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The Expansion of Approximant /r/ in Dutch
Renée Van Bezooijen
Sep 30, 2014
In present-day Standard Dutch as spoken in the Netherlands, three main categories of pronunciation variants of Irl can be distinguished, namely alveolar /r/, uvular /r/, and approximant /r/. Approximant /r/, the focus of this...
Published by: Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association
Relationship Between Physical Fitness Variables and Reaction Time in eSports Gamers
eSports gaming requires quick and accurate reactions in response to complex visual stimuli for optimal performance. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between components of physical fitness and reaction...
Published by: IGI Global
Empirical Investigation to Assess the Impact of ICT Deployment in SCM Using SEM
The adoption of Information & Communication Technology (ICT) is becoming increasingly ubiquitous and it is prominent in Supply Chain too. The objective of this paper is to perform an empirical investigation to assess the impact...
Published by: IGI Global
Do the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) subject examinations predict success on the Medical Council of Canada qualifying examination (MCCQE) Part 1?
NBME subject examinations are used by many Canadian medical schools to evaluate students during their clerkship rotations. Although studies show strong correlations between NBME scores and the American licensing examination...
Petrobras P-36 Accident
Sara Whelan
Apr 09, 2013
Petrobas P-36 was a floating offshore production unit operating in the Roncador Field, off the coast of Brazil, commencing operations May 2000. This structure was originally designed as a floating drilling unit and was modified...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Does the Technological Diversification and R&D Internationalization of eMNCs Promote Enterprise Innovation?
Under the background of digital economy, technological diversification and R&D internationalization are important strategic choices for eMNCs, represented by China, to seek advanced technological resources and create competitive...
Published by: IGI Global
A quantitative analysis 0f word-final /r/-deletion in Brazilian Portugese
Walcir Cardoso
Jul 18, 2013
This study provides a quantitative analysis for the process of word-final /r/-deletion in the dialect of Portuguese spoken in the city of Belem, in northern Brazil. Two linguistic and four extralinguistic factors are considered...
Published by: Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association
Explanatory Adequacy in Phonology
Eric Russell Webb
Aug 01, 2013
This work reexamines phonological variation particular to the /R/ of convergent French, departing from the hypothesis that a deductive approach to this question can offer explanatory advantages. In contrast to data-driven...
Published by: Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association
Selection of Important Features for Optimizing Crop Yield Prediction
In agriculture, crop yield prediction is critical. Crop yield depends on various features including geographic, climate and biological. This research article discusses five Feature Selection (FS) algorithms namely Sequential...
Environmental Technologies Environmental, Agricultural, and Physical Sciences Environmental Science and Technologies
Published by: IGI Global
Influence of Soil Drought Stress on C, N and P Stoichiometry of Tamarix Chinensis Lour. in Yellow River Delta, China
Qiangqiang Rong, Jingtao Liu, Yanpeng Cai, Zhaohua Lu, Zhenzhen Zhao, Wencong Yue, Jiangbao Xia
Aug 04, 2014
Taking the one-year-old T. chinensis (Tamarix chinensis Lour.) in Yellow River Delta as the study object, the variations of C, N and P stoichiometry in T. chinensis under drought stress was studied using pot experiments. The...
Occupational Stress and Psychological Health of Employees of University Libraries in Osun State, Nigeria
This study examined the influence of occupational stress on the psychological health of the employees of university libraries in Osun State, Nigeria. A random sample of 32 participants from selected university libraries in Osun...
Published by: IGI Global
Insights into the Origin of High Activity of Ni<sub>5</sub>P<sub>4</sub>(0001) for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction.
Hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) is directly relevant to green hydrogen production from water splitting. Recently, a low-cost Ni5P4 material has been demonstrated experimentally and theoretically to...
PSK Method for Solving Mixed and Type-4 Intuitionistic Fuzzy Solid Transportation Problems
P. Kumar
Apr 01, 2019
In this article, the author categorises the solid transportation problem (STP) under uncertain environments. He formulates the mixed and fully intuitionistic fuzzy solid transportation problems (FIFSTPs) and utilizes the...
Published by: IGI Global
Automatic Text Summarization by Providing Coverage, Non-Redundancy, and Novelty Using Sentence Graph
The day-to-day growth of online information necessitates intensive research in automatic text summarization (ATS). The ATS software produces summary text by extracting important information from the original text. With the help...
Published by: IGI Global
Solution NMR of Battery Electrolytes
NMR spectroscopy is a powerful tool that is commonly used to assess the degradation of lithium-ion battery electrolyte solutions. However, dissolution of paramagnetic Ni2+ and Mn2+ ions from cathode...
Summarizing Learning Materials Using Graph Based Multi-Document Summarization
The learners and teachers of the teaching-learning process highly depend on online learning systems such as E-learning, which contains huge volumes of electronic contents related to a course. The multi-document summarization...
Published by: IGI Global
Optimal Weighted Logarithmic Transformation Converted HMOG Features for Automatic Smart Phone Authentication
This paper intends to develop an automatic behavior-based smart phone authentication model by three major phases: feature extraction, weighted logarithmic transformation, and classification. Initially, from the data related to...
Published by: IGI Global
Dependency, Satisfaction, and Psycho-Social Characteristics as Correlates of Cell Phone Use by Library and Information Science Undergraduate Students
Adeyinka Tella
Apr 01, 2021
The study examined dependency, satisfaction, and psychosocial characteristics as correlates of cell phone use by library and information science (LIS) undergraduate students. Using survey, 253 undergraduates represent the sample...
Published by: IGI Global
Co-Surveillance of Rotaviruses in Humans and Domestic Animals in Central Uganda Reveals Circulation of Wide Genotype Diversity in the Animals.
Josephine Bwogi, Charles Karamagi, Denis Karuhize Byarugaba, Phionah Tushabe, Sarah Kiguli, Prossy Namuwulya, Samuel S Malamba, Khuzwayo C Jere, Ulrich Desselberger, Miren Iturriza-Gomara
Apr 17, 2023
Rotavirus genotypes are species specific. However, interspecies transmission is reported to result in the emergence of new genotypes. A cross-sectional study of 242 households with 281 cattle, 418 goats, 438 pigs, and 258 humans...
domestic animals genotyping Rotavirus EPIDEMIOLOGY Uganda co-surveillance inter-host species transmission Feces Animals Animals Domestic Cattle Goats Swine Humans Rotavirus Infections Capsid Proteins Antigens Viral Cross-Sectional Studies Phylogeny Genotype
Published by: Viruses
Child and Adolescent Mental Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Mariela Mosheva, Yael Barzilai, Nimrod Hertz-Palmor, Ehud Mekori-Domachevsky, Asia Avinir, Galit Erez, Noa Vardi, Gila Schoen, Tal Lahav, Hadar Sadeh, Michal Rapaport, Chen Dror, Alex Gizunterman, Shlomit Tsafrir, Doron Gothelf, Yuval Bloch
Apr 11, 2023
Background
Worldwide national surveys show a rising mental health burden among children and adolescents (C&A) during COVID-19. The objective of the current study is to verify the expected rise in visits to psychiatric...
Transfer Learning-Based Artificial Neural Network for Forward Kinematic Estimation of 6-DOF Robot
Transfer Learning (TL) can significantly lower training time and reduce dependency on a large number of target domain datasets. Such an approach is still not exploited for robotic prediction tasks. Currently, a TL based...
Published by: IGI Global
Online Learning Effectiveness During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Mohammad Mahyoob
Oct 01, 2021
This paper is set out to explore the students’ attitudes towards online learning effectiveness using the Blackboard platform in three public Saudi universities (Taibah, Hail, and Al-Baha) during COVID 19 pandemic. It examines...
Published by: IGI Global
Motivations and Social Media Influencing Online Purchase Intention in India
The purpose of the study is to examine the influence of hedonic and utilitarian motivation on Indian consumer's online purchase intention. Second, this study tried to explore if social media mediates the influence of hedonic and...
Published by: IGI Global
An Empirical Study on the Network Model and the Online Knowledge Production Structure
Mass production has attracted much attention as a new approach to knowledge production. The R software system is a typical product of mass production. For its unique architecture, the R software system accurately recorded the...
Published by: IGI Global
Robot-Assisted Versus Laparoscopic Distal Pancreatectomy in Patients with Resectable Pancreatic Cancer
Jeffrey W Chen, Tess ME van Ramshorst, Sanne Lof, Bilal Al-Sarireh, Bergthor Bjornsson, Ugo Boggi, Fernando Burdio, Giovanni Butturini, Riccardo Casadei, Andrea Coratti, Mathieu D'Hondt, Safi Dokmak, Bjørn Edwin, Alessandro Esposito, Jean M Fabre, Giovanni Ferrari, Fadhel S Ftériche, Giuseppe K Fusai, Bas Groot Koerkamp, Thilo Hackert, Asif Jah, Jin-Young Jang, Emanuele F Kauffmann, Tobias Keck, Alberto Manzoni, Marco V Marino, Quintus Molenaar, Elizabeth Pando, Patrick Pessaux, Andrea Pietrabissa, Zahir Soonawalla, Robert P Sutcliffe, Lea Timmermann, Steven White, Vincent S Yip, Alessandro Zerbi, Mohammad Abu Hilal, Marc G Besselink, European Consortium on Minimally Invasive Pancreatic Surgery (E-MIPS)
Apr 10, 2023
BACKGROUND: Robot-assisted distal pancreatectomy (RDP) is increasingly used as an alternative to laparoscopic distal pancreatectomy (LDP) in patients with resectable pancreatic cancer but comparative multicenter studies...
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