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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论阮籍诗文中的逃避主义 = Escapism in the literary works of Ruan Ji by 王岳明 Wang, Yueming

“…The concept of “artistic conception” (Yi Jing) will first be introduced, followed by and examination of the escape related “artistic conception” of “Dong Ping Fu-Prose”, and selected four-worded “Yong Huai Poems” and five-worded “Yong Huai Poems” respectively. …”
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Assessment of fluid responsiveness using pulse pressure variation, stroke volume variation, plethysmographic variability index, central venous pressure, and inferior vena cava vari... by Chaves, Renato C. F., Barbas, Carmen S. V., Queiroz, Veronica N. F., Serpa Neto, Ary, Deliberato, Rodrigo O., Pereira, Adriano J., Timenetsky, Karina T., Silva Júnior, João M., Takaoka, Flávio, de Backer, Daniel, Celi, Leo A., Corrêa, Thiago D.

“…Pulse pressure variation (PPV) was studied in 40 studies, mean threshold with 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) = 11.5 (10.5–12.4)%, and area under the receiver operating characteristics curve (AUC) with 95% CI was 0.87 (0.84–0.90). …”
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Magnetoresistive sensor development roadmap (non-recording applications) by Zheng, Chao, Zhu, Ke, De Freitas, Susana Cardoso, Chang, Jen-Yuan, Davies, Joseph E., Eames, Peter, Freitas, Paulo P., Kazakova, Olga, Kim, Cheol Gi, Leung, Chi-Wah, Liou, Sy-Hwang, Ognev, Alexey, Piramanayagam, S. N., Ripka, Pavel, Samardak, Alexander, Shin, Kwang-Ho, Tong, Shi-Yuan, Tung, Mean-Jue, Wang, Shan X., Xue, Songsheng, Yin, Xiaolu, Pong, Philip W. T.

“…As a result, timescales for MR sensor development were established and critical milestones for sensor parameters were extracted in order to gain insight into potential MR sensor applications (non-recording). Five application areas were identified, and five MR sensor roadmaps were established. …”
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Reliability analysis and data driven modelling of railway component failure by Wang, Jinlong

“…Failure modes and mechanisms from five components were investigated which including: (1) Welded rail break failure; (2) Rotating bending fatigue test for welded rail material; (3) Train door failure; (4) Rail wear degradation failure; (5) Wheel flat degradation failure. …”
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New algorithms for hardware-efficient implementation of sign detection and magnitude comparison in residue number systems by Sachin Kumar

“…Synthesis results in 65 nm CMOS technology show that the proposed design is 36.9% smaller, 7.6% faster and 45.5% more energy-efficient than the best CRT-II based magnitude comparator and at least 12.9% smaller, 7.3% faster and 20.8% more energy-efficient than the best reverse-conversion based implementation of signed integer comparator for the same five-moduli set.…”
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Comparison of text messaging data collection vs face-to-face interviews for public health surveys : a cluster randomized crossover study of care-seeking for childhood pneumonia and... by van Velthoven, Michelle Helena, Wang, Wei, Wu, Qiong, Li, Ye, Scherpbier, Robert W, Du, Xiaozhen, Chen, Li, Zhang, Yanfeng, Car, Josip, Rudan, Igor

“…The proportion of agreement was >90% for five questions; 80.0%-90.0% for five questions; 70.0%, 65.0% and 45.5%. …”
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Early adulthood BMI and cardiovascular disease: a prospective cohort study from the China Kadoorie Biobank by Chen, Y, Yu, W, Lv, J, Sun, D, Pei, P, Du, H, Yang, L, Chen, Y, Zhang, H, Chen, J, Chen, Z, Li, L, Yu, C

“…</p> <br> <p><strong>Methods:</strong> In this prospective analysis, we used data from the China Kadoorie Biobank, a large and long-term cohort from five urban areas and five rural areas, using participants aged 35–70 years. …”

A Machine Learning Based Approach to Reaction Rate Estimation by Johnson, Matthew S., Green, William H.

“…The accuracy of the algorithm is tested against the state of the art rate rules scheme in the RMG-database for five selected reaction families. The SIDT method is shown to significantly improve estimation accuracy across all reaction families and considered statistics. …”
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A Systems Thinking Approach to Hispanic Engineer’s Involvement in Corporate Diversity Networks by Chambe, Enoch

“…The study provides a detailed literature review of relevant existing research on this subject, followed by semi-structured interviews of ten participants, and a thematic analysis approach used to analyze the data into the following five themes: diversity considerations for school and job selections, employee perspective on ERGs, sense of belonging and generational differences, the meaning of inclusiveness, and continued participation. …”
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15.012 Applied Macro- and International Economics, Spring 2002 by Thurow, Lester

“…The course is divided into five parts: The first presents the basic tools of macroeconomic management by focusing on historical episodes, particularly in the United States. …”
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Prospects of a multipolar international monetary order by Alam Md Whaheed

“…But in the last twenty-five years the US has been undergoing persistent current account deficit and external debts. …”
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Nurses lived experiences on the nurse-patient relationship by Koo, Alvina Min En

“…Adopting a constructivism paradigm, semi-structured interviews were conducted with five NPNs who came into frequent contact with end-of-life patients but were not trained in the provision of palliative care. …”
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Nostalgia increases financial risk taking by Zou, Xi, Lee, Margaret, Wildschut, Tim, Sedikides, Constantine

“…We examined, in five studies, the relation between nostalgia and financial risk taking. …”
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