Elite sports and national identity : a case study of Singapore's participation in the Olympics by Deepan Kaleselvan

“…Likewise, Singapore is also engaged in recruiting elite foreign-born athletes. This is done in the hope of rallying the masses behind the victories of the athletes and boosting their national pride. …”
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Study on the performance characteristics of convex hull algorithms by Khin Maung Aye.

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An empirical study on the effects of promotion of corporate social responsibility on employees’ organizational citizenship behaviors. by Huang, WanQing., Liew, Shi Min., Lee Ping, Joyce.

“…In turn, employees’ perceptions of CSR relate to higher OCBs, with a greater effect on OCB (O) than OCB (I). …”
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Whole-brain turbulent dynamics predict responsiveness to pharmacological treatment in major depressive disorder by Escrichs, A, Sanz Perl, Y, Fisher, PM, Martínez-Molina, N, G-Guzman, E, Frokjaer, VG, Kringelbach, ML, Knudsen, GM, Deco, G

“…Importantly, our model-free approach enabled prediction of which patients would turn out to be non-responders. …”

Inequality and the 1% by Dorling, D

“…Even before birth, being born outside the 1% will have dramatic impact on the rest of your life: it will reduce your life expectancy, educational and work prospects, as well as your mental health. …”

Semi-autonomous control of an unmanned aerial vehicle by Huang, Zhen

“…Radio Control Transmitter have been used to transmit video back to the ground station and remotely control the UAV of change flight mode, drop ball as well as turn on LED. In total, 4 scoring factors Smart (10 points), Aerial Platform (25 points), Mission Accomplished (65 points) and Presentation (10 points) are taken into consideration for the championship award, and our team has successfully won 2 medals: Bronze Medal in Championship Award and Silver Medal in Best Platform Award in the Semi- autonomous Category.…”
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Characterisation of ball impact conditions in professional tennis: Matches played on hard court by Lane, Ben, Sherratt, Paul, Xiao, Hu, Harland, Andy

“…Ball tracking information taken from three consecutive years of an ATP 250 tour event played on hard court was analysed. The frequency of first serves, second serves, racket impacts and surface impacts was assessed per game and extrapolated to show how many impacts a single ball is subjected to. …”
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A renewal-equation approach to estimating Rt and infectious disease case counts in the presence of reporting delays by Bajaj, S, Thompson, R, Lambert, B

“…Here, we introduce an <i>R_t</i> estimation method which makes use of the retrospective updates to case time series which happen as more cases that occurred historically enter the health system; these data encode within them information about the reporting delays, which our method also estimates. These estimates, in turn, allow us to estimate the true count of cases occurring most recently allowing up-to-date estimates of <i>R_t</i>. …”

The concept of security before and after September 11 by Smith, Steve

“…The last section concludes by examining the value of engaging in such debates on widening and deepening the term 'security' for international politics in our present age.…”
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The life and works of Fu Maoji 傅懋勣的生平和学术活动 by Xu, Lin

“…His sobriquet was Zijia. He was born on May 16, 1911, and passed away in Beijing after an illness on September 13, 1988, at the age of 77. …”
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“Why do people kill each other?” (Tolstoy and empire) by Zorin, A

“…Tolstoy always believed that the resistance to invaders and the defence of land where humans were born, by which products they are fed and where they are going to life after death is natural, but considered this instinct as pre-moral and pre-Christian contradicting the personal moral conscience that unconditionally rejects all sorts of violence.…”

Regulation of Adenine Nucleotide Concentration at Endothelium-Fluid Interface by Viscous Shear Flow by Shen, Jian, Gimbrone, Michael A. Jr., Luscinskas, Francis W., Dewey, C. Forbes Jr.

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The monsters under my bed : fears and phobias. by Chong, Cherlyn Peiwen.

“…But if this fear is not controlled, it can take over our entire lives. And that is when we have a phobia. …”
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Monitoring of group discussion using Android apps by Hamdi Hamzah

“…Investigating these aspects is crucial for building intelligent robots that can participate in conversations in a natural way, or to fulfill certain social responsibilities in our life. As our ultimate goal is to improve the current computer systems and social robots that suffer from a lack of social skills, we will explore the social signals and social behaviors, including social interactions (like turn taking), social attitude (like alliance), and social relations/ roles to build more socially intelligent model for robots. …”
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On fundamental aspects of quantum extreme learning machines by Xiong, W, Facelli, G, Sahebi, M, Agnel, O, Chotibut, T, Thanasilp, S, Holmes, Z

“…As a cautionary note on scalability, we identify four sources that can lead to the exponential concentration of the observables as the system size grows (randomness, hardware noise, entanglement, and global measurements) and show how this can turn QELMs into useless input-agnostic oracles. In particular, our result on the reservoir-induced concentration strongly indicates that quantum reservoirs drawn from a highly random ensemble make QELM models unscalable. …”

Can good ESG performance help companies resist external shocks? by Yang, Xin, Sheikh Hassan, Ahmad Fahmi, Karbhari, Yusuf

“…In order to validate the varied conclusions regarding the integration of corporate ESG practices by investors during external shocks, this study utilises the COVID-19 crisis as a specific external shock. The findings from our difference-in-differences methodology suggest that companies demonstrating strong ESG performance have succeeded in reducing idiosyncratic risk throughout the pandemic period. …”
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Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment : 12th EAI international conference, INTETAIN 2020, virtual event, December 12-14, 2020 : Proceedings / by INTETAIN (Conference) (12th : 2020 : Online), organiser 642911, Shaghaghi, Navid, editor 642912, Lamberti, Fabrizio, editor 642913, Beams, Brian, editor 642914, Shariatmadari, Reza, editor 642915, Amer, Ahmed, editor 642916

New Generalized Derivatives for Solving Variational Inequalities Using the Nonsmooth Newton Methods by Song, Yingkai, Barton, Paul I.

“…Numerical examples are provided to illustrate the convergence properties of our new method, based on a proof-of-concept implementation in Python.…”
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我们 = wo men. by Zhou, Jessli Hui Fen.

“…Women and the middle-class way of life in Singapore” by Nirmala PuraShotam, which made me realize this middle class way of life that the majority of the women in Singapore pursued could turn out to be merely a beautiful illusion of modernity. …”
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Friendship and self-love through the transformed self by Ang, Charlene Hui Xuan

“…In this thesis, I explore the process of self-love which underlies one’s desire for autonomy, and in turn deepening one’s capacity for genuine friendships.…”
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