Rhetorical contestation and the mediterranean migration crisis, 2013-2018 by He, Wendy Qingli

“…By ascribing complicity to others using highly politicized rhetoric, the EU and Italy complicate the narrative of the migration crisis, making it more challenging to attribute responsibility to any one party. Instead of implementing a common approach to migration, the use of complicity allows EU member states such as Italy to evade responsibility, focusing instead on a nationally orientated migration policy of securing their borders. …”
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Multi-view human action recognition in meeting scenarios by Yin, Haixiang

“…Due to the continuous development in deep learning and computer vision, the recognition of human actions has become one of the most popular research topics. Various methods have been proposed to tackle this problem. …”
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Distributed classification with variable distributions by Quach, Vinh Thanh

“…When the data at a location is insufficient, one may apply a naive solution to gather data from other (remote) places and classify it using a centralized algorithm. …”
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Delay-and-pay: prolonging pharmaceutical patent protection without paying the ‘price’ by Foss-Solbrekk, K

“…This strategy is based on the notion that it is significantly more profitable for patentees to delay generic/biosimilar market entry by way of a patent infringement claim and ensuing injunction, then pay damages to the enjoined party should the infringement claim be defeated. …”

The road to federalism : finding the middle ground in Nepal, Myanmar and Sri Lanka by Breen, Michael Gerard

“…Nepal, Myanmar and Sri Lanka are finding a middle ground whereby deliberative and moderating institutions are combined with accommodating ones to balance centrifugal and centripetal forces. …”
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An efficient analog Hamming distance comparator realized with a unipolar memristor array: a showcase of physical computing by Ge, Ning, Yoon, Jung Ho, Hu, Miao, Merced-Grafals, E. J., Davila, Noraica, Strachan, John Paul, Li, Zhiyong, Holder, Helen, Xia, Qiangfei, Williams, R. Stanley, Zhou, Xing, Yang, J. Joshua

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Illusory occlusion affects stereoscopic depth perception by Chen, Zhimin, Denison, Rachel N., Whitney, David, Maus, Gerrit W.

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15th General Election: What are the Factors Determining the Electoral Results? by Mohd. Zain, Zawiyah, Ahmad, Zalinah, Othman, Zaheruddin, Ajis, Mohd Na'eim, Omar, Salmah

“…The study finds that subsequent to the announcement of the 15th general election results, no one party had secured an easy majority victory resulting in a hung parliament. …”
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Ray tracing in Mac OS X by Lim, Bing Yan

“…The type of resources gathered range from the source code for POV-Ray on the different operating systems that is available on the offical POV-Ray website to the source codes of third-party ports and emulating or virtualizing environments. …”
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The Malaysian 'Islamic' state versus the Islamic state (IS) : evolving definitions of 'Terror' in an 'Islamising' nation-state by Chan, Nicholas Wai Yeap

“…Through tracing the changes in the state's definition of a ‘terrorist’, we seek to show how the portrait of a terrorist is not only inherently political (and at certain junctures, politicised), but it also reflects on the nature of the state, as the ' terrorist' is invariably the constitutive other of the state, albeit one at the extreme end. In the case of Malaysia, we have shown that the discursive ease m externalising the ' terrorist' is not always a certainty. …”
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Biological corneal inlay for presbyopia derived from small incision lenticule extraction (SMILE) by Liu, Yu-Chi, Teo, Ericia Pei Wen, Ang, Heng Pei, Seah, Xin Yi, Lwin, Nyein Chan, Yam, Gary Hin Fai, Mehta, Jodhbir Singh

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Efficient computation of the Nagaoka–Hayashi bound for multiparameter estimation with separable measurements by Conlon, Lorcán O., Suzuki, Jun, Lam, Ping Koy, Assad, Syed Muhamad

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Merge : the hybridization of architecture, infrastructure, and landscape by Fausto, Ariel

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Geographically-aware mobile application for managing events and interest group communications by Lee, Chong Yan

“…However, sometimes, people need timely information to make time-critical decision. For example, supposed one meets a roadblock during his road trip and there is no information in the Internet, one would prefer to have a fast and prompt reply to the resolution, whether to revert path or move forward, which a forum would not be able to do so. …”
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An in-depth exploration of the post-test informational needs of BRCA1 and BRCA2 pathogenic variant carriers in Asia by Yuen, Jeanette, Fung, Si Ming, Sia, Chin Leong, Venkatramani, Mallika, Shaw, Tarryn, Courtney, Eliza, Li, Shao-Tzu, Chiang, Jianbang, Tan, Veronique Kiak-Mien, Tan, Benita Kiat-Tee, Ngeow, Joanne

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Study of 3PL selection and development in Singapore by Liu, Zelai

“…Due to the increasing competition globally, many companies have chosen to outsource their logistics functions and activities to external third party logistics (3PL) service providers. One of the important issues is how to select the most compatible, efficient and capable 3PL service providers. …”
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Binding modes of teixobactin to lipid ii : molecular dynamics study by Liu, Yang, Liu, Yaxin, Chan-Park, Mary Bee Eng, Mu, Yuguang

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Function of second cladding layer in hollow core tube lattice fibers by Huang, Xiaosheng, Yoo, Seongwoo, Yong, KenTye

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Distilling crowd knowledge from software-specific Q&A discussions for assisting developers’ knowledge search by Chen, Chunyang

“…Faced with the fact that there is a limited number of developers, one important way to meet such urgent needs is to significantly improve developers’ productivity. …”
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Genuine N-partite entanglement without N-partite correlation functions by Tran, Minh Cong, Zuppardo, Margherita, de Rosier, Anna, Knips, Lukas, Laskowski, Wiesław, Paterek, Tomasz, Weinfurter, Harald

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