Adoption of ZakaTech in the Time of COVID-19: Cross-Country and Gender Differences by Nashwan, Saeed Awadh, Ismaiel, Abdelhamid Elsayed A., Muneeza, Aishath, Isa, Mohamad Yazid

“…To validate the research model and draw significant insights, SmartPLS structural equation modeling was used. …”
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Assessing the impact of a sport for development and peace intervention on the mental and physical health of adolescents in Mullaitivu, Sri Lanka by Hamilton, A

“…</p> <p><b>Results:</b></p> <p>Successive adaptations improved the intra-tester agreement for the SLIPS-C (Kilinochchi ICC = 0.701, Mullaitivu ICC = 0.878) and all variables showed a good level of reliability (ICC&amp;GT;0.75). …”

Between City and Self: Reading Beirut in Mohamed Soueid’s Tango of Yearning by Anouti, Ghida

“…Accordingly, I ask how Soueid’s private image-making apparatus draws an image of Beirut through his own autobiographical narration.…”
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Aircraft noise, overheating and poor air quality in London primary schools' classrooms by Montazami, Azadeh

“…The overall findings of this thesis have been developed to draw the attention of school designers' to the current and future potential conflicts between the comfort factors in schools' classrooms. …”
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Tracking and detecting objects in image sequence by Wang, Li

“…The first piece of work addresses learning hierarchical features for visual object tracking by using deep learning. Previously, raw pixel values or hand-crafted features are used to represent target objects. …”
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Arsenic (III) removal from water using natural sedimentary rocks by Yusof, Nur Zulaikha

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Using machine learning to discover candidate localised transcripts from microscopy and genome-wide bioinformatics data by Kiourlappou, M

“…Next, I present the innovative pipeline I use to systematically manage the output raw microscopy images and to create figures (approximately 1400 figures). …”

Global age-sex-specific mortality, life expectancy, and population estimates in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1950–2021, and the impact of the COVID-... by Schumacher, AE, Kyu, HH, Aali, A, Almidani, O, Bandyopadhyay, S, Basnyat, B, Maude, RJ, Bennett, D, Browne, AJ, Dolecek, C, Dunachie, SJ, Newton, CRJ, Rodriguez, JAB

“…Uncertainty intervals (UIs) were calculated for every metric using the 25th and 975th ordered values from a 1000-draw posterior distribution. <p><b>Findings</b></p> Global all-cause mortality followed two distinct patterns over the study period: age-standardised mortality rates declined between 1950 and 2019 (a 62·8% [95% UI 60·5–65·1] decline), and increased during the COVID-19 pandemic period (2020–21; 5·1% [0·9–9·6] increase). …”

Buying influence? The international diplomacy behind donor financing of the World Bank’s International Development Association by Xu, J

“…The first is why the hegemon maintained its burden shares regardless of rise or fall in economic status; I call this <em>‘Hegemonic Lag’</em>. …”

Probabilistic and Analytic Methods in Combinatorics by Sawhney, Mehtaab

“…The second chapter of this thesis addresses a longśstanding question of Erdős regarding the existence of high girth Steiner triple systems. The tools employed fall squarely within the context of probabilistic method, drawing on recent advances within design theory and the theory of random processes. …”
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Colloidal quantum dot light-emitting diode architectures for high performance by Leck, Kheng Swee

“…In addition, in the thesis, we used gallium-doped zinc oxide (GZO) to replace tin-doped indium oxide (ITO) used as the electrode in QD-LEDs due to the increasingly expensive raw materials of ITO. The lowest sheet resistance and resistivity of the radio-frequency (RF) sputtered GZO films are 12.28 Ω/□ and 9.48×10-4 Ω·cm, respectively, comparable to those of commercial grade ITO. …”
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Interventions for managing skeletal muscle spasticity following traumatic brain injury by Synnot, Anneliese, Chau, Marisa, Pitt, Veronica, O'Connor, Denise, Gruen, Russell Lindsay, Wasiak, Jason, Clavisi, Ornella, Pattuwage, Loyal, Phillips, Kate

“…The four studies without useable results were funded by pharmaceutical or medical technology companies. It was difficult to draw conclusions about the effectiveness of these interventions due to poor reporting, small study size and the fact that participants with TBI were usually only a proportion of the overall total. …”
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Impact of BPL penalty functions and PSF models in PET/CT radial spatial resolution recovery by Si, Wang Jie

“…Tubes filled were placed at 5 cm intervals from the center towards the PET/CT FOV's periphery. …”
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The evolution and fate of waste plastics in landfills subject to physical and biochemical processes — implications for microplastics by Lu, Xuhong

“…Furthermore, a higher quantity of MPs was generated from the degraded LDPE and EPS in the 112-day simulated landfill bioreactors compared to the raw LDPE and EPS under the same compression conditions. these results serve as conservative estimations on long-term MPs generation in real landfills, which provide confirmative and quantitative evidence to support the previous studies reporting the varied MPs abundances and properties within landfills. …”
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Carbon nanomaterial/thermoplastic polyurethane composites for sports application : preparation, characterization and simulation by Jing, Qifei

“…Regarding the thermal stability, PU filled with 1 wt% FGO showed the largest extent of improvement. …”
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Semantic scene understanding on 3D point clouds by Dong, Shichao

“…Even without having any instance-related ground-truth, we design an approach to break point clouds into raw fragments and find the most confident samples for learning instance centroids. …”
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Tsewang Norbu NGB by Cantwell, C, Mayer, R

“…Waddell, who identified it as the most splendid and significant of all the great number of literary artifacts he procured during that expedition. …”

Diagrammatic Representation and Inference : 12th International Conference, Diagrams 2021, Virtual, September 28-30, 2021, Proceedings / by Diagrams (Conference) (12th : 2021 : Online) 643173, Basu, Amrita, 1953-, editor 643175, Stapleton, Gem, editor 643176, Linker, Sven, editor 643177, Legg, Catherine, editor 643178, Manalo, Emmanuel, editor 643179, Viana, Petrucio, editor 643180

Data driven and learning based approaches for integrated landside airside operations optimization by Ali, Hasnain

“…As copious amount of data becomes easily available, our ability to learn, draw insights and obtain actionable knowledge using past operations data is a pre-requisite for establishing efficient airport operations that are sensitive to passenger needs.…”
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POWER TO CHOOSE / by Sargent, Haydn, author 656354

“…It's a book for people of all ages and from all walks of life. It comes from the pen of a man who has had a brush with cancer and writes with a positive view of life - DICK SMITH. …”