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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 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: ... -
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 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 ... -
Quote dynamics of dually-listed stocks
(The New Zealand Finance Colloquium, 2015)This study investigates the quote dynamics of stocks listed and traded in two international fullysynchronized markets. We develop a general model for quote dynamics of assets traded in dual markets to assess how quotes ... -
Race and Tax Policy: The Case of the Chinese Poll Tax
(The Journal of Australian Taxation (JAT), 2018)The Chinese poll tax was introduced in English-speaking countries, including Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States, during the nineteenth century. Though this tax was justified on social and economic grounds, ... -
Racial Inequities in Cardiovascular Disease in New Zealand
(Insight Medical Publishing Group, 2017)The literature is replete with studies pertaining to ethnic inequities in healthcare. A thorny subject that has been described for decades and yet has few remedial solutions. The pattern of ethnic inequities in healthcare ... -
Radical gestures: time’s matter for architecture
(Studies in Material Thinking Journal, 2011)Confronting the conservative in architecture is a timely and necessary agenda, a confrontation that aims to explore and expose the complex of forces that constitute the discipline, profession and teaching agencies of ...