Cost recovery strategies for public sector Botanic Gardens by Wong, Wei Har

“…This study is a comparative case study of two botanic gardens, Singapore Botanic Gardens and Fairchild Tropical Garden in Miami, Florida, United States of America, complemented by quantitative tests conducted on other botanic gardens. …”
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Artificial Intelligence and the US-China Balance of Power by Chang, Benjamin Angel

“…I find that control over the production of advanced AI chips by the United States and allies almost certainly means the United States would better exploit such weapons, if they emerged as decisive in modern warfare, within at least the next ten years. …”
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An incremental trust-region method for Robust online sparse least-squares estimation by Rosen, David Matthew, Kaess, Michael, Leonard, John Joseph

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Is there an Islamic problem? : essays on Islamicate societies, the US, and Israel / by Alam, M. Shahid (Mohammad Shahid), 1950- 193141

Development of isolated type DC/DC converter for on-board power supply by Enrique Alejandro, Nunes Di Pierri

“…A 20 kW high frequency DC/DC converter composed of two identical 10 kW units has been constructed for a hybrid vehicle application. …”
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NTU VIRAL: a visual-inertial-ranging-lidar dataset, from an aerial vehicle viewpoint by Nguyen, Thien-Minh, Yuan, Shenghai, Cao, Muqing, Lyu, Yang, Nguyen, Thien Hoang, Xie, Lihua

“…Thus, to fill in this gap, we conduct a data collection exercise on an aerial platform equipped with an extensive and unique set of sensors: two 3D lidars, two hardware-synchronized global-shutter cameras, multiple Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs), and especially, multiple Ultra-wideband (UWB) ranging units. …”
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Speech corpus for the article 'Taking back control: the ambiguous impact of populist trade discourses on the international economic order', published in International Affairs by Brusenbauch-Meislova, Monika, Chryssogelos, Angelos

“…We analyse trade discourses of Donald Trump and Brexiteers following their victories in the 2016 United States presidential election and the referendum on European Union membership in the United Kingdom. …”
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Impact of school culture on student aspirations by Song, Peggy.

“…The primary aim of this research is to examine, compare and contrast students and teachers’ perceptions of the different aspects of school culture conditions, identified in the research done by the National Centre for Student Aspirations ( a leader in the field of student aspirations in New England of the United States of America). This study also aims to identify the school cultural conditions that may promote student aspirations.…”
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Terrorism in Europe: a very different kind of threat by Pantucci, Raffaello

“…For three weeks in a row this year, Europe has been hit by a highly public act of attempted mass murder. With the United States reeling from its latest bout of grim mass shootings, what exactly can be concluded from the fact that most terrorist incidents in the West are increasingly indistinguishable from apolitical mass murders?…”
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The Stabbing of Wiranto : Growing Trend of Knife Attacks by Arianti, Vidia

“…The incident highlights the continuation of the knife attack trend among terrorists and the militant threat arising from Indonesian pro-IS family units.…”
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Trump-Kim summit – S. Rajaratnam and Singapore’s role by Chong, Alan, Ong-Webb, Graham

“…Singapore must have the capacity and capability to actually host an unprecedented summit that enjoys the confidence of the President of the United States of America and the Leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, who are officially each other’s worst enemies.…”
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Intangibles : an empirical study on the valuation of biotechnology firms. by Loh, Aifeng., Lau, Zhi Min., Chen, Judy Di.

“…This study examined the determinants of market value of biotechnology firms in the United States. Four intangible value drivers – Patents, Research & Development (R&D), Human Capital and Strategic Alliances were used to develop an empirical valuation model. …”
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Beijing's assertiveness in the South China Sea has brought Manila closer to its allies and partners by Jash, Amrita, Varshini, S.

“…China’s assertiveness has pushed the Philippines to strengthen its defence ties with its ally, the United States, and its partners, Japan, Australia, and India. …”
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Policies in parallel? A comparative study of journalistic AI policies in 52 global news organisations by Becker, KB, Simon, FM, Crum, C

“…This article analyses a set of 52 guidelines, mainly from Western Europe and North America, from publishers in Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Finland, Germany, India, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Looking at both formal and thematic characteristics, we provide insights into how publishers address expectations and concerns around AI in the news. …”

Synthesis and characterization of side-chain liquid-crystalline polyacrylates containing azobenzene moieties by Silong, S., Lutfor, M.R., Ab Rahman, M.Z., Wan Yunus, W.M.Z.

“…The azobenzenes were key intermediates of the monomers, and side-chain liquid-crystalline polymers were prepared, that is, poly[α-(4-[(4-acetylphenyl)azo]phenoxy)alkyloxy]acrylates, for which the spacer length was 3 or 11 methylene units. In addition, poly[3(4-[(3,5-dimethylphenyl)azo]phenoxy)propyloxy]acrylate was prepared with a spacer length of 3 methylene units. …”
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Carbon Capture Efficiency in Natural Gas Combined Cycle Power Plants: Analyzing the Effects of Variable Load Operations by Knight, Caleb M.

“…The literature highlights that absorption-based carbon capture units exhibit degraded performance during non-steady-state operating conditions. …”
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Choroidal Imaging Using Spectral-Domain Optical Coherence Tomography by Regatieri, Caio V., Branchini, Lauren, Fujimoto, James G., Duker, Jay S.

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Apolipoprotein CIII links islet insulin resistance to β-cell failure in diabetes by Leibiger, Ingo B., Leibiger, Barbara, Moede, Tilo, Paschen, Meike, Dicker, Andrea, Abdulreda, Midhat H., Åvall, Karin, Ali, Yusuf, Daré, Elisabetta, Köhler, Martin, Ilegems, Erwin, Graham, Mark, Crooke, Rosanne M., Tay, Vanessa Shi Yun, Refai, Essam, Nilsson, Stefan K., Jacob, Stefan, Selander, Lars, Berggren, Per-Olof, Juntti-Berggren, Lisa

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Hydrodynamics of random-organizing hyperuniform fluids by Lei, Qun-Li, Ni, Ran

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The political psychology of personality and attitudes towards immigrants by Buettner, N

“…Second, I build on Cybernetic Big Five Theory (CB5T), an influential causal, integrative theory which has recently been developed in the field of personality psychology, to derive and subsequently empirically test multiple hypotheses linking personality’s major dimensions of covariation on three levels of CB5T’s personality trait hierarchy to natives’ immigration attitudes based on survey data from the United Kingdom and the United States. Third, I demonstrate in an original survey experiment fielded in Germany that the relationship between personality traits and immigration attitudes is context-specific by zooming in on the Big Five personality trait Agreeableness and its two lower-level aspects Compassion and Politeness. …”