Comment to Federal Trade Commission on Commercial Surveillance by Berke, Alex, Calacci, Dana, Mahari, Robert

“…In this comment, we urge the FTC to consider rulemaking that empowers consumers to pool and share their data responsibly to help researchers uncover harms such as anti-competitive practices, privacy violations, and algorithmic bias. …”
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Insights from an Experiment Crowdsourcing Data from Thousands of US Amazon Users: The importance of transparency, money, and data use by Berke, Alex, Mahari, Robert, Pentland, Sandy, Larson, Kent, Calacci, Dana

“…We set up both real and hypothetical data sharing scenarios and find measurable similarities and differences in share rates across these contexts. …”
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The spreadsheet : is it an asset in an accountants balance sheet? by Heng, Stefanie Gek Hiong, Ng, Jane Sook Yin, Sia, Valerie Puay Khim

“…Hence, plans to increase/maintain market share should perhaps take into account strategic factors like: -building market share quickly, -enticing upgraders to switch, and -preventing existing customers from switching. …”
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A proposal for a technology-assisted approach to wildlife management in Singapore by Chen, Melvin, Tan, Alvin De Jun, Quek, Wei Liang, Chahed, Haroun

“…From mid-2020, the Nanyang Technological University campus witnessed a sharp increase in the number of human-macaque encounters. …”
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On the weights of linear codes with prescribed automorphisms by Luo, Gaojun, Cao, Xiwang, Ezerman, Martianus Frederic, Ling, San

“…Examples confirm that our bounds are sharp on numerous occasions. In addition, we give an infinite family of linear codes that attain our bounds with equality.…”
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Development and characterization of deep reactive ion etching technology for through silicon interconnection by Nagarajan, Ranganathan

“…It was also found that the stress is concentrated in the sharp peaks and valleys of the scallops formed by Bosch etch process. …”
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Stress analysis on short flat bar with projection using boundary element method by Lim, Wei Sheng

“…Geometrical discontinuities such as sharp edges or fillet are found in attaching the head and shank part within the components. …”
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Human genome editing after the “CRISPR babies”: the double-pacing problem and collaborative governance by Wang, Leifan, Shang, Lijun, Zhang, Weiwen

“…The occurrence of the “CRISPR babies” in 2018 publicly brought this issue into sharp focus, and led to comprehensive regulatory reform in China and various countries around the world. …”
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Upconversion nanoparticles-modified aptasensors for highly sensitive mycotoxin detection for food quality and safety by Bahari, H-R, Mousavi Khaneghah, A, Eş, I

“…UCNPs consist of lanthanide ions in ceramic host, and their ladder-like energy levels at f-orbitals have unique photophysical properties, including converting low-energy photons to high-energy emissions by a series of complex processes and offering sharp, low-noise, and sensitive near-infrared to visible detection strategy to enhance the efficacy of aptasensors for novel mycotoxin detection. …”

Violence-related skeletal trauma in the Epi-Jomon period: a case study from the Koboro cave site in Hokkaido, Japan by Braddick, I, Kubo, D, Matsumura, H, Schulting, RJ

“…Koboro 1 exhibits two injuries (one blunt force and one semi-sharp force) on its cranium, while two stone projectile points were found embedded in the right ilium and left eighth rib of Koboro 8. …”

Design and development of a social network platform for research community by A Priyanka

“…As easy and beneficial these platforms are when learning and sharing information, they still raise some concerns among academics and researchers. …”
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International listing : the case of creative technology by Gee, Wai Hoo, Lim, Ngan Kim, Ong, Hwee Eng

“…Through this listing, Creative has successfully acquired US based E-Mu systems and Share Vision Technology.…”
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On poisson vector graphics : displacement mapping, vectorization and color transfer by Fu, Qian

“…In our system, user can create discontinuous or sharp features by using DCs and PCs, and synthesize smooth details by PRs. …”
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Dynamics and stability of evaporating and condensing liquid layers by Wei, Tao

“…With the 1.5-sided model, a regular non-rupture stable pattern is found in the Rayleigh–Taylor unstable layer due to local evaporation and condensation in the diffusion-limited regime. This is in sharp contrast to the prediction of the one-sided model without the convective and diffusive effects of vapor, where local rupture always occurs in finite time. …”
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Design and simulation of simple miniature devices for differentiation of airborne particles by Mohammad Ilyas Bin Mohammad Taib

“…Extensive studies in the 1970s have shown that impactors are able to provide accurate particle size classifications with sharp cutoff characteristics with the proper settings. …”
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80 GHz on-chip metamaterial resonator by differential transmission line loaded with split ring resonator by Cai, Deyun, Shang, Yang, Yu, Hao, Ren, Junyan

“…Measurement results indicate that the proposed differential SRR (DSRR) T-line shows a sharp stopband with maximum 35 dB rejection. Moreover, the metamaterial property of the DSRR T-line is validated from the measurement results. …”
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An intrinsic algorithm for parallel Poisson disk sampling on arbitrary surfaces by Ying, Xiang, He, Ying, Xin, Shi-Qing, Sun, Qian

“…This paper presents an intrinsic algorithm for parallel Poisson disk sampling on arbitrary surfaces. In sharp contrast to the conventional parallel approaches, our method neither partitions the given surface into small patches nor uses any spatial data structure to maintain the voids in the sampling domain. …”
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Will a crude oil price band stabilise the market by Fattouh, B

“…These new calls for a price band represent an underlying change in governments’ views about the process of price formation in oil markets. The sharp rise in oil prices in 2008 has raised concerns about the role of non-fundamental factors (mainly speculative activity in the futures markets) in the determination of the oil price. …”

Credit market tightness and zombie firms: theory and evidence by Hamano, M, Schnattinger, P, Shintani, M, Uesugi, I, Zanetti, F

“…Search costs generate lending to unprofitable firms (i.e., zombies) and the opportunity costs of searching exert countervailing forces on the incentives for banks and firms to participate in zombie lending, generating an inverted U-shaped relationship between credit market tightness and the share of zombie lending. High bargaining power of firms decreases the opportunity cost of firms foregoing credit relationships, reduces the share of zombie firms and increases the efficacy of capital injections to reduce zombie lending. …”

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

“…Globally, the richest 1% have never held a greater share of world wealth, while the share of most of the other 99% has fallen in the last five years, with more and more people in debt, especially the young. …”