Preface : two dimensional (2D) hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites by Li, Wei, Docampo, Pablo, Mohite, Aditya D., Zhang, Hua

“…2D hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites (HOIPs) have been intensively investigated over the past 30 years before the rise of photovoltaic 3D hybrid perovskites. …”
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A sustainable approach to individualized disease treatment : The engineering of a multiple use MEMS drug delivery device by Tng, Danny Jian Hang, Song, Peiyi, Hu, Rui, Lin, Guimiao, Yong, Ken-Tye

“…Individualized disease diagnosis and therapy has emerged as a new direction in the research of future medication. Over the past several years, innovative approaches based on microelectromechanical system (MEMS) technology have demonstrated promising potential in individualized therapy. …”
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Mitigating the impact of node mobility using mobile backbone for heterogeneous MANETs by Xia, Yang, Yeo, Chai Kiat

“…Routing in Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET) has been an active research area in the past few years. It is observed that as the mobility of nodes increases, the performance of existing cluster based routing protocols tends to deteriorate rapidly. …”
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The temporality of building: European and Chinese perspectives on architecture and heritage by Gao, Yun, Temple, Nicholas, Xiao, Jing

“…Through these lenses, buildings, interiors and their exterior spaces (churches/cathedrals, temples, palaces, gardens and courtyard houses) are explored to demonstrate how building time involves particular situations/settings and their correlating relationships to past traditions. In the final chapter we consider notions of time in the context of contemporary buildings in Europe and China, drawing on the earlier historical investigations and addressing globalising influences. …”
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tobac v1.5: introducing fast 3D tracking, splits and mergers, and other enhancements for identifying and analysing meteorological phenomena by Sokolowsky, GA, Freeman, SW, Jones, WK, Kukulies, J, Senf, F, Marinescu, PJ, Heikenfeld, M, Brunner, KN, Bruning, EC, Collis, SM, Jackson, RC, Leung, GR, Pfeifer, N, Raut, BA, Saleeby, SM, Stier, P, van den Heever, SC

“…The Tracking and Object-Based Analysis of Clouds (tobac) Python package is a modular, open-source tool that improves on the overall generality and utility of past tools. A number of scientific improvements (three spatial dimensions, splits and mergers of features, an internal spectral filtering tool) and procedural enhancements (increased computational efficiency, internal regridding of data, and treatments for periodic boundary conditions) have been included in tobac as a part of the tobac v1.5 update. …”

Information gathering: dissociable effects of autistic and alexithymic traits in youths aged 6–25 years by Lee, KS, Long, EL, Catmur, C, Hauser, TU, Bird, G

“…Little is known about the cognitive processes associated with this intolerance of uncertainty, most notably the tendency to actively gather information to minimize uncertainty. Past research has relied on self-report measures that may not allow investigation of the multifaceted processes associated with intolerance of uncertainty, including information gathering. …”

Just nature recovery: a framework for centring multispecies and multi-dimensional justice in land management by Stanley, T, Hirons, M, Turnbull, J, Lorimer, J, Kumeh, E, Hafferty, C, Anderson, L, McDermott, C

“…This paper examines how different framings of justice, and different approaches to nature recovery, interact to either retrench or redress past and present injustices in a range of Scottish examples. …”

Spatial mapping of the seismic vulnerability index in Kathmandu Valley: insight from dominant frequency and amplification factor by Poudyal, Dibyashree, Nordin, Norhaiza, Roslan, Siti Nur Aliaa, Dahal, Bhim Kumar

“…Kathmandu Valley situated in Nepal has experienced several earthquakes in the past. The expanding population of Kathmandu Valley is driving a significant acceleration in building construction reaching record levels and posing risks to both human lives and the economy, despite this surge in development. …”
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Translator’s visibility in mediating confrontational responses of “challenge” strategy at China’s diplomatic press conferences by Yang, Wei, Mansor, Nor Shahila, Ang, Lay Hoon, Yang, Mingxing

“…The study aims to unveil how translators deal with confrontational responses through their visibility in translating the diplomatic discourse of China’s diplomatic press conferences. Distinct from past theoretical frameworks, this study is grounded in the impoliteness strategies model (Bousfield, 2008) and the concept of translator’s visibility. …”
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Factors influencing employee motivation in the Malaysian banking industry by Pereira, Dalina Alpons, Abdullah, Meor Rashydan, Wider, Walton, Tanucan, Jem Cloyd M., Lee, Harvey Pak Ting, Jiang, Leilei, Udang, Lester Naces

“…The study utilised a cross-sectional design, and the research instruments were adapted from a number of past studies. A total of 350 respondents from the Malaysian banking industry were recruited. …”
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Takaful Product in Islamic Estate Planning by Azhar, Alias, Che Arshad, Noraziah

“…The benefits can be enjoyed by family from the takaful product will be the Islamic estate of a continuity guarantee after the contributor past away. Aspiring by this issue, this paper will focus on two fold. …”
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Formulation of A New Product Development Process Innovation Framework for Malaysian SMEs by Abu, Noor Hidayah, Mansor, Mohd Fitri

“…This study will investigate the characteristics of the process innovation frameworks proposed by past studies to provide an understanding on the similarities and differences between all the frameworks. …”
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Endoscopic third ventriculostomy (ETV) for idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH) by Tudor, Katarina Ivana, Tudor, Mario, McCleery, Jenny, Car, Josip

“…Patients had to have at least two symptoms of the Hakim-Adams triad. Exclusion criteria were obstructive causes of hydrocephalus, other significant intracranial pathology and other confirmed causes of dementia. …”
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Therapeutic effects of Cosmos caudatus kunth leaf extract in the prevention and treament of obesity in sprague dawley rats by Abdul Rahman, Hafeedza

“…Lean and obese rats were clearly discriminated from each other on Orthogonal partial least square (OPLS-DA) score plot proving the ability of the high fat diet used in inducing obesity. …”
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A review on synergistic coexisting pollutants for efficient photocatalytic reaction in wastewater remediation by F. F.A., Aziz, Aishah, Abdul Jalil, Nurul Sahida, Hassan, Anees Ameera, Fauzi, M. S., Azami, N. W.C., Jusoh, Rohayu, Jusoh

“…Simultaneous removal of dual pollutants via photocatalytic redox reaction has been tremendously explored in the last five years due to effective decontamination of pollutants compared to a single pollutants system. …”
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Homebuyer complaints during defect liability period: Critical analysis of individual presumptions, defect discovery and post-rectifications factors by Mohd Saufi, ., Liyana, Mohamed Yusof, Rahimi, A. Rahman

“…The survey data were collected from 104 homebuyers who had acquired new houses within the last five years. The collected data were subjected to statistical analyses, including normalized mean analysis, Kruskal–Wallis H test, factor analysis and fuzzy synthetic evaluation. …”
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In Search of the Promised Land: County-Level Disadvantage and Low Birth Weight among Black Mothers of the Great Migration by Vu, Cecilia, Arcaya, Mariana C., Kawachi, Ichiro, Williams, David R.

“…This study measured the association between destination county disadvantage and odds of low birth weight during the last decade of the Great Migration. We used the US Census from 1970 as well as the birth records of first-time Black mothers who migrated from the South collected through the National Center of Health Statistics from 1973 to 1980 (n = 154,145). …”
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An Effective Med-VQA Method Using a Transformer with Weights Fusion of Multiple Fine-Tuned Models by Al-Hadhrami, Suheer, Menai, Mohamed El Bachir, Al-Ahmadi, Saad, Alnafessah, Ahmad

“…In the SOTA medical VQA, selecting the model is based on the model that achieves the highest validation accuracy or the last model in training. The first proposed model, the best-value-based model, is selected based on the highest validation accuracy. …”
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Synthesis and Characteristics of Transferrable Single‐Crystalline AlN Nanomembranes by Gong, Jiarui, Zhou, Jie, Wang, Ping, Kim, Tae‐Hyeon, Lu, Kuangye, Min, Seunghwan, Singh, Ranveer, Sheikhi, Moheb, Abbasi, Haris Naeem, Vincent, Daniel, Wang, Ding, Campbell, Neil, Grotjohn, Timothy, Rzchowski, Mark, Kim, Jeehwan, Yu, Edward T., Mi, Zetian, Ma, Zhenqiang

“…Single‐crystalline inorganic semiconductor nanomembranes (NMs) have attracted great attention over the last decade, which poses great advantages to complex device integration. …”
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Critical appraisal of machine learning prognostic models for acute pancreatitis: protocol for a systematic review by Hassan, Amier, Critelli, Brian, Lahooti, Ila, Lahooti, Ali, Matzko, Nate, Adams, Jan Niklas, Liss, Lukas, Quion, Justin, Restrepo, David, Nikahd, Melica, Culp, Stacey, Noh, Lydia, Tong, Kathleen, Park, Jun Sung, Akshintala, Venkata, Windsor, John A., Mull, Nikhil K., Papachristou, Georgios I., Celi, Leo Anthony, Lee, Peter J.

“…Despite several published studies in the last three decades, the predictive performance of published prognostic models has been found to be suboptimal. …”
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