Our weapons, our problem: arms exports, democracy and civil society in Brazil and the UK by de Moraes, RF

“…The causal mechanism is in part explained by activities conducted by norm entrepreneurs, whose emergence is facilitated by the existence of institutions commonly found in democratic countries, especially a system of checks and balances, contested elections, and political and civil liberties. …”

AG Codes Achieve List Decoding Capacity over Constant-Sized Fields by Brakensiek, Joshua, Dhar, Manik, Gopi, Sivakanth, Zhang, Zihan

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Filter selection for indoor-recirculating fan-coil unit respect to indoor-to-outdoor particle relationships and occupancy influences by Xu, Xiaoqian

“…Occupancy level was recorded on hourly basis, indoor-to-outdoor (I/O) ratio for both of static period and active period were compared by paired sample t-test to check whether the mean values for accumulated PM2.5 (bin1 to bin3) differs by the occupancy. …”
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Investigation of gamma index parameters in patient specific quality assurance (PSQA) for radiotherapy treatment planning technique: retrosective study by Mukhtar, Siti Yuni Sara

“…The current method applied for the PSQA assessment in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia (HUSM) department is the ArcCHECK phantom based measurement using 3%/3mm gamma index (GI) analysis and currently, there is no standard procedure to perform the PSQA assessment. …”
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A feed-centric hypoglycaemia pathway ensures appropriate care escalation in at-risk infants by Chandran, Suresh, Siew, Jia Xuan, Rajadurai, Victor Samuel, Lim, Rachel Wei Shan, Chua, Mei Chien, Yap, Fabian

“…FCP involves skin-to-skin care, early breast feeding, checking glucose at 2 hours and use of buccal glucose. …”
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Differences in pulse manifestations at Cunkou based on simplified modeling of tactile sensing by Shi, Yubing, Yang, Hongyi, Yeo, Joon Hock

“…Some researchers mentioned that no significant differences were observed in pulse manifestations at various Cunkou areas, hence there might be some difficulty in evaluating the status of different organs through checking pulse manifestations at Cunkou. This research aims to analyze the pulse response at Cunkou from the aspect of the characteristics of tactile sensing, thus to give a preliminary explanation to the above question. …”
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Effect of consumers' awareness about country of origin on purchasing decision in Klang Valley, Malaysia by Taheri, Nasim

“…The accumulated information was examined with care to double check the accuracy using SPSS. The data collected was analysed using descriptive analysis, cross-tabulation analysis, factor analysis and multiple regression analysis. …”
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Essays on development economics by Wang, Wen

“…The estimation results remain robust when subjected to further checks and sensitivity tests. In addition, we consider alternative channels including pathogen stress, historical population density and colonization, which may also influence the degree of institutionalized democracy via the cultural dimension of collectivism / individualism. …”
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Advances in 3D optical profilometry by Huang, Lei

“…In addition, a practical phase retrieval framework is proposed for multi-frequency phase shifting method to accurately calculate the absolute phase and automatically identify invalid phase points via a thresholding and criterion checking process. For dynamic application, only a single frame of data is available to retrieve the wrapped phase and then unwrap it. …”
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Health monitoring, lifetimes estimation, and thermal management of IGBT-based power converters by Mohamed Halick Mohamed Sathik

“…Normally, mean time to failure (MTTF) is used to check the reliability of power electronic components. …”
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