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Sustainability is rarely implemented in employee work practices in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The authors note that SMEs should implement sustainability practices as integrated part of work activities to ensure long term success. This paper describes an empirical study of SMEs sustainability on employee real work practices. A relevant perspective is offered by the triple bottom lin

High-ductility ductile iron was alloyed with 0-1.8wt% Ni in this paper. The low-temperature impact toughness test and corrosion test of simulated seawater static whole-soaking were conducted to research the effect of nickel on the low-temperature impact toughness and corrosion resistance of high-ductility ductile iron. The results show that with nickel increasing, the impact toughness under low te

This paper aims to identify and review new and unproven emergency department (ED) methods for improved evaluation in cases of suspected acute coronary syndrome (ACS). Systematic news coverage through PubMed from 2000 to 2006 identified papers on new methods for ED assessment of patients with suspected ACS. Articles found described decision support models, new ECG methods, new biomarkers and point-

Does the n-issue space in domestic European polities reduce to one, two, or more dimensions? How do these dimensions relate to each other? More broadly, how does dimensionality vary across countries? We attempt to advance our understanding of political contestation in Europe by mapping the dimensionality of the political space across 24 countries using Chapel Hill expert survey (CHES) data. We tes

The classical goals of haemophilia A treatment are to prevent bleeds, minimise the risk of long-term complications associated with joint damage, and improve quality of life by maintaining appropriate factor VIII [FVIII] levels. The dose and frequency of FVIII replacement therapies required to reduce bleeds is now known to vary amongst individuals, and may change for the same individual over time,

Purpose To describe and comment on the treatment of the slipped capital femoral epiphysis (SCFE) with pinning and to present the pros and cons of prophylactic pinning of the contralateral hip. Summary Pinning the SCFE aims to fix the epiphysis and prevent further slipping. Some devices allow for further growth and remodeling of the femoral neck post-operatively. This results in maintained femoral

Background: C-X-C motif chemokine ligand 8 (CXCL8) is a multi-functional chemokine and has important roles during tumor formation and development. It was previously reported that increased CXCL8 protein levels occurred in certain patients. Materials and Methods: In the present study, we examined levels of CXCL8 mRNA in breast cancer tissues and analyzed its levels in correlation to patients' clini

While systematic literature reviews (SLRs) have contributed substantially to developing knowledge in fields such as medicine, they have made limited contributions to developing knowledge in the supply chain management domain. This is due to the ontological and epistemological idiosyncrasies of research in supply chain management, which need to be accounted for when retrieving, selecting, and synth

The results of a search for gluinos in final states with an isolated electron or muon, multiple jets and large missing transverse momentum using proton–proton collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of s=13TeV are presented. The dataset used was recorded in 2015 by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 3.2 fb- 1. Six signal selections ar

The solvent shift to the fluorescence transition pi* -> n in formaldehyde in aqueous Solution is theoretically analyzed. The solvent model has explicit representation of the solvent and uses the complete active space state interaction (CASSI) method to obtain a description of the wave function of the solute similar to what the complete active space self-consistent-field (CASSCF) method would give.

This paper aims to identify and review new and unproven emergency department (ED) methods for improved evaluation in cases of suspected acute coronary syndrome (ACS). Systematic news coverage through PubMed from 2000 to 2006 identified papers on new methods for ED assessment of patients with suspected ACS. Articles found described decision support models, new ECG methods, new biomarkers and point-

There is ample evidence for intra-patient evolution of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) biological phenotype during the pathogenic process. Evolution often involves switch of coreceptor use from CCR5 to CXCR4, but change to more flexible use of CCR5 occurs over time even in patients with maintained CCR5 use. The increasing use of entry inhibitors in the clinic, often specific for on

The aim of this study was to investigate whether the compression force used with conventional mammography can be reduced with breast tomosynthesis (BT), without adversely affecting the visualisation of normal and pathological structures. Forty-five women were examined with BT using full (same as for 2D mammography) and half compression force. Both examinations were performed with the same acquisit

Studiens syfte är att ge en bild av hur lärare i elgitarr väljer undervisningsmaterial och hur de använder dem. Studien fokuserar på vad som påverkar läraren i valet av läromedel, samt om det finns en skillnad mellan lärarens och elevens uppfattning om läromedel och hur de fungerar i undervisningen. Studien består av sex intervjuer, varav tre med lärare och tre med elever. Lärarna och eleverna somThe purpose of this study is to provide an in depth understanding of how electric guitar teachers select their teaching materials and how they use it. The study focuses on the factors that influence teachers in the choice of teaching materials, and if there is a difference between the teachers’ and the students’ perception of teaching materials and how they work in education. The study consists of

Ämnesområdet riskhantering utvecklas ständigt i takt med att samhället blir alltmer komplext, vilket innebär att risker och sårbarheter är svåra att förutspå. Enligt svensk lagstiftning ska kommunerna analysera vilka potentiella extraordinära händelser som finns i kommunen, där risk- och sårbarhetsanalyser är en central beståndsdel i arbetet. Enligt Lagen om kommuners och landstings åtgärder inför

Vi har försökt hjälpa vidareutvecklingen av självkörande bilar med hjälp av att identifiera och klassificera parkeringsplatser i flygbilder. Problemet har visat sig vara svårt, och kanske inte kan lösas helt med hjälp av endast maskininlärningstekniker. Det finns dock tecken på att lösningen går mot rätt riktning, då vi kan se att systemet hittar de flesta av parkeringsplatserna som finns i exemplIn this thesis, the viability of using Convolutional Neural Networks to detect parking spaces using aerial imagery has been evaluated. Three state of the art networks have been tested - YOLOv3, RetinaNet, and Mask R-CNN. A dataset of urban parking lots and corresponding annotations was generated from scratch using a custom built GUI to annotate automatically generated images of parking lots from O