3D sound effects with transaural audio beam projection by Gan, Woon-Seng, Johannes, Reuben.

“…This suggests that transaural audio beam projection gives a better 3D perception performance than conventional loudspeaker and it is a viable means to reproduce 3D sound effects.…”
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Graphene materials preparation methods have dramatic influence upon their capacitance by Buglione, Lucia, Chng, Elaine Lay Khim, Ambrosi, Adriano, Sofer, Zdeněk, Pumera, Martin

“…We exfoliated graphite oxide sonographically to graphene oxide (GO) and we reduced GO by chemical or electrochemical means to chemically reduced graphene oxide (CRGO) and electrochemically reduced graphene oxide (ERGO); in addition, graphite oxide was thermally exfoliated leading to thermally reduced graphene oxide (TRGO). …”
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Navigating an invisible labyrinth: the effect of involuntary bogus self-employment on female Greek-Cypriot educators’ job satisfaction and subjective well-being by Meletiadou, Eleni

“…Drawing on the work and family conflict theory, this study reports that female educators still resort to bogus self-employment as the only means to support their families. Preliminary descriptive statistics and thematic analysis reveal that involuntary bogus self-employment has negatively impacted these women’s health, family life and career prospects. 65% of the participants stated that they suffered from mental health issues and 59% reported their dissatisfaction with their life overall. …”
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“Virtual encounters: the making and manifestations of Deleuze’s Bergsonism” by Lundy, Craig

“…This direction of travel means that Deleuze’s publications on Bergson are often read in the light of his mature work. …”
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Interns or workers? China's student labor regime by Chan, J, Pun, N, Selden, M

“…Based on fieldwork in Sichuan and Guangdong between 2011 and 2012 and follow-up interviews in 2014, as well as analysis of the Henan government's policies on internships, we find that the student labor regime has become integral to the capital-state relationship as a means to assure a lower cost and flexible labor supply for Foxconn and others. …”

Academic freedom and protected philosophical belief: strengthening the legal analysis by Murray, J, Waltham-Smith, N

“…We argue that the category of PPB (circumscribed by the test in Grainger v Nicholson) is inherently inappropriate as a means of protecting values that are of signal importance in the academic employment context. …”

The devil is in the details: an evaluation of recent feature encoding methods by Chatfield, K, Lempitsky, V, Vedaldi, A, Zisserman, A

“…While several authors have reported very good results on the challenging PASCAL VOC classification data by means of these new techniques, differences in the feature computation and learning algorithms, missing details in the description of the methods, and different tuning of the various components, make it impossible to compare directly these methods and hard to reproduce the results reported. …”

Shinmi (親身): a distinctive Japanese medical virtue? by Ozeki-Hayashi, R, Wilkinson, D

“…In this paper, drawing a case study, we introduce the concept of Shinmi, used in Japan to describe a desirable approach to medical care. Shinmi means kind or cordial in Japanese. In the medical context, it refers to doctors treating patients with a degree of emotional closeness as if they were the doctors’ own family. …”

Life is uncertain: inherent variability exhibited by organisms, and at higher levels of biological organization by Bull, JW

“…Important practical implications arise if organisms can indeed be defined by an association with specific classes of inherent uncertainty: not least that isolating those signatures then provides a potential means for detecting life, for considering the forms that life could theoretically take, and for exploring the wider limits to how life might become distributed. …”

Beyond symbolism: the roles of action planning and case-making in immigrant integration policymaking by Allen, WL, Broadhead, J

“…This limits empirical and theoretical understanding of how local efforts to implement potentially contentious policies arise, and through which means. In response, we examine how municipal actors in 12 cities and regions across the UK have devised and communicated policies on immigrant integration—an area that lacks national policy inputs yet is locally consequential—through the mechanism of “action planning.” …”

Compositional and thermal analysis of RBD palm oil adulterated with lipase-catalyzed interesterified lard by Marikkar, J.M.N, Lai, O.M, Ghazali, H.M, Che Man, Y.B

“…However, DSC provided a better means for identification of lard, with a detection limit of 1%.…”

Memoryless quasi-Newton-type methods via some weak secant relations for large-scale unconstrained optimization by Lim, Keat Hee, Leong, Wah June

“…These updating methods are derived by means of a least-change updating strategy subjected to some weaker form of secant relation obtained by projecting the secant equation onto the search direction. …”
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Influence of socioeconomic activities on house form and settlement patterns among the Tiv people of central Nigeria by Aule, Thomas Terna, Abdul Majid, Roshida, Mohd. Jusan, Mahmud

“…This study explores the influence of the socioeconomic occupation of the Tiv people in Nigeria on their housing and settlement patterns. The means-end chain qualitative enquiry was applied during interviews with twenty-four participants to determine the inherent socioeconomic values connecting their occupation to settlement pattern. …”

Modelling Framework of Regulatory Changes to Improve Efficiency of Malaysian IPO Market (S/O 14203) by Mohd Rashid, Rasidah, Abdul Rahim, Ruzita, Hwei, Khaw Lee, Tajuddin, Ahmad Hakimi, Che Yahya, Norliza

“…The revision in the Bumiputera equity requirement means that issuers no longer need to discount offer prices to entice investors. …”
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Machine Learning For Dummies / by Mueller, John Paul, author 321669, Massaron, Luca, author 617095, John Wiley & Sons (Online service) 647106

“…While machine learning expertise doesn't quite mean you can create your own Turing Test-proof android - as in the movie Ex Machina- it is a form of artificial intelligence and one of the most exciting technological means of identifying opportunities and solving problems fast and on a large scale. …”
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A Game Theoretic Approach to Resilient Space System Design by Jones, Michael P.

“…Tradespace and sensitivity analyses based on the results are used to evaluate the cost premium of adding resilience to the system and to demonstrate the strategic design choices that provide the most cost-effective means of increasing resilience to the modeled threats. …”
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Trapped photoelectrons during spacecraft charging in sunlight by Cahoy, K., Lai, S. T.

“…Differential charging of spacecraft surfaces can trap low-energy electrons by means of potential wells and barriers. The low-energy electrons are mostly photoelectrons and secondary electrons. …”
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Developing a Psychometric Tool to Measure the Emotional Impact of Visual Content by Cucu, Theodor

“…The combination weights are largest for the final image in the sequence; intuitively, this means the final image by itself can make predictions with high goodness-of-fit (ρ = 0.87). …”
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Achieving Secure and Performant Databases with Minimal Resource Overhead by Lim, Darren

“…Typically, trusted database code is run alongside stored procedure code, which means that user-inputted stored procedure code can pose a security risk to the database and data itself, if the code contains vulnerabilities. …”
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Enforcing Identification and Authentication Policies at Scale in a Cloud Microservices Architecture by Sinha, Varnika

“…However, these services can be on the order of hundreds or thousands, which increases the number of specialized secrets needed to provide authentication. This means that systems like these involve a large number of secrets. …”
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