Combining scene and auto-calibration constraints by Liebowitz, D, Zisserman, A

“…Second, the degeneracies that occur when constraints are not independent may be easily identified. …”

Plots, attacks, and the measurement of terrorism by Hegghammer, T, Ketchley, N

“…Despite its limitations, plot data is a more complete measure of terrorist activity that should be incorporated, when available, in quantitative studies of terrorism.…”

Ionization calculations using classical molecular dynamics by Plummer, D, Svensson, P, Gericke, DO, Hollebon, P, Vinko, SM, Gregori, G

“…Furthermore, pressure ionization is observed when short-range repulsion effects are included between neutrals. …”

Aged and wheeled mobility in transit-oriented development: the capabilities approach by Xu, Y, Chan, H-Y, Chen, A, Chim, T-Y, Liu, X

“…Our focus is on understanding these conversion factors, which highlight both environmental and individual constraints when converting resources into capabilities. Our findings reveal significant disparities in walking environments between the initially planned and the realized catchment areas, as well as disparities between individuals with and without physical limitations. …”

Dynamic consumer search by Parakhonyak, A, Rhodes, A

“…We also show that consumers may be better off when firms can offer personalized prices based on their search history.…”

The Cerne Giant in its early medieval context by Morcom, T, Gittos, H

“…In this article, we propose an explanation for when and why he was originally cut as an image of Hercules. …”

Psychedelics, meaningfulness, and the “proper scope” of medicine: continuing the conversation by Cheung, K, Patch, K, Earp, BD, Yaden, DB

“…In recent years, psychedelics such as psilocybin have also shown considerable promise as therapeutic agents when combined with talk therapy, for example, in the treatment of major depression or substance use disorder. …”

Dynamic placement in refugee resettlement by Ahani, N, Gölz, P, Procaccia, AD, Teytelboym, A, Trapp, AC

“…This dramatic improvement persists even when we incorporate a vast array of practical features of the refugee resettlement process including indivisible families, batching, and uncertainty with respect to the number of future arrivals. …”

Public responses to foreign protectionism: evidence from the US-China trade war by Steinberg, DA, Tan, Y

“…This study examines how and why public attitudes towards international trade change when one’s country is targeted by protectionist measures from abroad. …”

Multi-criteria decision analysis for aiding glyph design by Hsieh, H-P, Zavatsky, A, Chen, M

“…Glyph designers have to contemplate the trade-offs in allocating visual channels when there is a large number of data variables. While there are many successful glyph designs in the literature, there is not yet a systematic method for assisting visualization designers to evaluate different design options that feature different types of tradeoffs. …”

The limits of agency: aspirational frustrations amongst working-class Chinese youths by Jiang, E

“…Specifically, I argue that agency is exercised in cases when means and ends fit together, and this tenuous relationship between means and ends depend on an array of factors, which are often changeable in principle even if they do not change in real life. …”

Rage against the authority machines: how to design artificial moral advisors for moral enhancement by Landes, E, Voinea, C, Uszkai, R

“…We then shift focus to the epistemology of moral advice and show when and under what conditions moral advice can lead to enhancement. …”

Must refugees be grateful? by Buxton, R, Gibney, MJ

“…We examine the normative argument that refugees have a duty to be grateful to their host society, arguing that when the workings of the system of refugee protection are examined, it becomes clear that no such duty exists. …”

Impostor syndrome and pretense by Levy, N

“…I argue that we are especially likely to notice pretense when we’re made self-conscious, and that failing to match the stereotype of one’s profession or domain of expertise tends to give rise to self-consciousness. …”

Approach for combining spacecraft attitude and thermal control systems by Varatharajoo, Renuganth, Kahle, Ralph, Fasoulas, Stefanos

“…The results demonstrate that the new concept could replace the existing subsystems using current available technology, especially the thermoelectric option, when used as a combined attitude actuator and thermal radiator.…”

Amidination of lipase with hydrophobic imidoesters by Basri, M., Ampon, K., Yunus, W. M. Z., Razak, C. N. A., Salleh, A. B.

“…The modified lipase was more thermostable and solvent-stable than the native enzyme. When fatty acids of different carbon chainlength were tested as substrates in the synthesis of esters with the modified lipase, the highest activity was observed with myristic acid and propanol.…”

A modified levenberg marquardt algorithm for simultaneous learning of multiple datasets. by Önder Efe, Mehmet, Kürkçü, Burak, Kasnakoğlu, Coşku, Mohamed, Zaharuddin, Zhijie, Liu

“…This brief demonstrates the use of LM optimization algorithm when there are more than one dataset and on/off type switching of NN parameters is allowed. …”

Krishnamurti's case : child guardianship and sexuality in colonial India by Tan, Fidellithy

“…Prior to becoming active in politics in 1913, the prominent Theosophist Annie Besant was involved in a lawsuit brought against her by Jiddu Narayaniah. Narayaniah’s two sons had been in the custody of Besant since 1909, due to the theosophist Charles Webster Leadbeater identifying the older son, the future Indian philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti, as the next World Teacher at a young age. …”
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The attribution of creativity and agency to artificial intelligence by Siah, Dorothy Tian Xin

“…In my evaluation of Boden’s theory, I suggest an addition of the agency requirement in the judgement of creativity to provide a bridge between Boden’s output-centred theory and her critics’ process-centred theory of creativity. …”
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Lactate detection in single living cells based on polymer brush modified optical lactate nanosensor by Cao, Jing

“…Extracellular lactate detections were also carried out at single cell level to investigate and compare the cancer metabolism in MCF7 and MCF7/HER2 breast cancer cells. Our work provides great potentials in broad applications such as biochemical analysis and clinical diagnosis.…”
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