Effects of positive education approach on academic boredom, intrinsic motivation, positive emotions and thought-action repertoire among private college students in Shaanxi Province... by Jie, Zheng

“…Additionally, those intervention studies only aimed to reduce academic boredom, while few studies examined the effects of interventions on both reducing academic boredom and increasing positive constructs like intrinsic motivation and positive emotions. …”
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Hybrid free space optics/radio frequency communication for next generation wireless networks by Sharma, Shubha

“…However, the FSO link is highly susceptible to atmospheric effects like pressure and temperature, which cause atmospheric turbulence along the propagation path. …”
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High p16 expression and heterozygous RB1 loss are biomarkers for CDK4/6 inhibitor resistance in ER+ breast cancer by Palafox, Marta, Monserrat, Laia, Bellet, Meritxell, Villacampa, Guillermo, Gonzalez-Perez, Abel, Oliveira, Mafalda, Brasó-Maristany, Fara, Ibrahimi, Nusaibah, Kannan, Srinivasaraghavan, Mina, Leonardo, Herrera-Abreu, Maria Teresa, Òdena, Andreu, Sánchez-Guixé, Mònica, Capelán, Marta, Azaro, Analía, Bruna, Alejandra, Rodríguez, Olga, Guzmán, Marta, Grueso, Judit, Viaplana, Cristina, Hernández, Javier, Su, Faye, Lin, Kui, Clarke, Robert B., Caldas, Carlos, Arribas, Joaquín, Michiels, Stefan, García-Sanz, Alicia, Turner, Nicholas C., Prat, Aleix, Nuciforo, Paolo, Dienstmann, Rodrigo, Verma, Chandra Shekhar, Lopez-Bigas, Nuria, Scaltriti, Maurizio, Arnedos, Monica, Saura, Cristina, Serra, Violeta

“…Combination of the CDK4/6 inhibitor ribociclib with the PI3K inhibitor alpelisib showed antitumor activity in estrogen receptor-positive non-basal-like breast cancer patient-derived xenografts, independently of PIK3CA, ESR1 or RB1 mutation, also in drug de-escalation experiments or omitting endocrine therapy. …”
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21A.230J / WGS.456J The Contemporary American Family, Spring 2004 by Jackson, Jean

“…We next examine how the family is currently defined in the U.S., discussing different views about what families should look like. Class and ethnic variability and the effects of changing gender roles are discussed in this section. …”
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Growth performances, carcass yield and meat quality of free range village chickens fed on diet containing dehydrated processed food waste by Shanaghi, Hossein

“…As panelists preferred, chicken meat from T4 (60% DPFW) had the highest liking rate of 6.6 (P<0.05) while the last one was control group (0% DPFW) with the rate of 6.06 (like slightly) (P<0.05). …”
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The effect of temperature on permittivity measurements of aqueous solutions of glucose for the development of non-invasive glucose sensors based on electromagnetic waves by Jayanthi, Renu, Virdee, Bal Singh, Lubangakene, Innocent, Ganguly, Priyanka, Mariyanayagam, Dion

“…The rise in thermal energy normally causes dipolar liquids like water to vibrate and rotate disrupting the alignment of the dipoles in response to an electric field thereby reducing its permittivity. …”
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PostIndependentzia by Calzada, I

“…The guiding principle is clear: what is territory and what Basque territoriality would be like in a forthcoming geopolitical, geostrategic, and TransLoKal context. …”

Modélisation des interactions en Italie du Nord au premier âge du Fer: de la circulation de parures aux réseaux d’influences culturelles by Cicolani, V, Huet, T, Zamboni, L

“…By modelling the fashion tradition through the analysis of shared clothing items, this paper would like to propose a critical review of the markers of cultural identity, mobility, interaction traditionally used looking for alternative theoretical interpretation and social narrative of the role of indigenous communities in the North Italic trade et craft activities. …”

Tsewang Norbu NGB by Cantwell, C, Mayer, R

“…</p> <p>*Navigating the Chapters and Catalogue</p> <p>Our work was always intended as a Web publication. While it can be read like a conventional book, in a sequence of consecutive chapters, we envisage that most readers will prefer either to browse the catalogue as a reference book, or in reading the other chapters, to focus more closely on one section or another, and not necessarily to follow the order in which we have laid them out. …”

Person-centred care for dementia patients (front-end Android app) by Neo, Zhao Wei

“…Patients with this brain disease tend to exhibit symptoms of memory loss, impaired judgement, and frequent mood swings. With the ageing population in Singapore growing, the demand for more caregivers, residential care facilities and higher quality of person-centred care has been rising exponentially. …”
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Water resources and extreme events in the Awash basin: economic effects and policy implications: report prepared for the Global Green Growth Institute by Smale, R, Walker, O, Vadheim, B, Hope, R, Hope, R, Charles, K, Hall, J, Dadson, S, Borgomeo, E, Kebede, S, Alamirew, T, Bekele, F, Mengistu, A, Beyene, S

“…Plausible future hydrological conditions drawn from global climate models, applied to the Growth and Transition Planning period (GTP) from 2011-15, lead to swings in basin GDP of the order of 5-20%. Furthermore, as the economy is projected to grow sharply in coming years so is the degree of water scarcity. …”

Design of RF front-end circuit blocks for low-power applications by Lim, Kok Meng

“…By incorporating a power amplifier on-chip several considerations need to be addressed, a power amplifier have high gain resulting in a huge signal swings. These signals tend to find their way to other frequency sensitive circuits such as oscillators, through certain feedback paths or substrate coupling. …”
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Give your money and lose your friend : the roles of social exclusion and money anthropomorphism in charitable giving by Kho, Mandon Jin Cheng

“…Lastly, we predicted that socially excluded people would be less likely to donate money compared to socially included people, but only when money is anthropomorphized. …”
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Spatial structure of workplace and communication between colleagues: A study of E-mail exchange and spatial relatedness on the MIT campus by Sevtsuk, Andres, Chancey, Bahij, Basu, Rounaq, Mazzarello, Martina

“…Our findings suggest that (a) people whose offices are closer to each other by walking are more likely to exchange E-mails, (b) on the campus as a whole, people who are more likely to walk past each other’s offices on the way to or from work are more likely to exchange E-mails, and (c) people who share access to similar eating venues around their offices are more likely to exchange E-mails. …”
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Urban Big Data: City Management and Real Estate Markets by Barkham, Richard, Bokhari, Sheharyar, Saiz, Albert

“…Nevertheless, smaller scale interventions are likely to crop up everywhere, even in the short run. …”
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Effects of maze appearance on maze solving by Semizer, Yelda, Yu, Dian, Wan, Qianqian, Balas, Benjamin, Rosenholtz, Ruth

“…As mazes are typically complex, cluttered stimuli, solving them is likely limited by visual crowding. Thus, several aspects of the appearance of the maze – the thickness, spacing, and curvature of the paths, as well as the texture of both paths and walls – likely influence the performance. …”
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Basel II implementation challenges and solutions by Ang, Shawn Chee Ann, Cheng, Ryan Kam Wai, Lim, Gabriel Geok Chuan

“…To review the Basel 2 Accord in order to investigate the likely impact of its implementation on the banks in Singapore.…”
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E-commerce regulation and trader compliance: a comparative and empirical inquiry by Pflücke, F

“…The ambition of the thesis is to define and measure the levels of compliance and to test four hypotheses: (H1) traders do not comply in full with their legal obligations; (H2) large traders are more likely to be compliant compared to SMEs; (H3) traders that are older are more likely to be compliant compared to companies that were incorporated more recently; (H4) traders that base their terms and conditions on pre-drafted standard contract terms are more likely to be in compliance with the selected legal obligations. …”

Three essays on family firms by Lim, So-Yeon

“…Relative to single-family founding firms, multi-family cofounding firms are more likely to force out founders and less likely to allow descendants to take control after founders retire.…”
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When money can’t buy political love: lab experiments on vote buying in Ghana and Uganda by Burbidge, D, Cheeseman, N, Panin, A

“…Participants play the roles of voters and candidates with opportunities to bribe. Voters are more likely to vote for a candidate who had the opportunity to bribe but refrained from doing so. …”