Combining PSR theory with distributional reinforcement learning by Zhou, Jingzhe

“…Unlike traditional partially observable Markov models, such as POMDP, which capture the uncertainty of the environment using belief states, PSR model describes the partially observable environment based on probabilities of executable and observable future events. …”
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Confucian political theory and the problem of moral luck: in defence of holistic sufficientarianism by Chua, Jonathan Yi

“…Early Confucian philosophers assert that people have the same moral capacity to develop themselves into sages. On paper, their belief in the formal equality of moral potential provides a fair baseline for evaluating a person’s ethical merit. …”
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The hidden miraculous : an esoteric reading of yeats', Rilke's and Gore-booth's poetry by Chen, Zoea Tania Jinyan

“…The proliferation of this philosophy is rooted on a profound belief in the potentialities of the human mind and the hidden truths from a beyond that harkens back to primordial times. …”
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Hiring in Singapore : perspectives from relative deprivation, social identity, and meritocracy by Lee, Ariel Zhi Zhen

“…Relative deprivation was predicted to be negatively related to national identification and positively related to national disidentification. Belief in meritocracy and merit discrepancy was also predicted to moderate these relationships. …”
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Of hearing and speaking in the dark: the sonorous inner voices of Samuel Beckett's prose by Han, Kimberly Pei Lin

“…Through this, I argue that the inner voice invites a crucial sense of and belief in possibility for these creatures, who are not only confined within these restrictive inner spaces of the mind but are also dealt with numerous detrimental conditions that result in their debilitating condition. …”
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Research on polar and decoding for 5G system by Liu, Han

“…We then propose an improved belief propagation (BP) based polar decoding algorithm by taking advantage of the low-density parity-check (LDPC) like BP decoding algorithm, graph similarity analysis, and the list decoding scheme. …”
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Unraveling gender inequality in online political participation: the role of gender norms and environmental-related factors by Pan, Yingqi

“…In gender-equal countries, the negative influence of traditional gender beliefs on political participation was more substantial than in less equal countries. …”
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Parental influence on emerging adult religiosity and religious decision-making by Chia, Izabella Shiyu

“…While emerging adults (EAs) commonly re-evaluate familial worldviews and religious beliefs and choose to form their own, some seem content to adopt their parents’ beliefs. …”
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Objects and madness in Eugene O'Neill's drama by Nur Shereen Mohamed Rafi

“…This thesis traces the evolution of O’Neill’s objects from mad objects that have power over the characters to objects that cause madness in characters due to the associations of their memories and beliefs with those objects. O’Neill experiments with different modes, objects, and types of madness to illuminate how, in each play, the most important element is the object. …”
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Realistic skin vs. flawless skin : an investigation of the appeal of retouch-free advertising among Asian women by Yang, Tingting

“…Considering the emerging trend of featuring "bare skin" in advertising, female consumers’ beliefs about ideal beauty (i.e., the skin ideal in this study) and the use of retouching can be remolded. …”
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It's not the end: destigmatising education-based stigma in Singapore by Sim, Shanna Si Lei

“…To understand the phenomenological experiences of those in the lower stratum of the education system, who are educationally stigmatised, the present study uses semi-structured and focus group discussions to explore the school-to-work transitions and the individual responses to the ideological beliefs and practices of meritocracy embedded within social structures, social interactions and the self. …”
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Exhibitions in the age of performance: reflecting on the performativity of art exhibitions in Singapore, 1996-present by Muhammad Ridzal Bin Abdul Hamid

“…The post-truth political (and media) culture privileges the presentation and framing of points of view to appeal to emotions and personal beliefs over the substance of what is presented. Art exhibitions are no less susceptible to being marshalled in the same way, especially in a state like Singapore that regularly deploys performative tropes and strategies to enact much of its desired political, social and cultural reality, with exhibitions organised, especially by state-run institutions, to serve the state’s agenda of nation-building and identity-formation. …”
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The divorce penalty: an interpretative phenomenological analysis to understand the lived experiences of adult children of divorce in Singapore by Valalan-Rajendran, Sinchita

“…Implicit in this emphasis on the nuclear family model is that any other family form is deficient, thus rendering children from such families deficient by extension. These beliefs were further reinforced in a study conducted by the Ministry of Social and Family Development that found adult children of divorce had poorer socioeconomic outcomes than their peers from nuclear families, hence resulting in the presence of a “divorce penalty”. …”
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唐代文学中的“头颅”叙事 = The "Head" narration in Tang dynasty literature by 方一然 Fang, Yiran

“…And to study the “Head” narrations belonging to the animal theme, the paper emphasizes their morally educational purposes, discussing how the authors would transmit Buddhist values and beliefs such as abstaining from killing and sexual conduct through the storytelling of animals appealing with heads or animals transforming into human with skulls. …”
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