On domain knowledge organization and extraction in software engineering by Ye, Deheng

“…Developers' social information seeking on the Web is unable to benefit from the recent significant advances of semantics-oriented applications, such as knowledge graph and direct answers. …”
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‘All work is prostitution’: an exploration of sex work, exploitation, and dis-organising by Westwood, K

“…In particular, the discussion focuses on attempts by sex worker radicals to reform sex work whilst simultaneously seeking to deconstruct this work under existing systems of racialised capitalism.…”

Making and remaking the home ‘at home’ in Shanghai in the time of COVID-19 by Xiao, L

“…My observations of homes in Shanghai, including my own, seek to depict what goes on behind the closed doors of urban Chinese spaces, both in mundane everyday circumstances and in a time of crisis. …”

Accessing inclusive well-being to leave no one behind by Seth, S, Alkire, S

“…The world has continued to seek prosperity by reducing poverty and improving well-being, but it is vital to examine whether this improvement is inclusive. …”

Three essays on corporate finance by Fu, Kangkang

“…Moreover, from the principal customers’ perspective, a higher level of environmental risk lowers a supplier firm’s probability of being selected relative to its industry peers by its potential customer. Conditional on an ongoing relationship with principal customers, supplier firms with high environmental risk have lower sales to principal customers and shorter relationship durations. …”
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Health economic aspects of childhood excess weight by Onyimadu, O

“…My analyses of CPRD-HES data revealed that children living with overweight and obesity incurred significantly higher direct healthcare costs than their peers with a healthy weight. In comparison to children with healthy weight, those living with overweight generated additional costs of £133.93 and £66.32, on average, in the year preceding and following a BMI measurement, respectively, while children with obesity incurred additional costs of £115.47 and £154.51, on average, during the same periods. …”

Deep transcriptome profiling reveals limited conservation of A-to-I RNA editing in Xenopus by Nguyen, Tram Anh, Heng, Joel Jia Wei, Ng, Yan Ting, Sun, Rui, Fisher, Shira, Oguz, Gokce, Kaewsapsak, Pornchai, Xue, Shifeng, Reversade, Bruno, Ramasamy, Adaikalavan, Eisenberg, Eli, Tan, Meng How

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Data Refusal From Below: A Framework for Understanding, Evaluating, and Envisioning Refusal as Design by Zong, Jonathan, Matias, J Nathan

“…In this paper, we introduce a framework for data refusal from below—writing from the standpoint of people who refuse, rather than the institutions that seek their compliance. Because refusers work to reshape socio-technical systems, we argue that refusal is an act of design, and that design-based frameworks and methods can contribute to refusal. …”
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Communication patterns in engineering enterprise social networks: an exploratory analysis using short text topic modelling by Ferguson, Sharon A., Cheng, Kathy, Adolphe, Lauren, Van de Zande, Georgia, Wallace, David, Olechowski, Alison

“…These digital communication platforms capture detailed messages between members of the design team and are an appealing data set for researchers who seek to better understand communication in design. …”
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Rhetorical contestation and the mediterranean migration crisis, 2013-2018 by He, Wendy Qingli

“…Instead, the EU migration policy has become more securitized, aimed at limiting the influx of migrants and refugees. I seek to shed new light on this policy outcome by exploring the dynamics of rhetorical contestation taking place in the context of the Mediterranean migration crisis over the course of five years (2013 to 2018). …”
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Distributed algorithms for computing a fixed point of multi-agent nonexpansive operators by Li, Xiuxian, Xie, Lihua

“…Each local operator is only privately accessible to each agent, and all agents constitute a network. To seek a fixed point of the global operator, it is indispensable for agents to exchange local information and update their solution cooperatively. …”
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Beyond the pause by Loke, Eden Hui Yi, Leong, Nicia Qiao Xin, Priyanka D/O Tamilarasan Thevar, See, Wenwei

“…Despite being a critical life phase for nearly half of the population, perimenopause remains shrouded in ambiguity, contributing to significant delays in seeking and receiving appropriate care and support. …”
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An exploratory investigation into the moderating effect of academic resilience on the relationship between academic burnout and counterproductive academic behaviour by Ong, Mark Yi Cong

“…Results indicated: (1) the three-factor structure (i.e., perseverance, reflecting and adaptive help-seeking, negative affect and emotional response) best fit the Academic Resilience Scale for this dataset, (2) only two of academic burnout’s three facets – emotional exhaustion and cynicism (but not lack of academic efficacy) – were significantly and positively associated with counterproductive academic behaviour, and (3) there was no evidence of moderating effects concerning each aspect of academic resilience, on the relationships between each aspect of academic burnout and counterproductive academic behaviour. …”
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Preventing lithium-ion (li-ion) cell fire with an embedded extinguisher by Muhammad Azrie Bin Razale

“…The evolution of our dynamic world has led to global industries seeking to reduce climate change and to produce more sustainable products that will reduce global warming. …”
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The post-modern Japanese identity of Haruki Murakami's literature. by Ling, Shannon.

“…And for the modern Japanese writers like Haruki Murakami, this conflict presents a pertinent issue with his literature often derided by Japanese scholars and writers alike for the failure to represent the real Japan in his novels.In the first part of my thesis, I would seek to explore the influence that the writer himself has on his writing, discussing a little about his history such as the generation of Japanese that he was borne into. …”
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A study of shoppers' motives and profiles by Ang, Delphine Ling Ling, Seah, Beng Huey, Hee, Li Ling

“…Local shoppers do not seek bargain when they go shopping. The study also revealed that the draw factors for the two kinds of shopping centres differ. …”
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Livin' on a prayer : carving spaces of faith in Singapore by Pillai, H Sharanya, Lim, Paige Ying Hui, Kamil, Noor Asyraf, Pang, Xue Qiang

“…In this feature writing project, we seek to capture how minority and non-mainstream religious communities have managed to jostle for place and co-exist. …”
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Human action recognition using pose-based discriminant embedding by Saghafi, Behrouz, Rajan, Deepu

“…Specifically, the proposed embedding minimizes the sum of the distances between intra-class sequences while seeking to maximize the sum of distances between inter-class points. …”
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Public goods in the short and long term by Trammell, P

“…Their primary intended audience is not a planner seeking the efficient frontier, but a philanthropist acting on particular preferences in a partially non-cooperative setting.…”

Competitive overlap as a signal in expert partner choice: evidence from patent law firm selection by Borchhardt, G, Kovacs, B, Rogan, M

“…<p><strong>Research Abstract:</strong> In market networks, firms regularly seek partners with needed expertise, but these partners often work with the firms’ competitors. …”