Enriching students’ cross-cultural and multilingual communication: the serious play approach utilizing Playmobil pro figures by Meletiadou, Eleni

“…Thematic analysis was used to analyse the data which revealed that Playmobil pro facilitated intercultural communication in the post-COVID-19 era as students seemed to be unwilling to work with their peers in face-to-face classes, possibly suffering from trauma. …”
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Normal People / by Rooney, Sally, author 631806, Faber (Online service) 656045

“…Well-off Marianne blossoms at university, becoming pretty and popular, while Connell struggles for the first time in his life to fit in properly with his peers. The two weave in and out of each other's lives during their university years, developing an intense bond that exposes their traumas and insecurities.…”
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The Inspiration Design Toolkit: A Human-Centered Design Tool for a System Engineering Course by Lee, Sheng-Hung, Yang, Maria C, Carramolino, Beatriz, Rudnik, John

“…The aim of the IDT is to improve the participants’ learning experience and course engagement, increase opportunities for them to interact with their peers and teaching team, enable them to practice and reinforce the concepts through the creation of their own IDT cards, and share the cards in the discussion to increase learners’ engagement with course material and peers. …”
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Machine learning for industrial IOT by Yeow, Brandon Wei Liang

“…This paper concludes by proposing an algorithm for peer-to-peer Federated Learning where clients search for peers up to the 𝑘th degree and perform the best actions with 𝑛 peers under bandwidth constraints. …”
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Best practices and factors to enhance transfer of training in Oman by Al Ghafri, Ahmed Mohammed Issa

“…The list includes training designers, trainers, supervisor, managers, peers, top management, and customers or clients of the organizations. …”
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Facial expression quantification and analysis by Ramya Sridharan

“…This dissertation mentions some of the latest techniques available in the above field and proposes two design techniques that exceed the performance of their peers in both technical aspects and applications.…”
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The GCSE attainment gap: assessing the influence of permanent school exclusion by Hills, Stephen, Walker, Matthew, Guinn, James, Kent, Aubrey

“…Research has shown that pupils who have been permanently excluded are at a greater risk of negative life outcomes when compared with their non-excluded peers. However, the idea that disadvantaged groups are disproportionately represented amongst those excluded has not previously been tested in prior work. …”
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Perceptions of gifted adolescents in Singapore towards the "gifted" label and its effects on their social relationships by Tan, Chee Soon.

“…Some of the disadvantages include high expectations from parents and teachers and being discriminated by peers in the mainstream. Results of case studies parallel these findings.…”
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Signalling through deviance by Teo, Xin Yi, Chia, Gary Yong Wen, Ang, Yan Ting

“…Stimuli were presented in a 2X2 mixed-model design, by manipulating the subjects, whether they are more successful or less successful than their peers, and if the question presented encompasses an identity threat or not. …”
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A moment of change: facilitating refugee children's mental health in UK schools by Fazel, M

“…This paper describes the role of schools in supporting the overall development of refugee children and the importance of peer interactions. It argues that the UK school into which a refugee child arrives can be considered an extreme setting. …”

Object class recognition by unsupervised scale-invariant learning by Fergus, R, Perona, P, Zisserman, A

“…The flexible nature of the model is demonstrated by excellent results over a range of datasets including geometrically constrained classes (e.g. faces, cars) and flexible objects (such as animals).…”

The 2005 PASCAL visual object classes challenge by Everingham, M, Zisserman, A, Williams, CKI, Van Gool, L, Allan, M, Bishop, CM, Chapelle, O, Dalal, N, Deselaers, T, Dorkó, G, Duffner, S, Eichhorn, J, Farquhar, JDR, Fritz, M, Garcia, C, Griffiths, T, Jurie, F, Keysers, D, Koskela, M, Laaksonen, J, Larlus, D, Leibe, B, Meng, H, Ney, H, Schiele, B, Schmid, C, Seemann, E, Shawe-Taylor, J, Storkey, A, Szedmak, S, Triggs, B, Ulusoy, I, Viitaniemi, V, Zhang, J

“…Four object classes were selected: motorbikes, bicycles, cars and people. Twelve teams entered the challenge. …”

Mothers’ social networks and socioeconomic gradients of isolation by Andrew, AR, Attanasio, O, Augsburg, B, Behrman, J, Day, M, Jervis, P, Meghir, C, Phimister, A

“…Wealthier women and women from more-advantaged castes and tribes have smaller networks than their less-advantaged peers, primarily because they know fewer women within their own socioeconomic group. …”

How to choose a law review: an empirical study by Cofone, I, Malé, P-JG

“…The optimal publication strategy for authors depends on whether they want to maximize prestige among peers or rather their impact on the discipline, as well as on authors’ career stage and risk averseness. …”

Analysis of mobile sources of air pollution by Chan, Jeffrey Si Yao

“…Mobile sources are buses, cars, trucks, motorcycles, ships and aeroplanes. …”
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Robust wireless baseband coding for advanced built-in tire monitoring system by Wang, Jiaming

“…A tire monitoring system is an essential part of cars and other traffic vehicles to help people know the working condition of tires. …”
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A visual category filter for Google Images by Fergus, R, Perona, P, Zisserman, A

“…</p> <p>We demonstrate the method on image sets returned by Google’s image search for a number of object categories including bottles, camels, cars, horses, tigers and zebras.</p>…”

Weakly supervised scale-invariant learning of models for visual recognition by Fergus, R, Perona, P, Zisserman, A

“…The flexible nature of the model is demonstrated by results over six diverse object categories including geometrically constrained categories (e.g. faces, cars) and flexible objects (such as animals). …”

An Unusual Harassment Training That Was Warmly Received and Also Inspired Bystanders by Rowe, Mary P.

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Singapore Shipping Trust. by Goh, Wei Qin., Lee, Suat Cheng., Tan, Li Ping.

“…We also explore the shipping trusts’ financial performance through comparison with the Singapore market, as well as with Singapore REITs, Singapore shipping stocks and their foreign peers. Results from CAPM show presence of risk-adjusted returns for the equal-weighted shipping trust portfolio in the before-subprime period, indicating the attractiveness of shipping trusts during better economic conditions. …”
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