Player acceptance of human computation games by Wang, Xiaohui

“…To address the research gap, two main research questions are identified: 1) what are the underlying factors driving HCG acceptance, and 2) how the influences of these driving factors generalize across contexts and time. …”
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Neuronal control of cardiac excitability in pro-hypertensive states by Larsen, H

“…</p> <p><b>Chapter 7</b> forms the concluding discussion that summarises the main findings of this thesis and attempt to place it in a clinical context, and highlights avenues of further research. …”

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

“…Both CAPD patients and controls had been residents of Crete for at least the last 10 years.</p> <br> <p><strong>Main Outcome Measures:</strong> Adipose tissue was aspirated, and a 12-hour fasting blood sample was collected for determination of serum lipid parameters and serum α-tocopherol levels; dietary data from a 3-day recall were recorded.…”

Socioeconomic inequalities in risk of infection with SARS-CoV-2 delta and omicron variants in the UK, 2020-22: analysis of the longitudinal COVID-19 Infection Survey by Razieh, C, Shabnam, S, Dambha-Miller, H, Morris, EJA, Yates, T, Chudasama, Y, Zaccardi, F, Gillies, C, Banerjee, A, Pareek, M, Lacey, B, White, M, Khunti, K, Islam, N

“…</p> <p><strong>Participants</strong> Survey participants recruited from randomly selected households to reflect the UK population (England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland) were divided into the delta cohort (2 July 2020 to 19 December 2021) and the omicron variant (on or after 20 December 2021), the dominant variants during our study period.</p> <p><strong>Main outcome measures</strong> Incidence rate and incidence rate ratio for the presence of the delta and omicron variants by area level deprivation and occupation sector. …”

Impact of interspecific competition on African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) in an ecosystem with artificial perennial water provision by Sandoval Serés, ME

“…In HNP, during the dry season the only water available for animals is mainly found in artificial waterholes, which makes this area ideal to perform this research. …”

Development of a national maternity early warning score: centile based score development and Delphi informed escalation pathways by Gerry, S, Bedford, J, Redfern, OC, Rutter, H, Chester-Jones, M, Kelly, T, Watkinson, PJ, Knight, M

“…</p> <br> <p><strong>Participants:</strong> Pregnant people from the 4P study, recruited before 20 weeks' gestation at three UK maternity centres (Oxford, Newcastle, and London). 841, 998, and 889 women provided data in the early antenatal, antenatal, and postnatal periods.</p> <br> <p><strong>Main outcome measures:</strong> Development of a new national MEWS, assigning numerical weights to measurements in the lower and upper extremes of distributions of individual vital signs from the 4P prospective cohort study. …”

Quantifying the energy consumption of the water use cycle by Cardenes Trujillo, I

“…</p> <p>This thesis presents variousmethodological approachesto quantify and understand energy use in water infrastructure systems, as well as how to incorporate them in decision-making processes. The main hypotheses are as follows: firstly, a detailed understanding of the use of energy in water infrastructure systems can facilitate more efficient and sustainable water infrastructure systems and, secondly, that incorporating energy into planning for water and wastewater resources can help understand the impacts of decisions and establish trade-offs between actions.…”

Evaluation of rabies awareness and the population dynamics of free-roaming and owned dogs in Herat city, Afghanistan by Nasiry, Zabihullah

“…There was high level (97.3%) of awareness that dog bite is the main cause of rabies. The total direct medical and indirect costs due to dog bites were estimated to be 9.658992 million Afghani (120,737 USD) and 2.88 million Afghani (36044 USD) per year respectively. …”
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Transcriptome analysis of ischemic stroke recovery induced by neural stem cell preconditioned with baicalein-enriched fraction of oroxylum indicum by Satar, Asmaa’ Mohd

“…In brief, this study provides new knowledge regarding the mechanism of BEF-preconditioned NSCs therapy to treat ischemic stroke based on the significant main expression of genes using microarray analysis.…”
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Integrative genomic analyses in adipocytes implicate DNA methylation in human obesity and diabetes by McAllan, Liam, Baranasic, Damir, Villicaña, Sergio, Brown, Scarlett, Zhang, Weihua, Lehne, Benjamin, Adamo, Marco, Jenkinson, Andrew, Elkalaawy, Mohamed, Mohammadi, Borzoueh, Hashemi, Majid, Fernandes, Nadia, Lambie, Nathalie, Williams, Richard, Christiansen, Colette, Yang, Youwen, Zudina, Liudmila, Lagou, Vasiliki, Tan, Sili, Castillo-Fernandez, Juan, King, James W. D., Soong, Richie, Elliott, Paul, Scott, James, Prokopenko, Inga, Cebola, Inês, Loh, Marie, Lenhard, Boris, Batterham, Rachel L., Bell, Jordana T., Chambers, John Campbell, Kooner, Jaspal S., Scott, William R.

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The effects of atmosphere-ocean-wave coupling during tropical cyclone by Garg, Nikhil

“…This transfer of momentum (from atmosphere to ocean) is not a one-way link, i.e., there are feedback effects from ocean (both in terms of enthalpy and momentum) on the atmospheric boundary layer. …”
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Sociospatial reframing of walking through inclusive streets and urban heritage by Wang, Yongcheng

“…The meta-narrative review identified six research traditions, namely the ecological model, the new mobilities paradigm, heritage discourse, public life, rhythmanalysis and space syntax. While it was beyond the scope of this thesis to utilise methods of all these research traditions, synthesising respective narratives provided for a roadmap for the other research modules against a unified discourse of heritage for urban and transport planning. …”
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发达地区失地老人养老支持体系内卷化及其突破 — 基于苏州市的个案研究 = The involution of the eldercare system for the landless elderly in China’s developed regions : a case study based on Suzhou municipality... by 叶继红 Ye Jihong, 占少华 Zhan Shaohua

“…This article, based on an analysis of a “rural to residential”community in Suzhou Municipality, Jiangsu Province, finds that land acquisition has generated a strong impact on the life and pension style of the landless elderly. The old people who lost their land are provided with a basic pension and medical coverage under the scheme of “land for security”. …”
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Metrics to relate COVID-19 wastewater data to clinical testing dynamics by Xiao, Amy, Wu, Fuqing, Bushman, Mary, Zhang, Jianbo, Imakaev, Maxim, Chai, Peter R., Duvallet, Claire, Endo, Noriko, Erickson, Timothy B., Armas, Federica, Arnold, Brian, Chen, Hongjie, Chandra, Franciscus, Ghaeli, Newsha, Gu, Xiaoqiong, Hanage, William P., Lee, Wei Lin, Matus, Mariana, McElroy, Kyle A., Moniz, Katya, Rhode, Steven F., Thompson, Janelle, Alm, Eric J.

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南洋与没有历史的人民 : 苗秀小说中的底层华人= Nanyang and the people without history: a study of the lower-class Chinese people in Miao Xiu's novels by 李泓诺 Li, Hongnuo

“…His novels, novellas, and novel collections, depict the hardships of the lower-class Chinese characters under the British colonial rule in the 1950s and the pathetic life of people during World War II. The lower-class characters included the anti-Japanese fighters, pick pocketers, secret society members, prostitutes, and intellectuals. …”
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牛车水的塑造：政治活动中华人的自主性和殖民管治 = The shaping of Chinatown: relationship of Chinese agency and colonial governance in political activities by 蔡晓欣 Choi, Irene Hiu Yan

“…The Chinese established their life at the area, at the same time shaped the area through their activities, the colonial government also partipated in the continuous and long process of shaping Chinatown. …”
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Spatial filtering of interlayer exciton ground state in WSe2/MoS2 heterobilayer by Chen, Disheng, Dini, Kevin, Rasmita, Abdullah, Huang, Zumeng, Tan, Qinghai, Cai, Hongbing, He, Ruihua, Miao, Yansong, Liew, Timothy Chi Hin, Gao, Weibo

“…Long-life interlayer excitons (IXs) in transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) heterostructure are promising for realizing excitonic condensates at high temperatures. …”
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论李世民音乐政治观对儒家礼乐思想的继承和转化 = A study on Li Shimin music-politics: inheritance and transformation of Confucian ritual and music thought by 许惠佳 Koh, Hwee Kay

“…In keeping with this, there already exists extensive study and coverage on Li Shimin’s life and reign. However, the emphasis of most research works were on his politico-economic contributions and his cultural contributions remain largely understated, in particular the area of his Music-politics thought, which played a significant role during his governance. …”
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Wear behaviour of NiTi shape memory alloys by Yan, Lina

“…This has great potential in improving the service life and safety factors of the NiTi SMA based implants/devices.…”
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Multilevel converter-based grid-connected energy storage systems by Deng, Han

“…The unbalancing of the State of Charge (SoC) of batteries may cause the overcharge or over discharge problems and may influence the variance in batteries life time. Therefore, the SoC balancing control is also indispensable. …”
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