Trust building strategies for virtual leaders in the post pandemic era by Badrinarayanan, Vidya

“…This research contributes to the knowledge by offering first-person accounts from senior virtual leaders on the innovative strategies they had implemented for building trust in the virtual project when there were limited opportunities for face-to-face interaction on account of the pandemic.…”
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Oral interaction assessment through video-recorded group discussion: a case of English for Communication Skills (ECS) for graduating students by Mustafa, Hema Rosheny, Busri, Rika Diana, Hamdan, Nurul Na’immah, Abd. Rahman, Shazwani

“…Before the pandemic, the assessment was conducted face-to-face. However, when the pandemic hit, it had to be done online. …”
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Early color photometry of a possible type Iax supernova 2023mnc: inferring the distance and progenitor constraints by Yang, Thomas Z., Zhang, Maureen, Shen, Tianran, Jiang, Justin, Faison, Michael, Warrener, Michael, Zheng, Tai

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Wannier-function software ecosystem for materials simulations by Marrazzo, A, Beck, S, Margine, ER, Marzari, N, Mostofi, AA, Qiao, J, Souza, I, Tsirkin, SS, Yates, JR, Pizzi, G

“…Wannier functions can be obtained for isolated or extended systems (both crystalline and disordered) and can be used to understand chemical bonding; to characterize electric polarization, magnetization, and topology; and as an optimal basis set, providing accurate interpolations in reciprocal space or large-scale Hamiltonians in real space. …”

Near-IR and mid-IR (1.55 μm – 2 μm) silicon photonics devices on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) platform by Zhang, Zecen

“…Furthermore, the mid-infrared (MIR, 2-15 μm) band is also very crucial as many gases and molecules have unique absorption fingerprints in this regime. …”
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Engineering education with virtual reality (Drill press machinary) by Tan, Yong Liang

“…Therefore, in this case, Virtual Reality had chosen as one of the options to introduce the machineries. …”
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“It is a kind of freedom that entrepreneurship provides you”: Female Recipient Remittance Recipients’ entrepreneurship journey in Nepal by Dhakal Adhikari, Shovita, Basnet, Subuna

“…The paper explores the entrepreneurship journey of left-behind and returnee female migrants (referred to as Remittance Recipient Female Entrepreneurs, RRFEs), and specifically their motivations, the challenges they face and the types of support that they need or would like. …”
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Bending of composite sandwich beams with metal facesheets by Toh, Yi Kang

“…The specimens were composed of Unifoam Polystyrene foam core sandwiched between two aluminium face sheets. Numerical analysis was carried out via the use of Finite Element Software, ANSYS. …”
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Dynamic Expansion and Merging of the Equatorial Ionization Anomaly During the 10–11 May 2024 Super Geomagnetic Storm by Aa, Ercha, Chen, Yanhong, Luo, Bingxian

“…The EIA crests were notably suppressed and merged into a single equatorial band, which can be attributed to the composition change effect and the influence of disturbance dynamo electric fields. …”
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Smile challenger by Ang, Shi Chao

“…Smile Challenger’s algorithm was tested with 300 face images and had achieved an accuracy 71.7%.…”
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Sleep monitoring by millimeter wave radar sensor by Ma, Yuchen

“…Nowadays, elderlies who are living alone may face the potential risk of sudden heart attack, without any surveillance from their children or doctors. …”
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Negative density dependence promotes persistence of a globally rare yet locally abundant plant species Oenothera coloradensis by Stears, AE, Heidel, B, Paniw, M, Salguero-Gómez, R, Laughlin, DC

“…We propose that high micro-site abundances within a spatially heterogeneous environment enables this species to persist, allowing it to sidestep the demographic and genetic challenges of small population size that rare species typically face. The five mechanisms of persistence explored in our study have been demonstrated as effective strategies in other species, and the fact that only one of them had strong support here supports the idea that globally rare species can employ distinct persistence strategies. …”

After neonatal care, what next? A qualitative study of mothers’ post-discharge experiences after premature birth in Kenya by Maluni, J, Oluoch, D, Molyneux, S, Boga, M, Jones, C, Murila, F, English, M, Ziebland, S, Hinton, L

“…Methods: Narrative interviews were conducted face-to-face in English or Swahili with 34 mothers of premature babies recruited from two public hospitals and a social support group in Nairobi, Kenya between August—November 2021. …”

Xenophobia and ethnocentrism? Understanding the attitudes and perceptions of local undergraduates towards the undergraduates from the People's Republic of China (PRC) by Tay, Esther Hui Yi

“…In addition, the reasons for dislike and prejudice that have local undergraduates are not firmly fixed as it may be reshaped by other factors such as the courses they are in, the benefits that they can receive, and if the academic competition they face presently is perceived as absent.…”
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The linguistic and construct validity of the Malay version of the coping self-efficacy scale (CSES-MY): evidence from a sample of Malaysian parents of children with leukemia or lym... by Tan, Chai-Eng, Tan, Kit-Aun, Lau, Sie Chong Doris, Teh, Kok Hoi, Mohd Sidik, Sherina

“…They were recruited via online or face-to-face methods. Exploratory factor analysis was performed to examine the construct validity of the CSES-My. …”
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Cloud detection and attenuation modelling in tropical region by Yuan, Feng

“…Cloud plays a significant role in both the ground-to-space radio communication system and climate system of Earth. …”
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The bright side and dark side of hybrid organic–inorganic perovskites by Walukiewicz, Wladek, Wang, Shu, Wu, Xinchun, Li, Rundong, Sherburne, Matthew P., Wu, Bo, Sum, Tze Chien, Ager, Joel W., Asta, Mark D.

“…The previously developed bistable amphoteric native defect (BAND) model is used for a comprehensive explanation of the unique photophysical properties and for understanding the remarkable performance of perovskites as photovoltaic materials. …”
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Broadband surface-wave transformation cloak by Xu, Su, Xu, Hongyi, Gao, Hanhong, Jiang, Yuyu, Yu, Faxin, Joannopoulos, John D., Soljačić, Marin, Chen, Hongsheng, Sun, Handong, Zhang, Baile

“…A partial realization has been achieved by exploiting topological electromagnetic surface states, but this approach is limited to narrow-band light transmission and subject to phase disturbances in the presence of disorder. …”
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Design and implementation of a human tracking and following capability for a robotic avatar by Yao, Xiling.

“…In this project, the Kinect sensor was used to detect the person and to track his/her position in 3D space. In each frame of the sensor reading, the histogram in HSV color space was calculated for the targeted person’s clothes, while the person’s position was updated and stored until he/she was in a situation (being occluded or away from the field of view) where he/she could not be detected by the Kinect sensor. …”
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Group formation in a pandemic world by Tan, Janssen Guan Rong

“…However, with the emergence of the pandemic since 2020, we have seen a shift to an online classroom setting, which has had an adverse effect in terms of the social relationships formed. …”
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