Small-scale anaerobic digestion: a case study by Dipti Yadav, Deep Bora, Rishiraj Purkayastha, Manjula Ghatak, Lepakshi Barbora, Pinakeswar Mahanta, Tanja Radu, Richard Blanchard, Andrew D. Wheatley

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Dyna-DM: Dynamic object-aware self-supervised monocular depth maps by Kieran Saunders, George Vogiatzis, Luis J Manso

“…This paper shows that state-of-the-art performance can also be achieved by improving the learning process rather than increasing model complexity. More specifically, we propose (i) disregarding small potentially dynamic objects when training, and (ii) employing an appearance-based approach to separately estimate object pose for truly dynamic objects. …”
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MAOA-LPR polymorphism and math anxiety: A marker of genetic susceptibility to social influences in girls? by Maria Raquel Santos Carvalho, André Henrique Barbosa de Carvalho, Giulia Moreira Paiva, Carolina de Castro Andrade Jorge, Fernanda Caroline dos Santos, Gabriella Koltermann, Jerusa Fumagalli de Salles, Korbinian Moeller, Guilherme Maia de Oliveira Wood, Vitor Geraldi Haase

“…The best fitting model included school, math achievement, sex, MAOA-LPR, and the MAOA-LPR by sex interaction. This indicated that under the MAOA-H dominant model, anxiety toward mathematics interacted with the MAOA genotype: girls with an MAOA-L genotype exhibited higher levels of MA, with a small but significant effect. …”
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Can shoulder range of movement be measured accurately using the Microsoft Kinect sensor plus Medical Interactive Recovery Assistant software? by James D. Wilson, Jennifer Khan-Perez, Dominic Marley, Susan Buttress, Michael Walton, Baihua Li, Bibhas Roy

“…Ordinarily used with an Xbox (Microsoft Corp.) video game console, Medical Interactive Recovery Assistant (MIRA) software (MIRA Rehab Ltd., London, UK) allows this small sensor to measure shoulder movement with a standard computer. …”
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The timing of adrenarche in Maya girls, Merida, Mexico by Sarai Keestra, Gillian Bentley, Alexandra Núñez-de la Mora, Lauren Houghton, Hannah Wilson, Adriana Vázquez-Vázquez, Gillian Cooper, Federico Dickinson, Paula Griffiths, Barry Bogin, Ines Varela-Silva

“…While no measures of body composition were significantly associated with adrenarcheal status, girls eating meat and dairy products more frequently had significantly higher DHEA‐S levels.DiscussionLike other populations living in ecologically challenging environments, adrenarche occurred relatively late among Maya girls. …”
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Registered replication report on Fischer, Castel, Dodd, and Pratt (2003) by Lincoln J Colling, Dénes Szűcs, Damiano De Marco, Krzysztof Cipora, Rolf Ulrich, Hans-Christoph Nuerk, Mojtaba Soltanlou, Donna Bryce, Sau-Chin Chen, Philipp Alexander Schroeder, Dion T Henare, Christine K Chrystall, Paul M Corballis, Daniel Ansari, Celia Goffin, H Moriah Sokolowski, Peter JB Hancock, Ailsa E Millen, Stephen RH Langton, Kevin J Holmes, Mark S Saviano, Tia A Tummino, Oliver Lindemann, Rolf A Zwaan, Jiří Lukavský, Adéla Becková, Marek A Vranka, Simone Cutini, Irene Cristina Mammarella, Claudio Mulatti, Raoul Bell, Axel Buchner, Laura Mieth, Jan Philipp Röer, Elise Klein, Stefan Huber, Korbinian Moeller, Brenda Ocampo, Juan Lupiáñez, Javier Ortiz-Tudela, Juanma de la Fuente, Julio Santiago, Marc Ouellet, Edward M Hubbard, Elizabeth Y Toomarian, Remo Job, Barbara Treccani, Blakeley B McShane

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TOI-2076 and TOI-1807: Two young, comoving planetary systems within 50 pc identified by TESS that are ideal candidates for further follow up by Christina Hedges, Alex Hughes, George Zhou, Trevor J. David, Juliette Becker, Steven Giacalone, Andrew Vanderburg, Joseph E. Rodriguez, Allyson Bieryla, Christopher Wirth, Shaun Atherton, Tara Fetherolf, Karen A. Collins, Adrian M. Price-Whelan, Megan Bedell, Samuel N. Quinn, Tianjun Gan, George R. Ricker, David W. Latham, Roland K. Vanderspek, Sara Seager, Joshua N. Winn, Jon M. Jenkins, John F. Kielkopf, Richard P. Schwarz, Courtney D. Dressing, Erica J. Gonzales, Ian J. M. Crossfield, Elisabeth C. Matthews, Eric L. N. Jensen, Elise Furlan, Crystal L. Gnilka, Steve B. Howell, Kathryn V. Lester, Nicholas J. Scott, Dax L. Feliz, Michael B. Lund, Robert J. Siverd, Daniel J. Stevens, N Narita, A Fukui, F Murgas, Enric Palle, Phil J. Sutton, Keivan G. Stassun, Luke G. Bouma, Michael Vezie, Jesus Noel Villaseñor, Elisa V. Quintana, Jeffrey C. Smith

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Rigorous large-scale educational RCTs are often uninformative: Should we be concerned? by Hugues Lortie-Forgues, Matthew Inglis

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The provision of Arab Gulf aid: The emergence of new donors by Assem Dandashly, Christos Kourtelis

“…This study explores the motives of small Arab donors for the provision of aid. The existing literature of financial assistance separates donors into two main categories, namely large donors, who are geopolitically motivated, and small donors, who allocate aid according to recipients’ needs. …”
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Carbon fixation, flux and burial efficiency in two contrasting eutrophic lakes in the UK (Rostherne Mere & Tatton Mere) by Daniel R. Scott

“…If up-scaled to the Cheshire-Shropshire meres region, annual C-accumulation was estimated to be 506 ± 32 t C yr-1 or 0.05 ± 0.001 Mt C since 1900. …”
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Boundary conditions for the virtual testing of athletic footwear by Gillian E. Mara

“…Initial results found virtual and reality were visually similar and small differences in the quantifiable parameters could be accounted for. …”
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The SNARC and MARC effects measured online: Large-scale assessment methods in flexible cognitive effects by Krzysztof Cipora, Mojtaba Soltanlou, UD Reips, Hans-Christoph Nuerk

“…The Spatial–Numerical Association of Response Codes (SNARC) effect (i.e., faster reactions to small/large numbers on the left-/right-hand side) is usually observed along with the linguistic Markedness of Response Codes (MARC) effect—that is, faster left-/right-hand responses to odd/even numbers. …”
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Systematic review of miRNA as biomarkers in Alzheimer’s disease by Samantha Swarbrick, Nick Wragg, Sourav Ghosh, Alexandra Stolzing

“…This resulted in a panel of 10 miRNAs (hsa-mir-107, hsa-mir-26b, hsa-mir-30e, hsa-mir-34a, hsa-mir-485, hsa-mir200c, hsa-mir-210, hsa-mir-146a, hsa-mir-34c, and hsa-mir-125b) hypothesised to be deregulated early in Alzheimer’s disease, nearly 20 years before the onset of clinical symptoms. …”
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True colors SNARCing: Semantic number processing is highly automatic by Lilly Roth, John Caffier, Ulf-Ditrich Reips, Krzysztof Cipora, Lydia Braun, Hans-Christoph Nuerk

“…Further, we found little evidence for the MARC (Linguistic Markedness of Response Codes, i.e., faster left-/right-sided responses to odd/even numbers, respectively; Nuerk et al., 2004) effect. …”
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Not only humans eat meat: companions, sentience, and vegan politics by Josh Milburn

“…Instead, this paper considers, but rejects, a rights-based “size matters” argument – the suggestion that it is better to kill a small number of large creatures than a large number of small creatures – as a solution. …”
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The impacts of changing nutrient load and climate on a deep, eutrophic, monomictic lake by Alan D. Radbourne, J. Alex Elliott, Stephen C. Maberly, David Ryves, Nicholas John Anderson

“…However, although the external phosphorus load had a relatively small influence on annual mean phosphorus concentration, it had a statistically significant effect on chlorophyll a concentration, because it supported algal production during summer stratification. 5.Climate had minimal direct impact, but a substantial indirect impact by altering the timing, depth and length of lake stratification (~14 days longer by 2100), and therefore altered nutrient cycling and phosphorus availability. 6.In summary, the recovery trajectory at Rostherne Mere is limited by the annual internal SRP load replenishment that realistically is unlikely to change greatly on a shorter time-scale. …”
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Alzheimer’s disease and (phyto)estrogen treatment: modification of effects by age, type of treatment and duration of use by MJ Kuck, Ahmet Begde, Katie Hawkins, Eef Hogervorst

“…Meta-analyses suggested a small increased AD risk after 5-10 years prescription of combination MHT regardless of age, and over 10 years only in women younger than 60 years of age. …”
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Individually modifiable risk factors to ameliorate cognitive aging: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Philippe Lehert, Paulina Villaseca, Eef Hogervorst, Pauline M. Maki, Victor W. Henderson

“…Effect sizes were no more than small (standardized mean differences 0.11–0.22). …”
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Motivational climate interventions in physical education: a meta-analysis by Rock Braithwaite, Christopher Spray, Victoria E. Warburton

“…Results: There was an overall small positive treatment effect (g ¼ 0.103) for groups exposed to mastery motivational climates. …”
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Birational geometry and positivity of blow-ups of products of projective spaces by Tim Grange

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The effectiveness of interventions to increase physical activity among adolescent girls: A meta-analysis by Natalie Pearson, Rock Braithwaite, Stuart J.H. Biddle

“…Data Extraction and Synthesis Forty-five studies (k = 34 independent samples) were eligible from an initial 13,747 references. A random-effects meta-analysis was conducted. Results The average treatment effect for adolescent girls involved in physical activity interventions was significant but small (g = 0.350, 95% confidence interval 0.12, 0.58, P < .001). …”
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Structural resistance of reinforced concrete buildings in areas of moderate seismicity and assessment of strategies for structural improvement by David Dominguez-Santos, Pablo Ballesteros-Perez, Daniel Mora-Melia

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Sport, policy and politics in Lebanon by Nadim Nassif, Mahfoud Amara

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Outstanding properties of epitaxial graphene grown from silicon carbide substrate by Amira Ben-Gouider-Trabelsi

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Independent study workbooks for proofs in group theory by Lara Alcock, Gavin Brown, Clare Dunning

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The emergence of quantum capacitance in epitaxial graphene by Amira Ben Gouider Trabelsi, Feodor Kusmartsev, Derek Michael Forrester, Olga Kusmartseva, Marat Gaifullin, Patricia Cropper, M. Oueslati

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Cadmium Selenide (CdSe) as an active absorber layer for solar cells with Voc approaching 750 mV by Ebin Bastola, Adam B Phillips, Abasi Abudulium, Vlad Kornienko, Zulkifl Hussain, Manoj K Jamarkattel, Tamanna Mariam, Prabodika N Kalurachchi, Jared Friedl, Dipendra Pokhrel, Kara B Kile, Zhaoning Song, Yanfa Yan, Michael Walls, Randy J Ellingson, Michael J Heben

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Homo naledi, a new species of the genus Homo from the Dinaledi Chamber, South Africa by Lee R. Berger, John Hawks, Darryl J. de Ruiter, Steven E. Churchill, Peter Schmid, Lucas K. Delezene, Tracy L. Kivell, Heather M. Garvin, Scott A. Williams, Jeremy M. DeSilva, Matthew M. Skinner, Charles M. Musiba, Noel Cameron, Trenton W. Holliday, William Harcourt-Smith, Rebecca R. Ackermann, Markus Bastir, Barry Bogin, Debra Bolter, Juliet Brophy, Zachary D. Cofran, Kimberly A. Congdon, Andrew S. Deane, Mana Dembo, Michelle Drapeau, Marina C. Elliott, Elen M. Feuerriegel, Daniel Garcia-Martinez, David J. Green, Alia Gurtov, Joel D. Irish, Ashley Kruger, Myra F. Laird, Damiano Marchi, Marc R. Meyer, Shahed Nalla, Enquye W. Negash, Caley M. Orr, Davorka Radovcic, Lauren Schroeder, Jill E. Scott, Zachary Throckmorton, Matthew W. Tocheri, Caroline VanSickle, Christopher S. Walker, Pianpian Wei, Bernhard Zipfel

“…This species is characterized by body mass and stature similar to small-bodied human populations but a small endocranial volume similar to australopiths. …”
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Sol-air water treatment [Discussion paper] by Robert H. Reed

“…While the antimicrobial properties of solar radiation have been known for centuries, the recent work of Acra and his colleagues has shown that natural sunlight may be used to decontaminate water in countries with a consistently sunny climate (Acra et al., 1984). …”
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Effects of long-pimples rubber for a table tennis racket on ball rebound behavior by Katsumasa Tanaka, Hayato Hozumi

“…In this study, the commercial FE code ANSYS LS-DYNA (ver. 971, ANSYS Inc.) was used for the impact simulations. …”
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Optimal energy management strategy for a fuel cell hybrid electric vehicle by Thomas P. Fletcher

“…The Microcab H4 is a small campus based vehicle designed for passenger transport and mail delivery at low speeds as seen on a university campus. …”
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The Achilles heel of a strong private knowledge sector: evidence from Israel by Tzameret H. Rubin, Dan Peled, Benjamin Bental

“…In this study, we look at the role of Israeli research universities in the National R&D System, why Israel is unique in its R&D structure, and how that structure is related to the universities' roles. …”
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Knowledge flow in technological business incubators: Evidence from Australia and Israel by Tzameret H. Rubin, Tor Helge Aas, Andrew Stead

“…The literature suggests that small new ventures tend to fail because they lack managerial experience and ability to raise capital in an early stage. …”
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Detection and location of sub-cranial haematomas using mutlifrequency electrical impedance tomograpgy by Toby Williams

“…It is a non-invasive, non-radiating and non-ionising technology that involves the injection of small alternating currents (\(\leq\)10 mA for medical applications) onto the surface of a body using electrocardiogram (ECG) type electrodes and measuring the resulting potentials around the surface. …”
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Modelling the skin's microvascular function under localised applications of heat and pressure at the posterior heel by Alex Robertson, Alex Lloyd, Jo Barnes, Michael Fray

“…A laser doppler flowmetry probe, embedded into the skin deformation device, was used to measure baseline skin blood flow, loaded skin blood flow (LSBF), and reactive hyperaemia (RH; quantified as aera under curve) on pressure release. Skin Blood Flow measures are all expressed as cutaneous vascular conductance (CVC = Flux/MAP). …”
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Manufacturing and the Great War by Wayne D. Osborne

“…It was able to cope with a small, short war on the continent as part of a larger coalition but not the global crisis that came about. …”
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Piezochromism in nickel salicylaldoximato complexes: tuning crystal-field splitting with high pressure by Peter J. Byrne, Patricia J. Richardson, John Chang, Anna Kusmartseva, David R. Allan, Anita C. Jones, Konstantin V. Kamenev, Peter A. Tasker, Simon Parsons

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Transnational dissent: feeling, thinking, judging and the sociality of Palestinian solidarity activism by Brian Callan

“…This is a highly diverse transnational field where Palestinians, Israelis and Internationalists come together at specific times and places to practice various forms of dissent, largely but not exclusively against the socio-political conditions of the Palestinians vis-à-vis Israeli State policy. …”
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Intensive exercise does not preferentially mobilize skin-homing T cells and NK cells by James E. Turner, Alex Wadley, Sarah Aldred, James P. Fisher, Jos A. Bosch, John P. Campbell

“…CLA+ and CLA− cells were quantified within NK subpopulations (CD56bright “regulatory” and CD56dim “cytotoxic” cells) as well as the following CD8+ T cell subpopulations: naive (“NA”; CD45RA+ CCR7+), central memory (“CM”; CD45RA− CCR7+), effector-memory (“EM”; CD45RA− CCR7−), and CD45RA-expressing effector-memory cells (“EMRA”; CD45RA+ CCR7−). …”
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Block copolymers of poly(ethylene oxide) and poly(methyl methacrylate) by K. Redford

“…Radii of gyration for the micellar cores have been shown to vary very little with variations in copolymer composition, concentration and temperature up to the cloud point. …”
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The sub-prime crisis, the credit squeeze, Northern Rock and beyond: the lessons to be learnt by Maximilian J.B. Hall

“…Accordingly, this paper represents an update, covering developments until end-January 2009, of my earlier paper on the Northern Rock affair (Working Paper No. …”
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The sub-prime crisis, the credit squeeze, Northern Rock and beyond: the lessons to be learnt by Maximilian J.B. Hall

“…Accordingly, this paper represents an update, covering developments until end-January 2009, of my earlier paper on the Northern Rock affair (Working Paper No. …”
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