The development of empathy in the healthcare setting: a qualitative approach by Yu, Chou Chuen, Tan, Laurence, Le, Mai Khanh, Tang, Bernard, Liaw, Sok Ying, Tierney, Tanya, Ho, Yun Ying, Lim, Evelyn Beng Eng, Lim, Daphne, Ng, Reuben, Chia, Siew Chin, Low, James Alvin

“…Findings suggest empathy is more trait-like and stable in nature but is also susceptible to fluctuation depending on the circumstances faced by healthcare professionals. Interventions targeting medium and low stability factors could potentially promote the development of empathy in the clinical setting. …”
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Bridging the gap: fostering interactive stimming between non-speaking autistic children and their parents by Chen, Rachel S. Y.

“…This study rethinks the communication challenges faced by non-speaking autistic individuals, challenging traditional approaches that predominantly focus on speech and complex communication devices (AAC). …”
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Near-zero environmental impact aircraft by Prashanth, Prakash, Elmourad, Jad, Grobler, Carla, Isaacs, Stewart, Zahid, Syed Shayan, Abel, James, Falter, Christoph, Fritz, Thibaud, Allroggen, Florian, Sabnis, Jayant S., Eastham, Sebastian D., Speth, Raymond L., Barrett, Steven R. H.

“…The fundamental challenge facing today's aviation industry is to achieve net zero climate impacts while simultaneously sustaining growth and global connectivity. …”
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Amplifying signals in the tumor microenvironment for drug development and diagnostics by Martin Alonso, Maria Carmen

“…Despite the promise offered by these innovative therapies and monitoring tools, their broad integration into clinical practice faces important challenges. Widespread adoption of emerging therapies demands enhanced tools to successfully identify therapeutic targets and to restrict their potent activity to cancer cells. …”
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15.389 Global Entrepreneurship Lab, Fall 2004-Spring 2005 by Locke, Richard M., 1959-, Loessberg, Shari

“…To familiarize students with the issues and challenges facing global startups. 2. To provide students with the experience of working in a "global" startup. …”
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Engineering pressure retarded osmosis membrane bioreactor (PRO-MBR) for simultaneous water and energy recovery from municipal wastewater by Liu, Shuyue, Song, Weilong, Meng, Manli, Xie, Ming, She, Qianhong, Zhao, Pin, Wang, Xinhua

“…However, PRO-MBR suffered more severe and complex membrane fouling when operated in AL-DS orientation, because the porous support layer was facing sludge mixed liquor. Further investigation revealed fouling was mostly reversible for PRO-MBR, it exhibited similar flux recoverability (92.4%) to that in FO-MBR (95.1%) after osmotic backwash. …”
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Are vessel arrival and port operations affected by COVID-19? Evidence from the Hong Kong port by Chu, Zhong, Yan, Ran, Wang, Shuaian

“…By shedding light on effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on vessel arrival and port operations, our study contributes to a deeper understanding of the challenges faced by the shipping industry and provides insights and recommendations for the future development of port operations in the post COVID-19 era.…”
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Optimization strategies for federated learning by Zhang, Tinghao

“…However, the practical deployment of FL faces challenges due to the limited bandwidth resources of remote servers and the constrained computational capabilities of wireless devices. …”
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Decision support system for front-end product development by Zhai, Lianyin

“…In the highly competitive global market, manufacturers are facing ever increasing challenges in improving customer satisfaction and perceptions of their products while reducing product development time and cost. …”
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Moris Mai : to be born by Cai, Yun, Har, Jiawei, Loh, Jing Ting, Toh, Yan Wei

“…As such, this report serves to detail the objectives and treatment of our documentary, pre-production, production and post-production process, the challenges we have faced and our team‟s learning journey.…”
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Two photon photoemission. by Goh, Teck Wee.

“…Future work entails optimizing the THG setup for TR-2PPE experiments and address the problems faced in setting up TR-2PPE.…”
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Chemical methods in dewatering clayey slurry for land reclamation (GE27AB/ISP) by Andi

“…However, the usage of clay soil for land reclamation faces technical challenges such as very long settlement time as it is in the form of clay slurry. …”
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The role of fibroblasts in cancer progression, therapy resistance and field cancerization by Chan, Jeremy Soon Kiat

“…Moreover, tumor resistance and relapse are persistent challenges faced by patients and clinicians, suggesting an incomplete understanding of tumor-stroma co-evolution that severely limits the sustained efficacy of existing anticancer drugs. …”
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Brazil-China Relations by Horta, Loro

“…Arguably, China's growing influence in the Americas, to an extent, is a result of previous U.S. administrations' neglect of the region's needs and it remains to be seen what effect would a more attentive U.S. administration will have in facing China's growing influence in Latin America.…”
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Morphology control and thermal stability of binderless-graphene aerogels from graphite for energy storage applications by Nguyen, Son Truong, Nguyen, Hoa Tien, Rinaldi, Ali, Nguyen, Nam P. V., Fan, Zeng, Duong, Hai Minh

“…Of all the challenges facing human beings in the near future, energy related issues are likely to be the grandest. …”
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A deep learning-based approach for the detection of various Internet of Things intrusion attacks through optical networks by Imtiaz, Nouman, Wahid, Abdul, Abideen, Syed Zain Ul, Kamal, Mian Muhammad, Sehito, Nabila, Khan, Salahuddin, Virdee, Bal Singh, Kouhalvandi, Lida, Alibakhshikenari, Mohammad

“…This research introduces XIoT, a novel Explainable IoT attack detection model created to address the changing cyber risks facing IoT networks, particularly as they interact with optical communication infrastructure. …”
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Application of artificial intelligence based on state grid ESG platform in clean energy scheduling optimization by Zhu, Tianyi, Guan, Xin, Chen, Chuan, Cao, Xiaojing, Wang, Caimeng, Liao, Jiarong

“…First, the work analyzes the complexity and uncertainty challenges faced in clean energy scheduling within the current power system, highlighting the limitations of traditional methods in handling multi-objective optimization and real-time response. …”
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The mediating role of health literacy between the presence of chronic disease and psychological distress among older persons in Xian City of China by Guo, Kun, Ouyang, Jing, Minhat, Halimatus Sakdiah

“…When a person ages, psychological distress happens when they are faced with stressors that they cannot cope with. …”
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Evaluation of high school-based dengue solution model in Southern Thailand: a community participatory action research by Suwanbamrung, Charuai, Mehraj, Sandeep Kumar, Kercho, Melkamu Worku, Stanikzai, Muhammad Haroon, Ageru, Temesgen Anjulo, Jaroenpool, Jiraporn, Pibul, Panatda, Shohaimi, Shamarina, Israel, Eskinder

“…Introduction: By the time the globe started to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, Southeast Asian countries had faced an increased dengue incidence, which has eventually become an important public health problem. …”
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Self-healing framework for service level agreement monitoring and violation reacting in cloud computing by Mosallanejad, Ahmad

“…Consequently, cloud consumers faced significant number of SLA violations in their services. …”
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