Hierarchical approach to study water cluster in first-principles calculations by Nguyen, Quoc Chinh

“…In addition, the effects of zero-point energy correction on the relative stabilities, thermodynamic properties and vibrational spectra of each system were discussed throughout the studies. Last but not least, we reported the details on the development of the potential models for protonated hydrogen fluoride and deprotonated water clusters in order to extend the current work to other molecular systems and also to improve the efficiency of the hierarchical approach for our future studies.…”
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Retention in second year computing students in a London-based university during the post-Covid-19 era using learned optimism as a lens: a statistical analysis in R by Chrysikos, Alexandros, Bamford, Neal

“…Furthermore, a slight increase in the least optimistic students was observed. Returning to in person interaction with classmates and lecturers could be a major factor in reducing the minimum score compared to the previous year’s study (2021). …”
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Study of vector antennas by Zeng, Yong

“…Direction of arrival (DOA) estimation for electromagnetic waves has its wide application in today’s industry and it has attracted a lot of research interest in the past several decades. Traditional DOA estimation techniques usually use antenna arrays as field sensors, whose data outputs are scalar quantities. …”
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Face recognition based on the combination of rectangle filters and unified subspace analysis approach by Cai, Yichang

“…As one of the most successful applications of Image analysis and understanding, face recognition has recently received significant attention, especially during the past several years. At least two reasons account for this trend: the first is the wide range of commercial and law enforcement applications, and the second Is the availability of feasible technologies after 30 years of research. …”
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Trends in extreme daily rainfall in Peninsular Malaysia : 1948 - 2010 by Firouzi, Morteza

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Do institutional pressures impact voluntary environment information disclosure? by Fan, Jing, Muhamad, Haslinah, Mohd Said, Ridzwana, Daud, Zaidi Mat

“…Over the past decades, China's rapid economic growth has mainly come at the expense of excessive energy consumption, resulting in significant carbon dioxide emissions and other environmental challenges. …”
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Using edge detection and polarimetric imaging for vaccine inspection by Sharan, Praveer, Tellbach, Denise, Sarma, Sanjay E.

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On a problem of El-Zahar and Erdős by Nguyen, T, Scott, A, Seymour, P

“…First, a strengthening: we can ask for one of the two subgraphs to have large chromatic number: that is, for all <i>t</i>, <i>c</i> ≥ 1 there exists <i>d</i> ≥ 1 such that if <i>G</i> has chromatic number at least <i>d</i>, and does not contain the complete graph <i>K_t</i> as a subgraph, then there are anticomplete subgraphs <i>A</i>, <i>B</i>, where <i>A</i> has minimum degree at least <i>c</i> and <i>B</i> has chromatic number at least <i>c</i>.…”

Sexual violence at higher education institutions: prevalence, nature, and opportunities for prevention by Steele, B

“…Among the students participating in the OUR SPACE survey, I found 20% experienced at least one act of SV and 53% experienced at least one act of sexual harassment (which included unwanted acts of a sexual nature that did not involve physical touch, such as crude sexual or sexist remarks and stalking). …”

South African real estate investment trusts prefer Tuesdays by Ajayi, Oluwaseun Damilola, Gavu, Emmanuel Kofi

“…Generally, Wednesday was found to be the least profitable day to invest in all REIT classifications because it had the least average daily return. …”
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Green human resources in higher education institutions: a systematic literature review by Zuria Akmal, Saad, Muhammad Ashraf, Fauzi, Laili, Zulkepeli, Moshood, Taofeeq D., Suhaidah, Hussain

“…The GHRM concept has emerged from the broader environmental management concept in the last decade. Its adoption has diffused in many sectors, particularly manufacturing, but empirical studies in HEIs are lacking. …”
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Exploring the development of a firewall using Windows filtering platform by Pang, Willy Boon Tee.

“…A firewall is also required to have learning mode, allowing the user the ability to block or allow an application to connect upon its initial execution. Last but not least, a firewall has to be able to save its data so it can be retrieved easily. …”
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Catastrophic risk analysis and management for Public-Private Partnership (PPP) infrastructure systems by Qian, Qiyu

“…Such strategy is developed based on an in-depth understanding of the project’s risk exposure derived from catastrophe model, layered risk financing portfolio setup decided by concession agreement, cost and benefit analysis between different risk financing instruments and mitigation efforts, and last but not least, a good understanding of dynamic financial demand.…”
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Motor adaptation with passive machines: A first study on the effect of real and virtual stiffness by Tommasino, Paolo, Melendez-Calderon, A., Burdet, E., Campolo, Domenico

“…Several studies conducted over the last two decades used active robotic manipulanda to generate force fields capable of perturbing the baseline trajectories of both healthy and impaired subjects. …”
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Archaia Phusis: the original nature of the soul in Plato’s Middle Dialogues by Körner, H

“…Do we desire our fully realized state because it ‘belongs’ (is <em>oikeion</em>) to us or because it is good? Last but not least, what do we make of the fact that immortality and the theory of recollection seem to play no role in the <em>Symposium</em>? …”

Nonlinear adjustment of exchange rate and exchange rate policy : lessons from Singapore by Yan, Fangli, Yip, Paul Sau Leung

“…Thus, one should be cautious of the significant portion of past empirical studies that did not incorporate the HBS effect in their estimations. …”
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Development of compact power electronics inverter using gallium nitride (GaN) devices by Sinurat, Hendry Donald Hanesty

“…The world of electronics industry has been increasing rapidly and expanding widely in the past three decades. Its development from time to time has shown huge potential to bring electronics into a more advanced and sophisticated stage. …”
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Emergency care knowledge, utilization, and barriers in Northern Tanzania: A community-based survey by Shayo, F, Zaccheus, GG, Sakita, F, Hernandes, TR, Vissoci, JRN, Gordee, A, Kuchibhatla, M, Kiremeji, M, Minja, L, Mmbaga, BT, Staton, CA, Keating, EM, Joiner, AP

“…The mean monthly household income was 226,107.6 Tanzanian Shillings. 76 (14.1%) households reported experiencing an emergency condition in the past year and 225 (41.7%) of respondents had an inappropriate response to at least one hypothetical emergency condition. …”

Participation and cooperation in global climate governance by Rowan, SS

“…<p>International climate politics have seemed stalled throughout much of the past three decades. At least until the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change, states largely failed to adopt new substantive treaties through the United Nations-led climate governance process. …”

Macroeconomic and Firm-Specific Effects on Islamic Deposits Sustainability by Ab Rahman, Sazana, Ahmad, Nor Hayati, Che Arshad, Noraziah

“…Then, the panel data regression analysis continues with the Least Square Dummy Variable (LSDV), which includes the control variable to test the presence of the firm-specific effects. …”
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