Assessing the financial performance of container shipping companies by Shen, Wanling.

“…The objective of this research paper is to determine if vertical integration improves the financial performance of container shipping companies, by comparing various financial indicators of the firms prior to and after vertical integration. Five companies were shortlisted from the top 30 container shipping lines, where trends and changes in five selected indicators were analyzed over a specified timeframe before and after integration. …”
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Simple and flexible vision-based hand gesture recognition system by Lee, Chun Kiat.

“…The fundamental concept of the system is to count the number of fingers displayed in particular gesture based on the unique characteristic of human hands which normally constituted by five fingers in a circle-like palm. The developed system is capable of recognizing six gestures ranging from “zero” to “five”. …”
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Disposition kinetics of tylosin administered intravenously and intramuscularly in Desert Sheep and Nubian Goats by Taha, A.A., Elsheikh, H.A., Khalafalla, A.E., Osman, I. A. M., Abdullah, A. Salam

“…The pharmacokinetic behaviour of tylosin was compared in five Desert sheep and five Nubian goats. The animals were given a single dose of 20% tylosin (15 mg/kg), either intravenously (i.v.) or intramuscularly (i.m.). …”
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Effect of hybridisation on crushing behaviour of carbon/glass fibre/epoxy circular-cylindrical shells by Mahdi, E., Hamouda, A.M.S., Sahari, B.B., Khalid, Y.A.

“…Five types of composites were tested, namely, carbon fibre/epoxy, glass fibre/epoxy, carbon-glass-glass/epoxy, glass-carbon-glass/epoxy and glass-glass-carbon/epoxy. …”
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Framing Transformative Student Communication Competency (Transcom) for Students of Higher Institutions: Realizing the Importance of Professional Competency in the Workplace Intern... by Mohd Yusof, Fahainis, Abdul Aziz, Norhashimah

“…The data collected are categorized under five categories of stakeholders so as to gauge five different type of analysis. …”
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Strain‐modulated ferromagnetism at an intrinsic van der Waals heterojunction by Fujita, R, Gurung, G, Mawass, M, Smekhova, A, Kronast, F, Toh, AK, Soumyanarayanan, A, Ho, P, Singh, A, Heppell, E, Backes, D, Maccherozzi, F, Watanabe, K, Taniguchi, T, Mayoh, DA, Balakrishnan, G, van der Laan, G, Hesjedal, T

“…Density functional theory calculations and atomistic spin dynamic simulations show that the Fe3GeTe2 layer is compressively strained by 0.4%, reducing the exchange stiffness and magnetic anisotropy. …”

Beyond-the-Ice: Designing Games for Facilitating Deeper Conversations by Lee, Cassandra

“…This work builds on formal knowledge from the social sciences, HCI, and game design, as well as informal knowledge from facilitation, gathering practices, party games, and Tarot, by presenting five distinct design principles aligned with theories grounded in past work: 1) Make emotional disclosure special; 2) Scaffold responsiveness; 3) Approach depth through fun; 4) Empower “the work” through constraints and permissions; 5) Center objects to feel with. …”
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Temperature induced biological alterations in the major carp, Rohu (Labeo rohita): assessing potential effects of climate change on aquaculture production by Mridul, Md. Monirul Islam, Zeehad, Md. Shariar Kabir, Aziz, Dania, Salin, Krishna R., Hurwood, David A., Rahi, Md. Lifat

“…This study tested the effects of five different temperature levels (28 °C, 30 °C, 32 °C, 33 °C and 34 °C) on selected physiological and biochemical traits, and also on the expression of five targeted genes of L. rohita. …”
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Tracking oxidation-induced alterations in fibrin clot formation by NMR-based methods by Lau, Wai-Hoe, White, Nathan J., Yeo, Tsin Wen, Gruen, Russell L., Pervushin, Konstantin

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Coupled domain wall oscillations in magnetic cylindrical nanowires by Murapaka, Chandrasekhar, Goolaup, S., Purnama, I., Lew, W. S.

“…It is possible to sustain the DW oscillations by applying spin-polarized current to the nanowires to balance the repulsive magnetostatic coupling. …”
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Label-free quantitative measurement of cardiovascular dynamics in a zebrafish embryo using frequency-comb-referenced-quantitative phase imaging by Boonruangkan, Jeeranan, Farrokhi, Hamid, Rohith, Thazhe Madam, Kwok, Samuel, Carney, Tom J., Su, Pei-Chen, Kim, Young-Jin

“…Results: The average velocity of zebrafish’s RBCs was measured from 192.5 to 608.8 μm∕s at 24 to 28 hour-post-fertilization (hpf). …”
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Modelling familiarity : towards age-friendly exergame design by Zhang, Hao

“…The interview results show that Escape Room exergame is highly familiar to the participants and all the five sub-constructs were involved in the exergame design. …”
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Which factors affect the performance of technology business incubators in China? An entrepreneurial ecosystem perspective by Yuan, Xiangfei, Hao, Haijing, Guan, Chenghua, Pentland, Alex

“…Further, seven factors related to all four areas have various statistically significant associations with an incubator’s performance in five major regional data set. In particular, a technology related factor has a consistently statistically significant association with the performance of the incubator in both national model and the five regional models, as we expected.…”
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Compressive behaviour and resistances of S690 high strength steel welded pi-shaped and cruciform section stub columns by Cabawatan, Nicolas

“…The experimental programme was conducted on five welded S690 high strength steel π-section and five welded S690 high strength steel cruciform sections, and included material tensile coupon tests, initial local geometric imperfection measurements, and twenty concentrically loaded stub column tests. …”
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Data-driven ecological driving behaviour evaluation and green supply chain improvement by Zhou, Zhongcan

“…In the 14th Five-Year Plan, China has emphasized the importance of promoting green development, and the policy once again emphasized the importance of promoting energy conservation, thus improving the green supply chain. …”
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Experimental study on cache-performance optimization for graph storage by Foo, Wei Ling

“…In this extension, I have collected ten types of large graph datasets to measure the execution time using five graph ordering algorithms and five graph traversal algorithms as benchmarks from Fabrice Lecuyer et al. [2]. …”
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The role of stock market volatility in predicting macroeconomic quantities. by Leong, Florence Mei Hua., Wirawan, Sulistiyana., Kevin, Yohanes.

“…The five variables are real gross domestic product, employment rate, industrial production index, real personal consumption expenditure and nondurables goods & services consumption. …”
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Young children retain fast mapped object labels better than shape, color, and texture words by Holland, Amanda, Simpson, Andrew, Riggs, Kevin J.

“…Retention of the mapping between the new word and the novel object or property was measured either five minutes or one week later. After five minutes, retention was significantly above chance in all conditions. …”
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Genome-wide association analysis of composite sleep health scores in 413,904 individuals by Goodman, MO, Faquih, T, Paz, V, Nagarajan, P, Lane, JM, Spitzer, B, Maher, M, Chung, J, Cade, BE, Purcell, SM, Zhu, X, Noordam, R, Phillips, AJK, Kyle, SD, Spiegelhalder, K, Weedon, MN, Lawlor, DA, Rotter, JI, Taylor, KD, Isasi, CR, Sofer, T, Dashti, HS, Rutter, MK, Redline, S

“…Here we construct novel sleep health scores (SHSs) incorporating five core self-report measures: sleep duration, insomnia symptoms, chronotype, snoring, and daytime sleepiness, using additive (SHS-ADD) and five principal components-based (SHS-PCs) approaches. …”

A management framework for sudden water pollution: a systematic review output by Bello, Nura, Jamil, Nor Rohaizah, Looi, Ley Juen, Yap, Ng Keng

“…Meanwhile, five mitigation strategies included reservoir operation, real-time monitoring, early warning, and chemical and biological treatments. …”