Obesity and loss of disease-free years owing to major non-communicable diseases: a multicohort study by Solja T. Nyberg, G. David Batty, Jaana Pentti, Marianna Virtanen, Lars Alfredsson, Eleonor I. Fransson, Marcel Goldberg, Katriina Heikkila, Markus Jokela, Anders Knutsson, Markku Koskenvuo, Tea Lallukka, Constanze Leineweber, Joni V. Lindbohm, Ida E. H. Madsen, Linda L. Magnusson Hanson, Maria Nordin, Tuula Oksanen, Olli Pietilainen, Ossi Rahkonen, Reiner Rugulies, Martin J. Shipely, Sari Stenholm, Sakari Suominen, Tores Theorell, Jussi Vahtera, Peter J.M. Westerholm, Hugo Westerlund, Marie Zins, Mark Hamer, Archana Singh-Manoux, Joshua A. Bell, Jane E. Ferrie, Mika Kivimaki

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Improvements in melting control of a glass-melting tank furnace by David M. Hall

“…This thesis describes research into the behaviour of process loops in a glass-melting furnace at Redfearn National Glass, Barnsley. …”
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Metabolic syndrome and risk of major coronary events among the urban diabetic patients: North Indian Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease Study-NIDCVD-2 by Gurjit Kaur Bhatti, Sanjay Kumar Bhadada, Rajesh Vijayvergiya, Sarabjit Mastana, Jasvinder Singh Bhatti

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Male Thread Test Board by Adam Price, Andrew Capel, Rob Lee, Steven Christie

“…Test board consisting of five male screw threads based on a 1/4"-28 UNF male thread profile with successively increasing (+0.2mm) Major and Minor diameters.Can be used to define the optimum model dimensions for 3D printed male threads tailored to the users unique print conditions, material and environment.…”
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Olive mill wastewater in Palestine: prospects for treatment by Amal S. Hudhud

“…Random disposal of olive mill wastewater (OMW) creates environmental and health problems in the West Bank, as in all Mediterranean countries. …”
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Mechanisms of extrudate swell and melt fracture in SBR compounds by Chakrit Sirisinha

“…The influence of the fatty acid soaps on extrudate swell is more noticeable for extrudates obtained from long dies, in which flow is dominated by shear. The major factors shown to exert a significant influence on melt fracture for the compounds with paraffinic processing oil or stearic acid are EFVF and green strength of the extrudate. …”
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Laser melting functionally graded composition of Waspaloy® and zirconia powders. by Kamran A. Mumtaz, Neil Hopkinson

“…It was found that specimens contained an average porosity of 0.34% with a gradual change between layers without any major interface defects.…”
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Infrastructures of male supremacism: a mixed-methods analysis of the incel wiki by Catherine R. Baker

“…In this thesis I contribute to the growing understanding of the emergent secular male movement, the misogynist incel community. I address a prominent gap in the existent literature on misogynist incels by exploring a prominent but under-researched hub of misogynist incel communication—the incel wiki. …”
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Energy efficiency and melt ejection analyses of a dual-laser micromachining method by Osama Alkhawaldeh

“…The energy consumed to produce the melt pool is the major part of the required energy budget in DLM (the sum of the energy consumed in melting and ejection processes). …”
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Access to water, sanitation and hygiene: a survey assessment of persons with disabilities in rural Mali by Kay S. Tan, W. Ray Norman, S. Knepper, Nathaniel Kamban

“…This paper presents results from a survey on access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) for persons with disabilities in rural communities of Mali, West Africa. The objective of this survey was to assess numbers and types of [persons with] disabilities in relation to access and use of WASH facilities. …”
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The vehicle sharing and task allocation problem: MILP formulation and a heuristic solution approach by Pol Arias-Melia, Jiyin Liu, Rupal Mandania

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Moderate sleep restriction in treated older male OSA participants: greater impairment during monotonous driving compared with controls by Ashleigh Filtness, Louise Reyner, James A. Horne

“…Driving was monitored for sleepiness-related minor and major lane deviations, with ‘safe’ driving time being total time driven prior to first major lane deviation. …”
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The effect of laser remelting on the surface chemistry of Ti6al4V components fabricated by selective laser melting by Jayasheelan Vaithilingam, Ruth Goodridge, Richard J.M. Hague, Steven Christie, Steve Edmondson

“…Surface remelting/skin scanning of components is generally performed during the selective laser melting (SLM) process to improve the surface quality of a part. …”
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Milk feeding, solid feeding and obesity risk: a review of the relationships between early life feeding practices and later adiposity by Claire V. Farrow, Emma Haycraft, Gemma Witcomb

“…Childhood obesity is a major health issue with associated ill-health consequences during childhood and into later adolescence and adulthood. …”
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Determination of inflammatory and prominent proteomic changes in plasma and adipose tissue after high intensity intermittent training in overweight and obese males by Melanie Leggate, Wayne Carter, Matthew J.C. Evans, Rebecca A. Vennard, Sarah Sribala-Sundaram, Myra A. Nimmo

“…This study aimed to determine whether 2 wk of high-intensity intermittent training (HIIT) altered inflammatory status in plasma and adipose tissue in overweight and obese males. Twelve participants [mean (SD): age 23.7 (5.2) yr, body mass 91.0 (8.0) kg, body mass index 29.1 (3.1) kg/m2] undertook six HIIT sessions over 2 wk. …”
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Increasing the efficiency of material removal using dual laser micromachining by Osama Alkhawaldeh, Jeremy Coupland, Lewis Jones

“…The decrease in the energy required for the combined lasers is primarily due to the optimisation of the irradiation time in the melting process, which is responsible for the majority of the total energy. …”
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Effect of SiO₂ particles on the relaxation dynamics of epoxidized natural rubber (ENR) in the melt state by time-resolved mechanical spectroscopy by Rossella Arrigo, Leno Mascia, Jane Clarke, Giulio Malucelli

“….% of silica particles was examined by time-resolved mechanical spectroscopy (TRMS), exploiting the unique capability of this technique for monitoring the time-dependent characteristics of unstable polymer melts. The resulting storage modulus curve has revealed a progressive evolution of the elastic component of the composite, associated with slower relaxations of the ENR macromolecular chains. …”
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The adoption of STEP-NC for the manufacture of asymmetric rotational components by Roberto S.U. Rosso Jr, Stephen T. Newman, Shahin Rahimifard

“…The paper presents the major challenges in implementing STEPcompliant CAD/CAM (computer-aided design/manufacture) systems for manufacturing asymmetric rotational parts. …”
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Voluntary exercise fails to prevent metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease progression in male rats fed a high-fat high-cholesterol diet by Clément Besqueut-Rougerie, Vivien Chavanelle, Arnaud Michaux, Yolanda Otero, Pascal Sirvent, James King, Gael Ennequin

“…Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) is a major public health issue with a worldwide prevalence of 30%–32%. …”
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Nucleophilic aromatic substitution of fluoroarenes to synthesise drug compounds for combatting neglected tropical diseases by Adam Buchanan

“…The lack of treatment options is due to the fact that limited research is conducted on the subject, mainly due to the diseases not causing widespread fatalities and the majority of cases being reported in the ‘third world’. …”
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Online modeling with tunable RBF network by Hao Chen, Yu Gong, Xia Hong

“…When the modeling residual of the RBF network becomes large in spite of the weight adaptation, a node identified as insignificant is replaced with a new node, for which the tunable center vector and diagonal covariance matrix are optimized using the quantum particle swarm optimization (QPSO) algorithm. The major contribution is to combine the MRLS weight adaptation and QPSO node structure optimization in an innovative way so that it can track well the local characteristic in the nonstationary system with a very sparse model. …”
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3D printed fluidics with embedded analytic functionality for automated reaction optimisation by Andrew Capel, Andrew Wright, Matthew Harding, George Weaver, Yuqi Li, Russell A. Harris, Steve Edmondson, Ruth Goodridge, Steven Christie

“…The selectively laser melted parts are the first published examples of multifunctional 3D printed metal fluidic devices. …”
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Cellular response to surface morphology: Electrospinning and computational modeling by Anna Denchai, Daniele Tartarini, Elisa Mele

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Highly frustrated magnetic clusters: The kagome on a sphere by Ioannis Rousochatzakis, Andreas M. Lauchli, Frederic Mila

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Damage in extrusion additive manufactured biomedical polymer: effects of testing direction and environment during cyclic loading by Amirpasha Moetazedian, Andy Gleadall, Elisa Mele, Vadim Silberschmidt

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The use of custom beam profiles in laser deposition by Matthew Gibson

“…It has been seen that though modifying the beam profile melt pool flow observed during the preposition process has altered. …”
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The representation of gender and emotion in docusoaps by Louise Farrington

“…The representation of gender and emotionality in the major public media has long been the subject of much discussion and research. …”
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Inlargednesse of mind and activity of spirit : gender identities in the religious writings of mid-seventeenth-century England by Anna K. Warzycha

“…Therefore, the study shows how the potentials inherent in the biblical figure of Zion were used in establishing a connection with God and in forming female and male authorial identity. The thesis draws on the understudied voices of women such as the anonymous Eliza, Elizabeth Major, An Collins or Gertrude More, and is contextualized by male-authored texts, some of them considered as canonical and popular in contemporary literature. …”
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Maximum velocities in flexion and extension actions for sport by David M. Jessop, Matthew Pain

“…The aim of this study was to determine maximum flexion and extension velocities about the major joints in upper and lower limbs. Seven university to international level male competitors performed flexion/extension at each of the major joints in the upper and lower limbs under three conditions: isolated; isolated with a countermovement; involvement of proximal segments. 500 Hz planar high speed video was used to calculate velocities. …”
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Effect of an intense period of competition on race performance and self-reported illness in elite cross-country skiers. by Michael Gleeson, Ida Svendsen, Thomas A. Haugen, Espen Tonnessen

“…Furthermore, while female athletes who participated in TDS performed relatively better than controls in Olympics/World Championships, male athletes who participated in TDS typically performed worse in subsequent major championships. …”
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Women, sport and gender politics in Taiwan by Ying Chiang, Alan Bairner

“…The extent to which this indicated a major shift in the country’s gender politics remains to be seen. …”
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Attachment of Listeria monocytogenes to materials commonly found in a food-processing environment by Mark R. Beresford

“…Contaminated food is thought to be the major vector of listeriosis. Food products that have been implicated in cases of listeriosis include poultry, meat, seafood, milk and their derivative products. …”
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Foreign banks are branching out: changing geographies of Hungarian banking, 1987-1999 by Heike Jons

“…Walking through the streets of Budapest in spring 1999 could have given you the following impression: the supermarkets (Spar), the milk products sold there (Danone, Müller), and the property markets (OBI) come from different Western European countries such as the Netherlands, France and Germany. …”
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Contributions to performance in dynamic jumps by Mark A. King

“…The simulation models were customised to represent the elite male gymnast analysed in this study by calculating subject specific inertia and muscle parameters from experimental testing with the gymnast. …”
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Numerical modelling of unsteady transport and entropy generation in oxy-combustion of single coal particles with varying flow velocities and oxygen concentrations by LINWEI Wang, Nader Karimi, Tata Sutardi, Manosh C Paul

“…However, upon exceeding a certain mole fraction of oxygen in the atmosphere, further addition of oxygen only causes minor increases in entropy generation. …”
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A study of graphite morphology control in cast iron by Steven E. Franklin

“…The objectives of the research project were to gain a deeper understanding of the factors influencing the graphite morphology in cast iron; particularly the role of different solute elements in relation to the industrial manufacture of compacted graphite iron. A number of melt treatment processes were assessed for their abilities to produce low nodularity compacted graphite microstructures over a range of casting section thicknesses. …”
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The effects of solar radiation and black body re-radiation on thermal comfort by Simon Hodder, Ken Parsons

“…It was concluded that re-radiation, from a dashboard in a vehicle, for example, will not have a major direct influence on thermal comfort and that existing models of thermal comfort do not require a specific modification. …”
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An analysis of sports policy in South Korea 1945-95, with special emphasis on factors influencing the implementation of a sport for all policy by Jae Bok Lee

“…The sports histories illustrate how major life events influence sports behaviour, while the sports histories of married couples reflect the mutual influence of the sports careers of marital partners, in particular the impact on female sporting behaviour of male sports careers. …”
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Exploring women’s leadership in China’s sport national governing bodies by Han Zheng

“…The theoretical contribution of this research was to develop a new “barrier matrix” model based on Burton's (2017) multi-level framework in light of the primary data analysis and discussion. It located six major barriers among three levels. Macro level included barriers of “male dominated culture” and “gender serotyping”. …”
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Rheological properties of talc-filled polypropylene by Shahid Wahab Khan

“…It was found that shear rate and die L/D ratio were the major causes of changesin severity of melt fracture for the unfilled and talc-filled compoundss tudied. …”
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Structural integrity of 3D-printed prosthetic sockets: Experimental study for paediatric applications by Theodoros Marinopoulos, Simin Li, Vadim Silberschmidt

“…The load requirements suggested in the standard were recalculated for the case of a 14-year-old male user with their weight in the 98th percentile. …”
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The correlates and treatment of obesity in military populations: a systematic review by Paul Sanderson, Stacy Clemes, Stuart Biddle

“…Reduction in body fat rather than body weight was the most significant outcome. The major significant correlates of obesity were being enlisted personnel, male, ≧35 years of age, African-American/Hispanic ethnicity, and married (with spouse present). …”
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Why do high jumpers use a curved approach? by John C.C. Tan, Fred Yeadon

“…The amount of outward lean angular velocity generated was shown to be a major proportion of the required somersault angular velocity for a jump. …”
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A study of the miscibility of crystalline polyolefins by Naba K. Datta

“…The whole experimental programme can be subdivided into three major areas: the first is concerned with structural characterisation; the second area with the melt properties; and the third with the mechanical properties of the polymers in the solid state. …”
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Structural integrity of 3D-printed prosthetic sockets: an experimental study for paediatric above-knee applications by Theodoros Marinopoulos, Simin Li, Vadim Silberschmidt

“…Prosthetic sockets, as customized products, cannot be directly included in a standardized testing protocol like other major parts of the prosthesis; this makes their mechanical assessment challenging. …”
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An attention-based ensemble model for emotion recognition in conversation by Misbah Farooq, Varuna De-Silva, Xiyu Shi

“…Emotion Recognition in Conversation (ERC) has become a major area of interest in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). …”
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Identifying clusters on multiple long-term conditions for adults with learning disabilities by Emeka Abakasanga, Rania Kousovista, Georgina Cosma, Gyuchan Thomas Jun, Reza Kiani, Satheesh Gangadharan

“…The algorithms were independently applied to datasets of male and female adults with learning disabilities from Wales. …”
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Reactions of toluene and oxygen in an electrical discharge by Karl R. Eriksson

“…The energy yield obtained was about 1 kWhr per mole toluene.…”
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Challenging “a man’s game”: women’s interruption of the habitus in football by Joanne L. Hill

“…This research investigates the ways in which women football players construct their body experiences and negotiate discourses within a traditionally male-dominated sport. It presents qualitative data collected through semi-structured interviews with women active in recreational football in the south-east UK. …”
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