A Proposed Framework of Unemployment and Youth Restiveness in the North-Eastern Nigeria: Exloring the Role of the “Almajiri” Culture by Abbo, Usman, Romle, Abd Rahim

“…More so as unemployment in Nigeria increase by 16% from 2011 to 2013 representing 39.9%, with youth unemployment representing 50% of this, where the north-eastern region continue to manifest the worst poverty rate compare to the other five geo-political zones couple with the existence of about 10 million “Almajiris” in the entire northern region which is much more than the total population of Sweden and the result of several investigation panels revealing the involvement of “Almajiri” in most of the violence occurring in the northern region from 1980 to 2010, where the vulnerability of the “Almajiri” due to abject poverty makes them a tool for unleashing violence by some unscrupulouselements. …”
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15.014 Applied Macro- and International Economics, Spring 2004 by Rigobon, Roberto

“… The course is divided in five parts: Basic tools of macroeconomic management Evaluation of different economic development strategies Crises in emerging markets: causes, solutions, and prevention Problems faced by transition economies Challenges of developed countries   This course is a full-term version of Applied Macro- and International Economics (15.012), with additional topics.…”
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Telemetry Fault-Detection Algorithms: Applications for Spacecraft Monitoring and Space Environment Sensing by Carlton, Ashley, Morgan, Rachel, Lohmeyer, Whitney, Cahoy, Kerri

“…In two satellites, the same top event date (4 December 2008) occurs over more than 10 years of telemetry from both satellites. Of the five spacecraft with known maneuvers, the algorithms identify the maneuvers in all cases. …”
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Evaluating Prediction Mechanisms: A Profitability Test by Sethi, Rajiv, Seager, Julie, Cai, Emily, Benjamin, Daniel, Morstatter, Fred, Bobrownicki, Olivia, Cheng, Yuqi, Kumar, Anushka, Wanganoo, Anusha

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Precise Issuance of Meituan Merchants’ Coupons with Machine Learning by Zhang, Xue, Qiu, Jie, Li, Bo

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Experimental study on mix proportion and fresh properties of fly ash based geopolymer for 3D concrete printing by Panda, Biranchi, Tan, Ming Jen

“…Extrudability, shape retention, buildability and thixotropic open time (TOT) are identified as critical early-age properties to characterize the 3D printable geopolymer material. Five different mix designs of geopolymer are tested in a systematic experimental approach to obtain a best printable mix and later it is used to print a 60-centimeter-tall freeform structure using a concrete gantry printer to validate the formulation.…”
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A novel ultra-low power two-terminal zener voltage reference by Kok, Chiang-Liang, Lim, Wei Meng, Siek, Liter

“…Experimental results, carried out on five different silicon samples, explicitly show that it can yield a stable output voltage of 0.22 V at room temperature. …”
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Personality and situational judgement tests of leadership effectiveness : the mediating effect of motivation to lead by Heng, Wen Jun

“…However, the past research in this domain is limited by the predominant use of the five-factor model to define personality (Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Openness, and Neuroticism). …”
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Evaluating the quality of evidence for intelligent tutoring systems in the tutoring of math for children aged 6 to 12 : a systematic review by Cheng, Janice Shu Hui, Lee, Keith Yong Wei

“…As a follow up to a previous meta-analysis done in 2013, reports were taken from a five-year period between 2014 and 2019. Out of the 664 unique studies gathered, only 14 studies made it to the qualitative analysis stage after meeting all the inclusion criteria. …”
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Self-assembly for supply chains by Yee, Gabriel Qi Ming

“…The algorithm is applied to a supplier se-lection problem and benchmarked as a symbolic regression solver against tradi-tional Genetic Programming across five representative problems. Finally, the thesis is concluded with statements for potential extension.…”
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Use of ontology to manage a consumer product website : a study of a mobile phone site by Zhang, Xin

“…Within the ontology, there are five taxonomies to categorize information into a hierarchical structure linking every component with appropriate relations. …”
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The four facets of self-collection service for e-commerce delivery : conceptualisation and latent class analysis of user segments by Wang, Xueqin, Wong, Yiik Diew, Teo, Chee Chong, Yuen, Kum Fai, Feng, Xuehao

“…Based on the conceptualisation, five latent segments of the service are identified, which are labelled as Patrons, Traditionalists, Self-enhancers, Green-lovers and Haters (from the largest to the smallest segment). …”
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An interpretable Neural Fuzzy Hammerstein-Wiener network for stock price prediction by Xie, Chen, Rajan, Deepu, Chai, Quek

“…We address this problem through a novel approach that integrates a neuro-fuzzy system with the Hammerstein-Wiener model forming an indivisible five-layer network, where the implication of the neuro-fuzzy system is realized by the linear dynamic computation of the Hammerstein-Wiener model. …”
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Triple-band antenna using double periodic CRLH resonator on coplanar waveguide by Mohan, Manoj Prabhakar, Alphones, Arokiaswami, Karim, Muhammad Faeyz

“…The open-circuited DPCRLH resonator is formed from the DPCRLH unit cell which exhibited five resonance points. The simulated resonant frequencies of the resonator are 1.5494, 2.1968, 3.5072, 5.0438 and 6.089 GHz. …”
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Reflective loss and dishonest assistance by Tang, Samantha S., Koh, Alan K.

“…And should it matter that the company had a wholly-owned subsidiary that was involved in, and had suffered loss from, the defendant’s breach of duty? In Miao Weiguo v Tendcare Medical Group Holdings Pte Ltd, a five-judge panel of the Singapore Court of Appeal answered both questions in the negative. …”
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Development of multiplex real-time TaqMan reverse-transcription PCR (RT-PCR) for rapid diagnosis of hand, foot and mouth disease. by Lee, Si Qi.

“…Furthermore, 10 clinical specimens obtained from 10 paediatrics patients who were suspected of HFMD were evaluated. Five specimens were tested positive for EV71 and among them, two were co-infected with CA16.…”
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Optimal planning and operation strategies of a battery swapping station in an electric vehicle corridor by Xie, Zhaoqing

“…This study identifies how bottleneck capacity and demand ratios influence the commuter travel patterns at departure time equilibrium, classifying these patterns into two main scenarios and five subcases, each with corresponding commuter cost functions. …”
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Airbus A380 : a risk management framework by Appasaheb Naikal

“…Further its 2007 supply of A380 was reduced to one from twenty five. The delay cost Airbus more than $6.8 billion as penalties, higher cost of production and order cancellations. …”
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Changes in the mechanical properties of human hair under various conditions by Boo, Khee Meng.

“…Hair samples from 10 individuals of the Chinese population was randomly collected The Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) was used to obtain the cross sectional dimensions of the hair fiber. Five strands of hairs from each individual were used for measurements. …”
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A monstrous text : an exploration of genre in the Harry Potter novels by Vanderstraaten Vanessa Ann

“…The writer, who once lived on welfare benefits, became a multi-millionaire in the span of five years, selling a total of more than 325 million copies of the seven novels. …”
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