Burnout among expatriate and local instructors in Oman by Mukundan, Jayakaran, Geng, Hui, Nimehchisalem, Vahid, Al-Busaidi, Saleh

“…Male instructors with lower educational qualifications, lower incomes, and local citizenship generally exhibit higher levels of DP compared to their counterparts. Female instructors tend to display higher levels of PA than their male counterparts. …”
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Analysis of visitors’ mobility patterns through random walk in the Louvre Museum by Yoshimura, Yuji, Sinatra, Roberta, Krebs, Anne, Ratti, Carlo

“…Since the probability of the appearance of short combinations of nodes is higher than that of long combinations of nodes, shorter path sequences tend to appear more frequently than longer path sequences. …”
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Wheat agriculture and family ties by Ang, James, Fredriksson, Per G.

“…Using data from the World Values Survey and the European Values Study, the results show that societies with a legacy of cultivating wheat tend to have weaker family ties. Analysis at the sub-national level (US data) and the country level corroborate these findings. …”
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A preliminary path planning algorithm for the last-mile delivery by an unmanned aerial vehicle in urban town areas by Zhang, Mingcheng, Low, Kin Huat

“…However, not all people are comfortable with the drones around them, this is especially true in terms of urban last mile (LM) drone delivery, people tend to get annoyed when noisy drones pass by their window. …”
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The impact of maternal postnatal depression on infant eye contact and social learning: a cross cultural comparison by Chong, Crystal Xue Qi

“…Infants of mothers with higher levels of depression, will also tend to look more often at the novel object during the social learning process. …”
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Deep learning-based text augmentation for named entity recognition by Surana, Tanmay

“…NER, an important sequence labeling task in Natural Language Processing, is used to identify predefined entities in text. NER datasets tend to be small, making the creation of additional text via text augmentation a plausible solution. …”
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Does knowledge make a difference? Understanding how the lay public and experts assess the credibility of information on novel foods by Ou, Mengxue, Ho, Shirley S.

“…However, they differ in the cues used for credibility assessment. Laypersons tend to rely on superficial heuristics (e.g. social endorsement cues or surface features), whereas experts rely more on content features and scientific knowledge to evaluate information credibility. …”
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Emergent semantic segmentation: training-free dense-label-free extraction from vision-language models by Luo, Jiayun

“…However, cross-attention alone tends to over-segment, whereas cross-attention plus GradCAM tend to under-segment. …”
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Finite element analysis (using ANSYS) of curvature-correction of in-grown human toe-nail with corrective elastic strips pasted on to the nail surface by Koh, Kai Xin

“…These corrective forces tend to reduce the curvature of the ingrown toenail. …”
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Competitive spreading of multiple opinions in complex social networks: a simulation study by Feng, Yue

“…Some of these ideas exert suppressive effects on the dissemination of opposing opinions, while others tend to coexist harmoniously alongside them. Given that individuals are consistently situated within social networks, their viewpoints are subtly influenced by those of their friends and relatives. …”
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The largest eigenvalue of large random matrices and its application by Han, Xiao

“…We establish the Tracy-Widom Law for $\lambda_{1}$ under some mild conditions when both $\frac{p}{m}$ and $\frac{p}{n}$ tend to some positive constants as $p\rightarrow\infty$. …”
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Apologia pro Vita-Fabula Sua: Defending Narrativity and How We Make Sense of Our Lives by Chen, Melvin

“…The grounds they provide, however, tend to be metaphysical in nature, demonstrating that they have fundamentally misunderstood how the narrative theory of the self functions as a semantic thesis. …”
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Electronic and magnetic properties of V-doped anatase TiO2 from first principles by Du, Xiaosong, Li, Qunxiang, Su, Haibin, Yang, Jinlong

“…Theoretical results show that V atoms tend to stay close and result in strong ferromagnetism through superexchange interactions. …”
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Application of a unique miniature MBR for screening the biodegradation of brominated flame retardants by Segev, Osnat, Brenner, Asher, Kushmaro, Ariel, Shapiro, Orr H.

“…Many of these compounds are toxic, persistent, have limited biodegradability, and tend to bioaccumulate in the environment. Their widespread production and use combined with the inappropriate treatment and disposal of industrial wastewater have caused myriad global health and environmental concerns. …”
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Rice stable carbon and nitrogen isotope values as potential indicators of watering and manuring regimes by Wu, R, Belfield, EJ, Dong, Y, Feng, S, Fu, X, Harberd, NP, Yang, F, Charles, M, Bogaard, A

“…The results from the pot experiment also indicate that both watering and manuring tend to increase the δ15N values of rice grains, while the field samples show that intensive manuring in initial growing seasons does not have a consistent effect on rice δ15N values. …”

Income change and sympathy for right-wing populist parties in the Netherlands: the role of gender and income inequality within households by Roll, Y, De Graaf, N

“…The global rise of right-wing populist [RWP] parties presents a major political concern. RWP parties' voters tend to be citizens who have either experienced or fear economic deprivation. …”

“UPDATE: I’m pregnant!”: inferring global downloads and reasons for using menstrual tracking apps by Rampazzo, F, Raybould, A, Rampazzo, P, Barker, R, Leasure, D

“…Higher modern contraceptive prevalence and internet access are associated with more downloads, while low-income countries tend to have fewer. In low-income countries, a higher unmet need for family planning and total fertility rate are associated with more downloads. …”

Water resources and extreme events in the Awash basin: economic effects and policy implications: report prepared for the Global Green Growth Institute by Smale, R, Walker, O, Vadheim, B, Hope, R, Hope, R, Charles, K, Hall, J, Dadson, S, Borgomeo, E, Kebede, S, Alamirew, T, Bekele, F, Mengistu, A, Beyene, S

“…The knock-on effects on other sectors in the economy tend to amplify these losses, as reductions in the supply of agricultural produce leading to a fall in productivity in other sectors. …”

How content attributes of short video influence online purchase intention: the mediating role of perceived value by Fan, Wenjing, Osman, Syuhaily, Zainudin, Norzalina, Pinyi, Yao

“…The results of this study have shown that consumers tend to have both a better understanding and a more favourable impression of the product after watching clear and informative short videos. …”
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Botanical composition and models of metabolizable energy availability from undergrowth in oil palm plantations for ruminant production by Dahlan, I., Yamada, Y., Mahyuddin, M.D.

“…This study showed that in the early stages of oil palm crop development, sun-loving species tend to dominate the field, mostly broad leaves and legumes, but they will gradually be replaced by shade-tolerant plants when the canopies close. …”
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