Government Transformation Programme (GTP): Effects of 4S Approach in Malaysian Government Departments by Anuar, Herman Shah, Radzuan, Kamaruddin, Hassan, Mohamad Ghozali

“…All the questionnaires were analysed and findings explained in greater detail. …”
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Action/inaction and regret : is closeness the moderating effect of regret? by Chua, Li Bing., Leong, Wan Bin., Leong, Yew Bin.

“…We seek to discover if this holds true in all scenarios and whether closeness to the desired outcome is the moderator of the intensity of regret.…”
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Achieving economic and environmental sustainability with supply chain contracts by Dong, Chuanwen, Li, Dong

“…How to decarbonize transportation, which is now, unfortunately, the largest source of carbon emissions among all sectors? The entire industry is heavily driven by economies of scale. …”
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Multiple kernels optimization in GPU by Sun, Yanan.

“…This project is developed in the NVIDIA CUDA C/C++ environment which is provided. All the equipment and software stacks are provided by Parallel and Distributed Computing Center. …”
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AXES at TRECVID 2012: KIS, INS, and MED by Aly, R, Mcguinness, K, Chen, S, O'Conner, NE, Chatfield, K, Parkhi, OM, Arandjelović, R, Zisserman, A, Fernando, B, Tuytelaars, T, Oneata, D, Douze, M, Revaud, J, Schwenninger, J, Potapov, D, Wang, H, Harchaoui, Z, Verbeek, J, Schmid, C

“…This paper describes in detail our KIS, INS, and MED systems and the results and findings of our experiments.…”

Cooperative field localization and excitation eigenmodes in disordered metamaterials by Papasimakis, Nikitas, Jenkins, Stewart D., Savo, Salvatore, Zheludev, Nikolay I., Ruostekoski, Janne

“…We find substantially increased standard deviation of the Purcell enhancement with disorder, making it increasingly likely to find collective excitation eigenmodes with very high Purcell factors that are also stronger for magnetic than electric excitations. …”
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Modern Game Testing : Learn how to test games like a pro, optimize testing effort, and skyrocket your QA career / by Finska, Nikolina, author 656259

“…Basic familiarity with agile working practices such as scrum is needed to fully understand all the concepts explained in this book…”
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The Devotion of Suspect X / by Higashino, Keigo, 1958-, author 656116, Smith, Alexander O., translator 656118, Alexander, Elye J., translator 656119, Minotaur Books (Online service) 656121

“…One of Time's 100 Best Mystery and Thriller Books of All Time. Yasuko lives a quiet life, working in a Tokyo bento shop, a good mother to her only child. …”
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Advances in Design, Simulation and Manufacturing VII : Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Design, Simulation, Manufacturing: The Innovation Exchange, DSMIE-2024, Ju... by International Conference on Design, Simulation, Manufacturing: The Innovation Exchange (7th : 2024 : Pilsen, Czech Republic), Ivanov, Vitaliĭ, editor 656010, Pavlenko, Ivan, editor 656011, Edl, Milan, editor 656012, Machado, José, 1972-, editor 656014, Xu, Jinyang, 1987-, editor 656015

“…It covers cutting-edge theoretical and experimental findings relating to material behavior, composites, nanomaterials, and coatings design. …”
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Three Novels / by Lodge, David, author 1935- 591213

“…Widely different in approach, the have in common sardonic observation, an irrepressible wit, and an expert relish for the techniques of story. Above all, they are unmistakably teh work of writer who gleefully falls in with the theory that the first duty of the novelist is to entertain.…”

Red blood cell adhesion can be reduced by non-reactive macromolecules by Zhang, Zhengwen, Meiselman, Herbert J., Neu, Björn

“…Interpretation of our results in terms of the depletion model appears appropriate, in that our findings are consistent with the assumption that this reduction occurs because of an increase of small molecules in the depletion region. …”
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To what extent and in what ways do communities of practice facilitate learning in the context of professional development for interpreting students and practitioners? by D'Hayer, Danielle

“…Finally, these findings are transferable to all professional courses (but not only) within and beyond Higher Education.…”
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Principles : Life and Work / by Dalio, Ray, author 656003, Simon & Schuster (Online service) 656004

“…He argues that life, management, economics, and investing can all be systemized into rules and understood like machines. …”
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Three essays on the funds allocation of U.S. Firms by Shih, Chia Mei

“…In essay one, we distinguish between two types of equity capital namely, proceeds collected from the exercise of employee stock options and those raised from all other equity issues. We examine the spending patterns of these proceeds and find that firms do not have a greater tendency to spend option proceeds than they do with other equity proceeds. …”
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Environmental governance of transportation infrastructure under Belt and Road Initiative : A unified framework by Wang, Xueqin, Wong, Yiik Diew, Yuen, Kum Fai, Li, Kevin X.

“…Herein, smooth implementation of the TI projects would depend on the capacity of all the concerned actors to conduct collaborative planning and integrate environmental considerations. …”
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Predictors of depression among trainee counselors: the role of coping styles and resilience by Ying, Ng Jia, Engku Kamarudin, Engku Mardiah, Afdal, Shafie, Amin Al Haadi

“…The sample consisted of 182 participants, all enrolled as trainee counselor students at public universities in Malaysia. …”
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An experimental study into the effect of micro-textures on the performance of cutting tool by Durairaj, Shanmugasundaram, Guo, Jiang, Aramcharoen, Ampara, Castagne, Sylvie

“…The best combination of texture parameters was identified considering all the responses and the range of parameters.…”
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Compositional dependence of spintronic properties in Pt/GdCo films by Suzuki, Daniel H, Lee, Byung Hun, Beach, Geoffrey SD

“…Additionally, we estimate the exchange stiffness of all three interactions in GdCo as a function of composition. …”
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The effectiveness of different types of monetary incentives to download the TraceTogether application by Lim, Mei Hui, Liu, Lingshan, Ng, Shu Min

“…This group was asked whether they would download it without any mention of monetary incentives. The main findings of this study were (i) Participants were more willing to download the TraceTogether application with monetary incentives compared to no monetary incentives, (ii) All participants in the “choice” group chose to receive direct payment, (iii) Most participants believed that direct payment would result in the highest number of people downloading a contact tracing application, (iv) “Direct payment”, “gift card” and “choice” had statistically lower minimum WTA than “charity donation” and (v) There is no statistically significant difference between the minimum WTA of “choice” and “direct payment”, “direct payment” and “gift card”, as well as “gift card” and “choice”.…”
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The transfer and maximisation of dry-land strength & power into in-water thrust in competitive swimming by Tan, Quah Jian

“…Participants also completed a 25-m swim using the Aquanex Analysis System at slow, moderate and all-out pace with the front-crawl stroke. RESULTS: Significant correlation (p < 0.05) were found between dry-land power and in-water swimming power at all three swim speeds. …”
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