Reconfigurable radiation pattern of planar antenna using metamaterial for 5G applications by Ali Esmail, Bashar, A. Majid, Huda, Zainal Abidin, Zuhairiah, Dahlan, Samsul Haimi, Himdi, Mohamed, Dewan, Raimi, A. Rahim, Mohamad Kamal, Al-Fadhali, Najib

“…These two MM configurations are used to guide the antenna’s main beam in the desired direction in the 5th generation (5G) band of 28 GHz. …”
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‘Russian military censorship, like the Russian warship, can go f*** itself.’ An analysis of Russian independent media response to wartime media freedom restrictions by Raspopina, Aleksandra

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Fostering 'Technological Citizenship' : the redesign of a curriculum unit on computers and ethics by Johnstone, Justine

“…The position of HIT at London Metropolitan University is somewhat unusual since, unlike most similarly named subjects, it does not encompass humanities computing (a technical subject concerned with such matters as database archiving of cultural material). …”
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Guidance for Trust managers : implementing and sustaining routine enquiry about violence and abuse in mental health services (REVA project, briefing 2) by Scott, Sara, Williams, Jennie, McNaughton, Nicholls C., Brown, Ashley, Harvey, Shannon, Kelly, Liz, Lovett, Jo

“…Since 2003 it has been Department of Health policy that all adult service users should be asked about experiences of violence and abuse in mental health assessments. …”
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The application of computer-aided assessment to postgraduate study in sports management by Kitchin, Paul

“…Computer-aided/assisted assessment (CAA), or Computer-based assessment (CBA) has been developed since the mass-expansion of the personal computer in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s. …”
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Teaching and Learning Economics through Cinema by Girardi, Gherardo

“…The approach developed here is, in a sense, the reverse of that process since it is the medium of cinema which is allowed to inform and suggest the economic concepts that can be discussed through this medium. …”
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Qucs Equation-Defined Device modelling with a Verilog-A Prototyping Platform by Brinson, Mike, Kuznetsov, Vadim, Grabinski, Wladek

“…Since it was first added to Qucs in 2007 Equation-Defined Device (EDD) modelling has become an established model building technique. …”
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Evaluating Greek equity funds using data envelopment analysis by Babalos, Vassilis, Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Philippas, Nikolaos

“…Our results have significant implications for the investors' fund selection process since we are able to identify potential sources of inefficiencies for the funds. …”
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Framing the future: sustainability, legacy and the 2012 London Games by Gold, Margaret, Gold, John Robert

“…When the International Olympic Committee (IOC) adopted ‘environment’ as a third pillar of Olympism at its centenary meeting in Paris in 1994, it was partly reacting to an environmentalist lobby critical of the growing scale and impact of the Games. Since then, the Olympic movement has striven to be more proactive in championing sustainable events management and in promoting positive environmental legacies through its bidding procedures for the Summer and Winter Games, its technical manuals and the Impact Studies that monitor a city’s performance. …”
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Seeking remedy and the last hope for returning home by Gasparyan, Narine

“…Seventeen years have passed since 330,000 of the 400,000 ethnic Armenians living in the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR) sought refuge in Armenia as a result of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. …”
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Twenty-nine years of the BIR annual survey, part 2: changing information work by Tredinnick, Luke

“…This paper is the second part of a review of the Business Information Review Annual Survey, which has been published annually since 1991. The paper explores changes to the professional context for information work revealed by the surveys over the course of its publication. …”
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Protecting against eavesdropping on mobile phones to snip data with Information Security Awareness and Steganography principles by Araujo, Istteffanny Isloure, Kazemian, Hassan

“…Eavesdropping on Mobile Devices is the primary concern here. Since the mobility of computers, including laptops, tablets, PDAs and smartphone, are demanding and criminals now start to target these devices as the usage is more than desktops. …”
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Conflict management and peacebuilding in Africa: the role of state and non-state agencies by Abdulrahman, Imran, Tar, Usman A.

“…Though the all-too familiar derogatory metaphors (such as Kaplan's 'the coming anarchy [1994]) are slightly reversed, particularly since the 2000s, following substantial democratic transformation, the continent continues to experience spates of intra- and inter-state wars with impact on the prospects of peace, stability and security in the continent. …”
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"This is so cool - radio at my fingertips!" Young people’s responses to Radio Garden by Mitchell, Caroline, Lewis, Peter M.

“…Interviews and small scale impact workshops with a range of people and organisations carried out in the years since Radio Garden’s launch provide some clues to the reasons for its popularity in periods of lockdown. …”
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An evaluation of the motivational factors of network marketing independent distributors using Vroom's work motivation theory by Tan, Peter Kia Liang

“…During the 1970s and '80s, many research papers on motivation were published. Since then, there has been a decline in such empirical research. …”
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The internet and small to medium-sized enterprises: research notes by Lawrence, Japhet Eke

“…They are socially and economically important, since they represent 99 % of all enterprises in the EU and provide around 65 million jobs and contribute to entrepreneurship and innovation. …”
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United we stand? Organizational groups and spinoff mortality in the context of academic entrepreneurship by Gotsopoulos, Aleksios, Pitsakis, Konstantinos

“…We study failures between 1993 and 2017 in the complete population of 1731 English and Scottish university spinoffs founded since 1977. We borrow and expand the concept of density dependence from organizational ecology to theorize that a spinoff's propensity to fail is affected by the number of spinoffs active not only in the aggregate population but also within its parent university's portfolio. …”
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A review on aviation restructuring action to survive in COVID-19 challenges: Malaysia perspective by Ariffin, Ahmad Hamdan, Yaakub, Mohd Fauzi

“…The survival of airlines, indeed, the landscape of the domestic and global aviation industry at the end of the crisis, is still unfolding. As few months passed since the Movement Control Order (MCO commenced, Malaysia has successfully flattened the curve for infections in this country by conducting acute case detections and screen those who in high risk group such as Malaysians returning from overseas and so on. …”
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Training functional link neural network with ant lion optimizer by Mohmad Hassim, Yana Mazwin, Ghazali, Rozaida

“…FLNN requires less tunable weights for training as compared to the standard multilayer feed forward network such as Multilayer Perceptron (MLP). Since FLNN uses Backpropagation algorithm as the standard learning algorithm, the method however prone to get trapped in local minima which affect its performance. …”
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Musculoskeletal symptoms and ergonomic hazards among room attendants in hotel industries by Abdol Rahman, Mohd Nasrull, Muhamad Jaffar, Mohd Syahir

“…Ergonomic hazards which contribute to Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs) among room attendants were considered as a problem or trouble since these ergonomic problems would affect their work performance for hotel industries. …”
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