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Data Analytics Production Line Optimization Model (DAPLOM) - A Systematic Framework for Process Optimizations
In this paper, we present a new framework for process optimizations, the Data Analytics Production Line Optimization Model (DAPLOM). Due to increasing efforts in the digitalization of production systems, an ex...
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Open AccessGlobal patterns of workplace productivity for people with depression: absenteeism and presenteeism costs across eight diverse countries
Depression is a leading cause of disability worldwide. Research suggests that by far, the greatest contributor to the overall economic impact of depression is loss in productivity; however, there is very littl...
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Open AccessThe performance of the Muon Veto of the Gerda experiment
Low background experiments need a suppression of cosmogenically induced events. The Gerda experiment located at Lngs is searching for the ...
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Open AccessThermal expansion of CuInSe2 in the 11–1,073 K range: an X-ray diffraction study
Structural and elastic properties of chalcopyrite-type CuInSe2 are determined in almost full stability range of temperature from 11 to 1,073 K, by in situ X-ray diffraction, employing a synchrotron-radiation sour...
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Open AccessThe Gerda experiment for the search of 0νββ decay in 76Ge
The Gerda collaboration is performing a search for neutrinoless double beta decay of 76Ge with the eponymous detector. The experiment has been installed and commissioned at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso...
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Differential effects of various African nightshade species on the fecundity and movement of Tetranychus evansi (Acari: Tetranychidae)
The tomato red spider mite Tetranychus evansi Baker & Pritchard is a serious pest of solanaceous plants worldwide. Management of this oligophagous pest in African nightshades has been a challenge to smallholder A...
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Host plant resistance among tomato accessions to the spider mite Tetranychus evansi in Kenya
The spider mite Tetranychus evansi has a broad range of host plants. Control of T. evansi has been a big challenge to tomato farmers due to its fast rate of reproduction, development of resistance to chemical pes...
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Reproductive performance of seven strains of the tomato red spider mite Tetranychus evansi (Acari: Tetranychidae) at five temperatures
The tomato red spider mite Tetranychus evansi Baker et Pritchard occurs on solanaceous plants, and causes serious damage to a variety of crops in Africa and Europe. In 2001 this species was also found in Japan, o...
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Side-effects of pesticides on the life cycle of the mite pathogenic fungus Neozygites floridana
The tomato red spider mite, Tetranychus evansi Baker and Pritchard, is an invasive species in Africa causing considerable damage to Solanaceous crops. The fungal pathogen Neozygites floridana Weiser and Muma from...
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Side-effects of pesticides on the life cycle of the mite pathogenic fungus Neozygites floridana
The tomato red spider mite, Tetranychus evansi Baker and Pritchard, is an invasive species in Africa causing considerable damage to Solanaceous crops. The fungal pathogen Neozygites floridana Weiser and Muma from...
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Status of the Germanium Detector Array (GERDA) in the search of neutrinoless ββ decays of 76Ge at LNGS
The Germanium Detector Array (GERDA) in the search for neutrinoless ββ decays of 76Ge at LNGS will operate bare germanium diodes enriched in 76Ge in an (optional active) cryogenic fluid shield to investigate neut...
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Evidence for association of DNA sequence variants in the phosphatidylinositol-4-phosphate 5-kinase IIα gene (PIP5K2A) with schizophrenia
Linkage studies in schizophrenia have identified a candidate region on chromosome 10p14–11 as reported for several independent samples. We investigated association of DNA sequence variants in a plausible candi...
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High-temperature behaviour of average structure and vibrational density of states in the ternary superionic compound AgCuSe
Results of simultaneous thermal analysis (STA), synchrotron powder diffraction (in the range 300–973 K) and inelastic neutron scattering (at 285 and 505 K) on non-superionic β- and superionic α-AgCuSe are r...
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Thermal expansion of gehlenite, Ca2Al[AlSiO7], and the related aluminates LnCaAl[Al2O7] with Ln = Tb, Sm
The thermal expansion of gehlenite, Ca2Al[AlSiO7], (up to T=830 K), TbCaAl[Al2O7] (up to T=1100 K) and SmCaAl[Al2O7] (up to T=1024 K) has been determined. All compounds are of the melilite structure type with spa...
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Thermal expansion of gehlenite, Ca2Al[AlSiO7], and the related aluminates LnCaAl[Al2O7] with Ln=Tb, Sm
The thermal expansion of gehlenite, Ca2Al[AlSiO7], (up to T=830 K), TbCaAl[Al2O7] (up to T=1,100 K) and SmCaAl[Al2O7] (up to T=1,024 K) has been determined. All compounds are of the melilite structure type with s...
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How to correctly determine the different chlorophyll fluorescence parameters and the chlorophyll fluorescence decrease ratio RFd of leaves with the PAM fluorometer
This contribution is a practical guide to the measurement of the different chlorophyll (Chl) fluorescence parameters and gives examples of their development under high-irradiance stress. From the Chl fluoresce...
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Structure, Thermal Expansion and Phase Transition in La0.92Sr0.08Ga0.92Ti0.08O3 Single Crystal
The structure of mixed La0.92Sr0.08Ga0.92Ti0.08O3 (LSGT-8) single crystal, obtained by Czochralsky method, have been investigated in a wide temperature range of 12-1203 K by means of in situ high resolution powde...
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Provision of services for people with schizophrenia in five European regions
Background: An increasing diversity of public, voluntary sector and private providers offer services for the mentally ill in the ongoing process of psychiatric reform. Good service description is...
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Lattice parameters and anisotropic thermal expansion of hexagonal boron nitride in the 10–297.5 K temperature range
Lattice parameters for hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) were determined using X-ray powder diffraction at a synchrotron-radiation source (beamline B2, Hasylab/DESY, Hamburg) in the previously uninvestigated temp...
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Risikostratifizierung in der Herzchirurgie bei Patienten im Alter von achtzig Jahren und älter
Outcome nach Herzoperationen hat zunehmend für Herzchirurgen und für die Öffentlichkeit an Bedeutung gewonnen. Qualitätsverbesserungen und Outcome können durch präoperative Risiken stratifiziert werden.¶ Di...
