Are optimal levels of testosterone associated with better cognitive function in healthy older women and men? by Eef Hogervorst, Fiona E. Matthews, Carol Brayne

“…Background Sex steroids can positively affect the brain and from this it would follow that high levels of sex steroids could be associated with better cognitive function in older men and women. …”
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Spinal cord injury level influences acute plasma caffeine responses by Terri Graham, Thomas A.W. Paulson, Claudio Perret, Keith Tolfrey, Philip Cordery, Vicky Goosey-Tolfrey

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Lean enough: Institutional logics of best practice and managerial satisficing in American manufacturing by Matt Vidal

“…Institutional logics are central to top-down (schema-driven) processes that focus attention and guide action. Satisficing—settling for good enough based on a given aspiration level—is critical to bottomup (feedback-driven) information processing. …”
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Patterns of variation in plant diversity vary over different spatial levels in seasonal coastal wetlands by Ciara Dwyer, Jonathan Millett, Laurence Jones, Ruud P Bartholomeus, Lisanne van Willegen, Anna Chavasse, Robin J Pakeman

“…At larger spatial levels (between sand dune systems), patterns of beta diversity were a consequence of plant nutrient status. …”
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Construction efficiency of split-level concrete buildings by Domenico Cecini

“…Efficient and sustainable house building is one of the challenges ahead of humanity in the twenty-first century: to provide a home and better living standard for billions of forecasted new urban inhabitants. …”
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DNA methylation of tumour necrosis factor (TNF) alpha gene is associated with specific blood fatty acid levels in a gender‐specific manner by Bethan Hussey, Richard P Steel, Boakye Gyimah, Jim Reynolds, Ian Taylor, Martin Lindley, Sarabjit Mastana

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Water vapour transmission rate of Ethylene Vinyl Acetate (EVA): Encapsulant with different curing levels by Jiang Zhu, Christina Ng, Daniel Montiel-Chicharro, Tom Betts, Ralph Gottschalg

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Reducing railway noise levels: the impact of forthcoming European legislation by Robert Watson, M. Sohail

“…This paper looks at the background and sets out what will now be required: the immediate impact will be an obligation to undertake noise mapping to gain a better understanding of railway noise levels; then action plans will have to be produced to control and mitigate excessive noise (although as yet there is no indication of what will be regarded as ‘excessive’).…”
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Understanding the complexities of mathematical cognition: a multi-level framework by Camilla Gilmore

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State of science: occupational slips, trips and falls on the same level by Wen-Ruey Chang, Sylvie Leclercq, Thurmon E. Lockhart, Roger Haslam

“…Occupational slips, trips and falls on the same level (STFL) result in substantial injuries worldwide. …”
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Is it safe to cross? Identification of trains and their approach speed at level crossings by Gregoire S. Larue, Ashleigh Filtness, Joanne Wood, Sebastien Demmel, Christopher N. Watling, Anjum Naweed, Andry Rakotonirainy

“…Large differences were observed between participants but all could detect trains within the range of the longest sighting distances required at passive level crossings. Most participants greatly underestimated travelling speed by at least 30%, despite reporting high levels of confidence in their estimates. …”
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A level playing field: social inclusion in public leisure by Ian Hodgkinson, Paul Hughes

“…Purpose: The transfer to partnership in public sector management has created significantly new modes of service delivery, and is suggested to be the best means of ensuring that disadvantaged groups are socially included. …”
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An investigation of professional top-level youth football coaches’ questioning practice by Ed Cope, Mark Partington, Christopher Cushion, Stephen Harvey

“…We concur with other researchers that there is a need for further investigation in this area to better understand how dominant discourse can be challenged.…”
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Using computer-aided assessment to test higher level learning outcomes by Emma Duke-Williams, Terry King

“…The paper examines key statistical indicators of question quality (facility and discrimination indices), as well as the results of interviews with students, to drawn conclusions about the best use of question types, student preparation for tests, and discusses key issues in question preparation. …”
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Modelling ground-level ozone concentration using ensemble learning algorithms by Eman S. Al-Abri, Eran Edirisinghe, Amin Nawadha

“…The analysis of the results indicates that accurate models for the concentration of ground level ozone can be derived with the best performance accuracies indicated by the Ensemble Learning Algorithms. …”
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Cultural ‘levelling up’ through the music corporation? The case of EMI North by Allan Watson

“…The Twitter announcement from EMI stated that “The label will be dedicated to supporting the very best local talent in the North of the UK and providing young people with opportunities to work in the music industry”, while the new president of EMI North, Clive Crawley, stated that the goal of the label was to “support local talent, helping them to find new audiences and build their businesses” (MusicWeek, 2023). …”
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Influence of lamination conditions of EVA encapsulation on photovoltaic module durability by Dan Wu, Patrick Wessel, Jiang Zhu, Daniel Montiel-Chicharro, Tom Betts, Anton Mordvinkin, Ralph Gottschalg

“…The influences of EVA curing level on the stability of other properties are also discussed. …”
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Entry level RP machines: how well can they cope with geometric complexity? by Eujin Pei, Ian Campbell, D.J. de Beer

“…The findings will also enable manufacturers to develop better entry-level systems.…”
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Integrating network topology metrics into studies of catchment-level effects on habitat diversity by Eleanore L. Heasley, Nicholas Clifford, James D.A. Millington

“…The spatial arrangement of the river network is a fundamental characteristic of the catchment, acting as a conduit between catchment-level effects and in-channel morphology and ecology. …”
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Integrating network topology metrics into studies of catchment-level effects on river characteristics by EL Heasley, Nicholas Clifford, JDA Millington

“…These metrics should better account for the multi-dimensional nature of the catchment than stream order and be functionally applicable across geomorphological, hydrological and ecological attributes of the catchment. …”
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Enhancing household-level load forecasts using daily load profile clustering by Edward Barbour, Marta Gonzalez

“…While at the aggregate level the MLR method represents a significant improvement over persistence forecasts, on an individual level we find that the best forecasting model is specific to the individual. …”
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Evaluating evidence: Defining levels and quality using critical appraisal mixed methods tools by Ellen Taylor, Sue Hignett

“…Two case studies are provided to illustrate the use of the MMAT with an evidence levels algorithm.…”
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Levitate Project - Societal level impacts of connected and automated vehicles: Final technical report by Amna Chaudhry, Pete Thomas, Andrew Morris, Bin Hu, Wolfgang Ponweiser, Martin Zach, Apostolos Ziakopoulos, Maria Oikonomou, Julia Roussou, George Yannis, Knut Veisten, Rune Elvik, Athina Tympakianaki, Mark Brackstone, Suzanne Hoadley, Juliette Thijs, Mark Meyer, Hannah Tune, Liam Potts, Wendy Weijermars, Helmut Augustin, Sebastien Glaser, Xuesong Wang, Carol Flannagan

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Neuromotor examination in unilateral cerebral palsy: Bilateral impairments in different levels of motor integration by Deisiane Oliveira Souto, Thalita Karla Flores Cruz, Patricia Lemos Bueno Fontes, Korbinian Moeller, Vitor Geraldi Haase

“…Controls performed significantly better than children with UCP on neuromotor tasks at all levels of motor integration. …”
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The effects of physical activity level, sex, and different exercise protocols on monocyte TLR expression by Marta Oliveira

“…Although it has been proven that some exercise is better than no exercise, it is not clear yet what is the right amount of exercise to elicit beneficial immune responses and to help prevent the development of diseases. …”
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Empirical investigation into the use of complexity levels in marketing segmentation and the categorisation of new automotive products by Paul Taylor-West

“…In addition the differing levels of consumer knowledge highlights the need to improve targeting of marketing communications so that manufacturers provide a better understanding of complex new products to consumers. …”
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Development of new high-performance simulation approaches for multi-level urban flood modelling by Qian Li

“…The underground space simulation module is implemented in a flexible framework to allow the simulation of flood flows in multi-underground spaces of multiple levels to better reflect the urban design reality.  …”
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The measurement, levels, and correlates of physical activity in a bi-ethnic population of young children by Daniel D. Bingham

“…Physical activity (PA) is one of the behaviours which develop during the early years, and high levels of PA during the early years have been shown to be related to multiple health outcomes. …”
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Placing Indian cities in the world city network: a firm-level spatial and temporal study by Swayam Das

“…Examining why some Indian cities are better connected than others, this thesis accounts for the changing functional roles of Indian cities in the world city network, develops a typology of Indian cities, and seeks to understand how a better knowledge of Indian cities and how they are connected regionally and globally aids global urban research. …”
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Lack of community-level improved sanitation causes stunting in rural villages of Lao PDR and Vietnam by Maria Quattri, Susanna Smets

“…Thus, policies, programmatic interventions and incentives would best focus on community-wide (rather than household) outcomes and behavioural change. …”
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Corpora, catalogues and correspondence: The item-level identification and digitisation of business letters for the British Telecom Correspondence by Ralph Morton, Hilary Nesi

“…Our experiences using this resource inform the second half of the paper, in particular regarding the identification of corpus material and the difficulty in identifying letters at an item level. This leads to a wider discussion of how best to digitise physical archives.…”
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Network-level accident-mapping: distance based pattern matching using artificial neural network by Lipika Deka, Mohammed Quddus

“…Assigning accidents onto the correct segments facilitate to robustly carry out some key analyses in accident research including the identification of accident hot-spots, network-level risk mapping and segment-level accident risk modelling. …”
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A model driven methodology to measure the Level of Application of Management Process (LAMP) in manufacturing enterprise by Khalid Shamim

“…Therefore, a desire to enhance best practice qualitative and quantitative measurement of management processes triggered and focussed this research. …”
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Data for - Patterns of variation in plant diversity vary over different spatial levels in seasonal coastal wetlands by Ciara Dwyer, Jonathan Millett, Laurence Jones, Ruud Bartholomeus, Lisanne Van Willegen, Anna Chavasse, Robin Pakeman

“…Patterns of variation in plant diversity vary over different spatial levels in seasonal coastal wetlands. Working title was: Local environmental factors control alpha and beta diversity of coastal dune slack plant communities.…”
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Participatory system dynamics modelling approach to safe and efficient staffing level management within hospital pharmacies by Mohammed Ibrahim Shire

“…With increasingly complex safety-critical systems like healthcare being developed and managed, there is a need for a tool that allows us to understand their complexity, design better strategies and guide effective change. System dynamics (SD) has been widely used in modelling across a range of applications from socio-economic to engineering systems, but its potential has not yet been fully realised as a tool for understanding trade-off dynamics between safety and efficiency in healthcare. …”
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Numerical modelling to better understand urban water systems by Zaid Jurji, Mohammed Al-Freah

“…Suitable numerical models were developed to better understand sector performance, analyse the different components of the dynamic systems and measure the impact of repairs and rehabilitation works. …”
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Integrating basic urban services for better sanitation outcomes by Rebecca Scott, Pippa Scott, Peter Hawkins, Isabel Blackett, Andrew Cotton, Alix Lerebours

“…Rapid urbanization in developing countries demands better integration of planning and delivery of basic services if cities are to be sustainable, healthy and safe. …”
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An economic narrative for better managing the european energy crisis by Alistair Milne

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Rapid vital sign extraction for real-time opto-physiological monitoring at varying physical activity intensity levels by Xiaoyu Zheng, Vincent Dwyer, Laura Barrett, Mahsa Derakhshani, Sijung Hu

“…The MA-suppressed PPG signal, obtained through MR, enables the calculation of the heart rate (HR) with an average absolute error of 1.47 beats/min for the IEEE-SPC datasets, and the calculation of HR and respiration rate (RR) to 1.44 beats/min and 2.85 breaths/min respectively for our in-house datasets. …”
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The levels and predictors of physical activity engagement within the treatment seeking transgender population: a matched control study by Beth Jones, Emma Haycraft, Walter P. Bouman, Jon Arcelus

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A transmission line modelling VLSI processor processor designed with a novel electronic system level methodology by Vassilios Chouliaras, James Flint, Yibin Li

“…Post-behavioral-synthesis, cycle-accurate simulations show a three orders-of-magnitude better runtime performance compared to the reference C code executing on a 100 MHz, 32- bit ASIC processor. …”
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Access to and factors influencing drinking water and sanitation service levels in informal settlements: Evidence from Kampala, Uganda by Innocent Tumwebaze, Hakimu Sseviiri, Fred Henry Bateganya, John Twesige, Rebecca Scott, Sam Kayaga, Robinah Kulabako, Guy Howard

“…The main factors for service levels included source of drinking water (β = 0.26, p < 0.001) and the user management for sanitation facilities (β = 0.84, p < 0.001). …”
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Bogoliubov-Born-Green-Kirkwood-Yvon chain and kinetic equations for the level dynamics in an externally perturbed quantum system by Mumu Qureshi, Johnny Zhong, Joseph Betouras, Alexandre Zagoskin

“…When complemented by the equations for the level occupation numbers and inter-level transition amplitudes, they allow to describe the nonequilibrium evolution of the quantum state of the system, which can describe better a large quantum coherent system than the currently used approaches. …”
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The role of dissolved oxygen levels on human Mesenchymal Stem Cell culture success, regulatory compliance and therapeutic potential by Soukaina Bahsoun, Karen Coopman, Nicholas R. Forsyth, Liz Akam

“…Investigators have become increasingly aware of the effects of O2 levels on hMSC biology and culture and are mimicking the natural niche of these cells in vitro to improve cell culture yields. …”
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How useful Is BMI in predicting adiposity indicators in a sample of Maya children and women with high levels of stunting? by Hannah J. Wilson, Federico Dickinson, Paula Griffiths, Hugo Azcorra, Barry Bogin, Maria Ines Varela Silva

“…Objectives: Body mass index (BMI) is used frequently to estimate adiposity levels in children and adults. However, the applicability of BMI to populations with high levels of stunting has been questioned. …”
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Emission inventories from Kuwait petroleum refineries and respective ground level concentration of pollutants in the neighboring residential area by Salwa Alanezi

“…The study will go further step in recommending engineering solutions and best practices to reduce the pollutants concentrations which will help in the reduction of human health risks and protect the environment.…”
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What is mathematical beauty? An experimental philosophical investigation into mathematicians’ aesthetic judgements by Tuya Sa

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