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Assessing the influence of the solar orbit on terrestrial biodiversity
(2013-04-25)The terrestrial fossil record shows a significant variation in the extinction and origination rates of species during the past half-billion years. Numerous studies have claimed an association between this variation and the ... -
Assessing the integration of pharmacist independent prescribers in child and adolescent mental health services
(2021-04-01)Introduction: Owing to high demand and staff recruitment challenges, child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) in England have struggled to meet expectations set by the NHS and Royal College of Psychiatrists ... -
Assessing the Irish General Election of 2011 : a Roundtable
(2011)On February 25, 2011, Irish voters went to the polls to elect the members of the 31st assembly of Dáil Éireann, who would in turn form a new government. Given the devastation of the Irish economy and the controversial bank ... -
Assessing the performance of different behavior selection architectures in a large and complex virtual environment
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2005)We compare the performance of autonomous agents with three different behavior selection architectures (Static-Threshold, Winner-Takes-All and Voting- Based) in terms of survival in a large and complex dynamic virtual ... -
Assessing the Performance of Sub-Millimetre Compact Object Detection Algorithms
(University of Hertfordshire, 2010-03-08)Sub-millimetre astronomy is about to be transformed by the deployment of new detectors that can map larger images than previously possible. A particular issue in sub-millimetre astronomy is the automated detection of ... -
Assessing the Pharmacological Properties of Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS) Identified Online: In Silico Studies on Designer Benzodiazepines and Novel Synthetic Opioids
(2022-12-09)Background By 2022, a total of 1,127 of Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS) have been identified worldwide and officially reported by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the European Monitoring Centre ... -
Assessing the potential for effective cross-cultural working between “new” Russian managers and western expatriates
(2003)This article addresses the issue of relationship building between young Russian managers, and their expatriate counterparts from western countries. The paper constructs an argument as follows; Firstly, with reference to ... -
Assessing the quality of concrete – reinforcement interface in Self Compacting Concrete
(2020-04-20)Research has shown that even self-compacting concrete (SCC) mixtures can exhibit the so-called “top-bar effect” which impacts bond and anchorage. Several instances of conflicting results have nevertheless been published ... -
Assessing the quality of decision support technologies using the International Patient Decision Aid Standards instrument (IPDASi)
(2009)To describe the development, validation and inter-rater reliability of an instrument to measure the quality of patient decision support technologies (decision aids). -
Assessing the role of biomarker feedback in a 12-week community weight management programme among overweight men: a pilot study
(2024-03-28)Background The primary objective of this study was to examine the feasibility of recruitment, retention, and delivery of biomarker feedback among men partaking in Shape Up, a physical activity for health programme. ... -
Assessing the role of the London 2012 Paralympic Games in the provision and management of grassroots sport for disabled adults
(2016)Legacies from hosting the Paralympic Games is an under-developed area. In a thematic analysis of Paralympic legacies, Misener et al. (2013) discovered few empirically researched studies focusing on legacies from the hosting ... -
Assessing the Sociology of Sport: On Age and Ability
(2015-06-01)On the 50th anniversary of the ISSA and IRSS, a leading scholar on ageing, sport, and physical activity, ISSA President Elizabeth Pike considers the increasing numbers of "Third Age Societies" and the trajectory, challenges, ... -
Assessing the Sociology of Sport: On the Trajectory, Challenges, and Future of the Field
(2015-06-01)On the fiftieth anniversary of the International Sociology of Sport Association and the International Review for the Sociology of Sport, the three guest editors for this special fiftieth anniversary issue of the IRSS, ... -
Assessing the stability of thematic and taxonomic preferences across explicit and implicit measures
(2019)Assessments of similarity between objects has shown to draw upon both taxonomic and thematic properties. While cross-task preferences have been demonstrated (Mirman & Graziano, 2012), the current experiment aimed to examine ... -
Assessing the stellar population and the environment of an HII region on the far side of the Galaxy
(2021-04-20)We have investigated the stellar and interstellar content of the distant star formation region IRAS 17591-2228 (WISE HII region GAL 007.47+0.06). It is associated to a water maser, whose parallax distance is d=20.4^{+2.8} ... -
Assessing The Value Of Hotel Online Reviews To Consumers.
(Springer Nature, 2016)Previous research studied the impact of travel online reviews. However, this is quantitative and lacks of conceptual frameworks to ensure consistency. Only a few of these have considered influencing variables (i.e. ... -
Assessing usability through perceptions of information scent
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2004)Information scent is an establish concept for assessing how users interact with information retrieval systems. This paper proposes two ways of measuring user perceptions of information scent in order to assess the product ... -
Assessing Variability of EEG and ECG/HRV Time Series Signals Using a Variety of Non-Linear Methods
(2020-03-13)Time series signals, such as Electroencephalogram (EEG) and Electrocardiogram (ECG) represent the complex dynamic behaviours of biological systems. The analysis of these signals using variety of nonlinear methods is ...