NGO campaign efficacy : a collective action problem perspective. by Tan, Alvin Poh Heng.

“…However, an examination of the current literature reveals that, more often than not, the listed factors are issue or area specific. …”
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Control of twin-lift helicopter system by Lye, Cheng Lin.

“…It was found that regardless of the configuration of the twin-lift helicopter system, the variable structure control law achieves better performances than the PID and robust control laws.…”
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Study and analysis of animal models for biomimetic robot for land-sea operations and computer simulation by Tee, Anthony Meng Chin.

“…With the widespread availability of relatively powerful computers than before, simulation provides a viable and economic choice for roboticist to design and experiment with robots before proceeding to build a prototype. …”
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A general slip boundary condition of fluid flow on solid surfaces by Zhu, Han

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Review of compressed sensing in imaging : algorithms and applications by Raviselvam Sujithra

“…If x is a given vector which can either be an image or a signal about which we have a prior knowledge that it is sparse in either of the basis, then this signal x can be reconstructed from much lesser measurements than the number of measurements which usually is considered to be necessary to give proper reconstruction. …”
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Authentic culture : the missing piece in China's soft power puzzle. by Lo, Elaine.

“…This study seeks to answer the question of why China's soft power strategy in East Asia has not improved its image despite its deliberate effort to implement a more complete soft power strategy than other countries. The study hypothesises that China's chief tool of a cultural offensive is undermined by the inauthenticity of the culture it tries to portray; the cultural image that China is trying to project of itself is that of historical China instead of the real contemporary China of today. …”
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The role of investor relations firms in financial restatements by Li, Lingwei

“…I find that firms hiring an outside IR firm experience higher restatement announcement returns and they do not realize lower post-announcement stock returns than propensity-score matched control firms. The positive impact of IR is greater for firms with low analyst coverage and low media coverage. …”
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File transfer & data viewing programme of optical fiber sensors based on labview by Liang, Zimou

“…When optical fiber sensors are used in study, the data collected is often needed to be viewed from remote devices and storage in a PC other than onsite PC. Therefore, the purpose of this project is to write a programme to complete these tasks. …”
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1.5°C Too Soon : More Must Be Done by Sembiring, Margareth

“…The latest IPCC special report released in early October 2018 estimated that global temperature increase may reach 1.5°C anytime between 2030 and 2050. This is much sooner than the end of the century timeframe set in the 2015 Paris Agreement. …”
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China’s Defence Spending: Settling in for Slow Growth? by Bitzinger, Richard A.

“…China’s recent defence budget increase of seven percent is the lowest in more than 25 years. It could signal a new round of belt-tightening for the People’s Liberation Army. …”
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Efficiency of silicon carbide based power inverters analytical results by Raj, Pinkymol Harikrishna., Vu, P. L. A., Maswood, Ali I.

“…The efficiency of the silicon carbide b ased inverters based on chosen device is found to be above 99%, and more efficient than most conventional silicon based inverters, especially at high frequency.…”
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Three A’s of Military Logistics : Modernising the Armed Forces’ Tail by Zoe Stanley Lockman

“…These technologies will almost inevitably change warfare, but their greatest impact will be behind the scenes – transforming the logistical ‘tail’ rather than the ‘teeth’ of combat.…”
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Information systems practice for the age of consequences by Silberman, MS

“…Building on the view that bottlenecks in addressing environmental problems are more ‘institutional’ than ‘technical,’ but that technology development can be understood as ‘politics by other means,’ the paper makes two main contributions to LIMITS. …”

Benevolent sexism and the gender gap in startup evaluation by Nguyen, N, Hideg, I, Engel, Y, Godart, F

“…Women-led startups are evaluated less favorably than men-led startups, but the reasons for this require further investigation. …”

The embodied, relational self: extending or rejecting the mind? by Gough, J

“…I examine whether this is so, by considering whether the identification of self and mind can be saved by recent views of the mind according to which it is partly constituted by aspects of the body other than the brain and by the world beyond the skin. …”

"Preserved Through Childbirth": reading deep in Mrs Dalloway's virginity by Oldham, J

“…Direct references to virginity in the novel expose how it can be read as an expansive and somewhat humorous conceit, rather than as a superficial character detail. Virginity can elucidate intertextual allusions in Mrs. …”

Morphological conservatism in Enggano subordinate clauses by Zobel, E, Hemmings, C

“…This pattern fits with the typological trend for subordinate clauses to be more conservative than main clauses, but goes against the more widespread pattern of split-ergativity where main clauses have ergative alignment and subordinate clauses have accusative alignment. …”

The perils of a dual mandate by Cantore, C, Dhamija, V

“…Our findings indicate that under an inflation-targeting regime, price level determinacy is often the exception than the norm when the central bank pursues a dual mandate. …”

The gender pay gap in the Australian private sector: is selection relevant across the earnings distribution? by Chzhen, Y, Mumford, K, Nicodemo, C

“…Substantial gender earnings gaps (and glass ceilings) are established, however, with these earnings gaps found to be predominantly related to the women receiving lower returns to their observable characteristics than the men.…”

Geographies of reflection and radiance: radiant worlds, speculative surfaces, and reflective media by McCormack, D

“…However, this article argues that reflection can be reconceptualized as more-than-visual and that its geographies can be resituated on a wider spectrum of electromagnetic radiance which includes but goes beyond visible light. …”