Testing the feasibility and utility of an executive function battery for use with primary school-aged students in Malawi. by Michael T Willoughby, Maclean Vokhiwa, Amanda C Wylie, Richard Reithinger, Lauren M Cohee

“…Two tasks had poor performance and ceiling effects and were omitted from composite scores. A composite of EF task performance was normally distributed and increased with grade level. …”
Get full text

Features and signals in precocious citation impact: A meta-research study. by John P A Ioannidis

“…Top-cited authors included those in the top-2% of a previously validated composite citation indicator across 174 subfields of science or in the top-100,000 authors of that composite citation indicator across all science based on Scopus. …”
Get full text

Study on the adsorption properties of organically modified diatomite for methylene blue by Ziying Bu, Ying Fang, Hanjie Chen, Mei Zhang, Fulong Wang

“…The composite was prepared without the use of any chemical crosslinking agents, employing encapsulation techniques and drying processes. …”
Get full text

Chief Executive Office Characteristics Effect on Financial Reporting Quality in Vietnam: The Moderating Role of Firm Size by Nguyet Nga Tran Thi, Diem Ngo

“…Result: This result shows that the CEO representative composite factor has a significant impact on the FRQ of the enterprise. …”
Get full text

Influences of defective interphase and contact region among nanosheets on the electrical conductivity of polymer graphene nanocomposites by Yasser Zare, Muhammad Tajammal Munir, Kyong Yop Rhee

“…Subsequently, a model for the tunneling conductivity of composites is proposed based on these concepts. This innovative model is validated by experimental data. …”
Get full text

Design and Test of a Blast Shield for Boeing 737 Overhead Compartment by Xinglai Dang, Philemon C. Chan

“…This work demonstrates the feasibility of using a composite blast shield for hardening an overhead bin compartment of a commercial aircraft. …”
Get full text

RIS-Assisted Wireless System in the Presence of Direct Channel: Channel Statistics and Performance Analysis by Soumya P. Dash, Debasish Ghose

“…A reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided wireless communication system is considered in this paper, where the transmitter sends data to the receiver via a direct link and the RIS. …”
Get full text

Enhanced non-volatile resistive switching performance through ion-assisted magnetron sputtering of TiN bottom electrodes by Babak Bakhit, Markus Hellenbrand, Benson Kunhung Tsai, Abhijeet Choudhury, Peter Polcik, Szilard Kolozsvari, Haiyan Wang, Andrew J. Flewitt, Judith L. MacManus-Driscoll

Get full text

Effect of refrigeration of resin materials on the occurrence of microleakage in class II restorations by André Luiz F. Briso, Renato H. Sundefeld, Rebeca L. Afonso, Flavia A. Paterno, Maria Lúcia M. M. Sundefeld

“…This study evaluated the microleakage occurring in Class II restorations performed with composite resin stored at different conditions and temperatures. …”
Get full text

Building resilience against physical risk: the role of logistics performance in risk mitigation by Abroon Qazi

“…This study examines the critical role of logistics performance in building resilience against physical risk, utilizing the FM Global Resilience Index—a composite measure of countries’ relative enterprise resilience to disruptive events—as a key benchmark. …”
Get full text

Advances in Developments and Trends of UAV Technology in the Context of Precision Agriculture by Mingxia Li, Jiyu Li

“…Agriculture, as a core pathway for advancing modern agricultural development, emphasizes data-driven perception and intelligent decision-making. …”
Get full text

Entropy Weight TOPSIS Evaluation of Corporate Internal Control Quality Based on Fuzzy Matter-Element Model by Tao Tian, Xiaoning Li, Qing Wang, Dajian Tong

“…To evaluate corporate internal control quality (CICQ), this paper constructs a composite fuzzy matter-element model based on the fuzzy matter-element theory and the data on 781 listed enterprises in China. …”
Get full text

The Home as a Place of Work—Who Cares and Why? by Friederike Molitor

“…Drawing on unique survey data collected in Germany in 2019, this study offers a systematic analysis of the sociodemographic characteristics of platform-mediated care and domestic workers, with particular focus on their family and household compositions and their motivations for using a digital care-work platform. …”
Get full text

Synthesis of Nanoporous Biochar from Rice Husk for Adsorption of Methylene Blue by Dan Dang, Lei Mei, Gaimeng Yan, Wenju Liu

“…Finally, combined with the characterization results and data analysis, it can be seen that the rice husk carbon obtained by KOH-NaOH composite activation is predominantly microporous with a more uniform pore size distribution, making it an economical and efficient adsorbent for the removal of methylene blue from aqueous solutions.…”
Get full text

Detection of Obstacle Intrusion in Front of Train Based on Vehicle-borne LiDAR by ZENG Xiang, JIANG Guotao, PAN Wenbo, LENG Binghan, CHEN Guibin

“…This paper proposes a method to detect obstacle intrusion in front of the trains based on vehicle-borne LiDAR. Firstly, a composite rail track model is established from the track points extracted from the laser-point cloud, and the rail track parameters in <italic>XOZ</italic> and <italic>XOY</italic> planes are estimated based on the RANSAC algorithm. …”
Get full text

Development of a Portable Universal Testing Machine for Investigating the Mechanical Properties of Medium-Strength Materials by Muhammad Rizal, Udink Aulia, Radinal Yudiansyah

“…Samples of jute and glass fiber composites were tested at room temperature on this machine. …”
Get full text

Polymer-polymer miscibility in PEO/cationic starch and PEO/hydrophobic starch blends

“…However, the system PEO/hydrophobic starch was considered to be miscible in the whole range of studied compositions. Through optical microscopy analysis, it was concluded that the spherulite growth rate is significantly affected by changing the amount and the type of starch as well.…”
Get full text

Highlighting the Dynamics of the Game-Changer: Empirical Evidence from Stock Markets of the Key Players by Asra Khan, Nawaz Ahmad, Nimra Sharif

“…Highlighting this key assumption, this study attempts to conduct a comparative analysis of PSX and Shanghai returns for pre and post announcement of CPEC. The time-series data of the two indices i.e. PSX-100 and Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite Index (SHCOMP) is selected ranging from 4th January 2010 to 2nd January 2019. …”
Get full text

Effects of added caper on some physicochemical properties of White Cheese by Oktay Yerlikaya, Cem Karagozlu

“…Changes in chemical compositions, proteolysis (ripening index), lipolysis (acid degree value), free amino acids, free fatty acids (FFAs), and some mineral substances of White Cheese samples were analysed during the ripening period for 90 days at +4 °C. …”
Get full text

Should It Always Be Central? Substitution Effects of Multi-Network Embeddedness on Absorptive Capacity by Xiurui Xu, Shanwu Tian

“…Drawing on social network theory and the knowledge-based view, this study proposes that the relational embeddedness of organizations across networks produces an interactive substitution effect on absorptive capacity. Using a composite database of patent, financial, and organizational data, we annually constructed multiple networks of listed companies in the global automobile and components industry and empirically tested the model through multiple stepwise regression analysis. …”
Get full text