, Jakhrani, Abdul Qayoom, Abdul Kadir, Aeslina

“…However, the fnding result revealed that the values of the coefcient of determination (R2 ) for Langmuir are higher than Freundlich, indicating that better ftted than the latter. …”
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Enhancement of fexural modulus and strength of epoxy nanocomposites with the inclusion of functionalized GNPs using Tween 80 by Wan Ab Halim, Wan Zateel Aqmaer, Junid, Ramli Junid, Sazali, Norazliane, Siregar, Januar Parlaungan, Abd Razak, Jeeferie, Fitriyana, Deni Fajar, Cionita, Tezara, Jaafar, Jamiluddin

“…Elementally, both ARGNPs and T80GNPs were found to contain carbon, oxygen, and sulfur, as indicated by the EDX spectrum, with the C/O ratio for T80GNPs being 34.7% higher than that for ARGNPs, suggesting the adsorption of Tween 80 molecules on the GNPs after functionalization. …”
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MHD heat and MASS transfer of jet nanofluids flow on the porous wall with chemical reaction by Mohd Zailani, Natasha Amira

“…It has been studied by the effect of all parameters involved that the heat transfer rate of SWCNTs-water is higher than 2 3 Al O -water and Cu-water whereas the mass transfer rate of Cu-water is higher than SWCNTs-water and 2 3 Al O -water. …”
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High pressure processing (HPP) of kelulut honey (Sarawak): enhancement on the quality and alteration of prebiotic potential on lactobacillu by Razali, Muhammad Faiz

“…Conventional thermal treatments in honey industries caused more harm than good to thermolabile components in honey. Therefore, high-pressure processing (HPP) was chosen as it does not exert significant heat thus minimize any damaged done. …”
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Improvement of non-uniform node deployment mechanism for corona-based wireless sensor networks by Hamid Ekal, Hassan

“…In corona-based Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), nodes that are positioned in coronas near the sink drain their energy faster than others as they are burdened with relaying traffic come from distant coronas forming energy holes in the network. …”
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