An investigation of friction-based tendon sheath model appropriate for control purposes by Tjahjowidodo, Tegoeh, Lau, Michael Wai Shing, Phee, Soo Jay, Do, T. N.

“…The new structure of this new model allows a simplified calculation, bringing more valuable practicability and providing an accurate prediction for haptic feedback and control purposes.…”
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Intertainer Asia (A) : programming and distributing Hollywood movies on-line in the Asia-Pacific countries by Rieck, Olaf, Tan, Shirley

“…In addition, the case traces the start-up process of Intertainer Asia and documents how the two entrepreneurs identify, evaluate, and approach market opportunities, form opportunistic relationships in gaining access to critical resources, and bring together those resource components necessary to set up this business. …”
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The great problems are in the street : a phenomenology of men's stranger intrusions on women in public spaces by Vera-Gray, Fiona

“…This thesis contributes new and unique evidence to the limited body of empirical literature on men’s stranger intrusion in public space, commonly termed ‘street harassment’, through a transdisciplinary study bringing a philosophical framework to the study of violence against women and girls (VAWG). …”
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Nicknames in early medieval England: a socio-onomastic study of agnomina before the twelfth century by Alphey, TK

“…Building from a socio-onomastic framework, an inter-disciplinary methodology is advanced, by which a broad range of nickname studies are used to construct hypotheses to bring to our historical data.</p> <br> <p>A number of methodological challenges stand in our way: legibility, orthographical variation, phonetic modification, and determining culture-specific ‘meaning’. …”

Legal politics in the Libyan constitution-making process by van Lier, F

“…However, constitution-making processes in politically unstable countries often do not bring about the desired stability and security. As scholarly research in constitution-making has remained largely normative, there is still little detailed knowledge about why this is the case.…”

Mobilizing bodies: unsettling sustainable mobility through cycling in Los Angeles by Davidson, AC

“…</p> <p>In this dissertation, I work through a methodology of 'riding theory' by bringing together (material) feminist, queer and critical race theories with multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork on cycling practices, focusing mainly on Los Angeles, California. …”

Soft law, hard stakes? State commitment to non-binding international instruments and the case of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by Villeneuve, L

“…In this thesis, incorporating insights from public international law into rationalist IR approaches, I argue that soft law instruments can have important effects over time and bring substantial costs for states to bear. This is particularly the case for soft law instruments ‘hardening’ through domestic law, treaties or customary international law, increasing the sovereignty and implementation costs attached to commitment. …”

Dharmakīrti versus Akalaṅka on the nature, object, and structure of perception by Nahata, S

“…While Dharmakīrti defends the unique triad of perceptual non-conceptualism, epistemic idealism, and non-dualism with a hitherto unseen philosophical rigour, Akalaṅka carves an equally novel path for himself through his defence of a thoroughgoing perceptual conceptualism and a defiant common-sense realism. By bringing to light this sophisticated Buddhist-Jaina philosophical debate, this thesis may contribute to the following areas of study: (1) The reception of Dharmakīrti’s philosophy by Jaina philosophers, (2) The philosophical polemics of marginalised Jaina philosophers such as Akalaṅka, and (3) The history of Indian philosophy understood as an integral part of the global history of philosophy.…”

Uncovering latent features in massive open online courses by Gillani, N

“…<p>Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) bring together a global crowd of thousands of learners for several weeks or months. …”

Environmental and human data-driven model based on machine learning for prediction of human comfort by Mao, Fubing, Zhou, Xin, Song, Ying

“…Providing a comfortable environment for the occupants will bring the benefits of improved health. To achieve this goal, it is necessary to have a reliable human comfort model for predicting the occupants' comfort level and subsequently controlling the involved comfort condition. …”
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Attention-aware resource allocation and QoE analysis for metaverse xURLLC services by Du, Hongyang, Liu, Jiazhen, Niyato, Dusit, Kang, Jiawen, Xiong, Zehui, Zhang, Junshan, Kim, Dong In

“…Metaverse encapsulates our expectations of the next-generation Internet, while bringing new key performance indicators (KPIs). Although conventional ultra-reliable and low-latency communications (URLLC) can satisfy objective KPIs, it is difficult to provide a personalized immersive experience that is a distinctive feature of the Metaverse. …”
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Bitstream-corrupted JPEG images are restorable: two-stage compensation and alignment framework for image restoration by Liu, Wenyang, Wang, Yi, Yap, Kim-Hui, Chau, Lap-Pui

“…In this paper, we study a real-world JPEG image restoration problem with bit errors on the encrypted bitstream. The bit errors bring unpredictable color casts and block shifts on decoded image contents, which cannot be resolved by existing image restoration methods mainly relying on pre-defined degradation models in the pixel domain. …”
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Indonesia : new haven for cybercriminals? by Senol Yilmaz

“…A close examination, however, reveals that such traffic may not originate in Indonesia. More likely, Indonesian networks are exploited by outside e-criminals.…”
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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

“…Supervised datasets may likely contain copyrightable contributions from the dataset creators in the form of annotations. …”
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Unlocking the mysteries behind baby viral videos. by Chung, You Lun., Tan, Peck Lim., Sia, Shang Ying.

“…Contrary to our initial findings, funny baby videos are actually more likely to be shared as opposed to purely adorable ones. …”
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Precursors and correlates of transient and persistent longitudinal profiles of psychotic experiences from late childhood through early adulthood by Rammos, A, Sullivan, SA, Kounali, D, Jones, HJ, Hammerton, G, Hines, LA, Lewis, G, Jones, PB, Cannon, M, Thompson, A, Wolke, D, Heron, J, Zammit, S

“…Thus, it might be that the severity of exposure, rather than the presence of specific disease-modifying factors, is most likely to determine whether psychotic experiences are transient or persist, and potentially develop into a clinical disorder over time.…”

Putting distance through cleansing : the mediating role of temporal distancing on the embodiment of moral purity by Nurul Mira Fatin Abdulkahar

“…More specifically, it is hypothesized that compared to individuals who do not clean their hands, those who do so after recalling a past immoral act would be more likely to temporally distance their present selves away from their past immoral selves so as to preserve favorable self-view, and hence are more likely to perceive their past moral transgressions as less severe than they would have normally believed. …”
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The risk management of unemployment. by Chan, Han Eng., Ling, Julian., Sim, Rodney Boon Hian.

“…Her population is greying. Singapore is likely to undergo a lot of changes, be it the social environment or the economic environment. …”
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Who inadvertently shares deepfakes? Analyzing the role of political interest, cognitive ability, and social network size by Saifuddin Ahmed

“…The findings suggest that those with higher political interests are more likely to share deepfakes inadvertently. Those with lower cognitive ability are also more likely to share deepfakes inadvertently. …”
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What might ASEAN expect from Biden? by Tan, See Seng

“…But for the ASEAN region, Biden’s approach will likely be characterised by both change and continuity relative to that of the Trump administration.…”
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