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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Redefining guardianship: a study of the intellectually disabled, their family, and their social sphere in cinema by Lim, Tammie

“…This thesis takes a step back from directly studying the intellectually disabled individual’s relationship with normative society, and instead interrogates the ways in which family-centred care of ID individuals facilitates and/or disrupts their relationship with the wider social sphere. …”
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Flask-based data visualisation dashboard for accreditation process reporting by Liaw, Nicole Jia Hui

“…Effective information distribution is crucial for facilitating quick responses and important decision-making in the age of "information overload." …”
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Uncovering latent relationships among EV battery characteristics in EV battery products using topic modelling by Guerta, Uno Gabriel Yap

“…By leveraging Topic Modeling, this study contributes to a deeper understanding of EV battery technology, facilitating informed decision-making, innovation, and sustainability in the transportation sector.…”
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Enhancing stable grasping of containers with dynamic center of mass using reinforcement learning by Gao, Yuan

“…The policy outputted delta changes in the grasping location, facilitating adaptive grasping in diverse environments. …”
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Arts for an ageless nation : a pilot study examining the perceptions and experiences of engaging with the arts amongst Singaporean seniors by Leong, Scarlet Xin Min

“…The elderly participants believed that the arts play a vital role in building a healthy life, facilitating meaningful social interaction and boosting one’s self-value. …”
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Binder-free Si nanoparticles@carbon nanofiber fabric as energy storage material by Liu, Yuping, Huang, Kai, Fan, Yu, Zhang, Qing, Sun, Fu, Gao, Tian, Wang, Zhongzheng, Zhong, Jianxin

“…The high strength and flexibility of the nanofiber fabrics are beneficial for alleviating the structural deformation and facilitating ion transports throughout the whole composited electrodes. …”
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Terahertz dual-band metamaterial biosensor for cervical-cancer diagnostics by Hamza, Musa H., Alibakhshikenari, Mohammad, Virdee, Bal Singh, Hamad, Muhamad A., Khan, Salahuddin, Koziel, Slawomir, Limiti, Ernesto

“…This property translates into a requirement for a much smaller biopsy sample, facilitating less invasive testing procedures. Beyond the size advantage, the proposed biosensor demonstrates efficacy in detecting abnormalities within biological tissue.…”
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Bank resolution mechanisms revisited: towards a new era of restructuring by Hryckiewicz, A, Kryg, N, Tsomocos, DP

“…We then explore whether those interventions work effectively in facilitating bank recovery and whether they reduce systemic risk in the long run. …”

Grand challenges and the rhetoric of collective action by Drori, I, Neumann, K, Vaara, E, Boersma, K, Kyratsis, Y, Santacreu-Vasut, E, Suddaby, R

“…New rhetorical techniques—such as rhetorical axioms, commensuration, impersonation, and dystopian rhetoric—emerge as critical tools for influencing societal values and facilitating institutional transformation. This issue advances research by integrating rhetorical perspectives with organizational theories, offering novel insights into adaptive responses to grand challenges. …”

A survey of few-shot learning for biomedical time series by Li, C, Denison, T, Zhu, T

“…Data-driven models have tremendous potential to assist clinical diagnosis and improve patient care by improving long-term monitoring capabilities, facilitating early disease detection and intervention, as well as promoting personalized healthcare delivery. …”

Using patient perspectives to inform better clinical trial design and conduct: current trends and future directions by Faulkner, SD, Somers, F, Boudes, M, Nafria, B, Robinson, P

“…As a result, these factors are facilitating the incorporation of patients' lived experience, preferences and needs into the design and running of clinical trials more than ever before. …”

The immunology underlying CNS autoantibody diseases by Cleaver, J, Ceronie, B, Strippel, C, Handel, A, Irani, SR

“…This approach has enabled multiple bona fide CNS autoantibody-associated diseases to thoroughly infiltrate the sphere of clinical neurology, facilitating advances in patient outcomes. This review focusses on the fundamental immunological concepts behind CNS autoantibody-associated diseases. …”

Interventionally consistent surrogates for complex simulation models by Dyer, J, Bishop, N, Felekis, Y, Zennaro, FM, Calinescu, A, Damoulas, T, Wooldridge, M

“…We provide theoretical results showing that our proposed approach induces surrogates to behave consistently with high probability with respect to the simulator across interventions of interest, facilitating rapid experimentation with policy interventions in complex systems. …”

Developing Animation Projects that Foster Student's Creativity: An Application of Design Thinking Process (S/O 14722) by Mohd Suki, Norbayah, Mohd Suki, Norazah, Ahmad, Rosliza

“…Minimal research has been investigated on nurturing students' behavioural intention and actual usage of creative animation using design thinking as the digital social innovation agent to foster creativity at tertiary level within Malaysia context, particularly from the aspects like performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, and facilitating conditions. Future education highlight the needs of issueing creativity as the content knowledge towards imagineering the creative animation as the rich content curricular to promote digital social innovation. …”
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Q-Pilot: Field Programmable Qubit Array Compilation with Flying Ancillas by Wang, Hanrui, Tan, Daniel Bochen, Liu, Pengyu, Liu, Yilian, Gu, Jiaqi, Cong, Jason, Han, Song

“…FPQA has a dynamic qubit connectivity, facilitating cost-effective execution of long-range gates, but it also poses new challenges in the compilation. …”
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SCSE FYP and MSCS IA system development part 5 by Ong, Celestine Xin Rui

“…The Final Year Project (FYP) module represents a pivotal cornerstone for students in the School of Computer Science and Engineering (SCSE), facilitating the practical application of their learning through project work. …”
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Investigating the acceptance and use of Wikipedia as a major information source by Jiang, Tao

“…The use behavior was found determined by facilitating conditions and behavioral intention. This study may help the local university educators and the practitioner of Wikipedia to better understand how and why their students preferred to use Wikipedia as a major information source.…”
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Genomic perspective on the bacillus causing paratyphoid B fever by Hawkey, J, Frézal, L, Tran Dien, A, Zhukova, A, Brown, D, Chattaway, MA, Simon, S, Izumiya, H, Fields, PI, De Lappe, N, Kaftyreva, L, Xu, X, Isobe, J, Clermont, D, Njamkepo, E, Akeda, Y, Issenhuth-Jeanjean, S, Makarova, M, Wang, Y, Hunt, M, Jenkins, BM, Ravel, M, Guibert, V, Serre, E

“…This study provides an unprecedented insight into SPB PG1 and essential genomic tools for identifying and tracking this pathogen, thereby facilitating the global genomic surveillance of PTB.…”

Critical Factors for Oil Palm Plantation Workers Acceptance and Use of Mechanization Technovation Tools by Mohd Nawi, Mohd Nasrun, Md Deros, Baba, Nordin, Norani, Sukadarin, Ezrin Hani

“…The results reveal that performance expectancy, facilitating condition and intention to use were supported as important factors to accept and use of technovation. …”
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