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Analysing Distribution Approaches for Efficient Urban Logistics

Transport and Telecommunication Journal, 2023
Abstract Urban logistics plays a crucial role in modern society by covering all the flows of goods and services in the transportation world. This study aims to compare different delivery distribution scenarios using the aggregation of stops by grouping entities, for instance, the postal code approach (PCA) and the
Salar Salehi, Nicola Ippolito, Guido Gentile, Lory Michelle Bresciani Miristice   +3 more
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Distributional Considerations for Transboundary Risk Governance of Environmental Threats

International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 2018
Most policy analyses of both short-term and long-term disasters focus on aggregate impacts of their costs and the benefits of policy remedies. Distributional considerations relating to the costs of these disasters and the benefits of their risk ...
Adam Rose
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Global Protected Areas as refuges for amphibians and reptiles under climate change

Nature Communications, 2023
Protected Areas (PAs) are the cornerstone of biodiversity conservation. Here, we collated distributional data for >14,000 (~70% of) species of amphibians and reptiles (herpetofauna) to perform a global assessment of the conservation effectiveness of PAs ...
Chunrong Mi, Liang Ma, Mengyuan Yang, Xinhai Li, Shai Meiri, Uri Roll, Oleksandra Oskyrko, Daniel Pincheira-Donoso, Lilly P. Harvey, Daniel Jablonski, Barbod Safaei-Mahroo, Hanyeh Ghaffari, Jiri Smid, Scott Jarvie, Ronnie Mwangi Kimani, Rafaqat Masroor, Seyed Mahdi Kazemi, Lotanna Micah Nneji, Arnaud Marius Tchassem Fokoua, Geraud C. Tasse Taboue, Aaron Bauer, Cristiano Nogueira, Danny Meirte, David G. Chapple, Indraneil Das, Lee Grismer, Luciano Javier Avila, Marco Antônio Ribeiro Júnior, Oliver J. S. Tallowin, Omar Torres-Carvajal, Philipp Wagner, Santiago R. Ron, Yuezhao Wang, Yuval Itescu, Zoltán Tamás Nagy, David S. Wilcove, Xuan Liu, Weiguo Du   +37 more
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Documenting heritage language experience using questionnaires

Frontiers in Psychology, 2023
IntroductionThere exists a great degree of variability in the documentation of multilingual experience across different instruments. The present paper contributes to the “methods turn” and individual differences focus in (heritage) bilingualism by ...
Aleksandra Tomić, Yulia Rodina, Fatih Bayram, Cécile De Cat, Cécile De Cat   +4 more
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Analysing the Main Belt asteroid distributions by wavelets [PDF]

Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy, 2020
24 pages, 11 figures, 3 tables; accepted by Celestial Mechanics & Dynamical ...
R. V. Baluev, E. I. Rodionov
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A Distributional Response Time Analysis of the Perceptual Disfluency Effect

Journal of Cognition
Perceptual disfluency, induced by blurring or difficult-to-read typefaces, can sometimes enhance memory retention, but the underlying mechanisms remain unclear.
Jason Geller, Pablo Gomez, Erin Buchanan, Dominique Makowski   +3 more
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An investigation into the normality of the distributions of financial ratios of listed South African industrial companies

South African Journal of Business Management, 1994
In this article we examine some of the inter-temporal and cross-sectional distributional properties of a selected number of financial ratios of South African industrial companies and we evaluate the effect of a simple procedure of outlier rejection.
A. C. Jordaan, E. V.D.M. Smit, W. D. Hamman   +2 more
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Health‐Related Social Needs in Children With Sickle Cell Disease Are Associated With Worse Health‐Related Quality of Life

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Children with sickle cell disease (SCD) face multiple acute and chronic medical complications that may impact their quality of life as reported by patients themselves. Health‐related social needs (HRSNs), such as food and housing insecurity, are common in people with SCD, but the association between HRSNs and patient‐reported ...
Sarah J. Marks, Molly Sonenklar, Cerelia Donald, Cecelia Valrie, Wally Smith, India Sisler   +5 more
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The Effect of Corrective Feedback on Performance in Basic Cognitive Tasks: An Analysis of RT Components

Psychologica Belgica, 2016
The current work examines the effect of trial-by-trial feedback about correct and error responding on performance in two basic cognitive tasks: a classic Stroop task (n = 40) and a color-word matching task ('n' = 30).
Carmen Moret-Tatay, Craig Leth-Steensen, Tatiana Quarti Irigaray, Irani I. L. Argimon, Daniel Gamermann, Diana Abad-Tortosa, Camila Oliveira, Begoña Sáiz-Mauleón, Andrea Vázquez-Martínez, Esperanza Navarro-Pardo, Pedro Fernández de Córdoba Castellá   +10 more
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The Combined Effect of Obesity and Contraceptive Use on Pulmonary Embolism in Adolescent Females Residing in the United States

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Combined oral contraceptive (COC) use in obese adult women dramatically increases the relative risk of developing a pulmonary embolism (PE). The risk of a PE in obese adolescent females taking contraceptives is currently unknown. The purpose of this investigation was to determine the effect of body mass index (BMI) and contraceptive
John Puetz, Joanne Salas
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