Volunteering with Singapore’s vulnerable seniors : what is influencing the youths’ willingness? by Keh, Jun Yee

“…As a non-welfare state, Singapore’s rapidly ageing population will require more volunteers to care for the country’s growing number of live-alone seniors. …”
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A novel brain-inspired neuro-fuzzy hybrid system for artificial ventilation modeling by Ng, G. S., Liu, F., Loh, T. F., Quek, Chai

“…Artificial ventilation is a crucial supporting treatment for Intensive Care Unit. However, as the ventilator control becomes increasingly more complex, it is non-trivial for less experienced clinicians to control the settings. …”
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Why do rural migrant mothers in urban China digitally monitor their children? by Murphy, R, Wu, G

“…We especially explore how these mothers used digital monitoring in navigating the time and space constraints to providing maternal care, practices that we call “time stretching.” The conclusion reflects on the implications of these women’s digital time stretching efforts for feminist theories of mothering and care. …”

Modern Techniques in Biosensors : Detection Methods and Commercial Aspects / by Dutta, Gorachand, editor 643095, Biswas, Arindam, editor 643096, Chakrabarti, Amlan, editor 643097

“…The book addresses challenges for the development of a point-of-care test platform. The book also describes printed chip-based assay (Lab-on-a-Chip, Lab-on-a-PCB) for rapid, inexpensive, multiplex detection of disease biomarkers in real samples. …”

Healthcare alarm system by Ng, Xue Ting

“…When the doctors and family members wish to monitor their health conditions, they can connect to a web page via Internet or mobile apps. With this health care alarm system, it can benefit both the doctors and family members when the elderly/patient is alone at home as the safety of the elderly/patient was taken care of. …”
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Integrating alternative and complementary medicine in the management of epilepsy and its comorbidities in low- and middle-income settings by Kariuki, SM, Newton, CRJC

“…Traditional/alternative and complementary medicine (TCM) encompasses products, practices and practitioners that do not form part of conventional treatment and are not an integral part of the main health care systems. They are very common in the management of epilepsy and mental health conditions, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). …”

Practitioner, patient and public views on the acceptability of mobile stroke units in England and Wales: A mixed methods study by Moseley, L, McMeekin, P, Price, C, Shaw, L, Laws, A, Allen, M, Ford, GA, James, M, McCarthy, S, McClelland, G, Park, LJ, Pearn, K, Phillips, D, White, P, Wilson, D, Scott, J

“…Survey data were collected from clinicians involved in emergency stroke care. Qualitative data involved clinical and non-clinical professionals involved in stroke care alongside patient and public representatives with experience of stroke. …”

kboolnet: a toolkit for the verification, validation, and visualization of reaction-contingency (rxncon) models by Carretero Chavez, Willow, Krantz, Marcus, Klipp, Edda, Kufareva, Irina

“…The verification script VerifyModel.R checks for responsiveness to repeated stimulations as well as consistency of steady state behavior. …”
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15.571 Generating Business Value from Information Technology, Spring 2007 by Weill, Peter

“…The familiar components of the place: cash, checks, paper reports and documents, store fronts, and face to face meetings remain important, but less so. …”
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Cooperative collision avoidance in multirobot systems using fuzzy rules and velocity obstacles by Tang, Wenbing, Zhou, Yuan, Zhang, Tianwei, Liu, Yang, Liu, Jing, Ding, Zuohua

“…In detail, at any time instant, a robot checks the robots that it may collide with and retrieves the most dangerous robot in each sector based on the predicted collision time; then, the robot generates its velocity in real-time via fuzzy inference and VO-based fine-tuning. …”
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PLATON: top-down R-tree packing with learned partition policy by Yang, Jingyi, Cong, Gao

“…We develop a learned partition policy based on Monte Carlo Tree Search and carefully make design choices for the MCTS exploration strategy and simulation strategy to improve algorithm convergence. …”
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Long-term weight training and mortality in U.S. male health professionals with and without type 2 diabetes by Lee, Dong Hoon, Luo, Xiao, Rezende, Leandro F. M., Joh, Hee-Kyung, Keum, NaNa, Rimm, Eric B., Tabung, Fred K., Zhang, Xuehong, Giovannucci, Edward L.

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Autoimmune encephalitis: recent clinical and biological advances by Varley, JA, Strippel, C, Handel, A, Irani, SR

“…Feeding into clinical care are the basic biological underpinnings of the diseases, which offer clear pathways to improved therapies toward enhanced patient outcomes. …”

Forensic mental health: envisioning a more empirical future by Tully, J, Hafferty, J, Whiting, D, Dean, K, Fazel, S

“…Such services provide care for people with mental disorders who commit violent and other serious crimes, and they have a key role in the protection of the public. …”

Artificial Intelligence and the US-China Balance of Power by Chang, Benjamin Angel

“…Finally, the third essay exploits supply chain datasets to assess each side’s ability to bring AI-enabled autonomous weapons to bear in future conventional conflicts. I find that control over the production of advanced AI chips by the United States and allies almost certainly means the United States would better exploit such weapons, if they emerged as decisive in modern warfare, within at least the next ten years. …”
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Object individuation and physical reasoning in infancy : an integrative account by Baillargeon, Renée, Stavans, Maayan, Wu, Di, Gertner, Yael, Setoh, Peipei, Kittredge, Audrey K., Bernard, Amélie

“…In this article, we argue that this confusing picture can be better understood by bringing to bear insights from a related subfield of infancy research, physical reasoning. …”
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Predicative adjectives in Thai: diachronic changes in the past century by Jaratjarungkiat, Sureenate, Park, Kyung-Eun, Tan, Samuel Yuan Han

“…Peripheral adjectives, on the other hand, bear resemblance to both nouns and verbs from a syntactic standpoint (e.g. they may co-occur with the negation marker, auxiliary verbs and even the copula /pen/). …”
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Electronic and optoelectronic devices using chemical vapour deposited 2D materials by Fan, Y

“…<p>Two dimensional (2D) materials bear a lot of expectations on playing important role in next generation electronics and optoelectronics. …”

Industrial policy refraction: how corporate strategy shapes development outcomes in Brazil by Zylberberg, E

“…My findings are brought to bear on three traditionally disparate bodies of research –industrial policy, corporate strategy and institutional theory – extending each and also bringing them into fruitful communion with one another.…”

Soft law, hard stakes? State commitment to non-binding international instruments and the case of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by Villeneuve, L

“…In this thesis, incorporating insights from public international law into rationalist IR approaches, I argue that soft law instruments can have important effects over time and bring substantial costs for states to bear. This is particularly the case for soft law instruments ‘hardening’ through domestic law, treaties or customary international law, increasing the sovereignty and implementation costs attached to commitment. …”