Evaluation of alternative battery charging schemes for one-way electric vehicle smart mobility sharing systems based on real urban trip data by Maren Schnieder, Andrew West

“…However, the flexibility and spontaneity of one-way shared mobility increases the complexity of integrating electric vehicles into hire fleets compared with round-trip vehicle sharing and commercial fleets or privately-owned vehicles. …”
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Seasons by Jessica Noske-Turner

“…Donors are like seasons. This object is more or less like a globe where you a have map of the world, that’s why it is round. …”
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Security of two recent constant-round password authenticated group key exchange schemes by Raphael C.-W. Phan

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Access to safe and year round functional water: an estimation of coverage for three central regions in Tanzania by Alejandro Jimenez, Agusti Perez-Foguet

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Results of the bifacial PV cells and PV modules power measurement round robin activity of the PV-Enerate Project by George Koutsourakis, M Rauer, A Schmid, G Bellenda, Thomas Betts, JC Blakesley, Martin Bliss, J Bonilla Castro, K Bothe, S Dittmann, J Lopez-Garcia, W Herrmann, D Hinken, RP Kenny, RR Molinero, D Pavanello, S Riechelmann, H Sträter, A Vegas, S Winter

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Utilization and harmonization of adult accelerometry data: review and expert consensus by Katrien Wijndaele, Kate Westgate, Samantha K. Stephens, Steven N. Blair, Fiona C. Bull, Sebastien F.M. Chastin, David W. Dunstan, Ulf Ekelund, Dale Esliger, Patty S. Freedson, Malcolm H. Granat, Charles E. Matthews, Neville Owen, Alex V. Rowlands, Lauren Sherar, Mark S. Tremblay, Richard P. Troiano, Soren Brage, Genevieve N. Healy

“…Consensus was achieved after two rounds of the Delphi process; 18 experts participated in one or both rounds. …”
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Private emptiers' perspectives on the regulation of faecal sludge emptying services in Sub-Saharan Africa by Alix Lerebours, Rebecca Scott, Kevin Sansom

“…Using a two-round Delphi study, 15 faecal sludge emptiers from 11 cities in Sub-Saharan Africa have expressed views on the regulation of faecal sludge emptying services. …”
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Seasonal variation in physical activity, sedentary behaviour and sleep in a sample of UK adults by Sophie O'Connell, Paula Griffiths, Stacy Clemes

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Barriers and benefits of using social networking sites versus face to face meetings for sharing knowledge in professional societies by Kamla A. Al-Busaidi, Gillian Ragsdell, Ray Dawson

“…Based on two rounds of a Delphi study, the results revealed the benefits and barriers of F2F meetings compared to the benefits and barriers of SNS for sharing knowledge in professional societies.…”
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Unconventional monetary policy reaction functions: evidence from the U.S. by Luca Agnello, Vitor Castro, Gilles Dufrénot, Fredj Jawadi, Ricardo Sousa

“…We find that nonstandard policy measures are largely driven by the dynamics of inflation and the output gap, with the effect being particularly strong during QE rounds. Moreover, we uncover the presence of asymmetry and regime dependence in central bank's actions since the global financial crisis, especially concerning the response of the term spread and the shadow short rate to the growth rate of central bank reserves. …”
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Mechanical and biomechanical cushioning of a corked-based synthetic turf surface compared with natural turf and rubber crumb surfaces by Sharon Dixon, Jo Reeves, Ryan Jones, Toby Budd, Harry McGowan, Jim Mcmahon, Steph Forrester, Paul Fleming

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Dietary inorganic nitrate as an ergogenic aid: an expert consensus derived via the modified Delphi technique by Oliver M Shannon, Jason D Allen, Raul Bescos, Louise Burke, Tom Clifford, Chris Easton, Javier T Gonzalez, Andrew M Jones, Kristin L Jonvik, Filip J Larsen, Peter Peeling, Barbora Piknova, Mario Siervo, Anni Vanhatalo, Kerry McGawley, Simone Porcelli

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Relational messages in product design by Kathy Lo

“…Examples of relational messages in service tangibles, products for shared use and gift products are discussed. The paper rounds up by highlighting implications for design and future research possibilities.…”
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The rise of the National Front is pushing France towards a genuine three-party system by Helen Drake

“…Nicolas Sarkozy’s UMP received the largest share of support in the French departmental elections on 22 and 29 March. …”
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The potential for ground-sourced cooling of domestic buildings in desert by Farraj F. Al-Ajmi

“…In many dry desert climates such as in Kuwait, the summer season is long with a mean daily maximum temperature of 45°C. …”
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Motivation and decision making in eSports spectatorship in China by Xiuqi Zhu

“…Accordingly, a deductive strategy is adopted. Three rounds of data collection were completed from the 2020 S10 League of Legends World Finals in Shanghai, the 2021 and 2022 seasonal professional eSports events in multiple cities in China, respectively. …”
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Assessing the application and limitations of a standardised overheating risk-assessment methodology in a real-world context by Kostas Mourkos, Rob McLeod, Christina Hopfe, Chris Goodier, Michael Swainson

“…The flats were monitored during the late autumn in order to assess their propensity to chronic year-round overheating, outside of the summer season. …”
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Sport for development from the ‘executive suite’: transdisciplinary entanglement as a new top-down, bottom-up paradigm in the sport and refugee movement by Anna Farello

“…I used a combination of methods including two rounds of semi-structured interviews (one of which was a photo elicitation conversation) with 16 Think Tank members, and “virtual field” notes from attending meetings and being an active participant in the Think Tank itself. …”
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An alternative sequence of operation for Pumped-Hydro Compressed Air Energy Storage (PH-CAES) systems by Daniel Pottie, Rafael AM Ferreira, Thales AC Maia, Matheus P Porto

“…In the time of the aforementioned publication, it was possible to see that with a suitable thermodynamic cycle the PH-CAES could reach a high round-trip efficiency. Since then, we have worked on this cycle, and in this article we share the progress we have made. …”
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Quality and sustainability aspects in water access indicators: an example from Same District, Tanzania by Alejandro Jimenez, Agusti Perez-Foguet

“…Based on the water point mapping methodology, basic water quality tests were included during the campaign and seasonality questions were also processed. The study aims to provide an example of to which extent improved water points do provide safe water; while considering year round functionality as a key aspect if the service wants to be sustainable. …”
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Effectiveness of different household water treatment approaches for people living with HIV/AIDS in Africa by Rachel Peletz, Tom Mahin

“…For water sources with high turbidity (seasonally or year round) the effectiveness of the HWT approach under high turbidity conditions should be considered as part of selecting the appropriate HWT approach. …”
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Hydrological controls on oviposition habitat are associated with egg-laying phenology of some caddisflies by Jill Lancaster, Stephen Rice, Louise Slater, Rebecca E Lester, Barbara J Downes

“…Three species showed no association between egg mass abundance and time above this threshold; two of these species laid eggs year-round.5. Regional hydrometeorology controlled the availability of ERs, but between-river differences were sufficient to deliver different outcomes in the availability of oviposition sites between years and seasons. …”
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Climatology and convective mode of severe hail in the United Kingdom by Henry Wells, John Hillier, Freya K Garry, Nick Dunstone, Matthew R Clark, Abdullah Kahraman, Huili Chen

“…The seasonal cycle peaks in early–mid summer, and the peak month has shifted from June to July since around 2005. …”
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A cyclone climatology of the British-Irish Isles 1871-2012 by Tom Matthews, Conor Murphy, Robert Wilby, Shaun Harrigan

“…The British-Irish Isles (BI) lie beneath the North Atlantic storm track year-round and thus are impacted by the passage of extra-tropical cyclones. …”
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Home Life Insight Cards by Val Mitchell, Garrath Wilson, Kerstin Leder Mackley, SARAH PINK, Richard Buswell, Tracy Bhamra

“…The HOT WATER theme is the first of these.We are happy for you to use, share and adapt these cards in any way that you see fit, as long as appropriate credit is given and that you provide us with some feedback on how you have used them!…”
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The Living Stream: Yeats Annual No. 18 (PDF) by Warwick Gould

“…Memories of the man are shared by Seamus Heaney, Christopher Rush and Colin Smythe, who compiles a bibliography of Jeffares’s work. …”
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An analysis of the sport policy process in the Republic of Korea: the cases of elite sport development and sport for all by Eunah Hong

“…A series of forty three semistructured interviews were undertaken. The first round of interview was conducted between 22nd June 2007 and 11th July 2007 followed by more extensive second round of interviews from 29th November 2007 to 15th June 2008 in Korea. …”
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Chronic overheating in low carbon urban developments in a temperate climate by Rob McLeod, Michael Swainson

“…The results suggest that the causes of chronic overheating in these modern low-energy flats are multiple, but typically share common factors stemming from poorly integrated architectural and MEP design decisions. …”
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Essays in Honour of Eamonn Cantwell: Yeats Annual No. 20 (PDF) by Warwick Gould

“…John Kelly reveals Yeats’s ghost-writing for Sarah Allgood; Geert Lernout discovers the source for Yeats’s ‘Tulka’, Günther Schmigalle unearths his surprising connexions with American communist colonists in Virginia, while Deirdre Toomey edits some new letters to the French anarchist, Auguste Hamon—all providing new annotation for standard editions. …”
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Wireless distributed learning: a new hybrid split and federated learning approach by Xiaolan Liu, Yansha Deng, Toktam Mahmoodi

“…To address this, distributed learning algorithms, including federated learning (FL) and split learning (SL), were proposed to train the ML models in a distributed manner via only sharing model parameters. FL requires higher computational resource on the UE side than SL, while SL has larger communication overhead when the local dataset is large. …”
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The interdisciplinary conceptual design of buildings by John Steele

“…This problem is compounded by the fact that iterative, or cyclic, design progression is often criticised, with the concept of 'going round in circles' being one that is discouraged. …”
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Following Darwin's footsteps using 'the most wonderful plants in the world': the ecophysiological responses of the carnivorous plant Drosera rotundifolia to nitrogen availability. by Joni L. Cook

“…In this research, the carnivorous plant Drosera rotundifolia (round-leaved sundew) was used to address several unanswered ecophysiological and evolutionary questions relating to patterns and processes of prey capture and the N nutrition of carnivorous plants. …”
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