Minimum Wage Policy Effects on Economic Efficiency and Poverty (S/O 12183) by Abd Karim, Mohd Zaini, Hassan, Sallahuddin, Gee, Chan Sok

“…First, the mere presence of minimum wage policy does not have any bearing on efficiency, poverty and income inequality. …”
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Behaviour of steel reinforced concrete columns with high strength materials by Cai, Yan Qing

“…Nevertheless, the proposed method was conservative in predicting the bearing capacity of columns with normal and high strength materials. …”
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Impact of E-learning activities on English as a second language proficiency among engineering cohorts of Malaysian higher education: a 7-month longitudinal study by Buragohain. Dipima, Punpeng, Grisana, Jaratjarungkiat, Sureenate, Chaudhary, Sushank

“…Moreover, the implementation of such innovative technology can motivate students to engage in more peer interactivity, learning engagement, and self-directed learning.…”
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Evaluating the effectiveness of online lectures in developing problem-solving skills in engineering students by Puah, Alice Xee Ran

“…The study suggest that online lectures and courses should incorporate digital tools and implement regular formative assessments to allow for peer collaboration and immediate feedback from instructors, thereby enhancing learning outcomes. …”
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Content routing and lookup schemes using global bloom filter for content-delivery-as-a-service by Jin, Yichao, Wen, Yonggang

“…The global CCBF adds our system with the capability to early check the existence of any specific content among all the peering surrogates, before any local checking on each cache node. …”
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Impact of international professional mobility programmes: a systematic literature review by Hanley, N, Tyson, LS, Wang, Z, Kwak, J, Akkad, A, Vari-Lavoisier, I, Chankseliani, M

“…(2) What contributions do participants make at organisational, community, and national levels after participating in IPM? Drawing on 78 peer-reviewed studies and employing a Mixed-Methods Research Synthesis approach, this review provides a comprehensive analysis of how IPM fosters professional expertise, intercultural competencies, and career advancement, while also generating broader societal impacts. …”

Game-theoretic expert importance evaluation model guided by cooperation effects for social network group decision making. by Liu, Zeyi, Tao, Wen, Yong, Deng, Fujita, Hamido

“…An interaction indicator is then exploited to represent peer interaction effort (PIE). With the log-sigmoid transition technique, individual social cooperation networks (ISCNs) are then constructed. …”

36 stratagems & applications by Soe Thiha @ Nyan Lin Htun

“…There are some 6 different fields of strategies for different state of the situation, starting when one is superior, gaining ground to losing, each bearing 6 individual strategies each. It is now widely accepted that some war strategies could be applied in business world, behavioral science and thus taken another leap trying to better apply in other areas such as geopolitical affairs, behavioral change, public policy etc. …”
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Impact of jet fuel hedging on firm value : a study on global airlines. by Quah, Hui Li., Tan, Jazreel Yan Zhen., Teo, Lay Hui.

“…We also find three factors, namely managerial shares and options holdings, financial distress costs and the presence of alternative hedging mechanism that have significant bearing on airlines’ hedging decisions. Upon understanding how hedging value adds across different regions and periods of fuel price volatility, investors can pay more attention to these three factors in order to accurately predict and assess airlines’ hedging decisions. …”
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Development of an advanced nano-satellite VELOX-I – attitude control system by Ng, Yu Lian.

“…Experiments have conducted to measure the moment of inertia of an air bearing table test setup. In the experiments, the environmental frictional torque was characterized as well. …”
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Design and development of a solar-powered vehicle by Zhou, Bo

“…The two rear wheels are driven by a motor connected by the axle and bearings. The steering system in the front controls the direction of the front wheels. …”
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Extreme learning machine based fast object recognition by Xu, Jiantao, Zhou, Hongming, Huang, Guang-Bin

“…Extreme Learning Machine (ELM) as a type of generalized single-hidden layer feed-forward networks (SLFNs) has demonstrated its good generalization performance with extreme fast learning speed in many benchmark and real applications. …”
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Economic analysis of membrane-based separation of biocatalyst: mode of operation and stage configuration by Kapavarapu, MSR Sridhar, Ma, Yunqiao, Vasudevan, Suraj V., Chew, Jia Wei

“…The costs for different operating modes (i.e., constant-flux or constant-TMP) and stage configurations (i.e., single versus multiple stages), as well as the effects of feed flow rate, flux, transmembrane pressure (TMP), membrane area, recovery, and filtration rate, were evaluated. …”
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Divergent reactivity of phosphapalladacycles toward E-H (E = N, P, As) bonds by Tay, Wee Shan, Li, Yongxin, Pullarkat, Sumod A., Leung, Pak-Hing

“…Subsequently, secondary arsines bearing the As-H bond were applied in deuteration by directed ortho-metalation (DoM) and decomplexation strategies. …”
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Circularly polarized antennas and phased arrays for 5G applications by Hu, Yiyun

“…Simultaneously, the aperture coupling feed is used to significantly broaden the radiation bandwidth. …”
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Ceria-boosted Ni/Al2O3 catalysts for enhanced H2 production via acetic acid dry reforming by Nguyen, Anh Tam, Ng, Kim Hoong, Kumar, Ponnusamy Senthil, Pham, Thuy Phuong T., Setiabudi, Herma Dina, Mohammad Yusuf, Mohammad Yusuf, Pham, Le Kim Hoang, Thao, Bui T. Thu, Abdul Jalil, Aishah, Bahari, Mahadi, Al-Kahtany, Khaled, Vo, Dai-Viet N.

“…In this work, Ce promotion on 10%Ni/Al2O3 catalysts with 1-5 wt%Ce was evaluated for ADR at varied temperatures of 923–998 K and stoichiometric feed in a fixed-bed rig. CeO2 addition of 1–3% enhanced metal dispersion, and surface area whilst basic CeO2 character significantly boosted the concentration and density of basic sites on catalysts. …”

Power system feasibility and flexibility analysis for enlarging renewable exploitation under high uncertainties by Weng, Yu

“…Next, a framework for feasibility and flexibility analysis is established for both peer-to-peer energy trading and Transmission System Operator-Distribution System Operator (TSO-DSO) coordination to promote renewable usage while ensuring system safety. …”
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Membrane filtration of microalgae by We, Sok Ling.

“…Quantitative data were supplemented with scanning electron microscope visualizations of the algae feed and fouled membranes. The micrographs revealed the characteristics of algal cells before and after filtration, and the surface architecture of deposits on the fouled membrane. …”
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Learning the 3D fauna of the web by Li, Z, Litvak, D, Li, R, Zhang, Y, Jakab, T, Rupprecht, C, Wu, S, Vedaldi, A, Wu, J

“…At inference time, given a single image of any quadruped animal, our model reconstructs an articulated 3D mesh in a feed-forward manner in seconds.…”

A surface transporter family conveys the trypanosome differentiation signal by Dean, S, Marchetti, R, Kirk, K, Matthews, KR

“…This requires hypersensitization of the parasites to CCA by exposure to low temperature, conditions encountered after tsetse fly feeding at dusk or dawn. Here we identify a carboxylate-transporter family, PAD (proteins associated with differentiation), required for perception of this differentiation signal. …”