Can we please have some honesty about drugs by Saad ul Hassan Hashmi

“…In section one, I will present the historical context up until the 1920 when the first prohibitionist legislation came into effect. …”
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Bloom : engagement kit designed to encourage social interaction between people with young-onset Alzheimer's by Komari, Amira

“…The challenges become most acute when they begin to lose their grip on the present and their present condition. …”
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Development of a software system for monitoring of home based rehabilitation by Celetaria, Charmaine Elaiza Alimboyoguen

“…The 2 main features of the mobile application provide a visual output to monitor the location of the patient and to notify the doctors and family members when a fall incident occurred. These features are performed with the generated data from a device-free fall detection and passive tracking system into the program.…”
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Effect of gap resonance between moored ships by Tay, Kenny Zhi Xian

“…In this project, the effect of gap resonance when two ships are being moored together will be studied and analysed. …”
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Personalised video by Seah, Kai Ler

“…Augmented reality (AR) as well as Virtual reality (VR) have become more mainstream and can be applied to most industries now. In 2014, when VR isn’t as common as now, there are only less than one million VR users. …”
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Snake pattern detection algorithm by Yeo, Eugene Han Wei

“…Given the reported snake location, user can take preventive measures when travelling to these areas to prevent snake bite incidents. …”
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Medical signal and imaging analysis for diagnosis of coronary artery disease by Muhammad Khairil Azhar Ridzwan

“…When the artery narrows severely, symptoms such as chest pain or shortness of breath may occur. …”
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Carlibration parameters of social force model (SFM) for customized personal mobility devices (PMD) by Yuan, Liqiang

“…This paper aims to find out the proper speed for different PMDs when they encounter a pedestrian on the sidewalk, so that both pedestrian and PMD rider can be safe. …”
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Understanding the private-public school performance gap in PISA: evidence from Portugal by Colaço, R, Freitas, P, Nunes, LC, Reis, AB

“…We analyse the PISA-reported convergence in the performance of private and public schools in Portugal. When PISA sampling weights are used, the number of students enrolled in those types of schools and specific grades/tracks of study differs significantly from official population figures. …”

Understanding the intermittency of the wintertime North Atlantic Oscillation and East Atlantic Pattern seasonal forecast skill in the Copernicus C3S multi-model ensemble by Baker, L, Shaffrey, L, Johnson, S, Weisheimer, A

“…Years with high NAO predictability are associated with substantial tropical forcing, generally from the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO), while poor forecasts of the NAO occur when ENSO forcing is weak. Well-forecast EA winters also generally occurred when there was substantial tropical forcing, although the relationship was less robust than for the NAO. …”

Reconstruction from smaller cards by Groenland, C, Johnston, T, Scott, A, Tan, J

“…In addition, we can recognise the connectedness of a graph from its $\ell$-deck when $\ell\ge 9n/10$, and reconstruct the degree sequence when $\ell\ge\sqrt{2n\log(2n)}$. …”

Showcase the smiles or the tears? How elicited perspectives determine optimal charity appeal content by Hildebrand, D, Hadi, R, Sen, S

“…Across three incentive-compatible experiments, we demonstrate that while DB appeals are more effective in increasing donation behavior when an ad evokes a beneficiary-perspective (i.e., asking viewers to imagine how a beneficiary feels), SB appeals are more effective when an ad evokes a self-perspective (i.e., asking viewers to imagine how they themselves would feel if they were in the beneficiary’s position). …”

The mediating role of health literacy between the presence of chronic disease and psychological distress among older persons in Xian City of China by Guo, Kun, Ouyang, Jing, Minhat, Halimatus Sakdiah

“…Background: The increased number of older persons in China, and the prevalence of most chronic diseases raised with age significantly increased the total disease burden. When a person ages, psychological distress happens when they are faced with stressors that they cannot cope with. …”
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Map matching algorithms for intelligent transportation system by Hou, Xiangting

“…Currently, the Global Positioning System (GPS) is widely used to obtain the absolute positions of vehicles. When the GPS has high measurement frequency, the travelling routes of vehicles can be inferred from the GPS positions. …”
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GPU-accelerated real-time motion planning for safe human-robot collaboration by Fujii, Shohei

“…Our method guarantees the safety of human operators in the sense that the robot will collide only when the robot has a zero velocity, in accordance with ISO safety standards. …”
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Computational modeling of selective laser melting process by Le, Kim Quy

“…In the study, the melt pool is considered to be in conduction-mode when the ratio of the melt pool depth to the melt pool width is less than 0.5 and keyhole-mode when the ratio is above 1.0. …”
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Non-newtonian fluids and droplets in microchannels by Huang, Yi

“…With the development of microfluidics, electro-osmotic (EO) driven flow has gained intense research interest as a result of its unique flow profile and the corresponding benefits in its application in the transportation of sensitive samples. Challenges occur when the EO driven mechanism encounters complex rheology and vital questions such as "Can the zeta potential still be assumed to be constant when dealing with fluids with complex rheology?"…”
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Three essays on corporate finance by Zou, Kunru

“…Further analyses reveal that the negative CSR effect of covenant intensity is more pronounced when the creditors have higher bargaining power, when loans outstanding are closer to maturity, and when the conflict of interest between creditors and other stakeholders is greater. …”
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Can AI create better lesson plans than humans? This is what Malaysian english instructors think by Wan Noor Farah, Wan Shamsuddin, Nur Amalina, Mohd Shariff

“…The results indicated that Malaysian English teachers have a positive outlook towards using the technology especially when designing lesson plans. The advantages of using ChatGPT when doing lesson plans include time-efficient, high success rate and creative lessons.…”
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Phonological analysis of syllabic changes of Arabic loan verbs by Muhaimin Syaqiq Mawaridi, Abdul Azim Mohamad Isa, Lutfi Hassan

“…The original form of a language is often changed when the language is borrowed into the target language. …”
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