Can training enhance public employees’ public service motivation? A pretest–posttest design by Chen, Chung-An, Hsieh, Chih-Wei, Chen, Don-Yun

“…We hypothesize that PSM, along with public service–related knowledge and a positive attitude toward public service work, improves after training, and that the improvement hinges on trainees’ satisfaction with training and perceived usefulness of training. …”
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Lessons from a retrospective look at India’s upstream sector by Elango, P

Asymmetries in the effects of drivers of brand loyalty between early and late adopters and across technology generations by Lam, Shun Yin, Shankar, Venkatesh

“…The success of mobile marketing hinges on consumers' adoption of mobile devices. However, consumers' mobile device adoption is not well understood at the brand (e.g., Apple, Nokia, Samsung) level. …”
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Coion exclusion properties of cation exchange membranes in 2:1 divalent salt solutions by Lim, Zheng Jie, Kho, Marcus, Toh, William, Chen, Xiao, Goh, K. B.

“…The selectivity of ion exchange membranes hinges on their capacity to exclude coions. Yet, understanding how they reject coions in multivalent salt solutions remains challenging. …”
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Soil-water characteristic curves of hydrophobic sand by Tan, Nicole Shi Qi

“…In this project, the effect of hydrophobicity is investigated using fine and coarse sands. Fine sand was made hydrophobic and mixed with either fine or coarse sand such that sand mixtures of hydrophobicity 20%, 50% and 80% by mass were obtained. …”
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Coherent spin-control of S = 1 vanadium and molybdenum complexes by Laorenza, Daniel W, Mullin, Kathleen R, Weiss, Leah R, Bayliss, Sam L, Deb, Pratiti, Awschalom, David D, Rondinelli, James M, Freedman, Danna E

“…The burgeoning field of quantum sensing hinges on the creation and control of quantum bits. …”
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Cognitive diagnostic assessment in educational testing: a score strategy-based evaluation by Muhamad Firdaus Mohd Noh, Mohd Effendi @ Ewan Mohd Matore, Nur Ainil Sulaiman, Mohd Tarmizi Azeman, Hamzah Ishak, Nursohana Othman, Nurbaya Mohd Rosli, Siti Hannah Sabtu

“…The findings indicate that CDA offers strengths like granular feedback, enhanced validity, and data-driven decisions, but faces challenges in complex implementation and resource demands. Its effectiveness hinges on efficient implementation and appropriacy, while exploring opportunities, managing risks, and considering stakeholders' responses help optimize its transformational and commercial value. …”
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iMAT: energy-efficient in-memory acceleration for ternary neural networks with sparse dot product by Zhu, Shien, Huai, Shuo, Xiong, Guochu, Liu, Weichen

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Bank resolution mechanisms revisited: towards a new era of restructuring by Hryckiewicz, A, Kryg, N, Tsomocos, DP

“…The new regulatory frameworks advocate banks’ bail-ins and resolutions that do not require governments’ involvement. …”

Structural performance of recycled aggregate concrete-filled stainless steel tube columns by Tan, Chia Wei

“…The experiment involved 12 RACFSST columns tested under pin-ended condition, as well as material tests and initial global geometric imperfection measurements. …”
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Design and 3D printing of reconfigurable structures by Teo, Ee Hian

“…The structure is made up of single modular units being repeatedly fixed together, this leads to the structure to isolate single modular units that are damaged, allowing it to be easily pin-pointed and replaced by fabricating another similar single unit, this cut cost as the structure can be salvaged by replacing a single unit instead of the whole structure.…”
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Tie the knot - a step by step wedding planner by Alex Arvin S Susaipillai

“…The creation comprises essential management tools such as wedding checklist, reminders, budget tracker, guestlist, online electronic invitation and RSVP system with SMS function, seating plan, calendar function, vendor list, pin board, wedding day scheduler and chat function…”
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Investigation of the contribution of bioaerosol loading to indoor PM pollution on university campus in Singapore by Lee, Brandon Jia Hao

“…Fine particles could be mitigated safely for occupants with an electrostatic precipitator and future work could expound on elevated fungi concentrations in an indoor environment and fine particle mitigation strategies.…”
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Interpreting learned feedback patterns in large language models by Marks, L, Abdullah, A, Neo, C, Arike, R, Krueger, D, Torr, P, Barez, F

“…To test this, we train probes to estimate the feedback signal implicit in the activations of a fine-tuned LLM. We then compare these estimates to the true feedback, measuring how accurate the LFPs are to the fine-tuning feedback. …”

Effective and efficient topic mining and exploration from geo-textual data by Zhao, Kaiqi

“…Because each check-in often consists of limited textual information, and most of the users only shared few check-ins, it is difficult to discover meaningful topics of individuals from the check-in data. …”
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Positioning using GNSS and IMU by Zhang, Jingyang

“…First, the background of combined navigation system and the basic principles of inertial navigation system and INS/GPS combined navigation are introduced, and the linear and nonlinear error models of MEMS inertial guidance are derived. …”
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Optimizing Cas9-mediated HDR in HEK293 by Lee, Cheryl

“…With its programmable guide RNA sequence for specific gene targeting, it allows for precise genome editing including substitutions, knock-outs, and knock-ins. For the treatment of genetic disorders, a precise edit is compulsory compared to inaccurate end-joining modifications. …”
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Change method signature refactoring plug-in for eclipse C/C++ development tooling by Le, Truc Viet.

“…Currently, there are certain automated refactoring tools implemented for Eclipse CDT by means of plug-ins. However, one useful refactoring tool is still not yet available for CDT, i.e., change method signature (CMS) refactoring. …”
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Advances image-based automated security system by Kumar, Sunil, Mishra, Rashmi, Jain, Tanvi, Shankar, Achyut

“…This system deals with the protection of possessions, minimizing break-ins, and avoiding any dangerous situations. The additional salient feature is that it also deals with the COVID-19 alerts, which are generated from the temperature sensor. …”
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To bail-out or to bail-in? Answers from an agent-based model by Klimek, P, Poledna, S, Farmer, JD, Thurner, S

“…Under no circumstances do taxpayer-funded bail-out schemes outperform bail-ins with private sector involvement.…”