Poverty and meritocracy in Singapore by Ang, Jonathan Choong Yew, Chua, Joyce Hui Ping, Zhang, Alethea Shimin

“…This is reflected in the emphasis on the importance of hard work and self-reliance, where one should not solely rely on government assistance. This paper draws upon these responses to discuss the implications of meritocracy as a value system and recommends some solutions to remedy the unintended consequences of implementing this system across all facets of life.…”
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Disentangling the separate and combined effects of privatization and cooperation on local government service delivery by Bel, G, Elston, T

“…This we undertake for the case of solid waste collection in Catalonia, using environmental protection as our focal performance standard. Drawing on two waves of data (for 2000 and 2019) for 186 municipalities that together use all four combinations of public, private, single and cooperative service delivery, we show that superior environmental performance was initially confined to conventional cooperations involving only public production. …”

Recovery of 3D shapes from 2D sketches by Liu, Yang

“…The objective of this research is to recover 3D freeform surfaces depicted in a single line drawing, with the aim of taking conceptual design sketches and converting them into 3D models. …”
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Biointerface design for vertical nanoprobes by Elnathan, Roey, Barbato, Maria Grazia, Guo, Xiangfu, Mariano, Anna, Wang, Zixun, Santoro, Francesca, Shi, Peng, Voelcker, Nicolas H., Xie, Xi, Young, Jennifer L., Zhao, Yunlong, Zhao, Wenting, Chiappini, Ciro

“…Vertical nanoprobes have substantially improved our ability to control and characterize the intracellular environment, guide biophysical stimuli with nanoscale precision to defined cell compartments, stimulate and record the electrical activity of cells, and transport hard-to-deliver drugs. These capabilities are enabling substantial advances in bioelectronics, spatiotemporally resolved molecular diagnostics, and cell and gene therapy — all underpinned by the design versatility of the nanoprobe biointerface. …”
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Global fertility in 204 countries and territories, 1950–2021, with forecasts to 2100: a comprehensive demographic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by Bhattacharjee, NV, Schumacher, AE, Aali, A, Almidani, O, Bandyopadhyay, S, Graham, SM, Lacey, BWH, Maude, RJ, Runghien, T, Rodriguez, JAB

“…Uncertainty from past data inputs and model estimation was propagated throughout analyses by taking 1000 draws for past and present fertility estimates and 500 draws for future forecasts from the estimated distribution for each metric, with 95% uncertainty intervals (UIs) given as the 2·5 and 97·5 percentiles of the draws. …”

BLUE OCEAN SHIFT : BEYOND COMPETING - PROVEN STEPS TO INSPIRE CONFIDENCE AND SEIZE NEW GROWTH / by Kim, W. Chan, author 318022, Mauborgne, Renée, author 387551, Hachette Books Group (Online service) 647103

“…Blue Ocean Shift is packed with all-new research and examples of how leaders in diverse industries and organizations made the shift and created new markets by applying the process and tools outlined in the book. …”
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My research career by Ma, Xueliang

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La diplomazia culturale americana, la Guerra fredda e il cinema di Hong Kong negli anni Cinquanta = American cultural diplomacy, Cold War, and Hong Kong cinema in the 1950s by Lee, Sangjoon

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Questioning the Herderian ideal by Mishra, Pritipuspa, Tan, Ying Ying

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Recognition in India’s new service professions : gym trainers and coffee baristas by Baas, Michiel, Cayla, Julien

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International identity construction: China’s pursuit of the responsible power identity and the American Other by Boon, Hoo Tiang

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Toward a differentiation-based framework for middle power behavior by Teo, Sarah

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Raspberry Pi : education tool for teaching photography II by Gu, Chengying

“…A transparent overlay was created on top of the image to allow instructor to annotate on it, either by mouse-drawing or touch-based drawing. Annotation will then be pushed to students’ devices in real-time manner. …”
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Between personalized and racialized precision medicine : a relative resources perspective by Sun, Shirley

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Deep self-supervised representation learning for free-hand sketch by Xu, Peng, Song, Zeyu, Yin, Qiyue, Song, Yi-Zhe, Wang, Liang

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Towards Perceptual Augmentation by Chin, Sam

“…It challenges traditional approaches to sensory enhancement by emphasizing the importance of perception over mere sensory input. Drawing inspiration from the diverse sensory abilities found in nature, the research aims to develop methods for meaningful augmentation of human perception that can impact daily life. …”
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An epistemic case study: how businesses exploit consumers in self-care by Kok, Wenyi

“…I conclude that with consideration of all previous sections, businesses should not be a forefront epistemic resource when one practices self-care.…”
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Prediction of pyrazinamide resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis using structure-based machine learning approaches by Carter, J, Walker, T, Walker, A, Whitfield, M, Morlock, G, Lynch, C, Adlard, D, Peto, T, Posey, J, Crook, D, Fowler, P

“…<p><strong>Methods</p></strong> We curated a dataset of 664 non-redundant, missense amino acid mutations in PncA with associated high-confidence phenotypes from published studies and then trained three different machine-learning models to predict pyrazinamide resistance. All models had access to a range of protein structural-, chemical- and sequence-based features. …”

Who inadvertently shares deepfakes? Analyzing the role of political interest, cognitive ability, and social network size by Saifuddin Ahmed

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The role of SPRTN protease in colorectal cancer chemotherapy by Peron, C

“…<p>Colorectal cancer (CRC) currently represents one of the most commonly diagnosed tumors, accounting for 10% of all cancer diagnoses and cancer-related deaths. …”