Wearable activity trackers for promoting physical activity : a systematic meta-analytic review by Li, Caining, Chen, Xiaoyu, Bi, Xinhua

“…We also explicitly show that the extent to which the interventions with wearable activity trackers help users is contingent on the type of users and the design and delivery of interventions. Future studies are called to validate the findings and to offer theoretical explanations.…”
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Is a high tone pointy? Speakers of different languages match Mandarin Chinese tones to visual shapes differently by Shang, Nan, Styles, Suzy J.

“…These effects were observed most clearly in Study 2 where tone-pairs were contrasted explicitly. These findings are in line with the dominant patterns of linguistic pitch perception for speakers of these languages (pitch-change, and pitch height, respectively). …”
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Investigating accuracy of contour interpolation in modal and amodal completion by Koh, Nicklaus Zhi-Ming

“…We also found that all three types of perceptual completion interpolated the curvilinear contour stimulus flatter than their theoretical paths, of which, blind spot filling-in produced the flattest completions. Our study confirms previous findings regarding the shape of interpolated contours and also extends the understanding about the precision and accuracy of blind spot filling-in and modal completion, as well as amodal completion. …”
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A manifesto for a globally diverse, equitable, and inclusive open science by Ghai, S, Thériault, R, Forscher, P, Shoda, Y, Syed, M, Puthillam, A, Peng, HC, Basnight-Brown, D, Majid, A, Azevedo, F, Singh, L

“…In this Perspective, we raise the spectre of Questionable Generalisability Practices and the issue of MASKing (Making Assumptions based on Skewed Knowledge), calling for more responsible practices in generalising study findings and co-authorship to promote global equity in knowledge production. …”

Adverse events of common psychiatric medications: an umbrella review by Bartellas, K

“…Antipsychotic medications (60%) accounted for the majority of the findings, followed by antidepressants (16%), stimulants (13%), mood stabilisers (8%) and anxiolytics (3%). …”

Private, non-profit, and plantation: Oil palm smallholders in management-assistance programs vary in socio-demographics, attitudes, and management practices by Reiss-Woolever, VJ, Wakhid, W, Ikhsan, M, Caliman, J, Naim, M, Azmi, EN, Shufiyan, S, Howes, J, Azmi, R, Ying Lim, Y, Abdul Jan, SZ, Barrock, I, Azhar, B, Drewer, J, Ward, C, Jones, JA, Luke, SH, Turner, EC, Hidayat, P, Buchori, D

“…Awareness of the effects of palm oil production on ecosystems and human communities has increased drastically in recent years, with ever louder calls for the private and public sector to develop programs to support sustainable cultivation by smallholder farmers. …”

Developing an acoustic noise reduction in HDB building by Mohammad Isa, Manshor

“…Finally we will conclude on the results and findings; and recommend solutions and alternatives to the current thesis work done.…”
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Experimental studies of melting PCM in a heat sink by Muhammad Azrin Sa'ad.

“…A series of experiments were conducted ranging from half- filled PCM volume to fully filled PCM volume and also non-filled PCM volume. …”
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Mechanistic insights into the origin of the oxygen migration barrier by Vivona, Daniele, Gordiz, Kiarash, Meyer, Randall, Raman, Sumathy, Shao-Horn, Yang

“…Bringing localized filled electronic states associated with the oxygen vacancy closer to the conduction band or increasing the metal–oxygen band overlap can decrease charge accumulation in the oxygen vacancy and reduce the migration barrier. …”
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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

“…Training to become a counselor is a uniquely challenging process, and trainee counselors report depressive symptoms, although most are not diagnosed with mental illness. This study investigates whether coping strategies and resilience predict depression among trainee counselors. …”
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Public knowledge about healthcare financing philosophy and perception of affordability of medical treatment for cancers in Singapore by Tan, Yinghui

“…Sample consists of persons aged 20- 27 years. 82 persons filled out the online questionnaire (response rate 78%). …”
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A review: PTSD in pre-existing medical condition on social media by Al Hassan Ayon, Zaber, Nur Hafieza, Ismail, Nur Shazwani, Kamarudin

“…Findings demonstrate that social media data offers valuable insights into the unique challenges faced by individuals with both PTSD and chronic illnesses. …”
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As firm as their foundations: creating transferable adversarial examples across downstream tasks with CLIP by Hu, A, Gu, J, Pinto, F, Kamnitsas, K, Torr, PHS

“…Solely based on open-sourced CLIP vision encoders, this method can produce highly effective adversaries that simultaneously fool more than 20 downstream models spanning 4 common vision-language tasks (semantic segmentation, object detection, image captioning and visual question-answering). Our findings highlight the concerning safety risks introduced by the extensive usage of publicly available foundational models in the development of downstream systems, calling for extra caution in these scenarios.…”

Universal in-context approximation by prompting fully recurrent models by Petrov, A, Lamb, TA, Paren, A, Torr, PHS, Bibi, A

“…To streamline our argument, we introduce a programming language called LSRL that compiles to these fully recurrent architectures. …”

‘Swirling' around translanguaging spaces of nature of science in multilingual classrooms by Cheung, KKC, Erduran, S, Oancea, A

“…Research reported in the paper calls for science educators to explicitly design translanguaging spaces to foster an inclusive environment for linguistically diverse learners’ meaning making of NOS.…”

Financial sentiment analysis: techniques and applications by Du, Kelvin, Xing, Frank, Mao, Rui, Cambria, Erik

“…Financial Sentiment Analysis (FSA) is an important domain application of sentiment analysis that has gained increasing attention in the past decade. FSA research falls into two main streams. The first stream focuses on defining tasks and developing techniques for FSA, and its main objective is to improve the performances of various FSA tasks by advancing methods and using/curating human-annotated datasets. …”
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Modeling information equality : social and media latency effects on information diffusion by Chib, Arul, Sinnreich, Aram, Gilbert, Jesse

“…In this study, we build and test a stochastic, agent-based model of information diffusion, called dFusion. The model incorporates diffusion research and social network analysis into a framework that is consistent with the findings of digital divide and knowledge gap research. …”
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RE teachers’ ways of balancing children’s existential concerns and the curriculum: mirrored through established RE approaches by Osbeck, C, Lilja, A, Fancourt, N

“…In the analysis of the interview transcripts of the eleven middle-school teachers focussing on what the teachers express as important goals for RE, the findings were placed on a continuum between a focus on the child’s experiences and on the curriculum. …”

CEO Overseas Experience, Cultural Distance and Corporate Financialization: the Mediating Effect of ESG Investment in China by Mohd Nor, Normaziah, Zheng, Minyu, Mohd Ashhari, Zariyawati

“…Given the increasing trend of hiring overseas CEO in China, the study fills in the gap in the literature by examining the effect of CEOs with overseas experiences on corporate financialization. …”
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Predicting health conditions with palm prints by Kwek, Jerome Jia Long

“…More interestingly, in recent years, prediction of illnesses in medical psychiatry has been discovered in modern-day palmistry, that various medical problems could be diagnosed based on different palm line formations. …”
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