Classroom management and curriculum development with NFC by Syahri Ikram Ismail

“…The NFC tags can be scattered throughout the classroom space to allow students’ proactivity in finding for the best solution in the time span of the game round. …”
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Vultron : towards secure smart contracts -- a runtime monitoring approach by Yang, Xuan

“…The proposed approach, Vultron, a generalised solution which is not limited in its capabilities, can proactively detect vulnerabilities during runtime, and pre-emptively alter the function execution. …”
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Managing vascular risk factors among obese quitters with diabetes: how intensive lifestyle intervention and novel pharmacotherapy can work in concert by Kar, D, Seidu, S, Davies, M, Khunti, K

“…The aim of this review is to explore how best these highrisk individuals can be supported to remain abstinent long-term, and manage their vascular risk profile proactively, by concerted lifestyle intervention with judicious use of new and novel pharmacotherapy.…”

Cybersecurity capacity-building: cross-national benefits and international divides by Creese, S, Dutton, WH, Esteve-Gonzalez, P, Shillair, R

“…These initiatives entail a range of actions that vary from education and training to technology and related standards, as well as new legal and policy frameworks. While efforts to proactively address security problems seem intuitively valuable, they are new, meaning there is relatively little research on whether they achieve their intended objectives. …”

Global mental health should engage with the ethics of involuntary admission by Wickremsinhe, MN

“…Global mental health ought to engage proactively with the debate on the ethics of involuntary admission and work to develop a clear position, for three reasons. …”

Using broadband infrastructure as a social sensor to detect inequities in unemployment during the COVID-19 pandemic by Ritsch, N, Armanios, DE

“…Instead, our study aims to create an introspective "social biopsy", using existing infrastructure gaps to inform how future policy and investment can address existing inequities more sharply and proactively. Specifically, this work explores the possibility of using U.S. county-level broadband penetration rates as a social sensor to predict rates of unemployment amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. …”

Care seeking and treatment for hepatitis C infection in Rwanda: A qualitative study of patient experiences by Van Nuil, JI, Shumbusho, F, Kateera, F, Mukuralinda, A, Kabahizi, J, Muvunyi, CM, Musabeyezu, E, Mukabatsinda, C, Mbituyumuremi, A, Nsanzimana, S, Mukerjee, J, Gupta, N

“…We identified four themes: (1) diagnosis and use of traditional medicine, (2) access and financial barriers, (3) complex social networks (4) proactivity in care-seeking. Results demonstrate the complex ways in which Rwandans understand HCV, utilise parallel health systems, activate social networks, and the importance of active agency in the opportunities and outcomes for their own health in the context of an early response to a major epidemic. …”

Board-shareholder engagement and directors’ appointments by Christie, A

“…In particular, it is argued that activist‑appointed directors may expose some of the limitations of the current independent monitoring board model and exemplify a solution where boards proactively contribute to sustainable value creation. …”

Blockchain, consent and prosent for medical research by Porsdam Mann, S, Savulescu, J, Ravaud, P, Benchoufi, M

“…Finally, we coin and describe the novel concept of prosent, by which we mean the blockchain-enabled ability of all stakeholders in the research process to pseudonymously and proactively consent to data release or exchange under specific conditions, such as trial completion.…”

One thing leads to another: anticipating visual object identity based on associative-memory templates by Boettcher, SEP, Stokes, MG, Nobre, AC, Van Ede, F

“…Taken together, our results show that memory-guided identity templates proactively impact perception and are associated with anticipatory states of attenuated alpha oscillations and the CNV. …”

Retail employees’ performance expectations and perceptions: gaps between employees’ and supervisors’ evaluations by Tay, A., Dar, O.L.

“…Retailers would benefit if they could proactively identify and thereby take constructive and practical measures to narrow the perceptual gaps and drive employees to deliver better service quality.…”
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An empirical analysis of the influence of entrepreneurial orientation on franchisees’ outlet performance and intention to stay by Adeiza, Adams, Abdul Malek, Marlin Marissa, Ismail, Noor Azizi

“…Using Nigeria – a country with high potential for franchise growth – as a context, this study aims to explore the relevant entrepreneurial orientation skills exhibited by franchisees and show the extent to which these skills influence their business performance and intention to remain.26 franchisees purposively selected from six local franchise brands in Nigeria were interviewed.The three classic entrepreneurial orientation factors of innovativeness, proactiveness and risk-taking were found to have varying influence on franchisees’ business outcomes. …”

The Role of Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP) In Human Capital Development for The Mineral Resources Industry: Rare Earth Case Study by Zulkafli, Hassan, M. Y. M., Yunus, Nurul Ain, Ismail, A., Ramli, K., Ramesh

“…Understanding this opportunity, Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP) has proactively took an initiative by establishing an entity which known as Rare Earth Research Centre (RERC). …”
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A proposed model for green practice adoption and implementation in information technology based organizations by Anthony, Bokolo Jnr., Mazlina, Abdul Majid, Awanis, Romli

“…Green Information technology system offers opportunity for IT based organizations to act proactively in terms of environmental preservation as well as to mitigate effects of global climate change and other environmental problems. …”
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Employees’ online knowledge sharing: the effects of person-environment fit by Pee, Loo Geok, Min, Jinyoung

“…Originality/value: The findings indicate a new direction for knowledge sharing research that focuses on PE fit and suggest that knowledge sharing can be improved more proactively in practice by assessing PE fit during recruitment.…”
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Adaptability of Manufacturing Operations through Digital Twins by Reyes, Maria Fernanda, Garg, Sachin

“…Our recommendation from this study will help supply chain managers understand that a digital twin and AI model framework can be developed, and can be utilized to foresee patterns in supply chain, and proactively take actions to resolve any bottlenecks and constraints.…”
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Economically Motivated Adulteration in Farming Supply Chains by Levi, Retsef, Singhvi, Somya, Zheng, Yanchong

“…We leverage our analyses to offer tangible insights that can help companies and regulators to more proactively address EMA risk in food products.…”
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Instrumenting Observability in a Decentralized Microservice Architecture by Liu, Helen X.

“…The integrated system created here satisfies our system’s requirements of a consolidated observability platform while also enabling future customizations, thereby allowing problems to be identified more quickly and proactively.…”
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Pragmatics of convincement : how we deceive with the truth by Loh, Bryan Yih Jing

“…The results show that there was a tendency to palter proactively over reactively, presumably due to the desire for self-preservation of image. …”
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A service-free sensor-based application by Ong, Yu Sheng

“…Hence, there is a growing need for citizens to proactively safeguard themselves from the Singapore’s evolving environmental hazards. …”
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