Exploring the formation of behavioral intention toward rural tourism via sensory experience and memorable tourism experiences, a case study in Henan, China by Zhenbin, Wang, Ramachandran, Sridar, Siow, Mayling, Subramaniam, Thanam, Hui, Zhang

“…The findings from the partial least squares structural equation modeling revealed that out of the five sensory experiences, only touch has a statistically significant and positive impact on behavioral intention. …”

Partial incorporation of black jelly mushroom (Auricularia polytricha) as a plant-based ingredient in the production of hybrid patties using meat from different species by Abdul Wahab, Nurdamia Qaisara, Pangestika, Leonie Margaretha Widya, Ismail-Fitry, Mohammad Rashedi

“…Simultaneously, it is characterised as the least in hardness but the highest in chewiness and cohesiveness. …”
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The significance of cultural context in the classification of preferred mouth behavior: exploring eating behavior using causal network analysis by How, Syahmeer, Kantono, Kevin, Hedelund, Pia I., Hamid, Nazimah, Azhar, Adlin Najihah, Ventrakamani, Aishwarya, Sulaiman, Alifdalino

“…The Adult Eating Behavior Questionnaire was later modeled using causal networks, specifically Partial Least Squares-Confirmatory Factor Analysis, to uncover relationship between appetitive qualities. …”
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Conceptual paper on action research in a chinese lithium electric materials company: brain drain, talent-position mismatch and talent outflow. by Fu, Jianghua, Choo, Ling Suan, Teo, Poh-Chuin, Tan, Jun-Wei, C. F. Ho, Theresa

“…Subsequently, this paper reviewed the past literature, and identified the intervention plans. Last but not least, the proposed research methodology, data analysis tools and conclusions were also discussed.…”

Green practices in the hotel industry: the push and pull factors by Aripin, Norhani, Amran, Noor Afza, Saad, Natrah, Awalludin, Noor Rohin

“…Data from the questionnaires were analyzed using the Partial Least Squares-Structural Equation Modeling approach and the SmartPLS software.Motivational factors are found to have a significantly positive relationship with the implementation of green practices. …”
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CEO Overseas Experience, Cultural Distance and Corporate Financialization: the Mediating Effect of ESG Investment in China by Mohd Nor, Normaziah, Zheng, Minyu, Mohd Ashhari, Zariyawati

“…Our findings still hold after the endogeneity disposal with a two-way fixed effect regression by lagging variables, Two-Stage Least Squares (2SLS), Heckman two-stage regression, and the propensity score matching (PSM). …”
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MULTIVARIATE DATA ANALYSIS / by Hair, Joseph F., Jr., 1944-, author 644188, Black, William C., 1951-, author 656112, Babin, Barry J., author 191657, Anderson, Rolph E., author 185591

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Board financial experience and efficiency-based earnings management in pre- and post-international financial reporting standards by Kweh, Qian Long, Nourani, Mohammad, Lu, Wen-Min, Ting, Irene Wei Kiong

“…The results of our panel estimated generalized least square (EGLS) regression models, which account for heteroskedasticity and auto-correlation problems, indicate that the proportion of board of directors with financial and/or accounting experiences reduces earnings management pre-IFRS. …”
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Product optimization of a fed-batch fermentation process by Arshad, Ahmad, Noor Asma Fazli, Abdul Samad, Mohd Kamaruddin, Abd Hamid

“…To provide on-line estimates of the difficult to measure penicillin concentration, Partial Least Squares model is employed. Using these estimates, good control of product concentration is established thus enabling it to be implemented as part of product concentration control loop. …”
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A high-order 3D immersed interface finite difference method for the advection-diffusion equation by Gabbard, James, van Rees, Wim M.

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A high-order finite difference method for moving immersed domain boundaries and material interfaces by Gabbard, James, van Rees, Wim M.

“…The spatial discretization combines dimension-split finite difference schemes with an immersed boundary treatment based on a weighted least-squares reconstruction of the solution, providing stable discretizations with up to sixth order accuracy for diffusion terms and third order accuracy for advection terms. …”
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A sparse kernel algorithm for online time series data prediction by Fan, Haijin, Song, Qing

“…The Hessian matrix is equivalent to the correlation matrix of sample inputs in the kernel weight updating using the recursive least square (RLS) algorithm. This makes the algorithm able to be easily implemented with an affordable computational cost for real-time applications. …”
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Memory-efficient and rapidly-converging path planner by Immanuel, Ivan

“…The planner employed by UTM must be able to return optimal, or at least near optimal path, to avoid convolutions and reduce energy consumption of each UAV. …”
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Development of advanced nanotechnology process for sensing materials by Tan, Ooi Kiang.

“…This new class of materials, often characterized by a physical dimension of 1 to 100 nm in at least one dimension and the presence of very high surface area, has found potential application in many areas such as electronics, magnetism, optics, energy storage, electrochemistry and biomedical sciences. …”
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An efficiently generated family of binary de Bruijn sequences by Zhu, Yunlong, Chang, Zuling, Ezerman, Martianus Frederic, Wang, Qiang

“…Based on the properties of this class of LFSRs, we propose two new generic successor rules, each of which produces at least 2n-3 de Bruijn sequences. These two classes build upon a framework proposed by Gabric, Sawada,Williams andWong in Discrete Mathematics vol. 341, no. 11, pp. 2977–2987, November 2018. …”
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Development of trading strategies using fundamental and technical analysis in SGX by Pan, Zhijin

“…In terms of feature engineering, Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator (LASSO) and Principal Component Analysis (PCA) were used to reduce the dimension of the input data. …”
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How do users respond to online rumor rebuttals? by Pal, Anjan, Chua, Alton Yeow Kuan, Goh, Dion Hoe-Lian

“…Data were collected from 322 social media users in a between-participants experiment, which manipulated the exposure sequence. Partial least squares structural equation modeling was used to analyze the data. …”
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Battery thermal-and health-constrained energy management for hybrid electric bus based on soft actor-critic DRL algorithm by Wu, Jingda, Wei, Zhongbao, Li, Weihan, Wang, Yu, Li, Yunwei, Sauer, Dirk Uwe

“…Particularly, a multiconstrained least costly formulation is proposed by augmenting the overtemperature penalty and multistress-driven degradation cost of LIB into the existing indicators. …”
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Antimicrobial efficacy testing of antibiotic-containing biodegradable nanopolymers against biofilm and planktonic cells. by Polimyr Caesar Dave Pelisco Dingal.

“…Minimum biofilm eradication concentrations (MBECs) improved at least 2-fold with increase in exposure time (48 hours) achieving LEV-PLGA MBECs of 1.4 and 0.2 µg/mL and LEV-PCL MBECs of 16.5 and 8.2 µg/mL for E. coli and P. aeruginosa, respectively. …”
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Co-located mobile game for teaching teamwork by Teng, Sok Ee

“…Mobile devices have certainly become an integral part of our daily lives, and it is highly likely that we will come across mobile games at least once. Different games have different target audiences, different objectives and definitely different game styles. …”
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