Proceedings of 9th Windsor Conference Making Comfort Relevant

“…A meeting was called of the scientific committee and lifetime achievement awards were made to Michael Humphreys and Fergus Nicol in recognition of their contributions. We would like to acknowledge the effort of Scientific Committee members for reviews of abstracts and papers presented here. …”
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التفخيم والترقيق في روايتي حفص عن عاصم وورش عن نافع: دراسة صوتية وتحليلية = Valorization and attenuation in the narrations of Hafs of ‘Asem and Warsh of Nafi’: descriptive and anal... by Yeob, Shamsul Jamili, Syawan, Razan Syabir

“…Volarization is a pertinent phonetic feature related to the volarized consonants " ،ط، غ، ض، ص، خ ق، ظ "and it is opposing the long vowel, short vowel, laam and ra’ والفتحة املد ألف والراء والالم ,whereby attenuation is an opposite feature of other Arabic phonetics. …”
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Effect of dietary omega-3 supplementation on plasma phospholipids, neutral lipids fatty acids and antioxidant status of pregnant women with gestational diabetes and their neonates by Eram, Sofia

“…Specific Aims: To investigate if (1) GDM adversely affects the plasma omega-3 and omega-6 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid (LCPUFA) levels in pregnant women. (2) High BMI is associated with adverse plasma fatty acid profile in GDM women. (3) Supplementation with DHA-enriched formula, enhances the level of the nutrient in the GDM women and their neonates. (4) Antioxidant vitamins status is enhanced by DHA-enriched supplementation in GDM women and their newborns. …”
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Environmental impacts of greywater use for irrigation on home gardens by Radin Mohamed, Radin Maya Saphira

“…It is suggested that proper management of greywater irrigation with periodic monitoring of soil fertility and quality parameters are required to ensure successful and safe long-term use of greywater for irrigation. The adequate assessment of any environmental risks will require further research.…”
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A study on ultra-low power and large-scale design of digital circuit for wireless communications by Zainal, Mohd Shamian

“…This procedure has disadvantageous that requires a long time to estimate the circuit performance for operation in the subthreshold region. …”
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Coproduction from theory to practice: Wandsworth Community Empowerment Network: an evaluation report by Burgess, Rochelle Ann, Choudary, Natasha

“…This positive view of patient and community involvement has a long legacy within the NHS, albeit under slightly different formulations. …”
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Effects of positive metacognitions and meta-emotions on coping, stress perception and emotions by Beer, Nils

“…Study 1 revealed that long-term challenge scenarios require a higher degree of resilience-related factors, whereas selfregulation appears to be crucial when the challenge is of a short-term nature. …”
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Professional doctorate in health psychology : thesis portfolio (Whippey : 2018) by Whippy, Nicola

“…My overall conclusion was that women are more likely to gain weight during smoking cessation due to them being more sensitive to changes in eating based on emotion and stress. …”
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Evaluation of multistory buildings using performance-based seismic in life safety level by Ahmadi, Mohammad

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The effect of temperature on permittivity measurements of aqueous solutions of glucose for the development of non-invasive glucose sensors based on electromagnetic waves by Jayanthi, Renu, Virdee, Bal Singh, Lubangakene, Innocent, Ganguly, Priyanka, Mariyanayagam, Dion

“…The rise in thermal energy normally causes dipolar liquids like water to vibrate and rotate disrupting the alignment of the dipoles in response to an electric field thereby reducing its permittivity. …”
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Security in an Unstable World by Rogers, Paul

“…The intention of this paper is to place the current security issues in the Middle East in a global context and to do so in terms of the next three decades. Over that time span there are likely to be four main determinants of global peace and conflict.…”
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Islamic ethical values on bioengineering practices : issues in genetic engineering by Shuriye, Abdi Omar

“…Other bioethical issues related to abortion and euthanasia has existed as long as in early eighteenth century. Ethical dimensions of modern organ transplantation remain one of the topics in bioengineering that need further illustration from the socio-human perspectives. …”
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Shear strength analysis of concrete beams reinforced with GFRP bars using strut and tie model by Mokhtar, Norfaniza

“…The experimental approved that the spacing between shear cracks for the specimens with larger shear span to depth ratio is greater than the smaller shear span to depth ratio and while the shear span to depth ratio (a/d) decreases, the shear strength increase. …”
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Impact of a reverse delta type add-on device on the flap-tip vortex of a wing by Altaf, Afaq, Tan, Boon Thong, Omar, Ashraf Ali, Asrar, Waqar

“…The effect of interactions of vortices produced by an outboard flap-tip of a half-span wing (NACA 23012 in landing configuration) and a slender reverse delta type add-on device, placed in the proximity of the outboard flap-tip, on the upper surface of the half-span wing is investigated using Particle Image Velocimetry in a closed loop low speed wind tunnel. …”
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Influential factors and structural reliability by Eusuf, Muhammad Abu, Al Hasan, Abdullah

“…This study focuses on the influential factors that enhance the reliability and versatility of structure throughout the life span. The factors are considered on the basis of the need for assessment of state of –art- structural analysis and design. …”
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NN approach and its comparison with NN-SVM to beta-barrel prediction by Kazemian, Hassan, Yusuf, Syed A., White, Kenneth, Grimaldi, Cédric Maxime

“…Current beta barrel prediction methodologies present intermittent misclassifications resulting in mismatch in the number of membrane spanning regions within amino-acid sequences. To address the problem, this research embarks upon a NN technique and its comparison with hybrid- two-level NN-SVM methodology to classify inter-class and intra-class transitions to predict the number and range of beta membrane spanning regions. …”
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Defending, contesting and rejecting formal drinker categories: how UK university students identify as ‘light-drinkers’ or ‘non-drinkers’ by Conroy, Dom, Griffin, Christine, Morton, Charlotte

“…To explore this, we presented self-identified ‘non’ or ‘light’ drinkers with official formal definitions of ‘light’ and ‘binge’ drinking as found in public health and academic research. …”
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Analytical Finite Element Formulation of Non-uniform Euler-Bernoulli Beam by Sulaeman, Erwin, Kapania, Rakesh

“…To satisfy some requirements, it is not uncommon that the beam has to posses a non-uniform distribution of its cross section along the span. A common approach to analyze such a structure is by using a variational principle to develop the element stiffness matrix. …”
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Faster and more accurate identification of male faces in female care home residents by Lange-Kuettner, Christiane, Martinez-Claras, Donna S.

“…Because the known masculinity bias in women prevailed beyond the menopause, it is discussed whether rather than fertility hormones, women’s testosterone would be a likely candidate explaining the male advantage in sex-of-face identification throughout the life-span.…”
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Methodology to develop bottleneck-based heuristic for permutation flow shop scheduling by Isa, Noor Amira, Ahmad Bareduan, Salleh

“…To date, the Nawaz-Enscore-Ham (NEH) algorithm is still recognized as the best heuristic in solving make span problem in scheduling environment. A very detail step by step methodology to develop the BNB heuristic was thoroughly discussed and elaborated in this paper. …”
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