How Competent Are You? Developing A C.A.B. Crosscultural Competency Framework for Inculcating Cultural Sensitivity Among Malaysian Nurse Expatriates (S/O: 13593) by Abdul Talib, Asmat Nizam, Zakaria, Norhayati, Zakaria, Nasriah

“…However, to become an expatriate specifically in Saudi, it warrants an intensified level of sacrifices from the Malaysian female nurses because they could not bring their families unlike in the Western countries, and a total change of lifestyles when they moved to the country. …”
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Extreme Water Uptake of Hygroscopic Hydrogels through Maximized Swelling‐Induced Salt Loading by Graeber, Gustav, Díaz‐Marín, Carlos D, Gaugler, Leon C, Zhong, Yang, El Fil, Bachir, Liu, Xinyue, Wang, Evelyn N

“…At 30% RH, this exceeds previously reported water uptakes of metal–organic frameworks by over 100% and of hydrogels by 15%, bringing the uptake within 93% of the fundamental limit of hygroscopic salts while avoiding leakage problems common in salt solutions. …”
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Ultrafast modulation of exciton – plasmon coupling in a monolayer WS2 – Ag nanodisk hybrid system by Du, Wei, Zhao, Jiaxin, Zhao, Weijie, Zhang, Shunping, Xu, Hongxing, Xiong, Qihua

“…The rapid advances of nanotechnology and nanophotonics bring new approaches for manipulating light–matter interactions at the nanoscale, for example, by integrating plasmonic nanostructures with two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) to achieve strong exciton–plasmon interactions for applications in optical switches, sensing, and photovoltaic devices. …”
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Stability improvement for three-phase grid-connected converters through impedance reshaping in quadrature-axis by Fang, Jingyang, Li, Xiaoqiang, Li, Hongchang, Tang, Yi

“…However, the employment of PLLs may bring in stability concerns. Previous research revealed that the inclusion of PLLs shapes the impedance of power converters into a negative resistance in the quadrature-axis (q-axis), and this should be responsible for instability. …”
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Designing novel multilayered nanocomposites for high-performance coating materials with online strain monitoring capability by Anwar Ali, Hashina Parveen, Radchenko, Ihor, Zhou, Jiahui, Qing, Liu, Budiman, Arief

“…This extended elastic regime opens up new possibilities for tuning the physical and chemical properties of materials as well as bringing novel functionalities, such as high performance coating materials with online strain monitoring capability. …”
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Investigation of nonlinear ultrasonic guided waves in open waveguides based on perfectly matched layers by Zuo, Peng, Liu, Yang, Zhou, Yu, Fan, Zheng

“…It is interesting to find out that the amplitude of the attenuated second harmonic wave in immersed waveguides can keep constant with propagation distance, only if the primary wave is non-leaky, which may bring potential non-destructive test applications for underwater inspections. …”
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Foundational Integration Verification of a Cryptographic Server by Erbsen, Andres, Philipoom, Jade, Jamner, Dustin, Lin, Ashley, Gruetter, Samuel, Pit-Claudel, Clément, Chlipala, Adam

“…This design enables us to bring the components together in a top-level correctness theorem that can be audited without understanding or trusting the internal interfaces and tools. …”
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Information FOMO: The Unhealthy Fear of Missing Out on Information—A Method for Removing Misleading Data for Healthier Models by Pickering, Ethan, Sapsis, Themistoklis P.

“…We present a Bayesian sequential selection method, akin to Bayesian experimental design, that identifies critically important information within a dataset while ignoring data that are either misleading or bring unnecessary complexity to the surrogate model of choice. …”
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Tango 2: Aligning Diffusion-based Text-to-Audio Generations through Direct Preference Optimization by Majumder, Navonil, Hung, Chia-Yu, Ghosal, Deepanway, Hsu, Wei-Ning, Mihalcea, Rada, Poria, Soujanya

“…Generative multimodal content is increasingly prevalent in much of the content creation arena, as it has the potential to allow artists and media personnel to create pre-production mockups by quickly bringing their ideas to life. The generation of audio from text prompts is an important aspect of such processes in the music and film industry. …”
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Development of an AI-powered shareable bike rebalancing system by Tu, Anqi

“…Bike sharing systems with docking stations are widely deployed in many major cities, bringing convenience to citizens and promoting eco-friendly lifestyles. …”
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Dōgen’s “Leaving Home Life” (Shukke 出家) : a study of aesthetic experience and growth in John Dewey and Dōgen by Bender, Jacob

“…At first glance, the fascicle might not appear philosophically significant. To help bring the themes of that work into greater focus, I juxtapose Dōgen’s Shōbōgenzō and John Dewey’s later works on aesthetic experience and education. …”
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Development of blockchain-based platform for vehicle-vehicle, vehicle-grid and grid-vehicle energy trading by Tan, Edmund Yong Kian

“…As EVs are becoming popular for the advantages it can bring to the society, it can also be treated as a battery energy storage systems (BESSs), charging during the non-peak period and discharge the energy during the peak period allow prosumers to earn profit through electricity trading. …”
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Cyber attacks and their impacts on the shipping industry. Identify the risks and suggest ways to mitigate. (maritime services) by Poh, Sze Ping

“…Moreover, there has been a lack of focus on the danger of adopting technologies compared to the benefit it can bring along. As quoted “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and few minutes of cyber-incident to ruin it.” by Stephane Nappo (Vice President Global Chief Information Security Officer), the danger of technology can only be secured with proper cyber security measures in-place. …”
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Aiding therapy using speech emotion recognition by Koh, En Rong

“…Research on artificial intelligence also improved the quality of therapy, bringing it closer to people who are struggling and taking over virtually. …”
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Physics-guided neural network for tissue optical properties estimation by Chong, Kian Chee, Pramanik, Manojit

“…Thus, there is a need to bring the two domains together to obtain superior prediction accuracy and generalizability. …”
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InvWealthGPT: modern wealth management advice to the masses using generative AI by Tan, Marcus Song Huang

“…The appropriate application of generative AI LLMs, together with the appropriate financial concepts, information, and user-friendly interfaces, can prove to be an effective way to bring wealth management to the masses. This paper discusses the potential application of Generative AI LLMs in wealth management and finance, and how it can serve as a robust, customisable, yet accurate and reliable tool for the masses.…”
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An exploratory investigation into the moderating effect of academic resilience on the relationship between academic burnout and counterproductive academic behaviour by Ong, Mark Yi Cong

“…Moreover, the findings from this study could also be applied to bring about practical benefits by improving undergraduates’ mental wellbeing while preserving the integrity of educational institutions and the spirit of education.…”
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Integrated patient monitoring system by Choo, Kok Boon.

“…This study suggest that graphical display is indeed better than traditional numeric display currently used but effort had to be put in to educate the nurses in using it in order to bring out their highest performance. A new design was also created based on the data and comments collected from this study.…”
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Web-based learning system for PSLE English composition by Gn, Cher Teck

“…As an old saying goes, “Practice makes perfect” - at the start of a new school year, or even before the start – during the holidays, parents will be bringing their child to book stores to shop for assessment books as well as to better prepare them for the upcoming mid-year and end-of-year examinations. …”
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Run-up related to onshore tsunami flows by Sim, Shawn Yisheng

“…Second, due to the discovery of a cave that has well preserved tsunami deposits off the coast of Banda Aceh, Indonesia, we found that experimental dam break waves have the potential not only to bring the sediments in, but also allow ample time for deposition to occur. …”
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