Greater rate of weight loss predicts paediatric hospital admission in adolescent typical and atypical anorexia nervosa by Brennan, Cliona, Cini, Erica, Illingworth, Sarah, Chapman, Simon, Simic, Mima, Nicholls, Dasha, Chapman, Victoria, Simms, Conor, Hayes, Ellen, Fuller, Sarah, Orpwood, Jade, Tweedy, Nichola, Baksh, Tahmida, Astaire, Emma, Bhakta, Dee

“…Physical health parameters at assessment, including heart rate, blood pressure, temperature and rate of weight loss, were compared between adolescents who were admitted to a paediatric ward following assessment and those who were not admitted. The mean rate of weight loss prior to assessment was significantly higher, and mean energy intake significantly lower, in the admitted vs not admitted groups (1.2 vs 0.6kg/week, p < 0.001 and 565 kcal/day vs 857 kcal/day, p < 0.001), independent of degree of underweight. …”
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Antibiotic sensitivity of selected bacteria and microbiological quality of Lactobacillus-fed broiler meat in comparison with commercial broiler meat by Tan, Stephanie Yin Yi

“…The mean CPC were 23 x 103 and 30 x 103 cfu per gram of meat in Lactobacillus fed broiler meat and commercial broiler meat respectively. …”
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Anti-fouling thin film composite (TFC) polyamide reverse osmosis (RO) membranes based on piezoelectric polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) substrates by Fu, Jia Shen

“…For both PVDF-TEP and PVDF-DMF, the mean pore size became smaller and the pore size distribution narrowed after electrical poling. …”
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Low voltage CMOS operational amplifier design towards maximum CMR by Tan, Chee Lam.

“…However, reducing transistor dimensions would also mean that the gate thickness is similarly shrunk. …”
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Pāṃśukūlika as a standard practice in the Vinaya by Witkowski, Nicholas

“…There is a prominent school of thought, both in the academic discipline of Buddhist Studies and in the Buddhist tradition itself, which views the Buddhist monastic lifestyle as either the mean between the two extremes of self-indulgence and asceticism, or, in certain cases, as openly hostile to the ascetic enterprise. …”
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Color transfer between images by Liang, Ruyin

“…The two algorithms' performance was measured in terms of color distribution, information loss, and image fidelity. The method using mean and standard deviation yields acceptable results is simple to implement and has an inexpensive computational cost. …”
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Machine learning models on demodulation of FBG sensors by Cheok, Jake Ke Jun

“…To determine the center Bragg wavelengths of each detector in the overlapping condition, the lowest technique, linear regression used in this project. With a root mean square error of 0.21 pm and an average testing duration of 0.8 milliseconds, a 30 layers residual…”
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Trend of temperature changes in Singapore by Wang, Qian.

“…Thus, the project focuses on data collection and analysis of the mean minimum temperature of the past three decades. …”
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Narcissistic personality inventory and hypersensitive narcissism scale : are they appropriate for cross-cultural studies? by Low, Jennifer Shu Fong.

“…The reason for Asian Americans endorsing the items more does not necessarily mean they are more narcissistic but because these items are more relevant to their culture.…”
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Political economy of trade and the environment : why are trade policy makers getting increasingly involved with climate change? by Schiavone, Antonio.

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Zombies and the agency of women as the living dead. by Kwek, Marguerita.

“…Gina Wisker states in “Crossing Liminal Spaces: Teaching the Postcolonial Gothic” that writers “have engaged since the days of second-wave feminism with the potential of Gothic fantasy and horror fictions to further the feminist enterprise of cultural critique and the exploration of new visions and versions of what it can mean to be women in differing contexts” (408). My dissertation seeks to create a „new vision‟ of women in the liminal space of the living dead. …”
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Li-Fi : transmitting data wirelessly using light by Wang, Yi

“…By using light as the medium for data transfer, it will mean that it is very secure as it does not pass through wall or ceilings. …”
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An exposition of the Zhuangzi’s zhiyan (至言) by Koo, Hao Wei

“…The meaning of zhiyan (至言) in the Zhuangzi varies. In chapter 12, zhiyan is antithetical to suyan (俗言) or “customary sayings”. …”
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Ethics roundtable: choice and autonomy in obstetrics by Wilkinson, D, Teli, S, Litchfield, C, Madeley, A, Kelly, B, Impey, L, Brown, R, Kingma, E, Turnham, H

“…Choices carry risks and consequences – to the woman and her child; also potentially to her caregivers and to other women. What does it mean for women’s autonomy be respected in obstetrics? …”

An experimental validation test of ecological coexistence theory to forecast extinction under rising temperatures by Terry, JT

“…Competition hastened expiration and the modelled point of coexistence breakdown overlapped with mean observations under both steady temperature increases and with additional environmental stochasticity. …”

Investigating Interventions in Fine-grained Contexts for Habit Formation by Khan, Mina

“…After 6 weeks, interventions in fine-grained website-entry-based contexts led to more percentage increase in mean and median habit formation and automaticity than interventions in coarse-grained interval-based or random contexts. …”
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Stock prediction using support vector regression by Manasa, Abburu.

“…The performance evaluators include Mean Absolute Error (MAE), Root Mean Square Error (RMSE), Relative Absolute Error (RAE), Root Relative Absolute Error (RRAE), Directional Symmetry (DS) and Weighted Directional Symmetry (WDS). …”
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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

“…Adjusting for gender, age and ethnicity did not affect the significance of the results. Mean MFT score in the [V] cohort significantly deteriorated (t (99) = 3.39 p = 0.004), yet did not change significantly in the [C] group.…”

Remote digital cognitive assessment reveals cognitive deficits related to hippocampal atrophy in autoimmune limbic encephalitis: a cross-sectional validation study by Shibata, K, Attaallah, B, Tai, X-Y, Trender, W, Hellyer, PJ, Hampshire, A, Irani, SR, Manohar, SG, Husain, M

“…</p> <br> <p><strong>Findings:</strong> Between February 15, 2021, and April 21, 2022, 21 patients with ALE (mean age 63.01 years, 14 males) and 54 healthy controls (mean age 65.56 years, 23 males) completed the digital cognitive assessment. …”

Self-reported weight changes in 1st year university students in England: an analysis of social and physical environment by Vadeboncoeur, C

“…With data from 32 identified studies, I performed a meta-analysis on mean WC. I also performed sub-analyses stratified by sex, location, weight measuring method and by weight gainers. …”