China Internet Development Report 2019 : Blue Book for World Internet Conference / by Chinese Academy of Cyberspace Studies issuing body 643062, World Internet Conference (2020) 643063, CCTB Translation Service, translator 643064

“…This book systematically summarizes China Internet development over the past 25 years, highlighting its strong impact on China's economy and society, and discussing the Chinese people's transition from beneficiaries and participants to builders, contributors and joint maintainers of cyberspace development. …”

Mastery / by Greene, Robert, author 376350, Penguin Random House (Online service) 655978

“…Learn the secrets of the field you have chosen, submit to a rigorous apprenticeship, absorb the hidden knowledge possessed by those with years of experience, surge past competitors to surpass them in brilliance, and explode established patterns from within. …”
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OLIVER TWIST / by Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870, author 457349

“…Oliver Twist is born in the harsh confines of a workhouse, his mother expiring in childbirth, his father unknown. After enduring years of brutal treatment, Oliver runs away to London, where he falls in with a band of child pickpockets led by the villainous Fagin. …”

REVENGE IN VIOLENT HUES / by Nadiah Zakaria, author 655918

“…Amalia Maganti can communicate with ghosts ever since the mysterious death of her father six years ago. On the night of her 18th birthday, she discovers that her father’s paintings are portals to the hidden realm—a direct entry to the different parts of Gemerlapan, right beneath her abusive mother’s nose. …”

Review of mobile application performance evaluation to enhance selection and prediction in mobile app development by Aleem, Muhammad, Noorhuzaimi, Mohd Noor, Ali, Ehtesham, Ibrahim, Hassan, Al Mamun, Mohd Abdullah, Bashir, Muhammad Talha

“…This comprehensive review synthesizes findings from the past four years, proposing an integrated structure to leverage predictive analytics for anticipating user needs, user sentiment analysis for understanding customer preferences, and feature prioritization for optimizing application development. …”
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Manipulation in the in situ growth design parameters of aqueous zinc-based electrodes for batteries: The fundamentals and perspectives by Nurul Akmal, Che Lah

“…Precise exploitation of the growth of Zn metal anode in a power converter system has re-emerged as one of the technological interests that have surged globally in the past 5 years, specifically to improve the practical use of deep cycling metal batteries. …”
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A comprehensive review of state-of-the-art optical methods for methane gas detection by Khandaker, Sayma, Nurulain Nadhirah, Shaipizaman, Hasan, Md Mahmudul, Mohd Amir Shahlan, Mohd Aspar, Hadi, Manap

“…Methane (CH₄), a potent greenhouse gas, significantly contributes to climate change and global warming. Its impact over 100 years surpasses carbon dioxide (CO₂) by 28 times. …”
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Paradoxes of Openness: Trans Experiences in Open Source Software by Frluckaj, Hana, Stevens, Nikki, Howison, James, Dabbish, Laura

“…In recent years, concerns have increased over the lack of contributor diversity in open source software (OSS), despite its status as a paragon of open collaboration. …”
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Autopia's End: The Decline and Fall of Detroit's Automotive Manufacturing Landscape by Ryan, Brent D., Campo, Daniel

“…This paper surveys the disappearance of Detroit’s auto factories, and documents the histories of three of the largest complexes: the Chrysler-Chalmers Plant, cleared for a redeveloped factory; the Cadillac Plant, cleared for a failed economic development project; and the Packard Plant, slowly abandoned over 60 years. The paper calls for a revised theory and practice of preservation that accommodates the weak markets, imperfect condition, and informal uses that characterize abandoned industrial buildings in shrinking cities.…”
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Modelling driver response under road pricing by Xie, Litian

“…Transportation planners and researchers have for many years been interested in the performance of the Singapore Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) system as a method of relieving congestion. …”
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Friend, foe or frenemy? Traditional journalism actors’ changing attitudes towards peripheral players and their innovations by Chua, Sherwin, Duffy, Andrew

“…This study synthesises two analytical frameworks—journalistic strangers and agents of media innovation—to examine how perceptions among newsworkers towards new entrants to their field shape the normalisation of innovations in a digitalfirst legacy news organisation over three years. Based on two rounds of interviews, it finds that peripheral players are gradually recognised for their contributions to journalism by traditional actors. …”
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Teacher professionalism : behaviour and practices of teachers in a neighbourhood secondary school by Sujeetha Margarita Brampy, W. K.

“…The Teacher Professionalism Instrument gathered responses that indicated that there is no significant correlation between years of teaching experience and teacher professionalism, as well as its two dimensions of commitment to professional behaviour and engagement in professional development.…”
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Deep learning assisted optical wavefront shaping in disordered medium by Luo, Yunqi, Li, Huanhao, Zhang, Ruochong, Lai, Puxiang, Zheng, Yuanjin

“…Wavefront shaping (WFS) has been put forward several years ago to break the limitation caused by optical scattering in inhomogeneous medium, and realize optical focusing in disordered medium like biological tissues. …”
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Design and development of blockchain based energy trading platform for Electric Vehicle (EV) charging by Lim, Rachel Li Ting

“…The integration of blockchain energy trading system has garnered much attention in recent years. Through the use of blockchain based energy trading smart contract, transactions between EVs and the power grid are made possible, without an intermediary. …”
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Economic analysis of membrane-based separation of biocatalyst: mode of operation and stage configuration by Kapavarapu, MSR Sridhar, Ma, Yunqiao, Vasudevan, Suraj V., Chew, Jia Wei

“…The results indicate that a capital expenditure of $1.35 million and an annual operating expenditure of $85.6 thousand are needed to install a new ultrafiltration unit for a yearly permeation of 0.64 billion liters. While capital cost depends heavily on membrane area, operating cost depends on TMP and fluid flow across the unit.…”
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Viral content: a theory of vaccine hesitancy based on information encountering in the greater Manila area, Philippines by Sacramento, Simon Philip R., Sipin, Ian Dominic P.

“…The Philippine Department of Health, Food and Drug Administration temporarily suspended the administration of the AstraZeneca vaccine to persons below 60 years old on April 8, 2021, due to reports of “rare cases of blood clots with low platelets detected in some individuals inoculated with the vaccine.” …”
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Applications of deep learning to neurodevelopment in pediatric imaging: achievements and challenges by Hu, Mengjiao, Nardi, Cosimo, Zhang, Haihong, Ang, Kai Keng

“…A non-exhaustive list of commonly used publicly available pediatric neuroimaging datasets and repositories are included, followed by a categorical review of recent works in pediatric MRI-based deep learning studies in the past five years. These works are categorized into recognizing neurodevelopmental disorders, identifying brain and tissue structures, estimating brain age/maturity, predicting neurodevelopment outcomes, and optimizing MRI brain imaging and analysis. …”
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Strange mythologies: cultural and linguistic opacity in Argonauts of the Western Pacific by Scott, Bede

“…During the years he spent conducting fieldwork in the Trobriand Islands, Bronislaw Malinowski became convinced that foreign cultures should be studied in their entirety, as fully integrated, “organic” structures. …”
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Nominalization In the Kiranti And Central Himalayish languages of Nepal by Watters, David E.

“…Numerous grammars have been published on Kiranti and Central Himalayish languages in recent years and though nominalization has been a pervasive feature in most of them, it is not always clear from the nomenclature that we are dealing with nominalizations at all. …”
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Achieving 500x acceleration for adversarial robustness verification of tree-based smart grid dynamic security assessment by Ren, Chao, Zou, Chunran, Xiong, Zehui, Yu, Han, Dong, Zhao Yang, Dusit, Niyato

“…Based on tree algorithms technique, the data-driven smart grid DSA has received significant research interests in recent years. However, the well-trained tree-based DSA models with high accuracy are always vulnerable caused by some physical noises or attacks, which can misclassify the DSA results. …”
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