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Ivonne Acosta-Alba and Hayo M. G. Van der Werf
Many indicator-based methods for the environmental assessment of farming systems have been developed. It is not the absolute values of the indicators that reveal whether the impact of a system is acceptable, but rather the distance between these values a...
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Masataka Yamamoto, Yusuke Kishishita, Koji Shimatani and Yuichi Kurita
Decreased ability to control posture is correlated with the risk of falls among older individuals. In particular, reactive postural control ability response to even small perturbations is important for fall prevention of older individuals. The current st...
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Zepeng Wang, Yuan Chen and Juwei Zhang
In practical applications, the accuracy of domain terminology translation is an important criterion for the performance evaluation of domain machine translation models. Aiming at the problem of phrase mismatch and improper translation caused by word-by-w...
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Ilze Pretorius Pretorius, Stuart Piketh, Roelof Burger, Hein Neomagus
This paper investigates trends of historical and projected future South African coal-fired power station criteria (total primary Particulate Matter (PM), Sulphur Dioxide (SO2) and Nitrogen Oxides (NOx)) and Carbon Dioxide (CO2) emissions. It was found th...
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Lila Collet, Lindsay Beevers, Christel Prudhomme
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Floods are the most common and widely distributed natural risk, causing over £1 billion of damage per year in the UK as a result of recent events. Climatic projections predict an increase in flood risk; it becomes urgent to assess climate change impact o...
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Lila Collet, Lindsay Beevers and Christel Prudhomme
Floods are the most common and widely distributed natural risk, causing over £1 billion of damage per year in the UK as a result of recent events. Climatic projections predict an increase in flood risk; it becomes urgent to assess climate change impact o...
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Azizi Seixas, Shannique Richards, Jesse Q. Moore, Chigozirim Izeogu, Laronda A. Hollimon, Peng Jin and Girardin Jean-Louis
The primary objective of this randomized trial was to test the effectiveness of the PREDHiCT digital application, which provides educational and supportive navigation to increase willingness to participate in a future clinical trial. The second objective...
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Nurlisa Azizul, Saifullah Arifin Jaaman, Farah Dayana Haji Ismail, Azmi Marzuki Muda, Xuelei Zhang, Hairul Masrini Muhamad, Mohammad Vol Momin and Bohari Abdullah
There is limited information on Irrawaddy dolphins (Orcaella brevirostris) in the Bay of Brunei, Brunei Darussalam. This research was carried out from 2016 to 2018 to determine the water surface behaviour of Irrawaddy dolphins in the bay, the relationshi...
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Yang Zhang, Jin Liu, Bo Huang and Bei Chen
Entity linking plays a fundamental role in knowledge engineering and data mining and is the basis of various downstream applications such as content analysis, relationship extraction, question and answer. Most existing entity linking models rely on suffi...
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Yu-Been Lee and Jae-Sang Park
Hover performance analyses of coaxial co-rotating rotors (or stacked rotors), which can be used as lifting rotors for electric VTOL (eVTOL) aircraft, are conducted here. In this study, the rotorcraft comprehensive analysis code, CAMRAD II, is used with t...
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Dao Duy Minh,Philippe Lebailly,Nguyen Dang Hao,Philippe Burny,Ho Thi Minh Hop
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Rural households in Vietnam have been facing various adverse impacts on their livelihoods. By using 28 indicators of Sustainable Livelihood Framework (SLF), this study aims to identify the Livelihood Vulnerability Index (LVI) of the households in the coa...
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Yiqing Li, Weiguo Yang, Lixin Tian and Jie Yang
This paper presents a policy benefit model of a photovoltaic (PV) power generation project based on real options analysis (ROA) and the two-factor learning curve model. The main purpose is to examine the investment behavior of developing a PV project in ...
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Ingrid Baigrie,Danie Coetsee
AbstractThis article assesses the extent to which South African public companies that are engaged in agricultural activities are complying with the compulsory recognition and measurement and compulsory and voluntary disclosure requirements of IAS 41 Agri...
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Qian Ren, Chang Su, Huijun Wang, Zhihong Wang, Wenwen Du and Bing Zhang
Aims: This study assessed change in body mass index (BMI) and its impact on the incidence of hypertension in 18- to 65-year-old Chinese adults. Methods: Two waves of data were collected in 2006 and 2011 by the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) wit...
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T. Carmichael,M. Sutherland
AbstractTraditional models for calculating the Return on Investment (ROI) of education examine the costs and benefits of such interventions in financial terms. The aim of this study was to explore other important variables over and above those of a finan...
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Wenbo Shi, Heng Zhang and Yuanxiang Li
The slots on a blade tip can effectively suppress the tip vortices by diffusing the core structure of a vortex and thus mitigate the adverse impacts of vortex interactions. In this paper, the effect of a slotted tip on vortex diffusion in the hovering st...
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Chul-Gyum Kim, Jeongwoo Lee, Jeong Eun Lee and Hyeonjun Kim
This study examines the long-term climate predictability in the Seomjin River basin using statistical methods, and explores the effects of incorporating the duration of climate indices as predictors. A multiple linear regression model is employed, utiliz...
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Agostino Giorgio, Cataldo Guaragnella and Maria Rizzi
The high mortality rate associated with cardiac abnormalities highlights the need of accurately detecting heart disorders in the early stage so to avoid severe health consequence for patients. Health trackers have become popular in the form of wearable d...
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Claudio Szwarcfiter, Yale T. Herer and Avraham Shtub
Industrial projects are plagued by uncertainties, often resulting in both time and cost overruns. This research introduces an innovative approach, employing Reinforcement Learning (RL), to address three distinct project management challenges within a set...
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Michael McCord, Daniel Lo, Peadar Davis, John McCord, Luc Hermans and Paul Bidanset
Prediction accuracy for mass appraisal purposes has evolved substantially over the last few decades, facilitated by the evolution in big data, data availability and open source software. Accompanying these advances, newer forms of geo-spatial approaches ...
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