Political unrest under IMF programmes: labour mobility, fiscal conditionality, and democratic representation by Metinsoy, S

“…The study tests this theory in a global sample of 117 countries between 1970 and 2013 and investigates the impact of mobility and IMF conditionality on unrest with a data set originally compiled and coded for this study. It then delves into two extreme cases, Greece, 2010 and Turkey, 2001. …”

Developing a Positive Psychology Principles Based on Social Media Utilization Among Housewives (S/O 13751) by Abdul Hamid, Norsiah, Ishak, Mohd Sobhi, Mohd Rashid, Sabrina

“…Hence, for the first study, a cross-sectional online survey was conducted among housewives who are actively using social media, and they were identified based on snowball sampling. This study delves into housewives’ motives of social media usage and its effects on their well-being and flourishing based on the uses and gratification and self-determination theories. …”
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Security challenges in automotive hardware/software architecture design by Sagstetter, Florian, Lukasiewycz, Martin, Steinhorst, Sebastian, Wolf, Marko, Bouard, Alexandre, Peyrin, Thomas, Poschmann, Axel, Chakraborty, Samarjit, Harris, William R., Jha, Somesh.

“…State-of-the-art automotive architectures are highly heterogeneous and complex systems that rely on distributed functions based on electronics and software. As cars are getting more connected with their environment, the vulnerability to attacks is rapidly growing. …”
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The moderation effect of vendor support on cloud computing adoption and firm performance by Teh, Raymond, Subramaniam, Anusuiya

“…Vendor support moderates the positive relationship between cloud computing adoption and firm performance, such that the relationship gets stronger as vendor support increases. This study recognises how vendor support plays a moderating role in the relationship between firm performance and cloud computing adoption, in which the relationship becomes stronger as vendor support increases. …”
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Smuggling of Migrants in Malaysia: The Case Study of Illegal Immigrants in the Northern Region by Ajis, Mohd Na'eim, Ahmad Zakuan, Ummu Atiyah, Mohd. Zain, Zawiyah, Keling, Mohamad Faisol

“…The authorities are continuously improvised the monitoring methods to curtail the migrant smuggling however, the syndicates are often ahead of the authorities and getting difficult to be traced…”
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The Relationship of Knowledge Management Towards Business Performance of Electrical and Electronics Industry in Malaysia by Loke, Wei-Kit, Abu, Noor Hidayah

“…Knowledge management have been logically gets to be one of the fundamental sort of business organization (Lai & Lin, 2012). …”
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Roles of POPX2 phosphatase in the regulation of apoptosis by Weng, Ting

“…By culturing cancer cells on polyacrylamide gels of different rigidities, we found a positive correlation between increased cell spreading and enhanced formation of stress fibers. …”
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POWER TO CHOOSE / by Sargent, Haydn, author 656354

Data collection and analysis for air pollutants (NO2,PM2.5) in Hong Kong by Hui, Benedict Chung Wah

“…Especially with the increase number in private car owners in Hong Kong, the roads located near the Central Business district gets heavily congested and therefore increases the pollution levels immensely. …”
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Modulation classification for CPM signals by Goh, Mao Jun.

“…Therefore CPM has been getting a lot of attention in satellite channels. …”
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Constraint-based watermarking techniques for VLSI IP protection by Cui, Aijiao

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Detecting unfair ratings attacks in online rating systems by Ho, Wenxu.

“…In order to ensure of getting the “best deals”, most people tend to turn to online rating systems for advices to make informed decisions regarding the purchase of products or services. …”
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Modelling a multi-commodity transportation system by Cheong, Ting Fong

“…As there are many things to be accomplished daily such as work, grocery shopping, transporting of goods and even just getting from point A to B, it is important that the optimization of time remains. …”
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Investigation on transport properties in nanowires with contacts by Li, Jing

“…Since the invention of the transistor, the fundamental element of the integrated circuit (IC) in 1960s, with the revolution in semiconductor industry, the transistor size has been getting smaller every year. Due to this reason, the number of transistors on a single IC chip increases following Moore's Law, electronic devices are able to provide more advanced and complex functionality with higher effectiveness. …”
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Sensing and communication based on novel laser technologies by Huang, Wei

“…However, currently available MIR-FSO systems are complicated and expensive, so they have a long way to go before getting popular. In this project a system based on a 4.7µm QCL was built, and the communication was demonstrated as reliable and effective with an analog audio. …”
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Peer-to-peer car sharing in China (Time-based usage pattern analysis) by Yu, Jenny Chieh Ning

“…Car-sharing, as one of the fastest growing urban mobility innovations worldwide, is now getting popular in China. As the cost of private car ownership continuously increases, and as part of the worldwide effort to reduce greenhouse gas emission. …”
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A study to minimize 'A'-pillar blind spot in cars by Choo, Daryl Gavin Jun Yan

“…As such, the blind spot caused by the A-pillar gets bigger. With car population set to increase two times by 2040, accidents should also increase twice statistically. …”
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Carlibration parameters of social force model (SFM) for customized personal mobility devices (PMD) by Yuan, Liqiang

“…Based on the Social Force Model (SFM) and Cross-Entropy (CE) method, by using PTV Vissim, simulation on PMDs and pedestrians can be implemented to first find out the SFM parameter value for different customized PMDs. After getting the parameters of SFM for different PMDs, simulation can be done to find out the correlation between PMD speed and lateral distance for PMD rider when encountering a pedestrian. …”
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Pylon model for semantic segmentation by Lempitsky, V, Vedaldi, A, Zisserman, A

“…As a result of such inference, the image gets partitioned into a set of segments that may come from different layers of the tree. …”

In vivo bone marrow microenvironment siRNA delivery using lipid–polymer nanoparticles for multiple myeloma therapy by Guimarães, Pedro PG, Figueroa-Espada, Christian G, Riley, Rachel S, Gong, Ningqiang, Xue, Lulu, Sewastianik, Tomasz, Dennis, Peter S, Loebel, Claudia, Chung, Amanda, Shepherd, Sarah J, Haley, Rebecca M, Hamilton, Alex G, El-Mayta, Rakan, Wang, Karin, Langer, Robert, Anderson, Daniel G, Carrasco, Ruben D, Mitchell, Michael J

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