Intertainer Asia (A) : programming and distributing Hollywood movies on-line in the Asia-Pacific countries by Rieck, Olaf, Tan, Shirley

“…Over the next two years, Intertainer Asia developed itself into a leading entertainment-on-demand-company, streaming Hollywood movies on-line to homes via a television or personal computer in Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and later, in China, Australia, New Zealand and Korea. …”
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Better floors, better health: a theory of change for an improved household flooring intervention in rural communities in Kwale and Bungoma counties, Kenya by Kepha, S, Legge, H, Halliday, KE, Ochwal, V, Elson, L, Mwongeli, J, Oswald, WE, Kakoi, B, Wambua, J, Mwandawiro, C, Fillinger, U, Pullan, R, Njomo, D

“…These meetings were informed by a previous formative research phase conducted in study communities – comprised of household observations, in-depth interviews, and focus group discussions with community members – to investigate daily routines, use of space within homes, and attitudes towards home improvement. Results: The theory of change framework demonstrates how the improved household flooring intervention aims to reduce prevalence of soil-transmitted helminthiasis, enteric infections and tungiasis and improve psychological wellbeing among children and caregivers. …”

Dissonances in care: childhood, well-being, and the politics of welfare in Japan by Chapman, CR

“…Japanese child welfare is a disaggregated system; I emphasize polyvocality to illuminate the nuances between varied spaces of care practice, ranging from casework agencies to the side streets of group homes. Caseworkers prioritized objectivity by eschewing rapport with children, psychologists valued a professional, lived relationship, and caregivers esteemed strong affective bonds irrespective of proximity. …”

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

“…We develop automated DNA design software to apply this technology to study essential parasite genes for functional genomics and confirm compound-protein interactions for drug discovery. We hope these tools advance efforts to engineer and control malaria parasites in the future.…”
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新谣 ：我们的心声 = Xinyao : our voice by Low, Charlotte Qian Hui

“…By experiencing Xinyao vicariously from my personal sharing, I hope that one will find a connection with the music through nostalgia, know about it a little more and gain interest in it which in turn would allow for a continued preservation of the music.…”
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A study on the motivating factors and marketing strategies that affect donations to Singapore-based charities. by Lee, Jenevie Yu Ling., Ong, Yi Ning., Su, Han-Inn.

“…Our motivation in this research is to attract new donors and retain existing ones. We hope fundraisers can use this knowledge to target the appropriate segment of the population. …”
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Situating, anatomizing and enunciating Singapore literature prize - Understanding Singapore's new cultural field. by Wong, Winifred Li Min.

“…By enunciating SLP’s role in Singapore’s new cultural field, using the case study of its four English fiction winners, we can understand what stance a ‘genuine’ cultural mechanism/ practitioner can take in this new field. It is the hope of this research project to illuminate Singapore’s new cultural field so that cultural practitioners and audience (which effectively include everyone) can understand their cultural production and consumption.…”
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A study and evaluation of the old and new bankruptcy acts. by Chin, Collins Ye Kai., Khoo, Kenny Boo Pean., Lee, Ee Loon.

“…It is a situation which every person hopes to avoid. In the unfortunate event that a person is made bankrupt, bankruptcy brings forth many restrictions while carrying a social stigma. …”
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Automated ensemble multimodal machine learning for healthcare by Imrie, F, Denner, S, Brunschwig, LS, Maier-Hein, K, van der Schaar, M

“…We have open-sourced our framework as a tool for the community and hope it will accelerate the uptake of multimodal machine learning in healthcare and spur further innovation.…”

Engineering culture: logics of optimization in music, games, and apps by Morris, JW, Prey, R, Nieborg, DB

“…We draw on these instances to better understand the similarities and differences in the optimization of cultural content and metadata for economic or cultural gains. We hope our comparative approach reveals different conceptions of the term optimization, and that this term—in all its digital, financial, and cybernetic connotations—might prompt new ways of thinking about the interactions between content, (meta)data, platforms, and culture that have long shaped the circulation of cultural goods.…”

Rule Britannia: Brexit and the end of empire by Dorling, D, Tomlinson, S

“…<br> And yet, there is hope. In this wide-ranging and thoughtful analysis, now fully updated to cover the fallout from Brexit and the impact of coronavirus, Dorling and Tomlinson argue that if Britain can reconcile itself to its new place on the world stage, a new identity can be born from the ashes. …”

Injustice: why social inequality still persists (revised edition) by Dorling, D

“…By showing these beliefs are unfounded, Dorling offers hope of a more equal society. <br> We are living in the most remarkable and dangerous times. …”

How should we do racially just research? learning from a qualitative study on COVID-19 pandemic experiences in the UK by Rai, T, Dowrick, A, Qureshi, K, Munro, H, Wild, C, Douglas, J, Ziebland, S

“…By illustrating these ideological, practical and interactional components of research, including some uncomfortable reflections, we hope to encourage more open conversations among researchers and research funders. …”

Improving Practicum Assessment Instruments for IT Programme by Using Action Research Approach (S/O 14142) by Muhd Darus, Norida, Che Pa, Noraziah

“…The improved design is hope to be capable in measuring Practicum performance accurately and can be used to further assess many other aspects that reflect Practicum performance in preparing IT experts to face the industry as stated in IR4.0.…”
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21W.730-4 Writing and the Environment, Fall 2002 by Taft, Cynthia B.

“…John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club, evoked the wonders of California's Hetch Hetchy Valley in the hope that he could stop a dam with words. Another early environmentalist, Aldo Leopold, summoned up a world made barren by the loss of predators in the hope that he could stop the slaughter of wolves. …”
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Pruning in face forgery detection by Lam, Zhi Fah

“…With the aim of compressing the model’s size while maintaining its accuracy and performance, we hope to achieve speedup of in model inference time and decrease in the model size.…”
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Educational Robotics by Lim, Kelvin Wee Chong

“…Through the creation of this course ware, we hope to help these students discover their interests and passions earlier, empowering them to make more informed decisions regarding their future career paths.…”
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Nominalization In the Kiranti And Central Himalayish languages of Nepal by Watters, David E.

“…Such nominalizations have been defined in various ways by different authors. I hope to demonstrate, however, that we are dealing primarily with equivalent structures and that their various functions can be distinguished, not only by their pragmatic contexts, but also by the syntactic structures in which they occur. …”
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Exploring the drivers of bunker fuel prices by Yi, Yang Bo.

“…Instead of giving exact price predictions, this report provides some guidelines for bunker price trend predictions. We hope that it can be of some use to people in the industry. …”
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Bad Mexican : portrayal of corruption and the drug trade in Man on Fire, Traffic, and La Ley de Herodes. by Goh, Dianne.

“…This essay will point out how Hollywood is limited in its perspective of the drug trade and corruption in Mexico, and how Mexico is facing a real problem that is more than just a Hollywood stereotype. It is my hope that audiences will realize this and not depend totally on Hollywood films to gain knowledge about Mexico. …”
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