Recent advances of optical imaging in the drying process of grains – a review by Jimoh, Kabiru Ayobami, Hashim, Norhashila, Shamsudin, Rosnah, Che Man, Hasfalina, Jahari, Mahirah

“…The ability to meet the demand for healthy dried grains by consumers is a great motivation for industrial grain processors to ensure grain quality retention during the drying process. …”

Are spiritual, ethical, and eating qualities of poultry meat influenced by current and frequency during electrical water-bath stunning? by Hayat, Muhammad Nizam, Kumar, Pavan, Sazili, Awis Qurni

“…The new dimension is mainly attributed to ensuring animal welfare and ethical treatment (ethical quality), spiritual quality (such as halal status, cleanliness), and eating quality standards set by religion. To meet consumer quality requirements while maintaining high production performance, the industry has incorporated newer technologies that are compatible with religious regulations such as stunning methods like electrical water bath stunning. …”
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Golden ratio assessments of aesthetic value and proportion on existing Minbar at the state mosques in Johore. by Adnan, Nor Azizah, Raja Shahminan, Raja Nafida, Ahmad, Fadhlina

“…In general, the 88.9% minbar does not meet the golden ratio requirements for height, width, and weight. …”
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Technology educators pedagogical adjustment in the post-pandemic era: a case study of lecturers in the oil-rich Region, Nigeria by Venatius, Arikpo Sampson, Musta’amal, Aede Hatib, Ofem, Usani Ubi, Felix, Igbudu Chimemezuo, Subramaniam, Murugan, Abang, Otonko Praises

“…These interviews help us understand how technology educators were affected by the sudden shift to online instruction. To meet the demands of COVID-19, technology education evolved quickly. …”
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High sensitivity transparent glass ceramic systems development based on MgSO4:Dy2O3–B2O3 and MgSO4:Dy2O3–B2O3:ZnO:An investigation of FT-IR and thermal properties for thermolumines... by Naeem, Hayder Salah, Iskandar Shahrim, Mustafa, N. N., Yusof, Thabit, Hammam Abdurabu, Mhareb, M. H. A., Alajerami, Y. S. M., Raypah, Muna E., Mohd Noor, ., Shareef, Ammar Nadal, Khazaalah, Thair Hussein, Ezra, Nabasu Seth, Munirah, Jamil, Efenji, G. I., Muhammad Fadhirul Izwan, Abdul Malik

“…Two series of glass ceramics, [(MgSO4)86(Dy2O3)14]x[B2O3]1-x with x = 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5 and [MgSO4-Dy2O3–B2O3]0·2[ZnO]x with x = 0.05, 0.1, 0.15, 0.2, were successfully prepared using the melt quenching technique. The synthesized samples were characterized using X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM), and differential thermal analysis (DTA). …”
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A comprehensive review of the utilization of alternative binding properties in the construction of asphalt pavements by Ferdaus, R., Khairil Azman, Masri, Hasan, Kamrul, Putra Jaya, Ramadhansyah

“…This research signals a pivotal shift towards environmentally conscious practices in pavement construction, focusing on sustainable solutions to meet contemporary infrastructure demands while minimizing ecological impacts.…”
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A study on the employment outlooks of Chinese university students majoring in Japanese: A government recruitment perspective by Zhang, Ziran, Hasan, Ahmad

“…These measures aim to improve students' overall competitiveness and better meet the government’s need for versatile foreign language talents. …”
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Needs analysis for developing online task-based speaking skills module for TVET learners by Mohd Khirulnizam, Musa, Azwin Arif, Abdul Rahim

“…The research addresses the key question: What are the specific speaking skill requirements of TVET learners and how can online TBLT frameworks be structured to meet these needs? A comprehensive needs analysis was conducted using surveys administered to 80 TVET learners across various disciplines. …”
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Design, development and evaluation of a game-based learning application for room housekeeping by Tan, Fui Ming, Siti Normaziah, Ihsan, Nor Maizana, Mat Nawi, Mohd Razali, Nor Amira

“…In the design phase, the game was tailored to meet educational objectives pertinent to hospitality studies, focusing on essential skills such as attention to detail, customer service, and operational efficiency. …”
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RITA: Group Attention is All You Need for Timeseries Analytics by Liang, Jiaming, Cao, Lei, Madden, Samuel, Ives, Zack, Li, Guoliang

“…The dynamic scheduler of RITA continuously adapts the number of groups and the batch size in the training process, ensuring group attention always uses the fewest groups needed to meet the approximation quality requirement. Extensive experiments on various timeseries datasets and analytics tasks demonstrate that RITA outperforms the state-of-the-art in accuracy and is significantly faster --- with speedups of up to 63X.…”
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Lab-to-Market Design of an Electrodialysis-Based Home-Scale Water Desalination System by Floryan, Marie, Bowers, Quinn, Sternberg, Zachary, Gembali, Sahas, Goyal, Akshita, Bessette, Jonathan, Honarparvar, Soraya, Winter, Amos

“…We developed an electrodialysis-based home-scale desalination system for obtaining drinking water that will meet and surpass this new proposed recovery ratio. …”
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In Harm's Way? The Effect of Disasters on the Magnitude and Location of Low‐Income Housing Tax Credit Allocations by Brennan, Mark, Mehta, Aditi, Steil, Justin

“…We argue that this increased allocation of LIHTC units is indicative of a process of institutional or policy conversion, in which states are repurposing the three‐decade‐old housing tax credit program to meet contemporary disaster assistance and recovery needs. …”
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Assessing United States Energy Poverty Policy: Regulatory Design Alternatives and Resource Allocation by Heller, Peter J.

“…Guaranteeing sufficient and affordable access to energy services is increasingly critical as climate change continues to worsen, energy costs increase due to the need to meet decarbonization goals, and the trend in general inequality among citizens persists. …”
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Tailoring Metal–Organic Frameworks for Water Harvesting by Oppenheim, Julius Jacob

“…Water sorbents enable technologies that have the potential to mediate water insecurity, meet an increasing energy demand, and push towards sustainability. …”
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Modeling technology pathways and retrofit adoption to achieve city-wide building emissions reduction goals by Berzolla, Zachary M.

“…The tools developed in this dissertation are aimed at providing communities of all sizes with data-driven insights to meet their ambitious but necessary building-related decarbonization goals in a timely manner.…”
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An empirical design theory for compact drip irrigation emitters by Ghodgaonkar, Aditya, Welsh, Emily, Judge, Benjamin, Winter V, Amos G.

“…With freshwater reserves rapidly diminishing, sustainable irrigation technologies such as drip irrigation must be widely adopted to meet the food demand of a growing global population. …”
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House, home, and community : good models for graduate student housing by Han, Jienan, 1978-

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Probabilistic estimation of plug-in electric vehicles charging load profile by Tehrani, Nima H., Wang, Peng

“…However, PEVs will add significant additional load to the existing power distribution system and it will be a challenge to meet the new demand. In this study, probabilistic modelling has been presented to estimate the system-wide PEV charging load within domestic grids. …”
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Organic semiconducting agents for deep-tissue molecular imaging : second near-infrared fluorescence, self-luminescence, and photoacoustics by Miao, Qingqing, Pu, Kanyi

“…Organic semiconducting agents with π-conjugated frameworks can be synthesized to meet different optical imaging requirements due to their easy chemical modification and legible structure-property relation. …”
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Stochastic optimization model for water allocation on a watershed scale considering wetland’s ecological water requirement by Xu, Ye, Wang, Yu, Li, Sha, Huang, Guohe, Dai, Chao

“…It is thus critical to meet the water demand of various users while ensuring ecological water requirement as much as possible. …”
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