China’s Xinjiang predicament : time to look out of the box by Nodirbek Soliyev

“…In spite of China’s sustained law enforcement response, its Xinjiang province continues to experience sporadic outbreaks of violence. …”
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Knights by Chua, Ying Yu, Lim, Hoon Suan, Tan, Shi Hwee, Tham, Alyssa Yoon Xin

“…The film centres on T-Knights, a newly-formed, youth tchoukball team as they find their place in the local tchoukball arena and in society. In spite of misadventures, unwilling obligations and discouragement from those around them for the three featured characters and the team, they learn to move on, and find enjoyment in the little things.…”
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Exploring quantum discord. by Chong, You Quan.

“…Entanglement has always been regarded as a useful resource for pure state computation. In spite of substantial progress, the precise role of entanglement in quantum information processing remains an open question. …”
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The Wollstonecraft Statue at Newington Green (Review) by Miriam Al Jamil

“…This representation is in spite of the driving force of the statue’s campaign, which is stated in the artist Maggi Ham-bling’s description of its meaning and fortified by the historical revisionist approaches of feminist art that interrogate Kenneth Clark’s The Nude: A Study of Ideal Art (1956)—such as work produced by Griselda Pollock and Lynda Nead.…”
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running away, running towards: a collection of sestinas by Zhu, Alan Y.

“…The final, “running towards,” pushes us to keep running towards life in spite of it all, and to choose to become our full, individual selves…”
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ESG reporting in Singapore by Sim, Chai Ying, Jiang, Weiying, Lim, Daryl Ming Wei

“…At present, there is a global proliferation of demand by various stakeholders for sustainability reporting. In spite of this, reports have demonstrated that predominantly, organizations are bereft in their efforts. …”
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A study on the extent of Singaporeans' knowledge of their history by Chan Lai Yin Ivy Hannah, Ong Siok Lay Jessie, Tay Siang Ling Hannah

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Women in transition : exploring the debate of female empowerment in India by Lim, Shervon Yee Hui

“…Specifically, the coming and going of the imperialists has left its mark in India in the minds of people and in the form of changes to the conditions of women’s lives, as well as in feminists and feminist movements. In spite of the unmistakable progression made towards lives of both urban and rural Indian women, the answer to the debate about the extent of such a development remains ambivalent. …”
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Develop a mobile-first educational tool for university students by Koh, Swee Sen

“…Students today spent a lot of their time on their smartphones for a wide variety of purposes including entertainment and work. In spite of the popularity of smartphones, many educational tools in the market for tertiary education focus on providing good user experience on the desktop browser and are not optimized for mobile learning. …”
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Automated detection and segmentation of vertebral bodies in volumetric abdominal magnetic resonance images by Lin, Dehui.

“…Accuracy rates of 98.6% in detection and 93.7% in segmentation are achieved. In spite of different resolutions, equally good performance of the algorithm is observed. …”
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Automatic retrieval of visual continuity errors in movies by Pickup, L, Zisserman, A

“…<p>Continuity errors occur in many movies and television series, in spite of careful checking by those employed to minimise them. …”

Smooth object retrieval using a bag of boundaries by Arandjelović, R, Zisserman, A

“…It is demonstrated that recognition can proceed successfully de- spite changes in viewpoint, illumination and partial occlusion, and also that instances of the same shape can be retrieved even though they may be made of different materials.…”

Security enhancement of fingerprint authentication by Alias, Joe

“…Fingerprint is currently the most widely used biometrics as it has good accuracy, easy to use and is cost effective. In spite of their numerous advantages, the fingerprint systems are vulnerable to some attacks, which can decrease their security level. …”
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An investigation of finite wings with leading edge protuberances by Gan, Christopher De Hao

“…The agility of humpback whales in spite of their huge physical size has led to increased attention by biologists as well as researchers. …”
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The application of graphene oxide in drug delivery by Pan, Yongzheng, Sahoo, Nanda Gopal, Li, Lin

“…Expert opinion: GO and its derivatives are highly attractive for the application to drug delivery due to their exceptional physiochemical properties and unique planar structure in spite of some existing challenges, such as the reproducibly smart functionalization of GO and the investigation of its long-term toxicology.…”
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The trembling-hand problem for LTLf planning by Yu, P, Zhu, S, De Giacomo, G, Vardi, M

“…We study the trembling-hand problem in the context of reasoning about actions and planning for temporally extended goals expressed in Linear Temporal Logic on finite traces (LTLf), where we want to synthesize a strategy (aka plan) that maximizes the probability of satisfying the LTLf goal in spite of the trembling hand. We consider both deterministic and nondeterministic (adversarial) domains. …”

Implementation of Vision-Based Navigation for Pedestrian Environments by Anderson, Connor William

“…The tracking module of this pipeline is able to correctly localize pedestrians within 0.4 meters in simple scenarios and 0.6 meters in challenging multi-pedestrian stress testing cases inside of a 12 meter space in spite of limited field of view and relying on only inexpensive RGB camera images. …”
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Structural and mechanistic studies of herpes virus proteins by Patel, Vidhi Kanaiyalal

“…Further probing will be needed to analyse if all the homologues are structurally similar in spite of divergence in sequence similarity. Structural knowledge of ICP27 and its homologues may aid in a better understanding of the mechanism by which they function. …”
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QoS provisioning by power control for video communication via satellite links by Ma, Ting, Lee, Yee Hui, Winkler, Stefan, Ma, Maode

“…Simulation results show the effectiveness of the proposed power control solution and its ability to sustain video quality levels in spite of rain fades.…”
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Altruism and natural selection in a variable environment by dos Santos, M, Downing, PA, Griffin, AS, Cornwallis, CK, West, SA

“…Hamilton's rule provides the cornerstone for our understanding of the evolution of all forms of social behavior, from altruism to spite, across all organisms, from viruses to humans. …”