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Decomposition and changes in chemical composition of leaf litter of five dominant tree species in a West African tropical forest
(2014-05)The objective of the research was to study the rate of decomposition and changes in the chemical characteristics in the leaf litter of selected tree species using a litterbag experiment. The decomposition of leaf litter ... -
Decomposition of the efficiency of the Chinese state-owned commercial banks at the provincial level
(University of Hertfordshire, 2008)This study adopts a bank production function approach to the measurement of banking efficiency at the provincial level in the Chinese state-owned commercial banking sector from 1998 to 2003. Applying Data Envelopment ... -
Decomposition, Classification and Evaluation of Business Models : the Case of Chinese Retailing
(University of Hertfordshire, 2013)This study attempts to provide a systematic approach to the decomposition, classification and evaluation of business models. We propose an internally consistent hierarchical classification scheme for decomposing a generic ... -
Deconstructing car assembler productivity
(1994-06-01)Two generations later in history, social science and management the question is not whether to measure but how to measure and how to evaluate the results of measurement. This paper aims to make a contribution to this debate: ... -
Deconstructing probation: risk and developments in practice
(2008)This article aims to explore the effects of the transition toward risk analysis in terms of the work of practitioners within the criminal justice system, particularly the probation service of England and Wales, and allied ... -
Deconstructing the practice of internationalisation : from a policy position to a way of being
(2010-06-28)The title frames an initial piece of research forming one aspect of the writer’s broader research examining and evaluating internationalisation strategy discourses in UK Higher Education Institutions. For this particular ... -
Decontamination and Management of Contaminated Hair following a CBRN or HazMat Incident
(2019-09)This in vitro study evaluated the “triple protocol” of dry decontamination, the ladder pipe system (a method for gross decontamination), and technical decontamination for the decontamination of hair following chemical ... -
Decontamination of multiple casualties who are chemically contaminated : a challenge for acute hospitals
(2008-03-01)Patients who have been contaminated by chemical compounds present a number of difficulties to emergency departments, in particular, the risk of secondary contamination of healthcare staff and facilities. The Department of ... -
Deconvolution of high-resolution spectra as a signal-to-noise ratio enhancement method
(2004-03-11)We demonstrate the use of singular value decomposition as a method for deconvolving high-resolution spectra of rapidly rotating stars. A convolution matrix can be built from the observed template spectrum of a slowly ... -
The Decoupled Kinematics of High- z QSO Host Galaxies and Their Ly α Halos
(2022-04-15)We present a comparison of the interstellar medium traced by [C ii] (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array), and ionized halo gas traced by Lyα (Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer), in and around QSO host galaxies ... -
Decoupled Sampling-Based Motion Planning for Multiple Autonomous Marine Vehicles
(2018-10-26)There is increasing interest in the deployment and operation of multiple autonomous marine vehicles (AMVs) for a number of challenging scientific and commercial operational mission scenarios. Some of the missions, such as ... -
Decoupling and Control of Real and Reactive Power in Grid-Connected Photovoltaic Power System
(2013)The paper presents a detailed modeling and simulation of different control schemes of the real and reactive power flows in a three-phase voltage source inverter (VSI) interfacing a photovoltaic (PV) generation system to ... -
Decoupling effects - a novel method for composites characterization
(2011)The practice of mechanical characterization of composite materials demonstrates that there are at least two characteristics being very difficult to be determinate by experiments: in-plane shear modulus G(12) and F-12 ... -
Decoupling of internal and external workload during a marathon: An analysis of durability in 82,303 recreational runner
(2022-09-30)Aim: This study characterised the decoupling of internal-to-external workload in marathon running and investigated whether decoupling magnitude and onset could improve predictions of marathon performance. Methods: The ... -
Decoy ACE2-expressing extracellular vesicles that competitively bind SARS-CoV-2 as a possible COVID-19 therapy
(2020-06-16)The novel strain of coronavirus that appeared in 2019, SARS-CoV-2, is the causative agent of severe respiratory disease, COVID-19, and the ongoing pandemic. As for SARS-CoV that caused the SARS 2003 epidemic, the receptor ... -
The decrease in differential rotation with decreasing stellar mass in a sample of young rapidly rotating main sequence stars
(European Space Agency (ESA), 2005)In the Sun, global fluid circulation generates the large-scale magnetic field through cyclic dynamo action. Shear at the solar core/convection zone interface ensures that the convection zone does not rotate as a solid body. ... -
Decreased function of survival motor neuron protein impairs endocytic pathways
(2016-07-26)Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is caused by depletion of the ubiquitously expressed survival motor neuron (SMN) protein, with 1 in 40 Caucasians being heterozygous for a disease allele. SMN is critical for the assembly of ... -
Decriminalising the witch : The origin of and response to the 1736 Witchcraft Act
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2008)