The impact of accessing education via smartphone technology on education disparity—a sustainable education perspective by Alam, Gazi Mahabubul, Forhad, Md. Abdur Rahman

“…Despite numerous efforts to address this disparity, it has been a long-standing concern for many communities. It is important to note that the recent pandemic has changed teaching and learning approaches worldwide, where disparity is one of the most challenging issues. …”
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Ensemble neural networks with input optimization for flood forecasting by Mohd Khairudin, Nazli, Mustapha, Norwati, Mohd Aris, Teh Noranis, Zolkepli, Maslina

“…This paper proposed an ensemble of neural networks for long-term flood forecasting that combine the output of backpropagation neural network (BPNN) and extreme learning machine (ELM). …”
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Optimizing graphene anode performance in lithium-ion batteries: investigating the effects of diverse thermal conditions by Ng, Zen Ian, Leong, Yien Leng, Lim, Hong Ngee, Chong, Woon Gie, Huang, Nay Ming

“…The outcomes show noticeably enhanced performance characteristics, suggesting the potential for developing microwave-treated graphene anode for long-lasting and high-performance LIBs.…”

Understanding the role of tourist-oriented villages in promoting rural tourism in China: integrating rural landscapes and tourist services by Yi, Yayun, Siow, May Ling, Ibrahim, Roziya, Abdul Aziz, Faziawati

“…By grasping this concept, rural areas can experience a revival, enabling local governments, villagers, and tourism service providers to actively participate in the long-term planning, management, and development of tourist-oriented villages, crucial for the enduring success of rural tourism initiatives in China.…”

Distinguishing transcreation from translation: exploring strategies to render gender stereotypes by Zhu, Li, Ang, Lay Hoon, Sun, Yanna

“…Academics have long debated the similarities and differences between translation and transcreation. …”
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Improving mental health response in earthquake-prone regions: recommendations following the recent earthquake in Türkiye by Ramalho, Rodrigo, Ersönmez, Rojda, Kına, İdil, Keçeci, İrem, Apparao, Ramin, Koh, Eugene B.Y., Coskun, Bülent

“…We recommend a three-step multi-tiered mental health response system that could significantly help to address the immediate, short-term and long-term mental health needs of communities directly affected by a disaster. …”
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Women’s quest for home: spatial imaginary in Kazuo Ishiguro’s a pale view of hills by Ling, Xu, Awang, Mohammad Ewan, Singh, Hardev Kaur Jujar

“…This dynamic process encompasses three facets: materially, it includes the destruction of homes, the Westernisation of domestic space, and gendered space and domesticity; imaginatively, it involves long-lasting trauma and repression; and relationally, it signifies the transformation of home from unhomely to a homely one. …”
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Habitat Complexity Influencing Avian Community Structure, Conservation Management and its Implications in Malaysia by Abdul Halim, Abdul Muhaimin, Norazlimi, Nor Atiqah

“…However, the advanced research methodologies, long-term monitoring, and a more nuanced understanding of the specific ecological processes influencing bird populations should be well emphasized. …”
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A proposed framework of corporate social responsibility dimensions and employees' unethical pro-organizational behaviour: Evidence from Chinese SMES. by Liu, Renrui, Kanjanapathy, Malini, Saat, Maisarah

“…Such behaviour, although for the benefit of the organization, may have potential and long-term costs to the organization. Corporate social responsibility has been identified as an important influence on unethical pro-organizational behaviour, but there is a lack of exploration of the dimensional level. …”
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Green practices in the hotel industry: the push and pull factors by Aripin, Norhani, Amran, Noor Afza, Saad, Natrah, Awalludin, Noor Rohin

“…The environmental issue in Malaysia has a long history, which began with river pollution because of tin mining operations.It has now become more critical as air pollution and waste disposal by the hotel industry have a negative impact on the environment.A total of 86 questionnaires were received from four-star and five-star hotels in Selangor, Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya.The dependent variable is green practices, while the independent variables are motivational factors and barriers. …”
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A wireless, battery-free device enables oxygen generation and immune protection of therapeutic xenotransplants in vivo by Krishnan, Siddharth R, Liu, Claudia, Bochenek, Matthew A, Bose, Suman, Khatib, Nima, Walters, Ben, O’Keeffe, Laura, Facklam, Amanda, Langer, Robert, Anderson, Daniel G

“…The immune isolation of cells within devices has the potential to enable long-term protein replacement and functional cures for a range of diseases, without requiring immune suppressive therapy. …”
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A deep learning-based fault detection and classification in smart electrical power transmission system by Khaleefah, Shihab Hamad, Mostafa, Salama A., Gunasekaran, Saraswathy Shamini, Khattak, Umar Farooq, Siti Salwani, Yaacob, Alanda, Alde

“…Electrical Power Transmission Networks (EPTN) are made of many complex, dynamic, and interrelated components. The transmission lines are essential components of the EPTN, and their fundamental duty is to transport electricity from the source area to the distribution network. …”
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Quantifying uncertainties in tropical cyclone wind hazard assessment due to synthetic track stochastic variability for Southeast Asia by Jian, Wei, Lo, Edmond Yat-Man, Stojanovski, Pane, Pan, Tso-Chien

“…Influence from other track parameters, such as TC size and forward speed, can become important for long exposure of TC trajectories. Such insights enable better understanding on the key drivers of sensitivities in the probabilistic hazard maps. …”
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EMS of hybrid AC/DC micro grid by Zhao, Yi

“…The issues coming along with traditional power system can be terrible for the environments, such as large use of fossil fuels, coal; long distance of transmission lines also will cause the cost of money and fuels for the electricity transmission process. …”
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Multifunctional Wireless Gut-Brain Neurotechnology by Sahasrabudhe, Atharva

“…This approach produces meters-long continuous fibers that can integrate light sources, electrodes, thermal sensors, and microfluidic channels in a miniature footprint. …”
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Essays on oil price fluctuations, financial markets and international trade by Le, Thai Ha

“…The third essay aims to examine whether a large part of the variability of trade balances and their oil and non-oil components is associated with oil price fluctuations. The long-run causality running from oil price to overall, oil and non-oil trade balances and their short-run dynamics are investigated by applying the Toda-Yamamoto’s 1995 (TY) causality approach and generalized impulse response functions (IRFs), respectively to the monthly data spanning from January 1999 to November 2011. …”
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Triggered slip along the San Andreas fault after the 8 July 1986 North Palm Springs earthquake by Williams, Patrick L., McGill, Sally Fagerson, Sieh, Kerry, Allen, Clarence R., Louie, John N.

“…On Durmid Hill, surface cracks in 1986 were localized along a 200-m-long stretch of the fault spanning the Mecca Beach creepmeter and extending about 150 m to the southeast. …”
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Missing Data by Jungs de Almeida, Alessandra, Klein, Lauren, D’Ignazio, Catherine

“…While some might refer to data that is literally absent, as in statistical approaches to missing data that attempts to interpolate what might fill in the gaps,1 others, such as the artist and educator Mimi Ọnụọha, take “missing data” to mean something more political — “something [that] does not exist, but it should.”2 In the same line as Ọnụọha, our definition of missing data refers to information that goes uncounted (or otherwise unrecorded), despite social and political demands that such data should be collected and made available. …”
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A training algorithm and stability analysis for recurrent neural networks by Xu, Zhao, Song, Qing, Wang, Danwei, Fan, Haijin

“…Besides, the transient response of learning process of RNNs is a critical issue, especially for on-line applications. Conventional RNNs training algorithms such as the backpropagation through time (BPTT) and real-time recurrent learning (RTRL) have not adequately satisfied these requirements because they often suffer from slow convergence speed. …”
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PPARβ/δ prevents endoplasmic reticulum stress-associated inflammation and insulin resistance in skeletal muscle cells through an AMPK-dependent mechanism by Salvadó, Laia, Barroso, Emma, Gómez-Foix, Anna Maria, Palomer, Xavier, Michalik, Liliane, Wahli, Walter, Vázquez-Carrera, Manuel

“…Methods Studies were conducted in mouse C2C12 myotubes, in the human myogenic cell line LHCN-M2 and in skeletal muscle from wild-type and PPARβ/δ-deficient mice and mice exposed to a high-fat diet. …”
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