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Impact of maternal obesity on placental transcriptome and morphology associated with fetal growth restriction in mice
Abstract: Background: In utero exposure to obesity is consistently associated with increased risk of metabolic disease, obesity and cardiovascular dysfunction in later life despite the divergence of birth weight outcomes. The...
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Two Problem Formulations for Process Innovation Based on Operations Sophistication
Process innovation is assumed to require a more intrinsic rethinking of business processes, which is typically a creative process. Nevertheless, in this creative, prolific process, there can be artifacts derived from rational...
Real-time modelling of a pandemic influenza outbreak.
BACKGROUND: Real-time modelling is an essential component of the public health response to an outbreak of pandemic influenza in the UK. A model for epidemic reconstruction based on realistic epidemic surveillance data has been...
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Applications of Mechatronics in Textiles and Clothing Industries
This article focuses on the transformative potential of mechatronics in up-to-date textiles and clothing industries, with a special focus on its implications for automation, efficiency in production, and product quality....
A Management and Enterprise Architecture Framework for Comprehensive Structure Design of Complex Services
Oscar Barros
Jan 01, 2022
This paper centers on the full structure design of firms providing complex services, like health, which include the production flow, its management, and flows components. This work proposes a full design solution, improving on...
Improving the Efficiency of a Public Health Service by Designing Its Innovation Management Structure Based on Data Envelopment Analysis
This paper presents a proposal for Chile's health system innovation structure based on a formal service design approach, including management and process architecture definition. Such structure defines how to allocate innovation...
Hemodialysis Care Staff Perceptions on Barriers to Optimal Health: Results from a Qualitative Study and National Survey
Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is currently the ninth leading cause of death in the United States, and despite the favorable outcomes reported in previous studies, mortality rates for CKD have yet to show improvement. The purpose...
Published by: Winthrop University
A Hybrid Integration of PLS-SEM, AHP, and FAHP Methods to Evaluate the Factors That Influence the Use of an LMS
The development of learning management systems (LMS) has an integral role to the promotion of new alternatives in relation to improve teaching and learning for universities. This study proposes the determination of the...
Developing Critical Digital Literacies Through Digital Storytelling
The South African Higher Education sector has undergone major transformation since the end of Apartheid more than 25 years ago. Critical digital literacies and critical (digital) citizenship, aligns with the most important...
Construction of the influenza A virus transmission tree in a college-based population
BACKGROUND: Co-infection of different influenza A viruses is known to occur but how viruses interact within co-infection remains unknown. An outbreak in a college campus during the 2009 pandemic involved two subtypes of...
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Emotions and critical thinking at a dark heritage site
This paper explores the connection between memory study theories (antagonistic, cosmopolitan, and agonistic) and emotions in a dark heritage site. It does so by investigating Italian and Slovene visitors’ emotional reactions to...
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Achieving robustness to aleatoric uncertainty with heteroscedastic Bayesian optimisation
Abstract: Bayesian optimisation is a sample-efficient search methodology that holds great promise for accelerating drug and materials discovery programs. A frequently-overlooked modelling consideration in Bayesian optimisation...
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Laura Chuhan Campbell, The Medieval Merlin Tradition in France and Italy: Prophecy, Paradox, and “Translatio”. (Gallica.) Cambridge, UK: D. S. Brewer, 2017. Pp. viii, 211. £60. ISBN
Irène Fabry-Tehranchi
Feb 07, 2020
This book, a revised version of the author’s 2011 dissertation at the University of Durham, studies the reinterpretation of Merlin’s character in French and Italian Arthurian literature through the question of translation. Laura...
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Emotions and critical thinking at a dark heritage site
This paper explores the connection between memory study theories (antagonistic, cosmopolitan, and agonistic) and emotions in a dark heritage site. It does so by investigating Italian and Slovene visitors’ emotional reactions to...
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Metabolic profiling of induced acute pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer progression in a mutant Kras mouse model.
Untargeted Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) metabolomics of polar extracts from the pancreata of a caerulin-induced mouse model of pancreatitis (Pt) and of a transgenic mouse model of pancreatic cancer (PCa) were used to find...
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Defining the challenges for ecodesign implementation in companies
This study addresses the problem of the slow take-up of ecodesign in industry by identifying and categorising the implementation challenges faced by practitioners. Case studies from nine manufacturing companies from five...
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Defining the challenges for ecodesign implementation in companies
This study addresses the problem of the slow take-up of ecodesign in industry by identifying and categorising the implementation challenges faced by practitioners. Case studies from nine manufacturing companies from five...
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Effects of dietary intake patterns from 1 to 4 years on BMI z-score and body shape at age of 6 years
PURPOSE: To assess the association between dietary intake patterns from 1 to 4 years and BMI and body shape at age of 6 years. METHODS: This longitudinal study was based on 3374 Brazilian children from the 2004 Pelotas Birth...
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Affect-Driven Learning of Robot Behaviour for Collaborative Human-Robot Interactions.
Collaborative interactions require social robots to share the users' perspective on the interactions and adapt to the dynamics of their affective behaviour. Yet, current approaches for affective behaviour generation in robots...
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