Determinants of Expatriate Manager Failures in the International Assignment by Mansor, Mohd Fitri, Abd Hamid, Nurzawani, Kamil, Syahida, Abu, Noor Hidayah

“…The international assignment requires an organization send their staff abroad for high potential career development, to coordinate global lines of business, transfer the organization knowledge in abroad, expand into new markets worldwide and also manage an international subsidiary. …”
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The Influence of Root Geometry on Soil Cohesion and Anchoring Ability through Geologic Time by Colicci, Vittorio

“…We maintain that the earliest trees played a key role in surface stabilization within their ecosystems and likely paved the way for species that followed.…”
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Solder joint testing and failure analysis by Kang, Eng Tat.

“…These devices are also likely to undergo thermo-mechanical cycling during device processing and service and therefore, the joints are likely to have existing low-cycle fatigue cracks, which might adversely affect the joint mechanical integrity under various loading situations. …”
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Understanding motivation to adhere to guidelines for alcohol intake, physical activity, and fruit and vegetable intake among U.K. university students by de Visser, Richard O., Conroy, Dom, Davies, Emma, Cooke, Richard

“…University students are a group worth of attention because although they are less likely than older adults to exceed UK weekly alcohol intake guidelines or to be inactive, they are also less likely to meet FV consumption targets. …”
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Stalking in universities: responding effectively as an institution while prioritising the safety of victims by Short, Emma, Barnes, James

“…Young people make up the largest proportion of university students, and it is this group of people who are likely to be most at risk of sexual harassment and violent crime. …”

Time to fill up India’s strategic oil reserves by Narula, K

“…The first phase of its oil storage facilities, with a capacity of 5.3 million tonnes (Mt) (38.85 million barrels) is likely to be ready for commissioning in the first half of 2015; construction on the second phase, with a capacity of 12.5 Mt (roughly 90 million barrels) has been approved by the government. …”

Biohydrogen production from food industry wastewater: Economies of scale study by T. B. E. Oliveira, Maria Da Conceição, Md. Maksudur, Rahman Khan, Noor Intan Shafinas, Muhammad

“…Hydrogen has been discovered to be a clean and environmentally friendly source, and it is gaining attention as replacement for fossil fuels. …”
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Learning driver-specific behavior for overtaking : a combined learning framework by Lu, Chao, Wang, Huaji, Lv, Chen, Gong, Jianwei, Xi, Junqiang, Cao, Dongpu

“…Learning-based methods have gained increasing attention in the intelligent vehicle community for developing highly autonomous vehicles and advanced driving assistance systems (ADAS). …”
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Signal processing on simplicial complexes with vertex signals by Ji, Feng, Kahn, Giacomo, Tay, Wee Peng

“…We observe performance gains in our experiments when 2-complexes are used to model the data, compared to the traditional GSP approach of restricting to 1-complexes.…”
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Practical and theoretical considerations as a researcher-teacher: reflections on a bidialectal programme involving Singlish in a secondary school by Lu, Luke

“…In this reflection, I first conceptualize gaining access as part of the research project, resulting in a research design that involved myself as a researcher-teacher. …”
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Green and gamified! An investigation of consumer participation in green last-mile from a gamification affordance perspective by Liu, Xiaodi, Zhou, Zengze, Yuen, Kum Fai, Wang, Xueqin

“…As a recent phenomenon, gamification designs have gained increasing prominence in encouraging consumer participation in green logistics. …”
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Position statements of the Emerging Trends Committee of the Asian Oceanian Society of Radiology on the adoption and implementation of artificial intelligence for radiology by Wee, Nicole Kessa, Git, Kim-Ann, Lee, Wen-Jeng, Raval, Gaurang, Pattokhov, Aziz, Ho, Evelyn Lai Ming, Chuapetcharasopon, Chamaree, Tomiyama, Noriyuki, Ng, Kwan Hoong, Tan, Cher Heng

“…Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly gaining recognition in the radiology domain as a greater number of radiologists are becoming AI-literate. …”
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Spoofing detection from a feature representation perspective by Tian, Xiaohai, Wu, Zhizheg, Xiao, Xiong, Chng, Eng Siong, Li, Haizhou

“…Spoofing detection, which discriminates the spoofed speech from the natural speech, has gained much attention recently. Low-dimensional features that are used in speaker recognition/verification are also used in spoofing detection. …”
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Adaptive testing with multidimensional pairwise preference items : improving the efficiency of personality and other noncognitive assessments by Stark, Stephen E., Chernyshenko, Oleksandr S., White, Leonard A., Drasgow, Fritz

“…Overall, adaptive MDPP testing produced gains in accuracy over nonadaptive MDPP tests comparable to those observed with traditional unidimensional CATs. …”
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Personal and academic multicultural experiences, perceived multicultural counselling competence and multicultural counselling self-efficacy among Malaysian counsellor trainees by Harun, Maizatul Mardiana, Wan Jaafar, Wan Marzuki, Ismail, Asmah, Arifin, Suhaili

“…According to the study’s findings, counsellor trainees scored high on academic multicultural experience but low on personal multicultural experience. They also gained high scores for multicultural counselling self-efficacy and moderate perceived multicultural counselling competence. …”
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Islamic donations-based crowdfunding platforms in Malaysia: an evaluation of regulatory and shariah issues by Mat Radzi, Rafisah, Muhamed, Nurul Aini, Kamaruddin, Muhammad Iqmal Hisham, Wan Mohamad Nazarie, Wan Nur Faznie, Kamarubahrin, Aimi Fadzirul

“…Crowdfunding has recently gained worldwide attention as an alternative financing mechanism to the traditional fundraising methods for business ventures or social projects. …”
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Nuclear power in Saudi Arabia by Luciani, G

“…All of the above need to be pursued in parallel: hence my argument is not that nuclear power should be preferred to other solutions, but simply that it is likely to be part of the solution.…”

Euclidean terms in European languages, 1482–1703 by Wardhaugh, B

“…As well as the intrinsic interest of the formation and stabilization of a Euclidean tradition in these languages, the wide visibility of Euclidean material in the period makes it likely that the terminological choices made by early translators were influential in the wider formation of mathematical vocabularies in the languages concerned. …”

Adipose tissue fatty acid composition, serum lipids, and serum alpha-tocopherol in continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis patients living on the island of Crete by Nikolakakis, N, Kounali, D, Tornaritis, M, Anastassou, A, Papadakis, E, Kassotakis, G, Kafatos, A

“…Among subjects with higher levels of MUFA in the adipose tissue, the CAPD patients were twice as likely to have high serum α-tocopherol (p < 0.001), and 2.6 times more likely to be in high risk of high total cholesterol (TC)/HDL (p = 0.08) compared to the controls. …”

A partial knowledge of friends of friends speeds social search by Elsisy, Amr, Szymanski, Boleslaw K., Plum, Jasmine A., Qi, Miao, Pentland, Alex

“…Moreover, the effect of using a limited knowledge that each node possesses about friends of its friends is strongly nonlinear. We show that gains of such use grow statistically significantly only when this knowledge is limited to a small fraction of friends of friends.…”
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