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What are the social impacts of a new, less efficient public transport system in a city that is known for its inequality concerning access to daily activities and participation in urban life? More precisely, what are the implications of a re-regulated trans ...

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Evidence for a role of oxytocin receptors in the long-term establishment of dominance hierarchies

Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez, Maria Isabel Cordero Campana, Marjan Timmer

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This doctoral thesis is based on the observation that the individualization of society that is taking place today has led to new differentiations within the domains of lifestyle and residential choice. Our main hypothesis was that lifestyle influences resi ...

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Status Report of the EDIPO Project

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The aim of this paper is to present an up to date review of the status of the European DIPOle (EDIPO) project whose objective is to build a new facility to perform both DC and AC tests of large superconductor samples in high magnetic background field (up t ...

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Multichannel Sequence Analysis Applied To Social Science Data

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Applications of optimal matching analysis in the social sciences are typically based on sequences of specific social statuses that model the residential, family, or occupational trajectories of individuals. Despite the broadly recognized interdependence of ...

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Vulnerability in high-functioning persons aged 65 to 70 years: the importance of the fear factor

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Background and aims: Falls efficacy has been shown to predict functional decline, but whether it is independently associated with frailty is still unclear. This study investigated the cross-sectional association between falls efficacy and the frailty pheno ...

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Status of the EU 170 GHz/2 MW/CW Coaxial Cavity Gyrotron for ITER: The Dummy Gun Experiment

Stefano Alberti, Minh Quang Tran, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Ioannis Pagonakis

A mock-up gun has been manufactured as exact replica of the refurbishment first prototype EU 170 GHz/2MW/CW coaxial cavity gyrotron, but without emitter ring in order to validate the voltage standoff stability. The experimental results of the mock-up gun t ...

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Stress amplifies memory for social hierarchy

Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez, Maria Isabel Cordero Campana

Individuals differ in their social status and societies in the extent of social status differences among their members. There is great interest in understanding the key factors that contribute to the establishment of social dominance structures. Given that ...

Frontiers Research Foundation2007

Gait analysis and WOMAC are complementary in assessing functional outcome in total hip replacement

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Objective: To investigate the correlation between objective and subjective evaluation of patients with total hip replacement. Design: Prospective preliminary trial comparing the Western Ontario and McMaster University questionnaire ( WOMAC) and gait analys ...

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