Understanding the role of tourist-oriented villages in promoting rural tourism in China: integrating rural landscapes and tourist services by Yi, Yayun, Siow, May Ling, Ibrahim, Roziya, Abdul Aziz, Faziawati

“…By grasping this concept, rural areas can experience a revival, enabling local governments, villagers, and tourism service providers to actively participate in the long-term planning, management, and development of tourist-oriented villages, crucial for the enduring success of rural tourism initiatives in China.…”

Distinguishing transcreation from translation: exploring strategies to render gender stereotypes by Zhu, Li, Ang, Lay Hoon, Sun, Yanna

“…Academics have long debated the similarities and differences between translation and transcreation. …”
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Improving mental health response in earthquake-prone regions: recommendations following the recent earthquake in Türkiye by Ramalho, Rodrigo, Ersönmez, Rojda, Kına, İdil, Keçeci, İrem, Apparao, Ramin, Koh, Eugene B.Y., Coskun, Bülent

“…We recommend a three-step multi-tiered mental health response system that could significantly help to address the immediate, short-term and long-term mental health needs of communities directly affected by a disaster. …”
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Women’s quest for home: spatial imaginary in Kazuo Ishiguro’s a pale view of hills by Ling, Xu, Awang, Mohammad Ewan, Singh, Hardev Kaur Jujar

“…This dynamic process encompasses three facets: materially, it includes the destruction of homes, the Westernisation of domestic space, and gendered space and domesticity; imaginatively, it involves long-lasting trauma and repression; and relationally, it signifies the transformation of home from unhomely to a homely one. …”
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Habitat Complexity Influencing Avian Community Structure, Conservation Management and its Implications in Malaysia by Abdul Halim, Abdul Muhaimin, Norazlimi, Nor Atiqah

“…However, the advanced research methodologies, long-term monitoring, and a more nuanced understanding of the specific ecological processes influencing bird populations should be well emphasized. …”
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A proposed framework of corporate social responsibility dimensions and employees' unethical pro-organizational behaviour: Evidence from Chinese SMES. by Liu, Renrui, Kanjanapathy, Malini, Saat, Maisarah

“…Such behaviour, although for the benefit of the organization, may have potential and long-term costs to the organization. Corporate social responsibility has been identified as an important influence on unethical pro-organizational behaviour, but there is a lack of exploration of the dimensional level. …”
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Green practices in the hotel industry: the push and pull factors by Aripin, Norhani, Amran, Noor Afza, Saad, Natrah, Awalludin, Noor Rohin

“…The environmental issue in Malaysia has a long history, which began with river pollution because of tin mining operations.It has now become more critical as air pollution and waste disposal by the hotel industry have a negative impact on the environment.A total of 86 questionnaires were received from four-star and five-star hotels in Selangor, Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya.The dependent variable is green practices, while the independent variables are motivational factors and barriers. …”
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A wireless, battery-free device enables oxygen generation and immune protection of therapeutic xenotransplants in vivo by Krishnan, Siddharth R, Liu, Claudia, Bochenek, Matthew A, Bose, Suman, Khatib, Nima, Walters, Ben, O’Keeffe, Laura, Facklam, Amanda, Langer, Robert, Anderson, Daniel G

“…The immune isolation of cells within devices has the potential to enable long-term protein replacement and functional cures for a range of diseases, without requiring immune suppressive therapy. …”
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A deep learning-based fault detection and classification in smart electrical power transmission system by Khaleefah, Shihab Hamad, Mostafa, Salama A., Gunasekaran, Saraswathy Shamini, Khattak, Umar Farooq, Siti Salwani, Yaacob, Alanda, Alde

“…Electrical Power Transmission Networks (EPTN) are made of many complex, dynamic, and interrelated components. The transmission lines are essential components of the EPTN, and their fundamental duty is to transport electricity from the source area to the distribution network. …”
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Use of functional magnetic resonance imaging to identify cortical loci for lower limb movements and their efficacy for individuals after stroke by Choi, Minseok, Kim, Hyun-Chul, Youn, Inchan, Lee, Song Joo, Lee, Jong-Hwan

“…Background Identification of cortical loci for lower limb movements for stroke rehabilitation is crucial for better rehabilitation outcomes via noninvasive brain stimulation by targeting the fine-grained cortical loci of the movements. However, identification of the cortical loci for lower limb movements using functional MRI (fMRI) is challenging due to head motion and difficulty in isolating different types of movement. …”
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Thermally induced phase separation PVDF membrane fabricated by using NaCl coagulation bath: relation of membrane surface morphology and permeation performance by Chen, Ningyuan, Zhao, Jie, Shi, Lei, Goto, Atsushi, Wang, Rong

“…This study introduces a simple and environmental method to increase the permeability effectively and fine-tune the pore size of the TIPS membranes while having little effect on the bulk structure. …”
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Combining laser frequency combs and iodine cell calibration techniques for Doppler detection of exoplanets by Cahoy, K., Fischer, D., Spronck, J., Demille, D.

“…The smaller mass and longer period of true Earth analogues require the ability to detect a reflex velocity of ~10 cm/s over long time periods. Currently, typical astronomical spectrographs calibrate using either Iodine absorptive cells or Thorium Argon lamps and achieve ~10 m/s precision, with the most stable spectrographs pushing down to ~2 m/s. …”
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EMS of hybrid AC/DC micro grid by Zhao, Yi

“…The issues coming along with traditional power system can be terrible for the environments, such as large use of fossil fuels, coal; long distance of transmission lines also will cause the cost of money and fuels for the electricity transmission process. …”
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Optimizing OOD Detection in Molecular Graphs: A Novel Approach with Diffusion Models by Shen, Xu, Wang, Yili, Zhou, Kaixiong, Pan, Shirui, Wang, Xin

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Missing Data by Jungs de Almeida, Alessandra, Klein, Lauren, D’Ignazio, Catherine

“…While some might refer to data that is literally absent, as in statistical approaches to missing data that attempts to interpolate what might fill in the gaps,1 others, such as the artist and educator Mimi Ọnụọha, take “missing data” to mean something more political — “something [that] does not exist, but it should.”2 In the same line as Ọnụọha, our definition of missing data refers to information that goes uncounted (or otherwise unrecorded), despite social and political demands that such data should be collected and made available. …”
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A training algorithm and stability analysis for recurrent neural networks by Xu, Zhao, Song, Qing, Wang, Danwei, Fan, Haijin

“…Besides, the transient response of learning process of RNNs is a critical issue, especially for on-line applications. Conventional RNNs training algorithms such as the backpropagation through time (BPTT) and real-time recurrent learning (RTRL) have not adequately satisfied these requirements because they often suffer from slow convergence speed. …”
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PPARβ/δ prevents endoplasmic reticulum stress-associated inflammation and insulin resistance in skeletal muscle cells through an AMPK-dependent mechanism by Salvadó, Laia, Barroso, Emma, Gómez-Foix, Anna Maria, Palomer, Xavier, Michalik, Liliane, Wahli, Walter, Vázquez-Carrera, Manuel

“…Methods Studies were conducted in mouse C2C12 myotubes, in the human myogenic cell line LHCN-M2 and in skeletal muscle from wild-type and PPARβ/δ-deficient mice and mice exposed to a high-fat diet. …”
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PPARβ/δ agonism upregulates forkhead box A2 to reduce inflammation in C2C12 myoblasts and in skeletal muscle by Phua, Wendy Wen Ting, Tan, Wei Ren, Yip, Yun Sheng, Hew, Ivan Dongzheng, Wee, Jonathan Wei Kiat, Cheng, Hong Sheng, Leow, Melvin Khee Shing, Wahli, Walter, Tan, Nguan Soon

“…This reduced local inflammatory response limits tissue damage and restores muscle tetanic contraction. In line with these results, a deficiency in either PPARβ/δ or FoxA2 diminishes the action of the PPARβ/δ agonist GW501516 to suppress an aggravated inflammatory response. …”
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Structural integrity assessment of rail steel failure modes and mechanism by Liu, Yang

“…Transverse weld-toe surface cracks at the fusion line of the welded joint are found to be caused by the high density of weld defects and the mismatch of strength and fatigue properties between the thermite weld metal and unaffected rail steel. …”
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Towards in-situ texture analysis during LPBF: optical microscopy and texture control by Wang, Xiaogang

“…Finally, I present my attempts atix enabling optical microstructural analysis, in-line, during L-PBF processes (Chapter 4). To this end, I integrated special surface processing techniques as well as the optical characterization methods described in the previous chapters inside a custom-made L-PBF system. …”
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