To what extent and in what ways do communities of practice facilitate learning in the context of professional development for interpreting students and practitioners? by D'Hayer, Danielle

“…The absence of negotiation of meaning with all participants in the VCs leads to a traditional skill-based interpreting practice approach that does not spark further collaborative initiatives, thus demonstrating the importance and value of negotiation of meaning when designing for the emergence of CoPs. …”
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Inducing System-1-type diagnostic reasoning in second-year medical students within 15 minutes by Rosby, Lucy Victoria, Rotgans, Jerome Ingmar, Tan, Gerald, Low-Beer, Naomi, Mamede, Silvia, Zwaan, Laura, Schmidt, Henk

“…During the test phase, students responses were significantly more accurate and faster for cases which had been seen repeatedly during the training phase (mean score¼3.56/4, mean time¼2.34 s) com- pared with cases which had been seen only twice (mean score¼1.59/4, mean time¼7.50 s). …”
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Fabrication of artificial defects in aircraft components for nondestructive testing using 3D printing by Chan, Marcus Jia Jun

“…An Ultrasonic C-scan was also being performed to understand correctly the topography provided in the results. …”
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Quantifying canine tissue stiffness change patterns using shear-wave elastography: implications for time of death estimation by Ong, Wee Kee, Leong, Sook Sam, Azman, Raja Rizal, Md Shah, Mohammad Nazri, Vijayananthan, Anushya, Lau, Seng Fong

“…The Mann-Whitney U-test and Spearman correlation coefficient showed insignificant correlation between gender and weight with shear-wave velocity (SWV) in ante-mortem scans. The Kruskal-Wallis H-test showed significant differences in SWV for all organs. …”

Efgartigimod efficacy and safety in refractory myasthenia gravis: UK’s first real-world experience by Moniz Dionísio, J, Ambrose, P, Burke, G, Farrugia, ME, Garcia-Reitboeck, P, Hewamadduma, C, Hill, M, Howard, RS, Jacob, S, Kullmann, D, Leite, MI, Miller, J, Pinto, A, Pritchard, J, Riswick, T, Sathasivam, S, Thambirajah, N, Viegas, S, Norwood, F, Spillane, J

“…Most (72.9%) patients had undergone thymectomy. 77.0% were taking prednisolone at baseline. All patients had used non-steroidal immunosuppressant treatments, the average number tried was 2.6 (range 1–6). 51% had received rituximab. 54.2% of patients required regular intravenous immunoglobulin/plasma exchange. 75% of patients had a mean reduction in the MG-ADL of≥2 points in the first cycle and this remained stable throughout the study. …”

Characterization of the RIN-to-phase-noise conversion in the mode-locked fiber lasers by Wu, Kan, Shum, Perry Ping, Ouyang, Chunmei

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Optimization of capillary tube stacking by Liu, Qinghua

“…Through a well - designed selection and crossover method, the fittest individuals and “genes” will be preserved, maintained and generated, and eventually, all the individuals will converge towards the fittest value. …”
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Multiple kernels for object detection by Vedaldi, A, Gulshan, V, Varma, M, Zisserman, A

“…Such a powerful classifier cannot be tested on all image sub-windows in a reasonable amount of time. …”

Minimum input sensitivity of high-order multi-stage sigma–delta modulator with first-order front-end by Ong, C. K., Siek, Liter, Ng, L. S.

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Self-reported weight changes in 1st year university students in England: an analysis of social and physical environment by Vadeboncoeur, C

“…For my empirical study, I recruited 1,026 students, of which 215 were eligible and answered the survey at all three time points. The mean self-reported WC was +0.98kg, 50% gained weight at an average of 3.46kg while 25% lost weight at an average of 3.21kg. …”

Discrete element method study on hopper discharge behaviors of binary mixtures of nonspherical particles by Zhao, Ya, Chew, Jia Wei

“…Regarding the binary-shape mixtures, the discharge rates are similar for all twelve mixtures, reflecting a surprising lack of shape effects, which in turn means the negligible impact of solid volume fraction, aspect ratio, and segregation extent. …”
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“It's purely mutual respect”: cross-cultural taboos and the everyday reproduction of Singaporean nationalism by Kathiravelu, Laavanya, Pandian, Sharad

“…This domain of everyday practices was neither simply defined into being by the state, nor is it some heroic realm of defiance: instead, it is one where people display creativity and agency in making sense of cherished cultural similarities and differences, all while using state-prescribed categories as resources for their meaning-making.…”
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An integrated mHealth campaign to reduce the risk of falling for older adults by Brew-Sam, Nicola, Chib, Arul, Torres, Arah Ysabelle Fondevilla, Ng, Joshua Jing Xuan, Wong, Jade Yi Ting, Yeo, Sze-G

“…Results showed that respondents with campaign exposure had a significant increase in all factor scores from pre- to post-campaign survey, which was significantly higher in the group with campaign exposure. …”
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Mix design of porous asphalt mix (PAM) using steel slag as coarse aggregates for value-add applications by Erni Farisha Nor'Azhar

“…Based on the Marshall Stability test, all three experimental groups satisfied the minimum requirement of 4.0kN Marshall Stability for low-strength pavements. …”
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Cost efficient trust-based vehicle selection for platoon by Qiu, Hongwei

“…The benefits of autonomous driving teams have gradually been realized in practical applications. First of all, vehicles on the road may not make full use of the road space to a large extent, so the throughput of highways cannot be optimized, and the use of platoon provides solutions to the problem of congestion. …”
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A discrete event formulation for multi-robot collision avoidance on pre-planned trajectories by Deplano, Diego, Franceschelli, Mauro, Ware, Simon, Rong, Su, Giua, Alessandro

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The Use of Co-Worker Peer-Review as an Alternative Assessment in Leadership Courses to Evaluate Student’s Leadership Qualities (S/O 14756) by Abd Rahim, Nazahah, Ab Rahman, Faizahani

“…All assessments were performed online via Google form. …”
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Sure (EM)-Autometrics: An Automated Model Selection Procedure with Expectation Maximization Algorithm Estimation Method (S/O 14925) by Kamarudin, Nur Azulia

“…System selection to select all equations in the model simultaneously proved to be more efficient than single equation selection. …”
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Overdamped Brownian dynamics in piecewise-defined energy landscapes by Gray, Thomas H., Yong, Ee Hou

“…Two aspects of the subdiffusive regime are studied: the growth of the mean squared displacement with time and the distribution of mean first-passage times. …”
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Multimodal radar with wide band communication system by Danial Ritzuan Junaidi

“…Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Imaging is one of the most important surveillance techniques nowadays due to its all-time and all-weather operation capability [2]. …”
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