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Assertion and Accommodation: a Study of the Assertive Language in the Conversations of School-Age (5-13 Years) Girls
(2018-05-25)This study aimed to investigate the use of accommodation of assertive utterances (AUs) in the conversations of 49 girls aged 5;0-13;1. Based on the findings of earlier research that the use of such language is more closely ... -
An assertion concerning functionally complete algebras and NP-completeness
(2008)In a paper published in J. ACM in 1990, Tobias Nipkow asserted that the problem of deciding whether or not an equation over a nontrivial functionally complete algebra has a solution is NP-complete. However, close examination ... -
Assess Compassion in Higher Education? Why and How would we do that?
(2016-01-08)Abstract: This article reports the effects (on students' social and learning experiences) of supporting students in the use of explicitly compassionate interactional strategies during their weekly seminar interactions. ... -
Assessing a commercially available sports drink on exogenous carbohydrate oxidation, fluid delivery and sustained exercise performance.
(2014-03-04)Background: Whilst exogenous carbohydrate oxidation (CHOEXO) is influenced by mono- and disaccharide combinations, debate exists whether such beverages enhance fluid delivery and exercise performance. Therefore, this study ... -
Assessing and Improving Prognosis in Patients with High Risk Acute Coronary Syndrome
(2020-08-11)Endogenous fibrinolysis, if impaired, has been identified as a novel risk factor in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS). However, in-depth understanding of endogenous fibrinolysis, whether it varies day to day ... -
Assessing availability and greenhouse gas emissions of lignocellulosic biomass feedstock supply – case study for a catchment in England
(2019-05-01)Feedstocks from lignocellulosic biomass (LCB) include crop residues and dedicated per¬ennial biomass crops. The latter are often considered superior in terms of climate change mitigation potential. Uncertainty remains over ... -
Assessing bias in online surveys using alternative survey modes
(2022-05-14)Due to concerns that respondents to online surveys are different from populations of interest, parallel offline surveys can be undertaken and results compared. In this article we create a set of principles to compare results ... -
Assessing carbon monoxide poisoning
(2013-03)Carbon monoxide (CO) is a toxic gas usually formed during the incomplete combustion of carbon-based fuels. Poisoning by CO can be fatal or lead to long-term debilitating cardiovascular, respiratory and neurological conditions. ... -
Assessing charities using data envelopment analysis.
(Cranfield, Centre for Business Performance, 2000)Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a technique that takes account of multiple inputs and outputs to assess the relative efficiency of organisational units. Unlike regression its assessments are not based on any average but ... -
Assessing Consumer Preference for Origin-Labelled Drinks and its Implications for the Food and Drinks Industry in Ghana
(2008-05-20)Country of produce label is an important factor that affects consumer evaluation of food and drinks on the market. The direction of international marketing for food and drink has shifted to emerging markets since developed ... -
Assessing deprescribing tools for implementation in care homes: A qualitative study of the views of care home staff
(2023-12-16)BACKGROUND: Care home residents often experience polypharmacy (defined as taking five or more regular medicines). Therefore, we need to ensure that residents only take the medications that are appropriate or provide value ... -
Assessing Fairtrade Marketing Drivers and Market Prospects for Commodity Producers in Developing Countries
(2013-05-14)Fairtrade has received considerable research attention but little is known about marketing factors driving sales and its potential implications for sustained market access for commodity producers. To provide objective ... -
Assessing Forensic Ballistics Three-Dimensionally through Graphical Reconstruction and Immersive VR Observation
(2022-10-21)A crime scene can provide valuable evidence critical to explain reason and modality of the occurred crime, and it can also lead to the arrest of criminals. The type of evidence collected by crime scene investigators or by ... -
Assessing human reactions to different robot attachment profiles
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2009)Emotional regulation is believed to be crucial for a balanced emotional and cognitive development in infants. Furthermore, during the first year of a child's life, the mother is playing a central role in shaping the ... -
Assessing Hypersensitivity to Difference in Autistic and Non-Autistic Adults
(2024-03-28)Current literature on autism has tended to examine individual traits and characteristics, or the link between two or three traits. This thesis will outline previous literature on the cognitive and perceptual theories of ... -
Assessing Identity Theft in the Internet of Things
(2014-03-01)In the Internet of Things everything is interconnected. In the same context that “man-made fire” got the party started for human civilisation, “man-made TCP” enabled computing devices to participate in our lives. Today we ... -
Assessing lidar-based classification schemes for polar stratospheric clouds based on 16 years of measurements at Esrange, Sweden
(2014-02-16)Lidar measurements of polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs) are commonly analyzed in classification schemes that apply the backscatter ratio and the particle depolarization ratio. This similarity of input data suggests comparable ... -
Assessing Moral Injury and its Clinical Associations in a UK Secure Care Population
(2023-08-24)Introduction: Moral Injury (MI) represents a type of trauma that can manifest after committing or witnessing transgressions which result in feelings of shame, guilt, and inner turmoil. Although originally conceived and ... -
Assessing mucoadhesion in polymer gels : The effect of method type and instrument variables
(2018-03-01)The process of mucoadhesion has been widely studied using a wide variety of methods, which are influenced by instrumental variables and experiment design, making the comparison between the results of different studies ... -
Assessing on-farm productivity of Miscanthus crops by combining soil mapping, yield modelling and remote sensing
(2016-02-29)Biomass from agricultural land is a key component of any sustainable bioenergy strategy, and 2nd generation, ligno-cellulosic feedstocks are part of the UK government policy to meet the target of reduced CO2 emission. ...