The Whole Picture : The colonial story of the art in our museums... and why we need to talk about it / by Procter, Alice, author 656024, Octopus (Online service) 656025

“…People are waking up to the seedy history of the world's art collections, and are starting to ask difficult questions about what the future of museums should look like. In The Whole Picture , art historian and Uncomfortable Art Tour guide Alice Procter provides a manual for deconstructing everything you thought you knew about art, and fills in the blanks with the stories that have been left out of the art history canon for centuries. …”
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How Stories Change Us : A Developmental Science of Stories from Fiction and Real Life / by Reese, Elaine, author 655966

“…Stories may even help future generations to cope with global issues like future pandemics and climate change"--…”
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21W.730-4 Writing and the Environment, Fall 2002 by Taft, Cynthia B.

“…We will consider the strategies of popular science writers like Lewis Thomas, David Quammen, John McPhee, and Ursula K. …”
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15.389 Global Entrepreneurship Lab, Fall 2002 by Locke, Richard M., 1959-, Murray, Fiona E., Johnson, Simon, Pentland, Alex Paul

“…We would like MIT Sloan to become the first place that global startups look for advice and help. …”
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Self-assembled structures using CABC multi-block copolymers by Zheng, Jie

“…Varying the lengths of A and C segments (varying the hydrophobicity), the assembly morphological change from spherical micelles to discs, toroids, oval toroids, and cage-like structures. I also crosslinked toroids and studied their size change below and above LCST with keeping the toroid structures.…”
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Microtissue-encapsulating devices for hypoxia reduction of cellular therapeutics in diabetes treatment by Chen, Yang

“…First, islet-like microtissues with varying geometries such as toroid, rod and spheroid were designed and fabricated using micromolded non-adhesive hydrogels where monodispersed rat insulinoma β cells assembled into microtissues. …”
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Public opinion trend analysis on nuclear energy via aspect-based sentiment analysis methods by Huang, Fan

“…As online social media platforms like Twitter prevail in recent years, many public ideas and opinions are generating and spreading around the virtual world every minute. …”
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Biocompatible ionic liquids in high-performing organic electrochemical transistors for ion detection and electrophysiological monitoring by Li, Ting, Koh, Cheryl Jie Yan, Moudgil, Akshay, Cao, Huan, Wu, Xihu, Chen, Shuai, Hou, Kunqi, Surendran, Abhijith, Stephen, Meera, Tang, Cindy, Wang, Chongwu, Wang, Qi Jie, Tay, Chor Yong, Leong, Wei Lin

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Investigation of digital twins and metaverse by Chow, Harry Yun Fatt

“…Currently, 73% of construction companies use BIM in their projects [5], and countries like the UK, USA, and Singapore have mandated the use of BIM in public sector projects [6]. …”
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Optical and optoelectronic properties of Si nanocrystals embedded in dielectric matrix by Ding, Liang

“…Visible and near infrared (IR) electroluminescence (EL) has been observed from a metal–oxide–semiconductor-like (MOS-like) structure with nc-Si embedded in the gate oxide. …”
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Sound event recognition in unstructured environments using spectrogram image processing by Dennis, Jonathan William

“…Although this field is traditionally overshadowed by the popular field of automatic speech recognition (ASR), an SER system that can achieve human-like sound recognition performance opens up a range of novel application areas. …”
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Electro spun dual structured and three-dimensional biodegradable scaffolds for bone and cartilage tissue engineering by Vidya Chamundeswari Narasimhan

“…Using a blend of hydrophobic and hydrophilic polymers, this mechanically viable, sponge-like 3D scaffold exhibited sufficiently large pores and enabled cell penetration beyond 500 μm. …”
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Understanding the justifications for food policies through political theory: a method for public policy analysis by Thomas, O

“…In response to this, states have gradually introduced policies to curb sugar consumption, ranging from restrictive interventions like bans, to high-agency interventions like awareness campaigns. …”

Acute inflammatory diseases of the central nervous system after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination by Francis, AG, Elhadd, K, Camera, V, Ferreira Dos Santos, M, Rocchi, C, Adib-Samii, P, Athwal, B, Attfield, K, Barritt, A, Craner, M, Fisniku, L, Iversen, AKN, Leach, O, Matthews, L, Redmond, I, O'Riordan, J, Scalfari, A, Tanasescu, R, Wren, D, Huda, S, Leite, MI, Fugger, L, Palace, J

“…MOGIgG+ patients presented most commonly with TM (10/12, 83%), frequently in combination with ADEM-like brain/brainstem lesions (6/12, 50%). Transverse myelitis was longitudinally extensive in 7 of the 10 patients. …”

Enhancing driver safety : Real-time eye detection for drowsiness prevention driver assistance systems † by Zainah, Md Zain, Mohd Shahril, Roseli, Nurul Athirah, Abdullah

“…This paper addresses this issue by proposing a drowsiness detection system based on image processing, utilizing a cascade of classifiers built on Haar-like features. The system effectively detects the eyes, allowing for determination of eye closure or opening, which serves as an indicator of driver drowsiness.…”
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Assessing narrative competence in preschool children: Key measures and ensuring reliability and validity by Wu, Bo, Jamal Rizal, Razali

“…Validity evidence, such as convergent and discriminant validity, highlights the multidimensional nature of narrative competence and its close associations with skills like vocabulary and higher-order cognitive functions. …”
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Characterizing Image Recognition Difficulty in Artificial and Biological Visual Processing by Cummings, Jesse E.

“…However, these models continue to fail in real-world applications and in un-human-like ways creating a disparity between the performance that benchmarks report and the performance that users experience. …”
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Battery Blueprint: Saudi Arabia’s Strategic Foray into the Battery Value Chain by Alhakbani, Alanoud

“…However, the Kingdom must navigate barriers such as market competition and the need for technological expertise in advanced battery production, a market led by heavyweights like China and innovators across the globe. This study assesses the viability of a bottom-up technology catch-up approach for industrial competency in battery technology—a contrast to the top-down models employed by established players. …”
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A Study on Deploying Large Language Models as Agents by Cao, Jiannan

“…The study begins with an in-depth analysis of language models, tracing their evolution from pure statistical models to advanced neural network architectures like Transformers and their bidirectional variants. …”
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Wear behaviour of martensitic NiTi shape memory alloy under ball-on-disk sliding tests by Yan, Lina, Liu, Yong, Liu, Erjia

“…A special wear feature, herein referred to as the “crown-like structure”, was produced under near-zero and transition wear conditions and was observed for the first time in this study. …”
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