Gender equality or employment promotion? The politicization of parental leave policy in Finland by Nygard, Mikael, Nyby, Josefine, Kuisma, Mikko

“…We argue that ideological factors delayed a reform of the leave system in a more gender-equal way, since left-wing parties did not only put more emphasis on gender equality and state-regulated leave quotas for fathers than conservatives, they also did so for somewhat other reasons connected with the Social Investment paradigm. …”
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Soft-finite-element-method-driven multiphysics airfoil optimization by Nguyen, VD, Naharro, P-S, Peña, J-M, Jerusalem, A

“…The developed framework is then applied to optimize the aerodynamic performance of 1) an airfoil, 2) a wing, and 3) the fluid–structure interaction problem of an airfoil with a flexible trailing edge. …”

Combinatorial algorithms for scheduling jobs to minimize server usage time by Ren, Runtian

“…This thesis is concerned with three combinatorial optimization problems for job scheduling, named the MinUsageTime Dynamic Bin Packing problem, the Energy-Efficient Job Scheduling problem and the Flexible Job Scheduling problem. …”
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Lipid regulation of exocytosis by Zhang, Jing

“…Exocytosis is a finely tuned program in which the secretory vesicles are directed to fuse with plasma membrane and discharge neurotransmitter or hormone content to the extracellular space. …”
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Investigation on frosting and defrosting performance of superhydrophobic metal additively manufactured materials by Yew, Yun Chian

“…However, between etching time of 10 min and 15 min, there is no significant difference in the frost retardation rate of AM metal. …”
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Associations of accelerometer-measured physical activity, sedentary behaviour, and sleep with next-day cognitive performance in older adults: a micro-longitudinal study by Bloomberg, M, Brocklebank, L, Doherty, A, Hamer, M, Steptoe, A

“…Each 30-min increase in SB was associated with working memory scores 0.05 SD (0.00 to 0.09) lower (p = 0.03); adjustment for sleep characteristics on the previous night did not substantively change these results. …”

Wastewater reclamation in a wafer manufacturing plant by Chen, Jingping.

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Hardcore, minority influence : a pivotal force to reverse the spiral of silence process dynamically. by Lang, Juan.

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Localization using ambient sound sources on Android platform by Tan, Tian Bee.

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Effect of heat-producing needling technique on the local skin temperature : clinical dataset by Liao, Zehuan, Zhao, Yan

“…Within each session, the local ST36 skin temperature and basal body temperature of each participant were measured at 1 min before needle insertion, just after needle insertion and manipulation (if any), 5 min after needle insertion with needle removal immediately after temperature taking, and 5 min after needle removal. …”
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Effect of inorganic fillers on the behaviour of LCP blends by Zhang, Long

“…In this study, a fine fumed silica powder filled polypropylene (PP) composite was blended with LC5000, a thermotropic liquid crystalline polymer (TLCP).…”
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Short film: tomorrow by Chin, Yong Leong

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When the kids come out to play by Loy, Joanne Mei Yee

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Cubed by Xue, En Ge

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A 1.3-micrometre-thick elastic conductor for seamless on-skin and implantable sensors by Jiang, Zhi, Chen, Nuan, Yi, Zhigao, Zhong, Junwen, Zhang, Feilong, Ji, Shaobo, Liao, Rui, Wang, Yan, Li, Haicheng, Liu, Zhihua, Wang, Yang, Yokota, Tomoyuki, Liu, Xiaogang, Fukuda, Kenjiro, Chen, Xiaodong, Someya, Takao

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Component-based security under partial compromise by Dehnel-Wild, M

“…Is there value in making the modelling and analysis as fine-grained as we can, or does the extra effort fail to buy us anything? …”

Optimization and scheduling of applications in a heterogeneous CPU-GPU environment by Karan Rajendra Shetti

“…Using state of the art StarPU scheduling framework and exhaustive benchmarks, it is shown that the fine grained approach in much more efficient for the CPU-GPU environment. …”
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Enhancing the microstructure and strength gain of sustainable cement binders by Lin, Shiyi

“…The result demonstrated that an increase of fine aggregate may have contributed to the high initial strength of MgO than PC due to the formation of hydromagnesite, nesquehonite and magnesite. …”
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Modeling polarity-driven laminar patterns in bilayer tissues with mixed signaling mechanisms by Moore, JW, Dale, TC, Woolley, TE

“…Motivated by cellular mechanisms that control cell-fate decisions in developing bilayer tissues, we use dynamical systems coupled with multilayer graphs to analyze the role of signaling polarity and pathway crosstalk in fine-grain pattern formation of protein activity. …”

Animatezoo: zero-shot video generation of cross-species animation via subject alignment by Xu, Y, Chen, Y, Huang, Z, He, Z, Wang, G, Torr, PHS, Lin, L

“…These components are specifically designed to capture essential appearance information, including identity and fine details. Second, we align shape features and addressconflicts from differing subjects by introducing a scale-information remover. …”