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Beyond Brand Hate: Are You Willing to Forgive a Negative Experience with Your Smartphone Mobile Communications’ Brand?
This paper aims to assess the antecedents of brand forgiveness in smartphones and mobile communications sectors. A new conceptual model postulates that past negative experiences (PNE), symbolic incongruence an...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Environmental and Socio-economic Impact Assessment of the Switchgrass Production in Heavy Metals Contaminated Soils
The increased demand for biomass to produce bioenergy is arousing prices and land-use concurrence. These conflicts may be solved by producing dedicated crops for energy on surplus land that cannot be used for ...
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Anatomical and functional results of ILM peeling vs. non-peeling in macula-off rhegmatogenous retinal detachment
To compare anatomical and functional results between internal limiting membrane (ILM) peeling and non-ILM peeling in macula-off rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD).
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Production of Energy Crops in Heavy Metals Contaminated Land: Opportunities and Risks
An increasing global awareness that the supply and security of petroleum-based materials is diminishing, coupled with environmental concerns related to climate change, water availability, and soil degradation,...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Wastewaters Reuse for Energy Crops Cultivation
This study evaluated wastewaters reuse in the production of perennial crops Arundo donax and Miscanthus x giganteus. The trials were conducted in pots under controlled conditions, with different water regimes (95...
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Phytoremediation of Inorganic Compounds
Phytoremediation, the use of plants and their associated microbes for soil, water, and air decontamination, is a cost-effective, solar-driven, and alternative/complementary technology for physicochemical appro...
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Phytoremediation of Heavy Metal-Contaminated Soils Using the Perennial Energy Crops Miscanthus spp. and Arundo donax L.
Giant reed (Arundo donax) and Miscanthus spp. were tested to evaluate their tolerance and phytoremediation capacity in soils contaminated with heavy metals. Giant reed was tested under 450 and 900 mg Zn kg−1, 300...
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Perennial Grass Production Opportunities on Marginal Mediterranean Land
An increasing global awareness that the supply and security of petroleum-based materials is diminishing, coupled with environmental concerns related to climate change, water availability, and soil degradation,...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Improving Bilingual Search Performance Using Compact Full-Text Indices
Machine Translation tasks must tackle the ever-increasing sizes of parallel corpora, requiring space and time efficient solutions to support them. Several approaches were developed based on full-text indices, ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Compact and Fast Indexes for Translation Related Tasks
Translation tasks, including bilingual concordancing, demand an efficient space/time trade-off, which is not always easy to get due to the usage of huge text collections and the space consuming nature of time ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
One Table Fits All
Tabling is an implementation technique that overcomes some limitations of traditional Prolog systems in dealing with redundant sub-computations and recursion. The performance of tabled evaluation largely depen...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Term-Based Global Trie for Tabled Logic Programs
A critical component in the implementation of an efficient tabling system is the design of the data structures and algorithms to access and manipulate tabled data. Arguably, the most successful data structure ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Global Storing Mechanisms for Tabled Evaluation
Arguably, the most successful data structure for tabling is tries. However, while tries are very efficient for variant based tabled evaluation, they are limited in their ability to recognize and represent repe...
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Swan Observations of the Solar Wind Latitude Distribution and Its Evolution Since Launch
SWAN is the first space instrument dedicated to the monitoring of the latitude distribution of the solar wind by the Lyman alpha method. The distribution of interstellar H atoms in the solar system is determin...
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Swan Observations of the Solar Wind Latitude Distribution and its Evolution Since Launch
SWAN is the first space instrument dedicated to the monitoring of the latitude distribution of the solar wind by the Lyman alpha method. The distribution of interstellar H atoms in the solar system is determin...
