The treachery of authority through Banville and Atwood by Lau, Qian Yu

“…Conversely, The Handmaid’s Tale is set in the “Republic of Gilead” (33), which is a Christian theocracy, where citizens are oppressed and endure much brutality. The story centers on Offred, who has become a marginalized citizen under the new rule. …”
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Smart computers : can you tell my mood ? by Seow, Mervin Jun Jie

“…The ability for computers to understand a person’s emotions can be found in applications such as a lie detector, and call centers. The classifier is built and designed on MATLAB, based on multi-layer perceptron with back propagation as the training function. …”
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A novel photoanode with three-dimensionally, hierarchically ordered nanobushes for highly efficient photoelectrochemical cells by Karuturi, Siva Krishna, Luo, Jingshan, Cheng, Chuanwei, Liu, Lijun, Su, Liap Tat, Fan, Hong Jin, Tok, Alfred Iing Yoong

“…The photoanode structure has several favorable intrinsic characteristics, including high interface area, direct electron transport pathways, and engineered light scattering centers. Sensitization with CdS quantum dots is demonstrated, and this nanobush photoanode is expected to be advantageous also in solar cells.…”
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Effectiveness of integrative structural family therapy and double ABCX model on marital adjustment and parenting stress among parents of children with autism: randomized controlled... by AlHorany, Ahmed Kamel, Hassan, Siti Aishah, Juhari, Rumaya, Aljaberi, Musheer A.

“…A randomized controlled trial conducted on 60 parents of children with ASD showed that integrative SFT and double ABCX therapy, conducted over ten sessions of multiple family therapy in group counseling for five weeks and a one-month follow-up at special needs children’s centers in Jordan, resulted in a 48% increase in marital adjustment and a 34% reduction in parenting stress. …”

Experiment verification of second harmonic generation from ENZ material by Lai, Si Ting

“…Epsilon near zero (ENZ) material is a material with near zero permittivity and it has drawn considerable attention in light-matter interaction. …”
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Soft X-Ray absorption spectroscopy of the MgB2 boron K edge in an MgB2/Mg composite by Li, Qiang, Zhu, Yimei, Su, Haibin, Fischer, D. A., Moodenbaugh, A. R., Gu, G. D., Welch, David O., Davenport, James W.

“…The intrinsic boron K near edge spectrum of the sample at a temperature of 295 K is identified. …”
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Computational diagnostics and characterization of combustion recession in diesel sprays by Arguelles, FJ, Fagade, MD, Mehra, J, Xu, C, Sekularac, N, Fang, XH

“…With more recent studies on diesel after end-of-injection (AEOI), combustion recession is identified as a phenomenon where at near nozzle region, high-temperature ignition (HTI) combustion can propagate back to the nozzle tip consuming the unburnt hydrocarbons AEOI. …”

Simultaneous mid-infrared gas sensing and upconversion based on third harmonic generation in cascaded waveguides by Pan, Jianxing, Chen, Zhenxing, Huang, Tianye, Zeng, Shuwen, Cheng, Zhuo, Huang, Pan, Zhao, Xiang, Shum, Perry Ping, Brambilla, Gilberto

“…Moreover, the signal is up converted from mid-infrared to near-infrared and thus it can be easily detected by efficient near-infrared detectors. …”
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SMART MOBILITY : EXPLORING FOUNDATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES AND WIDER IMPACTS / by Khamis, Alaa, author 643152

“…The socioeconomic changes in our urban centers are vast, and Smart Mobility breaks down the core concepts with meaningful data and insights. …”

Live Verification in an Interactive Proof Assistant by Gruetter, Samuel, Fukala, Viktor, Chlipala, Adam

“…We prototyped our technique in the interactive proof assistant Coq, so our framework creates machine-checked proofs that the developed functions satisfy their specifications when executed according to the formal semantics of the source language. …”
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Kinetic modelling of 70S ribosome and F1-ATPase by Le, Quang Luan

“…This is attributed to more sluggish ribosomes occupied with near cognates, causing less ribosomes for cognates. …”
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Curiosity Opens Relationships of the World and with Others: Narratives from Doing Teaching and Learning Through Curiosity by Cavicchi, Elizabeth

“…What potentials does curiosity bear for education? Some characterizations portray curiosity as self-motivated search for answers, a drive conformable with conventional education’s imperative for correct answers. …”
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Cultivating Radical Imagination: An Approach to Disrupting Antiblackness in Computer Science Education by Sadler, Cecilé

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Diastereoselective hydroalkylation of aryl alkenes enabled by remote hydride transfer by Gandamana, Dhika Aditya, Gagosz, Fabien, Chiba, Shunsuke

“…Leveraging of 1,5-hydride shift enabled diastereoselective hydroalkylation of aryl alkenes, allowing for construction of consecutive vicinal stereogenic centers in a single process. The transformation is triggered by electrophilic alkylation of aryl alkenes with in-situ generated carbocations, that is followed by diastereoselective 1,5-hydride shift to the resulting benzylic carbocation through a rigid 6-membered ring chair-like transition state.…”
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Disruption of the Broadcast by Packer, Randall

“…And conversely, with the emerging tools of the Web, self-publishing blogs, and social media, artists are increasingly engaged in reporting news and opinion, becoming their own media outlets, distribution centers, and independent news feeds. In this sense, the new media artist uses technological means to take control of media information and broadcast it according to their own perspective.…”
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Tsunami hazard from the subduction megathrust of the South China Sea : Part I. source characterization and the resulting tsunami by Megawati, Kusnowidjaja, Shaw, Felicia, Sieh, Kerry, Huang, Zhenhua, Wu, Tso-Ren, Lin, Yunung, Tan, Soon Keat, Pan, Tso-Chien

“…Results indicate that this megathrust poses a risk of devastating tsunami for the Philippines, southern China, Vietnam and other population centers bordering the South China Sea.…”
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Is the rule-based order in AI dead, or is still kicking? [Conference paper] by Vassilev, Vassil

“…The position of this article is that combining the classical rule-based approach from the early days of AI with more recent developments in AI, such as data-focused machine learning and utility-based reinforcement learning, as well as utilization of the recent technological developments on the cloud and at data centers can be beneficial for widening the real-world application of AI. …”
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Uncertainties of glacial isostatic adjustment model predictions in North America associated with 3D structure by Li, Tanghua, Wu, Patrick, Wang, Hansheng, Steffen, Holger, Khan, Nicole S., Engelhart, Simon E., Vacchi, Matteo, Shaw, Timothy Adam, Peltier, W. Richard, Horton, Benjamin Peter

“…Spatially, the size of the RSL uncertainties varies across North America with the largest from Hudson Bay and near previous ice margins along the northern Atlantic and Pacific coasts, which suggests 3D viscosity structure in the lower mantle and laterally varying lithospheric thickness. …”
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Dynamics in blue emitting metal halide perovskites for light emitting diodes by Karlsson, Max

“…Simple bandgap-tunability is easily achieved by compositional and dimensional engineering, allowing perovskite emission to span a broad wavelength region from ultraviolet to near infrared. As with previous technologies, attaining stable, bright, and pure blue light has proven difficult also in metal halide perovskites. …”
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Artificial Intelligence and the US-China Balance of Power by Chang, Benjamin Angel

“…Finally, the third essay exploits supply chain datasets to assess each side’s ability to bring AI-enabled autonomous weapons to bear in future conventional conflicts. I find that control over the production of advanced AI chips by the United States and allies almost certainly means the United States would better exploit such weapons, if they emerged as decisive in modern warfare, within at least the next ten years. …”
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