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Potential Health Risks of Contaminants in Private Groundwater Sources in Newfoundland and Labrador
The Government of Newfoundland and Labrador regularly tests public drinking water supplies to ensure the absence of any microbiological, physical or chemical contaminants. Private water supplies, including wells however, fall...
Water Insecurity in Indigenous Canada
Water insecurity in Northern Indigenous communities in Canada is pervasive and complex with multiple dimensions and impacts. Yet the relevant literature is sparse, especially for Labrador.  Our case study aimed to understand the...
Potential Health Risks of Contaminants in Private Groundwater Sources in Newfoundland and Labrador
The Government of Newfoundland and Labrador regularly tests public drinking water supplies to ensure the absence of any microbiological, physical or chemical contaminants. Private water supplies, including wells however, fall...
Water Insecurity in Indigenous Canada
Water insecurity in Northern Indigenous communities in Canada is pervasive and complex with multiple dimensions and impacts. Yet the relevant literature is sparse, especially for Labrador.  Our case study aimed to understand the...
Centurial evidence of breaks in the persistence of unemployment
A novel procedure is applied to test for switches between hysteresis and the natural rate theory over more than a century of UK and USA unemployment data. For both the countries we see a period conforming to hysteresis starting...
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Agricultural commodity price shocks and their effect on growth in sub-Saharan Africa
Commodity price shocks are an important type of external shock and are often cited as a problem for economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa. We choose nine Sub-Saharan African countries that are heavily dependent on a single...
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Agricultural commodity price shocks and their effect on growth in sub-Saharan Africa
Commodity price shocks are an important type of external shock and are often cited as a problem for economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa. We choose nine Sub-Saharan African countries that are heavily dependent on a single...
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Centurial evidence of breaks in the persistence of unemployment
A novel procedure is applied to test for switches between hysteresis and the natural rate theory over more than a century of UK and USA unemployment data. For both the countries we see a period conforming to hysteresis starting...
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Measuring the risk premium in uncovered interest parity using the component GARCH-M model
The aim of this study is to analyze the potential risk premium inherent in the uncovered interest parity (UIP) condition. The component GARCH-in-mean model is used to measure the time-varying risk premium in UIP and separates...
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Measuring the risk premium in uncovered interest parity using the component GARCH-M model
The aim of this study is to analyze the potential risk premium inherent in the uncovered interest parity (UIP) condition. The component GARCH-in-mean model is used to measure the time-varying risk premium in UIP and separates...
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Preparing athletes and teams for the Olympic Games
As part of an increased effort to understand the most effective ways to psychologically prepare athletes and teams for Olympic competition, a number of sport psychology consultants have offered best-practice insights into...
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Socio-physical liveability through socio-spatiality in low-income resettlement archetypes - A case of slum rehabilitation housing in Mumbai, India.
This study looks into the socio-physical liveability through socio-spatiality in low-income settlement archetypes. Paradoxically, recently mushrooming slum rehabilitation housing which have delivered secured tenure to its...
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Preparing athletes and teams for the Olympic Games
As part of an increased effort to understand the most effective ways to psychologically prepare athletes and teams for Olympic competition, a number of sport psychology consultants have offered best-practice insights into...
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ESPN’s Greatest Sporting Cities 2015
This report outlines a study to establish ESPN’s Greatest Sporting Cities 2015. Specifically, the research seeks to identify from sport fans the most important factors that make a great sporting city, weight each factor based on...
Published by: University of Bath
Mechanical Properties of Flax Tape-Reinforced Thermoset Composites.
Three thermoset resin systems-bio-epoxy, epoxy, and polyester-with 30 v% flax fiber reinforcement have been studied to identify the optimal fiber-resin combination in a typical composite structure. Tensile, interface and...
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The impact of identity leadership on team functioning and well-being in team sport
The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of psychological safety in explaining the impact of identity leadership on team performance and athlete well-being. Adopting a cross-sectional survey design, 289 handball...
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Exploiting Semantic Term Relations in Text Summarization
The traditional frequency based approach to creating multi-document extractive summary ranks sentences based on scores computed by summing up TF*IDF weights of words contained in the sentences. In this approach, TF or term...
Correction to: Examining the interaction of fast-food outlet exposure and income on diet and obesity
Furthermore, these errors were mistakenly introduced by the Production team managing this article and, as such were not the fault of the authors.
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What doesn't kill me. . .
Objectives: Recent research suggests that experiencing some adversity can have beneficial outcomes for human growth and development. The purpose of this paper was to explore the adversities that the world's best athletes...
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What doesn't kill me. . .
Objectives: Recent research suggests that experiencing some adversity can have beneficial outcomes for human growth and development. The purpose of this paper was to explore the adversities that the world's best athletes...
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Mechanical Properties of Flax Tape-Reinforced Thermoset Composites
Three thermoset resin systems—bio-epoxy, epoxy, and polyester-with 30 v% flax fiber reinforcement have been studied to identify the optimal fiber−resin combination in a typical composite structure. Tensile, interface and...
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Nanomaterials-Mediated Immunomodulation for Cancer Therapeutics
Immunotherapy holds great promise in overcoming the limitations of conventional regimens for cancer therapeutics. There is growing interest among researchers and clinicians to develop novel immune-strategies for cancer diagnosis...
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