Two Paths: Why States Join or Avoid China’s Belt and Road Initiative by Atkins, Eleanor, Fravel, M Taylor, Wang, Raymond, Ackert, Nick, Huang, Sihao

“…Although China’s motives for developing the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) have been well studied, scholars have yet to comprehensively examine why states seek to join the initiative. We fill this gap by examining how and why states join the BRI. …”
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Preparation and characterization of photo electrochemical cells based on nanostructured ZnO and multiwalled carbon nanotubes by Ayu, Aaron Alexander

“…The emphasis of this project is to find a cheap and suitable semiconductor and to study its potential and efficiency in water splitting, in order to generate H2 gas for usage as a renewable source of fuel. …”
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E-Government Practices and Organizational Performance in Malaysia Local Governments by Husin, Rohana, Othman, Abdul Aziz, Othman, Zakirah, Baharom, Norashikin

“…Therefore, the study's findings conclude that the direct relationship is not significant. …”
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Wear and friction properties of pineapple leaf fibers-reinforced natural rubber composites with the influence of multi-walled carbon nanotubes by Xuan, Yeo Yi, Ridzuan, M.J.M., Abdul Majid, M.S., Syayuthi, A.R.A., Mat, Fauziah, Salit @ Sinon, Mohd Sapuan

“…The PALF content was ranged from 0, 10, 20 to 30 parts per hundred rubber (phr) while the MWCNT content was maintained at 10 phr. A two-roll mill mixing process followed by molding was employed to fabricate the NR composites. …”
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Influences of social tags choices on academic papers over time : a user centric approach. by Khasfariyati Razikin.

“…In each phase, they were instructed to fill in diaries with the aim to elicit the influences of their tag choices and their motivations for doing so quantitatively. …”
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Local climate action from the middle-out: the social potential of craft guilds to facilitate low-carbon installations in Germany by Wehden, S, Janda, KB, Jansen, J, Creutzig, F

“…However, research on effective governance arrangements targeting this ‘installation bottleneck’ is limited. To fill this gap, we adopt a Middle-Out Perspective (MOP) and use rich qualitative data including in-depth interviews to study the role of craft guilds within Germany's low-carbon transition, particularly in rooftop photovoltaic and heat pump installation. …”

Unfolding the role of metaverse in agri‐food supply chain security: current scenario and future perspectives by El Jaouhari, Asmae, Arif, Jabir, Jawab, Fouad, Samadhiya, Ashutosh, Kumar, Anil

“…The findings offer valuable insights, particularly for researchers, decision makers, and industry partners who aim to better comprehend the potential benefits and challenges related to integrating metaverse solutions into the agri‐food industry. …”
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Patterns of link reciprocity in directed, signed networks by Gallo, A, Saracco, F, Lambiotte, R, Garlaschelli, D, Squartini, T

“…Most of the analyses concerning signed networks have focused on the balance theory, hence identifying frustration with undirected, triadic motifs having an odd number of negative edges; much less attention has been paid to their directed counterparts. To fill this gap, we focus on signed, directed connections, with the aim of exploring the notion of frustration in such a context. …”

NTU VIRAL: a visual-inertial-ranging-lidar dataset, from an aerial vehicle viewpoint by Nguyen, Thien-Minh, Yuan, Shenghai, Cao, Muqing, Lyu, Yang, Nguyen, Thien Hoang, Xie, Lihua

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Arbitrary hybrid turbulence modeling approach for high-fidelity NREL phase VI wind turbine CFD simulation by Kamalov, Bagdaulet, Batay, Sagidolla, Zhangaskhanov, Dinmukhamed, Zhao, Yong, Ng, Eddie Yin Kwee

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Cost performace of road construction projects in Nigeria by Aligamhe, Victor Imohnikhe, Mustapa, Muzani, Patrick Ogbu, Chukwuemeka

“…Major project participants were purposively chosen to fill out questionnaires on cost-risk factors associated with highway construction projects. …”
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4D printing of butterfly scale-inspired structures for wide-angle directional liquid transport by Liu, Xiaojiang, Li, Boyuan, Gu, Zhongze, Zhou, Kun

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Exploring opportunities and risks of artificial intelligence research for islamic ethical guidelines by Aliff, Nawi, Nor Yazi, Khamis, Mohd Faiz, Yaakob, Mohd Al Adib, Samuri, Zakaria, Gamal Abdul Nasir

“…Hence, this study aims to fill the gap by reviewing contemporary perspectives on AI opportunities and risks. …”
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Innovation-driven industrial green development : the moderating role of regional factors by Li, Wei, Wang, Jue, Chen, Rongxiao, Xi, Yongqin, Liu, Shi Qiang, Wu, Feimei, Masoud, Mahmoud, Wu, Xueping

“…The present study was conducted to fill these research gaps using panel data across 30 provinces in China from 2005 to 2015. …”
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Uncertainty Quantification of Spatiotemporal Travel Demand With Probabilistic Graph Neural Networks by Wang, Qingyi, Wang, Shenhao, Zhuang, Dingyi, Koutsopoulos, Haris, Zhao, Jinhua

“…However, these studies largely ignored uncertainty that inevitably exists in travel demand prediction. To fill this gap, this study proposes a framework of probabilistic graph neural networks (Prob-GNN) to quantify the spatiotemporal uncertainty of travel demand. …”
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The influence of the dynamic change of fear: how gender-specific messages affect anti-smoking intentions by Gu, Rui

“…Therefore, this study employed tailored fear appeals, the gender-specific graphic warning labels, to fill the conceptual gaps in the model. The findings showed that gender specificity as a message type and participants’ genders as an audience characteristic led to different changes of fear and, thus, varying levels of persuasion. …”
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News framing of the 2022 Russian-Ukrainian conflict: a comparative analysis of CNN (USA) and CCTV (China) from a war and peace journalism perspective by Wang, Yao, Shahrul Nazmi Sannusi, Shamsiah Abd Kadir

“…However, there has been a lack of extensive investigation into the 2022 Russian-Ukrainian Conflict, specifically regarding the analysis of Western and Eastern media coverage from a war journalism and peace journalism perspective. To fill this vacancy, this study applied the Framing theory and the peace journalism model developed by Lee & Maslog (2005) to identify multiple strategies related to the themes, sources and war/peace journalism applied by CNN for America and CCTV for China. …”
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Navigating sexual minority identity in sport: a qualitative exploration of sexual minority student-athletes in China by Xiang, Meng, Soh, Kim Geok, Xu, Yingying, Ahrari, Seyedali, Zakaria, Noor Syamilah

“…This study explores the perceptions of Chinese SMSAs regarding their sexual minority identities, aiming to fill the current gap in research related to non-Western countries. …”
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‘Recover together, recover stronger’: an exploratory literature review on the recovery challenges of creative SMEs following the COVID-19 pandemic and proposed future recommendatio... by Akintola, Bolanle Maryam, Kumar, Anil, Chokshi, Hemakshi, Samadhiya, Ashutosh, Agrawal, Rohit

“…This research aims to fill the literature gaps by examining the challenges during recovery within the creative small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) industry, as there are few relevant studies that focus on this field. …”
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Sustainable performance through digital supply chains in industry 4.0 era: amidst the pandemic experience by Joshi, Sudhanshu, Sharma, Manu

“…The study calls for firms to employ multiple DSCs once they have set clear strategic priorities. The overall findings of the work fill the literature gaps of studies in the digitalization of supply chains.…”
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