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QR Codes Advantages and Dangers
(SCITEPRESS – Science and Technology Publications, Lda., 2016)Quick Response (QR) codes are two dimensional (matrix) codes that have been developed in ways that allow companies and individuals to sell or market their products, skills, and events quickly and easily. The code can be ... -
Quadriceps Arthrogenic Muscle Inhibition: The Effects of Experimental Knee Joint Effusion on Motor Cortex Excitability
(BioMed Central, 2014)Introduction Marked weakness of the quadriceps muscles is typically observed following injury, surgery or pathology affecting the knee joint. This is partly due to ongoing neural inhibition that prevents the central nervous ... -
A qualitative analysis of Māori and Pacific smokers' views on informed choice and smoking
(BMJ Publishing Group Ltd., 2016)Objectives Tobacco companies frame smoking as an informed choice, a strategy that holds individuals responsible for harms they incur. Few studies have tested this argument, and even fewer have examined how informed indigenous ... -
Qualitative research on software development: a longitudinal case study methodology
(Springer, 2011)This paper reports the use of a qualitative methodology for conducting longitudinal case study research on software development. We provide a detailed description and explanation of appropriate methods of qualitative data ... -
Qualities of Design Briefs for Studio Learning
(Design Research Society (DRS), 2019)The design brief is considered a pivotal component in studio-based learning, yet there is a paucity of studies on the student brief genre in design education research. This work seeks to contribute by examining brief ... -
Quality and Consumer Acceptability of In-bag Dry- and Wet Aged Lamb
(DigICoMST, 2018)INTRODUCTION Dry-aged meat is a niche product favoured by meat purveyors for mostly local upscale restaurants and gourmet markets. The distinct flavour of dry-aged meat commands a higher price in the marketplace, yet very ... -
Quality and reporting of cluster randomised controlled trials evaluating occupational therapy interventions: A systematic review
(Slack, 2016)Background: Growing use of the cluster randomised control trials (RCTs) in healthcare research requires careful attention to study designs, with implications for the development of an evidence-base for practice. Objective: ... -
Quality of Stroke Guidelines in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review
(World Health Organization (WHO), 2021)Objective: To identify gaps in national stroke guidelines that could be bridged to enhance the quality of stroke care services in low- and middle-income countries. Methods: We systematically searched medical databases and ... -
Quantification of Carotenoids, α-tocopherol, and Ascorbic Acid in Amber, Mulligan, and Laird’s Large Cultivars of New Zealand Tamarillos (Solanum betaceum Cav.)
(MDPI AG, 2020)Amber (yellow), Laird’s Large (red) and Mulligan (purple–red) cultivars of New Zealand tamarillo fruit were separated into pulp (endo- and mesocarp) and peel (exocarp), and analyzed by liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry/mass ... -
Quantification of Movement-related EEG Correlates Associated With Motor Training: A Study on Movement-related Cortical Potentials and Sensorimotor Rhythms
(Frontiers Media, 2017)The ability to learn motor tasks is important in both healthy and pathological conditions. Measurement tools commonly used to quantify the neurophysiological changes associated with motor training such as transcranial ... -
Quantifying product variation in milk powder production using a Monte Carlo analysis
(Chemeca, 2013)Milk powder is typically fortified during processing by the addition of several ingredients. At the powder plant studied, one particular ingredient showed significant concentration variation in the final product, of which ... -
Quantifying TCP performance for IPv6 in Linux-based server operating systems
(CyberJournal, 2013)Implementing IPv6 in modern client/server operating systems (OS) will have drawbacks of lower throughput as a result of its larger address space. In this paper we quantify TCP performance for IPv6 on two open source systems ... -
Quantifying the performance degradation of IPv6 for TCP in Windows and Linux Networking
(IEEE, 2013)Implementing IPv6 in modern client/server operating systems (OS) will have drawbacks of lower throughput as a result of its larger address space. In this paper we quantify the performance degradation of IPv6 for TCP when ... -
Quantitative Analysis of Volatile Compounds of Four Chinese Traditional Liquors by SPME-GC-MS and Determination of Total Phenolic Contents and Antioxidant Activities
(De Gruyter, 2021)The aim of this work was to investigate the volatile compositions of four Chinese functional liquors. For this purpose, volatile compounds of four liquors were extracted with head-space solid-phase microextraction (HS-SPME) ... -
Quantitative Comparison of EEG Compressed Sensing using Gabor and K-SVD Dictionaries
(IEEE Circuits and Systems, Singapore Chapter, 2018)With the fast development of wearable healthcare systems, compressed sensing (CS) has been proposed to be applied in electroencephalogram (EEG) acquisition. For CS, it is desired to build the best-fit dictionary in order ... -
Quantitative Computational Experiment (QCE): An Alternative Post-Positivist Experimental Research Strategy of Inquiry for Design Studies
(Institute of Research and Journals (IRAJ), 2015)One of the most important aspects for development of valid results in academic research is selection of the appropriate research methodology. Contemporary research in design studies confronts the rapid expansion of emerging ... -
Quantum-inspired feature and parameter optimization of evolving spiking neural networks with a case study from ecological modelling
(IEEE, 2009)The paper introduces a framework and implementation of an integrated connectionist system, where the features and the parameters of an evolving spiking neural network are optimised together using a quantum representation ... -
Quantum-inspired particle swarm optimization for feature selection and parameter optimization in evolving spiking neural networks for classification tasks
(InTech, 2011)Introduction: Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) was introduced in 1995 by Russell Eberhart and James Kennedy (Eberhart & Kennedy, 1995). PSO is a biologically-inspired technique based around the study of collective behaviour ... -
Quasicontinuous selections of upper continuous set-valued mappings
(Michigan State University Press, 2006)In this paper, we extend a theorem of Matejdes on quasicontinuous selections of upper Baire continuous set-valued mappings from compact (or separable) metric range spaces to regular T1 range spaces. In addition, we also ... -
Quitting behaviour in good (and bad) work places
(Auckland University of Technology (AUT), 2011)This paper argues that the decision to quit is strongly influenced by employee perceptions of the quality of the work environment (QWE), and that ignoring QWE can lead to incorrect conclusions concerning the influence of ...