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Fabrication of buried nanostructures by atomic layer deposition
(Springer Nature America, Inc, 2018)We present a method for fabricating buried nanostructures by growing a dielectric cover layer on a corrugated surface profile by atomic layer deposition of TiO2. Selecting appropriate process parameters, the conformal ... -
Fabrication of hybrid optical line generator by direct machining
(The Optical Society, 2018)In this study, a mold of a line generator consisting of a cylindrical lens array with a triangular diffractive grating was ultra-precision diamond machined with Moore 350FG 5-axis ultra-precision machine. The design and ... -
Fabrication of Porous Silicon Based Humidity Sensing Elements on Paper
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2015-03-23)A roll-to-roll compatible fabrication process of porous silicon (pSi) based sensing elements for a real-time humidity monitoring is described. The sensing elements, consisting of printed interdigitated silver electrodes ... -
Facile functionalization of cellulose from discarded cigarette butts for the removal of diclofenac from water
(Elsevier BV, 2019)In this study, cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs), and cellulose nanofibers (CNFs) were extracted from discarded cigarette butts (DCBs), and investigated for their efficiency for diclofenac (Dfc) removal from water. CNFs ... -
Factors affecting job satisfaction of teacher educators : empirical evidence from the Universities of Sindh Province of Pakistan
(2017)This study determines, explores and examines the factors affecting the job satisfaction of teacher educators of the universities of Sindh. A qualitative research design was employed to collect data from teacher educators ... -
Factors associated with cervical cancer screening participation among immigrants of Russian, Somali and Kurdish origin: a population-based study in Finland
(Springer Nature, 2017)Background Previous studies revealed low participation in cervical cancer screening among immigrants compared with non-immigrants. Only a few studies about factors associated with immigrants’ lower participation rates ... -
Factors associated with staying or leaving a dentist leader's position - a qualitative study
(Springer Science + Business Media, 2016)Background Leadership and leaders have important roles today, possibly even more so in the future, since major organizational changes will occur throughout the health care sector. Tomorrow’s leaders will need to be ... -
Factors Associated With the Use of Meals-On-Wheels among Home Care Clients: The Nutormed Study
(Symbiosis Group, 2016)Background: The risk of malnutrition is quite common among home care clients. To aim of this study were to describe nutritional status of Meals-on-Wheels (MOW) clients and factors associated with use of MOW among home care ... -
Factors controlling the evaporation of secondary organic aerosol from alfa-pinene ozonolysis
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2017)Secondary organic aerosols (SOA) forms a major fraction of organic aerosols in the atmosphere. Knowledge of SOA properties that affect their dynamics in the atmosphere is needed for improving climate models. By combining ... -
Failing Cosmopolitanism: Aborted Transnational Journeys in Novels by Monique Ilboudo, Sefi Atta and Aminata Sow Fall
(Informa UK LimitedBritannia, 2016)This article adopts a critically attuned understanding of cosmopolitanism in its reading of Monique Ilboudo’s Le mal de peau, Sefi Atta’s Swallow and Aminata Sow Fall’s Douceurs du bercail. It focuses on the ways in which ... -
Failing to develop a sense of ownership: A study in the consumer co-operative context
(2018)Emerging interest in psychological ownership in the domain of marketing calls for better understanding of situations wherein the customers are also the owners of the company. Accordingly, psychological ownership has been ... -
Fair blue urbanism: demands, obstacles, opportunities and knowledge needs for just recreation beside Helsinki Metropolitan Area waters
(Informa UK LimitedSuomi, 2017)To shed light on fair blue urbanism, we studied the demands, obstacles and opportunities as well as knowledge needs of various citizen groups living in Helsinki Metropolitan Area. The perspectives were identified and ... -
Family members' expectations regarding nurses' competence in care homes: a qualitative interview study
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2017)Background Structural and cultural changes in the care of older people have influenced nursing practice, creating a need to identify current competency requirements for nurses working in care homes. Family members have ... -
Farmers' Perceptions about Climate Change Vulnerabilities and their Adaptation Measures in District Swat
(Research Links Ltd.Pakistan, 2018)Climate variability significantly affects water, food and energy sectors particularly in developing countries. The current study focused on farmer’s perception about climate change vulnerabilities, their adaptation measures ... -
Fas cell surface death receptor controls hepatic lipid metabolism by regulating mitochondrial function
(Springer Nature, 2017)Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is one of the most prevalent metabolic disorders and it tightly associates with obesity, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. Reduced mitochondrial lipid oxidation contributes to ... -
Fast-tracking for total knee replacement reduces use of institutional care without compromising quality
(Informa UK LimitedBritannia, 2017)Background and purpose — Fast-tracking shortens the length of the primary treatment period (length of stay, LOS) after total knee replacement (TKR). We evaluated the influence of the fast-track concept on the length of ... -
Fasting is not routinely required for determination of a lipid profile: clinical and laboratory implications including flagging at desirable concentration cut-points-a joint consensus statement from the European Atherosclerosis Society and European Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2016)Aims To critically evaluate the clinical implications of the use of non-fasting rather than fasting lipid profiles and to provide guidance for the laboratory reporting of abnormal non-fasting or fasting lipid profiles. Methods ... -
Fasting-Induced Transcription Factors Repress Vitamin D Bioactivation, a Mechanism for Vitamin D Deficiency in Diabetes
(American Diabetes Association, 2019)Low 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels correlate with the prevalence of diabetes; however, the mechanisms remain uncertain. Here, we show that nutritional deprivation–responsive mechanisms regulate vitamin D metabolism. Both fasting ... -
Fatty acid biomarkers of dairy fat consumption and incidence of type 2 diabetes: A pooled analysis of prospective cohort studies
(Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018)Background We aimed to investigate prospective associations of circulating or adipose tissue odd-chain fatty acids 15:0 and 17:0 and trans-palmitoleic acid, t16:1n-7, as potential biomarkers of dairy fat intake, with ... -
Fatty acid content and composition in edible Ruspolia differens feeding on mixtures of natural food plants
(Springer Nature America, Inc, 2018)Objectives To develop successful mass-rearing programs of edible insects, knowledge of the feeds and their influence on nutritional content is critical. We assessed the influence of natural food plants (grass inflorescences) ...
