Tax Incentives, Common Institutional Ownership, and Corporate ESG Performance by Huang, Chengjie, Zhou, Hang, Wan Ahmad, Wan Norhayati, Saad, Ram Al Jaffri, Zhang, Xinrui

“…Drawing upon panel data spanning from 2010 to 2021 at the level of China's A-share listed companies and grounded in the context of accelerated depreciation policy for fixed assets, this study commitment to both identify and empirically test the presence of a significant positive correlation between tax incentives and corporate ESG performance. …”
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涂涂写写 = Alchemy of color and brushwork by Ng, Woon Lam

“…To me, lines and brushworks are meant to define forms, while colors seek to emotionally enrich the image. …”
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Injectable cell transplantation system for cytokine-based cancer immunotherapy by Gerard Nathanael Adrianus.

“…The construct was able to exert toxicity to two malignant cell lines, MCF-7 and HepG2, but no effect was observed in HeLa and H1229 cells. …”
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Evaluation and selection of rice mutants for high yield and quality fodder production by Abisola, Oladosu Yusuff

“…Evaluation over two locations, mutant lines ML21, ML10, ML4, ML6 and ML9 performed better in terms of yield production compared to other mutants. …”
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Combinatorial algorithms for scheduling jobs to minimize server usage time by Ren, Runtian

“…The Flexible Job Scheduling problem aims at determining the starting times of flexible jobs that do not have to be started immediately at their arrivals to minimize the span of all the jobs, where the span is the time duration in which at least one job is running. …”
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EITPose: Wearable and Practical Electrical Impedance Tomography for Continuous Hand Pose Estimation by Kyu, Alexander, Mao, Hongyu, Zhu, Junyi, Goel, Mayank, Ahuja, Karan

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Crowd estimation in images by Pui, Chin See

“…Crowd counting technologies, have in recent times, seen an upsurge in popularity due to the wide range of practical applications they offer, spanning from safety monitoring to disaster management, and public space design, among others. …”
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Housing price prediction using convolutional transformer by Ma, Weilun

“…The initial 80% of the dataset, spanning from 2005 to 2009, is designated for model training. …”
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Intermittent demand forecasting by Mishra, Prerna.

“…The project paper deals with comparative assessment of the of forecast for “in-sample” as well as “out of sample” periods derived by various methods of intermittent demand forecasting on historical data set of fifteen hundred products for a span of twenty four months obtained by several numerical modelling tools – classical to contemporary and evaluate the superiority of models by comparison of achievement of different methods in respect of degree of accuracy of forecast for future periods and judge the robustness of forecasting methodology.…”
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Development of communication links between unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and UAV traffic management (UTM) systems via the cellular network by Holmberg, Carl Oswald

“…The usefulness of such vehicles span many areas, as it advantageously aids in areas ranging from, agricultural monitoring, surveillance and even to goods delivery. …”
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Heat transfer study of a cold plate with fractal designs by Ow Yong, Daniel Zhao Yi

“…A new experiment rig was built and experimental investigations were carried out using the rig for the entire span of the project. A test on the reliability of the experiment rig was conducted using the numerical simulation software “COSMOL Multiphysics”. …”
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The Eoan Group and the politics of coloured opera in apartheid South Africa by Pistorius, JM

“…Its 1956 production of <em>La Traviata</em> was the first opera produced by non-white people in South Africa, and initiated an operatic career that spanned twelve opera seasons and ten operas. The group was under the administration of white directors and received funding from the apartheid government. …”

Search for a resonance decaying to a W boson and a photon in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV using leptonic W boson decays by Hayrapetyan, A., Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Andrejkovic, J. W., Bergauer, T., Chatterjee, S., Damanakis, K., Dragicevic, M., Hussain, P. S., Jeitler, M., Krammer, N., Li, A., Liko, D., Mikulec, I., Schieck, J., Schöfbeck, R.

“…Particle X has electric charge ±1 and is assumed to have spin 0. The search is performed using the electron and muon decays of the W boson. …”
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Mechanically robust hydrophobic bio-based epoxy coatings for anti-corrosion application by Zheng, Shunli, Bellido-Aguilar, Daniel Angel, Huang, Yinjuan, Zeng, Xianting, Zhang, Qichun, Chen, Zhong

“…The coating was fabricated by introducing superhydrophobic SiO 2 nanoparticles, a hydrophobic curing agent, and hexadecyltrimethoxysilane into an isosorbide-based epoxy resin via a one-step spin coating process. The coating exhibits high hydrophobicity with a water contact angle (CA) of 134 ± 3°. …”
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Durable waterborne hydrophobic bio-epoxy coating with improved anti-icing and self-cleaning performance by Zheng, Shunli, Bellido-Aguilar, Daniel Angel, Wu, Xinghua, Zhan, Xuejun, Huang, Yinjuan, Zeng, Xianting, Zhang, Qichun, Chen, Zhong

“…The coatings were applied on Fe foil substrates using a one-step spin-coating method. The optimal coating with 33.3 wt % SiO 2 nanoparticles exhibits high hydrophobicity with a water contact angle (CA) of 153.0 ± 1.1° and a sliding angle (SA) of 14.3 ± 1.9°. …”
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The effect of tuning the coordination sphere of iron complexes for the oxygen reduction reaction in acidic media by Wang, Xiaojiang, Zheng, Tianlong, Tang, Yizhao, Li, Xiaoyu, Rykov, Alexandre I., Li, Xuning, Wang, Junhu, He, Qinggang, Cheng, Jun, Zhang, Xue

“…Novel activity descriptors including the charge and spin densities on the Fe site were proposed and validated by available experimental data, presenting a strategy to design highly-active nonprecious metal complex catalysts with specific supporting ligands.…”
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Light-matter interactions in high quality manganese-doped two-dimensional molybdenum diselenide by Liu, Sheng, Wu, Yaze, Liu, Xue, Del Águila, Andrés Granados, Xuan, Fengyuan, Chaturvedi, Apoorva, Zhang, Hua, Quek, Su Ying, Xiong, Qihua

“…First-principles calculations indicate that the spin-polarized deep level defect states are formed due to the Mn substitutional dopants in the MoSe2 lattice. …”
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Electrochemical microfluidic multiplexed bioanalysis by a highly active bottlebrush-like nanocarbon microelectrode by Xu, Yun, Huang, Wei, Zhang, Yan, Duan, Hongwei, Xiao, Fei

“…Our results have shown that ionic liquid-assisted wet spinning followed by tailored growth of metal-organic frameworks and pyrolysis treatment led to structural and molecular engineering of mechanically robust all-carbon microfibers for excellent electrochemical activities. …”
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Nanozymatic magnetic nanomixers for enzyme immobilization and multiplexed detection of metabolic disease biomarkers by Li, Di, Xiong, Qirong, Liu, Wylie, Liang, Li, Duan, Hongwei

“…These MNE@enzymes show synchronously rotating capability in spinning magnetic fields, which leads to an 80∼100% improvement in their overall catalytic efficiencies. …”
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The hierarchy of Davydov’s Ansätze: from guesswork to numerically “exact” many-body wave functions by Zhao, Yang

“…To demonstrate the versatility of the methodology, applications of Davydov’s Ansätze are made to the generalized Holstein Hamiltonian, variants of the spin-boson model, and systems of cavity-assisted singlet fission, yielding accurate dynamic and spectroscopic properties of the many-body systems.…”
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