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Statistical Monitoring of Multivariate Count Data From Real‐Time Particle Counters

Quality and Reliability Engineering International, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the pharmaceutical industry, production environments are monitored for bacterial contamination. Particle counters are increasingly investigated for real‐time monitoring of viable microorganisms using count data for different particle size intervals.
Mona Emampour, Pieta C. Boon, Edwin R. van den Heuvel   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

When money isn't everything: Identifying stage‐based patterns of entrepreneurial resource acquisition

Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Scholars often examine how entrepreneurs' existing ties predict resource acquisition. We investigated the reverse: How does the act of pitching generate new ties with investors? Using the context of the Slow Money community, we analyzed social entrepreneurs' pitches to impact investors.
Esther Leibel, Denise Falchetti, Siobhan O'Mahony   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Performing Integrity: Managing Misalignment while Researching Transgressive Social Worlds

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
The qualitative literature criticizing REBs suggests that researchers should develop an approach to research ethics that does justice to their daily practice of fieldwork. In this article, I contribute to this exploration by presenting three cases of negotiating research ethics while researching transgressive social worlds.
Thaddeus Müller
wiley   +1 more source

Modeling the Paths from L2 Use and Socio‐Affective Variables to Communication Skills: A Mixed‐Methods Approach

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Previous research demonstrated that communication anxiety reduces L2 learners' willingness to communicate and communication frequency, but left unexplored its impact on performance. The current mixed‐methods study investigated factors impacting L2 communication skills.
Debra M. Hardison
wiley   +1 more source

Using Virtual Exchange for Teaching BELF Pragmatics: Developing an Online Negotiation Activity

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Teaching Business English (BE) is experiencing a paradigm shift to reflect the communicative needs of the global workplace. With the majority of interactions in English now taking place among multilingual speakers, there are increasing calls to integrate perspectives of English as a business lingua franca (BELF) into English language and ...
Miya Komori‐Glatz, Kaisa S. Pietikäinen   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Student Perceptions of AI and Virtual Populations in a Project‐Based Experimental Design Course

Teaching Statistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the use of virtual populations and artificial intelligence (AI) tools in a course‐based project within the undergraduate statistics course “Experimental Design.” Consistent with our prior research, we found that most students supported the use of project‐based learning and reported gains in conceptual understanding, report ...
Luai Al Labadi, Anna Ly, Snezhana Kirusheva   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Association between wrist pain and awkward postures among workers in 10 key industries

环境与职业医学, 2023
BackgroundProlonged awkward postures during occupational activities can lead to excessive musculoskeletal load on the wrist of workers and symptoms such as wrist pain or discomfort.ObjectiveTo survey the prevalence of wrist pain among workers in 10 key industries and analyze its correlation with wrist working postures.MethodsBy using stratified cluster
Guanlin LI, Xin SUN, Meibian ZHANG, Huadong ZHANG, Ruijie LING, Yimin LIU, Gang LI, Nengzhou CHEN, Zaoliang REN, Yan YIN, Hua SHAO, Hengdong ZHANG, Jiajie LI, Bing QIU, Dayu WANG, Qiang ZENG, Zhanhui LIANG, Rugang WANG, Jianchao CHEN, Danying ZHANG, Liangying MEI, Yongquan LIU, Jixiang LIU, Chengyun ZHANG, Tianlai LI, Ning JIA, Junyi WANG, Zhongxu WANG, Qingsong CHEN   +28 more
openaire   +1 more source

A Monitoring System Based on Behavior Analysis [PDF]

, 2011
[[abstract]]This paper presents a vision-based infant-monitoring system that adopts an infant behavior analysis approach to reduce infant injuries. In our study, the video camera is set above the crib to capture infant sequences.
Fang, C. Y.;Shao, B. R.;Chen, Sei-Wang
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Alcohol harm, mental health and opportunities for change in veterinary practice: A cross‐sectional study

Veterinary Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Evidence suggests that compared with the general population, a higher proportion of UK veterinary professionals engage in at‐risk drinking; however factors influencing alcohol use and barriers to help‐seeking remain under‐explored.
Olivia Cormier, Emma L. Davies, Jennifer Seddon   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Inspiring systematic inclusion of individual affective states to enhance the quality of wild animal research

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Studies on animals continue to attract criticism, often relating to not accounting for variation, for issues with data quality, reproducibility and generalisability, yet one source of variation remains rarely systematically incorporated: differences in individuals' affective states.
Janire Castellano Bueno, Vittoria Elliott   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source