Changes in the phenomenon of icon-painting in Romania from the second half of the nineteenth century to the present day by Draghici-Vasilescu, N

“…<p>The thesis aims to prove, on the one hand that the second half of the nineteenth century was the period of maximum deviation from the traditional Romanian style of icon-painting and, on the other hand, that the process following the Romanian Orthodox Church's Synod of 1889, in spite of the proclaimed return to a pure Byzantine style, actually has involved the coexistence of at least two main styles of painting: Eastern Mannerist of Byzantine lineage and Western Mannerist of <em>Renaissance</em> persuasion. …”

Energy democracy, public participation, and support for local energy system change in Canada by Fiander, J, Walker, C, Rowlands, IH, Devine-Wright, P, Wilson, C, Soutar, I, Gupta, R

“…Through descriptive statistics and t-tests, we sought to answer three main questions: i) To what extent does the public support energy democracy via new local energy systems? …”

Simulating impacts of reducing subsidies to Kuwait’s electricity sector by Gelan, A

“…This article will shed some light on the likely impacts of the envisaged reform and summarizes some of our main conclusions from a forthcoming study, whose objective is to quantify economy-wide impacts of public utility reform that may start by targeting the reduction of electricity subsidies. …”

AXES at TRECVID 2012: KIS, INS, and MED by Aly, R, Mcguinness, K, Chen, S, O'Conner, NE, Chatfield, K, Parkhi, OM, Arandjelović, R, Zisserman, A, Fernando, B, Tuytelaars, T, Oneata, D, Douze, M, Revaud, J, Schwenninger, J, Potapov, D, Wang, H, Harchaoui, Z, Verbeek, J, Schmid, C

“…Our MED system achieved the second-best score of all submitted runs in the main track, and best score in the ad-hoc track, suggesting that a simple system based on state-of-the-art low-level descriptors can give relatively high performance. …”

Sampling from the random cluster model on random regular graphs at all temperatures via Glauber dynamics by Galanis, A, Goldberg, L, Smolarova, P

“…Nevertheless, it is widely conjectured that the bottleneck phenomena that impede mixing from worst-case starting configurations can be avoided by initialising the chain more judiciously. Our main result establishes this conjecture for all sufficiently large q (with respect to Δ). …”

'(Un)richtige Aufnahme': Renaissance sculpture and the visual historiography of art history by Johnson, GA

“…asked Heinrich Wölfflin in the titles of three ground-breaking articles on the subject published in 1896–97 and 1915 (plate 1).1 Few art historians have seriously considered the question, not just in regard to photographing Italian Renaissance sculpture, which was Wölfflin's main concern in these publications, but works of art in general.2 Examining both how and why art works have been photographed and otherwise reproduced, however, can tell us a great deal about what one might call the ‘visual historiography’ of art history as a discipline. …”

‘It's the little things that count’: healthcare professionals’ views on delivering dignified care: a qualitative study by Williams, V, Kinnear, D, Victor, C

“…<p><b>Findings</b></p> Forty-eight healthcare professionals took part in this interview based study. Two main themes that encapsulated how care and dignity in care is enacted by professionals were identified: focusing on the ‘little’ things that matter to both professionals and patients; and improving care by making poor care ‘visible’. …”

Tropical Deep Convection, Cloud Feedbacks and Climate Sensitivity by Stephens, GL, Shiro, KA, Hakuba, MZ, Takahashi, H, Pilewskie, JA, Andrews, T, Stubenrauch, CJ, Wu, L

“…These observations reveal a tight coupling of the two main components of the diabatic heating, the cloud component of radiative heating, shaped mostly by high clouds formed by deep convection, and the latent heating associated with the precipitation. …”

Knowledge mapping and trend analysis of disaster mitigation research in the Sulawesi Islands of Indonesia: a bibliometric study using VOSviewer by Muhammad Ahsan Samad, Kadir Arifin, Azlan Abas, Tiwi Eka Sari

“…Research findings show that the four main types of disasters are floods, landslides, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis. disaster mitigation in Sulawesi. …”
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Factors influencing Malays as a second language learning in essay writing: a case study of Iban ethnic students in Sarawak, Malaysia by Edmund Austrus, Zamri Mahamod, Norhafizah Adnan

“…The findings identified three main factors: (i) mother tongue factors influence, (ii) linguistic environment factors influence, and (iii) psychological factors influence. …”
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Examining the influence of departure levy on air travel intentions: an empirical study in Malaysia by Nur Aaina Aqilah Jamaluddin, Mohd Rizal Palil, Tamat Sarmidi, Lokhman Hakim Osman

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Characteristics of board and shariah board on risk-taking and performance: evidence from Takaful operators in Malaysia by Ainulashikin Marzuki, Nurul Nazlia Jamil, Muhamad Azhari Wahid, Wan Amalina Wan Abdullah

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Predicting EFL expository writing quality with measures of lexical richness by Yang, Yang, Yap, Ngee Thai, Mohamad Ali, Afida

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The origin of cultivated mangosteen (Garcinia mangostana L. var. mangostana): critical assessments and an evolutionary-ecological perspective by Yao, T. L., Nazre, M., McKey, D., Jalonen, R., Duminil, J.

“…When possible, we support our interpretations with field observations and examination of herbarium specimens. We outline the main biological traits (e.g., dioecy, facultative apomixis, and polyploidy) of mangosteen and its wild relatives to infer traits that might have evolved during domestication of mangosteen. …”
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A review on lactic acid production via microbial fermentation from biowaste: insights on scaling up to industrial process by Haris, Nur Izzah Nabilah, Salleh, Shanti Faridah, Nolasco‐Hipolito, Cirilo, Awang Husaini, Awang Ahmad Sallehin, Wondi, Mohd Hafizz, Harun, Nur Haninah, Abdul Raof, Nurliyana

“…Based on the review, the biowastes used for LA fermentation can be categorized into four main groups: starchy materials, lignocellulosic materials, food and dairy wastes. …”

Knowledge and practices on fire safety among undergraduates of school of health sciences in health campus, USM by Shahiran, Amirah Balqis Muhamad

“…Several Malaysian residential colleges were built in the 1990s including Desasiswa at Health Campus USM. The main objective of this study is to assess the level of knowledge and practice of fire safety and identify the relationship between both knowledge and practices of students at the USM Health Campus. …”
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Design and dynamic stiffness evaluation of magnetorheologicalelastomer bushing using FEMM and dynamic testing machine by Abdul Hamid, Mohamad Ihsan, Mazlan, Saiful Amri, Nordin, Nur Azmah

“…Furthermore, the electromagnetic simulations were conducted by using Finite Element Method Magnetics (FEMM) software where the main aim is for more magnetic flux density in the MRE, which indicates better performances for MRE bushing in this study. …”
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Community concerns on migrant labour settlement issues in Malaysia by Izhar, Asma Idayu, Choong, Weng Wai

“…Notably, the NIMBY phenomenon may occur due to various reasoning that associate with the locals’ main concerns. Furthermore, the NIMBY phenomenon occurrence towards the development of migrant labour settlement is also reviewed. …”
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Community concerns on migrant labour settlement issues in Malaysia by Izhar, Asma Idayu, Choong, Weng Wai

“…Notably, the NIMBY phenomenon may occur due to various reasoning that associate with the locals’ main concerns. Furthermore, the NIMBY phenomenon occurrence towards the development of migrant labour settlement is also reviewed. …”
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Relay coordination planning for high photovoltaic penetration using preset-time method by Abdulkareem, Ahmed Abduljabbar, Md. Rasid, Madihah, Jamian, Jasrul Jamani, Md. Sapari, Norazliani

“…In light of the advancement and technological development, electricity has become the main component of all areas of life. Photovoltaic (PV) systems are widely used within distribution networks. …”
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