Apple's iPad City: subcontracting exploitation to China by Chan, J, Ngai, P, Selden, M

“…Violations of factory workers’ fundamental rights in export-oriented industry nevertheless remain intractable, prompting scholars and practitioners in corporate responsibility to promote the leverage of private and public power to create ‘just supply chains’ (Locke 2013; Mayer and Gereffi 2010; Boston Review 2013). The main effort of public–private partnerships is to call on a shared commitment of the national governments, transnational corporations and non-governmental labour organizations to better protect workers.…”

Bayesian image super-resolution, continued by Pickup, LC, Capel, DP, Roberts, SJ, Zisserman, A

“…By inte- grating over the registration parameters rather than the high-resolution image, our method allows for more realistic prior distributions, and also reduces the dimen- sion of the integral considerably, removing the main computational bottleneck of the other algorithm. …”

Multi-criteria decision analysis for aiding glyph design by Hsieh, H-P, Zavatsky, A, Chen, M

“…Glyph-based visualization is one of the main techniques for visualizing complex multivariate data. …”

Function and regulation of the ADP-ribosylhydrolase TARG1 by Groslambert, J

“…To do so, I examined TARG1’s interplay with the main cellular ADP-ribosylhydrolase, PARG. An additional research goal emerged from studying the synergistic function of TARG1 and PARG, namely revealing the molecular mechanisms that regulate the degradation of TARG1 upon PARG inhibition.…”

Must refugees be grateful? by Buxton, R, Gibney, MJ

“…We examine the normative argument that refugees have a duty to be grateful to their host society, arguing that when the workings of the system of refugee protection are examined, it becomes clear that no such duty exists. Our main concern is that state-imposed barriers and hardships that refugees must endure to access asylum undermine any gratitude to the asylum state. …”

Stable isotope ratio analysis: an emerging tool to trace the origin of falsified medicines by Roncone, A, Kelly, SD, Giannioti, Z, Hauk, C, Caillet, C, Newton, PN, Perez-Mon, C, Bontempo, L

“…This review presents the main approaches, based on stable isotope ratios of the bio-elements, mainly Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry and Site-specific Natural Isotopic Fractionation by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, that can contribute to identifying the origin of these products, both in terms of geographical origin and raw materials employed as well as for the batch controls by the producers.…”

Relationship between Islam and democracy in Dr. Mahathir Mohamad’s thought by Jaf, Dana Nawzar Ali

“…Content analysis and interview are used as the main data collection methods. The study has academic significance as a contribution to the knowledge in the field of Islam and democracy debate. …”
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Intangible factors contribution to value or benefit creation in infrastructure asset valuation by Hamzah, Ezdihar, Abdullah Hashim, Hariati, Ismail, Azizah

“…The findings of this research have classified the items detailed for infrastructure asset valuation in the case study of Custom, Immigration and Quarantine Complex (CIQ Complex). As the main contribution of this research, the value and benefit creation from the intangible factors are analysed and the relationship are summarised. …”
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Human Resource Investment in Luxury Hotels: Developing A Compensation Plan that Addresses The Issue of High Dependence on Foreign Labours (S/O 13801) by Ahmad, Rozila, Mustaffa, Che Su

“…Poor compensation is often mentioned as the main cause of local workforce refusal to work in the hotel industry. …”
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Capacities of cross-junction and roundabout in Nanyang Technological University by Choo, Ping Ling.

“…According to FHWA [2000], the capacity of a roundabout entry is dependent on two main factors; the circulation flow on the roundabout which conflicts with the entry flow and the basic geometric elements of the roundabout. …”
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Paint the town red by Lim, Anne-Marie Sian Ping, Teh, Kimberly Rachel Yu Ling, Lai, Scott Zhi Han, Tan, Jo Yee

“…Detailed appendices that support the main text with graphs, tables, and charts, as well as original collateral designs are accompanied for further reference.…”
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Alkylglycerol: not abundant but promising functional lipid by Wang, Hai-Long, Tan, Chin Ping, Liu, Yuanfa, Xu, Yong-Jiang

“…Key findings and conclusions: Marine organisms, especially cartilaginous fish, are the main source of alkylgly cerols, whereas terricolous plants remain to be further investigated for the presence of alkylglycerols. …”
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Wireless Communication Electronics by Example / by Sobot, Robert, author 596634

“…Fully-solved, tutorial-like examples are used to put into practice major topics and to understand the underlying principles of the main sub-circuits required to design an RF transceiver and the whole communication system. …”

Model Predictive Control of High Power Converters and Industrial Drives / by Geyer, Tobias, 1975-, author 656156

“…In this original book on model predictive control (MPC) for power electronics, the focus is put on high-power applications with multilevel converters operating at switching frequencies well below 1 kHz, such as medium-voltage drives and modular multi-level converters. Consisting of two main parts, the first offers a detailed review of three-phase power electronics, electrical machines, carrier-based pulse width modulation, optimized pulse patterns, state-of-the art converter control methods and the principle of MPC. …”
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Emerging Materials, Technologies, and Solutions for Energy Harvesting / by Mehta, Shilpa, 1987-, editor 655491, Abougreen, Arij, 1989-, editor 655492, Gupta, Shashi Kant, editor 655493, IGI Global (Online service) 631983

“…"The main objective of this book is to identify and promote emerging materials, technologies, and solutions for energy harvesting"--…”
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VolcAshDB: a volcanic ash database of classified particle images and features by Benet, Damià, Costa, Fidel, Widiwijayanti, Christina, Pallister, John, Pedreros, Gabriela, Allard, Patrick, Humaida, Hanik, Aoki, Yosuke, Maeno, Fukashi

“…However, classifying ash particles into its main components is not straightforward. Diagnostic observations vary depending on the magma composition and the style of eruption, which leads to ambiguities in assigning a given particle to a given class. …”
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Design and simulation of plasmonic metamaterials for sub-wavelength imaging in the visible range by Li, Dongdong

“…Unlike conventional metamaterial lenses that rely on metallic structures as the main transmission medium, the proposed lens uses dielectric as the main medium for image transfer. …”
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Electrical machine fault analysis and modelling by using electromagnetic approach by Zhang, Meng Qi

“…It has been re-ported in the previous researches that the stator phase short-circuit is the main cause of machine irreversible demagnetization fault. …”
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Category learning in infants and adults by Sucevic, J

“…Categorisation represents one of the main mechanisms from which this system of structured knowledge is derived. …”

A sociological analysis of Iranian popular music in the 21st century by Safideh, Mohammad Rezazadeh

“…The main purpose of this thesis is to give a sociological explanation on what is called “Iranian popular music in 21st century” covering a period from the year 2000 to 2014. …”
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