Sustainable finance: ESG/CSR, firm value, and investment returns by Chang, Xin, Fu, Kangkang, Jin, Yaling, Liem, Pei Fun

“…Collectively, empirical evidence supports that they increase firm value by motivating employees, strengthening customer–supplier relationships, boosting long-term growth, increasing dividends, and reducing financing costs. …”
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Elucidating the role of ligand engineering on local and macroscopic charge-carrier transport in NaBiS2 nanocrystal thin films by Huang, Y-T, Schleuning, M, Hempel, H, Zhang, Y, Rusu, M, Unold, T, Musiienko, A, Karalis, O, Nora, J, Szymon, Z, Andrew, B, Natalie, N, Weixin, S, Louise, H, Sirringhaus, H, Stranks, S, Rao, A, Robert, H

“…Ternary chalcogenides have emerged as potential candidates for ultrathin photovoltaics, and NaBiS2 nanocrystals (NCs) have gained appeal because of their months-long phase-stability in air, high absorption coefficients >105 cm−1, and a pseudo-direct bandgap of 1.4 eV. …”

Tropical peat soil changes across successive oil palm generations in Sarawak, Malaysia by Ratai, Jicqueline, Teh, Christopher Boon Sung, Tan, Ngai Paing, Mohidin, Hasmah, Goh, Kah Joo, Sangok, Faustina Elfrida, Melling, Lulie

“…This cyclical planting practice in oil palm plantations could have long-term implications for the humification and properties of tropical peat soil. …”
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Factor Analysis Between Internal and External R&D with Operational Performance Moderated by Intellectual Property Rights by Anuar, Herman Shah, Mohamed Udin, Zulkifli, Mohd Nawi, Mohd Nasrun

“…Strict enforcement of IPR could yield better incentives for innovation. In the long run, revenue obtained from IPR can be used to finance innovation and R&D activities. …”
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Unifying serverless and microservice workloads with SigmaOS by Szekely, Ariel, Belay, Adam, Morris, Robert, Kaashoek, M. Frans

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Precious metal price prediction using deep neural networks by Peng, Zhiling

“…However, traditional regression methods have limited performances when processing long sequences and are prone to have underfitting or overfitting problems. …”
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Vulnerability modeling, assessment, and improvement in urban metro systems: a probabilistic system dynamics approach by Chen, Hongyu, Chen, Bin, Zhang, Limao, Li, Hong Xian

“…However, there are limited studies considering the long-term evolutional dynamics and uncertainties of the vulnerability in urban metro system. …”
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Mitigation of membrane biofouling via immobilizing Ag-MOFs on composite membrane surface for extractive membrane bioreactor by Yuan, Guoyu, Tian, Yuxiao, Wang, Bingxin, You, Xiaofei, Liao, Yuan

“…This excellent anti-biofouling performance should be attributed to the stable, controlled and long-lasting Ag+release from Ag-MOFs, as well as its less hydrophobic and negative charged surface properties, which made #M2 undergo the k0's increasing and gradual stabilization stages in the long-term EMBR operations.…”
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Flexible and resource-efficient multi-robot collaborative visual-inertial-range localization by Nguyen, Thien Hoang, Nguyen, Thien-Minh, Xie, Lihua

“…However, existing research on UWB-aided multi-robot state estimation often ignores the odometry drift which leads to inaccurate global position in the long run. …”
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Nonequilibrium hyperuniform fluids by Lei, Yusheng

“…Disordered hyperuniform structures are an exotic state of matter with vanishing long-range fluctuations in many-particle systems, which have recently drawn attention from researchers in various fields such as mathematics, physics, materials sciences, etc., due to their unusual structural properties. …”
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Deep learning algorithms for classification of financial time series data by Lim, Kai Wei

“…Specifically, LSTM is able to circumvent the issue of long-term dependency as it has a unique unit structure for storage making it a suitable choice for financial time series classification. …”
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Noise tagging and perceptually-informed unsupervised clustering by Cai, HongLing

“…However, the persistent issue of aircraft noise had long been a concern for residents living near the air base. …”
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Protein structure prediction using bidirectional neural networks by Chen, Jin Miao

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Studies for single bunch and multi-bunch beam instabilities in the Diamond-II booster by Husain, R, Wang, S, Fielder, RT, Martin, IPS, Burrows, PN

“…The single bunch charge will be limited by short range wakefields in the booster, and long-range wakefields limit the charge for the multi-bunch trains. …”

Aerospace supply chains using blockchain technology: implications for sustainable development goals by Azian, Ibrahim, Fernando, Yudi, Muhammad Shabir, Shaharudin, Ganesan, Yuvaraj, Noor Hazlina, Ahmad, Azlan, Amran, Lee, Khai Loon

“…Purpose: The interconnectedness of supply chain processes in the aerospace industry requires companies to operate with excellence and the ability to provide robust technologies such as blockchain technology (BCT) to aid supply chain productivity. This paper aims to examine the existing practices of aerospace supply chain management, identify how BCT is used in the aerospace supply chain and whether it affects environmental sustainability. …”
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Brief Report: Quantifying Speech Production Coordination from Non- and Minimally-Speaking Individuals by Talkar, Tanya, Johnson, Kristina T., Narain, Jaya, Maes, Pattie, Picard, Rosalind W., Quatieri, Thomas F.

“…Conclusion The insights from this work aid in understanding of the modifications made by non- or minimally-speaking individuals to accomplish specific goals in non-verbal communication.…”
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Characterizing Cortex-Hippocampus Interactions During Language Processing by Lee, Jiachen Elizabeth

“…Recent evidence, however, has shown that the hippocampus may serve functions outside its traditional roles in episodic memory and spatial navigation, and may generally aid in the encoding of relationships across time and space [Cohen and Eichenbaum, 1993]. …”
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Designing-in of Quality Through Axiomatic Design by Suh, Nam P.

“…Decisions made during the design stage of product & process development profoundly affect product quality and process productivity. To aid in design decision making, a theoretical framework is advanced: the axiomatic approach to design. …”
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Machine learning in additive manufacturing : state-of-the-art and perspectives by Wang, Chengcheng, Tan, Xipeng, Tor, Shu Beng, Lim, C.S.

“…Moreover, there has been an increasing concern about data security in AM as data breaches could occur with the aid of ML techniques. Lastly, it concludes with a section summarizing the main findings from the literature and providing perspectives on some selected interesting applications of ML in research and development of AM.…”
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Variable computed tomography appearances of COVID-19 by Lim, Zhan Ye, Khoo, Hau Wei, Hui, Terrence Chi Hong, Kok, Shawn Shi Xian, Kwan, Kenneth Eng Ling, Young, Barnaby Edward, Tan, Cher Heng, Kaw, Gregory Jon Leng

“…Interpretation of chest CT findings should be correlated with duration of symptoms to better determine the disease stage and aid in patient management.…”
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