Partnership Ties Shape Friendship Networks: A Dynamic Social Network Study by Stadtfeld, Christoph, Pentland, Alex

“…First, partnership ties drive clustering in friendship networks: individuals who are in a partnership tend to have common friends and befriend other couples. …”
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Factors affecting the extent of retirement planning in Singapore. by Law, Boon Huey., Kwek, Jenny Chiew Ling., Sim, Sei Lin.

“…Findings show that people tend to focus on financial planning and often neglect health and psychological planning. …”
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Synthetic shuttlecock dynamics by Muhammad Afiq Abdul Hamid

“…Shuttlecocks that are commonly used today are mostly made of goose feathers, and such shuttlecocks tend to get damaged easily, often needing to be replaced several times during a game. …”
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READY PLAYER ONE / by Cline, Ernest, author 655943

“…Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes this depressing reality by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia where you can be anything you want to be, where you can live and play and fall in love on any of ten thousand planets. And like most of humanity, Wade is obsessed by the ultimate lottery ticket that lies concealed within this alternate reality: OASIS founder James Halliday, who dies with no heir, has promised that control of the OASIS - and his massive fortune - will go to the person who can solve the riddles he has left scattered throughout his creation. …”

Pareto Adaptive Robust Optimality via a Fourier–Motzkin Elimination lens by Bertsimas, Dimitris, ten Eikelder, Stefan C. M., den Hertog, Dick, Trichakis, Nikolaos

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Improved performance of 1.3-μm multilayer P-doped InAs/InGaAs quantum dot lasers using rapid thermal annealing by Cao, Qi, Tong, Cunzhu, Yoon, Soon Fatt, Liu, Chongyang, Ngo, Chun Yong

“…Significant improvements in the performance of p-doped ten-layer InAs/InGaAs quantum dot laser are demonstrated using rapid thermal annealing at 600 °C. …”
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Social media sentiment enhanced stock market prediction analysis by Tan, Adrian Yong Chang

“…The result implies that for classification, ensemble learning methods tend to perform better in terms of accuracy, while SVM tend to perform better in terms of F-Measure. …”
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Archaeology in Albania 2014-2024 by Gilkes, O, Melfi, M, Muka, B

“…This paper presents a review of new research being carried out within the borders of modern Albania in the last ten years. It offers a roughly geographical outline—albeit incomplete—of recent discoveries from prehistory to the middle-ages, and attempts at placing them in the wider context of current research in the field. …”

Media framing reports on Malaysia's Anti-Fake News Law by Wan, Chen

“…The results suggested that serious newspapers were found to use attribution of responsibility frames more frequently compared to tabloids, which tended to use human interest frames more frequently. …”
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A benchmarking of operational efficiency in Asia Pacific International cargo airports by Chung, Tae-won, Ahn, Woo-chul, Jeon, Su-min, Van Thai, Vinh

“…The multi-dimensional scaling cluster analysis by R-square method was used as the benchmarking tool to provide airport management with a means to examine various aspects of their operational efficiency against those of other airports. Ten operational efficiency factors for the clustering and efficiency estimation of airports in the Asia Pacific region were used in a regression model to overcome the complexity of multi-dimensional scaling approach. …”
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Effectiveness of integrative structural family therapy and double ABCX model on marital adjustment and parenting stress among parents of children with autism: randomized controlled... by AlHorany, Ahmed Kamel, Hassan, Siti Aishah, Juhari, Rumaya, Aljaberi, Musheer A.

“…A randomized controlled trial conducted on 60 parents of children with ASD showed that integrative SFT and double ABCX therapy, conducted over ten sessions of multiple family therapy in group counseling for five weeks and a one-month follow-up at special needs children’s centers in Jordan, resulted in a 48% increase in marital adjustment and a 34% reduction in parenting stress. …”

Conducting Psychological Assessment : A Guide for Practitioners / by Wright, A. Jordan, author 513562, John Wiley & Sons (Online service) 647106

“…This newest edition maintains the indispensable foundational models from the first edition and adds nuance and details from the author’s last ten years of clinical and academic experience. New ways of integrating and reconciling conflicting data are discussed, as are new models of personality functioning. …”
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Compact Capabilities: Developing and Evaluating a Field-Portable Neutron Resonance Capture Analysis System by Rahon, Jill M.

“…Technological advances in the thorium fuel cycle and other advanced reactor concepts suggest their possible commercialization for nuclear power use in the next ten years. Although the thorium cycle shares many aspects with the uranium and plutonium fuel cycles, it introduces the requirement for the nondestructive assay of multiple isotopes (²³8U, ²³²Th, ²³³U, ²³⁵U, or ²³⁹Pu) in varied concentrations and chemical or physical forms. …”
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Physiological and yield performance of commercial rice varieties under cyclic water stress in Malaysia by Zakaria, Nurul-Idayu, Berahim, Zulkarami, M.D. Hatta, Muhammad Asyraf, Omar, Mohamad Husni, Rosle, Rhushalshafira, Ismail, Mohd Razi, Che’Ya, Nik Norasma, Azmi, Asyraf, Mohd Azhan, Mohammad Iqbal Hakim

“…Therefore, this experiment was conducted to determine the growth, physiological performance, molecular response, and yield of ten available rice varieties, namely MR 219, MR 220-CL2, MR 297, MRQ 76, Vietnam Hybrid, UKM RC2, UKM RC8, Putra 1, MR 303, and MR 307, under ten days of cyclic water stress. …”

Machine learning-based risk prediction model for medication administration errors in neonatal intensive care units: a prospective direct observational study by Henry Basil, Josephine, Lim, Wern Han, Syed Ahmad, Sharifah M., Menon Premakumar, Chandini, Mohd Tahir, Nurul Ain, Mhd Ali, Adliah, Seman, Zamtira, Ishak, Shareena, Mohamed Shah, Noraida

“…Each observation was independently assessed for errors. Ten machine learning (ML) algorithms were applied with features derived from systematic reviews, incident reports, and expert consensus. …”
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Creative Schools / by Robinson, Ken, author 509031, Aronica, Lou, author 621386

Casino resort industry & corporate governance by Neo, Tingyuan, Tan, Venlecia Ying Hui, Yang, Qihui

“…We attempt to measure and compare corporate governance in the firms by developing a G-score for twenty-three publicly listed firms in United States and ten publicly listed firms in Asia-Pacific casino resorts industries for two years, 2005 and 2006.…”
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Al-jama'ah Al-Islamiyyah's (JI) ideology : applying strategic thoughts in countering the Ushulul Manhaj Al-Harankiy Li Iqomatid Dien. by Mahfuh Haji Halimi.

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The dead room by Kwok, Zong Han

“…Living rooms are traditionally spaces where humans form social connections, seek comfort in the refuge of personal territories, and share common bond with one another. We tend to forget that the materials used to create such spaces are traditionally wood, which comes from trees that are also living beings. …”
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Perceiving agency in a multi-agent context: more interactions with the environment yet reduced agency in depression by Jain, R

“…</p> <p>Research shows that individuals tend to perceive positive action-outcome relations when both action and outcome are present, and these relations are weakened when only one occurs. …”