Implementation of occupational safety and health management system in reducing ergonomic risk among certified and uncertified automotive industry workers by Ikpegbu, Mavis Amarachi

“…OSHMS provides a set of tools that enhance safety, risk management efficiency related to all organization’s activity, it is a systematic means for employers to handle challenges and reduce haphazard attitudes to risk and problems in the work environment. …”
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A systematic review of transanal total mesorectal excision: is this the future of rectal cancer surgery? by Simillis, C, Hompes, R, Penna, M, Rasheed, S, Tekkis, PP

“…The mean operation time ranged from 143 to 450 min and mean operative blood loss from 22 to 225 ml. …”

Aeration slab study volume 2 by Rahardjo, Harianto, Indrawan, I Gde Budi, Fakhrur, Rozy Harnas

“…Temperatures under the turf cover were relatively stable and always lower as compared to those under the asphalt pavement and aeration slab. The mean temperatures for soil underneath the aerations slab were 32.3"C for both 0.125 m and 0.25 m depths whereas the mean temperatures for soil underneath the asphalt pavement were 36.2"C and 35.7°C for 0.125m and 0.25 m depth, respectively. …”
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An assimilation of experience. by Mehraj Nisha.

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Evaluation of growth patterns and maternal traits of Brakmas and Bali cows by Abd Wahab, Mohd. Hafiz

“…Although other competing models also showed a similar value of coefficient of determination,the lowest residual mean square value became the determinant factor. …”
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Predicting the carbon dioxide emissions using machine learning by Geevaretnam, Jothi Letchumy, Megat Mohd. Zainuddin, Norziha, Kamaruddin, Norshaliza, Rusli, Hazlifah, Maarop, Nurazean, Wan Hassan, Wan Azlan

“…The predictive model's performance was evaluated based on the error measurement metric of Mean Absolute Error (MAE), Root Mean Square Error (RMSE), and Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE). …”
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Experimental and numerical evaluation of aeroacoustic damping performance of in-duct double-layer orifice plates by Li, Jing

“…A centrifugal pump is implemented to generate mean flow through the perforated plate. The mean flow Mach number M_a is varied by changing the flow rate of the pump. …”
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Numerical investigations on an improved counterflow double-channel micro combustor fueled with hydrogen for enhancing thermal performance by Zuo, Wei, E, Jiaqiang, Lin, Rongming

“…(b) The improved combustor achieves the largest thermal enhancement at the hydrogen/air equivalence ratio of 0.6, when the hydrogen/air equivalence ratio is ranged from 0.9 to 0.5. Namely, the mean temperature of upper and right wall is improved by about 27.55 K and 29.55 K, respectively, and the mean nonuniformity of upper and right wall temperature is reduced by about 23.24% and 19.51%, respectively. …”
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Sparse machine learning methods for financial signal processing by Pucha Srinivasa Sai Chakravarthy

“…And research of portfolio theory was primarily driven as a mean – variance optimization problem where in mean mimicked the returns and variance the risk. …”
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CLT for linear spectral statistics of normalized sample covariance matrices with the dimension much larger than the sample size by Chen, Binbin, Pan, Guangming

“…Let A = 1/√np(XT X−pIn) where X is a p×n matrix, consisting of independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) real random variables Xij with mean zero and variance one. When p/n→∞, under fourth moment conditions a central limit theorem (CLT) for linear spectral statistics (LSS) of A defined by the eigenvalues is established. …”
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Determining the motivational factors for participation in team sports in Nanyang Technological University Students by Chang, Han Yun

“…Microsoft Excel was used to evaluate and analyse the results to find the mean, median and mode of each motive to determine which motivation factor has the highest rating. …”
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Knowledge of maggot debridement therapy among medical and surgical nurses in Hospital USM, Kelantan by Khim, Wong Mong

“…The study population were described by descriptive statistics (means, standard deviations, frequencies and percentages). …”
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Building wireless sensor network: prototype datalogging enhancement & development as a real-time modelling device by Tay, Owen Jia Hao

“…Key performance metrics, including R2, Cross Validation Score Mean (CVSM), Mean Squared Error (MSE), Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE), and Mean Absolute Error (MAE), are employed to evaluate accuracy and stability over time. …”
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Dose response effect of carbohydrate mouth rinse on 10 km running time trial by Muhammad Saufy Abdul Karim

“…No significant difference were found in HR (p = .440) between 6.4% CHO [mean 162 (SD 7) beats/min] and 15% CHO [mean 158 (SD 13) beats/min]. …”
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Adipose tissue fatty acid composition, serum lipids, and serum alpha-tocopherol in continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis patients living on the island of Crete by Nikolakakis, N, Kounali, D, Tornaritis, M, Anastassou, A, Papadakis, E, Kassotakis, G, Kafatos, A

“…The mean total percentage of saturated fatty acids (p = 0.004), along with the mean percentage of ω-6 (p = 0.002), the mean value of the ratio ω-6/ω-3 (p < 0.0001), and the percentage of linoleic acid (p = 0.001) were significantly lower in CAPD patients than in the controls. …”

Combined effects of muscle fatigue and decision making on knee joint biomechanics by Wang, Nan.

“…In order to investigate the combined effects of lower limb muscle fatigue and decision making to the knee joint on the people who were classified to possess low or high position-sense-acuity, a controlled laboratory experiment was conducted by recruiting 14 volunteered healthy collegiate males with their anthropometric statistics (denoted in the form of mean value ± standard deviation) including age (23.786 ±1.424), body mass (68.86 ±9.69 kg) and stature (175.79 ± 6.97 cm), respectively. …”
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Direct folding simulation of a long helix in explicit water by Zhang, John Z. H., Gao, Ya, Lu, Xiaoliang, Duan, Lili, Zhang, Dawei, Mei, Ye

“…Under PHB simulation, starting from a fully extended structure, the peptide folds into the native state as confirmed by measured time evolutions of radius of gyration, root mean square deviation (RMSD), and native hydrogen bond. …”
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Which context matters for capturing energy needs? A multi-level analysis by Puranasamriddhi, A, Trotter, PA, Parikh, P, Batidzirai, B, Brophy, A

“…However, there is ambiguity about which type of context actually matters, using the term to either mean different countries, sub-national regions, or specific communities. …”

Mitigating quantization effects on distributed sensor fusion : a least squares approach by Zhu, Shanying, Chen, Cailian, Xu, Jinming, Guan, Xinping, Xie, Lihua, Johansson, Karl Henrick

“…Moreover, we characterize its rate of convergence in the mean square sense and that of the mean sequence. …”
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Trends in end digit preference for blood pressure and associations with cardiovascular outcomes in Canadian and UK primary care: a retrospective observational study by Greiver, M, Kalia, S, Voruganti, T, Aliarzadeh, B, Moineddin, R, Hinton, W, Dawes, M, Sullivan, F, Syed, S, Williams, J, De Lusignan, S

“…Associations between site EDP levels and mean BP. Associations between site EDP levels and frequency of cardiovascular outcomes.…”