Navigating sexual minority identity in sport: a qualitative exploration of sexual minority student-athletes in China by Xiang, Meng, Soh, Kim Geok, Xu, Yingying, Ahrari, Seyedali, Zakaria, Noor Syamilah

“…This study explores the perceptions of Chinese SMSAs regarding their sexual minority identities, aiming to fill the current gap in research related to non-Western countries. …”
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Demolition after decline: Understanding and explaining demolition patterns in US and German shrinking cities by Gao, Shuqi, Jansen, Hendrik, Ryan, Brent D.

“…This study analyzes demolition patterns in two mid-sized, isolated shrinking cities, the U.S. city of Flint and the German city of Dessau, between 2002 and 2016. …”
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The relation between particle number concentration and high frequency sound level of traffic noise by Kim, Sung Min, Hong, Joo Young, Jeon, Jin Yong

“…The results show that traffic speed and noise level of traffic have negative correlation in low frequency band, and relationship between traffic volume and traffic noise has negative correlation in mid frequency. In addition, the correlation between particles and traffic noise indicates that high frequency sound increase the concentration of particles road side area. …”
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Chasing the city that cannot stop: Exploring transportation and urban co-development in São Paulo’s history by Borges Costa, Adriano, Zegras, P Christopher, Biderman, Ciro

“…Over the entire 130 years, we find that urban expansion and road development pushed and pulled each other, in a somewhat “orderly” way. …”
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‘Recover together, recover stronger’: an exploratory literature review on the recovery challenges of creative SMEs following the COVID-19 pandemic and proposed future recommendatio... by Akintola, Bolanle Maryam, Kumar, Anil, Chokshi, Hemakshi, Samadhiya, Ashutosh, Agrawal, Rohit

“…This research aims to fill the literature gaps by examining the challenges during recovery within the creative small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) industry, as there are few relevant studies that focus on this field. …”
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Bio-based lubricant with additives: Tribological performances in hydrodynamic journal bearing by Norazman, Amanda, Paiman, Zulhanafi, Samion, Syahrullail, Afiq, Muhammad Noor, Muhammad Yazid, Witri, Rasep, Zuraidah

“…Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the performance of bio-based lubricants (BBL), namely, palm mid-olein (PMO) enriched with an antioxidant agent, tertiary-butylhydroquinone (TBHQ) and a viscosity improver, ethylene-vinyl acetate (EVA), in journal bearing (JB) applications. …”

Sustainable performance through digital supply chains in industry 4.0 era: amidst the pandemic experience by Joshi, Sudhanshu, Sharma, Manu

“…The study calls for firms to employ multiple DSCs once they have set clear strategic priorities. The overall findings of the work fill the literature gaps of studies in the digitalization of supply chains.…”
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Theoretical investigation of injection-locked high modulation bandwidth quantum cascade lasers by Meng, Bo, Wang, Qi Jie

“…In this study, we report for the first time to our knowledge theoretical investigation of modulation responses of injection-locked mid-infrared quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) at wavelengths of 4.6 μm and 9 μm, respectively. …”
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Assessing compounding climate-related stresses and development pathways on the power sector in the central U.S. by Gurgel, Angelo Costa, Reilly, John, Morris, Jennifer, Schlosser, C. Adam, Gao, Xiang, Yuan, Mei, Tapia-Ahumada, Karen

“…Potential supply gaps range from 5% in the North Central region under mild changes in climate to 21% in the Lakes-Mid Atlantic region under more severe climate change. …”
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Long wavelength quantum cascade laser and gas sensing application by Li, Yishun

“…The major goal of this dissertation is to investigate the performance of mid-infrared laser upon gas sensing. First, we reviewed recent literature about the history of semiconductor lasers and discussed the advantages of quantum cascade lasers. …”
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Career intentions of engineering undergraduates in Singapore : relationships with Generation Y’s work values & industry perceptions. by Cheong, Jervelle Weizhen., Soh, Yan Bin., Ng, Jacinda Wee Ping.

“…This generation has unique characteristics and values, and thus hiring managers find it increasingly difficult to attract and retain them. …”
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Strategies of colour and lighting design in the cinematography of Christopher Doyle by Peh, Colin Jin Wei

“…The research aims to highlight the importance of cinematography in narrative storytelling through the case study of Director of Photography Christopher Doyle’s aesthetic practices through the major high-budget feature film Hero (2002), the mid-range-budget feature film In the Mood for Love (2000), Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) to the independent low-budget feature films Chungking Express (1994) and Fundamentally Happy (2015). …”
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Follow the Tulip, researching into the textile manufacturer Henry Nathan by Pierce, Gina

“…The use of the textile archive as a means for exploring industrial and social history is less established, and this research demonstrates how the tangible evidence can be a tool for an in depth study of a particular manufacturer in the mid-twentieth century. In following up the trail provided by a small number of fabric samples in the Parker Knoll archive (Special Collections, 2018) new findings have been discovered, that have an impact on a national historic collection. …”
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Numerical investigations of detonation reinitiation and failure modes from Mach reflection by Zhang, S, Lai, S, Tang, S, Yang, L, Qi, F, Fang, X

“…By arranging the obstacle at the mid-height of the channel, detonation waves go through the process of propagation-overdriven-diffraction and the repeatable Mach reflection of the incident shocks can be captured at the trailing edge of the obstacle. …”

Leveraging gamification to enhance persuasive behaviour and streamline online product returns: an approach grounded in multiple case studies by Panda, Debadrita, Raut, Sachin Kumar, Rana, Sudhir, Shamsudin, Mad Nasir

“…Customers and delivery partners prioritize return processes, policies and rewards, emphasizing efficiency. Meanwhile, mid- and strategic-level employees are optimistic about return process enhancements. …”
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Conformational changes involved in signal transduction in avian cryptochromes by Gehrckens, AS

“…</p> <p>Using a range of complementary techniques, this thesis aims to elucidate protein conformational changes as the first step in signal transduction in several cryptochrome species finding similar changes in the same loop regions across multiple proteins, tackled the question whether a functional dimer might exist in the context of magnetoreception and found two important residues involved in dimerisation, and lastly used the finding that this dimerisation process is light-induced to start investigating the interaction surfaces in these dimeric structures.…”

Human comfort in indoor environment : a review on assessment criteria, data collection and data analysis methods by Song, Ying, Mao, Fubing, Liu, Qing

“…Moreover, few of them discuss how the data is obtained, how to extract useful information from the data and how the data is analyzed. To fill up this gap, this paper conducts the survey from the data-driven point of view. …”
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Understanding Indexing Efficiency for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search in High-dimensional Vector Databases by Qin, Yuting

“…This thesis aims to establish this connection to fill the gap. The key challenge in quantifying the heuristics is the complex tradeoff between the search accuracy and search speed, which makes it almost impossible to establish an analytical model. …”
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Evaluation of context awareness algorithms for recommending mobile content by Dong, Hong Liang

“…This study purposes to fill the gap of evaluating context-awareness algorithms for recommending mobile content. …”
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A Sustainable Higher Education Ecosystem: A Development of Malaysian Transport Demand Management Framework (S/O 14195) by Abdul Hanan, Suhaila, Zainuddin, Nizamuddin, A. Jalil, Emy Ezura, Ahmad Mahyadin @ Mahidin, Fariza, Zakaria, Izatul Husna

“…A mixed-method approach addressed these research objectives at Malaysia's Northern higher education institution (HEI) campus. Based on the findings, the TDM framework that was created consisted of four components. …”
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