Challenging the ugliness of beauty : beautification as an instrument of female agency by Chong, Eunice Chin Hui

“…On this note, the moral permissibility of women beautifying themselves in accordance to the beauty ideal has been widely debated on. In this essay, I will present conditions in which beautification can be deemed morally acceptable, and argue that beautification is morally acceptable when it is motivated by an informed personal choice. …”
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Modification of the contact surfaces for improving the puncture resistance of laminar structures by Wang, Pengfei, Yang, Jinglei, Li, Xin, Liu, Mao, Zhang, Xin, Sun, Dawei, Bao, Chenlu, Gao, Guangfa, Yahya, Mohd Yazid, Xu, Songlin

“…In this study, both quasi-static and dynamic penetration tests were systematical conducted on the front surfaces of metal sheets coated with a graphene oxide (GO) solution and other media. …”
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Investigation and enhancement of viola jones face detection algorithm performance using contrast-limited adaptive histogram equalization by Mulyadi, Erina

“…In the past few decades, face detection has been one of the top research topics. In 2004 Paul Viola and Michael J. …”
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Determining the impact of unexpected disruptions to a complex supply chain by Aw, Waldron Jun Jie

“…These findings allow managers to prioritize nodes when planning and to take mitigating actions to manage the effects of disruptive events.…”
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Mechanical properties of photocurable additive manufacturing micro-scale isotropic lattice structure by Tan, Jian Cong

“…Lattice structure is an ordered, three dimensional open celled structures made up of one or more repeating unit cell which multiple lattice nodes are connected by beams. 3D lattice structure provides several mechanical advantages such as improved strength to weight ratio, increased surface area, better shock absorption and reduced part cost [1]. …”
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Beamforming optimization using deep neural networks for 5G wireless communication by Ong, Jie Chung

“…Beamforming is an advanced signal processing technique employed by wireless systems that manipulates signals from antenna arrays to create focused transmission beams. This technique enhances signal quality, strength, and network performance, particularly in 5G networks. …”
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Lifting subgroups of PSL2 to SL2 over local fields by Andrew, N, Conder, MJ, Markowitz, A, Schillewaert, J

“…We show that discrete subgroups without 2-torsion in PSL2(K) can always be lifted to SL2(K), and provide examples (when char(K) ̸= 2) which cannot be lifted if either of these conditions is removed. …”

Direct products of free groups in Aut(F_N) by Bridson, MR, Wade, R

“…We give a complete description of the embeddings of direct products of nonabelian free groups into Aut(F_N) and Out(F_N) when the number of direct factors is maximal. To achieve this, we prove that the image of each such embedding has a canonical fixed point of a particular type in the boundary of Outer space.…”

Scalable cascade inference for semantic image segmentation by Sturgess, P, Ladický, L, Crook, N, Torr, PHS

“…However when working in a more general setting where the number of classes could easily reach tens of thousands, sub-linear complexity is desired. …”

Financial optimization problems by Law, SL

“…Using this relationship, we can obtain the solution of one when we have the solution of another. In Chapter 3, we generalize the results of chapter 2. …”

Towards ILP-based LTLf passive learning by Ielo, A, Law, M, Fionda, V, Ricca, F, De Giacomo, G, De Giacomo, G, Russo, A

“…This hinders their applicability when examples involve many atomic propositions or when the target formula is not small. …”

CountGD: multi-modal open-world counting by Amini-Naieni, N, Han, T, Zisserman, A

“…We make three contributions: first, we introduce the first open-world counting model, COUNTGD, where the prompt can be specified by a text description or visual exemplars or both; second, we show that the performance of the model significantly improves the state of the art on multiple counting benchmarks – when using text only, COUNTGD is comparable to or outperforms all previous text-only works, and when using both text and visual exemplars, we outperform all previous models; third, we carry out a preliminary study into different interactions between the text and visual exemplar prompts, including the cases where they reinforce each other and where one restricts the other. …”

Asymmetric projection of introspection reveals a behavioural and neural mechanism for interindividual social coordination by Miyamoto, K, Harbison, C, Tanaka, S, Saito, M, Luo, S, Matsui, S, Sankhe, P, Mahmoodi, A, Lin, M, Trudel, N, Shea, N, Rushworth, MFS

“…When we collaborate with others to tackle novel problems, we anticipate how they will perform their part of the task to coordinate behavior effectively. …”

Oil discoveries and protectionism: role of news effects by Perez-Sebastian, F, Raveh, O, van der Ploeg, F

“…Our baseline estimates indicate that a giant oil field discovery induces a rise of approximately 13% in the average tariff over the course of 10 years; this increase is approximately 2.5 times larger during the pre-production period when the oil discovery represents a pure news shock.…”

Laser assisted micro patterning atop shape memory polymer by Goh, Chee Siew.

“…When a Shaped Memory Polymer (SMP) is subjected to external factors like heat, light, moisture etc, it will activate the Shape Memory Effect (SME). …”
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Personalised video by Seah, Kai Ler

“…Due to the changing and enhancement in needs of the growing technology savvy society, many users have been looking for an extra edge in development when it comes to the technology aspects. …”
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Elucidating the role of dust concentrations and initial turbulence on rice flour explosion by Wan Zaiton, Wan Sulaiman, Mohd Fadzil, Mohd Idris, Jolius, Gimbun

“…The dust injected at 21 bar from the bottom of the chamber was observed to move in an upward direction until it hit the wall and recirculated, then dispersed all over the chamber. …”
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The effect of object compliance on the velvet hand illusion by Pasqualotto, Achille, Chai, Cindy Jia Yin, Ohka, Masahiro, Kitada, Ryo

“…Movement of a grid of bars between the two hands creates the tactile illusion of a velvet-like material, namely, the velvet hand illusion (VHI). …”
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Adsorption characteristics of doped MIL-101(Cr) and methane system by Nasirudin Muhammad Tariq

“…Subsequently, an experimental investigation was conducted to measure the uptake of methane for the temperatures ranging from 85 K to 298 K and pressures up to 10 bar using the volumetric and cryogenic set-up. Till today, researchers have focused on adsorption above triple point of methane with different adsorbents. …”
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A self-rectifying unipolar HfOx based RRAM using doped germanium bottom electrode by Liu, W. J., Tran, Xuan Anh, Sun, Xiaowei, Yu, Hongyu

“…Owning to Schottky barrier between defect states in HfOx layer and n-Ge substrate, RRAM cells possess a self-rectifying behavior in LRS which eliminates the read-out errors induced by leakage current paths in cross-bar array structure. The demonstrated RRAM device shows high ON/OFF ratio (>5 × 102 @ 0.5 V), and its effective Schottky barrier height is also addressed. …”
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