What motivates parents to mediate children’s use of smartphones? An application of the theory of planned behavior by Shin, Wonsun, Kim, Hye Kyung

“…A survey conducted with parents of young smartphone users aged 10–17 shows that parents tend to perceive discussion-based active mediation to be more desirable, as compared to rule-making restrictive mediation. Findings also indicate that the extent to which parents believe that they have control over their parental mediation practices plays an important role in forming positive intentions to practice parental mediation, regardless of the mediation domain.…”
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Are two teachers better than one? Team teaching in TBL by Yang, Lishan, Rajalingam, Preman

“…There are quantitative and qualitative differences in the nature of the questions that they ask. The findings provide insight into how effective TBL sessions arise from complementary questioning strategies from these parties.…”
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The design of a rail-to-rail output swing using a nested-current-mirror single-stage amplifier with a high PSRR by Goh, Zhi Xian

“…In this report, the design of the Operational Amplifier, simulation results and various findings is discussed.…”
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Perceived economic prospects during the early stage of COVID-19 breakout by Li, Keyang, Qin, Yu, Wu, Jing, Yan, Jubo

“…Results show that fewer new confirmed COVID-19 cases significantly increase individuals' expectations on gross domestic product and consumer price index growth rates. Our finding provides evidence that at the early stage of an unfamiliar epidemic, containing the spread of the disease may help to maintain positive economic expectations among individuals.…”
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Gaussian integer solutions of the diophantine equation x4 + y4 = z3 for for x ≠ y by Ismail, Shahrina, Atan, Kamel Ariffin Mohd, Sejas-Viscarra, Diego, Yow, Kai Siong

“…The discussion includes various preliminary results later used to build the resolvent theory of the Diophantine equation studied. Our findings show the existence of infinitely many solutions. …”
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Fundamental understanding and materials design for atmospheric water harvesting by Chen, Xingyu

“…Therefore, by investigating water condensation behaviours on surfaces with various morphologies and energies, combining this research with Molecular Dynamics and Python simulation, we hope to carry out optimal possible surface designs supported by the findings of our experiments and simulations, to aid in the atmospheric water harvesting process.…”
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Subband adaptive algorithms for high-order transversal filters by Lee, Kong Aik

“…Acoustic echo canceller finds application in hands-free telephone systems, audio or video conference systems, hearing aids, voice-control systems, and many more.…”
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Narratives and tactile comfort for anxious children by Ang, Charmaine Hui Zhen

“…Through quantitative and qualitative methods administered to children aged 5 to 12 years of age, including parental feedback, findings were analysed to create a design outcome that can contribute to the current studies related to: (a) facilitating the treatment of childhood anxieties in cognitive behavioural therapy, (b) healthy emotional regulation and in (c) promoting children’s social wellbeing in general. …”
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A Review of Transmission Electron Microscopy of Quasicrystals—How Are Atoms Arranged? by Li, Ruitao, Li, Zhong, Dong, Zhili, Khor, Khiam Aik

“…In this review, we summarized the achievements of the study of QCs using TEM, providing intriguing structural details of QCs unveiled by TEM analyses. The main findings on the symmetry, local atomic arrangement and chemical order of QCs are illustrated.…”
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Self-consistent polaron states in the presence of simultaneous local and nonlocal exciton-phonon coupling by Brown, David W., Zhao, Yang, Lindenberg, Katja

“…Among the differences between our findings and those of the original work are polaron binding energies much larger and Debye Waller factors much smaller than originally anticipated.…”
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Detection of DNA hybridization on chemically modified graphene platforms by Giovanni, Marcella, Bonanni, Alessandra, Pumera, Martin

“…We believe that our findings may present a foundation for further research and development in graphene-based impedimetric biosensing.…”
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On-the-fly specific person retrieval by Parkhi, OM, Vedaldi, A, Zisserman, A

“…We describe a method of visual search for finding people in large video datasets. The novelty is that the person of interest can be specified at run time by a text query, and a discriminative classifier for that person is then learnt on-the-fly using images downloaded from Google Image search. …”

Sexual behaviour and social relationships among gelada baboons by Dunbar, RIM

“…These results contrast with findings reported for other species of the baboon-macaque group, and the differences are discussed in relation to the contrasting social systems of these species.…”

Reconciling the Accuracy-Diversity Trade-off in Recommendations by Peng, Kenny, Raghavan, Manish, Pierson, Emma, Kleinberg, Jon, Garg, Nikhil

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A Resource-Efficient Plantar Pressure Evaluation System for Diabetic Foot Risk Assessment by Reddie, Madison, Frey, Daniel

“…It demonstrated a sensitivity of 25.6%, although sensitivity reached 60% for heavier subjects. Sensitivity could likely be significantly improved by lowering the device’s profile and increasing the sensing area. …”
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Synthesis of Isotopically Labeled Fe and S-alkylated Iron-Sulfur Clusters by Linn, Brittany

“…A cluster species containing a unique alkylated Fe site with a coordination number greater than four is likely generated in these processes, although a stable cluster of this type has yet to isolated and crystallographically characterized. …”
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Nipah: The history, and future, of one of the world’s most lethal viruses by Viveros, Alex Gabriel

“…Scientists believe the Nipah strains that currently circulate in humans are likely not transmissible enough to ignite a pandemic in people. …”
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Evaluating Adaptive Layer Freezing through Hyperparameter Optimization for Enhanced Fine-Tuning Performance of Language Models by Figueroa, Reinaldo

“…Conversely, overfitting is highly likely to occur when training on small datasets. This thesis proposes and evaluates a new method for fine-tuning language models by adaptively choosing specific learning rates for each transformer layer that provide higher performance on in-domain low-volume datasets. …”
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A study of the existence of systematic discrimination against Chinese firms listed on SGX. by Yeo, Josephine Rui Ting., Lim, Zuan Ling., Ong, Cherilyn Li Jing.

“…Unless such a stereotype is rectified, the problem of low stock returns are likely to persist among Chinese firms listed on SGX, hence decreasing SGX’s attractiveness as the preferred foreign exchange for Chinese firms. …”
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Study on morphology of copper-through silicon vias based on electron backscatter diffraction by Zhuo, Guoping.

“…Specimens that were manual polished were unable to generate high quality EBSP for orientation mapping to be done. This could be likely due to the copper vias having undergone oxidation as there was a period of waiting time before EBSD analysis was carried out. …”
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