Digital Media and Social Theory: The View from Xi’s China and Modi’s India by Schroeder, R

“…In both countries, the autonomy of the public sphere of media is constrained, though less so in India’s half-democracy than in China’s authoritarian party state. …”

Dissecting the sinews of power: international trade and the rise of Britain’s fiscal-military state, 1689-1823 by Dal Bó, E, Hutkova, K, Leucht, L, Yuchman, N

“…We find substantial growth in revenue from traded goods, accounting for over half of indirect taxation around 1800. This challenges the conventional wisdom attributing the development of the British state to domestic factors: international factors mattered, too.…”

Transient photoactivation of anionophores by using redshifted fast-relaxing azobenzenes by Kerckhoffs, A, Ahmad, M, Langton, ML

“…We demonstrate that by tuning the thermal half-life of the more active, but thermodynamically unstable, Z isomer to relax on the timescale of minutes, transient activation of ion transport can be achieved by activating with solely with visible light and deactivating by thermal relaxation.…”

Effect of residual soil depth on soil-water characteristic curve and unsaturated shear strength by Tikno, Nickanor

“…Subsequently, the values of b in the best-fit plot can be estimated visually to be half from the values in ’. This observation is in agreement with the previous study where the value of b was found to be about half of ’. …”
Get full text

New Resiliency in Truly Combinatorial Auctions (and Implementation in Surviving Strategies) by Chen, Jing, Micali, Silvio

“…To advance resilient mechanism design,We put forward a new meaningful benchmark for the COMBINED social welfare-revenue performance of any mechanism in truly combinatorial auctions.We put forward a NEW notion of implementation, much more general than the ones used so far, which we believe to be of independent interest.We put forward a new RESILIENT mechanism that, by leveraging the knowledge that the players have about each other, guarantees at least one half of our benchmark under a very general collusion model.…”
Get full text

A non-polynomial numerical scheme for fourth-order fractional diffusion-wave model by Li, Xuhao, Wong, Patricia Jia Yiing

“…By using parametric quintic spline in the spatial dimension and an approximation of Caputo derivatives at half-points, we propose a numerical scheme and rigorously prove its solvability, convergence and stability in maximum norm. …”
Get full text

Mobile app for used item giveaway by Peng, Xiaoyu

“…Mobile phone has become an essential part in our daily, most of people spend almost half of their spare time with it. As the App are designed with powerful function for various target, the mobile phone has become the upstart of the internet Era, the major way of getting access to information, recreation, and friends for people. and Even the related knowledge of APP designing has become the hot topic in design circle. …”
Get full text

London Met presents at Arsenal accessibility and inclusion event, alongside Google Pixel & Microlink by Fernando, Sandra, Lewis, Jane, Nyby, Josefine, Yu, Qicheng

“…It comes a year on from research published by London Met and Islington Council that showed over half of disabled people in the borough are out of work, a problem facing the UK.…”
Get full text

Aspects of the management of cheetahs, Acinonyx jubatus jubatus, trapped on Namibian farmlands by Marker, L, Dickman, AJ, Mills, M, Macdonald, D

“…A perceived threat to livestock or game led to the vast majority of live captures and to almost half of the cheetah deaths investigated. Despite this, livestock predation from cheetahs appeared to be minimal, and was usually perpetrated by cheetahs with injuries. …”

Tools for multi-agent crowd simulation : redesigning and extending the COSMOS crowd simulation suite by Nasri Othman

“…Less than 7% of the classes are abstract making it difficult for developers to extend the framework, and over half of the packages are involved in cyclic dependencies. …”
Get full text

31 students of the 3rd Cohort of the BJTU–UMPSA Dual Degree Programme celebrated in a simple ceremony at KLIA by Naqiah, Puaad

“…SEPANG, 20 September 2024 – A mix of emotions—sadness, joy, and various reactions—was evident on the faces of students and parents as they bid farewell to 31 students of Universiti Malaysia Pahang Al-Sultan Abdullah (UMPSA), who are set to continue their studies for another two and a half years at Beijing Jiaotong University (BJTU) as part of the UMPSA–BJTU Dual Degree Programme.…”
Get full text

DO ENGINEERING STUDENTS FEAR THE BLANK PAGE? by Rosnani, Ismail, Nurul Nadia, Muhammad, Siti Norzaimalina, Abd Majid

Get full text

A synthetic biology platform for malaria parasites based on orthogonal transcriptional control by Cárdenas Ramírez, Pablo

“…Malaria is responsible for half a million deaths each year in some of the poorest communities around the world. …”
Get full text

Indonesia’s mass killings of 1965–1966 : retrospective and requiem by Faizah Zakaria

“…Joshua Oppenheimer, who brought international attention to the massacre of up to a million Indonesians in the mid-1960s through his films The Act of Killing (2012) and The Look of Silence (2014), regards his work as having “forever broken the silence on the 1965-1966 genocide.” 1 This statement is perhaps only half-right. Discussion and debate about these mass killings have never been silent. …”
Get full text

Analysis of Bi-material interfacial crack with hole inclusion using boundary element method by Goh, James Yan Cheng

“…A circular hole inclusion between the two materials is analysed, as is the association between a nearby interfacial crack between two dissimilar isotropic elastic half plates. Only tensile load acting on the matrix and perpendicular to the crack axis is taken into account. …”
Get full text

Elastic fracture mechanics analysis of bi-materials using boundary element method by Tay, Denzil Song Heng

“…An analysis of an elliptical hole inclusion between the two materials is done, along with the relation between an interface crack in between two isotropic elastic half palates that are dissimilar. Only tensile loads operating perpendicular to the crack axis and acting on the matrix are considered. …”
Get full text

Improving detection of chromosomal abnormalities in multiple myeloma using fluorescence in situ hybridization by Naw, Wah Wah

“…While CC could not detect del13q14 and t(14;16)(q32;q23) in any of the 20 patients, interphase FISH detected these chromosomal abnormalities in half (10/20) of the patients. This study confirms that interphase FISH significantly increases the detection rate of chromosomal abnormalities in multiple myeloma.…”
Get full text

Development of Android application – cloud based mobile application for project management by Liu, Jiale

“…After a market survey on several students from university, it was found out that more than half of them are facing problems in doing group projects. …”
Get full text

Longitudinal coupling effect in microfiber Bragg gratings by Zhao, Ping, Zhang, Jihua, Wang, Guanghui, Jiang, Meng, Shum, Perry Ping, Zhang, Xinliang

“…Due to LCE, MFBG reflectivity can be reduced by more than 30% within the band-gap and the full width at half maximum (FWHM) is obviously narrowed. This theoretical analytical work is instructive to precisely design and fabricate MFBGs that are promising in the areas of optical sensing and nanophotonics.…”
Get full text
Get full text

Zirconia spacer electrodes improve microstructural uniformity of flash sintered zirconia ceramics by Prajzler, V, Todd, R

“…The addition of 3YSZ spacer electrodes improved the final density to 98.9 % and reduced the grain size difference between the central (∼300 nm) and near-electrode parts (∼220 nm) almost by half compared to the reference sample.…”