Varieties of indoctrination: the politicization of education and the media around the world by Neundorf, A, Nazrullaeva, E, Northmore-Ball, K, Tertytchnaya, KT, Kim, W

“…For many decades, scholars assumed voluntary compliance and citizens’ commitment to a regime’s principles and values to be critical for regime stability. …”

Aggregating and analyzing Indian political tweets by Chirag Ruhela

“…As part of this project the author has designed and implemented a Sentiment Analysis Engine using Affective Norms for English Words (ANEW) framework for a Natural Language Processing Model based sentiment detection of twitter data. …”
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A history of the Molemas, African notables in South Africa, 1880s to 1920s by Moguerane, KD

“…The thesis also points to the various historical transformations and private entanglements that enmeshed various conceptions of nationhood into the everyday experience of the family as an emotive and socialising institution. These sentiments of nationhood profoundly shaped this family’s self-understanding, and mediated the choices children made about work, marriage and other significant relationships. …”

Complexities of the San Andreas fault near San Gorgonio Pass : implications for large earthquakes by Yule, Doug, Sieh, Kerry

“…Within a 20-km-wide contractional stepover between two segments of the fault zone, the San Bernardino and Coachella Valley segments, folds, and dextral-reverse and dextral-normal faults form an east-west belt of active structures. …”
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Comparative study of telecommunications policies in Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore. by Chong, Patrick Piang Teng., Low, Kwong Hwee., Lum, Phyllis Siu Lin.

“…Competition has been introduced in selected segments of the market, while the state has kept—in the form of ownership and'or regulation—a strong presence in the sector.…”
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ESG reporting in Singapore by Sim, Chai Ying, Jiang, Weiying, Lim, Daryl Ming Wei

“…Through our research, we observed that the local scene requires more effort in sustainability reporting, especially in the Environment and Social segments. Our results reflect that there is inadequate disclosure of information regarding sustainability in Singapore, across the various industries and amongst firms of different market capitalisation.…”
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Deep neural networks have an inbuilt Occam’s razor by Mingard, C, Rees, H, Valle-Pérez, G, Louis, AA

“…The prior over functions is determined by the network architecture, which we vary by exploiting a transition between ordered and chaotic regimes. For Boolean function classification, we approximate the likelihood using the error spectrum of functions on data. …”

Profiting from prestige: the political economy of mega-events in Azerbaijan by Laporte, J

“…By problematising the direction of causality between mega-events and rentseeking behaviour, this analysis expands current theories on states’ motivations for hosting these events and contributes to existing understandings about how these proceedings serve to support and sustain rentier regimes.…”

Conflict abroad and political trust at home evidence from a natural experiment by Klymak, M, Vlandas, T

“…Further analyses using other surveys and previous conflicts suggest this effect depends on proximity to the conflict and the political regimes of the attacked country. These findings contribute to our understanding of the complex and indirect effects of conflicts on domestic political trust.…”

Understanding customer retrials in call centers: preferences for service quality and service speed by Hu, K, Allon, G, Bassamboo, A

“…One reallocates the service groups for different customer segments without expanding the system, and the other adjusts the staffing ratios by hiring low-cost, ordinary-quality agents. …”

Doing time : inducing temporal graphs by Bramsen, Philip James

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Singapore airlines : soaring to greater heights (an in-depth analysis of SIA's corporate strategy). by Gay, Elaine Ting Shan., Lee, Leng Choo., Seng, Figin Hui Hong.

“…This study provides a review of the major components of SIA, highlighting its general airline operations, the market segments served as well as customers’ perception of SIA’s services. …”
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Development of the capital market in Malaysia : a critical analysis by Li Qingyuan, Lim Boon Hau, Teo Yong Meng

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Aerodynamic optimization and drag minimization for the ultra low cost UAV piquero aerodynamic by Liu, Hao

“…The project is divided into 3 segments. The first segment is a 2-dimensional validation of the turbulence model used using a NACA-0012 airfoil. …”
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Topology surveillance of the lanosterol demethylase CYP51A1 by signal peptide peptidase by Sergejevs, N, Avci, D, van de Weijer, ML, Corey, RA, Lemberg, MK, Carvalho, P

“…Cleavage of transmembrane segments on target proteins by the aspartyl intramembrane protease signal peptide peptidase (SPP, encoded by HM13) has been linked to immunity, viral infection and protein quality control. …”

A temporal study of the effects of online opinions : information sources matter by Huang, Jianxiong, Boh, Wai Fong, Goh, Kim Huat

“…We text-mined the comments to elucidate the sentiments and analyzed the data. Confirming our hypotheses, the results showed that expert reviews and pull-based peer comments have a significant influence in early stages of a movie’s release, and the effects decrease over time. …”
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The afterlife of site-specific sculpture: a self-referential study through practice by Kim, M

“…This focuses on questions of temporal availability; the forms of dependency involved in site-specificity, and the sentiments that accompany them. Here, the notion of afterlife seeks not only to overcome the time constraints inherent in most exhibition practices, but also to expand the contextual understanding of sculpture in relation to the frame of art. …”

Politics and religion in eighteenth-century North India: the rise of public theology in Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavism by Patel, S

“…The tradition’s most prominent texts relate instead to philosophical expositions on themes such as bhakti rasa or devotional aesthetic sentiments. However, in the early-eighteenth century, we notice an intriguing phenomenon, suddenly a series of works are fashioned to rationalize and promote a system of integration with the socio-political circumstances of their time. …”

Strategies to encourage women workers to sign up and remain in trade unions by Ismail, Fadillah, Abdul Kadir, Adibah, Mohamad Azmi, Nur Azia Hazida, Mohd Yusof, Halimah

“…In the discussion, it was stated about gender inequality, work culture, different ideologies, low awareness, anti-union sentiments and work imbalance. Meanwhile, the second subtopic explained and justified the reasons women leave the union, including factors such as leadership, personal and family factors, insufficient facilities and support, working factors, dues factors and union structure. …”
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Direct and indirect effects of fire on microbial communities in a pyrodiverse dry-sclerophyll forest by Bowd, Elle J., Egidi, Eleonora, Lindenmayer, David B., Wardle, David A., Kardol, Paul, Cary, Geoffrey J., Foster, Claire

“…In recent years, novel fire regimes have posed a major challenge to the management of pyrodiverse forests. …”
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