Evaluating the state of investigative journalism in Malaysia from practitionners' perspectives by Ismail, Adibah, Syd Zin, Syd Abdul Rahman

“…Most of them prefer to abide by the rules and regulations set by the government, their organization and even themselves. …”
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Counter-ideological forces of “Mr Gate” in online journalism in Malaysia: a study of MalaysiaKini and The Malaysian Insider by Kasmani, Mohd Faizal, Sabran, Rosidayu, Othman, Siti Suriani, Ramle, Noor Adzrah

“…This is due to the speed factor and the requirement of the news portals to abide by the media-related laws in Malaysia.…”
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Culture and contagion: Individualism and compliance with COVID-19 policy by Chen, C, Frey, CB, Presidente, G

“…Across a host of specifications, people were less abiding by the lockdown rules in places with greater prevalence of individualistic cultural traits. …”

Our everyday lives by Tham, Marilyn

“…It is often preached that “Honesty is the best policy” across many generations, but it is hard to abide by that. Is it truly wrong to lie? Or perhaps it is a necessary evil? …”
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Smart blinkers speed humps using solar panel by Ahmad Taqiyuddin, Mohamad

“…Although speed limit signs are placed in accordance with the requirements of the standards, much is left to the conscience of the drivers whether they should abide by them. Hence, controlling vehicular speeds is a critical issue in traffic management. …”
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Locally-optimal multi-robot navigation under delaying disturbances using homotopy constraints by Gregoire, Jean Matthieu Marie, Cap, Michal, Frazzoli, Emilio

“…We propose a controller that abides this homotopy constraint while minimizing the travel time. …”
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Influence of US political interests and dominant ideologies in New York Times' coverage of Covid-19 lockdowns in China and United States by Tang, Fan Xi

“…However, when quarantine measures were instituted in the US, coverage would shift to favour elite ideology by emphasizing the need to abide by them. The findings of this paper thus add to existing literature that media content is far from an objective source of information but in fact propagates political interests and dominant ideologies.…”
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Animating Singapore : the complex expression of Singapore's contemporary daily life and culture through animation by Goh, Wei Choon

“…The theoretical research will investigate the complex expression of daily life and culture (Singapore and foreign alike) through case studies and literature about existing animated works, while the practical part attempts to create a film abiding by the observations gleamed from the theoretical portion, and vice versa. …”
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Experiences of sport tourism among multiethnic Malaysian women / Khor Poy Hua and Lim Khong Chiu by Khor, Poy Hua, Lim, Khong Chiu

“…Malaysian women’s practices in leisure vary significantly from those experienced by the general population as they abide by cultural traditions to a greater extent than other. …”
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Taking the implementation of ECtHR judgments seriously : right assessment, wrong approaches? by Lambert-Abdelgawad, Elisabeth

“…The CoM does not have the power to sanction reluctant states to abide by judgments and interim resolutions have no concrete impact. …”
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Romans, Egyptians, and the second Arab siege of Constantinople (717/18) by Booth, P

“…It is unclear how far their defection might be mapped onto an abiding or resurgent ideological commitment to inclusion in the empire, as Arietta Papaconstantinou suggests for eighth-century western Thebes, where elites ‘still lived in Byzantium—in the Byzantium their great-grandfathers had known.’2 I will locate its more immediate impulse in the Arab conquerors’ fiscal innovations, which had long encouraged resistance and which intensified in the build-up to the siege. …”

Reformulating communication strategy training to reduce topic fronting among TESL teachers in Malaysia by Megawati Soekarno, Irma Wani Othman, Ameiruel Azwan Ab Aziz, Nik Zaitun Nik Mohamed

“…However, despite being an achievement strategy, topic fronting does not abide by the English language grammatical rule. Although one of the primary factors of communication strategy is the independence from linguistic rules, a rampant use of this strategy among ESL learners might affect them adversely especially in academic discourse. …”
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Institutional theory : a study based on the regionalisation of food manufacturing and related industries. by Khoo, Wi-Fhong., Lim, Lay Keng., Ong, Hui Han.

“…This theory proposes that organisations need to abide by institutional rules set by powerful organisations in order to be given legitimacy. …”
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Development of TCM herb and immunosuppressant drug interaction database by Quek, Leona Yan Peng

“…Inclusion and exclusion criteria were abided and only relevant papers were analysed and categorised. …”
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Religious shift in Singapore : the case of Christianity by Ngo, Wei Ting

“…The prosperity gospel appealed to many upper and middleclass Singaporeans, promising material blessings to those who abided by it. Lastly, the establishment of the cell-group network helped connect people who sought fellowship and care in small group communities with the Protestant churches. …”
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The dynamic absence of Jesus in Hebrews by Bockmuehl, M

“…Nevertheless, even the pastness of the incarnation remains a powerful and abiding ingredient both in Christ’s ongoing priestly work and in the expectation of his coming. …”

FedHarmony: unlearning scanner bias with distributed data by Dinsdale, N, Dinsdale, N, Jenkinson, M, Namburete, A

“…We demonstrate our approach across a range of realistic data scenarios, using real multi-site data from the ABIDE dataset, thus showing the potential utility of our method for MRI harmonisation across studies. …”

Gratitude without a self by Chadha, M, Nichols, S

“…Anumodanā (literally rejoicing in good deeds of another) is best thought of as an expression of sympathetic joy (mudita) which is classified among the “sublime abidings” or “perfections” in Buddhism. In this paper we explain the notion of anumodanā and its functioning in the context of dāna (gift-giving or almsgiving in the Buddhist monastic context) to explain how it recovers some of the benefits of our ordinary reactive attitude of gratitude without implicating the self.…”

Social cohesion may be antidote to global prison crisis by Whitehouse, H, Newson, M, Peitz, L, Cunliffe, J

“…We analyse effects of participation compared to a control group (S1, N = 676, N = 1874 control cases), longitudinal patterns of social cohesion underlying these effects (S2, N = 388), and explore desistance from crime after release (S3, N = 249). As law-abiding behaviour also requires a supportive receiving community, we investigated the factors influencing willingness to employ formerly incarcerated people in online samples (S4-9, N = 1,797). …”

Satire and the polis in Lucian’s Timon or The Misanthrope by Ellis-Evans, A

“…This breaking of the social contract was an abiding concern for polis society, and indeed Lucian makes extensive intertextual use of Classical works addressing precisely this question. …”