Performance-based research funding systems (PBRFS) have been introduced in many countries for allocating to institutions. There continues be considerable debate about the effectiveness and consequences of these systems. This paper suggests several methods that can applied evaluate how institutions respond new incentives created by introduction a PBRFS. The are illustrated using longitudinal dat...

The present study investigated the effects of biofeedback of arterial blood pressure on cortical, peripheral, and psychological measures and the dependence of these effects on nicotine. Four groups of subjects, nonsmokers, and habitual smokers who smoked cigarettes during the experimental sessions containing 0.3, 0.8, or 1.5 mg nicotine, respectively, participated in a feedback paradigm in whic...

This paper presents a novel magnitude-selective affine (MSA) based digital predistortion (DPD) method for the performance investigation of multiband 5G new radio (NR) analog over fiber link. The proposed MSA-DPD is derived from canonical piecewise linear (CPWL) model by employing MSA functions, which can result in reduction number multiplication operations and complexity. NR standard at 20 GHz ...

This paper investigated the structure of market, efficiency and performance (profitability) general insurance industry in Ghanaian economy. The overriding objective was to evaluate impact that regulatory informed market would have on pricing behaviour; examining hypothesis Structure Conduct Performance (SCP) for market. Using data comprising a panel 29 firms from 2008–2019, used Herfindahl Hirs...

INTRODUCTION Factor (F) XI supports both normal human hemostasis and pathological thrombosis. Activated FXI (FXIa) promotes thrombin generation by enzymatic activation of FXI, FIX, FX, and FV, and inactivation of alpha tissue factor pathway inhibitor (TFPIα), in vitro. Some of these reactions are now known to be enhanced by short-chain polyphosphates (SCP) derived from activated platelets. Thes...

This Article focuses on the Situational Crime Prevention (SCP) approach in criminology, which expands the crime reduction role well beyond the justice system. SCP sees criminal law in a more restrictive sense, as only part of the anticrime effort in governance. We examine the " general " and " specific " responses to crime problems in the SCP approach. Our review demonstrates that the most seri...

Cerebellar manipulations have been used successfully in some intractable epileptic patients, however, their intrinsic mechanisms are not fully understood. To further clarify the cerebellar participation in epilepsy, we stimulated 10 rats with 100 Hz, 20 microA at the superior cerebellar peduncle (SCP) during amygdaloid kindling. Results were compared to 10 rats with an electrode placed at the S...

The layered δ-MnO2 (dMO) is an excellent cathode material for rechargeable aqueous zinc-ion batteries owing to its large interlayer distance (~0.7 nm), high capacity, and low cost; however, such cathodes suffer from structural degradation during the long-term cycling process, leading capacity fading. In this study, a Co-doped dMO composite with reduced graphene oxide (GC-dMO) developed using si...

Uniform PNHCF-NPs were prepared by co-precipitation way and coated on carbon cloth for high-performance supercapacitor applications. The hybrid showed highly flexible, improved specific capacitance, good stability in Na + K ion electrolytes.