Electronic cigarette users lack intention to quit vaping by Skerry, Alex, Lusher, Joanne, Banbury, Samantha

“…We conclude from our study findings that the majority of vapers do not intend to reduce or quit using electronic cigarettes and this issue has fundamental implications regarding the long-term negative effects of vaping; that will take time to unfold and further research to fully appreciate.…”
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Ribbon Societies in Nineteenth-Century Ireland and Its Diaspora: The Persistence of Tradition by MacRaild, Donald, Hughes, Kyle

“…Placing Ribbonism firmly within Ireland’s long tradition of collective action and protest, this book shows that, owing to its diversity and adaptability, it shared similarities, but also stood apart from, the many rural redresser groups of the period and showed remarkable longevity not matched by its contemporaries. …”

“Virtual encounters: the making and manifestations of Deleuze’s Bergsonism” by Lundy, Craig

“…From this one might surmise that Deleuze’s encounter with Bergson happens after and is influenced by his reading of Nietzsche (and Kant and Proust), and that this encounter happened not long before the creation of Difference and Repetition. …”
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Solving transport-density equation with diffusion using the first integral method and the generalized hyperbolic functions method by Moner Soliby, Rfaat

“…Basically, the first integral method (FIM) and the generalized hyperbolic functions method (GHFM) are employed to solve the proposed model and to give compelling evidence that regularization of the conservation law by adding viscosity that will undeniably remove the singularity and the weak solution obtained by the characteristic method. As long as, continuity equation leads to discontinuous solutions, abrupt change of the traffic density; thus the diffusion was introduced so as to prevent incrementally deformation of the wave so that shock, rarefication and singularity will not be existed anymore. …”
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Method of lines and runge-kutta method in solving partial differential equation for heat equation by Manshoor, Bukhari, Salleh, Hamidon, Khalid, Amir, Sayed Abdelaal, Muhammed Abdelfattah

“…Solving the differential equation for Newton’s cooling law mostly consists of several fragments formed during a long time to solve the equation. However, the stiff type problems seem cannot be solved efficiently via some of these methods. …”
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Application of fuzzy AHP method based on eigenvalues for decision making in transportation problems by Dasril, Yosza, ., Muhammad Sam’an, Bujang, Nazarudin, Ramlan, Rohaizan

“…Thus, over the past two decades, firms were actively searching for the secret recipe on how to integrate the principles of eco-innovation into their long and short-term strategies.…”
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The material requirements planning system for vacuum manufacturer by Mohd Nor, Norasmiha, Abdul Ghani, Muhammad Hanif, Umar Rashid, Muhammad Aiman Ifqin, Young, Ke Xin, Heng, Chien Ying, Jamzuri, Amelia Yuzni, Cheam, Kai Wen

“…PPC is a technique to plan each individual operation in long-term series. It helps to make the most correct decisions at the right time and position to achieve maximum efficiency. …”
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Legislative challenge to sustainable application of industrialized building system (IBS) by Yunus, Riduan, Yang, Jay

“…For opportunities, five components have been identified, namely legal document integration, certification programmes, long-term benefits, global markets and good image. …”
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Customer profiling using classification approach for bank telemarketing by Palaniappan, Shamala, Mustapha, Aida, Mohd Foozy, Cik Feresa, Atan, Rodziah

“…This project focuses on helping banks to increase the accuracy of their customer profiling through classification as well as identifying a group of customers who have a high probability to subscribe to a long-term deposit. In the experiments, three classification algorithms are used, which are Naïve Bayes, Random Forest, and Decision Tree. …”
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Perception and acceptance of traditional Bugis food in Parit Raja by Zakariah, Siti Hajar, Ahmad, Nor Aziah, Md Sabron, Nurdiyana

“…Bugis migration to Malaya, especially in Sabah, Selangor and Johor had long accepted.…”
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Indium tin oxide thin films: an ideal transparent and conductive oxides contact for solar cells application by Aliyu, Kabiru Isiyaku, Ali, Ahmad Hadi, Nayan, Nafarizal

“…The increasing demands and advancement of optical and optoelectronic devices such as portable and flexible electronics, displays, solar cells, multi-functional windows and not long ago the transistors are some of the reasons for the huge interest [2,3]. …”
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Recent developments in Qucs-S equation-defined modelling of semiconductor devices and IC’s by Brinson, Mike, Kuznetsov, Vadim

“…To illustrate the new Qucs-S modelling techniques an XSPICE version of the EPFL EKV v2.6 long channel transistor model together with other illustrative examples are described and their performance simulated with Qucs-S and Ngspice.…”
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Beyond ‘The War on Terror’: Prospects for the Middle East and North Africa by Joffé, George

“…Indeed, I even wonder if such a dispensation is possible or conceivable in the intellectual and policy planning environment that has been created since September 11, 2001, if not long before. And, even if it were possible, I wonder how the West – Europe and the United States – could meaningfully engage with the Arab World, Iran and Afghanistan in ways that would counter the negative and damaging initiatives undertaken as part of the ‘War on Terror’ over the last eight years. …”
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US Disposable Personal Income and Housing Price Index: a Fractional Integration Analysis by Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Gil-Alana, Luis A.

“…This paper examines the relationship between US disposable personal income (DPI) and house price index (HPI) during the last twenty years applying fractional integration and long-range dependence techniques to monthly data from January 1991 to July 2010. …”
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Sub-workflow parallel implementation of aerosol optical depth retrieval from MODIS data case on a Grid platform by Liu, Jia, Xue, Yong, Vassilev, Vassil, He, Xingwei

“…Operational production of AOD datasets over long time series, large-scale coverage puts on a severe challenge to computing technologies due to both the complexity of retrieval algorithm and the huge data amounts. …”
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Sport and social development: evaluating a professional sport league’s domestic violence and sexual abuse camp by Hills, Stephen, Walker, Matthew

“…However, a broader and more long-term focus on developmental outcomes should be sought.…”
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Exploring the production of natural gas through the lenses of the ACEGES model by Voudouris, Vlasios, Matsumoto, Ken'ichi, Sedgwick, John, Rigby, Robert A., Stasinopoulos, Dimitrios, Jefferson, Michael

“…The ‘Golden Age’ Scenario suggests significant ‘jumps’ of natural gas production – important for testing the resilience of long-term strategies.…”
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Real exchange rates in Latin America : the PPP hypothesis and fractional integration by Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Gil-Alana, Luis A.

“…Compared to earlier studies on these economies, this approach has the advantage of allowing for non-integer values for the degree of integration, and thus for the possibility of PPP not holding continuously but as a long-run equilibrium condition. Further, breaks in the series are endogenously determined using a procedure based on the least-squares principle. …”
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Yezidis turn to European Court to resolve citizenship issues by Knights, Samantha

“…However their belief system has frequently been misrepresented and as a group they have suffered persecution over a long period, with violent attacks most recently in Iraq. …”
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A Hybrid Verilog-A and Equation-defined Subcircuit Approach to MOS Switched Current Analog Cell Simulation by Brinson, Mike, Jahn, Stefan, Nabijou, Hassan

“…However, with the growing complexity of these circuits, transient domain simulation times can become prohibitively long, restricting the size of circuit that can be easily investigated. …”
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