Why is income inequality necessary for economic growth? If income equality is achieved, will economic growth stagnate? by Tan, Melisa Mei Jin

“…Intense emotions tend to gather on the issue of income inequality with many scholars rallying the negative impacts of income inequality on economic growth. There may not be one best positive impact of income inequality, but a careful thought on the causal and consequences of income inequality will shed light that beyond the negativity, positive impacts of income inequality on economic growth are also worth investigating. …”
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Information visualization of ageing genomics data of human and model organisms by Poluru Mastan, Nayana Rao

“…The main aim of this project is to design the visualization technique that best suits the collected data, to implement the visualization method and lastly to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed visualization methods. …”
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Artisitck A : a new, convenient way of light painting by Ng, Su Hui

“…The author will also explore in image processing to get the best possible results. An add on POV display is also proposed as an improvement to this project. …”
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At-least-potentially-non-contrastive transcendence in Tanner’s God and Creation in Christian Theology by Davison, A

“…In concluding this paper, I argue that while the freedom and causal powers of creatures should be seen as more than a matter of divine whim, that is best argued in terms of suitability or fittingness, and not – as Tanner recognises – of necessity.…”

Designing and implementing experiments within local bureaucratic systems: a cautionary tale from an educator incentive program by Asad, S, Habib, M, Karachiwalla, N, Kosec, K, Leaver, C, ur Rehman, A

“…Partnering with governments to co-design pilot interventions and embed them in local bureaucratic systems is increasingly seen as ‘best practice’ on grounds of scalability and sustainability. …”

Narrative understanding by Prescott-Couch, A

“…Even if narrative is not the best means for providing us with causal information, it can provide us with information about something else of importance such as the events' “meanings” or others' experiences. …”

Automated flower classification over a large number of classes by Nilsback, M, Zisserman, A

“…Results show that learning the optimum kernel combination of multiple features vastly improves the performance, from 55.1% for the best single feature to 72.8% for the combination of all features.…”

Learning to count anything: reference-less class-agnostic counting with weak supervision by Hobley, M, Prisacariu, V

“…We also propose an improved dataset, FSC-133, which removes errors, ambiguities, and repeated images from FSC-147 and demonstrate similar performance on it. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first weakly-supervised reference-less class-agnostic counting method.…”

Masdar City: ‘City of Possibilities’ by Griffiths, S

“…This, however, may ultimately prove to be the best outcome for Masdar City if it is truly to become a model for sustainable cities of the future.…”

Collective reflective equilibrium, algorithmic bioethics and complex ethics by Savulescu, J

“…Secondly, Harris famously advanced the egalitarian position in response to utilitarian approaches to allocation (such as maximizing Quality Adjusted Life Years [QALYs]) that what people want is the greatest chance of the longest, best quality life for themselves, and justice requires treating these claims equally. …”

The effect of defining model on the accuracy of syntactic class identification in when-definitions in digital dictionaries by Ptasznik, Bartosz, Lew, Robert

“…The aim of the present contribution is to identify the best variant of the single-clause when definition in online monolingual English dictionary entries. …”
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The downside deviation quadratic programming for stock portfolio optimisation: an empirical study of shariah and conventional indices in Indonesia by Muhammad Mussafi, Noor Saif, Ismail, Zuhaimy, Bazilah Aziz, Nur Arina

“…The results showed that the portfolio group 1 had the best risk on the shariah platform, while the portfolio group 7 was superior to conventional. …”

Towards sustainable socially-aware mobile crowdsensing : leveraging hierarchical game for incentive mechanisms by Nie, Jiangtian

“…Recently, socially-aware crowdsensing services have been introduced as the integration of social networks and crowdsensing platforms. …”
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Prediction of stable perovskite quantum dots (QDs) using machine learning (ML) algorithms by Cheong, Ivan

“…However, they have not been widely studied, with applications limited to solar cells and catalytic activity, the full extent of possible applications are yet to be realised. …”
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Surface reconstruction on spinel oxides for oxygen evolution reaction by Luo, Songzhu

“…Surface reconstruction has been proposed as an efficacious strategy to promote the OER performance of spinel oxides. …”
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High-speed indoor MIMO visible light communications by Dong, F

“…This thesis focuses on how to best use the MIMO resource regarding the complexity of implementation and control of such a system.…”

Indicators of Global Climate Change 2023: annual update of key indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence by Forster, PM, Smith, C, Walsh, T, Lamb, WF, Lamboll, R, Hall, B, Hauser, M, Ribes, A, Rosen, D, Gillett, NP, Palmer, MD, Rogelj, J, von Schuckmann, K, Trewin, B, Allen, M, Andrew, R, Betts, RA, Borger, A, Boyer, T, Broersma, JA, Buontempo, C, Burgess, S, Cagnazzo, C, Cheng, L, Friedlingstein, P, Gettelman, A, Gütschow, J, Ishii, M, Jenkins, S, Lan, X, Morice, C, Mühle, J, Kadow, C, Kennedy, J, Killick, RE, Krummel, PB, Minx, JC, Myhre, G, Naik, V, Peters, GP, Pirani, A, Pongratz, J, Schleussner, C-F, Seneviratne, SI, Szopa, S, Thorne, P, Kovilakam, MVM, Majamäki, E, Jalkanen, J-P, van Marle, M

“…Human-induced warming has been increasing at a rate that is unprecedented in the instrumental record, reaching 0.26 [0.2–0.4] °C per decade over 2014–2023. …”

Impact of BPL penalty functions and PSF models in PET/CT radial spatial resolution recovery by Si, Wang Jie

“…Introduction: A conventional three-point source method adhering to NEMA NU 2-2018 has been introduced where three-point sources are placed at 1 cm, 10 cm, and 20 cm within the PET/CT FOV to evaluate impact of radial distance on spatial resolution. …”
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Storage and eruption of silicic magma across the transition from dominantly effusive to caldera-forming states at an arc volcano (Santorini, Greece) by Druitt, Timothy H., Fabbro, Gareth N., Costa, Fidel

“…Processes driving crystallization appear to have been similar in the two systems, despite the differences of scale. …”
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Aqueous-only exfoliation of pristine graphite to graphene : towards sustainable, multifunctional polymer nanocomposites by Seyed Ismail Seyed Shahabadi

“…Thanks to its multifunctional properties, LMG can act as a photothermal converter creating heat after being illuminated by near-infrared (IR). This increases the rate of polymer diffusion at the site of damage which results in fast self-healing of the damage. …”
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