Simulation expectation by Thomas, T

“…I present a new argument that we are much more likely to be living in a computer simulation than in the ground-level of reality. …”

When money can’t buy political love: lab experiments on vote buying in Ghana and Uganda by Burbidge, D, Cheeseman, N, Panin, A

“…Respondents who have had positive experiences of elections were more likely to reward nonbribing candidates These findings suggest that the lab-in-the-field results are best explained by democratic values among some respondents. …”

Progressive collapse of reinforced concrete building structures by Dat, Pham Xuan

“…The associated rotationally-restrained but laterally-unrestrained boundary condition of the test specimens was effected by a set of pinned-end supporting columns. Uniformly distributed loads were simulated by a twelve-point loading system. …”
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Development of interactive software (shear force and bending moment) by Wong, Jun Yan

“…The software’s capability includes the usage of pins, rollers, fixed supports, point loads, moments / torques and distributed loads. …”
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Comparative study of composite scarf and strap joints for equivalent repair signature under uniaxial tension by Srinivasan, Dharun Vadugappatty, Padma, S. Ravisankar, Idapalapati, Sridhar

“…Herein, different repair designs based on 8.6° scarf, thin CFRP strap (0.5 mm and 1.1 mm), 0.5 mm thin Ti-6Al-4V straps (with and without pins) are used in bonding CFRP composites, their repair strength is measured through tensile testing. …”
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Comment to U.S Copyright Office on Data Provenance and Copyright by Mahari, Robert, Shayne, Longpre, Donewald, Lisette, Polozov, Alan, Pentland, Alex 'Sandy', Lipsitz, Ari

“…Less attention, however, has been paid to supervised datasets, which we define as datasets containing data created for the sole purpose of training machine learning models (mainly for finetuning and alignment). Supervised datasets may likely contain copyrightable contributions from the dataset creators in the form of annotations. …”
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E-commerce regulation and trader compliance: a comparative and empirical inquiry by Pflücke, F

“…The ambition of the thesis is to define and measure the levels of compliance and to test four hypotheses: (H1) traders do not comply in full with their legal obligations; (H2) large traders are more likely to be compliant compared to SMEs; (H3) traders that are older are more likely to be compliant compared to companies that were incorporated more recently; (H4) traders that base their terms and conditions on pre-drafted standard contract terms are more likely to be in compliance with the selected legal obligations. …”

Contemporary Somali piracy : evaluating the effectiveness of counter-piracy measures by Tan, Cherlyn Shuyi.

“…The industry efforts refer mainly to the Best Management Practices (BMP) and the usage of private armed guards. …”
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Home automation system using Raspberry Pi by Wang, Yangyang

“…Through out this project, student will gain knowledge in areas such as understand Raspberry Pi’s background; Raspberry Pi’s command lines; how to control GPIO pins; how to use PuTTY to remotely access the Raspberry Pi; understand web server Apache and PHP; understand WinSCP and how to transfer files with it; have the knowledge of web interface design, understand HTML5, CSS, PHP and JavaScript and be able to do electrical wiring and mechanical modification for the equipment required in the project.…”
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Clinical metagenomics: ethical issues by Johnson, T, Jamrozik, E, Ramachandran, P, Johnson, S

“…In this paper, we present three use cases that draw on existing reports: one involving a patient in intensive care with encephalitis of unknown aetiology, another case with likely infection with drugresistant K. pneumoniae and an incidental finding of unknown relevance, and a final case situated in an unexplained outbreak of acute hepatitis in children, with severe outcomes due to co-infection. …”

Quasi-Biennial Oscillation by Wang, Y, Rao, J, Ju, Z, Osprey, SM

“…The QBO disruptions are likely to increase in a warmer climate background. …”

Indo-European youth priesthoods and the Männerbund theory: a study of the Vedic Vrātyas and their ancient Indo-European analogues by Elby, T

“…It also discusses the possibility of a parallel tradition of sacred numerology relating to the number 432,000, but finds this likely to be a coincidental product of the mathematical constraints present. …”

Comparative anatomical study on two different sizes of beetle species, M.Torquata and E.Smithii by Suhoomaran, Dinesh

“…The author’s interest in the project revolves around key findings in these areas as well as any inference that could be made from the findings of these experiments that could prove useful in other fields of beetle research. …”
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The impact of accessing education via smartphone technology on education disparity—a sustainable education perspective by Alam, Gazi Mahabubul, Forhad, Md. Abdur Rahman

“…Findings strongly suggest that technology access reduces disparity, mainly due to socioeconomic status (SES). …”
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Motion and shape recovery from image frame sequences by Sung, Eric.

“…The thesis focuses mainly on motion and structure recovery of an object from a sequence of image frames. …”
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A temporal study of the effects of online opinions : information sources matter by Huang, Jianxiong, Boh, Wai Fong, Goh, Kim Huat

“…Our research demonstrates that online opinions are not always persuasive and useful, and our findings provide insights into when consumers are likely to pay attention to which types of online opinions.…”
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Spatial structure of workplace and communication between colleagues: A study of E-mail exchange and spatial relatedness on the MIT campus by Sevtsuk, Andres, Chancey, Bahij, Basu, Rounaq, Mazzarello, Martina

“…Building on prior studies of both physical and electronic communication networks, we present the results of a study conducted on the MIT campus using an anonymized dataset of e-mail communication to examine how spatial relatedness between faculty, staff, and researchers’ office locations impact E-mail communication between them. Our findings suggest that (a) people whose offices are closer to each other by walking are more likely to exchange E-mails, (b) on the campus as a whole, people who are more likely to walk past each other’s offices on the way to or from work are more likely to exchange E-mails, and (c) people who share access to similar eating venues around their offices are more likely to exchange E-mails. …”
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Impact of BREXIT on key stakeholders of the maritime industry in Asia by Eng, Esther Cai Yun

“…These will impact the stakeholders, which are mainly shipping lines, port operators, ship owners, seafarers and maritime professionals. …”
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Blocking of counter-partisan accounts drives political assortment on Twitter by Martel, Cameron, Mosleh, Mohsen, Yang, Qi, Zaman, Tauhid, Rand, David G

“…In addition to preferentially following-back copartisans, we found that users were 12 times more likely to block counter-partisan accounts compared to copartisan accounts in the first experiment, and 4 times more likely to block counter-partisan accounts relative to a neutral account or a copartisan account in the second experiment. …”
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Support for resettling refugees : the role of fixed versus growth mind-sets by Madan, Shilpa, Basu, Shankha, Rattan, Aneeta, Savani, Krishna

“…U.S. and UK citizens who believed that the kind of person someone is can be changed were more likely to support resettling refugees in their country (Studies 1 and 2). …”
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