Empowering professional identity and positive outcomes through Third Space collaboration: A subject lecturer and EAP practitioner case study by Claire Toogood, Katy Hale

“…This was designed to allow the EAP Practitioner’s expertise to scaffold the students towards asking clear questions of the Lecturer, in a safe space, supporting understanding and assessment performance, while minimising concerns about inappropriate challenge or loss of face. …”
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A Two-Stage Chance Constrained Approach with Application to Stochastic Intermodal Service Network Design Problems by Yi Zhao, Qingwan Xue, Zhichao Cao, Xi Zhang

“…Given candidate train and ship services, we develop a two-stage chance constrained programming model for this problem with the objective of minimising the expected total cost. The first stage allows for the selection of operated services, while the second stage focuses on the determination of intermodal container routes where capacity and on-time delivery chance constraints are presented. …”
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Orthogonal tucker decomposition using factor priors for 2D+3D facial expression recognition by Yunfang Fu, Qiuqi Ruan, Ziyan Luo, Gaoyun An, Yi Jin

“…Finally, an alternating direction method coupled with the majorisation‐minimisation scheme is designed to solve the resulting tensor completion problem. …”
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Driving Motivation in Irish Language Learning: An analysis of variation in post-primary pupil attitudes to Irish in the Growing Up in Ireland study by Emily Barnes, Joe Condon, Ann Devitt, Noel Ó Murchadha

“…This paper informs key policy priorities to support the maintenance of the Irish language by optimising interest-enjoyment value and minimising the challenges associated with learning Irish for young people in post-primary education. …”
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Landscape exposure and exercising for health: exposure to natural versus urban landscapes promotes walking for health by Hui-Ju Wu, Yevvon Yi-Chi Chang, Wen-Bin Chiou

“…Exercising for health necessitates focusing on long-term health benefits while minimising perceived obstacles. Recent studies have demonstrated that experiencing nature may reduce the discounting tendency. …”
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Revampment of surface permanent magnet synchronous motor design for ameliorated torque profile in e‐mobility applications by Anshul K. Mishra, Bharat S. Rajpurohit, Rajeev Kumar

“…Gradient‐based nonlinear sequential programming has been used to find out the optimum magnetic embrace for the minimised torque ripple. The effectiveness of the optimised design has been revalidated in the FE software. …”
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How energy determines spatial localisation and copy number of molecules in neurons by Cornelius Bergmann, Kanaan Mousaei, Silvio O. Rizzoli, Tatjana Tchumatchenko

“…We found that energy minimisation principles explain experimentally-reported exponential rank distributions of mRNA and protein copy numbers. …”
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An empirical analysis of keystroke dynamics in passwords: A longitudinal study by Simon Parkinson, Saad Khan, Alexandru‐Mihai Badea, Andrew Crampton, Na Liu, Qing Xu

“…Not only is the user's name considered a weak password, but their familiarity with typing the phrase minimises variation in acquired samples as they become more familiar with the new password. …”
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Experimental Study to Determine the Leakage Area of Single-Leaf Smoke Control Doors in the Design of Pressure Differential Systems by István Mihály, László Bérczi, Balázs Bognár, Maxim Kátai-Urbán, Levente Tóth, Lajos Kátai-Urbán, Gyula Vass, Ferenc Varga

“…On the occasion of building fires, the risk of smoke, which adversely influences escape conditions, must be minimised. One way to reduce the risk is, for example, to pressurise the escape route in order to limit the infiltration of smoke. …”
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Fast, super‐resolution sparse inverse synthetic aperture radar imaging via continuous compressive sensing by Lv Mingjiu, Ma Lei, Ma Jianchao, Chen Wenfeng, Yang Jun, Ma Xiaoyan, Cheng Qi

“…First, the received echo in each range bin is characterised as a linear combination of multiple frequencies shown in a continuous atomic set, established into an atomic norm minimisation (ANM) mode. Second, to improve the resolution and reduce the computational burden significantly, a locally convergent iterative algorithm based on the alternating direction method of multipliers, which iteratively performs ANM with a sound reweighting strategy, is implemented. …”
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Determinants of Muslim’s intention to boycott Israel-affiliated products: Evidence from Indonesia by Uus Ahmad Husaeni, Mohammed Ashfaq Ayoob

“…Understanding the purchasing behavior of Muslim consumers in Indonesia can help marketers and multinational companies anticipate and strategically respond to potential boycotts, minimising financial losses. This is important because Muslim consumers in Indonesia often opt for alternative products when choosing to avoid those affiliated with Israel. …”
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Associations between environmental exposures and asthma control and exacerbations in young children: a systematic review by Steve Turner, Jon G Ayres, Hilary Cowie, Smita Dick, Emma Doust

“…There was also evidence of interactions observed between exposures such as allergen and ETS.Conclusions Exposure to inhaled allergens, ETS, unflued heaters and poor air quality has an important effect on exacerbations in young children with asthma and should be minimised or, ideally, avoided. Better understanding of the effect of exposure to damp housing, air conditioning and dietary factors plus interactions between environmental exposures associated with exacerbations is required.…”
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Directions for improving the regulatory framework for the use of discretionary powers by law enforcement agencies in administrative legal relations by O. A. Prysiazhniuk

“…It is noted that the primary task in the process of solving the described problems and minimising the adverse effects of decisions made by law enforcement officials in the course of administrative discretion is to develop a targeted legislative policy aimed at optimising the limits of discretionary powers by establishing the necessary legal framework for their exercise. …”
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Environmental and economic assessment of the application of an optimised chemical decontamination method on the internal surface of a nuclear steam generator by Rachael Clayton, Anthony Banford, Laurence Stamford

“…Therefore, waste volume minimisation via pre-treatment is paramount. This paper presents the first life cycle environmental and economic sustainability assessment of a chemical metallic decontamination method, including investigation during laboratory-scale development and evaluation of a nuclear steam generator case study. …”
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On improving interoperability for cross‐domain multi‐finger fingerprint matching using coupled adversarial learning by Md Mahedi Hasan, Nasser Nasrabadi, Jeremy Dawson

“…The ArcFace loss ensures intra‐class compactness and inter‐class separability, whereas the contrastive loss minimises the distance between the subspaces for the same finger. …”
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Grid Connection of a Squirrel-Cage Induction Generator Excited by a Partial Power Converter by Dominik A. Górski, Grzegorz Dziechciaruk, Grzegorz Iwański

“…The converter controls the generator voltage build-up to adjust the generator voltage to the grid voltage (controlled excitation) and connects the generator to the grid, minimising distortions. Moreover, the system is robust because the failure of the converter does not stop the power generation, unlike a system with a back-to-back converter, where the converter links the generator and the grid. …”
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Experimental Research on Damping Effect of Double-Layer Tuned Mass Damper for High-Rise Structure by Botan Shen, Jin Wang, Weibing Xu, Yanjiang Chen, Weiming Yan, Jianhui Huang, Zhenyun Tang

“…In this study, a DTMD parameter optimisation method was proposed, with the objective of minimising the peak displacement response of a first N-order vibration modal with a vibration mass participation factor of 85%. …”
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Wearable Quarter-Wave Folded Microstrip Antenna for Passive UHF RFID Applications by Thomas Kaufmann, Damith C. Ranasinghe, Ming Zhou, Christophe Fumeaux

“…An extended ground plane made from silver fabric successfully minimises the impact of the human body on the antenna performance. …”
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Women with perinatal suicidal ideation-A scoping review of the biopsychosocial risk factors to inform health service provision and research. by Ann-Marie Bright, Owen Doody, Teresa Tuohy

“…<h4>Implications for practice</h4>The minimisation of women's experiences may lead to detrimental consequences and there is a need for increased knowledge of mental health problems by those working with women in the perinatal period to ensure safety planning conversations occur with every woman meeting 'at risk' criteria.…”
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Farmed fish welfare in Egypt: Surveying current practices and future directions for tilapia culture by Charlotte Flores, Christopher Bryant, Mohamed Bakr, Wasseem Emam

“…However, they were significantly less willing and able to intervene on this factor compared to other factors such as changing feeding practices, minimising handling, and carrying out veterinary checks.In addition, we found evidence of better production outcomes for farmers that had received welfare training, with significantly fewer of them reporting high mortality rates and significantly lower reported frequency of poor growth. …”
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