Climate change VR by Tan, Kenrick Yong Heng

“…The effects of climate change have been witnessed for several decades now and it appears to be getting worse. While this technology is integrated into many sectors, we could use it to educate the youth about climate change. …”
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Scene text recognition by Muhammad Afiq Osman

“…Adadelta in fact performed much worse producing ‘nan’ test and train error on many occasions. …”
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Determination of mosquitoes species diversity and molecular detection of West Nile virus in wild bird habitats in Perak and Selangor, Malaysia by Jafar Ali, Natasha

“…Meanwhile, WNV antibodies and/or RNA have been demonstrated in wild birds, human, wildlife such as macaques and bats; and farm animals such as swine and horse from 2003 until now. Presence and transmission of WNV in these species certainly involved mosquito vectors, yet the study on the current status of WNV in mosquitoes is lacking, which further signifies the need of this study. …”
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America’s “China-First” grand strategy and the transatlantic bargain: revisiting the security–economics nexus by Desmaele, Linde

“…Accordingly, this article’s driving hypothesis is that the more significance the USA assigns to its European allies in the context of its China agenda, the more it will, for better or worse, seek to maintain (some degree of) European security dependence on the USA. …”
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Seven children inequality and Britain’s next generation by Dorling, D

“…And how can we reverse the trends leaving all children worse off than their parents?…”

Study on the oxidation and corrosion properties of titanium aluminide from a microstructural viewpoint by Chan, Shao Wei

“…It appears that the samples with larger ratio of γ to α2phase tendto fare worse in oxidation and corrosion performance, and these results point towards the need of optimizing the presence of γ/α2to compromise between oxidative and mechanical properties.…”
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Performance study of digital communication systems in TWDP fading by Li, Yuan

“…In the real application, fading sometimes can be worse than the known models, thus one has proposed a general analytical distribution named two-wave with diffuse power (TWDP) to pertinently express the localarea fading traits. …”
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Deep learning for multiple object tracking by Gao, Junjie

“…Our face detection network applies the anchor-free structure on face detector and the performance is just slightly worse than the state-of-the-arts anchor-based face detector. …”
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Surviving the economic crisis In distribution and warehousing business by Tan, Ai Leen

“…The financial meltdown that happened in the US had a global impact on economies worldwide, resulting in a global recession in 2008 which was said to be much worse than the Great Depression in the 1930s (Lightman, 2009). …”
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MMSE multiuser detection for uplink DS-CDMA with regenerative cooperative relaying by Liu, Yan.

“…When the number of users increases, the BER performance with direct transmission gets worse, but the BER performance of Max-Cooperate improves significantly. …”
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"Better is never better for all” : a study of feminist dystopia in Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Lessing’s The Marriages between Zones Three, Four, and Five ; as narrated by The... by Eliza, Isa

“…If we cease to judge this world, we may find ourselves, very quickly, in one which is infinitely worse (Atwood 6). I do think that sometimes I hit a kind of wavelength—though I think a lot of writers do this—where I anticipate events. …”
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You look familiar … but what’s your name? Word learning in Singaporean older adults by Tan, Justina Yu Han

“…Interestingly, known faces were learnt better than unknown faces, but familiarized faces were learnt worse than unfamiliarized faces. However, while younger adults were negatively affected by the familiarization task, older adults seemed to benefit from the additional exposure. …”
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跨媒介视野下的严歌苓研究 ：从《陆犯焉识》到《归来》的影视改编 = Cultural studies of Yan Geling from the trans-media perspective : from the adaption of the novel “The Prisoner Called Yanshi Lu” to the movie “Com... by 叶晓霞 Ye, Amber Xiaoxia

“…Her works are often adapted and directed into movie productions, in which one of her earliest works “TianYu” had won seven honorable awards from the Golden Horse Film Festival. Her works also garnered attention from acclaimed directors, where the novel “The Prisoner Called Yanshi Lu” gained extensive recognition after it was adapted and directed by Zhang Yimou. …”
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An autonomous vehicle simulation study : the misunderstood impact of a night driving environment on takeover performance by Lee, Lennell

“…This suggested that drivers showed worse takeover performance in the night driving environment or when facing person hazards.…”
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Relationship between gestalt processing and affect recognition : comparing youths with and without autism by Khoo, Ser Wee

“…They had comparable gestalt processing ability to typically developing participants on the visual closure subtest but performed significantly worse on the intact scene stimuli in the computerized task. …”
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Gaps In Primary Care And Health System Performance In Six Latin American And Caribbean Countries by Macinko, James, Guanais, Frederico C., Mullachery, Pricila, Jimenez, Geronimo

“…Reports of more primary care problems were associated with worse perceptions of health system performance and quality and less receipt of preventive care. …”
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Evaluating machine learning for predicting youth suicidal behavior up to 1 year after contact with mental-health specialty care by O’Reilly, LM, Fazel, S, Rickert, ME, Kuja-Halkola, R, Cederlöf, M, Hellner, C, Larsson, H, Lichtenstein, P, D’Onofrio, BM

“…Logistic regression is not clearly worse than machine-learning approaches. Ongoing research is needed to examine how prediction models can augment clinical decision-making.…”

Challenges of Social Media Marketing in Digital Technology: A Case of Small Traders of Agricultural Products in Malaysia by Othman, Zakirah, Abu, Noor Hidayah, Mohd Shafie, Shafini, Kamarul Zaman, Nur Badriyah, Alias, Emmy Farha, Wan Yahaya, Wan Ahmad Jaafar

“…The Small-to-Medium Enterprises (SMEs), especially in the agricultural sector are not an exception and faced numerous challenges in technology, particularly in digital marketing. It becomes worse when these enterprises were also affected by Covid-19 pandemic. …”
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Load frequency control of power systems with renewable energy sources by Yan, Huan

“…However, while developing the society and world, the large consumptions of traditional fossil-based energy has produced a huge amount of carbon dioxide which causes climate change. What’s worse, traditional energy will run out in few decades. …”
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Implications of human-nature interactions for livelihoods and conservation in Kasungu, Malawi by Mandoloma, L, Clark, M, Hughes, K, Coad, L, Milner-Gulland, E

“…Without this context, interventions risk being impractical or ineffective, potentially leaving both people and nature worse off. We used mixed methods to understand human-nature interactions in Kasungu, Malawi. …”