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The relationship between oil prices and rig counts: The importance of lags
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2017 , Article)
This study deals with a timely and relevant issue in the oil market in the wake of the recent drastic drop in oil prices, which is the relationship between changes in oil prices and changes in rig counts, while accounting ...
Cross-country analysis of alternative five factor personality trait profiles
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2019 , Article)
The aim of our study was to examine the typical personality profiles of the Alternative Five Factor Model with its new factor-facet version questionnaire (Zuckerman-Kuhlman-Aluja Personality Questionnaire, 2010) on a large, ...
Effect of annealing temperature on the performance of printable carbon electrodes for perovskite solar cells
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2019 , Article)
Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) with mesoporous TiO2 electron transport layers have reached >22% efficiency at laboratory scale (<1 cm2), however, these layers are fabricated using spin-coating, which is not conducive ...
Isolation, identification and biodiversity of antiscalant degrading seawater bacteria using MALDI-TOF-MS and multivariate analysis
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2019 , Article)
Seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) is a commonly used desalination technique owing to its lesser environmental and economic impacts as compared to thermal desalination techniques. Antiscalants are used in SWRO to reduce ...
Fabrication of high flux nanofiltration membrane via hydrogen bonding based co-deposition of polydopamine with poly(vinyl alcohol)
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2018 , Article)
The use of bio-inspired polydopamine (PDA) chemistry for membrane development has attracted increasing interest in recent years. This paper reports on the fabrication of new nanofiltration (NF) membrane with a robust and ...
The effects of graft size and insertion site location during anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction on intercondylar notch impingement
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2017 , Article)
Background Intercondylar notch impingement is detrimental to the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). Notchplasty is a preventative remodeling procedure performed on the intercondylar notch during ACL reconstruction (ACLR). ...
The Stroop test: A developmental study in a French children sample aged 7 to 12 yearsLe test de Stroop : une étude développementale auprès d’un échantillon d’enfants français âgés de 7 à 12 ans
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Elsevier Masson SAS
, 2018 , Article)
The Stroop test is a commonly used task in psychology to assess executive function and more specifically inhibition. International studies consistently show improved Stroop task performance with age, whereas available ...
Analysis of illegal pedestrian crossing behavior on a major divided arterial road
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2018 , Article)
Pedestrians’ illegal mid-block crossing increases the chances of a crash compared to crossing at marked or signalized crosswalks. Therefore, it is necessary to have an accurate understanding of this type of behavior to be ...
Synthesis and properties of HA/ZnO/CNT nanocomposite
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2018 , Article)
The goal of this study was to examine the tribomechanical properties of hydroxyapatite (HA)/ZnO and HA/ZnO/CNT composite ceramics (carbon nanotubes; with different ratios 0.5 wt%, 1.0 wt%, and 1.5 wt%). The composites were ...
Physical, microstructural and mechanical study of isochronal annealing of deformed commercial iron
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2016 , Article)
Isochronal annealing of deformed commercial iron samples (99.88 m.-% Fe) after cold deformation is studied by means of Vickers microhardness and physical techniques based on positron annihilation (positron annihilation ...