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Characterization of Ped Surfaces in Contrast to Ped Interiors From B Horizons of Some Major Great Soil Groups in Illinois
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From positive energy district to territorial acupuncture. a multidisciplinary analysis between inland and metropolitan area in mediterrean climate: the sicilian case study
… a Energia Positiva (Positive Energy Districts - PED), emergono come una risposta integrata, finalizzata non solo a migliorare l'efficienza energetica, ma anche a rafforzare la resilienza di città e territori. Un PED è una porzione di area urbana dai confini definiti, capace di produrre energia …
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Understanding the influence of physical environment design on emotional well-being and its effect on consumers’ perception towards brand performance: A study in the context of a retail setting in the United Kingdom
Physical environment design (PED) in the context of emotional well-being in retail stores has been widely ignored in the retailing literature so far. Moreover, from a marketing viewpoint, PED not only fulfils the purpose of creating consumer perceptions, but also reflects the success story of a …
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Peircean Epistemic Democracy: Truth, Pluralism, and Religion
… Peircean Epistemic Defense of Democracy (PED) is the most promising because it is widely inclusive of personal reasons, uses pluralism to further the epistemic goals of democracy, and offers a robust defense of democratic procedures, norms, and institutions. The PED argues that beliefs aim …
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Ethics in the Pediatric Emergency Department: Reviews and Reflections
The pediatric emergency department (PED) provides a unique environment to consider ethical issues faced in modern healthcare. Using a combination of personal reflections and a review of current literature, ethics within the PED is explored as it pertains to four categories: informed consent, health …
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The Impact of Family Satisfaction, Racial Identity and Perceived Ethnic Discrimination on African-American College Students' Vulnerability to Stereotype Threat
… Perceived Ethnic Discrimination Questionnaire (PEDQ) and the Stereotype Confirmation Concern Scale (SCCS) to explore the relationships between the four variables. A structural equation model was developed to examine the theoretical model to the empirical model developed from collected data. Four …
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Photoemission and photoelectron diffraction studies of semiconductor surfaces
… techniques, such as photoelectron diffraction (PED), photoemission extended fine structure (PEFS), and photoelectron holography (PEH), rely upon the measurement of the interference due to the photoelectron wave scattering from nearby atoms. The intensity oscillations in the data are analyzed by …
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Polyethylene devices and the effects of sediment resuspension on the cycling of PAHs and PCBs in the lower Hudson Estuary
… passive, in situ sampler, a polyethylene device (PED), for measuring HOCs in the aquatic environment was developed; 2) the desorption rate of pyrene, a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH), from native Hudson River sediments was measured, and 3) pyrene and 2,2',5,5'-tetrachlorobiphenyl (PCB #52), …
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Bioinformatics Investigation on the Role of Obox Gene Family in Preimplantation Embryo Development
<p>Preimplantation embryo development (PED) refers to the period from fertilization to implantation in mammals. This complex process is critical for successful implantation and pregnancy. Although studies on PED have been conducted, using mainly the mouse as a model organism, the gene regulatory …
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Silicon molecular beam epitaxy
… and crystallographic qualities of the undoped and doped Sl-MBE materials were assessed using preferential defect etching, four-point probe and Hall measurements, electrochemical CV profiling. Auger electron surface analysis, transmission electron microscopy (TEM), secondary ion mass …
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Water quality studies in Kranji Catchment, Singapore : use of organic tracer and PEDs for identifying potential sewage sources
… streams elsewhere in Asia. Polyethylene devices (PEDs) were used as passive samplers to measure NPEOs in stormwater drains in Kranji catchment. Fieldwork was conducted in the month of January 2010. PEDs were deployed in different land use areas in order to obtain an overview of concentration …
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An Assessment of Community-Scale Electrodialysis Desalination Systems and Improved Scale Mitigation through Pulsed Operation
… the performance of pulsed eletrodialysis (PED) heavily relies on the appropriate selection of pulsing parameters. The effects of these parameters on desalination rate and energy consumption were first investigated in the absence of scale precipitating components. The theoretical and …
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The bilingual advantage in switching: Are two better than one?
… addition, the roles of parental education level (PED) and language proficiency were examined. The results of this model did not indicate the existence of a bilingual advantage, and there were no significant correlations between reaction time and accuracy at the person level or at the trial level. …
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Enhancing Screening for Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders in Critical and Emergency Care: A Multidimensional Approach Leveraging Machine Learning and System Dynamics
… support for caregivers in both NICU and pediatric emergency department (PED) settings. Despite these initiatives, screening rates remain suboptimal, highlighting the need for a system-level understanding of the barriers and opportunities within the current process. This dissertation …
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Innate immune evasion and interferon antagonism by porcine epidemic diarrhea virus
Porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) is a highly contagious and acute enteric disease of swine featured by vomiting, watery diarrhea, and severe dehydration causing high mortality in piglets. In the U.S., PED emerged for the first time in 2013 and severely affected most pig-producing states. The …
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Novel Protein-protein Interactions Regulate The Proteolytic Activity Of The Pro- Apoptotic Serine Protease, Omi/htra2
… more known substrates of Omi, the HAX-1 and the ped/pea-15 proteins. HS1-associated protein X-1 (HAX-1) is a mitochondrial protein, degraded by Omi after induction of caspase-dependent apoptosis. Ped/pea-15 is also an anti-apoptotic protein and is cleaved by Omi after induction of …
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Gammabestrahlung führt zur CD95-abhängiger Invasivität in apoptoseresistenten Glioblastomzellen
… enriched in astrocytes-15-kDalton“ (PED/PEA-15) wurde als möglicher Kandidat untersucht. Jedoch konnte nach dem Ausschalten der PED/PEA-15-Expression keine Veränderung in der Inhibierung von GSK3 detektiert werden. Vor diesem Hintergrund sollten die postoperativen Therapieformen sehr …
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Comparison and Investigation of Solar Spectral Irradiance with Solar Aspect Monitor
… A single-scattering Rayleigh model is developed to eliminate the scattered brightness below 90 km and an inversion technique is applied on limb-scanned radiance profiles at 236.5 nm, NO (0,1) gamma band. The ISS orbit allows observations from 7:00 to 16:00 local hours over a one-month period …
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Immune response to and pathogenesis of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus
<p>Porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) virus causes effusive diarrhea in pigs of all ages and high mortality among pre-weaning pigs. The PED virus (PEDV) is one of several important swine pathogens, which causes significant economic losses to the swine industry. The first outbreak of PED in the United …
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A inserção do idoso no mercado de trabalho da Região Metropolitana de Salvador.
… Desemprego da Região Metropolitana de Salvador – PED/RMS. Observou-se que a inatividade é alta e o desemprego é muito baixo entre os idosos. As diferenças entre homens e mulheres são mais marcantes entre os idosos que entre os adultos e jovens. Os homens são mais ativos e ganham mais que as …
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