Sustainability concerns on consumers’ attitude towards short food supply chains: an empirical Investigation by Wang, Meng, Kumar, Vikas, Ruan, Ximing, Saad, Mohammed, Garza-Reyes, Jose Arturo, Kumar, Anil

“…Additionally, from the theoretical perspective, our work extends the traditional triple bottom line constructs and explores two extra dimensions of sustainability in the food supply chain system, namely, governance and culture, thus exploring five dimensions of sustainability. …”
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User perceptions of technology and the office by Smith, Heather Alison

“…There appears to be a lack of research into user perceptions of technology and the office. Five studies of user perceptions of technology and the office were completed using questionnaires devised by the author (Studies 1-3), evaluation of videos produced by manufacturers (Study 4), and content analysis of media articles about computer-based technology (Study 5). …”
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Development of new data partitioning and allocation algorithms for query optimization of distributed data warehouse systems by Abdalla, Hassan Ismail

“…However, although data warehousing and on-line analytical processing (OLAP) are essential elements of decision support, the OLAP query response time is strongly affected by the volume of data need to be accessed from storage disks. …”
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Human values, personality and religiosity on green products purchase behavior by Nazari, Maryam Kashani

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Role of the gidan-gaado in sustainable urbanization by Muhammad, Umar Faruq

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The carrier's liability under international maritime conventions (The Hague, Hague-Visby and Hamburg rules) by Karan, Hakan

“…The unification, clarification and simplification of national laws regulating maritime trade have always been targets of lawyers and business people who would like to be aware of their possible legal risks in their contracts performed by sea. …”
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Towards a broader approach to the community interpreter’s role: on correspondence between role perceptions and interactional goals by Kaczmarek, Lukasz

“…The various respondents seemed to differ in their perceptions of the interpreter’s role, ostensibly reflecting their own conversational goals, but not necessarily in line with their status as service provider, service recipient or interpreter.…”
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Realizing UWB antenna array with dual and wide rejection bands using metamaterial and electromagnetic bandgaps techniques by Althuwayb, Ayman Abdulhadi, Alibakhshikenari, Mohammad, Virdee, Bal Singh, Shukla, Pancham, Limiti, Ernesto

“…The reference antenna exhibited an average gain of 1.5 dBi across 5.25–10.1 GHz. To improve the array’s impedance bandwidth for application in UWB systems metamaterial (MTM) characteristics were applied it. …”
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Navigating the neoliberal discursive environment: an inquiry into the experiences of employees in the voluntary and community sector by Choudary, Natasha

“…This doctoral thesis explores how neoliberalism as a mode of governance impacts on the experiences of front-line employees in the Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS). …”
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Practical poetics: rhythmic spatiality and the communicative movement between site, architecture and sculpture by Lynch, Patrick

“…Rhythm was traditionally seen as an aspect of measure - therefore invoking justice (cf. Plato's Divided Line in the Republic) and mediation; and these animate a rich geometric poetics that is more profound than the usual understanding. …”
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High-gain on-chip antenna design on silicon layer with aperture excitation for terahertz applications by Alibakhshikenari, Mohammad, Virdee, Bal Singh, Khalily, Mohsen, See, Chan, Abd-Alhameed, Raed, Falcone, Francisco, Denidni, Tayeb A., Limiti, Ernesto

“…An open ended microstrip line, which is orthogonal to the metal slot-line, is implemented on the underside of the silicon substrate. …”
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Quad notched-band UWB BPF based on quintuple-mode resonator by Borhani, Seyyed Jamal, Honarvar, M. Amin, Virdee, Bal Singh

“…Additional notched-bands are generated with a parasitic coupled line. The notched-bands are centered exactly to eliminate interference at 5.2 GHz (WLAN), 5.8 GHz (WLAN), 6.8 GHz (RFID), and 8 GHz (X-band). …”
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A molecular docking study repurposes FDA approved iron oxide nanoparticles to treat and control COVID-19 infection by Abo-zeid, Yasmin, Ismail, Nasser S., McLean, Gary R., Hamdy, Nadia M.

“…Therefore, we performed a docking study to explore the interaction of IONPs (Fe2O3 and Fe3O4) with the spike protein receptor binding domain (S1-RBD) of SARS-CoV-2 that is required for virus attachment to the host cell receptors. …”
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A compendium of Colombian policing challenges : from Pablo to present by Jeapes, Anthony Christian John Lloyd

“…Contemporary Colombia saw violence continue with peasant revolts in the 1920s and 30s, la Violencia in the 1940s, the formation of the insurgent groups like the FARC and ELN in the 1960s, the creation of drug cartels in the 1970s and their transformation into narco-terrorist groups and then micro traffickers in the 1980s and 1990s. …”
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Integral measures and framework for green lean six sigma implementation in manufacturing environment by Yadav, Vishwas, Gahlot, Pardeep, Rathi, Rajeev, Kumar, Anil, Yadav, Gunjan, Kaswan, Mahender Singh

“…Moreover, this study also proposes a five facet GLSS framework for the manufacturing sector to enhance organizational sustainability. …”
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Critical success factors structural model for energy management of Malaysia public universities by Abdullah Saleh, Alia

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3rd order coupled-resonator bandpass filter assisted by Groove Gap-Waveguide technology for 26-GHz radio link diplexer by Alibakhshikenari, Mohammad, Parand, Peiman, Zidour, Ali, Virdee, Bal Singh, Longhi, Patrick, See, Chan Hwang, Limiti, Ernesto

“…Its unit-cells consist of a rectangular metal-pin which is connected to a bottom metal plate and its other side is electromagnetically coupled to a top plate with an air-gap of approximately λ/4 that creates a bandgap, preventing unwanted electromagnetic-wave propagation. …”
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My youth and love... by Patton, Winifred

“…Typescript, the first line begins 'My youth and love...' The second line has been corrected in manuscript.…”
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2016 international Design Exchange Project, the 7th Hidden Space Project, Spatial happiness by Newman, Kaye, Park, Young Tae

“…We would like to introduce the Happiness studio, [SHED, Spatial Happiness and Environmental Design] where we will start to establish a base for research and active projects that seek to understand spatial happiness. …”
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De Novo nucleic acids: a review of synthetic alternatives to DNA and RNA that could act as bio-information storage molecules by Devine, Kevin G., Jheeta, Sohan

“…Modern terran life uses several essential biopolymers like nucleic acids, proteins and polysaccharides. …”
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