Microsoft kinect for early education by Tan, Haiwang.

“…These contents can be subject related texts, specially designed images to promote positive learning attitude, moral teaching videos, fancy animations created from book stories or any other kind of contents teachers can think of. …”
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Systematic bias in trait attributions for deceased friends and relatives by Galang, Adrianne John Real, Ellescas, Bianca Ysabel C., Santos, Jan Marie E., Locsin, Maria Aisha V., Sy, Keena Mayumi D.

“…Bering (2006) put forward the claim that the deceased are viewed as authoritative moral figures, and Bering, MacLeod, and Shackelford (2005) present evidence supporting this. …”
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What can literature do that philosophy can't? Entering the hybrid worlds of Simone de Beauvoir and Iris Murdoch by Holt, N

“…In particular I challenge the view, in the case of Beauvoir, that she was advocating a new literary way of ‘doing’ philosophy and, in the case of Murdoch, that the close connection she perceived between art and morals was to do with the moral effects of art. The ideas of each of them on literature cannot be understood without a proper grasp of their thinking on language. …”

A critical analysis of current debates in natural law: a theo-cultural engagement with John Finnis, Jean Porter, & John Milbank by Morgan, G

“…<p>This thesis argues that natural law – when construed as an epistemological and trans-cultural lingua franca, adjudged capable of legitimating the rational intelligibility and universal applicability of specific Christian moral principles within contemporary “secular” discourse – has failed. …”

Of blood and belonging: the practice of antiretroviral treatment among HIV-positive youth in South Africa's Eastern Cape by Vale, B

“…</p> <p>The findings elucidate adolescent ART as a complex (and often volatile) form of social incorporation, through which young people negotiate survival, care and moral connection in contemporary South Africa. Enrolling in ART meant being encompassed into a (often hierarchical) set of social relationships, through which adolescents sought belonging, recognition and protection, amid profound insecurity. …”

Artificial intelligence, rationalization, and the limits of control in the public sector: the case of tax policy optimization by Mökander, J, Schroeder, R

“…Third, we observe that contemporary scholarship and advocacy directed towards ensuring that AI systems are legal, ethical, and safe build on and reinforce central assumptions that underpin the process of rationalization, including the modern idea that science can sweep away oppressive systems and replace them with a rule of reason that would rescue humans from moral injustices. That is overly optimistic: science can only provide the means – it cannot dictate the ends. …”

Factors predicting the acquisition of soft skills among students with learning disabilities in vocational special education secondary school by Ab Halim, Fazlinda, Muhammad, Nurul Awanis, Wan Muda, Wan Hanim Nadrah

“…This study focuses on soft skills, which consist of seven elements (communication skills, critical thinking and problem-solving skills, teamwork skills, information management and lifelong learning skills, entrepreneurship skills, moral and ethics skills and leadership skills), self-esteem and self-efficacy as variables. …”
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Flexible batch electrodialysis for low-cost solar-powered brackish water desalination by He, Wei, Le Henaff, Anne-Claire, Amrose, Susan, Buonassisi, Tonio, Peters, Ian Marius, Winter, Amos G

“…<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Globally, 1.6 billion people in rural regions face water scarcity. Expanding freshwater access via brackish groundwater desalination can provide additional resources to address this challenge. …”
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Nuptiality in Soviet and post-Soviet Central Asia by Dommaraju, Premchand, Agadjanian, Victor

“…Within these countries marriage rates showed significant variation by educational achievement, and a much smaller variation by rural-urban residence. In Kazakhstan, ethnic differences in marriage age—Russians marrying earlier than the native Kazakhs—began to narrow. …”
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From theoretical models to practical deployment: A perspective and case study of opportunities and challenges in AI-driven cardiac auscultation research for low-income settings by Krones, F, Walker, B

“…Moreover, the literature review discusses how emerging human-centred deployment research is a promising avenue for overcoming deployment barriers. (2) A predictive AI screening model is developed and tested in a case study on heart murmur detection in rural Brazil. Our binary Bayesian ResNet model leverages overlapping log mel spectrograms of patient heart sound recordings and integrates demographic data and signal features via XGBoost to optimise performance. …”

Which context matters for capturing energy needs? A multi-level analysis by Puranasamriddhi, A, Trotter, PA, Parikh, P, Batidzirai, B, Brophy, A

“…Here, ordinal logistic regression models are applied to novel survey data (N=1,016) on household and small business energy needs in rural Uganda and Zambia to analyse the extent to which current and aspirational energy consumption differ at the national, regional, district, and village levels. …”

Machine learning approaches reveal highly heterogeneous air quality co-benefits of the energy transition by Zhang, Da, Wang, Qingyi, Song, Shaojie, Chen, Simiao, Li, Mingwei, Shen, Lu, Zheng, Siqi, Cai, Bofeng, Wang, Shenhao, Zheng, Haotian

“…Applications of the framework with Chinese data reveal highly heterogeneous health benefits of avoiding premature mortality by reducing fossil fuel use in different sectors and regions in China with a mean of $19/tCO2 and a standard deviation of $38/tCO2. Reducing rural and residential coal use offers the highest co-benefits with a mean of $151/tCO2. …”
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Contesting Design: Ancestral Technology as Portal to Post-Design(s) by Reynolds-Cuéllar, Pedro

“…Using the findings and insights from this study, I propose and implement two largely immersive university courses on technology design in close collaboration with rural collectives in Colombia. In contributing to methodological shifts within participatory design, I foreground connections at its intersection of Indigenous research methods. …”
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Online map-matching based on Hidden Markov model for real-time traffic sensing applications by Mitrovic, N., Asif, M. T., Oran, A., Jaillet, P., Goh, Chong Yang, Dauwels, Justin

“…We evaluated the accuracy of our algorithm using field test data collected on bus routes covering urban and rural areas. Furthermore, we also investigated the relationships between accuracy and output delays in processing live input streams. …”
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The effects of online social interactions on life satisfaction of older Chinese adults: new insights based on a longitudinal approach by Zhou, Dong, Xu, Yi, Ai, Pengya

“…We also find that OSIs narrow the social inequality in life satisfaction across groups from rural-urban areas and groups with different social statuses. …”
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Hydrological & hydrodynamic modelling of the Baliem River in Highland Papua, Indonesia by Wee, Khai Zher

“…Thereafter, we generated simulated river discharges at these pour points with meteorological data in the Génie Rural à 4 paramètres Journalier (GR4J) rainfall-runoff hydrological model. …”
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Sensitivity analysis on river discharge from uncertainties in basin and rainfall parameters by Toh, Amos Yu Heng

“…The parameters to be varied included the roughness index and the landuse percentage (rural grasslands vs urban concrete areas). The rainfall input used is pre-generated by 23 years of annual rainfall and converted to the Log Pearson Type 3 distribution. …”
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Parameter optimization methods for calibrating tank model and neural network for rainfall-runoff modelling by Kuok, King Kuok

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Wages, family background, on-campus performance and gender: an investigation of Chinese graduates’ first job salaries by Liu, S

“…</p> <p>Compared with the widely observed wage disparities among less educated workers caused by gender and Hukou status, this thesis provides evidence that higher education helps reduce the gender wage gap and rural-urban disparity in China. Analyses in the thesis are consistent with ‘state as equalizer’ and ‘market as equalizer’ theories. …”

West African labour and the development of mechanised mining in southwest Ghana, c.1870s to 1910 by Mark-Thiesen, C

“…Finally, part three takes a comparative look at headship and recruitment through rural chiefs, which began in 1906; two successive forms of non-free wage labour mobilisation. …”