Recent developments in oil palm empty fruit bunch (OPEFB) fiber composite by Melbi Mahardika, Melbi Mahardika, Aminatuz Zakiyah, Aminatuz Zakiyah, Siti Mariyah Ulfa, Siti Mariyah Ulfa, Rushdan, Ahmad Ilyas, Hassan, Mohamad Zaki, Devita Amelia, Devita Amelia, Knight, Victor Feizal, Norrrahim, Mohd. Nor Faiz

“…The materials sector has grown significantly over the last few decades. One from the community worldwide has embraced using natural fibers and biopolymers in many products due to significant problems with petroleum supplies and concerns about using synthetic plastics as biomaterials. …”
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Systematic Literature Review of the Trend on Green Supply Chain Management by Che Hassan, Muhammad Hamdi, Osman, Lokhman Hakim

“…Furthermore, it indicates that the amount of empirical research work on green supply chain management has increased rapidly over the last few years. The development of green supply chain management is notably significant due to its diverse advantages, including improved economic performance, adherence to stakeholder expectations, and the opportunity for innovation via digital transformation. …”
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MULTIVARIATE DATA ANALYSIS / by Hair, Joseph F., Jr., 1944-, author 644188, Black, William C., 1951-, author 656112, Babin, Barry J., author 191657, Anderson, Rolph E., author 185591

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Board financial experience and efficiency-based earnings management in pre- and post-international financial reporting standards by Kweh, Qian Long, Nourani, Mohammad, Lu, Wen-Min, Ting, Irene Wei Kiong

“…The results of our panel estimated generalized least square (EGLS) regression models, which account for heteroskedasticity and auto-correlation problems, indicate that the proportion of board of directors with financial and/or accounting experiences reduces earnings management pre-IFRS. …”
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Product optimization of a fed-batch fermentation process by Arshad, Ahmad, Noor Asma Fazli, Abdul Samad, Mohd Kamaruddin, Abd Hamid

“…To provide on-line estimates of the difficult to measure penicillin concentration, Partial Least Squares model is employed. Using these estimates, good control of product concentration is established thus enabling it to be implemented as part of product concentration control loop. …”
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A high-order 3D immersed interface finite difference method for the advection-diffusion equation by Gabbard, James, van Rees, Wim M.

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A high-order finite difference method for moving immersed domain boundaries and material interfaces by Gabbard, James, van Rees, Wim M.

“…The spatial discretization combines dimension-split finite difference schemes with an immersed boundary treatment based on a weighted least-squares reconstruction of the solution, providing stable discretizations with up to sixth order accuracy for diffusion terms and third order accuracy for advection terms. …”
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A sparse kernel algorithm for online time series data prediction by Fan, Haijin, Song, Qing

“…The Hessian matrix is equivalent to the correlation matrix of sample inputs in the kernel weight updating using the recursive least square (RLS) algorithm. This makes the algorithm able to be easily implemented with an affordable computational cost for real-time applications. …”
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Development of advanced nanotechnology process for sensing materials by Tan, Ooi Kiang.

“…This new class of materials, often characterized by a physical dimension of 1 to 100 nm in at least one dimension and the presence of very high surface area, has found potential application in many areas such as electronics, magnetism, optics, energy storage, electrochemistry and biomedical sciences. …”
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An efficiently generated family of binary de Bruijn sequences by Zhu, Yunlong, Chang, Zuling, Ezerman, Martianus Frederic, Wang, Qiang

“…Based on the properties of this class of LFSRs, we propose two new generic successor rules, each of which produces at least 2n-3 de Bruijn sequences. These two classes build upon a framework proposed by Gabric, Sawada,Williams andWong in Discrete Mathematics vol. 341, no. 11, pp. 2977–2987, November 2018. …”
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How do users respond to online rumor rebuttals? by Pal, Anjan, Chua, Alton Yeow Kuan, Goh, Dion Hoe-Lian

“…Data were collected from 322 social media users in a between-participants experiment, which manipulated the exposure sequence. Partial least squares structural equation modeling was used to analyze the data. …”
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Battery thermal-and health-constrained energy management for hybrid electric bus based on soft actor-critic DRL algorithm by Wu, Jingda, Wei, Zhongbao, Li, Weihan, Wang, Yu, Li, Yunwei, Sauer, Dirk Uwe

“…Particularly, a multiconstrained least costly formulation is proposed by augmenting the overtemperature penalty and multistress-driven degradation cost of LIB into the existing indicators. …”
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Antimicrobial efficacy testing of antibiotic-containing biodegradable nanopolymers against biofilm and planktonic cells. by Polimyr Caesar Dave Pelisco Dingal.

“…Minimum biofilm eradication concentrations (MBECs) improved at least 2-fold with increase in exposure time (48 hours) achieving LEV-PLGA MBECs of 1.4 and 0.2 µg/mL and LEV-PCL MBECs of 16.5 and 8.2 µg/mL for E. coli and P. aeruginosa, respectively. …”
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Co-located mobile game for teaching teamwork by Teng, Sok Ee

“…Mobile devices have certainly become an integral part of our daily lives, and it is highly likely that we will come across mobile games at least once. Different games have different target audiences, different objectives and definitely different game styles. …”
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Experimental studies of melting PCM in a heat sink by Muhammad Azrin Sa'ad.

“…The results yielded shows that an improvement of at least 20% was shown in the time taken for the base temperatures to reach 100°C when PCM was filled in the heat sink. …”
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NMR-based quantification of fat in mouse samples by Sreedhar, Sagaana Poongothai.

“…Many possible methods were explored such as exponential fitting, Inverse Laplace Transformation, Principal Component Analysis, and Partial Least Squares Regression techniques. Upon deeper examination, Exponential curve-fitting using the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm was selected as the best possible algorithm for implementation. …”
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Analysis of rainfall datasets for major Asian cities (Jakarta) by Loke, Jun Wei.

“…Intensity of rainfall was the least reliable as average monthly rainfall of APHRODITE and TRMM were 50% and 40% to the actual amounts from ground stations respectively. …”
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Optical nanoelecteromechanical systems (NEMS) devices and nano fabrication processes by Dong, Bin

“…Optical intensity can be attenuated to 10% of the original value with an actuation distance of at least 150 nm by tuning the wavelength of control light by 2 nm. …”
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Effects of the layers of foundation soil on the seismic response of dikes by Leo, Sin Chyuan

“…Each of these soil layers will have a thickness of 5m each and these three layers will be permutated in combinations to achieve the least amount of settlement during a seismic activity. …”
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Comparative study of direct position determination with AOA and TOA methods by Varma Ruchika

“…In cases where the noise statistics are unknown, least square method is applicable to DPD. If the noise is Gaussian, maximum likelihood estimation of location represents DPD. …”
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