Shi'ism, politics, and identity in Bahrain by Tan, Feng Qin

“…A 'naive' view of identity sees it as straightforwardly and deterministically causative, but if so the 2011 Pearl Uprising in Bahrain appears a paradox - a primarily secular episode of political contestation in a country with a Shi'a majority, against a Sunni dominated regime, in a political realm with a Shi'a Islamist-dominated opposition. …”
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Ant, spider and DNA: letting mindless generative mechanisms speak by Bråten, E

“…They are especially concerned with questions about agency and the character of relations. Where ant sees ‘networks’, spider insists that we deal with ‘meshworks’. …”

Mobile app for battery prognostic by Li, Zhengfan

“…However, safety risks and aging challenge their reliability and durability, often leaving end-users lacking expertise to bear these risks. This study introduces an intelligent battery management system (BMS) integrated into a mobile application to provide intuitive decision-making support. …”
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Popular safe haven assets, do they really exist for stock markets? Analysis on gold, Japanese yen and Swiss franc. by Liu, Chang., Ho, Pauline., Xu, Qiong.

“…After further classifying the stock market data into bull and bear periods, then by looking at the days of extreme negative returns in each situation, we realize that the safe haven effect in these assets tends to be stronger in bearish stock markets. …”
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Scenes of misrecognition (Koltès, Duras) by Killeen, M-C

“…What is most fascinating about these works is the curious way in which they appear to bear all the markings of confessions yet pointedly refuse to behave like them, thwarting the desire for revelation, catharsis, and closure at every turn. …”

Functional genetics of cancer and congenital disorders by Zak, J

“…An integrative analysis of cancer genomic data revealed that <em>PPP1R13B</em>, encoding ASPP1, bears many hallmarks of a tumour suppressor gene, despite being mutated at a low absolute frequency. …”

Taking data feminism to school: A synthesis and review of pre‐collegiate data science education projects by Lee, Victor R, Pimentel, Daniel R, Bhargava, Rahul, D'Ignazio, Catherine

“…In this review paper, we draw on principles from data feminism to review 42 different educational research and design approaches that engage youth with data, many of which are educational technology intensive and bear on future data-intensive educational technology research and design projects. …”
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Comparison of Machine Learning-Based Methods for Narrowband Blind Adaptive Beamforming by Shonkwiler, Lara

“…Traditional blind source separation methods such as CMA, SOBI, JADE, and FastICA tend to be highly effective at beamforming datasets with moderate to large sample supports, but they do not perform well when they only have access to a limited number of data samples. They also bear the disadvantage that the appropriate algorithm must be selected based on the properties of the expected signal. …”
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Easing the “second-shift” burden : grandparental childcare and the subjective wellbeing of working mothers in Singapore by Cheo, Rachel Ka Yang

“…However, it is still common for working mothers to bear the brunt of both domestic and paid work. In the present study, I explored the role of grandparents as providers of childcare for their grandchildren in contemporary Singapore. …”
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The other side of the Elbe River: interventions in art, modernity, and coloniality in Poland by Michalska, DJ

“…<p>The artistic practices of Zofia Stryjeńska (1891-1976), Władysław Hasior, (1928-1999), Teresa Murak (1949-) and Roman Stańczak (1969-) all bear testimony – in their own distinct ways – to the ‘shock of the new’, the massive rupture brought by modernisation and capitalism in twentieth-century Poland. …”

Han Suyin’s translation philosophies in the context of Mainland China since the 1950s by Cui, Feng

“…The first (1950s–1970s) sees her translation philosophy influenced by Chinese national politics and the Cold War; the second (1980s–1990s) reflects her beliefs in translation as an art as well as a creative process; the third phase (1990s–2000s) is characterized by Han’s influential nurturing of other translators, and her patronage of translation scholarship as a means of spreading Chinese literary culture. …”
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“Following according to a rule is FUNDAMENTAL to our language-game.” Rules and meaning in Wittgenstein by Child, W

“…There is widespread agreement that, in his later philosophy, Wittgenstein sees the meaning of a word as a matter of the rules for its use; to grasp its meaning is to grasp the rules for its use; and using the word with that meaning is a matter of following those rules. …”

Visualising human life in volumetric cities: city digital twins and other disasters by Rose, G

“…The paper argues that, while both the technological affordances and the cultural imaginary of CDTs perform the kind of powerful white masculinity that sees space as transparent and actionable, discussions of CDTs also persistently generate an excessive form of human life which is understood as untwinn-able. …”

Behave The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst / by Sapolsky, Robert M., author 656050, Penguin Random House (Online service) 655978

“…Sapolsky's storytelling concept is delightful but it also has a powerful intrinsic logic: he starts by looking at the factors that bear on a person's reaction in the precise moment a behavior occurs, and then hops back in time from there, in stages, ultimately ending up at the deep history of our species and its evolutionary legacy. …”
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A novel approach based on the elastoplastic fatigue damage and machine learning models for life prediction of aerospace alloy parts fabricated by additive manufacturing by Zhan, Zhixin, Li, Hua

“…In the aerospace engineering, many metal parts produced using Additive Manufacturing (AM) technique often bear cyclic loadings, so the fatigue failures of AM alloy parts become very common phenomena. …”
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Dual Origin of Viscoelasticity in Polymer-Carbon Black Hydrogels: A Rheometry and Electrical Spectroscopy Study by Legrand, Gauthier, Manneville, Sébastien, McKinley, Gareth H., Divoux, Thibaut

“…Here we focus on aqueous dispersions of hydrophobic colloidal soot particles, namely carbon black (CB) dispersed with a sodium salt of carboxymethylcellulose (CMC), a food additive known as cellulose gum that bears hydrophobic groups, which are liable to bind physically to CB particles. …”
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Dynamic range of camera in photography by Oon, Nicole Xin Jie

“…This is due to the dynamic range of the camera resulting in a difference in the image captured and what the human eye sees. Dynamic range is a measure of the ratio of the maximum and minimum measurable light intensity, which is also the total amount of light captured in a scene. …”
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Singapore premiere. by Ong, Shannon.

“…Once in a while, the box office sees hits from local film director, Jack Neo. …”
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Drafting ‘Anon’ and killing anon: Virginia Woolf and the genesis of English literary language by Phillips, J

“…The moment of English literature’s birth is the moment of Anon’s death: Woolf’s genetic narrative sees her figuration for the pre-literate oral tradition, Anon killed at the moment William Caxton begins to print books with authorial signatures. …”

Development of a novel methodology for ascertaining scientific opinion and extent of agreement by Vickers, P, Adamo, L, Alfano, M, Clark, C, Cresto, E, Cui, H, Dang, H, Dellsén, F, Dupin, N, Gradowski, L, Graf, S, Guevara, A, Hallap, M, Hamilton, J, Hardey, M, Helm, P, Landrum, A, Levy, N, Machery, E, Mills, S, Muller, S, Sheppard, J, N. K., S, Slater, M

“…The novel methodology employed sees local coordinators, at each institution in the network, sending survey invitation emails internally to scientists at their home institution. …”