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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Usage rate"”.
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The Effects of Occupational Ultrasonic Noise Exposure on Hearing in Dental Hygienists: A Pilot Study
… one of two groups according to ultrasonic scaler usage rate and matched on age. Persons with known hearing loss due to infection, disease, or congenital defect were excluded from the study. The final sample consisted of 20 dental hygienists with a high ultrasonic usage rate and a matched group of …
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Data analysis and simulation for warranties and golf handicaps
… discuss these problems in turn. For many moderately high value items with a substantial sales volume (such as automobiles), a warranty is used as an important element of marketing products as a better warranty typically signals higher product quality to customers. Much recent research on …
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Variation in Computerized Tomography Scan Utilization
… on investigate geographic variation on CT scan usage rate. This research is the first one to examine CT scan usage rate among counties and to examine variation caused by patient and hospital characteristics. We used the 2007 HCUP-SID database provided data for the research. GIS graph was used to …
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Some contributions to modeling usage sensitive warranty servicing strategies and their analyses
… costs of warranties via appropriately designed strategies to service them. many such strategies, that aim to reduce the total expected costs of the warrantor or / and are appealing in other ways such as being more pragmatic to implement - have been suggested in the literature. Design, analysis and …
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Experimental study of the thermal-hydraulic performance of a brazed aluminum heat exchanger under wet-surface conditions
… and water drainage behavior under various water usage rates and air face velocities are explored and compared to data from dry-surface conditions. The impact of spray orientation is also studied. The results are presented as plots against water usage rate or water spray rate per unit heat …
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The effects of opposed and unopposed practice environments on skill acquisition and transfer, with specific reference to non-dominant foot kicking: Examining changes in kicking kinematics, and outcome
… ANOVA and notation analysis variables (passing usage and success rates) were analysed using a 3-way mixed design ANOVA. Results: Changes in kicking kinematics were found most notably around the knee joint angle in the kicking, and follow through phases, however there was no interaction between …
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Factors influencing the adoption of mobile banking among generation Y in Malaysia
… mobile banking services, the acceptance, and usage rate of mobile banking in Malaysia is still low. This study was conducted to analyze the factors that influence consumers’ intention towards mobile banking in Malaysia. The respondents of the survey were generation Y with a sample size of 384, …
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Reviewing critical pedagogy's criticisms and providing a pragmatic heuristic
… of its use. A positive correlation about the rate of use of keywords with positive- and negative-connotations cross sectioned with unit grade level suggests that the usage rate of such keywords in critical curricula declines as curricula targets earlier grade levels. This positive …
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Comparative analysis of software reusability attributes in web and mobile applications
… mobile applications. It also aims to compare the usage rate of reusability components in these applications to decide their ability to reuse. Four attributes were selected due to their impacts on reusability namely flexibility, portability, variability and understandability. Five metrics were …
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Spatial and temporal analysis of pharmaceutical concentrations and chitobiase activity in the Upper Tennessee River
… has the 3rd highest per capita prescription drug usage rate in the United States, yet no published studies have analyzed Tennessee surface waters for the presence of pharmaceuticals. Composite surface samples were collected upstream and downstream of sewage treatment plants and at the inflow of …
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Evaluation of hybrid treatment configurations of granular activated carbon and alternative adsorbents for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances removal from surface water and groundwater
… configurations. Based on the media performance, usage rate, and cost, FS was the most cost-effective for brackish groundwater, followed by IX and GAC. However, FS’s cost savings diminished for stormwater and PFAS spiked tap water, where IX consistently performed better, and short-chain …
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Effects of simulated drift of glyphosate, imazethapyr, glufosinate, and imazamox to non-transgenic rice
… were applied at 6.3 and 12.5% of the labeled usage rate of 863 g ae/ha of glyphosate, 70 g ai/ha of imazethapyr, 493 g ai/ha of glufosinate, and 44 g ai/ha of imazamox. Herbicides were applied to rice at the 1-tiller, panicle differentiation (PD), boot, and physiological maturity growth …
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HUD-VASH Efficiency and Effectiveness: Homelessness and Veterans' Housing Policy
… identification of the Housing First policy strategy as the pre-eminent "cause" of and "cure" for the underutilization of vouchers became a point of contention, limiting growth. In the absence of systematic analysis by the VA of the efficiencies of HUD-VASH or its underwritten policies, a …
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Audit of peripheral neuromuscular stimulators at the hospitals staffed by the department of anaesthesia and perioperative medicine at the University of Cape Town
… resistance. The resultant current impulses generated using Train-of-Four (TOF) mode and Double Burst Stimulation modes (DBS) were recorded with a voltage scope meter and visually assessed that the TOF was present and appeared equal. PNS availability was assessed in theatre and recovery areas …
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Mixed Modes of Autonomy for Scalable Communication and Control of Multi-Robot Systems
… of the controller were the effective robot usage rate and the bandwidth usage. This dissertation evaluated several different approaches to solving dynamic multi-robot autonomous routing. The first three methods were based off of common MRS coordination approaches from previous research. …
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The Impact of Terminology in Persuasive Messaging: An Evaluation of the EQUIP Model, Vested Interest and Terminological Variations on Young Adult ENDS Prevention Efforts
… studies have reported significant year-over-year usage rate increases in adolescent and young adult populations. With this rise, new prevention and education campaigns have been launched on the national and state levels aimed at curbing the increase in use. These campaigns range from short videos …
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Factors in Ultrafiltration and Thermal Concentration of Whey Affecting Commercial Lactose Crystallization
… ·service. Treatment systems generally charge on usage rate and BOD loading, which would result in formidable costs to the manufacturer. Other methods of whey disposal such as lagooning, irrigation, and feeding to livestock have their pros and cons which will not be discussed in depth here (16). …
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Systems informatics and analysis for optimization of biomass feedstock provision
… biomass feedstock provision. BioScope model, a strategic planning model, was developed to optimize long-term decisions, such as facility numbers, locations, capacities, and biomass distribution patterns, for a three-stage biomass-biofuel production system. The model was implemented to evaluate …
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Effect of Belt Usage Reporting Errors on Injury Risk Estimates
… research effort investigating the effect of belt usage reporting errors of National Automotive Sampling System-Crash Data System (NASS-CDS) investigators on injury risk estimates. Current estimates of injury risk are developed under the assumption that NASS-CDS investigators are always accurate at …