Government and crisis : case study of Indonesia's slow recovery in Asian financial crisis 1997/1998 by Octalira Safitrie

“…Not only has the crisis taught the country that the market has its own mechanism to punish poor governance, it also taught the country the importance of good institutions and strong regulatory framework to facilitate resilient economic growth. This literature-based study explores these two lessons by examining the slow recovery process in Indonesia during the Asian Financial Crisis using historical approach. …”
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Design and CFD study of a simple wind turbine by Ng, Nicholas Poh Huat

“…The stress distributions and blade deflections are also found to facilitate in future design improvements.…”
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Varieties of indoctrination: the politicization of education and the media around the world by Neundorf, A, Nazrullaeva, E, Northmore-Ball, K, Tertytchnaya, KT, Kim, W

“…The dataset should facilitate a new generation of empirical inquiry on the causes and consequences of indoctrination.…”

The role of transportin-1 in the ciliary targeting of membrane proteins by Madugula, Viswanadh

“…While it is known that ciliary targeting signals (CTSs) specifically target ciliary proteins to cilia, it is less clear how CTSs facilitate the entry and retention of ciliary residents at molecular level. …”
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Variable-Inverter-Rectifier-Transformer: A Hybrid Electronic and Magnetic Structure Enabling Adjustable High Step-Down Conversion Ratios by Moon, Intae, Ranjram, Mike Kavian, Perreault, David J

“…This functionality is valuable in converters with wide operating voltage ranges and high step-up/down, as it offers a means to reduce copper loss within the transformer while also facilitating voltage doubling and quadrupling. We introduce the principle of operation of the structure and present models for its magnetic and electrical behaviour. …”
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Polymerizable ionic liquid-derived carbon for oxygen reduction and evolution by Gao, Jian, Shen, Cong, Tian, Jianjun, Yin, Zhen, Lu, Hongbin, Feng, Jianyong, Huang, Yizhong, Tan, Xiaoyao

“…The ionic liquid is functionalized with NO3− anions, which decompose and release gases during the pyrolysis process, facilitating the formation of a carbon foam. Scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy analyses show that the carbon foam is composed of curved carbon nanosheets with the maximum thickness of 70 nm. …”
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Cell activation-based screening of natively paired human T cell receptor repertoires by Fahad, Ahmed S, Chung, Cheng Yu, López Acevedo, Sheila N, Boyle, Nicoleen, Madan, Bharat, Gutiérrez-González, Matías F, Matus-Nicodemos, Rodrigo, Laflin, Amy D, Ladi, Rukmini R, Zhou, John, Wolfe, Jacy, Llewellyn-Lacey, Sian, Koup, Richard A, Douek, Daniel C, Balfour, Henry H, Price, David A, DeKosky, Brandon J

“…Our results validated an experimental pipeline that allows large-scale repertoire datasets to be annotated with functional specificity information, facilitating the discovery of therapeutically relevant TCRs.…”
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1D to 3D hierarchical iron selenide hollow nanocubes assembled from FeSe2@C core-shell nanorods for advanced sodium ion batteries by Fan, Haosen, Yu, Hong, Zhang, Yufei, Guo, Jing, Wang, Zhen, Wang, Hao, Zhao, Ning, Zheng, Yun, Du, Chengfeng, Dai, Zhengfei, Yan, Qingyu, Xu, Jian

“…Such novel nanorods-based FeSe2@C hollow structures exhibit high conductivity and special structural property which provide good charge transport kinetics by facilitating the charge transfer into the inner of FeSe2 nanorods. …”
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Innovative methodology for comprehensive utilization of refractory low-grade iron ores by Liang, Zhikai, Peng, Xin, Huang, Zhucheng, Li, Jiayuan, Yi, Lingyun, Huang, Boyang, Chen, Changzhong

“…The mechanism analysis revealed NaCl is involved in greatly reducing the theoretical formation temperature of metallic iron and significantly promoting the conversion of silicon minerals, thus facilitating the formation of the excellent DRI and leach solution. …”
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Cutting edge : synchronization of IRF1, JunB, and C/EBP activities during TLR3-TLR7 cross-talk orchestrates timely cytokine synergy in the proinflammatory response by Yong, Wai Khang, Sze, Newman Siu Kwan, Tan, Nguan Soon, Liu, Qian, Zhu, Yong, Ding, Jeak Ling

“…Coactivation of the TLR3 and TLR7 pathways synchronizes the interaction of IRF1, JunB, and C/EBPβ with the Il6 and Il12b promoters, facilitating maximal gene expression. MyD88 pathway activation suppresses TRIF-induced IRF1 in a delayed manner, controlling the magnitude and timing of cytokine expression. …”
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Intervention strategies to enhance food safety certification adoption among farmers in Malaysia: A system dynamics approach by Mohd Shahir, Omar, Cheng, Jack Kie, Ahmad Afif, Ahmarofi, Muhammad Fakhrul, Yusuf

“…The findings of this research will offer significant insights to stakeholders, facilitating the improvement of current policy strategies to effectively encourage the adoption of food safety certification among farmers in Malaysia.…”
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A review: PTSD in pre-existing medical condition on social media by Al Hassan Ayon, Zaber, Nur Hafieza, Ismail, Nur Shazwani, Kamarudin

“…Furthermore, the role of online support communities in shaping coping strategies and facilitating early interventions is highlighted. This review underscores the necessity of incorporating considerations of pre-existing medical conditions in PTSD research and treatment, emphasizing social media's potential as a monitoring and support tool for vulnerable groups. …”
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"How fancy you are to make us use your fancy tool": Coordinating Individuals' Tool Preference over Group Boundaries by Zhang, Qianqia (Queenie), Park, Soya, Muller, Michael, Karger, David R.

“…To address these challenges, we developed a platform facilitating sensemaking and decision-making without necessitating compromises on tool preferences. …”
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Multiproblem surrogates : transfer evolutionary multiobjective optimization of computationally expensive problems by Tan, Alan Wei Ming, Ong, Yew-Soon, Gupta, Abhishek, Goh, Chi-Keong

“…This idea provides the capability to acquire and spontaneously transfer learned models across problems, facilitating efficient global optimization. The efficacy of our proposition is demonstrated on a series of synthetic benchmark functions, as well as two practical case studies.…”
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Controlling Electrolyte Properties and Redox Reactions Using Solvation and Implications in Battery Functions: A Mini‐Review by Leverick, Graham, Shao‐Horn, Yang

“…Through the intermolecular interactions among solvent, additives, and ions, the reactivity of electrolyte species can be altered significantly by either enhancing solvent (electro)chemical stability or facilitating water deprotonation in Li–O<jats:sub>2</jats:sub> reactions. …”
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3D expansion microscopy on nanostructure arrays to visualize the nano-bio Interfaces in super resolution by Huang, Lizhen

“…This innovative calibration in the ExM approach emerges as a potent tool to enhance the accuracy of super-resolution images, thereby facilitating a more profound understanding of nanoscale cellular structures.…”
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Fusing pairwise modalities for emotion recognition in conversations by Fan, Chunxiao, Lin, Jie, Mao, Rui, Cambria, Erik

“…In this proposed method, the pairwise fusion technique is incorporated into multimodal fusion to enhance model performance, which enables each modality to contribute unique information, thereby facilitating a more comprehensive understanding of the emotional context. …”
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High-performance reverse osmosis membranes fabricated on highly porous microstructured supports by Lee, Jaewoo, Wang, Rong, Bae, Tae-Hyun

“…The HPμS support membrane was prepared by increasing the thermodynamic instability of a 10 wt% polymer solution and thereby facilitating rapid desolvation. The rapid desolvation formed the narrow and regularly arranged pore structure in the sublayer, and we proposed the mechanism for the sublayer structure formation based on analyses of the thermodynamic properties of such a binary system. …”
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The spectacularization of NGOs accountability in disaster situations: evidence from the 2015 Nepal’s earthquakes by Adhikari, Pawan, Upadhaya, Bedanand, Dhakal Adhikari, Shovita, Aryal, Sanjaya, Wijethilake, Chaminda

“…Such requirements put certain NGOs, which were established to pursue political and personal goals, in a position to benefit from the situation, allowing them to obfuscate the ground level reality, for instance by manipulating the number of beneficiaries and geographical areas served, showcasing their performance on social media and facilitating pseudo-ceremonies and participation. The spectacle created by NGOs was oppressive, exacerbating inequalities in aid distribution and excluding certain groups of beneficiaries from the relief, recovery and rehabilitation efforts. …”
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Robust congestion management and service restoration for active distribution networks by Shen,Feifan

“…This thesis aims to deal with congestion in distribution networks caused by DERs and to use DERs to facilitate service restoration of distribution networks after contingency. …”
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