Prevalence, Risk Factors, and Primary Causes of Disability Among Canadian Seniors: An Analysis of the 1986 and 1991 Health and Activity Limitation Surveys [PDF]
An aging Canadian population highlights the need to examine the prevalence and causes of disabilities in seniors in order to be able to meet their health care needs. This report represents a step in that direction by examining disabilities among Canadian
Joan Lindsay +2 more
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Effect of jumping style on the performance of large and medium elite agility dogs [PDF]
, 2015 Dog agility is a rapidly progressing sport worldwide. Consequentially, research and methods to improve technique and performance are becoming highly sought after.
Alcock, J, Birch, E, Boyd, J
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Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research, EarlyView.This study aims to provide actionable recommendations for leveraging digital innovation for the achievement of scalable, equitable, and transparent Net Zero Energy Transition by offering actionable recommendations. As a result of this comprehensive analysis, the review highlights the critical interplay between digital technologies and GF as vital ...
Furkan Ahmad +3 more
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Re-reengineering the dream: agility as competitive adaptability [PDF]
, 2014 Organizational adaptation and transformative change management in technology-based organizations is explored in the context of collaborative alliances.
Allan F. McLay
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III-Vs Review, 2005 One important application of III-Vs, but one which is rarely mentioned is that of optocouplers. Recently, TFR spoke to Alexander Jaus of Agilent, one of the leading manufacturers of this family of components. There are several interesting trends in the market. Device technology is evolving with new forms of packaging and internally via the ‘Stacked LED’
Szweda, Roy, Jaus, Alexander
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To Agile, or not to Agile: A Comparison of Software Development Methodologies [PDF]
arXiv, 2017 Since the Agile Manifesto, many organizations have explored agile development methods to replace traditional waterfall development. Interestingly, waterfall remains the most widely used practice, suggesting that there is something missing from the many "flavors" of agile methodologies.
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A Multi-dimensional Study of Requirements Changes in Agile Software Development Projects [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 Agile processes are now widely practiced by software engineering (SE) teams, and the agile manifesto claims that agile methods support responding to changes well. However, no study appears to have researched whether this is accurate in reality. Requirements changes (RCs) are inevitable in any software development environment, and we wanted to acquire a
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Dynamic Organizations: Achieving Marketplace Agility Through Workforce Scalability [PDF]
, 2006 Dynamic organizations (DOs) operate in business environments characterized by frequent and discontinuous change, They compete on the basis of marketplace agility; that is on their ability to generate a steady stream of both large and small innovations in
Dyer, Lee, Ericksen , Jeff
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Field-based tests for the assessment of physical fitness in children and adolescents practicing sport: A systematic review within the ESA program [PDF]
, 2019 High levels of physical fitness (PF) can positively affect both health and cognitive function, thus monitoring its levels in youth can help increase health and quality of life in adult populations later on.
Alesi M. +22 more
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Joint Situational Assessment‐Hierarchical Decision‐Making Framework for Maneuver Intent Decisions
Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.This study introduces a new framework for decision‐making in unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs), integrating graph convolutional networks and hierarchical reinforcement learning (HRL). The method tackles adopts a curriculum‐based training approach guided by cross‐entropy rewards.
Ruihai Chen +4 more
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