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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Towards robust sensing and recognition : from statistical learning to transfer learning by Yang, Jianfei

“…Image-CLEF and Office-Home) and WiFi-based gesture recognition dataset. …”
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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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Protein interactions design. by Tay, Connie Gui Ching.

“…In designing these interactions, we hope to accurately reproduce the residue-residue interactions, including inter-protein hydrogen bonding. …”
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Health care financing in Singapore by Koh, Choon Kong, Soo, Robert Eng Liew, Tong, Kok Yin

“…The project has been a fruitful and eventful experience to us. We sincerely hope that the discussion would help readers in understanding the uniqueness of our health care market.…”
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Special education : matters of the heart by Peh, Cindy Lee Ji, Lin, Liying, Teo, Sijia

“…Teachers, especially those who have watched the children grow under their guidance, care deeply for them as well. They too hope that the hard work they have put in to train the children will help them lead independent and fulfilled lives. …”
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The clay vessel by Ang, Jo Wen Wen

“…It aims to remind us of the transient nature of existence on the earthly plane, and the implications it has regarding how we go about our lives with not just the knowledge that we will one day die, but the acceptance that we will, in the hope that we do not fear death but instead celebrate life. …”
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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. …”

An annotated introductory reading list for neurodiversity by Zaneva, M, Coll-Martín, T, Héjja-Brichard, Y, Kalandadze, T, Kis, A, Koperska, A, Manalili, MAR, Mathy, A, Graham, CJ, Hollis, A, Ross, RM, Yeung, SK, Allen, V, Azevedo, F, Friedel, E, Fuller, S, Giannouli, V, Gjoneska, B, Hartmann, H, Korbmacher, M, Elsherif, MM, Zisk, AH

“…Since its inception, the concept of neurodiversity has been defined in a number of different ways, which can cause confusion among those hoping to educate themselves about the topic. Learning about neurodiversity can also be challenging because there is a lack of well-curated, appropriately contextualized information on the topic. …”

Individual, clinical and system factors associated with the place of death : a linked national database study by Tan, Woan Shin, Bajpai, Ram, Low, Chan Kee, Ho, Andy Hau Yan, Wu, Huei Yaw, Car, Josip

“…Background : Many middle- and high-income countries face the challenge of meeting preferences for home deaths. A better understanding of associated factors could support the design and implementation of policies and practices to enable dying at home. …”
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Nonreciprocal phenomena in superconductivity by Davydova, Marharyta

“…The mechanism for their formation is kinetic frustration, and therefore their binding energy is proportional to the hopping t, which is the largest energy scale within a single Hubbard band. …”
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Graphene based-coating effective ways of preventing corrosion by Siti Maznah, Kabeb, Azman, Hassan, Zurina, Mohamad

“…A more in-depth study on the effect of graphenebased nanofillers on anticorrosion performance is highlighted and successfully proved through scientific evidence. I hope that this book will be valued and appreciated by students and researchers from the same field of studies…”
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Decentralized Data Markets by Lu, Charles

“…Through the contributions in this thesis, I hope to make a positive step towards realizing a future where transformative data-enabled technologies such as general-purpose machine learning systems are developed more responsibly and the benefits are distributed more equitably.…”
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Modeling information equality : social and media latency effects on information diffusion by Chib, Arul, Sinnreich, Aram, Gilbert, Jesse

“…By focusing on differential, rather than absolute, speed of access to information, we hope to create an evaluative framework for information technology investment that accurately and comprehensively predicts the effects of such interventions on social equality.…”
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Translation of culture-specific items in foreign publicity texts : a case study of a bite of China II episode 1 & 2 by Huang, Jingjing

“…Suggestions for improvement are given in the hope that the quality of foreign publicity translation can be improved and awareness towards the significance of the translation activity can be raised.…”
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Surtitling for Mandarin theatre : a user-centred approach to translating Singlish by Lin, Hui

“…This paper seeks to take a user-centred approach to understanding the preferences of the audience through conducting a survey, in hope that it can serve as a guide for Singlish surtitle translation. …”
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