Communication in the workplace: request mitigations in Instant Messaging (IM) among native Malay speakers by Petani Mohd Noor, Marlyna Maros, Kesumawati Abu Bakar, Normalis Amzah

“…However, achieving both simultaneously can be challenging, particularly when dealing with face-threatening acts like making requests. …”
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Effect of pH on phosphorylation of sago starch by Muhammad, K., Hussin, F., Man, Y.C., Ghazali, H.M.

“…In the reactions using a mixture of STPP and STMP, the P content decreased from 0.320 to 0.115% when a similar range of pH was employed. At the reaction pH of 9, a starch phosphate obtained using STPP exhibited low hot paste viscosity but high cold paste viscosity and shear stability when cooked at 95 °C. …”
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Study on Acoustic Emission Characteristics and Damage Evolution Law of Shale under Uniaxial Compression by Wu, Wenjie, Chan, Chee-Ming, Gu, Yilei, Su, Xiaopeng

“…When axial stress reaches the damage strength σcd, which is approximately 80% of the uniaxial compressive strength, a significant number of AE signals are generated. …”
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The effectiveness of Building Information Modelling (BIM) in solving railway project management issues in Malaysia by Molarn, M A, Ang, P S E, Ali, R B

“…The level of BIM effectiveness in MRT 2 is high when full BIM was implemented as compared to Gemas – JB ETS that have low effectiveness when partial BIM was implemented. …”
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Enhancing boundary friction and wear reduction through adsorption control in protic ionic liquid and carbon mixtures by Mohamed Ariffin, Nur Aisya Affrina, Lee, Chiew Tin, Lee, Mei Bao, Halid, Izzati, Hamdan, Siti Hartini, Ismail, Muhammad Izzal, Chong, William Woei Fong, Zhang, Hedong

“…Through experimental investigation, notable reductions of 19.8 % in friction and 67.2% in wear are demonstrated when [Oley][Oleic] is blended with the optimum CNT concentration at 0.10 wt%. …”

How Competent Are You? Developing A C.A.B. Crosscultural Competency Framework for Inculcating Cultural Sensitivity Among Malaysian Nurse Expatriates (S/O: 13593) by Abdul Talib, Asmat Nizam, Zakaria, Norhayati, Zakaria, Nasriah

“…Thus, the overarching research question is to explore: How competent are Malaysian female nurses expatriates in terms of cognitive, emotions and behavioral (C.A.B.) when they adjust in a new working environment? Our study will employ a mix methodology--the primary method is qualitative, while the quantitative method will supplement the findings with statistics to support the in-depth descriptions. …”
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An Introduction to Mathematical Statistics and Its Applications / by Larsen, Richard J., author 366938, Marx, Morris L., author 366951

“…It demonstrates how and when to use statistical methods, while reinforcing the calculus that readers have already mastered. …”

Contextual centrality: going beyond network structure by Leng, Yan, Sella, Yehonatan, Ruiz, Rodrigo, Pentland, Alex

“…When the diffusion occurs globally, contextual centrality signals whether diffusion may generate negative consequences. …”
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Optimal policing with (and without) criminal search by Gao, Carol, Vásquez, Jorge

“…We develop a search-theoretic model, in which a police agency allocates scarce resources across neighborhoods—heterogeneous in “vigilance” and valuables—to minimize crime, while potential criminals decide whether, and if so, when and where to commit a crime. When criminals sequentially search for the best target, the optimal police allocation depends on the difference in vigilance levels across neighborhoods, prioritizing neighborhoods with low vigilance. …”
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Medical tablets identification : mobile phone application development by Pang, Michelle Hui Qi

“…This problem is further emphasized when the patient removes their medicine from their original packaging to place them in their own pill boxes for easy transportation (Basaraba, 2019), or, when the labels of pill bottles and pill pouches are damaged through wear and tear. …”
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Venous valve stent analysis by Chia, Mark Wen Hao

“…The issues of conducting the Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and the findings concluded from the various designs when subjected to the static structural analysis. …”
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Electroadhesion for vertical locomotion in soft robotics by Chan, Benjamin Weijie

“…The PVDF-assembled electroadhesion pad can enable the soft climbing robot to execute a smooth locomotion process when actuating vertically whilst operate at a reduced rate of power consumption.…”
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The study of Rashomon effects on machine learning : a case study on breast cancer by Wee, Yu Hui

“…In this study, we will be using 3 ER breast cancer datasets as a case study and we look at the results of the selection of each individual tree in the forest using the standard random forest algorithms and when bootstrapping of the attributes was removed. …”
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Secure estimation for attitude and heading reference systems under sparse attacks by Jiang, Rui, Liu, Xinghua, Wang, Han, Ge, Shuzhi Sam

“…It is shown that the proposed secure estimator coincides with the Kalman estimator with certain probability when there is no attack, and can be stable when p elements of the model state are compromised. …”
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Autonomous learning machine for online big data analysis by Ng, Jia Yu

“…Deep Metric Learning (DML) supports the non-linearity problem faced when unsupervised learning is used; whereby multi-input data corresponds to one output. …”
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Media consumption in a new home: a qualitative study on news exposure (real and fake) among Filipino immigrants in Singapore by Larin, John Ivan Martinez

“…The identification of strategies employed when faced with disinformation, such as dependence on personal judgement and preferred external sources, also allows for the understanding of how media consumers can be susceptible to fake news.…”
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Effect of coupling in steel/aluminium laminate subjected to tensile load and bending load by Pak, Jun Wei

“…This project involves the study of coupling effects in steel/aluminium metal laminate composite when subjected to either tensile or bending loads. …”
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Design of the inductive DC-DC buck converter by Lee, Carmen May Yee

“…The power stage of buck converter has an efficiency of 91.77% when load current is 100mA at 250kHz. The input voltage is designed to be 3V with an output voltage of 1V. …”
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Behavior-based pricing: an analysis of the impact of anticipated regret by Zhou, Qin, Yuen, Kum Fai

“…In addition, we find that firms have to change their traditional BBP strategy from rewarding new customers to rewarding repeat customers when repeat-purchase regret is sufficiently high.…”
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Spatial-temporal sensor data imputation in traffic data modelling by Nie, Helei

“…The experiments show promising results when the traffic data contain large random missing regions in the time domain.…”
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