Determination of the Emission Inventory from Road Transport in the Tekkekoy (Samsun) District Center by Göksel Kaya

“…Emission characteristics for each type of pollutant and for each type of vehicle (automobiles, light-duty commercial vehicles, buses and trucks) were identified depending on vehicle speeds. …”
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Comparative Study of Maximum Power Point Tracking Techniques for Photovoltaic Systems by Fernando Lessa Tofoli, Dênis de Castro Pereira, Wesley Josias de Paula

“…Since there are various MPPT approaches available in the literature, this work presents a comparative study among four popular techniques, which are the fixed duty cycle method, constant voltage (CV), perturb and observe (P&O), and incremental conductance (IC). …”
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Performance Characterisation of High RA Asphalt Mixes – A Laboratory and Field Study by Csaba Toth, Laszlo Petho, Szabolcs Rosta

“…Large-scale production trials confirmed the practicality of integrating high RA content into heavy-duty asphalt mixes with various binder types, including normal bitumen (B), polymer modified binder (PmB), and rubber modified bitumen (GmB). …”
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Estimating the Contribution of the Summer Traffic Peak to PM_2.5, NO_x, and NMVOCs by Petra Dolšak Lavrič, Andreja Kukec

“…The maximum emissions of NO_x and PM_2.5 from light duty vehicles are 17,108 kg and 867 kg. There are non-negligible emissions of NMVOCs from motorcycles and these represent up to 3042 kg.…”
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Girl on Fire – Links between sex, firefighters’ clothing, safety, confidence and wear and tear by Rahel Krause, Justin Kühn, Carsten Schiffer, Thomas Gries

“…As an employer, it is the duty to provide firefighters with good protection according to DIN EN 469. …”
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Legal and Moral Aspects of Confidential Cooperation between Individuals and Law Enforcement Agencies by V. M. Davydiuk

“…It has been established that the involvement of persons, from a moral point of view, into confidential cooperation is determined by: the voluntary nature of such involvement; public duty; perception of appropriate cooperation as the assistance to the community for its proper functioning; compulsory use of confidants for the prevention and detection of latent crimes; counteracting aggressive protection of criminal interests; guaranteeing the public interests by saving the costs for law enforcement function, since the use of confidants is more financially effective than attracting additional law enforcement forces and means.…”
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Emergency medical service interventions and experiences during pandemics: A scoping review. by Despina Laparidou, Ffion Curtis, Nimali Wijegoonewardene, Joseph Akanuwe, Dedunu Dias Weligamage, Prasanna Dinesh Koggalage, Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

“…<h4>Conclusions</h4>Despite concerns for their own and their families' safety and the many challenges they are faced with, especially their knowledge, training, lack of appropriate Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and constant protocol changes, EMS personnel were willing and prepared to report for duty during pandemics. Participants also made recommendations for future outbreak response, which should be taken into consideration in order for EMS to cope with the current pandemic and to better prepare to respond to any future ones.…”
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Evaluating the Influence of Execution Speed on Real-Time Simulation Accuracy: A Buck Converter Case Study by Jesus Camacho, Luis Ibarra, Pedro Ponce

“…The RTS was run at various execution frequencies while the input PWM frequency varied between 2 and 100 times faster; 6,000 randomized duty cycles (0.2 to 0.8) were tested and their ISEs were statistically analyzed. …”
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Application of New Intelligent Anti-flood Equipment Series in Underground Engineering by LIU Jun, WU Zhisong, CHE Lunfei, CAI Chongqing, LI Guodong, HU Haoming, LIU Qi, YU Ze

“…In case of flooding, manual sealing methods such as temporarily stacking sandbags or manual installation of waterproof baffles are usually used, with problems such as a longer time duty for staff, inconvenient use and delayed response, etc. …”
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Perceptions of Work–Family–Engineering Relationships Among Employed Female Engineers in Yemen: A Survey Study by Atef M. Ghaleb, Laila Abdulkhaliq, Halah Abd Al-nour, Mokhtar Ali Amrani, Hanaa A. Hebah, Sobhi Mejjaouli

“…It intensifies when the career is engineering, the employee is female, and the job environment requires heavy-duty and field tasks. The present study investigates the WFC in an engineering environment for female engineers and studies many women-related issues in Yemen. …”
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GUARDIAN'S RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE WELFARE OF CHILDREN IN MARRIAGE: A STUDY ACCORDING TO ISLAMIC LAW by Redwan Yasin, Nurul Hidayat Abdul Rahman, Sayuti Ab. Ghani, Mohamed Belal

“…This article seeks to elucidate the Islamic legal concept of guardianship in marriage and the guardian's duty to ensure the well-being of children born within the marital union. …”
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The application of restorative justice as a settlement of domestic syiqaq in QS. An-Nisa verses 34 and 34 according to the view of wahbah az-zuhaili in the book of tafsir al-munir by Khairatun Hisan, Ahmad Zuhri, Nur Aisah Simamora, Mardian Idris Harahap

“…The conclusion of the research is that Wahbah Az-Zuhaili's view is that in the family it is the man who has the duty to educate his wife to be better, but in this case there are several types of wives, namely wives who obey their husbands, and there are wives who are obedient to their husbands. who disobeys her husband. …”
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A Three-Vector Fast Model Predictive Control Method for Steady State Performance Improvement by Yongzhen Zhang, Pu Cheng, Kai Shen, Weiming He, Di Nian, Jun Pan

“…A zero vector is used to adjust the output voltage amplitude, and a new method for calculating the duty cycle of the voltage vectors is designed, considering the impact of dead-time on common-mode voltage. …”
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Single-Path High-Resolution Digital PWM Architectures With Cascadability of Delay Lines by Marziyeh Hajiheidari, Joel Fushekati, Mohammad Emad, Bas J. D. Vermulst, Jeroen van Duivenbode, Henk Huisman

“…It is demonstrated that bothhldead time and duty cycle can be modified with high accuracy and resolution and updated twice per switching cycle.…”
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Communicating affirmative action in three South African organisations by Anné Leonard, Anské Grobler

“…The organisations researched (1) comply with their legal duty to inform and consult with stakeholders about the process of EE as stipulated in the Code of Good Practice for the EEA (Department of Labour, 1999); (2) the management of EE is viewed as a transformational change process, as opposed to a once-off incident; (3) the management of communication in this context is viewed as a critical success factor, but a disparity exists between the emphasis placed on strategic external and internal communication efforts; and (4) leaders at all hierarchical levels have different communication responsibilities in relation to this transformational process. …”
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Impact of physical activity on cardiovascular health in firefighters: Scoping review by Ghaleelullah Achmat, Charlene Erasmus, Jill Kanaley, Rucia November, Lloyd Leach

“…Background: Firefighters’ duties include fire response, emergency medical treatment and rescue operations. …”
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Improving Corporate Accountability Through Mandatory Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence by Daniel Maluțan, Teodora Maria Rusu, Daiana Eniu

“…The second part of the research comprises an indepth assessment of the most recent legislative Draft proposed by the European Commission which aims to introduce an EUwide mandatory sustainability due diligence corporate duty. The last part is a doctrinal analysis of Corporate Governance which proves its important role in addressing human rights and environmental issues, as it is a tool for integrating the mandatory due diligence into the organisational culture of a business. …”
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The Usefulness of Adopting the Last Planner System in the Construction Process of Addis Ababa Road Projects by Zenawi Mehari Limenih, Belachew Asteray Demisse, Abenezer Tariku Haile

“…The finding shows that the construction management process adopted in all three sites is more or less similar, as they use a push planning system and critical path method to determine the duration following the master schedule but have no weekly work plan and lookahead schedule to forecast the coming week’s duty; also, they use a push planning system, for materials. …”
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Peculiarities of procedural decision-making during pre-trial investigation of high-profile offences a sexual nature committed against children by T. H. Fomina, O. V. Pchelina

“…A procedure for application of measures to ensure criminal proceedings during the pre-trial investigation of the category of criminal offences under study, in particular, suspension from the duty, and preventive measures has been analysed. …”
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Combined drug delivery and treatment monitoring using a single high frequency ultrasound system by Yesna O. Yildiz, Jia-Ling Ruan, Michael D. Gray, Luca Bau, Richard J. Browning, Christophoros Mannaris, Anne E. Kiltie, Borivoj Vojnovic, Eleanor Stride

“…Additionally, extravasation patterns were influenced by peak negative pressure (PNP) and duty cycle, with the narrower beam width at 5 MHz offering potential advantages for targeted drug delivery. in vivo experiments in a murine bladder cancer model confirmed the efficacy of the STS for real-time imaging and drug delivery, with cavitation dose correlating with drug deposition. …”
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