Malaysia-China defence ties: managing feud in the South China sea by Ngeow, Chow Bing

“…An unwritten mutual understanding seems to help both sides to contain their respective actions in the South China Sea within certain limits.…”
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Overall quality of life perception among occupants of green and non-green office buildings in Malaysia by Laiche, Abdelfatah Bousbia, Dahlan, Nur Dalilah, Shari, Zalina, Zaky Jaafar, Mohamad Fakri

“…Indoor environmental quality (IEQ) has become an important component of building design because people tend to spend the majority of their time indoors. …”
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Reasonable accommodation, career development, and psychological well-being: autoethnography as a method of qualitative research by Gulyamova, Saodat Tolibovna, Jamiah Manap, Aizan Sofia Amin, Nik Hairi Omar

“…Individuals with health issues and disabilities tend to encounter difficulties in the workplace, including decreased productivity and lower job performance compared to those without such problems. …”
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Burnout among expatriate and local instructors in Oman by Mukundan, Jayakaran, Geng, Hui, Nimehchisalem, Vahid, Al-Busaidi, Saleh

“…Male instructors with lower educational qualifications, lower incomes, and local citizenship generally exhibit higher levels of DP compared to their counterparts. Female instructors tend to display higher levels of PA than their male counterparts. …”
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Performance of a novel LED lamp arrangement to reduce SNR fluctuation for multi-user visible light communication systems by Wang, Zixiong, Yu, Changyuan, Zhong, Wende, Chen, Jian, Chen, Wei

“…After time domain zero-forcing (ZF) equalization, the BER performances and channel capacities of 100-Mbit/s and 200-Mbit/s bipolar on-off-keying (OOK) signal with most significant inter-symbol interference (ISI) are very close to that of the channel without any ISI caused by this LED lamp arrangement.…”
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Density, laying date, breeding success and diet of Black Kites Milvus migrans govinda in the city of Delhi (India) by Kumar, N, Mohan, D, Jhala, YV, Qureshi, Q, Sergio, F

“…</p> <p><strong>Conclusions</strong> Density has been stable since 1960–1970s and probably represents the highest ever recorded for a raptor. …”

Agamben's understanding of time and its implications for Christology by Wright, O

“…Whilst the contemporary reception of Agamben tends to treat these earlier theological discussions as anomalies, it is clear from the relative silence which has greeted the more recent works that a consistent force of theological thinking has not yet been perceived. …”

Topic extraction and sentiment analysis of subreddit - /r/Singapore by Lim, Shaun Wei Min

“…An essential part of understanding how humans interact with one another linked with their respective personalities has always been through finding out what they are thinking about. …”
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A multidomain relational framework to guide institutional AI research and adoption by Straub, VJ, Morgan, D, Hashem, Y, Francis, J, Esnaashari, S, Bright, J

“…Yet, most research and policy efforts aimed at understanding the implications of adopting AI tend to prioritize only a handful of ideas; they do not fully connect all the different perspectives and topics that are potentially relevant. …”

Synthesis and gas sensing property of electrospun titanium dioxide microfiber for the application of personal protective equipment by Apiwattanadej, Thanit

“…The x-ray diffraction results show that the crystallite structures of TiO2 microfiber are controllable by the annealing temperature. The anatase phase tends to dominate in TiO2 microfiber at the curing temperature of 500oC, while rutile phase is dominant at the curing temperature of 700oC. …”
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Lamaholot of East Flores: a study of a boundary community by Modh, SV

“…The current fieldsite seems to have been part of the ceremonial system of Ata Tana ‘Ai and also to have shared a tradition of dispersed settlement in the gardens. …”

Next ASEAN Summit : How Will Vietnam Lead? by Hussain, Nazia

“…While China is fast making inroads, US seems to be withdrawing from a region it has long dominated. …”
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Xi's 'balance of interest solution': pre-empting an Asian NATO? by Suryanarayana, P. S.

“…Chinese President Xi Jinping has suggested a “balanced, effective and sustainable security architecture” to manage the fallout of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and to ensure stability regionally and worldwide. He seems to suggest that the balance of national interests, not balance of power, is better at promoting a regional order for Asia or East Asia too.…”
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Quantifying thermophysical properties, characterization, and thermal cycle testing of nano-enhanced organic eutectic phase change materials for thermal energy storage applications by Jacob, Jeeja, Kumar Pandey, Adarsh Kumar, Nasrudin, Abd Rahim, Selvaraj, Jeyraj, Paul Nadakkal, John, Samykano, Mahendran, Saidur, Rahman Md

“…Dispersion of highly conductive nanoparticles in Phase Change Materials (PCMs) tends to improve the thermophysical properties of nanocomposites. …”
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以日本视角论述钓鱼群岛（尖阁诸岛）的主权归属 = The sovereignty of Diaoyu (Senkaku) Islands : the Japanese perspective by 刘志强 Liu, Zhiqiang

“…Why are the Japanese laying claims to the Diaoyu Islands when the islands have been a part of the Chinese territory since ancient times? …”
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Modulating the coordination environment of Co single-atom catalysts: impact on lithium-sulfur battery performance by Li, Yi, Chen, Zhaoyang, Zhong, Xin-Yu, Mei, Tiehan, Li, Zhao, Yue, Liang, Yang, Jin-Lin, Fan, Hong Jin, Xu, Maowen

“…Although substituting N atoms in traditional transition metal-nitrogen (TM-N4) configuration with other non-metal atoms has been reported, its specific role in sulfur electrochemical reactions has not been sufficiently investigated. …”
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Creating functionally graded concrete materials with varying 3D printing parameters by Tay, Daniel Yi Wei, Lim, Jian Hui, Li, Mingyang, Tan, Ming Jen

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The role of polarity in nonplanar semiconductor nanostructures by de la Mata, María, Zamani, Reza R., Martí-Sánchez, Sara, Eickhoff, Martin, Xiong, Qihua, Fontcuberta i Morral, Anna, Caroff, Philippe, Arbiol, Jordi

“…Interestingly, their physical properties (e.g., electronic or photonic) and morphological features (e.g., shape, growth direction, and so forth) also strongly depend on the polarity. It has been observed that nanoscale materials tend to grow with a specific polarity, which can eventually be reversed for very specific growth conditions. …”
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Modelling insight as a creative domain: process or phenomenology? by Ormerod, Thomas C., Ross, Wendy

“…We conclude with a call to generate multiple research pathways, one examining the phenomenology of the feeling of insight, the other returning to tackle unanswered questions about the process of generating novel understanding when faced with a problem which seems unsurmountable.…”
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Enzymatic transesterification of palm olein with nonspecific and 1,3-specific lipases by Ghazali, H.M., Hamidah, S., Che Man, Y.B.

“…The effects of transesterification and hydrolysis of palm olein by the various lipases resulted in changes in the overall degree of saturation of the triglyceride components. There seems to be no clear correlation between the enzyme positional specificity and the products formed. …”