Hobbes and the tragedy of democracy by Holman, Christopher

“…Democracy is tragic to the extent that it must be a regime of self-limitation, there existing no ethical standard external to society that may intervene so as to guide our political self-activity, and yet the structure of deliberation in democratic assemblies tends to render such self-limitation impossible. Hence what Hobbes sees as the inherent tendency of democratic activity to descend into excess and madness. …”
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Without passage by Chee, En Cui

“…They change across perspectives. I see a girl exploring her psyche. Maybe you see a witch trying to escape a prison? …”
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Stiffness of RC columns with hollow section by Teng, Ganyu

“…In particular, an accurate and reliable OpenSees model was proposed and validated against experimental data. …”
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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’. …”

Self-employment for autonomous robots using smart contracts by Castelló Ferrer, Eduardo, Berman, Ivan, Kapitonov, Aleksandr, Manaenko, Vadim, Chernyaev, Makar, Tarasov, Pavel, Wilson, Bryan, Greenwood, Dazza, Walters, Ed

“…Using the blockchain-based smart contract, the robot then uses its income from sales to autonomously order more materials from an online shop, pay for its consumables such as network fees, and remunerate human assistance for support tasks. …”
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Building agents for power trading agent competition (TAC) by Nguyen Le Hoang

“…We price our tariffs at cost and encourages other brokers to price their tariffs lower, we then deliberately give away customers, earning early contract cancellation fees and only maintain a strict profitable market share. …”
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Application of smartphone-based biophotonic instrumentation for glucose sensing using colorimetric method by Azlan, Nur Ainin Sofhia Nurul

“…The calibration curves consistently confirm that the proposed method aligns with the Beer-Lambert law, in accordance with expectations with previous studies. …”
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Catenary action of reinforced concrete beams subjected to missing column scenario by Lim, You Gen.

“…During large deformations of a beam, the system will seek alternate load paths in order to redistribute the load and to achieve equilibrium. …”
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National Day parades : we the citizens of Singapore by Low, Annabel Hui Xin

“…It has been fifty years since Singapore gained independence and embarked on a journey to establish itself as a first-world country. …”
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Deconstructing the kiasu parent in Singapore by Amirah Arip

“…There has been much furore in the recent years about kiasu parents who pile up their children’s time with enrichment classes leading to young children feeling stressed out and losing their childhood. …”
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This Is your warning : challenging the privileging of objectivity in serial-style podcasts by Siti Sarah Daud

“…The field of podcasting studies has been throttled by an overwhelming focus on defining the medium, leading to overly general claims that treat podcasts as homogeneous whole. …”
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Get a Copy Find a copy in the library Internet of Things and Connected Technologies : Conference Proceedings on 5th International Conference on Internet of Things and Connected Tec... by International Conference on Internet of Things and Connected Technologies (5th : 2020 : Patna City, India), organiser 643049, Misra, Rajiv, editor 643051, Kesswani, Nishtha, editor 643052, Rajarajan, M., editor 643053, Bharadwaj, Veeravalli, editor 643054, Patel, Ashok, editor 643055

“…This book presents the recent research adoption of a variety of enabling wireless communication technologies like RFID tags, BLE, ZigBee, etc., and embedded sensor and actuator nodes, and various protocols like CoAP, MQTT, DNS, etc., that has made Internet of things (IoT) to step out of its infancy to become smart things. …”

Prototyping wireless pulse oximeter by Ng, Kimberly Jin Jin

“…The demographic time bomb has been a major concern for many countries around the globe. …”
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Ethics of objectification in loving the other. by Lye, Wai Leng.

“…This relationship has been criticised for not respecting the nature of otherness, which lies in its very difference (Treanor 5). …”
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Unstoppable Wallets: Chain-assisted Threshold ECDSA and its Applications by Zyskind, Guy, Yanai, Avishay, Pentland, Alex

“…Using that deployment, we showcase the protocols' applicability for two interesting applications, policy checking and wallet exchange, as well as their efficiency by demonstrating low gas costs and fees.…”
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Predicting child alimony under Islamic shariah law using hybrid fuzzy inference system by Rosili, Nur Aqilah Khadijah, Hassan, Rohayanti, Zakaria, Noor Hidayah, Farid Zamani, Che Rose, Kasim, Shahreen, Sutikno, Tole

“…Our model aims to expedite decision-making and minimize legal fees by accurately determining the proper amount of alimony for children after divorce. …”
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First mission by Yao, Jiaqi

“…Unlike the conventional image of a large-sized, scary, hooded reaper that has been continuously presented in films, this film seeks to bring a fresh new face of a Grim Reaper and introduce its universe to the audience. …”
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Internet as an ecology : a case study on Tibetan buddhism. by Low, Yuen Wei.

“…With the advent of the Internet, the feeling of an online "sacred space" has been enhanced by the use of stunning visual and audio. …”
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Busyness and its impact on speed of work. by Soon, Yi Zhen.

“…Though studies are abound on how factors like clock time, people's pattern of activity consumption, affluence and technology contribute to an accelerated speed of life and in turn make people feel “busy”, little has been done on the inverse relationship. Therefore, this study seeks to find if a busy person will complete a task faster than someone who does not feel busy. …”
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