QE-2 : is it the right move? by J. Soedradjad Djiwandono

“…The US Federal Reserve Bank (Fed) has decided to increase liquidity through quantitative easing of US$ 600 billion from now to June 2011. …”
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Can't Hurt Me : Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds / by Goggins, David, author 655975, Storytel (Online service) 655976

“…This book is a summary of David Goggins' 'Can't Hurt Me', which tells the life story of a United States Armed Forces legend and one of the world's elite endurance athletes. …”
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Is sarcasm detection capability beneficial for sentiment analysis? by Koh, Brian Jin Kiong

“…However, sarcasm, which often tells a meaning opposite to the meaning of the literal words, makes this task harder. …”
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Trolled by Tao, KaiYuan

“…“Trolled” is a traditional 2D hand drawn animated short film. It tells the story of two nomadic siblings, Tabar and Gan and their encounter with a mountain troll on one of their hunting trips together. …”
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Muslim Women in Britain, 1850-1950 : 100 Years of Hidden History / by Cheruvallil-Contractor, Sariya, editor 655989, Gilham, Jamie, editor 655990

“…Uncovering Muslim women's experiences and contributions to society in past generations is essential for us to build a full picture of Muslim life in Britain, then and now. This book tells the stories of Muslim women who lived in Britain between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, from Victorian times to the years immediately after the Second World War - just before immigration profoundly affected the size and composition of Britain's Muslim communities"--…”
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7 daily objects. by Lin, Cheryl Jia Hui.

“…Using the idea that different days can affect a person’s mood and feeling, I want to create a series of objects that represent the characteristics of Natalie. Each object tells stories and when the objects are linked together, they narrate the experience of a daily life in Singapore.…”
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Time before time after by Tang, Chia Xing

“…The idea of Ephemeral allows us to break off from the rigidity of time in modern lifestyles, bringing us closer to nature’s way of telling time. True essence of time can be felt in its absence after its presence. …”
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Rage against the authority machines: how to design artificial moral advisors for moral enhancement by Landes, E, Voinea, C, Uszkai, R

“…We argue that people’s motivational dispositions are enhanced by inspiring people to act morally, instead of merely telling them how to act. Drawing upon these insights, we claim that if AMAs are to genuinely enhance people morally, they should be designed as inspiration and not authority machines. …”

NeuroTribes : The legacy of autism and how to think smarter about people who think differently / by Silberman, Steve, author 656044, Allen & Unwin (Online service) 656043

“…The perpetrators in Silberman’s telling are scientists, political leaders, and clinicians whose fixation on their interpretation of “normal” led to acts of deep cruelty and inhumanity against autistic people, deeds that span the spectrum from superficial to sadistic. …”
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You Are the Placebo : Making Your Mind Matter / by Dispenza, Joe, author 656175, Hay House (Online service) 656169

“…Joe Dispenza shares numerous documented cases of those who reversed cancer, heart disease, depression, crippling arthritis, and even the tremors of Parkinson’s disease by believing in a placebo. Similarly, Dr. Joe tells of how others have gotten sick and even died the victims of a hex or voodoo curse—or after being misdiagnosed with a fatal illness. …”
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Reverse by Wang, Sijia

“…This fantasy novella tells the story of Harper, a girl from an East Asian family, who travels alone to a small town in Northern Europe to find solace before Christmas after breaking up with her girlfriend, because of her family’s objections. …”
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Drawing memories. by Chang, Jerly Wei Kiang.

“…It is completed as a final year project at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), School of Art, Design and Media (ADM). The film tells a simple and heart wrenching story about a little boy who is brought back to the last reminiscence of his mother. …”
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From captivity to courtship : the representation of romance in Samuel Richardson's Pamela and Disney's beauty and the beast by Siti Aishah Kasman

“…The story of the captive heroine found in the likes of Samuel Richardson’s Pamela endures time and underwent a relatively similar re-telling in Disney’s 1991 animated film, Beauty and the Beast. …”
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Finding meaning in the meaningless : the language of faith surrounding pentecostal glossolalia in Singapore by Mah, Benjamin Ye-Zhong

“…Presbyterians and Pentecostals frame their arguments and experiences by engaging differently with biblical text, agency, and story-telling narratives to convey their points. This paper critically compares these two religious experiences and how speakers express their different versions of faith and reality.…”
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It is not about AI, it is about humans. Responsibility gaps and medical AI by Giubilini, A

“…The point I make is generalizable to AI as used and discussed more broadly: the language used to refer to AI often tells more about humans and human relationships than about AI itself and our relationship with it. …”

The pig story ''tiboi sakkoko'' : storytelling of kinship, memories of the past, and rights to plots of ancestral land in Mentawai by Tulius, Juniator

“…In the course of time, storytellers establish particular ways of telling their stories so as to remember the content and plot of the stories easily. …”
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The Nightingale / by Hannah, Kristin, author 369246, Macmillan Books (Online service) 655983

“…With courage, grace and powerful insight, bestselling author Kristin Hannah captures the epic panorama of WWII and illuminates an intimate part of history seldom seen: the women’s war. The Nightingale tells the stories of two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals, passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path toward survival, love, and freedom in German-occupied, war-torn France–a heartbreakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the durability of women. …”
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Discovery zone in the library : a new service for the children by Tan, Florence Kia Mui.

“…The differences in the perception between parents and their children point to the need to value children's feedback who are the best persons in telling designers what is considered fun and play.…”
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Recognising rotationally symmetric surfaces from their outlines by Forsyth, DA, Mundy, JL, Zisserman, A, Rothwell, CA

“…The results additionally yield techniques for identifying the line in the image plane corresponding to the axis of a rotationally symmetric surface, and for telling whether a surface is rotationally symmetric or not from its outline alone.…”

Autism narratives in Singapore by Ho, Melissa Yun Ling

“…In this thesis, I identify and analyse some common tropes and trends in Singaporean autism narratives, exploring how these stereotypes and discourses emerge in the context of Singapore, and argue for the need to take narrative ethics into consideration in telling stories about autism. Examining Singaporean autism narratives allows us insight into the ways in which dominant global discourses about autism are negotiated in local contexts; narratives are shaped by their socio-cultural contexts and examining those from Singapore, a globalised and multicultural, yet socially conservative city-state, enables us to understand the ways in which such multiple discourses come to bear upon individual narratives. …”
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