On child agency and moral responsibility: do children possess sufficient capacities for moral agency? by Ting, Jermaine Shi Jie

“…As a result, they can be moral agents who can be held at least partially morally responsible for their actions. …”
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Chiral mirrors by Plum, Eric, Zheludev, Nikolay I.

“…Mirrors are used in telescopes, microscopes, photo cameras, lasers, satellite dishes, and everywhere else, where redirection of electromagnetic radiation is required making them arguably the most important optical component. …”
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Astray by Tan, Ken Wei Hao

“…Inspiration to do this project came fortunately with the advent of “YouTube” which had opened up my world to so much life changing content and as I was watching “The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross” something clicked in my head when he, in one episode said “I spent half my life doing someone else’s thing, painting should make you happy and if it doesn’t make you happy, you’re doing the wrong thing.” …”
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Public goods in the short and long term by Trammell, P

“…</p> <p>All three are theory papers, but little else unites them methodologically. Their common thread is a motivation: to improve how classical utilitarians spend their resources, given the complex relationships spending in one time and place can have to other markets or other times. …”

Humans first: why people value animals less than humans by Caviola, L, Schubert, S, Kahane, G, Faber, NS

“…The key driver behind moral anthropocentrism was thus mere species-membership (<em>speciesism</em>). However, all else equal, participants still gave more moral weight to individuals with higher mental capacities (<em>individual mental capacity principle</em>), suggesting that the belief that humans have higher mental capacities than animals is part of the reason that they give humans moral priority. …”

Exploring demographic disparities in the mastery of higher-order thinking skills among primary school pupils by Yee Mei Heong, Yee Mei Heong, Mahmad, Mohd Faisal, Tee Tze Kiong, Tee Tze Kiong, Kok Boon Ching, Kok Boon Ching, Azid, Nurulwahida, Nur Rahma Putra, Andika Bagus

“…Today's pupils should cultivate higher-order thinking skills (HOTS) more than anything else. This study aims to assess the HOTS level among primary school pupils based on demographics and their differences. …”
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Perception, Representations, Image, Sound, Music : 14th International Symposium, CMMR 2019, Marseille, France, October 14-18, 2019, Revised Selected Papers / by CMMR (Symposium) (14th : 2019 : Marseille, France), organiser 643215, Kronland-Martinet, Richard, editor 643219, Ystad, Sølvi, editor 643220, Aramaki, Mitsuko, editor 643221

“…This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Perception, Representations, Image, Sound, Music, CMMR 2019, held in Marseille, France, in October 2019. The 46 full papers presented were selected from 105 submissions. …”

Compensation committee and executive compensation in Asia by Lee, Kin-Wai

“…The positive association between the level of CEO compensation and CEO power is attenuated by the proportion of independent directors on the compensation committee and the equity ownership held by external block-holders. Furthermore, CEO pay-performance sensitivity is lower in firms with powerful CEOs. …”
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CanSat, satellite in a soda can by Koh, Jian Cheng

“…Each year, CanSat competitions are held and many participants from over the world joined. …”
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Reconstructing prehistoric lifeways using multi-Isotope analyses of human enamel, dentine, and bone from Legaire Sur, Spain by Griffith, JI, James, HF, Ordoño, J, Fernández-Crespo, T, Gerritzen, CT, Cheung, C, Spros, R, Claeys, P, Goderis, S, Veselka, B, Snoeck, C

“…Legaire Sur, in the uplands of Álava region, is a recently excavated passage tomb (megalithic monument) that held a minimum number of 25 individuals. This study analysed the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and strontium isotope ratios of 18 individuals, in a multi-tissue sampling study (successional tooth enamel sampling, incremental dentine sampling, and bulk bone collagen sampling). …”

The Straits Times and political leaning: coverage of six Singapore general elections, 1968 - 1997. by Neo, Wee Guan., Soo, Daphne Li Fern.

“…The objective of this study was to content analyse the news coverage of six Singapore general elections held between 1968 and 1997.…”
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Application of dynamic programming in the minimal superpermutation problem by Ong, Linus Hong Jun

“…We show our attempts to bound the minimal superpermutation on n symbols using dynamic programming, namely a variant of the Held{Karp algorithm. A reduction of the search space by introducing certain restrictions to was also done to improve the running time.…”
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An election doomed to cause harm? by Garfinkle, Adam

“…Although several presidential elections in American history have been troubled procedurally, no election looks as doomed to cause trouble as the one to be held, presumably, on 3 November 2020.…”
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Advances in Design, Simulation and Manufacturing VII : Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Design, Simulation, Manufacturing: The Innovation Exchange, DSMIE-2024, Ju... by International Conference on Design, Simulation, Manufacturing: The Innovation Exchange (7th : 2024 : Pilsen, Czech Republic), Ivanov, Vitaliĭ, editor 656010, Pavlenko, Ivan, editor 656011, Edl, Milan, editor 656012, Machado, José, 1972-, editor 656014, Xu, Jinyang, 1987-, editor 656015

“…Based on the 7th International Conference on Design, Simulation, Manufacturing: The Innovation Exchange (DSMIE-2024), held on June 4-7, 2024, in Pilsen, Czech Republic, this second volume of a 2-volume set provides academics and professionals with extensive information on technologies, trends, challenges, and practice-oriented experience in all the above-mentioned areas.…”
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Power management system design and optimization for European Student Moon Orbitor (ESMO) by Muhammad Dzahir Mohamed Zain Affandi.

“…ESMO is a European Space Agency (ESA) initiative to involve the universities to build the first student satellite to orbit the Moon. …”
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How messianism is killing Israelis and Palestinians by Firestone, Reuven

“…In the past four months, we have witnessed the petrification of two already rigid and competing narratives – one held by most Jewish Israelis and Jews in general, the other by most Palestinians and Muslims in general. …”
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Electronic commerce agent communication by Deepak S. Iyer

“…The design of software agents that facilitate E-commerce activities will drastically change the way business activities are held on the Internet. This project is an effort to design a large scale, distributed, agent-based electronic commerce system. …”
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Strategies in E-commerce for Air Products Singapore by Tan, Cindy Lucia Lydiawati, Karta, Sandra Brahmawati, Iliadi, Yulie

“…The challenge to the first incentive is the disability of gas suppliers to drive the technology development, a role that is held by the tool manufacturers. Furthermore, tool manufacturers often have the power of endorsement to the gas used by the customers. …”
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Privatisation in Malaysia : an empirical study of financial and operating performance. by Tang, Yuen Kin.

“…The results of this study are generally robust when the author analyses the full sample for a longer study period of 11 years, the specific sample of firms with comprehensive data for the full 7 years, and the smaller sample of firms in which the government held more than 80% shareholding prior to privatisation. …”
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Advances in Design, Simulation and Manufacturing VII : Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Design, Simulation, Manufacturing: The Innovation Exchange, DSMIE-2024, Ju... by International Conference on Design, Simulation, Manufacturing: The Innovation Exchange (7th : 2024 : Pilsen, Czech Republic), Ivanov, Vitaliĭ, editor 656010, Trojanowska, Justyna, editor 656020, Pavlenko, Ivan, editor 656011, Rauch, Erwin, editor 656021, Pitelʹ, Ján, editor 656022

“…Based on the 7th International Conference on Design, Simulation, Manufacturing: The Innovation Exchange (DSMIE-2024), held on June 4-7, 2024, in Pilsen, Czech Republic, this first volume of a 2-volume set provides academics and professionals with extensive information on technologies, trends, challenges, and practice-oriented experience in all the above-mentioned areas.…”
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