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Comparative study On The ethical perceptions of contractors and designers in the China construction industry (2018)
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Ethics is becoming one of the most important requirements for successful business in the 21st century. The construction industry cannot be exceptional from this trend. However construction ethics management requires different approaches from other in... Read More about Comparative study On The ethical perceptions of contractors and designers in the China construction industry.

Prediction of Broad-Spectrum Pathogen Attachment to Coating Materials for Biomedical Devices (2018)
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© 2017 American Chemical Society. Bacterial infections in healthcare settings are a frequent accompaniment to both routine procedures such as catheterization and surgical site interventions. Their impact is becoming even more marked as the numbers of... Read More about Prediction of Broad-Spectrum Pathogen Attachment to Coating Materials for Biomedical Devices.

Priorities for long-term care resource allocation in England: Actual allocation versus the views of Directors of Service and older citizens (2018)
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Context: Decisions about resource allocation in long-term care are a perennial issue. The basis for deciding between different needs in prioritising allocation is contested. In England, this debate has crystallised with the advent of self-directed su... Read More about Priorities for long-term care resource allocation in England: Actual allocation versus the views of Directors of Service and older citizens.

Data-Driven Approach for Auditory Profiling and Characterization of Individual Hearing Loss (2018)
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Pure-tone audiometry still represents the main measure to characterize individual hearing loss and the basis for hearing-aid fitting. However, the perceptual consequences of hearing loss are typically associated not only with a loss of sensitivity bu... Read More about Data-Driven Approach for Auditory Profiling and Characterization of Individual Hearing Loss.

Does relative efficiency matter? An analysis of market uncertainty (2018)
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In this paper, we examine whether relative efficiency provides useful information for investment decisions. We find that efficient firms have lower levels of stock price volatility compared to inefficient firms. The results suggest that market partic... Read More about Does relative efficiency matter? An analysis of market uncertainty.

Risk interaction identification in international supply chain logistics: Developing a holistic model (2018)
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© 2018, Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: International supply chains can be severely disrupted by failures in international logistics processes. Therefore, an understanding of international logistics risks, or causes of failure, how these may int... Read More about Risk interaction identification in international supply chain logistics: Developing a holistic model.

Rail Franchises, Competition and Public Service (2018)
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The use of franchises to deliver rail services has raised major problems. Franchises restrict competition in the market, whilst competitive bidding for franchises has met with difficulties, notably in relation to risk transfer and the recent use of s... Read More about Rail Franchises, Competition and Public Service.

Costs of Care of Agitation Associated With Dementia in 8 European Countries: Results From the RightTimePlaceCare Study (2018)
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© 2017 AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine Objective To estimate the additional societal costs for people living with dementia (PwD) with agitation in home care (HC) and institutional long-term care (ILTC) settings in 8 Euro... Read More about Costs of Care of Agitation Associated With Dementia in 8 European Countries: Results From the RightTimePlaceCare Study.

Effect of annealing on the microstructure and magnetic properties of soft magnetic Fe-Si produced via laser additive manufacturing (2018)
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© 2017 Acta Materialia Inc. We investigate the effect of annealing on the properties of Fe-6.9wt% Si produced by Selective Laser Melting (SLM), a powder-bed additive manufacturing technology. Results show that annealing at 1150 °C for 1 h produces a... Read More about Effect of annealing on the microstructure and magnetic properties of soft magnetic Fe-Si produced via laser additive manufacturing.

Polynomial approximation of high-dimensional Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman equations and applications to feedback control of semilinear parabolic PDES (2018)
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© 2018 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. A procedure for the numerical approximation of high-dimensional Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman (HJB) equations associated to optimal feedback control problems for semilinear parabolic equations is propo... Read More about Polynomial approximation of high-dimensional Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman equations and applications to feedback control of semilinear parabolic PDES.

Proximal methods for stationary mean field games with local couplings (2018)
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© 2018 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. We address the numerical approximation of mean field games with local couplings. For power-like Hamiltonians, we consider a stationary system and also a system involving density constraints model... Read More about Proximal methods for stationary mean field games with local couplings.

Incremental comprehension of pitch relationships in written music: Evidence from eye movements (2018)
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To investigate how proficient pianists comprehend pitch relationships in written music when they first encounter it, we conducted two experiments in which proficient pianists’ eyes were tracked while they read and played single-line melodies. In Expe... Read More about Incremental comprehension of pitch relationships in written music: Evidence from eye movements.

Adaptive discontinuous Galerkin methods for elliptic interface problems (2018)
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© 2017 American Mathematical Society. An interior-penalty discontinuous Galerkin (dG) method for an elliptic interface problem involving, possibly, curved interfaces, with fluxbalancing interface conditions, e.g., modelling mass transfer of solutes t... Read More about Adaptive discontinuous Galerkin methods for elliptic interface problems.

Diagnostic Criteria for Somatosensory Tinnitus: A Delphi Process and Face-to-Face Meeting to Establish Consensus (2018)
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Since somatic or somatosensory tinnitus (ST) was first described as a subtype of subjective tinnitus, where altered somatosensory afference from the cervical spine or temporomandibular area causes or changes a patient’s tinnitus perception, several s... Read More about Diagnostic Criteria for Somatosensory Tinnitus: A Delphi Process and Face-to-Face Meeting to Establish Consensus.

Computational fluid dynamics investigation into flow behavior and acoustic mechanisms at the trailing edge of an airfoil (2018)
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© The Author(s) 2018. Airfoil self-noise or trailing edge noise and shear noise were investigated computationally for a NACA 0012 airfoil section, focusing on noise mechanisms at the trailing edge to identify and understand sources of noise productio... Read More about Computational fluid dynamics investigation into flow behavior and acoustic mechanisms at the trailing edge of an airfoil.

Milk progesterone on day 5 following insemination in the dairy cow: associated metabolic variables and reproductive consequences (2018)
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Despite the importance of progesterone on the fertility of lactating dairy cows, the factors that affect post ovulatory progesterone concentration are still unclear. Thus, the aim of the present study was to identify factors associated with the post... Read More about Milk progesterone on day 5 following insemination in the dairy cow: associated metabolic variables and reproductive consequences.

The impact of sulfur functionalisation on nitrogen-based ionic liquid cations (2018)
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It has been demonstrated that bonding and interactions within ionic liquids (ILs) can be elegantly tuned by manipulation of structure and the introduction of functional groups. Here we use XPS to investigate the impact of sulfur containing substituen... Read More about The impact of sulfur functionalisation on nitrogen-based ionic liquid cations.

Private oil companies operating in contested waters and international law of the sea: a peculiar relationship (2018)
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This study investigates whether non-state actors, particularly private oil companies, possess any international rights and obligations while operating in contested waters. The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) provides certain... Read More about Private oil companies operating in contested waters and international law of the sea: a peculiar relationship.

Biocatalyst-artificial metalloenzyme cascade based on alcohol dehydrogenase (2018)
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© The Royal Society of Chemistry. Chemo-enzymatic cascades of enzymes with transition metal catalysts can offer efficient synthetic strategies, but their development is challenging due to the incompatibility between proteins and transition metal comp... Read More about Biocatalyst-artificial metalloenzyme cascade based on alcohol dehydrogenase.

Design optimization for an additively manufactured automotive component (2018)
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The aim of this paper is to investigate the design optimization and additive manufacture of automotive components. A Titanium brake pedal processed through Selective Laser Melting (SLM) is considered as a test case. Different design optimisation tech... Read More about Design optimization for an additively manufactured automotive component.