A methodological note on the global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) 2024 changes over time results for 86 countries by Alkire, S, Kanagaratnam, U, Suppa, N

“…Six countries (Benin, Eswatini, Nigeria, Philippines, Tanzania, and Thailand) have results for four points in time, three countries (Ghana, Mexico and Peru) for five time periods and Nepal have trends for six time periods. …”

Self-diagnosis of mental disorders: a qualitative study of attitudes on Reddit by Foulkes, L, Underhill, R

“…From 1195 user comments, five themes were generated: (1) There is tension over who is the expert in diagnosis; (2) Selfdiagnosis is a route to self-understanding in an inaccessible system; (3) Teenagers on social media are the problem; (4) Self-diagnosis can become self-fulfilling and (5) Now no one is believed. …”

Developing a framework for tracking antimicrobial resistance gene movement in a persistent environmental reservoir by Mathers, AJ, Li, TJX, He, Q, Narendra, S, Stoesser, N, Eyre, DW, Walker, AS, Barry, KE, Castañeda-Barba, S, Huang, FW, Parikh, H, Kotay, S, Crook, DW, Reidys, C

“…We successfully reconstructed the complete bacterial genome and plasmid assemblies of isolates sharing the same blaKPC carbapenemase gene to understand evolution over time in six confined hospital drains over five years. From 82 isolates we identified 14 unique strains from 10 species with 113 blaKPC-carrying plasmids across 16 distinct replicon types. …”

Cardiocutaneous syndrome is caused by aggregation of iASPP mutants by Lotz, R, Osterburg, C, Schäfer, B, Lu, X, Dötsch, V

“…Germline mutations in iASPP have been shown to cause cardiocutaneous syndromes, a combination of heart and skin defects usually leading to death before the age of five. Mutations in iASPP causing these syndromes do not cluster in hot spots but are distributed throughout the protein. …”

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. …”

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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Robust Control For Underwater Vehicle Systems With Time Delays by Triantafyllou, Michael S ., Grosenbaugh, Mark A.

“…The methodology is applicable to undenvater vehicle systems that exhibit time delays, including tethered vehicles that are positioned through the movements of a surface ship and autonomous vehicles that are controlled through an acoustic link. An example, using full-scale data from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s tethered vehicle ARGO, demonstrates the developments.…”
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Benchmarking novel graph neural networks by Bhagwat, Abhishek

“…This enables us to compare various models for particular tasks such as graph classification, graph regression as well as edge or link prediction tasks. In this paper, we try to introduce two novel GNNs and methods to experiment and evaluate whether these new methods are able to achieve SOTA results on existing tasks and datasets. …”
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Model predictive control for single-phase active neutral point clamped converter by Ang, Ming Yang

“…This algorithm has three main goals: to ensure that the converter provides a stable and clean current to the grid, to maintain balanced voltages across the converter's DC-link capacitors for optimal functioning, and to minimise switching events within the converter to enhance overall efficiency and thermal performance.…”
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Personal positioning and location inference (II) by Muhammad Noor Hardee Rupaii.

“…The overlay highlights points on the map that have been identified as significant locales as well as paths linking these identified locales.…”
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MANET test-bed implementation and performance analysis by Cai, Ruojun

“…Many routing protocols have been developed for accomplishing this task. Optimized Link State Routing (OLSR) protocol is a well known proactive routing protocol, which is undergoing extensive research under the auspices of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). …”
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The greening of the offshore and marine industry. by Wee, Shi Hao., Leong, Pei Ling., Kong, Justin Jude Tse Sen.

“…This paper aims to study what drives the formation of green alliances, analyse the role of green alliances in an organization’s corporate strategy and in contributing to sustainability as a whole as well as to elucidate the link between green alliances and global citizenship. …”
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Implementation of rateless coding on off the shelf commercial smartphone by Cheong, Benjie Yi Da

“…With the rapid increase of number of people having a camera smartphone, visible light communication (VLC) as a form of short range communication over screen-camera link emerges as a viable option. However, the reliability of the transmission is affected by several factors: the environment at which the transmission is taking place, camera performances, human factors such as trembling and the lack of a feedback channel. …”
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The role of personality in the family stress model on mothers : an Asian context by Chong, Bryan Wei Ren

“…This study had two aims: testing the link between income-stress-parenting behaviours-child outcomes as proposed by the family stress model and testing the moderating role of personality. …”
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Lights and sounds : effects of congruence and musical sophistication on auditory and visual perception by Aw, Justus Jinyue

“…Research has also shown that musical training improves pitch perception, and the current research was carried out to establish if there is a link between the two. A measure of musical sophistication was also used in place of time spent taking music lessons; this was done in order to capture other elements that encapsulated engagement with music beyond formal training and practice. …”
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Study on the effects of indoor air quality on the cognitive abilities of youths in Singapore by Chua, Elena Mei Yan

“…The report will discuss attempts to establish a link between cognitive abilities to the indoor air quality through using activities in experiments. …”
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