REACH story of change: building drought resilience in Ethiopian river basins

“…REACH Ethiopia partner WLRC are implementing, with the Ministry of Water and Energy (MoWE), Ethiopia, a €45 million programme, BRIGHT, to improve resilience and reduce vulnerability to drought and climate change in Ethiopia, working in five river basins. BRIGHT will build upon and scale up WLRC research on water resources management, climate science, water quality and inequalities to benefit an estimated 2.5 million people directly, and over 50 million people indirectly. …”

Nonlinear regression approach to estimating Johnson SB parameters for diameter data by Abd Kudus, Kamziah, Ahmad, M I, Lapongan, Jaffirin

“…This method was compared to five other methods; these were the four percentile points method, the Knoebel-Burkhart method, the linear regression method, the maximum likelihood (Newton-Raphson) method, and the modified maximum likelihood method through simulation. …”

Prevalence and resistance to antibiotics for Aeromonas species from retail fish in Malaysia by Radu, Son, Ahmad, Noorlis, Ling, Foo Hooi, Reezal, Abdul

“…A total of 87 market fish samples representing five types of fish were evaluated for the presence of Aeromonas spp. …”
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Analysis of primary school students' self-regulated learning in mastering higher order thinking skills in English subject by Mohd. Rameli, Mohd. Rustam, Truishwariaa, Truishwariaa, Ahmad Alhassora, Najua Syuhada

“…The design used in this study is a quantitative approach with the sample of 327 year five students in Kluang district. Self-Regulation Questionnaire was adapted to be used in data collection. …”

A conceptual paper on action research in job satisfaction and turnover intention for a chinese property company by Xue, Fu, Teo, Poh Chuin, Ho, Theresa C. F., Choo, Ling Suan, Tan, Jun Wei

“…Based on preliminary investigations and literature reviews, this study identified five (5) sub-dimensions of job satisfaction factors that potentially affect employee turnover intentions, namely work, pay, promotion, superior and co-worker. …”

Civil Disobedience and its Impact on 2008 General Election by Mohd. Zain, Zawiyah, Yusoff, Moharnrnad Agus

“…In this election, the Barisan Nasional (BN) failed to maintain their two-thirds majority of parliamentary seats and also lost five states to the opposition. Subsequently, Abdullah Badawi regigned a year later and replaced by his deputy Najib Razak…”
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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

“…Therefore, the current study aims to explore the ESD in the curriculum for five colleges in Basrah, Iraq. The qualitative method was used based on the electronic records and documents available on the official websites of those colleges. …”
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Isolation and reactivity of a chlorogermyliumylidene featuring two Ge – Cl units by Su, Yuanting, Li, Yongxin, Ganguly, Rakesh, Kinjo, Rei

“…Deprotonation of 1‐mesityl‐4,5‐diphenyl‐2‐imidazole 1 with nBuLi, followed by salt metathesis reaction with GeCl2·dioxane complex, led to the formation of the chlorogermyliumylidene 2 bearing two Ge–Cl units, which has been isolated and fully characterized by standard spectroscopic and X‐ray diffraction analysis. …”
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The formation of aldehydes from the photochemically activated reaction of Cp*Ir(CO)(Cl)(CH2R) complexes with water by Lee, Jia Ying, Fan, Wai Yip, Mak, Garvin Kar Hang, Leong, Weng Kee

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Effects of electromagnetic field on proliferation, differentiation, and mineralization of MC3T3 cells by Teoh, Swee-Hin, Suryani, Luvita, Too, Jian Hui, Hassanbhai, Ammar Mansoor, Wen, Feng, Lin, Daryl Jimian, Yu, Na

“…In summary, our results suggested that PEMF stimulation for as short as 15 min could improve cell proliferation but not mineralization in vitro. …”
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Enantiomeric glycosylated cationic block co-beta-peptides eradicate Staphylococcus aureus biofilms and antibiotic-tolerant persisters by Zhang, Kaixi, Du, Yu, Si, Zhangyong, Liu, Yang, Turvey, Michelle E., Raju, Cheerlavancha, Keogh, Damien, Ruan, Lin, Jothy, Subramanion Lachumy, Reghu, Sheethal, Marimuthu, Kalisvar, De, Partha Pratim, Ng, Oon Tek, Mediavilla, José R., Kreiswirth, Barry N., Chi, Robin Yonggui, Ren, Jinghua, Tam, Kam C., Liu, Xue-Wei, Duan, Hongwei, Zhu, Yabin, Mu, Yuguang, Hammond, Paula T., Bazan, Guillermo C., Pethe, Kevin, Chan-Park, Mary Bee Eng

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Fiber laser tuning by means of nonthermal plasma as a temperature regulator by Tung, Hao Jiun, Raja Ibrahim, Raja Kamarulzaman, Azmi, Asrul Izam, Husein, Nor Ain, Vargas-Rodriguez, Everardo, Alresheedi, Mohammed Thamer, Ng, Eng Khoon, Mahdi, Mohd Adzir

“…At a discharge voltage of 3 kV, the fiber laser was tuned within a range of 2 nm with 11.9 pm/°C tuning resolution. …”

Arbitrary and independent polarization control in situ via a single metasurface by Yan, Libin, Zhu, Weiming, Muhammad Faeyz Karim, Cai, Hong, Gu, Alex Yuandong, Shen, Zhongxiang, Chong, Peter Han Joo, Tsai, Din Ping, Kwong, Dim-Lee, Qiu, Cheng-Wei, Liu, Ai Qun

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Simultaneous Measurement of Torsion and Temperature Based on Helical Structure in Multicore Fiber by Zhang, Hailiang, Wu, Zhifang, Shum, Perry Ping, Low, Chun Wah, Shao, Xuguang, Wang, Ruoxu, Dinh, Xuan Quyen, Fu, Songnian, Tong, Weijun, Tang, Ming

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Microstructural inhomogeneity of a 3D-printed nickel aluminium bronze by Tan, Yi Xuan

“…Different printing speeds of 0.5,1 and 2m/min will be applied to prepare samples with inhomogeneous microstructure using laser metal deposition. …”
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An Optimal MPC Algorithm for Subunit-Monge Matrix Multiplication, with Applications to LIS by Koo, Jaehyun

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Superstition and financial decision making by Hirshleifer, David, Jian, Ming, Zhang, Huai

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Boron analogue of vinylidene dication supported by phosphines by Lu, Wei, Li, Yongxin, Ganguly, Rakesh, Kinjo, Rei

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Carbene-catalyzed LUMO activation of alkyne esters for access to functional pyridines by Mou, Chengli, Wu, Jichang, Huang, Zhijian, Sun, Jun, Jin, Zhichao, Chi, Robin Yonggui

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Synthesis of indanes via carbene-catalyzed single-electron-transfer processes and cascade reactions by Wang, Yuhuang, Wu, Xingxing, Chi, Robin Yonggui

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