From demonetisation to Covid-19: Insights on the dynamics between informality and financial inclusion from the city of Kolkata, India by Ma, T

“…</p> <p>Empirical research finds that while Demonetisation and Covid-19 managed to reduce some forms of financial informality associated with the use of cash in saving, payment, and borrowing through their catalytic effects on digitalisation, other informal financial practices persisted or even increased, serving as substitutes for or supplements to insufficient and dysfunctional formal ones. …”

Image segmentation with minimal human supervision by Shin, G

“…</p> <br> <p>In the first part, we demonstrate that considering a model's uncertainty in predictions can significantly reduce the number of annotations required to train a segmenter that performs nearly as well as a fully-supervised one. This finding underscores the critical role of pixels around semantic boundaries in helping the model to learn representations suitable for segmentation.…”

Development of an improved GWO algorithm for solving optimal paths in complex vertical farms with multi-robot multi-tasking by Shen, Jiazheng, Hong, Tang Sai, Fan, Luxin, Zhao, Ruixin, Mohd Ariffin, Mohd Khairol Anuar, As’arry, Azizan

“…Thanks to the DE and EP strategies, the EPDE-GWO requires fewer iterations to reach the optimal solution, offers strong stability and robustness, and consistently finds the optimal solution at a high frequency. These attributes are particularly significant in the context of vertical farming, where optimizing robotic path planning is essential for maximizing operational efficiency, reducing energy consumption, and improving the scalability of farming operations.…”
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Measurement of mass attenuation coefficient of paraffin wax by using low energy x-ray by Daud, Nurul Shazliana Mohamad

“…Using the Half-Value Layer (HVL) method, we determined the effective energies for 60, 81, and 125 kVp, finding values of 35.22, 37.57, and 41.20 keV, respectively. …”
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Resilience among Universiti Sains Malaysia nursing students by Ali, Noorsyafawani Mohamed

“…The cross-sectional study was used were 174 nursing students from USM Health campus involved in completing a self-administered questionnaire adopting from Trait and State Resilience scale. The finding from this study shows that 56 (32.2%) of the nursing students have a very high level of trait resilience, and only 3 (1.7%) have low trait resilience. …”
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Sleep hygiene practice and sleep quality among undergraduate students in School of Health Sciences Universiti Sains Malaysia by Solihudin, Nurul Izzah

“…This study also revealed that there is no significant association between sleep hygiene and quality of sleep among undergraduate students in School of Health Science, USM (p=0.243). This study’s finding demonstrated that most undergraduate students in School of Health Sciences USM have poor sleep hygiene and poor quality of sleep. …”
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Knowledge and practice of unused medication disposal among patients in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia (Hospital USM) by Sidek, Siti Nur Farzana

“…This study shows that 70.5% of the respondents have low level of knowledge of unused medication disposal. Finding also shows there’s a significant relationship between the knowledge and the actual practice of unused medication disposal (p>0.05). …”
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The Effect of Work Community on Job Transfer Intention: The Mediation Effect of Regulatory Failure and Job Burnout by Kittichokwattana, Patipat, Harun, Azhar, Mohd. Zain, Zawiyah

“…In addition, promotion failure involves the absence of positive outcomes that increases the likelihood of disengagement and seek for an alternative that fulfills hopes and aspirations, whereas prevention failure relates to the presence of negative outcomes which motivate one to strengthen responsibilities and obligations to avoid the further loss resulting in low disengagement. The finding provides a better understanding of the underlying psychological mechanism between the regulatory focus and work well-being…”
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Weber’s Law of perception is a consequence of resolving the intensity of natural scintillating light and sound with the least possible error by Pednekar, Shourav, Krishnadas, Arun, Cho, Byunggu, Makris, Nicholas C.

“…Here, Weber’s Law is found to be a consequence of attaining the theoretical minimum mean-square error possible, the Cramer–Rao lower bound, in resolving the intensity of naturally scintillating light and sound. The finding is based on statistics from thousands of measurements of naturally scintillating environmental light and sound signals. …”
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Engineering Redox Flow Battery Electrodes with Spatially Varying Porosity Using Non‐Solvent‐Induced Phase Separation by Wan, Charles Tai-Chieh, Jacquemond, Rémy Richard, Chiang, Yet-Ming, Forner-Cuenca, Antoni, Brushett, Fikile R

“…Lastly, the performance is examined in a vanadium RFB, finding that the porosity‐gradient electrode outperforms the macrovoid electrode, is independent of gradient direction, and performs favorably compared to advanced electrodes in the contemporary literature. …”
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Stabilizing non-fullerene organic photodiodes through interface engineering enabled by a tin ion-chelated polymer by Xiao, Jianhua, Wang, Yang, Yuan, Liu, Long, Yin, Jiang, Zhi, Liu, Qingxia, Gu, Deen, Li, Weizhi, Tai, Huiling, Jiang, Yadong

“…Its superior performance outperforms the incumbent typical counterparts (ZnO, SnO2 , and PEIE as the CILs) from metrics of both stability and photoelectric characteristics. This finding suggests a promising strategy for stabilizing NF-OPDs by designing appropriate interface layers.…”
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Optic disk localization by a robust fusion method by Wong, Tien Yin, Zhang, Jielin, Yin, Fengshou, Liu, Jiang, Baskaran, Mani, Wong, Damon W. K., Cheng, Ching Yu

“…The first method is the maximum vessel crossing method, which finds the region with the most number of blood vessel crossing points. …”
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Sustaining the Agility of SMEs’ Business Strategy: Minimising the Outbreak of Covid-19 Via Crowdsourcing Practices by Mansor, Mohd Fitri, Abu, Noor Hidayah, Abdul Halim, Hasliza, Ahmad, Noor Hazlina

“…The study employs quantitative approach. The finding indicates that, crowdsourcing serves useful resources to the SMEs to enhance the business performance via harnessing the “wisdom of crowd” and turn the external resources into internal organizational resources. …”
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Summarized Causal Explanations For Aggregate Views by Youngmann, Brit, Cafarella, Michael, Gilad, Amir, Roy, Sudeepa

“…Using background knowledge captured in a causal DAG, CauSumX finds the most effective causal treatments for different groups in the view. …”
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On the geometry and refined rate of primal–dual hybrid gradient for linear programming by Lu, Haihao, Yang, Jinwen

“…We show that there are two major stages of PDHG for LP: in Stage I, PDHG identifies active variables and the length of the first stage is driven by a certain quantity which measures how close the non-degeneracy part of the LP instance is to degeneracy; in Stage II, PDHG effectively solves a homogeneous linear inequality system, and the complexity of the second stage is driven by a well-behaved local sharpness constant of the system. This finding is closely related to the concept of partial smoothness in non-smooth optimization, and it is the first complexity result of finite time identification without the non-degeneracy assumption. …”
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The US–China Trade War: Quantify the Negative Shocks to Local Housing Markets and Land-Based Finance in Chinese Cities by Li, Boning, Liao, Wen-Chi, Sun, Weizeng, Zeng, Yongxuan, Zheng, Siqi

“…This article applies 2016–2019 data to a shift-share analysis and finds the following. Imposed by the US on imports from China, the retaliatory tariffs hurt Chinese cities’ production and caused employment and wage declines and firm exit. …”
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Tailoring Metal–Organic Frameworks for Water Harvesting by Oppenheim, Julius Jacob

“…Within Chapter 5, the author investigates the relationship between pore hydrophilicity and kinetic hysteresis, finding that kinetic limitations arise in sufficiently hydrophilic frameworks. …”
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Electrodeposition of metal nanostructures for plasmonic sensing by Mueller, Aaron David

“…In this thesis, a cost-effective method for top-down fabrication of metallic nanostructures with deep-subwavelength dimensions is explored, finding use in plasmonic sensing applications. Currently, few methods exist for the fabrication of such metallic structures with deep sub-optical-wavelength feature sizes. …”
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Detecting adversarial samples for deep neural networks through mutation testing by Tan, Kye Yen

“…This is a serious breach of security in CNNs which may lead to disastrous consequences in security reliant applications. Finding a defence mechanism for these attacks are imperative in ensuring the safe operation of CNNs. …”
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Construction of performance evaluation index system of green building project management in China by Wang, Xiaowei

“…A survey is used to gather the importance of these indicators, and Analytic hierarchy process (AHP) is applied to calculate the weight of these indicators. This study finds that the project performance evaluation index system of green building can be divided into four stages, including the decision-making stage, the design stage, the construction stage and the operation stage. …”
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