Why did China seldom claim? : Overseas investment and bilateral investment treaties by Chen, Jiaxin

“…The article argues that China ratified the BITs for strategic consideration, including both economic and political aspects. When it comes to the actual use of BITs, the investment institutions and the business-state linkages play essential roles. …”
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Methods of sustainability assessment of green logistics projects - part I: review of external stakeholders on green logistics initiatives by Toh, Alvin De Rong

“…This report seeks to investigate the key considerations that the various external stakeholders have when it comes to sustainability in Green Logistics. Furthermore, this report quantifies stakeholder views and its magnitude into a relationship model framework to assess Green Logistics initiatives. …”
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Machine learning for industrial IOT by Yeow, Brandon Wei Liang

“…We concluded that running successive rounds of FedAvg is key, but sharing data results in a higher accuracy at each epoch in almost all contexts. This comes with a trade-off of higher bandwidth cost and local training times. …”
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Coupling chemical looping air separation with the Allam cycle – a thermodynamic analysis by Saqline, Syed, Yang, Lizhong, Romagnoli, Alessandro, Liu, Wen

“…A key source of energy penalty of Allam cycle comes from the air separation unit (ASU), which supplies pure oxygen via an energy intensive cryogenic process. …”
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Finding Bukit Brown. by Chee, Janie Alison Hui-Yen., Shiu, Pedro Pui Kar., Siti Nurbaya Rameh.

“…The film highlights the heritage value of the cemetery and examines how different Singaporeans are coming to terms with these plans. It is produced by a group of final-year students at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information. …”
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Stress analysis and stress intensity factor computation of DNV X65 pipes subjected to four point bending by Lee, Shaun Raphael Kwok Yuen

“…With improving modern day technology and profit driven oil and gas industries, the oil and gas pipeline network are on rapid expansion, and it is likely to see a continuing trend in the coming years. The upside of these high-pressure pipelines that are buried deep underground is the volume that it carries yearly and the design for safety in transportation compared to rail and road tanks. …”
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Evaporation prediction of ethanol droplet by statistical rate theory by Mao, Wenjian

“…Once the droplet size comes into nanometre scale, the evaporation is increasing significantly. …”
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Dwelling encounters: migration, diversity and ambivalence in an Istanbul neighborhood by Biehl, K

“…It builds on an ethnographic study of a neighbourhood in Istanbul known as Kumkapı, which over recent decades has emerged as a zone of arrival and initial settlement for successive new waves of migrants coming from an ever more expanding geography. Consequently, today it stands as one of Istanbul’s most diverse residential neighbourhoods, with its population differentiated on innumerable fronts including ethnicity, religion, race, gender and age composition, legal rights and statuses, migration channels and intentions, employment opportunities, and the like. …”

Development of Attention-based Prediction Models for All-cause Mortality, Home Care Need, and Nursing Home Admission in Ageing Adults in Spain Using Longitudinal Electronic Health... by Carrasco-Ribelles, LA, Cabrera-Bean, M, Khalid, S, Roso-Llorach, A, Violán, C

“…This is especially important on the older population, an age group growing in the coming decades. Considering longitudinal rather than cross-sectional information from primary care electronic health records (EHRs) can contribute to more informed predictions. …”

A module for infusion high order thinking skills (iHOTS) into measurement and geometric among form one students by Rosool Gani, M.F., Wan Muda, W.H.N., Ab Halim, F., Ismail, N., Khang Wen, G.

“…The research's conclusions indicate a substantial difference between the group control and the group treatment when it comes to the growth of the students' HOTS in mathematics while using the iHOTS technique for level apply, analyze, evaluate, create, as well as whole. …”
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Sociospatial reframing of walking through inclusive streets and urban heritage by Wang, Yongcheng

“…The analysis revealed broad themes such as a vision of a “car-lite” city and the broadening scope of urban heritage, and specific themes such as heritage trails for learning while walking and the blurred line between locals and tourists. …”
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Comparison of text messaging data collection vs face-to-face interviews for public health surveys : a cluster randomized crossover study of care-seeking for childhood pneumonia and... by van Velthoven, Michelle Helena, Wang, Wei, Wu, Qiong, Li, Ye, Scherpbier, Robert W, Du, Xiaozhen, Chen, Li, Zhang, Yanfeng, Car, Josip, Rudan, Igor

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The human right to health & its intersection with multiculturalism by Muyskens, Kathryn Lynn

“…This new understanding of health and healthcare will inevitably influence how the human right to health will be understood, and thus the later chapters of this thesis are devoted to exploring how cultural variations in health and medicine play out in domestic and international policy. …”
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Language and ‘postcolonial shame': the politics of policy, curriculum and classroom practices in urban India by Gupta, M

“…It uses document analysis to look at language and education policies and language textbooks in India and Wales; conducts qualitative in-depth interviews with school teachers and policymakers in India and Wales and includes ethnographic data from non-participant observations of Hindi classrooms across private, government, English-medium and Hindi-medium schools in New Delhi. The chapters explore ‘hidden agendas’ (Shohamy 2005) in policy, ‘hidden curriculum’ (Jackson 1968; Apple 2009) practices and, in some cases, ‘erased curriculum’ (term mine) to study language socialisation in the classroom and language attitudes of shame and pride amongst students.…”

Unfinished business: legalisation and implementation in business and human rights by Palmer, C

“…The thesis argues that an increased focus on implementation generally leads to more effective or greater legalisation. The empirical chapters demonstrate that efforts in implementation are often undertaken for the purpose of strengthening one or more other legalisation characteristics in the long run. …”

Innovation, Strategy, and Transformation Frameworks for the Modern Enterprise / by Correia, Anacleto, 1961-, editor 651890, Agua, Pedro B., 1968-, editor 656382, IGI Global Scientific Publishing (Online service) 655412

“…Project management and agile methodologies, including PMBOK, PRINCE2, and Scrum, are extensively covered in the book's later chapters. The critical role of the Project Management Office (PMO) in organizational leadership, governance, and project management maturity is highlighted. …”
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A DEVELOPER'S GUIDE TO BUILDING RESILIENT CLOUD APPLICATIONS WITH AZURE : Deploy applications on serverless and event-driven architecture using a cloud database / by Trabelsi, Hamida Rebai 656262

“…The book begins with a basic definition of serverless and event-driven architecture and Database-as-a-Service, before moving on to an exploration of the different services in Azure, namely Azure API Management using the gateway pattern, event-driven architecture, Event Grid, Azure Event Hubs, Azure message queues, FaaS using Azure Functions, and the database-oriented cloud. Throughout the chapters, you'll learn about creating, importing, and managing APIs and Service Fabric in Azure, and discover how to ensure continuous integration and deployment in Azure to fully automate the software delivery process, that is, the build and release process. …”
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Free fermion six vertex model: symmetric functions and random domino tilings by Aggarwal, Amol, Borodin, Alexei, Petrov, Leonid, Wheeler, Michael

“…We present two proofs: The first is a direct computation of Eynard–Mehta type, and the second uses non-standard, inhomogeneous versions of fermionic operators in a Fock space coming from the algebraic Bethe Ansatz for the six vertex model. …”
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Performance Characterization of High-Density Electrospray Thrusters by Corrado, Matthew N., Wangari, Charity, Finch, Michael R., Parameswaran, Lalitha, Cook, Matthew, Holihan, Eric C., Mathews, Richard, Kedzierski, Jakub, Racz, Livia M., Smith, Melissa A., Lozano, Paulo C.

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Cooperation and Fairness in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning by Aloor, Jasmine, Nayak, Siddharth Nagar, Dolan, Sydney, Balakrishnan, Hamsa

“…Furthermore, an average of 21% improvement in fairness can be achieved by the proposed model as compared to a model trained on optimally efficient assignments; this increase in fairness comes at the expense of only a 7% decrease in efficiency. …”
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