Land fragmentation and rural sustainability in bade local government area, Yobe State, Nigeria. by Saleh, Abba, Majid, Mohammad Rafee, Toyin Jagun, Zainab

“…Hence, these analysis factors are considered the key causes of land fragmentation in the study area. PLS-SEM findings highlighted a significant alignment between land fragmentation, causes, and rural sustainability, all of which formed the basis for developing the conceptual framework for mitigating land fragmentation challenges. …”
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Adhesive properties of adsorbed layers of two recombinant mussel foot proteins with different levels of DOPA and tyrosine by Bilotto, Pierluigi, Labate, Cristina, De Santo, Maria P., Deepankumar, Kanagavel, Miserez, Ali, Zappone, Bruno

“…DOPA is a key molecular moiety underlying underwater mussel adhesion. In the other variant, all tyrosine residues were preserved. The layer was adsorbed on a mica substrate and pressed against an uncoated surface. …”
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Exploring the limitations of osmotically assisted reverse osmosis: membrane fouling and the limiting flux by Peters, Christian D., Li, Dan, Mo, Zijing, Hankins, Nicholas P., She, Qianhong

“…While both surface flushing and osmotic backwashing (OB) were found to be highly effective when using pure water, a full flux recovery could not be achieved when a nonpure solution was used during OB due to severe internal clogging during OB. All in all, the presented findings provided significant implications for OARO operation and fouling control.…”
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Dicke superradiance requires interactions beyond nearest neighbors by Mok, Wai-Keong, Asenjo-Garcia, Ana, Sum, Tze Chien, Kwek, Leong Chuan

“…We harness this tool to prove that for an arbitrary ordered array with only nearest-neighbor interactions in all dimensions, a superradiant burst is not physically observable. …”
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Evaluating the effect of students' behavioural intention to use social media for collaborative learning by Nur Shamsiah, Abdul Rahman, Noor Azida, Sahabudin

“…With the rise of social media technologies, investigating the use of social media for learning has become all the more important. However, far too little research has been conducted to investigate factors that contribute towards students’ attitude and behavioural intention to use social media for collaborative learning in Malaysian higher education. …”
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High and Dry: Rental Markets After Flooding Disasters by Brennan, Mark, Srini, Tanaya, Steil, Justin

“…The effects of these disasters on access to housing and housing stability are pressing issues of social equity and urban policy. How, if at all, do disasters affect rents? We find that severe floods are associated with significant increases in rents for households renting units priced at the bottom of the rent distribution, but not the middle or the top. …”
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Exploring the Mechanical Behavior of a Traditional Japanese Joint for Flexible Structural Design by Ortea Varela, Ines

“…Experimental results confirm the computational findings, demonstrating reduced strength in the MRO splice compared to the continuous beam. …”
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Tsunami-induced change in informal commerce at Laguna Phuket, Thailand. by Tan, Gloria Huixian., Tan, Jason Tai Chin., Liew, Shi Wei.

“…Similar to the previous research, all businesses were still located along the beachfront.…”
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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

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Developing student feedback literacy through self and peer assessment interventions by Hoo, Hui-Teng, Deneen, Christopher, Boud, David

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Internet use among youths and cyber wellness : implications on public education and policy making. by Lui, Li Ting., Tan, Audrey Hui Ming., Tay, Guan Teng.

“…Four focus groups were subsequently conducted to get feedback on current cyber wellness educational programs. Findings have shown that most, but not all of the youths take steps to protect their online safety. …”
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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.

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Storytime : a pilot study on sound symbolism and child-directed speech by Travers Kumar, Juanita

“…Results found significant main effects of the pseudowords (label) for all measures but main effect of congruency was not found. …”
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Optimization of solubility of corannulene polymers via ring opening metathesis polymerization by Gunasegaran, Kevitrra

“…Generally, block polymerization product has better solubility compared to random polymerization. All the copolymers produced possess satisfactory PDI value of close to 1.0. …”
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Multi-level encoding of reward, effort and choice across the frontal cortex and basal ganglia during cost-benefit decision making by Härmson, O, Grennan, I, Perry, B, Toth, R, McNamara, C, Denison, T, Cagnan, H, Manohar, S, Walton, M, Sharott, A

“…Single neurons encoding combinations of decision variables (reward, effort and choice) were represented within all recorded regions. Co-active cell assemblies, ensembles of neurons that repeatedly co-activated within short time windows (<25ms), represented the same decision variables, despite the members often having diverse individual coding properties. …”

Exploring employers' perceptions on public universities' quality and graduate employability in Malaysia by Almasri, Amal Ahmad, Ali, Noor Azman, Jantan, Amer Hamzah

“…Therefore, this study recommends that the higher authorities in public universities and employers need to strengthen the associations between them and activate partnerships for all parties’ benefit. As well, public universities need to pay more attention to the determinants of quality, which contribute to enhancing graduate employability.…”

An improve unsupervised discretization using optimization algorithms for classification problems by Mohamed, Rozlini, Samsudin, Noor Azah

“…The classification performance using EB outperforms other existing approaches for all datasets.…”
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Influence of CEO characteristics and audit committee on financial performance: evidence from Iraq by Hazzaa, Omar Turki, Abdullah, Dewi Fariha, Mohammed Sadaa, Abdullah

“…Three models were used to analyze the data, and the preferred model was chosen by following several confirmation steps. The findings indicated that CEO education, CEO ownership, and CEO experience all influenced financial success. …”
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Enhancing the Curriculum of Bachelor’s Degree toward Sustainable Development to Improve Sustainable Behaviour: An Exploratory Study by Abdulameer, Susan Sabah, Ibrahim, Yousif Munadhil, Hami, Norsiah, Yaacob, Noorulsadiqin Azbiya, Osman, Nor Hasni

“…The qualitative method was used based on the electronic records and documents available on the official websites of those colleges. The findings of the study demonstrate that all colleges have a very poor level regarding ESD in the curriculum. …”
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Medical tourism in South East Asia: Science mapping of present and future trends by Muhammad Ashraf, Fauzi, Norhana, Mohd Aripin, Nur Sofia Nabila, Alimin, Ting, Irene Wei Kiong, Wider, Walton, Siti Sarah, Maidin, Zainul-Abideen, Ahmed Yousif Abbas

“…Research limitations/implications: This study is relevant to all stakeholders, operators and local communities in Southeast Asia tourism destinations to provide the best medical tourism with the best quality service and technologies. …”
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