Of impacts, agents, and functions: An interdisciplinary meta-review of smart home energy management systems research [PDF]
, 2020 Smart home energy management technologies (SHEMS) have long been viewed as a promising opportunity to manage the way households use energy. Research on this topic has emerged across a variety of disciplines, focusing on different pieces of the SHEMS ...
McIlvennie, C +2 more
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Qualitative analysis of the impact of Oral Potentially Malignant Disorders on daily life activities. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 To evaluate the impact of Oral Potentially Malignant Disorders (OPMD) on daily life activities.Patients diagnosed with Oral Leukoplakia, Oral submucous fibrosis and Oral Lichen Planus attending the Oral Medicine clinic of Panineeya Institute of Dental ...
Jyothi Tadakamadla +3 more
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, 2020 In searching for life in extraterrestrial space, it is essential to act based on an unequivocal definition of life. In the twentieth century, life was defined as cells that self-replicate, metabolize, and are open for mutations, without which genetic ...
Witzany, Guenther
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What are the ‘active ingredients’ of interventions targeting the public's engagement with antimicrobial resistance and how might they work? [PDF]
, 2018 Objectives. Changing public awareness of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) represents a global public health priority. A systematic review of interventions that targeted public AMR awareness and associated behaviour was previously conducted.
Davis, Mark +9 more
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The unpredictably eruptive dynamics of spruce budworm populations in eastern Canada
Population Ecology, EarlyView.We examine historical population data for spruce budworm from several locations through the period 1930–1997, and use density‐dependent recruitment curves to test whether the pattern of population growth over time is more consistent with Royama's (1984; Ecological Monographs 54:429–462) linear R(t) model of harmonic oscillation at Green River New ...
Barry J. Cooke, Jacques Régnière
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Occupational balance: What tips the scales for new students? [PDF]
, 2005 The open question, ‘What prevents you from reaching occupational balance?’, was posed within a questionnaire aimed at exploring the meanings of occupation, health and wellbeing with a cohort of first-year occupational therapy students during their ...
Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists +15 more
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occumb: An R package for site occupancy modeling of eDNA metabarcoding data
Population Ecology, EarlyView.This study introduces a new R package, occumb, for the convenient application of site occupancy modeling using environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding data. We outline a data analysis workflow, including data setup, model fitting, model assessment, and comparison of potential study settings based on model predictions, all of which can be performed using
Keiichi Fukaya, Yuta Hasebe
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Teaching Model in Medical Sciences Curriculum Development with the Aim of Promoting Social Capital among Students [PDF]
Strides in Development of Medical Education, 2016 Background & Objective: With the presentation of topics related to social capital the attention of scholars has been drawn to the ability of curriculums to develop social capital and its components (trust participation and solidarity) The current study ...
Forouzan Tonkaboni +1 more
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The Components of Abstracts: the Logical Structure of Abstractsin the Area of Technical Sciences
Knjižnica, 2013 Purpose: The main purpose of this research was to find out what kind of structure would be the most appropriate for abstracts in the area of technical sciences, and on the basis of these findings develop guidelines for their writing. Methodology/approach:
Nina Jamar, Alenka Šauperl
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Using Wmatrix to classify open response survey data in the social sciences: observations and recommendations [PDF]
, 2015 We report here on our use of Wmatrix (Rayson 2009) and the USAS tagger (Rayson et al. 2004) as an alternative to more commonly used content analysis methods for sorting and coding open response survey data in the social ...
Philip, Alistair E +2 more
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