Why do firms pay dividends : lifecycle theory in the Asian context. by Chia, Li Yi., Chua, Mincong., Loke, Alvin Zhengqiang.

“…Profitability, growth opportunities, firm size and the earned equity mix all influence the likelihood of paying dividends. …”
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Wage premium in Singapore. by Tan, Ruo Hui., Tan, Yan Yu., Lee, Wai Meng.

“…In a broader picture, wage-risk premiums could also be used to derive the value of a statistical life, which till today is widely debated and is a highly controversial topic. …”
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Are customers happy? a study of satisfaction in Sarawak’s fast-food restaurants by Thien, Nancy Swee Yen, Latip, Malisah

“…Data from 414 respondents aged 18 and above were analysed using SPSS through Spearman’s correlation and simple linear regression analysis. The findings showed that all variables, perceived price, service quality, food quality, and physical environment quality had significant correlations with customer satisfaction. …”
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Deadweight costs and optimal capital structure. by Liang, Huijun., Lim, Wei Ling.

“…Banerjee and Noe (2010) shows that MNCs do not necessarily obtain all of their financing in locations that feature the most creditor friendly legal regime. …”
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Smartphone application-based addiction scale: psychometric evidence across nine Asian regions using advanced analytic methods by Chen, I-Hua, Pramukti, Iqbal, Gan, Wan Ying, Ruckwongpatr, Kamolthip, Pham, Le An, Huang, Po-Ching, Mamun, Mohammed A., Ullah, Irfan, Jahrami, Haitham A., Lin, Chung-Ying, Pakpour, Amir H.

“…Results: Findings from confirmatory factor analysis, Rasch analysis, and network analysis all indicate a one-factor structure for the SABAS. …”
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Target detection in stationary background by Liu, Lu.

“…In this experiment, we are trying to find the moving object by using webcam, and three basic image processing algorithms are used to get the best result. …”
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Digitalization, New Media, and Education for Sustainable Development / by Keller, Lars, editor 656283, Michelsen, Gerd, 1948-, editor 656284, Dür, Martin, 1974-, editor 656285, Bachri, Syamsul, 1983-, editor 656286, Zint, Michaela T. (Michaela Theresia), editor 656287, IGI Global (Online service) 631983

“…"This book will examine all aspects related to and interconnections between digitalization, new media, and educational sustainable development, offering perspectives from primary to tertiary education, from formal to informal education, from global to local education, from scientific findings to political strategies, and highlighting exceptional "best practice" examples and case studies"--…”
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Techno-economic simulation assessment on on-grid solar photovoltaic and wind power system in alpha world city environments by A. M. Marbrur Ahmad Rashedi

“…At the end, the study compares the solar and wind power potentiality in each alpha city and presents the project feasibility findings for both the technologies. The findings from the study can be deployed as the basis of harnessing massive scale solar PV and wind power energy from all similar climatic locations of the planet earth.…”
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Measurement invariance of the higher-order model of Preschool Anxiety Scale (PAS) across child age, gender, parental anxiety, and pandemic period in England by Creswell, C, Reardon, T, Spence, S, Zhou, S

“…Using data from a sample of 2,221 children and their parents/carers in England, this study investigated the measurement invariance of the higher-order model of the PAS across child age (4-6 years vs. 6-7 years), gender (girls vs. boys), parental anxiety (low vs. high level), and children’s living circumstances (before vs. after the removal of COVID-19 restrictions). Our findings demonstrated the good factor structure, internal consistency, and convergent validity of the higher-order model of the PAS in all subgroups and supported its configural, metric, scalar invariance across these subgroups. …”

Electrical and Electronics Global Supply Chain: The Significance Effect of Psychological Empowerment on Organizational Business Performance by Wei-Kit, Loke, Abu, Noor Hidayah, Foo, Wah Lim

“…The findings indicate that, of all those four elements of psychological empowerment, only autonomy, self-efficacy, and meaning have significant influences on the business performance in the E&E industry. …”
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Evaluating the quality of evidence for intelligent tutoring systems in the tutoring of math for children aged 6 to 12 : a systematic review by Cheng, Janice Shu Hui, Lee, Keith Yong Wei

“…Out of the 664 unique studies gathered, only 14 studies made it to the qualitative analysis stage after meeting all the inclusion criteria. From these 14 studies, 4 of them showed “sufficient” evidence to support their findings on the incorporation of ITSs into mainstream classrooms, but went on to score poorly on other additional quality indicators. …”
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The Usage of Islamic Financial Services in Zanzibar: The Influence of Accessibility, Relevancy and Expected Benefits by Khamis, Fauz Moh’d, Isa, Mohamad Yazid, Yusuff, Noraini

“…A multistage sampling process was used to obtain questionnaire responses across all five regions of Zanzibar. A total of 400 questionnaires were used for the analysis. …”
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Action/inaction and regret : is closeness the moderating effect of regret? by Chua, Li Bing., Leong, Wan Bin., Leong, Yew Bin.

“…We seek to discover if this holds true in all scenarios and whether closeness to the desired outcome is the moderator of the intensity of regret.…”
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Approaches to supporting and measuring mathematical problem posing: a systematic review of interventions in mathematics education by Zhang, L, Stylianides, A, Stylianides, G

“…We discuss implications of our findings for future research and practice. …”

Tournament induced incentives and analysts' boldness. by Yin, Huifang.

“…This finding survives several robustness checks and is more pronounced when the interim assessment date is closer to the end of the tournament period, when analysts are inexperienced/non-all-star, and when the market activity is high. …”
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Optimising investigative pathways in military medicine: operational impact of a military cardiopulmonary exercise testing clinic by Holland, JL, Cowie, P, Gardner, L, Mulae, J, Richards, S, Holdsworth, D

“…This analysis aimed to assess the impact of the Oxford Military Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing Clinic (OMEC), which investigates such symptoms and findings, on occupational recommendations. Methods: A service evaluation was conducted on all OMEC attendances over a 5-year period. …”

Advances in Design, Simulation and Manufacturing VII : Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Design, Simulation, Manufacturing: The Innovation Exchange, DSMIE-2024, Ju... by International Conference on Design, Simulation, Manufacturing: The Innovation Exchange (7th : 2024 : Pilsen, Czech Republic), Ivanov, Vitaliĭ, editor 656010, Pavlenko, Ivan, editor 656011, Edl, Milan, editor 656012, Machado, José, 1972-, editor 656014, Xu, Jinyang, 1987-, editor 656015

“…It covers cutting-edge theoretical and experimental findings relating to material behavior, composites, nanomaterials, and coatings design. …”
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Red blood cell adhesion can be reduced by non-reactive macromolecules by Zhang, Zhengwen, Meiselman, Herbert J., Neu, Björn

“…Interpretation of our results in terms of the depletion model appears appropriate, in that our findings are consistent with the assumption that this reduction occurs because of an increase of small molecules in the depletion region. …”
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When Do Investors Freak Out? Machine Learning Predictions of Panic Selling by Elkind, Daniel, Kaminski, Kathryn, Lo, Andrew W., Siah, Kien Wei, Wong, Chi Heem

“…Using a novel dataset of 653,455 individual brokerage accounts belonging to 298,556 households, we document the frequency, timing, and duration of panic sales, which we define as a decline of 90% of a household account’s equity assets over the course of one month, of which 50% or more is due to trades. We find that a disproportionate number of households make panic sales when there are sharp market downturns, a phenomenon we call ‘freaking out.’ …”
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The effectiveness of contemporary children’s literature module in enhancing the upper primary school pupils’ vocabulary mastery by Dg Syuhada Nabilah Abdull Majid, Azlina Abdul Aziz

“…Hence, the findings depicted that the use of CCL modules can enhance the pupils’ vocabulary effectively. …”
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