Working for two bosses: Student interns as constrained labour in China by Smith, C, Chan, J

“…We argue that student workers need to be seen as a distinct category of constrained labour; part of a growing insecure workforce in China. We find that students enrolled in vocational schools are moved into internships, without their consent, to suit the needs of employers. …”

Immunoregulatory mechanisms of vitamin D relevant to respiratory health and asthma by Mann, E, Chambers, ES, Pfeffer, PE, Hawrylowicz, C

“…Trials involving supplementation with active vitamin D or a precursor are beginning to emerge with variable results that, in part, reflect differences in study design. This review looks at the mechanisms by which vitamin D may protect against asthma, including increasing glucocorticoid responsiveness, skewing immune cells towards a regulatory phenotype, reducing the incidence of infections, airway remodeling, eosinophilia, and lowering the levels of IgE. …”

Adolphe Braun photographs of the Sistine Chapel frescoes 1872 catalogue (translated) by Issatt, F

“…A graduate student was employed to carry out this work as part of a larger project to research the provenance of the collection. …”

Survival of mammoths (Mammuthus sp.) into the Late Pleistocene in Southwestern British Columbia (Vancouver Island), Canada by Termes, L, Keddie, G, Hebda, R, Trask, P, Arbour, V, Speller, C, Paskulin, L, Ramsey, C, Richards, MR

“…As part of a larger project identifying and directly radiocarbon dating Late Pleistocene megafaunal remains in British Columbia (B.C.), Canada we have confirmed the identity of many newly identified mammoth (Mammuthus sp.) specimens (n=32) from Vancouver Island in Southwestern B.C. …”

Sparse kernel approximations for efficient classification and detection by Vedaldi, A, Zisserman, A

“…We demonstrate these ideas on image classification with Fisher kernels and object detection with deformable part models on the challenging PASCAL VOC data, obtaining five to ten-fold speed-ups as well as reducing memory use by an order of magnitude. © 2012 IEEE.…”

Overcoming registration uncertainty in image super-resolution: maximize or marginalize? by Pickup, L, Capel, D, Roberts, S, Zisserman, A

“…We also introduce a scheme to learn the parameters of the image prior as part of the super-resolution algorithm. We show examples on a number of real sequences including multiple stills, digital video, and DVDs of movies.…”

Dynamic placement in refugee resettlement by Ahani, N, Gölz, P, Procaccia, AD, Teytelboym, A, Trapp, AC

“…This dramatic improvement persists even when we incorporate a vast array of practical features of the refugee resettlement process including indivisible families, batching, and uncertainty with respect to the number of future arrivals. Our algorithm is now part of the Annie™ Moore optimization software used by a leading American refugee resettlement agency.…”

Apple's iPad City: subcontracting exploitation to China by Chan, J, Ngai, P, Selden, M

“…Many image-conscious technology companies, probably none more than Apple in our digital age, have professed ideals of corporate citizenship, environmental, labour and social responsibility in their supplier codes of conduct. This is in part a response to the growing anti-sweatshop movement in the electronics industry from within the United States, Europe, and more recently Greater China (Smith et al. 2006; Litzinger 2013). …”

Treatment of wastewater sludge by liquid state bioconversion process by Alam, Md. Zahangir, Fakhru'l-Razi, A., Molla, Abul Hossain, Roychoudhury, P. K.

Satellite tracking data on Malaysian green turtle migration by Liew, Hock-Chark, Chan, Eng-Heng, Luschi, Paolo, Papi, Floriano

“…For three turtles the complete migratory journey was tracked, while another one was followed for part of the trip. The return path to the nesting beach following displacement of one of the turtles from 284 km was also tracked. …”
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Time-series metagenomics reveals changing protistan ecology of a temperate dimictic lake by Krinos, Arianna I., Bowers, Robert M., Rohwer, Robin R., McMahon, Katherine D., Woyke, Tanja, Schulz, Frederik

“…Metagenomic samples have been collected and shotgun sequenced from Lake Mendota for the last 20 years. Here, we analyze this comprehensive time series to infer changes to the structure and function of the protistan community and to hypothesize about their interactions with bacteria. …”
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Arthroscopic Bone Block and Arthroscopic Latarjet for Anterior Shoulder Dislocation—Technical Note with Tricks and Tips for Conversion and Successful Surgery by Longo, Umile Giuseppe, Marcello, Gianmarco, Nazarian, Ara, DeAngelis, Joseph, D’Hooghe, Margaux, D’Hooghe, Pieter

“…Background: The treatment of patients affected by recurrent anterior shoulder instability has received more attention in the last ten years, focusing on the management of bone loss, which is crucial in predicting postoperative recurrence risk. …”
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Fully automated differential fault analysis on software implementations of block ciphers by Hou, Xiaolu, Breier, Jakub, Zhang, Fuyuan, Liu, Yang

“…We create a tool that takes assembly code as input, analyzes the dependencies among instructions, automatically attacks vulnerable instructions using SMT solver and outputs the attack details that recover the last round key (and possibly the earlier keys). We support our design with evaluations on lightweight ciphers SIMON, SPECK, and PRIDE, and a current NIST standard, AES. …”
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Cationic glycosylated block co-β-peptide acts on the cell wall of Gram-positive bacteria as anti-biofilm agents by Zhang, Kaixi, Raju, Cheerlavancha, Zhong, Wenbin, Pethe, Kevin, Gründling, Angelika, Chan-Park, Mary B.

“…In addition to the emergence of resistance to last resort drugs, bacteria escape antibiotics killing by forming complex biofilms. …”
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Time-series representation learning via temporal and contextual contrasting by Eldele, Emadeldeen, Mohamed Ragab, Chen, Zhenghua, Wu, Min, Kwoh, Chee Keong, Li, Xiaoli, Guan, Cuntai

“…Second, we propose a novel temporal contrasting module to learn robust temporal representations by designing a tough cross-view prediction task. Last, to further learn discriminative representations, we propose a contextual contrasting module built upon the contexts from the temporal contrasting module. …”
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Fabrication of high-performance thin-film composite and nanochannel-enabled next-generation membranes for water desalination by Lim, Yu Jie

“…Water reuse and seawater desalination have evolved into alternative water sources in the last 40 years in response to the increasing freshwater scarcity. …”
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Children with type 1 diabetes in COVID-19 pandemic: difficulties and solutions by Shi, Yue, Wu, Li-Qun, Wei, Peng, Liao, Zehuan

“…T1D has been the most common type of diabetes in children and adolescents and the last decades has seen a rapid increase in the prevalence of T1D in youths worldwide, which deserves a public concern particularly in the COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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Organic solvent-assisted control of hydrogel structures and properties by Zhou, Quan

“…Highly porous and hollow hydrogel structures were successfully obtained by controlling the temperature under which gelation proceeded. At last, we found that introducing ethanol into hydrogel precursor solution to a certain concentration range could significantly increase the toughness of hydrogels by several folds. …”
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The behaviour of steel and composite structures under a middle-column-removal scenario by Yang, Bo

“…Based on this mechanical model, component-based models of bolted-angle connections have been proposed to represent the key responses of beam-column joints under a middle-column-removal scenario, including the formation of flexural action at small deformation stage, the development of catenary action at large deformation stage and fractures of the connection components at the last stage. Finally, a series of experimental tests was conducted in order to investigate the behaviour of composite beam-column joints under a middle-column-removal scenario and identify the contribution of composite slab to resist progressive collapse. …”
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二十世纪七八十年代新华女性小说作者的世界 = The worlds of Singapore Chinese female writers of fiction : a study of short stories and novellas during the seventies and eighties from a feminist perspecti... by 胡月宝 Aw, Guat Poh

“…Chapter six probes into the public sphere, where the social domain is the focus. The last chapter, the Conclusion, re-examines the textual world of Singapore Chinese female writers from a feminist perspective.…”
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