Two Paths: Why States Join or Avoid China’s Belt and Road Initiative by Atkins, Eleanor, Fravel, M Taylor, Wang, Raymond, Ackert, Nick, Huang, Sihao

“…Although China’s motives for developing the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) have been well studied, scholars have yet to comprehensively examine why states seek to join the initiative. We fill this gap by examining how and why states join the BRI. …”
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Preparation and characterization of photo electrochemical cells based on nanostructured ZnO and multiwalled carbon nanotubes by Ayu, Aaron Alexander

“…The emphasis of this project is to find a cheap and suitable semiconductor and to study its potential and efficiency in water splitting, in order to generate H2 gas for usage as a renewable source of fuel. …”
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E-Government Practices and Organizational Performance in Malaysia Local Governments by Husin, Rohana, Othman, Abdul Aziz, Othman, Zakirah, Baharom, Norashikin

“…Therefore, the study's findings conclude that the direct relationship is not significant. …”
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Crowdsourcing as Reflective Political Practice: Building a Location-based Tool for Civic Learning and Engagement by Graeff, Erhardt

“…This paper responds to the design challenge and research question: How do you address barriers to “minimum effective engagement” in community projects, and ensure that all citizens can have their voice heard on how to improve their local communities? …”
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Another decade of photoacoustic imaging by Das, Dhiman, Sharma, Arunima, Rajendran, Praveenbalaji, Pramanik, Manojit

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Controlling directed networks with evolving topologies by Li, Guoqi, Ding, Jie, Wen, Changyun, Wang, Lei, Guo, Fanghong

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Using machine learning to generate novel hypotheses: increasing optimism about COVID-19 makes people less willing to justify unethical behaviors by Sheetal, Abhishek, Feng, Zhiyu, Savani, Krishna

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Political corruption and accounting choices by Zhang, Huai, Zhang, Jin

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Reversion of catalyst valence states for highly efficient water oxidation by Huang, Xiaolei, Wang, Fenghe, Ma, Lipo, Wang, Jiawei, Zhang, Tianyi, Hao, Xiaoyu, Chi, Xiao, Cheng, Hao, Yang, Ming, Ding, Jun, Ang, Diing Shenp

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Index learning style data processing application by Yew, Shao Jie

“…This led teachers to finding out suitable learning styles for their learners. …”
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Words of liberty: the origins and evolution of constitutional ideas by Versteeg, M

“…</p> <p>This thesis's most important finding is that constitutions are inherently “transnational” documents. …”

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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Novel level set based statistical frameworks for segmentation of MR images by Mahshid Farzinfar

“…They could also be applied to neuroscience studies in finding new diseases related to anatomical characteristics and the increase in reliability in diagnosing of illnesses such as schizophrenia.…”
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React based web-application for stock price forecasting with a novel stacking algorithm by Mittal, Madhav

“…The “Last Value” algorithm is a naïve algorithm that assumes zero volatility in the data and thus sets all forecasts to be the value of the last observation. …”
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Studies of gallium nitride (GaN) based high electron mobility transistor (HEMTS) by Ong, Eugene Wei Han

“…GaN (Gallium Nitride) on High Electron Mobility Transistors (HEMTs) has been developed since the early 2000s, however, it is not till recent times that it is commercialised and used for an impressive array of technologically advanced advents. …”
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Unveiling the future of budget hotels in Singapore by Chua, Hwee Lian, Kew, Wong Yip, Soh, Wee Li

“…These include using Porter's five forces model to define the external environment in which budget hotels operate and a SWOT analysis to function as an internal check. The findings of this study point towards a shortage of budget hotels that is likely to persist till 1995. …”
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Pear person-centred care for dementia patients (front end Android app) by Ng, Jian Xiong

“…The absence of medical treatment for dementia till today, had sparks researchers around the globe to find a breakthrough in the treatment one day. …”
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Local climate action from the middle-out: the social potential of craft guilds to facilitate low-carbon installations in Germany by Wehden, S, Janda, KB, Jansen, J, Creutzig, F

“…However, research on effective governance arrangements targeting this ‘installation bottleneck’ is limited. To fill this gap, we adopt a Middle-Out Perspective (MOP) and use rich qualitative data including in-depth interviews to study the role of craft guilds within Germany's low-carbon transition, particularly in rooftop photovoltaic and heat pump installation. …”

Doctor, Will You Pray for Me? : Medicine, Chaplains, and Healing the Whole Person / by Klitzman, Robert, author 655971

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The quality/cosmology tension for a post-inflation QCD axion by Lu, Qianshu, Reece, Matthew, Sun, Zhiquan

“…We emphasize that the gauge equivalence of all minima of the axion potential (i.e., domain wall number equals one) is insufficient to solve the cosmological domain wall problem. …”
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