Enhancing the Curriculum of Bachelor’s Degree toward Sustainable Development to Improve Sustainable Behaviour: An Exploratory Study by Abdulameer, Susan Sabah, Ibrahim, Yousif Munadhil, Hami, Norsiah, Yaacob, Noorulsadiqin Azbiya, Osman, Nor Hasni

“…Therefore, the current study aims to explore the ESD in the curriculum for five colleges in Basrah, Iraq. The qualitative method was used based on the electronic records and documents available on the official websites of those colleges. …”
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Assessment of fluid responsiveness using pulse pressure variation, stroke volume variation, plethysmographic variability index, central venous pressure, and inferior vena cava vari... by Chaves, Renato C. F., Barbas, Carmen S. V., Queiroz, Veronica N. F., Serpa Neto, Ary, Deliberato, Rodrigo O., Pereira, Adriano J., Timenetsky, Karina T., Silva Júnior, João M., Takaoka, Flávio, de Backer, Daniel, Celi, Leo A., Corrêa, Thiago D.

“…Pulse pressure variation (PPV) was studied in 40 studies, mean threshold with 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) = 11.5 (10.5–12.4)%, and area under the receiver operating characteristics curve (AUC) with 95% CI was 0.87 (0.84–0.90). …”
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Magnetoresistive sensor development roadmap (non-recording applications) by Zheng, Chao, Zhu, Ke, De Freitas, Susana Cardoso, Chang, Jen-Yuan, Davies, Joseph E., Eames, Peter, Freitas, Paulo P., Kazakova, Olga, Kim, Cheol Gi, Leung, Chi-Wah, Liou, Sy-Hwang, Ognev, Alexey, Piramanayagam, S. N., Ripka, Pavel, Samardak, Alexander, Shin, Kwang-Ho, Tong, Shi-Yuan, Tung, Mean-Jue, Wang, Shan X., Xue, Songsheng, Yin, Xiaolu, Pong, Philip W. T.

“…As a result, timescales for MR sensor development were established and critical milestones for sensor parameters were extracted in order to gain insight into potential MR sensor applications (non-recording). Five application areas were identified, and five MR sensor roadmaps were established. …”
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Reliability analysis and data driven modelling of railway component failure by Wang, Jinlong

“…Failure modes and mechanisms from five components were investigated which including: (1) Welded rail break failure; (2) Rotating bending fatigue test for welded rail material; (3) Train door failure; (4) Rail wear degradation failure; (5) Wheel flat degradation failure. …”
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New algorithms for hardware-efficient implementation of sign detection and magnitude comparison in residue number systems by Sachin Kumar

“…Synthesis results in 65 nm CMOS technology show that the proposed design is 36.9% smaller, 7.6% faster and 45.5% more energy-efficient than the best CRT-II based magnitude comparator and at least 12.9% smaller, 7.3% faster and 20.8% more energy-efficient than the best reverse-conversion based implementation of signed integer comparator for the same five-moduli set.…”
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Comparison of text messaging data collection vs face-to-face interviews for public health surveys : a cluster randomized crossover study of care-seeking for childhood pneumonia and... by van Velthoven, Michelle Helena, Wang, Wei, Wu, Qiong, Li, Ye, Scherpbier, Robert W, Du, Xiaozhen, Chen, Li, Zhang, Yanfeng, Car, Josip, Rudan, Igor

“…The proportion of agreement was >90% for five questions; 80.0%-90.0% for five questions; 70.0%, 65.0% and 45.5%. …”
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Early adulthood BMI and cardiovascular disease: a prospective cohort study from the China Kadoorie Biobank by Chen, Y, Yu, W, Lv, J, Sun, D, Pei, P, Du, H, Yang, L, Chen, Y, Zhang, H, Chen, J, Chen, Z, Li, L, Yu, C

“…</p> <br> <p><strong>Methods:</strong> In this prospective analysis, we used data from the China Kadoorie Biobank, a large and long-term cohort from five urban areas and five rural areas, using participants aged 35–70 years. …”

A Machine Learning Based Approach to Reaction Rate Estimation by Johnson, Matthew S., Green, William H.

“…The accuracy of the algorithm is tested against the state of the art rate rules scheme in the RMG-database for five selected reaction families. The SIDT method is shown to significantly improve estimation accuracy across all reaction families and considered statistics. …”
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A Systems Thinking Approach to Hispanic Engineer’s Involvement in Corporate Diversity Networks by Chambe, Enoch

“…The study provides a detailed literature review of relevant existing research on this subject, followed by semi-structured interviews of ten participants, and a thematic analysis approach used to analyze the data into the following five themes: diversity considerations for school and job selections, employee perspective on ERGs, sense of belonging and generational differences, the meaning of inclusiveness, and continued participation. …”
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15.012 Applied Macro- and International Economics, Spring 2002 by Thurow, Lester

“…The course is divided into five parts: The first presents the basic tools of macroeconomic management by focusing on historical episodes, particularly in the United States. …”
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Prospects of a multipolar international monetary order by Alam Md Whaheed

“…But in the last twenty-five years the US has been undergoing persistent current account deficit and external debts. …”
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Nurses lived experiences on the nurse-patient relationship by Koo, Alvina Min En

“…Adopting a constructivism paradigm, semi-structured interviews were conducted with five NPNs who came into frequent contact with end-of-life patients but were not trained in the provision of palliative care. …”
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Nostalgia increases financial risk taking by Zou, Xi, Lee, Margaret, Wildschut, Tim, Sedikides, Constantine

“…We examined, in five studies, the relation between nostalgia and financial risk taking. …”
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Sentiment analysis on yelp reviews by Wong, Hong Yong

“…They will be tasked with classifying Yelp reviews into five different ratings, and also three different labels according to the rating given by the user: - positive, neutral and negative. …”
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Optimal persistent monitoring using reinforcement learning by Hu, Litao

“…This paper presents a comparative analysis of five implementations in Reinforcement Learning: Deep Q Network (DQN), Double Deep Q Network (DDQN), Dueling Deep Q Network (Dueling DQN), Multi-Objective Deep Reinforcement Learning (MODRL) and Hierarchical Deep Q Network (HDQN). …”
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Environment data processing for a data centre by Tan, Mei Xuan

“…There are rising concerns over the carbon footprint of data centre (DC) in Singapore as their total electricity consumption has increased from 5.3% in 2019 to 7% in 2020. This figure is projected to increase, in line with the growing demand for DC. …”
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Winning applicants and influencing job seekers: an introduction to the special issue on employer branding and talent acquisition by Yu, Kang Yang Trevor, Dineen, Brian R., Allen, David G., Klotz, Anthony C.

“…We then introduce the five papers contained in this issue, each representing a variety of levels of analysis, theoretical perspectives, environmental contexts, and methodological and design approaches to scholarly investigations on this topic. …”
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Hydrodynamic stability of flow over Kramer-type compliant surface by Tan, Shi Nguan.

“…The development began with five conceptual designs and the matrix evaluation table was then used to select the final design. …”
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Memento by Lim, Benjamin Yong Quan

“…Sending the message that life, just like a train journeying through various stations, moves forward through different emotions.  Memento focuses on five emotions: Joy, Sorrow, Passion, Fear and Hope. …”
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Performance of Reynolds averaged Navier–Stokes and large eddy simulation models in simulating flows in a crossflow ultraviolet reactor: an experimental evaluation by Zhang, Shuai, Law, Adrian Wing-Keung

“…In the present study, an experimental evaluation was performed to assess the performance of CFD with five Reynolds Averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS) turbulence closures and three Large Eddy Simulation (LES) sub-grid scale (SGS) models. …”
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