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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Poverty, growth, inequality and pro-poor factors: new evidence from macro data by Amini, Chiara, Dal Bianco, Silvia

“…Our main results are in line with the existing literature. First, we find that the poverty elasticities to growth and inequality are, respectively, around -2% and 2%. …”
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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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Marta Czok ARCHĪVUM by Scarso, Jacek Ludwig, Czok, Marta

“…Each work is a standing document, but also part of a compendium of memories made, in this case, of images and narratives that intertwine with one another, as if they were branches of a tree – itself a symbol that we frequently find in Marta Czok's works. For Palazzo Mathis in Bra, this concept became the stimulus for a retrospective exhibition that looked at the artist's overall work, highlighting particular moments through a selection of four themes: AURUM (gold representations), CIVITAS (scenes of social life), VENUS (female representations), URBS (cityscapes). …”
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Changes of urban green space patterns in Akure, Nigeria by Festus, Akinyoyenu Afolabi

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Evolutionary optimisation and real-time self-tuning active vibration control of a flexible beam system by Saad, Mohd. Sazli

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Structural behaviour of slab panel system with embedded cold-formed steel skeletal frame by Ling, Yee Lee

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Modified gaussian puff method for prediction of CO2 emission from ship by Razali, Mohammad Rashidi

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Accident prevention model for the building construction industry by Samuel, Williams Opeyemi

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Integrated information gain with extra tree algorithm for feature permission analysis in android malware classification by Al-Kaaf, Howida AbuBaker

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A model of retrofit energy efficiency for sustainable building by using energy performance contract method in Malaysia by Kiani, Iman

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The GCSE attainment gap: assessing the influence of permanent school exclusion by Hills, Stephen, Walker, Matthew, Guinn, James, Kent, Aubrey

“…Using capped GCSE points as the academic attainment variable, we find that permanently excluded pupil scores were nearly 25 points lower than their non-permanently excluded peers. …”
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