Noise matters in image restoration: from synthetic degradation to real-world challenges by Guo, Lanqing

“…Image restoration (IR) plays a crucial role in recovering high-quality image content from degraded observations, finding applications in surveillance, computational photography, and medical imaging. …”
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Plan Implementation Challenges in a Shrinking City: A Conformance Evaluation of Youngstown’s (OH) Comprehensive Plan With a Subsequent Zoning Code by Ryan, Brent D., Gao, Shuqi

“…Translating comprehensive plan ideas into zoning regulations may be subject to political, social, economic, and legal forces that limit plan enactment. These findings may apply to all cases where comprehensive plans require translation into zoning regulations for implementation. …”
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Three essays on corporate finance by Fu, Kangkang

“…Overall, our findings imply that being environmentally responsible can enhance firms’ debt capacity and improve the availability of bank credit. …”
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A correlational study between creative thinking ability and the performance of open-ended science investigations for secondary two female students by Md. Shahrin K.S. Moorthy.

“…The study was conducted with only secondary two female students as the researcher intended to use the findings in his current assignment in an all-girls Independent school.…”
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Adverse events of common psychiatric medications: an umbrella review by Bartellas, K

“…A quality analysis was performed on included reviews using the AMSTAR (assessing the methodological quality of systematic reviews) tool and all were rated as medium or high quality reviews.…”

Private, non-profit, and plantation: Oil palm smallholders in management-assistance programs vary in socio-demographics, attitudes, and management practices by Reiss-Woolever, VJ, Wakhid, W, Ikhsan, M, Caliman, J, Naim, M, Azmi, EN, Shufiyan, S, Howes, J, Azmi, R, Ying Lim, Y, Abdul Jan, SZ, Barrock, I, Azhar, B, Drewer, J, Ward, C, Jones, JA, Luke, SH, Turner, EC, Hidayat, P, Buchori, D

“…In Malaysia, farmers partnered with an NGO also had higher yield and fertilizer application than independent farmers, however they used significantly more herbicide and had lower total household income. Our findings demonstrate the wide variety of smallholder farmers in both regions, directly opposing a ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to sustainability. …”

Experimental medicine study with stabilised native-like HIV-1 Env immunogens drives long-term antibody responses, but lacks neutralising breadth by Pollock, K, Cheeseman, H, McFarlane, L, Day, S, Tolazzi, M, Turner, H, Joypooranachandran, J, Shramko, K, Dispinseri, S, Mundsperger, P, Bontjer, I, Lemm, N-M, Coelho, S, Tanaka, M, Cole, T, Korber, B, Katinger, D, Ward, A, Scarlatti, G, Sanders, R, Sattentau, Q, Shattock, R

“…</p> <br> <p><strong>Findings:</strong> Fifty-one participants (men n=23 and women n=28) aged 18-55 were enrolled. …”

Pathways to virality : psychophysiological responses preceding likes, shares, comments, and status updates on Facebook by Alhabash, Saleem, Almutairi Nasser, Lou, Chen, Kim, Wonkyung

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Life is too short to be small: an experiment on mortality salience and prosocial behavior by Bao, Te, Li, Xun, Xia, Congling

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Sustainability risk management: exploring the role of artificial intelligence capabilities through an information-processing lens by Kong, Kai Yuan, Yuen, Kum Fai

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The spreadsheet : is it an asset in an accountants balance sheet? by Heng, Stefanie Gek Hiong, Ng, Jane Sook Yin, Sia, Valerie Puay Khim

“…However, the survey findings also disclosed that Lotus is the second most popular spreadsheet, after Excel. …”
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Personal and academic multicultural experiences, perceived multicultural counselling competence and multicultural counselling self-efficacy among Malaysian counsellor trainees by Harun, Maizatul Mardiana, Wan Jaafar, Wan Marzuki, Ismail, Asmah, Arifin, Suhaili

“…According to the study’s findings, counsellor trainees scored high on academic multicultural experience but low on personal multicultural experience. …”
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Impact of internal branding and corporate culture on employee brand support and the role of corporate identity as mediator by Razak, Muhammad Nur Fitri

“…The second analysis supported these findings by pointing out a weak topic proportion on the halal brand identity discussion globally. …”
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Is online shopping a trick or treat? understanding the perceptions of generation Z towards purchasing through tourism e-commerce platforms by Chin, Chee-Hua, Wong, Winnie Poh-Ming, Cham, Tat-Huei, Kumarusamy, Risidaxshinni

“…The study's insights are particularly aligned with and meaningful for Sarawak's digital economy initiatives. © 2024, Asia Business Research Corporation. All rights reserved.…”
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Public confidence in the auditing profession by Loh, Mei San, Ng, Meow Ling, Tay, Janice Su-Ting

“…How do the users of audited financial information perceive the profession and the work performed by the auditors with all the happenings to the profession? Is the profession able to maintain its credibility and usefulness now? …”
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Paternal parenting behaviour, self-esteem, and psychological health of adolescents in Malaysia by Yahya, Amira Najiha

“…Prior to the structural model testing, all of the study measures were validated using confirmatory factor analysis. …”
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Determining climate in a new primary school by Rohani Ahmad.

“…The School Climate Questionnaire was administered to all teachers and it was used to extract useful information to assess climate. …”
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Gaps in Singapore’s 3Ms healthcare safety net : the 4th M – membership. by Koh, Jansen Zhi Xiong., Goh, Shu Jun., Teng, Jessica Shu Jiao.

“…To strengthen the safety net, we propose a radical inclusion into Singapore's healthcare system: the 4th M, Membership – A flat rate all-inclusive Medishield.…”
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Sensory, motor, and emotion associations for landscape concepts differ across neighbouring speech communities by Striedl, P, Majid, A, Purves, RS

“…A long-standing debate centres around our mental representation of landscape: is it experienced in largely the same way across all humans or is it shaped to some extent by cultural and linguistic experience? …”

Impact of fiscal spending, financial inclusion on financial stability by Duan, Chengyonghui, Soh, Wei Ni

“…This empirical study analyzes the impact of fiscal expenditure and financial inclusion on financial stability using panel data from 31 Chinese provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government) from 2011 to 2022. The study findings suggest that fiscal expenditures, financial inclusion, and technological development all improve financial stability. …”
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