A study of the roles of colour and shape in the perception of perfume by Chan, Wei Wen, Chow, Aileen Ooi Leng, Fong, Chui Jin

“…The colour stimuli (bright, dark and pastel) and shape stimuli (classical, contemporary and conventional) were given to all respondents. A full 3 x 3 factorial design was adopted. …”
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Studies of gallium nitride (GaN) based high electron mobility transistor (HEMTS) by Ong, Eugene Wei Han

“…GaN (Gallium Nitride) on High Electron Mobility Transistors (HEMTs) has been developed since the early 2000s, however, it is not till recent times that it is commercialised and used for an impressive array of technologically advanced advents. …”
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Unveiling the future of budget hotels in Singapore by Chua, Hwee Lian, Kew, Wong Yip, Soh, Wee Li

“…These include using Porter's five forces model to define the external environment in which budget hotels operate and a SWOT analysis to function as an internal check. The findings of this study point towards a shortage of budget hotels that is likely to persist till 1995. …”
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Pear person-centred care for dementia patients (front end Android app) by Ng, Jian Xiong

“…The absence of medical treatment for dementia till today, had sparks researchers around the globe to find a breakthrough in the treatment one day. …”
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Local climate action from the middle-out: the social potential of craft guilds to facilitate low-carbon installations in Germany by Wehden, S, Janda, KB, Jansen, J, Creutzig, F

“…However, research on effective governance arrangements targeting this ‘installation bottleneck’ is limited. To fill this gap, we adopt a Middle-Out Perspective (MOP) and use rich qualitative data including in-depth interviews to study the role of craft guilds within Germany's low-carbon transition, particularly in rooftop photovoltaic and heat pump installation. …”

Examining the antecedents of medical tourists use of social media from the standpoint of self-efficacy by Balouchi, Mina, Aziz, Yuhanis Abdul

“…According to the structural model analysis results, with the exception of social persuasion (SP), all of the proposed factors were significant sources of self-efficacy.The findings can assist medical tourism providers in optimising online searches for medical travel information, as well as medical tourism destination marketers in directing the tourism providers' marketing efforts towards the use of social media to target potential medical tourists more efficiently and on a larger scale.This study is being conducted in response to a significant knowledge gap in identifying the factors that influence medical tourists' online behaviour. …”

The mediating role of halal supply chain integrity in enhancing performance for halal herbal-based food SMEs by Rajendran, Salini Devi, Kamarulzaman, Nitty Hirawaty, Abd Rahman, Azmawani

“…Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to analyze the data and test the hypotheses. Findings – The findings showed that supply chain integration (SCI), Islamic human capital and HSCI have a significant relationship with SMEs’ performance. …”
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They acclaimed, I used: an investigation of traveller’s behavioural intention to use YouTube shorts for selection of ecotourism destination by Sharma, Nidhi, Arora, Nilesh

“…Partial least square structural equational modelling (PLS-SEM) was utilised for data analysis. Findings: The results showed a positive significant relationship between all the constructs of IAM. …”

Data for the ‘Orchid Observers’ project by Shuttleworth, S, O’Donnell, J, Lintott, C, Tweddle, J

“…The Natural History Museum (NHM) wants to find out if this is true for other wild orchids and whether all species are responding in the same way. …”

The quality/cosmology tension for a post-inflation QCD axion by Lu, Qianshu, Reece, Matthew, Sun, Zhiquan

“…We emphasize that the gauge equivalence of all minima of the axion potential (i.e., domain wall number equals one) is insufficient to solve the cosmological domain wall problem. …”
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A novel ant colony optimization-based maximum power point tracking for photovoltaic systems under partially shaded conditions by Jiang, Lian Lian., Maskell, Douglas L., Patra, Jagdish C.

“…However, when the PV arrays are partially shaded, multiple MPPs show up, which usually results in the failure of finding the global MPP. Some researchers have reported this problem and tried to solve it, but most of the MPP control schemes are relatively complicated or fail to guarantee the MPP under all shading circumstances. …”
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Evidence for resistance of activated sludge flocs to deflocculative DO stress by Suresh, Akshaykumar, Grygolowicz-Pawlak, Ewa, Poh, Leong Soon, Maszenan Abdul Majid, Dominiak, Dominik, Bugge, Thomas Vistisen, Gao, Xin, Ng, Wun Jern

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Information entropy based leakage profiling by Ou, Changhai, Zhou, Xinping, Lam, Siew-Kei, Zhou, Chengju, Ning, Fangxing

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Do we need ramsey taxation? Our existing taxes are largely corrective by Yan, Eric, Feng, Qu, Ng, Yew-Kwang

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ELM embedded discriminative dictionary learning for image classification by Zeng, Yijie, Li, Yue, Chen, Jichao, Jia, Xiaofan, Huang, Guang-Bin

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Dynamic network service selection in intelligent reflecting surface-enabled wireless systems: game theory approaches by Thanh Van, Nguyen Thi, Luong, Nguyen Cong, Feng, Shaohan, Nguyen, Huy T., Zhu, Kun, Luong, Thien Van, Niyato, Dusit

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PRFusion: toward effective and robust multi-modal place recognition with image and point cloud fusion by Wang, Sijie, Kang, Qiyu, She, Rui, Zhao, Kai, Song, Yang, Tay, Wee Peng

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Finite element analysis of expandable bi-leaflet heart valves for infants by Sin, Jonathan Junyao

“…Improvements on previous studies include finding and correcting errors in calculations and designs, testing the valve and conduit sizes that were previously not included in earlier studies and the establishment of a standard set of dimensions that can serve as a reference for all future studies. …”
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At the frontiers between penal and psy discourses: judicial constructions of the mentally dis/ordered defendant in Hong Kong sentencing judgments by Chiu, TCU

“…An outsider to the societal, clinical, and juridical norm, the individual must be normalised through all these gazes in the final sentence pronounced.…”

A generative model for evaluating missing data methods in large epidemiological cohorts by Radosavljević, L, Smith, SM, Nichols, TE

“…For example, in the UK Biobank missing data tends to appear in blocks, because non-participation in one of the sub-studies leads to missingness for all sub-study variables. Methods: We propose a tool for generating mixed type missing data mimicking key properties of a given real large scale epidemiological data set with both structured and unstructured missingness while accounting for informative missingness. …”