CONSTRUCTION SAFETY THROUGH HOUSEKEEPING: THE HAWTHORNE EFFECT by Emmanuel Aboagye-Nimo, Fidelise EMUZE

“…Housekeeping also contributes to projects being finished in a timely manner, due to fewer distractions being created by what would otherwise be a chaotic situation. …”
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Strontium(II) Ion Surface-Imprinted Polymers Supported by Potassium Tetratitanate Whiskers: Synthesis, Characterization and Adsorption Behaviours by Chunxiang Li, Xiaojie Zhang, Jianming Pan, Pingping Xu, Yan Liu, Yongsheng Yan, Zulei Zhang

“…The relative selectivity coefficient values of Sr(II) ion-imprinted particles were several times greater than those for the non-imprinted matrix. …”
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A Preliminary Study: The Effect of Slow Deep Breathing Exercise (SDBE) on Resting Heart Rate and Respiration Rate of Hypertension Patients by Candrawati Susiana, Oktaviana Husnul Afifah Rizky, Bening Ati Viva Ratih, Mustofa Mustofa

“…Participants were treated with slow, deep breathing exercises three times a week for six weeks. Resting heart and respiratory rates were examined before and after the intervention of slow, deep breathing exercises. …”
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A Fault Diagnosis Method for Out-of-Round Faults of Metro Vehicle Wheels with Strong Noise by Haifeng Huang, Heli Wang, Weijiu Zhang, Weijie Gu

“…The generalization of the diagnosis model is checked nine times by testing the calculation of each group of parameters and using an error declining process. …”
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Design and development of second-generation titanium oxide photocatalysts to better our environment—approaches in realizing the use of visible light by Masakazu Anpo, Masato Takeuchi

“…In outdoor field reactivity tests, these V or Cr ion-implanted titanium oxide photocatalysts showed four to three times higher photocatalytic reactivity for those photocatalytic reactions under solar beam irradiation, as compared with the original unimplanted titanium oxide photocatalyst. …”
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Quasi-biennial oscillation: laboratory experiments by Semin, Benoît, Pétrelis, François

“…We present the details of our experimental set-up, and we explain which improvements allowed us to obtain quantitative measurements during long times. We show experimentally the feedback of the mean flow on the waves, which is one of the key ingredient of the oscillation. …”
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Rate and Associated Factors of Suicidal Behavior among Adolescents in Bangladesh and Indonesia: Global School‐Based Student Health Survey Data Analysis by M. Marthoenis, S. M. Yasir Arafat

“…Factors that independently increased the likelihood of suicidal behavior include female gender, missed class, physical fight four times or more, experienced bullying, anxiety, loneliness, rarely eating fruit, current alcohol use, and sedentary behavior (p<0.05). …”
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A comprehensive review on grapes (Vitis spp.) cultivation and its crop management by Abhijit Khadatkar, Chetankumar Prakash Sawant, Deepak Thorat, Ajita Gupta, Swapnaja Jadhav, Dhananjay Gawande, Ajit Prahlad Magar

“…Mechanization in grapevine cultivation is an indispensable factor for timely operations and cost-savings. Therefore, the technological interventions for grapes production as well as its management in vineyards have been reviewed in the paper. …”
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The Effects of Vitamin D Supplement on Prevention of Recurrence of Preeclampsia in Pregnant Women with a History of Preeclampsia by Sanam Behjat Sasan, Farnaz Zandvakili, Nasrin Soufizadeh, Elaheh Baybordi

“…The risk of preeclampsia for the control group was 1.94 times higher than that for the intervention group (95% CI 1.02, 3.71). …”
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Problems and Risks of Digitalization in Higher Education by M. V. Pashkov, V. M. Pashkova

“…If these risks are not timely addressed, it may jeopardize the creative self-organization of educators and students, hinder the development of diverse and ethically responsible practices of technology use, and further make the higher education system unbalanced and more dependent on commercial technology companies. …”
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Emotional responses of college students to filtered fluorescent lighting in a classroom (v3) by Hon K. Yuen, Anna L. Wood, Jane E. Krentel, Robert A. Oster, Anthony D. Cunningham, Gavin R. Jenkins

“…During each phase, students rated 18 pairs of words from the Mehrabian and Russell pleasure, arousal, and dominance semantic differential scale at least four times to assess the emotional impact of the lighting conditions…”
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A Hardware Accelerator for the Inference of a Convolutional Neural network by Edwin González, Walter D. Villamizar Luna, Carlos Augusto Fajardo Ariza

“…The results show that the co-processing scheme operating at a conservative speed of 100 MHz can identify around 441 images per second, which is about 17% times faster than a 650 MHz - software implementation. …”
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Characterisation of precursory seismic activity towards early warning of landslides via semi-supervised learning by David Murray, Lina Stankovic, Vladimir Stankovic, Stella Pytharouli, Adrian White, Ben Dashwood, Jonathan Chambers

“…Through semi-supervised learning for seismic event detection from continuous seismic recordings over a period of about 10 years, we demonstrate that timely landslide induced displacement prediction is possible, providing the basis for landslide early warning systems. …”
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A Review of “Access to Care” Issues in Aortic Stenosis Patients: A Negative Report Card by Adam M. Reisman, MD, Sammy Elmariah, MD, MPH

“…Although several strategies have been raised by experts within the field to help and improve the diagnosis and treatment of patients with aortic valve disease, timely referral to a heart valve team specialist whenever aortic valve replacement is being considered likely remains the most pertinent intervention. …”
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Summer Watering Patterns of Mule Deer in the Great Basin Desert, USA: Implications of Differential Use by Individuals and the Sexes for Management of Water Resources by Andrew V. Shields, Randy T. Larsen, Jericho C. Whiting

“…We deployed remote cameras at all known water sources (13 wildlife water developments and 4 springs) on one mountain range in western Utah, USA, during summer from 2007 to 2011 to document frequency and timing of water use, number of water sources used by males and females, and to estimate population size from individually identified mule deer. …”
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Baseband Transceiver Design of a High Definition Radio FM System Using Joint Theoretical Analysis and FPGA Implementation by Chien-Sheng Chen, Chyuan-Der Lu, Ho-Nien Shou, Le-Wei Lin

“…Content includes data format allocation, constellation mapping, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) modulation of the transmitter, timing synchronization, OFDM demodulation, integer and fraction carrier frequency (integer carrier frequency offset (ICFO) and fractional CFO (FCFO)) estimation, and channel estimation of the receiver. …”
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An emotion regulation skills training for adolescents and parents: perceptions and acceptability of methodological aspects by Kristina Holmqvist Larsson, Kristina Holmqvist Larsson, Maria Zetterqvist, Maria Zetterqvist

“…“The learning climate” contains process-related experiences, such as the skills trainers’ approach and the timing of the intervention. Participants preferred when skills trainers used self-disclosure. …”
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Entrepreneurship education: Exploring the missing piece in Ethiopian primary and secondary education pogrammes by Adane Tessera Biru, Reda Darge Negassi

“…To employ these unemployed persons is a big challenge for authorities. In hard times when educated persons can’t get jobs, it becomes a challenge for states. …”
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The inclusion of downy mildews in a multi-locus-dataset and its reanalysis reveals a high degree of paraphyly in Phytophthora by F. Runge, S. Telle, S. Ploch, E. Savory, B. Day, R. Sharma, M. Thines

“…Our results demonstrate that Phytophthora is at least six times paraphyletic with respect to the downy mildews. …”
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CO2 adsorption on microporous metal–organic frameworks unravelled by high-resolution X-ray computed tomography by Diponker Karmoker, Jorge Martinez-Garcia, Damian Gwerder, Benjamin Fumey, Andreas Borgschulte, Philipp Schuetz

“…Additionally, the permeability near the particle surface is found to be 6.39 times higher than inside the particle. Potential CO2 location sites at the particle surfaces were also identified and visualized. …”
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