Retention - Science topic

Background: In the domain of psychology, declarative concepts are a core component of the foundational knowledge that is to be learned. A promising means to enhance retention and comprehension of such concepts is to provide learners with open-ended quiz questions and corrective feedback (i.e., practice quizzing). As adapting quiz question complexit...

Black women have made significant strides in their representation in higher education leadership in the United States over the past two centuries. They have faced barriers, yet they have also made substantial contributions to the field. Historically, Black women remain at the forefront of the struggle for equal access to education, with many earnin...

This study thoroughly examines the two complex theories related to work engagement in the context of teacher retention. Emphasising the crucial significance of achieving a harmonious and cohesive degree of engagement, it aims to address the urgent problem of teacher attrition. The study creates a unified narrative that redefines teacher retention,...

Several neutrino detectors, KamLAND, Daya Bay, Double Chooz, RENO, and the forthcoming large-scale JUNO, rely on liquid scintillator to detect reactor antineutrino interactions. In this context, inverse beta decay represents the golden channel for antineutrino detection, providing a pair of correlated events, thus a strong experimental signature to...

In this article, we offer a first description of the Tense Aspect Mood Polarity (TAMP) system of Ngwi, a poorly described West-Coastal Bantu language spoken along the left bank of the Lower Kasai River in the present-day Kwilu Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). We present a preliminary account of Ngwi's compact morphological ve...

Employee retention is a critical challenge in the apparel industry, where high turnover rates can lead to increased costs and disruptions in operations. The research was "A study on employee retention factors in the Madurai district with special reference to manufacturing companies" which aims to identify and analyse the key factors influencing emp...

The delamination cracking from planar gliding along the (003) facets and anisotropic lattice strain perpendicular to the (003) facets inevitable lead to degradation of Ni‐rich single‐crystal cathode materials, adversely affecting their cyclability. Herein, we rationally design a single‐crystal LiNi0.9Co0.05Mn0.05O2 (SC90) cathode with robust chemo‐...

Zinc‐ion batteries are gaining recognition as viable options for energy storage systems due to their air stability, abundance, affordability, and ease of use. However, existing zinc‐storage materials primarily consist of intercalation cathode materials, necessitating the development of host structures with enhanced performance. Herein, the use of s...

Background and Objective CEFFE (Cell‐free fat extract) treatment for periocular fine lines requires thorough clinical evaluation to determine its efficacy and safety in enhancing skin quality. The research enrolled 10 healthy female participants aged 31–58, focusing on skin texture, elasticity, and barrier function. Methods and Results CEFFE treat...

Memorization is a fundamental aspect of both human cognition and artificial intelligence (AI), with consistency playing a pivotal role in optimizing memory retention and learning efficiency. In humans, repeated exposure to consistent stimuli, such as static photographs or structured text, facilitates stronger neural encoding and recall by reducing...

Deep eutectic electrolytes (DEE) have emerged as an innovative approach to address the instability and safety issues of lithium metal batteries at elevated temperatures. However, in practice, there is often an undesirable incompatibility between the eutectic mixture and electrodes, and also an insufficient reduction stability of DEE due to the incr...

This study investigates the challenges faced by Black male educators in K-12 education , focusing on recruitment, retention, and career advancement strategies. It reveals that Black male teachers experience systemic racism, lack of institutional support, and social isolation. To address these challenges, the study suggests targeted recruitment, bet...

ABSTRAK Departemen Sumber Daya Manusia (SDM) menghadapi tantangan besar dalam mempertahankan retensi karyawan. Pendekatan tradisional, seperti penilaian kinerja, program pengembangan karier, pelatihan, dan paket kompensasi, sudah diterapkan dan memberikan hasil positif. Namun, pendekatan ini hanya mengandalkan data historis dan tidak dapat menganti...

The adsorption of the radical α,ɣ‐bisdiphenylene‐β‐phenylallyl (BDPA) molecule to the Cu(100) surface was studied using scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM), scanning tunnelling spectroscopy (STS), and density functional theory (DFT) calculations accounting for dispersion forces. BDPA on Cu(100) was observed to align preferentially along ⟨011‾⟩ ${\...

Subscription-based services play a vital role in the contemporary economy, delivering ongoing value to consumers while ensuring steady revenue streams for businesses. Gaining insights into consumer purchasing behavior within this framework is essential for refining service offerings and fostering customer loyalty. This study investigates the key fa...

Background. In recent years, the demand for personalized learning experiences has increased, particularly in the context of adaptive learning algorithms that cater to individual student needs. However, there is still a lack of comprehensive studies that evaluate the effectiveness of these algorithms on student outcomes. This study seeks to address...

The study aims to identify which pricing strategies are most effective in retaining clients, with the purpose of providing practical guidance for audit firms in Vietnam to enhance their competitiveness and sustainability. The study used quantitative methods, using survey data collected from 257 experts in 132 small and medium-sized auditing compani...

Aqueous magnesium ion batteries (AMIBs) have aroused enormous concern on account of their high intrinsic safety, low manufacturing budget, and eco-friendliness for large-scale storage application. Although the spinel-type manganese oxides presented good storage properties of Mg ion, their poor diffusion kinetics greatly limited their further applic...

Because of high energy density and Co-free, spinel LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4 materials are considered as potential replacement for availably commercial cathodes like LiNixMnyCozO2 (x + y + z = 1) and LiFePO₄. However, the corrosion and interfacial breakdown of electrolyte at high voltage severely limit the extensive application of LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4. In this pape...

Alloying germanium with tin offers a means to modulate germanium's electronic structure, enabling a greater degree of control over quantum properties such as the retention of the phase or spin of the electron wave. However, the extent to which the presence of high dopant concentrations in GeSn alters these quantum behaviors is poorly understood. He...

Polymer‐derived SiOC materials are widely regarded as a new generation of anodes owing to their high specific capacity, low discharge platform, tunable chemical/structural composition, and good structural stability. However, tailoring the structure of SiOC to improve its electrochemical performance while simultaneously achieving elemental doping re...

This study aimed to identify the determinants of job satisfaction among academic staff in Jordanian Higher Education Institutions and propose a model that these institutions can use to estimate overall job satisfaction. Understanding these determinants is critical for faculty retention, performance, and organizational effectiveness. This study empl...

The workforce is changing as new employees enter the labour pool. Malaysia’s largest demographic segment is currently Gen Z, constituting 38% of the total population, and boasting a monthly disposable income of US$428 million. Over the next ten years, up to 10 million people in Malaysia born after 1995 (i.e., Gen Z) will enter the workforce. The pu...

Crosslinking agents, such as psoralen and UVA radiation, can be effectively used as antimicrobials and for treating several dysplastic conditions in humans, including some cancers. Yet, both cancer cells and bacteria can become resistant to these compounds, making it important to understand how resistance develops. Recently, several mutants were is...

In this research, the thermomechanical formulation proposed by Ziegler and formalized by Houslby and Puzrin to build up hyperplastic constitutive models is applied to the case of unsaturated materials. The mechanical model is based on two main equations: the free energy and the dissipation functions. The former represents the elastic behavior while...

This study investigates the current use of artificial intelligence (AI) for peer-to-peer support through a bibliometric analysis of 1113 records based on co-words. The research employs a four-phase exploratory design that involves co-word search, data charting, and result summation. It uses an inductive, relevant, and reflexive thematic approach (T...

An aggregated retention system retains several groups of trees within cutblocks to maintain public functions such as biodiversity conservation. We examined ectomycorrhizal (EcM) fungal communities associated with regenerating Abies sachalinensis seedlings and their surrounding trees at different locations; inside and at the edge of the retained pat...

The high activity of water in aqueous electrolyte causes drastic side reactions on the Zn anodes, severely limiting the electrochemical performance of aqueous zinc metal batteries (AZMBs) under extreme conditions. Herein, levulinic acid is developed as the hydrated deep eutectic solvent (DES), to build a novel non‐flammable and cost‐effective ZnSO4...

This article explores the rate of the employee retention strategy impact on organizational performance in the medical industry, a sector often disregarded as an industrial field. Morocco's industrial policy 2023-2030 emphasizes the importance of human resources in industrial strategies, but few research studies focus on retention in the medical sec...

This study examines the impact of compensation, career opportunities, and organizational prestige on employee retention within Nepalese commercial banks. High turnover rates in these banks disrupt operations and increase costs, necessitating effective retention strategies. Using a quantitative approach, the study surveyed 226 employees from Prime B...

Supporting the development of international students in China can help to promote economic growth and Chinese culture, as well as the consolidation of the “Belt and Road” construction process and international exchanges. This paper utilizes the rootedness theory to investigate the impact of cultural differences in cognition on the identification of...

Trauma-informed care as an organisational intervention has gained increasing attention in recent years. Substance use settings may be overrepresented with service users who have experienced trauma and adversity. This systematic review will examine the effectiveness of trauma -informed care as an organisational intervention from an implementation pe...

To more effectively address the computational and memory requirements of deep neural networks (DNNs), leveraging multi-level sparsity-including value-level and bit-level sparsity-has emerged as a pivotal strategy. While substantial research has been dedicated to exploring value-level and bit-level sparsity individually, the combination of both has...

Trees in continuous cover forestry (CCF) typically form very narrow rings at young ages in suppressed positions but can grow very quickly at older ages in dominant positions, maintaining long-lived crowns. CCF trees have slightly higher mean wood density in stems than rotation forestry (RF) trees. CCF trees have better fiber properties for pulp tha...

This chapter summarises biodiversity responses to continuous cover forestry (CCF). The comparator throughout this chapter is rotation forestry (RF) and its main harvesting method—clearcutting—unless otherwise stated. Research on the biodiversity effects of logging methods applied in CCF (mostly selection or gap cutting) mainly concerns the short-te...

Polymerizable ionic liquid-based gel polymer electrolytes (PIL-GPEs) were developed for the first time using high-energy electron beam irradiation for high-performance lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). By incorporating an imidazolium-based ionic liquid (PIL) into the polymer network, PIL-GPEs achieved high ionic conductivity (1.90 mS cm−1 at 25 °C), a...

Brazil leads globally in achieving high lint yields for rain-fed cotton in large-scale fields, with about 92% of its cotton area unirrigated. This study hypothesized that cotton could achieve high yields when favorable climate conditions and management practices favor high fruit load. The objective was to analyze the impact of these factors on cott...

Soil suction is a crucial parameter that affects the behavior of unsaturated soils. The impact of temperature on suction can lead to significant changes in the hydromechanical response of unsaturated soils. However, current models that describe the temperature dependency of soil suction rely mainly on empirical and semiempirical relationships, whic...

Orientation: There is limited literature on talent retention framework constructs for Generation Z (Gen Z) in the Platinum Group Metals’ (PGM) mining sector of South Africa.Research purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between employee recognition, flexible work arrangements and professional development opportunities...

Precise information about the oil discharge rate (ODR) of a compressor and the oil retention rate (ORR) in the oil sump is essential for compressor design, development, and operation. An extended two-fluid model (E–TFM) is developed to study the complicated refrigerant vapor–lubricating oil two-phase flow inside a compressor. Gas–liquid bubbly, dro...

Mass spectral identification (in particular, in metabolomics) can be refined by comparing the observed and predicted properties of molecules, such as chromatographic retention. Significant advancements have been made in predicting these values using machine learning and deep learning. Usually, model predictions do not contain any indication of the...

Decentralized clinical trials (DCTs) provide the opportunity to bring interventional studies closer to participants in their homes or a suitable location closer to prospective participants, thus increasing participants’ diversity, accrual, retention, health care, and research access. However, little is known about the burden of caring for cancer pa...

Polymer electrolytes are of interest in high‐energy‐density batteries. However, how the intrinsic electron‐donating capability of polymer segments involved in coordination affects lithium‐ion dissociation/transmission and rationally guides the design and fabrication of electrolytes is a highly exploratory topic. This study proposes a workable metho...

Despite the remarkable performance of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) across diverse tasks, the substantial training and inference costs impede their advancement. The majority of computation stems from the overwhelming volume of vision tokens processed by the transformer decoder. In this paper, we propose to build efficient MLLMs by levera...

The role of talent management is to ensure that employees’ special skills and talents are identified, and that the right jobs are assigned along their career paths. This study examines the relationship between talent management and employee retention within the Saudi Arabia government sector, specifically among civil service employees working for t...

We herein report a 68-year-old man with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer treated with tepotinib who showed marked general edema, hypoalbuminemia, and an elevated serum creatinine level. Although tepotinib-induced kidney injury due to creatinine transporter inhibition has been reported, renal biopsy findings suggested tubulointerstitial injury du...

More and more basic practical application scenarios have been gradually ignored/disregarded, in fundamental research on rechargeable batteries, e.g. assessing cycle life under various depths‐of‐discharge (DODs). Herein, although benefit from the additional energy density introduced by anionic redox, we critically revealed that lithium‐rich layered...

In recent years, the idea that cohorts can prepare public health students for successful careers and professional development has been increasingly studied by researchers and educators. Previous literature suggests that cohorts can improve learning outcomes by providing students with mentorship and higher-order thinking assignments that model the r...

Keeping the epidermis of apple rootstock cuttings moist is important for maintaining physiological activities. It is necessary to monitor the epidermis moisture in real time during the growth process of apple rootstock cuttings. A machine vision-based discrimination model for the moisture degree of cuttings’ epidermis was designed. This model optim...

This study looks into the elements that influence student motives for enrolling in maritime courses at the University of Visayas. This study uses a descriptive research approach, the study investigates three major variables: effort, performance, and rewards to among the maritime students. A researcher made questionnaire was distributed to a sample...

The innovative design of the microstructure of silicon-based composite anodes in Li-ion batteries holds great potential for overcoming inherent limitations, such as the significant volume change experienced by silicon particles. In this study, TiFeSi2/C composites prepared using micro, nano, and porous silicon showed reversible capacities of 990.45...

Patients with cerebral palsy require specific exercises compared to other neurological patients due to their complex movement patterns. We have developed a new balance rehabilitation cable (BaReCa) robot in which the patient's condition is constantly monitored. If the patient is at risk of falling, the robot first prevents the fall, then identifies...

Vanadium oxide‐based materials are considered to be among the most promising positive electrode candidates for aqueous zinc‐metal batteries (AZMBs). However, complex processes, high costs, and insufficient yields of their preparation methods limit further application. Herein, an efficient and effective oil bath method is presented for the preparati...

Asset management in Australian commercial properties is a multifaceted discipline essential for ensuring long-term sustainability, operational efficiency, and value retention. As commercial properties evolve to meet modern demands, asset managers must navigate challenges such as aging infrastructure, technological advancements, sustainability press...

Short stories stand out as a type of writing that is thought to affect distinct language skills. This study investigates how activities supported by imaginative short stories in Turkish lessons affect eighth-grade students’ higher-level thinking skills. The research employed a mixed-method, sequential explanatory design. In this context, we first c...

FeFET architectures for non‐volatile on‐chip memory are designed and compared in this investigation study. Because of its inherent non‐volatile properties and low power requirements, FeFETs are attracting a lot of interest as prospective candidates for future memory technology. The aim of this paper is to investigate several FeFET designs and asses...

Sulfide solid electrolytes such as Li6PS5Cl hold high promise for solid‐state batteries due to their high ionic conductivity; however, their oxidation potential of ~2.5 V is not compatible with high voltage Ni‐rich cathodes such as LiNixCoyMn1−x−yO2 (x≥0.8). Using guidance from density functional theory, we devise an effective, conformal, and thin...

To improve the electrochemical performance of cobalt tungstate (CoWO4) to serves as electrode materials for supercapacitors, a facile microwave-assisted hydrothermal method was developed, which successfully anchored highly dispersed CoWO4 nanoparticles on carbon nanotubes (CNTs). The as-prepared CoWO4/CNT composites has much smaller particle size o...

Recently, large vision-language models (LVLMs) have rapidly gained popularity for their strong generation and reasoning capabilities given diverse multimodal inputs. However, these models incur significant computational and memory overhead during inference, which greatly hinders the efficient deployment in practical scenarios. The extensive key-val...

Supercapacitors (SCs) are high‐power energy storage devices but often experience reduced electrochemical performance at low temperatures, especially below −30 °C, due to the high freezing points of conventional electrolytes. In this study, we introduce a novel high‐entropy electrolyte (HEE) for supercapacitors that extends operational capabilities...

Pineapple is the most popular fruit globally, whose production increased in the last years, raising concerns about the reuse of the waste. Bromelain constitutes an attractive byproduct for various industrial sectors. Ultrafiltration (UF), widely applied in macromolecule retention processes, faces significant challenges such as fouling, which limits...

Nickel‐rich layered cathode materials, particularly LiNi0.8Mn0.1Co0.1O2 (NCM811), have garnered significant attention due to their high energy density and impressive electrochemical performance. However, their cycling stability is compromised at elevated voltages, primarily due to structural instability and interfacial degradation. In this study, l...

The development of sustainable transportation and communication systems requires an increase in both energy density and capacity retention of Li‐batteries. Using substrates forming a solid solution with body‐centered cubic Li enhances the cycle stability of anode‐less batteries. However, it remains unclear how the substrate microstructure affects t...

The spinel material LiNi0.5‐xMn1.5+xO4 (LNMO) represents a very promising cathode candidate due to its high operating voltage and high specific capacity. Unfortunately, this material is suffering from capacity degradation and a low degree of cyclability at normal and elevated temperatures. Herein, using hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) as an activating rea...