Households energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions of Mahabad City, Iran by Soltani, Mohammad

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Ant colony optimization of shielding for mixed neutron and gamma radiations by Sazali, Muhammad Arif

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A note comparing support vector machines and ordered choice models' predictions of international banks' ratings by Bellotti, Tony, Matousek, Roman, Stewart, Chris

“…We find that Support Vector Machines virtually always predict international bank ratings better than ordered choice models. …”
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Prevalence, predictors and prevention of motion sickness in zero-G parabolic flights by Golding, John F., Paillard, Aurore, Normand, Hervé, Besnard, Stéphane, Denise, Pierre

“…The aim was to assess the extent of this problem and to find possible predictors and modifying factors. …”
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Rhamnolipids nano-micelles as a potential hand sanitizer by Bakkar, Marwa Reda, Faraag, Ahmed Hassan Ibrahim, Soliman, Elham R. S., Fouda, Manar S., Sarguos, Amir Mahfouz Mokhtar, McLean, Gary R., Hebishy, Ali M. S., Elkhouly, Gehad E., Raya, Nermeen R., Abo-zeid, Yasmin

“…Thus, the obtained results indicate that SARS-CoV-2 could be another target of rhamnolipids and could find utility in the fight against COVID-19, a future perspective to be considered.…”
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A Real Options Approach to growth opportunities and resilience aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic by Zhi, Wang, Upadhyay, Arvind, Kumar, Anil

“…The modelling and simulations using ROA suggest how strategic portfolios resolve the growing problem during the endemic to all but in the most isolated societies. Findings: We find the emergent correlation between circuit breakers and lockdowns, which have brought about a ‘distorted gravity’ effect (inverse growth of global businesses and trades). …”
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An ontological framework for assisting people with disabilities in organisations by Ulman, Michael

“…The Organisation Agent is able to identify when an action becomes an intention and whether the action is impaired so needing assistance, and if it does need assistance to find the assisting actions from those available, then select the optimal assister and its agent and direct it to the assisted agent. …”
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Does cognitive biased knowledge influence investor decisions? An empirical investigation using machine learning and artificial neural network by Bihari, Anshita, Dash, Manoranjan, Muduli, Kamalakanta, Kumar, Anil, Mulat-Weldemeskel, Eyob, Luthra, Sunil

“…The goal of this research is to find out how biases in information based on knowledge affect decisions about investments. …”
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A systematic assessment of multi‐dimensional risk factors for sustainable development in food grain supply chains: a business strategic prospective analysis by Das, Sumanta, Yadav Myla, Abhiram, Barve, Akhilesh, Kumar, Anil, Sahu, Naresh Chandra, Muduli, Kamalakanta, Luthra, Sunil

“…The study finds that inability to incorporate advanced technology imposes the highest risk to sustainability followed by natural disasters. …”
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A temperature-dependent virus-binding assay reveals the presence of neutralising antibodies in human cytomegalovirus gB vaccine recipients’ sera by Gomes, Ariane, Baraniak, Ilona, McIntosh, Megan, Sodi, Isabella, Langstone, Tony, Siddiqui, Saima, Atkinson, Claire, McLean, Gary R., Griffiths, Paul D., Reeves, Matthew B.

“…We go on to show that this is not a general feature of gB neutralizing antibodies suggesting specific antibody responses induced by vaccination could be important. Although we can find no evidence that these neutralizing antibody responses are a correlate of protection in vivo in transplant recipients their identification demonstrate the utility of the approach in identifying these responses. …”
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Experiences of Older Undergraduate Students in Higher Education: Constructions of Age and Gender by Massey, Anne

“…I show that neoliberal imperatives, such as are contained in discourses of ‘Lifelong Learning’ and 'Active Ageing', become the standards by which individuals are measured and measure themselves. I find that participants’ age-associations, and identity-conceptions as an undergraduate student, have implications for relationships outside of the university and involve changed and changing identities. …”
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A grounded theory of the balancing act South Asian mothers engage in to negotiate a healthy family lifestyle by Lucas, Anna

“…Limitations of these findings and their implications for future research and practice are considered.…”
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Scalable probabilistic ontology-based method for human activity recognition by Foudeh, Pouya

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The durability properties of high volume oil palm biomass waste mortar by Abdul Shukor Lim, Nor Hasanah

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Surrogate-based modeling strategy for design optimization of passenger car suspension system by Dzakaria, Afandi

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Mechanical properties of hybrid recyclate glass fibre - montmorillonite nanofiller reinforced polymer nanocomposite by Hanan, Umar Abdul

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Performance of porous concrete block with different size of coarse aggregate for pavement by Abd. Halim, Nur Hidayah

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Behaviour and performance of non-cement polymer grouted spiral connection by S. Mohammed, Nuria

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The effect of tides and vessel parameters of fishing boat generated waves by Suprayogi, Dedy Triawan

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Processing developments in employee performance and reward by Perkins, Stephen J.

“…While claims have been circulating in popular media suggesting the widespread abandonment of traditional performance appraisal, and while the study finds dissatisfaction regarding the utility of existing bureaucratic elements of appraisal mechanisms, the position is more nuanced. …”
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