A study of household stockholding change during 2008 financial crisis by Jin, Lulu, Yu, Yiqing, Zhao, Tianjiao

“…2008 financial crisis has negatively affected various economic compositions including stock market. Some research has been done to study households’ decisions on stock market during financial crisis by analyzing data from Panel Study of Income Dynamics(PSID). …”
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Marriage and fertility dynamics in India by Dommaraju, Premchand

“…The decline in fertility during this period could be attributed to changes in marital fertility rather than to changes in marriage age. Women marrying late tend to have shorter first birth interval than women marrying at a younger age. …”
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What motivates parents to mediate children’s use of smartphones? An application of the theory of planned behavior by Shin, Wonsun, Kim, Hye Kyung

“…A survey conducted with parents of young smartphone users aged 10–17 shows that parents tend to perceive discussion-based active mediation to be more desirable, as compared to rule-making restrictive mediation. …”
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High performance drive control for electric vehicle by See, Yi Teik

“…With wider usage of electric vehicles, users would tend to look for various ways to improve the drive performance of their vehicles to the capabilities such as various road conditions and starting up speed. …”
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Does an early start help or hurt? Statehood, institutions and modern climate change policies by Ang, James B., Fredriksson, Per G.

“…This paper first hypothesizes that countries that have accumulated more statehood experience over the last two millennia tend to have more stringent climate change policies. …”
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A three dimensional kinematic method for determining the effectiveness of arm segment rotations in producing clubhead speed by Teu, Koon Kiat

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The effects of global versus local processing styles on ingroup favouritism by Ma, Chen

“…When individuals make comparison between social groups, they tend to differentiate ingroup members from those of outgroup. …”
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Designing online web bioinformatics tutorial lessons for the suite of BLAST programs. by Norhana Ahmad.

“…Most online BLAST tutorials target the university students, and their BLAST guides tend to be quite descriptive and technical for the pre-university students to comprehend. …”
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Built heritage conservation, urban development and tourism : Singapore in the 21st Century by Henderson, Joan C.

“…Conflicts arise, however, between the demands of urban development in pursuit of economic growth and heritage conservation. The former tend to have priority in decision making, which can lead to negative outcomes. …”
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A statistical fat-tail test of predicting regulatory regions in the Drosophila genome by Shu, Jian Jun, Li, Yajing

“…It is observed that CRMs tend to have a fat-tail distribution. A new statistical fat-tail test with two kurtosis-based fatness coefficients is proposed to distinguish CRMs from non-CRMs. …”
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Financial optimization problems by Law, SL

“…In Chapter 4, we use Pontryagin Maximum Principle to study the problem limit of the no-transaction region when transaction costs tend to 0. We find that the limit is the no-transaction cost solution.…”

Strike a pose: tracking people by finding stylized poses by Ramanan, D, Forsyth, DA, Zisserman, A

“…Our basic assumption is that people tend to take on certain canonical poses, even when performing unusual activities like throwing a baseball or figure skating. …”

Co-synthesis of CuO-ZnO nanoflowers by low voltage liquid plasma discharge with brass electrode by Li, Chaojiang, Cao, Xun, Li, W. H., Zhang, Bowei, Xiao, Longqiang

“…Transition metal oxides CuO-ZnO nano-flowers have been simultaneously synthesized by the low voltage liquid plasma discharge method using brass cathode. …”
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The Malay Standard Framework (KSBM) as a measure of Malay writing mastery in third form activity books by Abd. Nasir, Siti Noridayu, Abdul Halim, Hazlina

“…The findings of the study showed that five respondents tend to answer review questions that have visuals and text as their writing ideas. …”
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Empowering software startups with agile methods and practices: a design science research by Javdani Gandomani, Taghi, Zulzalil, Hazura, Bahsoon, Rami

“…Startups, for example, tend to focus on producing minimum viable product, which challenge the use of these methods and calls for bespoke adaptation of these practices to suit startups. …”

Sunlight and Culture by Fredriksson, Per G., Mohanty, Aatishya

“…The effects of the individualism vs. collectivism cultural dichotomy on economic outcomes have been widely recognized in the literature. We propose and test the hypothesis that individuals and populations located in areas exposed long-term to more ultraviolet radiation (UV-R; sunlight) exhibit a greater degree of collectivism. …”
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Electrode modification by diazonium chemistry : studies on the effect of steric bulk on film thickness, and modified activated carbon cloths for energy storage by Subrata, Arnold

“…One key disadvantage of grafting by diazonium chemistry is the inherent tendency of the grafted film to bear multilayers of organic molecules, which is not desired in most applications requiring modified electrodes. …”
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Long-term mindfulness meditation increases occurrence of sensory and attention brain states by Panitz, DY, Mendelsohn, A, Cabral, J, Berkovich-Ohana, A

“…Interest has been growing in the use of mindfulness meditation (MM) as a therapeutic practice, as accumulating evidence highlights its potential to effectively address a range of mental conditions. …”

Information gathering: dissociable effects of autistic and alexithymic traits in youths aged 6–25 years by Lee, KS, Long, EL, Catmur, C, Hauser, TU, Bird, G

“…Autistic youths tend to react negatively to uncertain events. Little is known about the cognitive processes associated with this intolerance of uncertainty, most notably the tendency to actively gather information to minimize uncertainty. …”

Cytoophidium complexes resonate with cell fates by Li, Y, Liu, J

“…Including CTPS, an increasing number of metabolic enzymes have been found to form cytoophidia in cells. However, the distribution and relationship among cytoophidia formed by different metabolic enzymes remain elusive. …”