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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Robust Eye-Based Dwell-Free Typing by Liu, Yi, Lee, Bu-Sung, McKeown, Martin J.

“…Eye gaze technologies have potential for text entry, but still tend to be relatively slow. Recently dwell-free eye-typing systems have been proposed, but can be vulnerable to common text entry problems, such as selection of the wrong letters. …”
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Behave The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst / by Sapolsky, Robert M., author 656050, Penguin Random House (Online service) 655978

“…Sapolsky's storytelling concept is delightful but it also has a powerful intrinsic logic: he starts by looking at the factors that bear on a person's reaction in the precise moment a behavior occurs, and then hops back in time from there, in stages, ultimately ending up at the deep history of our species and its evolutionary legacy. …”
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A novel approach based on the elastoplastic fatigue damage and machine learning models for life prediction of aerospace alloy parts fabricated by additive manufacturing by Zhan, Zhixin, Li, Hua

“…In the aerospace engineering, many metal parts produced using Additive Manufacturing (AM) technique often bear cyclic loadings, so the fatigue failures of AM alloy parts become very common phenomena. …”
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Firm Entry Modes and Chinese Business Networks: Malaysian Investments in Vietnam by Lim, Guanie

“…To this end, these firms tend to rely on informal ties and nonmarket institutions in the form of the ethnic Chinese business networks. …”
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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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Dual Origin of Viscoelasticity in Polymer-Carbon Black Hydrogels: A Rheometry and Electrical Spectroscopy Study by Legrand, Gauthier, Manneville, Sébastien, McKinley, Gareth H., Divoux, Thibaut

“…Here we focus on aqueous dispersions of hydrophobic colloidal soot particles, namely carbon black (CB) dispersed with a sodium salt of carboxymethylcellulose (CMC), a food additive known as cellulose gum that bears hydrophobic groups, which are liable to bind physically to CB particles. …”
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Maternal neonaticide, shame and social melancholy in Hsu-Ming Teo's Love and Vertigo by Zhou, Qiaoqiao, Omar, Noritah

“…Traditional maternal ethics tend to stigmatize or pathologize mothers who kill, which covers up the institutional causes for maternal neonaticide as a symptom of social melancholy. …”
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Reasonable accommodation, career development, and psychological well-being: autoethnography as a method of qualitative research by Gulyamova, Saodat Tolibovna, Jamiah Manap, Aizan Sofia Amin, Nik Hairi Omar

“…Individuals with health issues and disabilities tend to encounter difficulties in the workplace, including decreased productivity and lower job performance compared to those without such problems. …”
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Overall quality of life perception among occupants of green and non-green office buildings in Malaysia by Laiche, Abdelfatah Bousbia, Dahlan, Nur Dalilah, Shari, Zalina, Zaky Jaafar, Mohamad Fakri

“…Indoor environmental quality (IEQ) has become an important component of building design because people tend to spend the majority of their time indoors. …”
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Burnout among expatriate and local instructors in Oman by Mukundan, Jayakaran, Geng, Hui, Nimehchisalem, Vahid, Al-Busaidi, Saleh

“…Male instructors with lower educational qualifications, lower incomes, and local citizenship generally exhibit higher levels of DP compared to their counterparts. Female instructors tend to display higher levels of PA than their male counterparts. …”
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Binding and bonding characteristics of silica aerogels by Ong, Jingru.

“…Silica aerogel has been explored as possible filler for use in composite sandwich structure. …”
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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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Mising morphophonemics by Taid, Tabu

“…In Mising, as in other languages, sounds tend to get modified in different phonetic environments. …”
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How content attributes of short video influence online purchase intention: the mediating role of perceived value by Fan, Wenjing, Osman, Syuhaily, Zainudin, Norzalina, Pinyi, Yao

“…The results of this study have shown that consumers tend to have both a better understanding and a more favourable impression of the product after watching clear and informative short videos. …”
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Botanical composition and models of metabolizable energy availability from undergrowth in oil palm plantations for ruminant production by Dahlan, I., Yamada, Y., Mahyuddin, M.D.

“…This study showed that in the early stages of oil palm crop development, sun-loving species tend to dominate the field, mostly broad leaves and legumes, but they will gradually be replaced by shade-tolerant plants when the canopies close. …”
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Industrial policy refraction: how corporate strategy shapes development outcomes in Brazil by Zylberberg, E

“…For states seeking to catch up, the acquisition and assimilation of frontier technology has always been paramount (Abramovitz, 1986).</p> <p>Multinational firms based in industrialized countries have long been seen as sources of technology (Evans, 1979). …”

India’s ‘gas renaissance’ - rhetoric versus reality by Sen, A

“…Government forecasts carried out within a central planning framework tend to be overly optimistic, whereas projections by multilateral organizations tend to be cautious, but confused. …”

Mathematical foundation of data science by Fang, Xiaowei

“…High-dimensional probability theory bears vital importance in the mathematical foundation of data science. …”
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Soft law, hard stakes? State commitment to non-binding international instruments and the case of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by Villeneuve, L

“…In this thesis, incorporating insights from public international law into rationalist IR approaches, I argue that soft law instruments can have important effects over time and bring substantial costs for states to bear. This is particularly the case for soft law instruments ‘hardening’ through domestic law, treaties or customary international law, increasing the sovereignty and implementation costs attached to commitment. …”