Are environmental concerns deterring people from having children? Longitudinal evidence on births in the UK by Powdthavee, Nattavudh, Oswald, Andrew J., Lockwood, Ben

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Wholesale central bank digital currencies: approaches, implementation strategies and use cases by Bear, K, Vertex, P, Zhang, B, Hussain, H, Coelho, H

The development of volcanic ash cloud layers over hours to days due to atmospheric turbulence layering by Bursik, Marcus, Yang, Qingyuan, Bear-Crozier, Adele, Pavolonis, Michael, Tupper, Andrew

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Okara: a promising resource for novel bioflocculant synthesis by Agustin, Yuana Elly, He, Ning, Yeap, Swee Keong, Luthfi, Abdullah Amru Indera, Ding, Gongtao, Abdul, Peer Mohamed, Abdul Manaf, Shareena Fairuz, Jamali, Nur Syakina, Chen, Binghui, Tan, Jian Ping

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Isolation and characterization of biohydrogen-producing bacteria for biohydrogen fermentation using oil palm biomass-based carbon source by Luthfi, Abdullah Amru Indera, Abdul, Peer Mohamed, Md Jahim, Jamaliah, Engliman, Nurul Sakinah, Jamali, Nur Syakina, Tan, Jian Ping, Abdul Manaf, Shareena Fairuz, Sajab, Mohd Shaiful, Bukhari, Nurul Adela

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Tailored policies for perennial woody crops are crucial to advance sustainable development by Martinez-Nuñez, C, Velado-Alonso, E, Avelino, J, Rey, PJ, ten Hoopen, GM, Pe’er, G, Zou, Y, Liu, Y, Antwi-Agyei, P, Rusch, A, Staver, C, Priyadarshana, TS, Sonwa, DJ, Buchori, D, Garibaldi, LA, Concepción, ED, Lewis, OT, Perfecto, I, Bartomeus, I

Autonomised harming by Eggert, L

“…Second, the paper examines how potential differences between human agents and non-human, artificial agents might bear on the permissibility of delegating life-and death decisions to AI systems. …”

Location Selection for Beekeeping in Optimizing Honey Production using Linear Programming Model (S/O 14038) by Abdul Rahman, Syariza, Benjamin, Aida Mauziah, Omar, Mohd Faizal

“…Meliponiculture is an activity of raising stingless bees to obtain bee products, mainly honey. Honey production by bees varies depending on various factors which also affect its amount and quality. …”
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Challenges of online collaborative learning among special needs university students by Hidayu Shafie, Ireena Nasiha Ibnu, Noori, Abdullah, Nurhilleny Rosly, Nadia Anuar, Nur Husna Serip Mohamad

“…Based on the findings of the study, it was found that the SNS in this study mostly had problems communicating with their peers during online collaborative learning. They were not really lacking in collaborative skills, but they were more concerned about their peers’ perspectives on their disabilities, and their abilities to do group work. …”
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Cost of the national malaria control program and cost-effectiveness of indoor residual spraying and insecticide-treated bed net interventions in two districts of Madagascar by Andrianantoandro, VTA, Audibert, M, Kesteman, T, Ravolanjarasoa, L, Randrianarivelojosia, M, Rogier, C

“…The cost-effectiveness ratio (CER) of ITN intervention was then compared to the CER of IRS intervention to identify the most cost-effective intervention. …”

Design of blockchain-based P2P energy trading framework and a SCADA system for distributed energy resources in microgrids by Li, Yao

“…This project mainly completed the development and implementation of a peer-to-peer (P2P) energy trading framework between prosumers based on an Ethereum private blockchain network. …”
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Influence of presumed influence on thinness as a beauty ideal for girls. by Soh, Wai Siong.

“…This study highlights the potential roles that mothers, female peers, educators and policy makers can play to prevent girls from heading towards “dangerous curves” during adolescence. …”
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Monitoring the drying process of glutinous rice using hyperspectral imaging coupled with multivariate analysis by Jimoh, Kabiru Ayobami, Hashim, Norhashila, Shamsudin, Rosnah, Che Man, Hasfalina, Jahari, Mahirah

“…Therefore, the HSI coupled with multivariate analysis (CARS+PLS) is a potential technique for monitoring the drying process of glutinous rice on both small and industrial scales.…”
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Theoretical investigations and simulations of femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy and coherent anti-stokes Raman spectroscopy by Li, Xiuting

“…Twenty four Feynman dual time line and four wave mixing energy level diagrams are first presented to depict CARS. The line-shape and relative intensity of each term are interpreted for both off-resonance CARS and resonance CARS on toluene and R6G, respectively.…”
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What are the intensities and line-shapes of the twenty four polarization terms in coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy? by Niu, Kai, Lee, Soo-Ying

“…It is shown that in fs/ps CARS, for the two cases of off-resonance CARS in toluene and resonanceCARS in rhodamine 6G, where we use a fs pump pulse, a fs Stokes pulse and a ps probe pulse, we obtain sharp vibrational lines in four of the polarization terms where the pump and Stokes pulses can create a vibrational coherence on the ground electronic state, while the spectral line-shapes of the other twenty terms are broad and featureless. …”
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Driver fatigue detection from facial features by Tee, Hui Qian

“…The increase in demand for private cars has resulted in the rising number of cars on the road over the past 10 years. …”
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Machine learning for industrial IOT by Yeow, Brandon Wei Liang

“…This paper concludes by proposing an algorithm for peer-to-peer Federated Learning where clients search for peers up to the 𝑘th degree and perform the best actions with 𝑛 peers under bandwidth constraints. …”
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Lesbian rights and recognition in Singapore : lesbian relationships should be accepted legally and socially. by Yu, Bertinelli Shasha.

“…This project researches on how family, peers, religion, politics and society in general influence the psychological, emotional, and sometimes economical well-being of lesbians and thereby affect their lesbian relationships. …”
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Enriching students’ cross-cultural and multilingual communication: the serious play approach utilizing Playmobil pro figures by Meletiadou, Eleni

“…Thematic analysis was used to analyse the data which revealed that Playmobil pro facilitated intercultural communication in the post-COVID-19 era as students seemed to be unwilling to work with their peers in face-to-face classes, possibly suffering from trauma. …”
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Global borders : power, fragility, and ‘a kind of fiction’ (Editorial introduction) by Cahill, Samara

“…With the gentlest wafting of pollen from a summer breeze or a bee’s wing, the fixed categories borders inscribe can blossom into hybridities.…”
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