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Prevalence of vitamin D deficiency and associated risk factors among adults in Chandigarh

open access: yesInternational Journal of Advanced Medical and Health Research, 2020
Background: Vitamin D deficiency is a global health concern affecting individuals across all the age groups in both the genders. Aims and Objectives: The present study intends to assess the prevalence of Vitamin D deficiency and associated risk factors ...
Divesh Dik, Maninder Kaur
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A Vicious Tenacity: The Efficiency Strategy Confronted With the Rebound Effect

open access: yesFrontiers in Energy Research, 2018
Studies of the phenomena known as the “rebound effect,” “backfire,” and the “Jevons Paradox” have cast doubt on the effectiveness, in terms of reduction of energy use, of measures based on efficiency gains.
Osman Arrobbio, Dario Padovan
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Selection of Optimal Intensity Measure for Seismic Assessment of Steel Buckling Restrained Braced Frames under Near-Fault Ground Motions [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Rehabilitation in Civil Engineering, 2019
Buckling restrained braces (BRBs) have a similar behavior under compression and tension loadings. Therefore, they can be applied as a favorable lateral load resisting system for structures. In the performance-based earthquake engineering (PBEE) framework,
Elham Javadi, Masood Yakhchalian
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Evidence of the Financial Audit

open access: yesBuhalterinės Apskaitos Teorija ir Praktika, 2020
Evidence is an argument that justifies the truth or falsity of a subjective opinion or assertion. Characteristics of audit evidence directly impact the obtaining process of sufficient audit evidence as well as determine the final audit decision regarding
Daiva Raziūnienė, Uršula Adaškevič
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Embodied carbon savings of co-living and implications for metrics

open access: yesBuildings & Cities, 2023
In light of the climate crisis and conflicting political ambitions in many countries to rapidly increase the number of dwellings, what housing strategies could reduce emissions?
Tove Malmqvist, Johanna Brismark
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Do people make sufficiency-oriented mobile phone choices based on dynamic norms? The perception and effectiveness of sufficiency-promoting messages in online media

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainability, 2023
Excessive consumption poses a significant threat to the environment. Therefore, overall consumption reduction is necessary. The sufficiency strategy aims to achieve this reduction by enabling individual behavioral changes.
Maike Gossen   +4 more
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On sufficient properties of sufficient matrices

open access: yesCentral European Journal of Operations Research, 2021
zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Janez Povh, Janez Žerovnik
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A Straightforward Sufficiency Proof for a Nonparametric Problem of Bolza in the Calculus of Variations

open access: yesAxioms, 2022
We study a variable end-points calculus of variations problem of Bolza containing inequality and equality constraints. The proof of the principal theorem of the paper has a direct nature since it is independent of some classical sufficiency approaches ...
Gerardo Sánchez Licea
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Maximum Entropy and Sufficiency

open access: yes, 2016
The notion of Bregman divergence and sufficiency will be defined on general convex state spaces. It is demonstrated that only spectral sets can have a Bregman divergence that satisfies a sufficiency condition.
Harremoës, Peter
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Mainstreaming sustainable consumption: lessons learned from a four-year research program

open access: yesSustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy
This Brief Report describes the research and key lessons learned in the initial four-year phase of the research program Mistra Sustainable Consumption that seeks to stimulate a transition to more sustainable consumption in Sweden.
Åsa Svenfelt, Karin Bradley
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