Effects of peer pressure on endogenous goal setting and performance by Lim, Wee Meng, Chua, Shannen Qi Shan, Tan, Li Xuan

“…Subjects are paid on a piece rate basis along with a bonus that increases monotonically with their performance when their goals are achieved. This incentivizes subjects to set challenging yet attainable goals that can heighten their performance to their maximum. …”
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Distributed machine learning on public clouds by Lim, Ernest Woon Teng

“…Conventional ML systems like Caffe could have acceptable model training time on a single machine when dealing with a moderate amount of data. However, they may not be able to cope with very large training data sets, such as ImageNet and Yahoo News Feed, which could have hundreds of millions of records. …”
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Wither Japan's non-nuclear policy? : Balancing security interests and historical-cultural realities by Corradini, Sara

“…Finally, attention is paid to the problem of nuclear security and how pragmatic concerns also play a role when investigating Japan’s non-nuclear posture.…”
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Cloud nine by Li, Joan Zheying

“…Cloud Nine is an interactive spatial experience that aims to simulate the presence and unique personalities of rescue animals in Singapore, namely cats and dogs. When getting a pet, many people get caught up in the novelty of owning the trendiest breeds of dogs or pedigree cats, and often overlook the rewarding experience of adopting an animal in need. …”
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An exposition of the Zhuangzi’s zhiyan (至言) by Koo, Hao Wei

“…Which of them appears most relevant with other parts of the Zhuangzi? When left unexplored, zhiyan may prove to be a challenging term to comprehend. …”
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Metal-enhanced fluorescence in liposomes for photothermal studies by Lee, Elizabeth Mei Yin, Yong, Zhi Yong Derrick, Yu, Xia, Chan, Chi Chiu

“…The emission was observed to be enhanced when gold nanoparticles were added to liposome-encapsulated fluorescein, while quenching effect was still observed for released fluorescein. …”
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A linearized difference scheme for semilinear parabolic equations with nonlinear absorbing boundary conditions by Sun, Zhi-zhong, Wu, Xiaonan, Zhang, Jiwei, Wang, Desheng

“…Hence this difference scheme is coupled with an adaptive time step size, i.e., when the solution tends to infinity, the time step size will be smaller and smaller. …”
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TCR/CD3-based synthetic antigen receptors (TCC) convey superior antigen sensitivity combined with high fidelity of activation by Mühlgrabner, V, Peters, T, Velasco Cárdenas, RMH, Siller Farfan, J, Dushek, O

“…TCC-endowed signaling properties may prove critical when targeting antigens in low abundance and aiming for a durable anticancer response.…”

"Here's looking at you, kid." Detecting people looking at each other in videos by Marín-Jiménez, MJ, Zisserman, A, Ferrari, V

“…We make the following three contributions: (i) head pose estimation in unconstrained scenarios (TV video) using Gaussian Process regression; (ii) propose and evaluate several methods for assessing whether and when pairs of people are looking at each other in a video shot; and (iii) introduce new ground truth annotation for this task, extending the TV Human Interactions Dataset [22]. …”

Estimation of the partial volume effect in MRI by González Ballester, MA, Zisserman, AP, Brady, M

“…The partial volume effect (PVE) arises in volumetric images when more than one tissue type occurs in a voxel. …”

Dynamic placement in refugee resettlement by Ahani, N, Gölz, P, Procaccia, AD, Teytelboym, A, Trapp, AC

“…This dramatic improvement persists even when we incorporate a vast array of practical features of the refugee resettlement process including inseparable families, batching, and uncertainty with respect to the number of future arrivals. …”

A visual category filter for Google Images by Fergus, R, Perona, P, Zisserman, A

“…</p> <p>We describe how this model can be employed for ranking the output of an image search engine when searching for object categories. It is shown that visual consistencies in the output images can be identified, and then used to rank the images according to their closeness to the visual object category.…”

Entrepreneurial resourcefulness: theoretical origins, integrative review, and research agenda by Williams, TA, Li, JM, Zhao, EY

“…While this diversity demonstrates the promise and depth of entrepreneurial resourcefulness, this research is fragmented across disciplines, theories, and levels of analysis, which limits our understanding of when, why, and how entrepreneurial resourcefulness occurs and its effect on the entrepreneurial process. …”

Information and bargaining through agents: experimental evidence from Mexico’s labor courts by Sadka, J, Seira, E, Woodruff, CM

“…We also find that the information treatment is effective only when the plaintiff is present to receive it directly, suggesting agency issues between plaintiffs and their private lawyers. …”

Road capacity, domestic trade and regional outcomes by Coşar, AK, Demir, B, Ghose, D, Young, N

“…What is the impact on intra-national trade and regional economic outcomes when the quality and lane-capacity of an existing paved road network is expanded significantly? …”

Single cell genomics data analyses reveal novel biological insights by Hu, X

“…Many technical issues and confounders deserve special attention. Only when these are well-understood and accounted for can bioinformatics analyses provide reliable and robust results. …”

China's rural migrant workers, the state, and labor politics by Chan, J, Selden, M

“…They present an analysis of high and growing levels of labor conflict at a time when the previous domination of state enterprises has given way to the predominance of migrant workers as the core of an expanding industrial labor force. …”

Towards a consensus for dyslexia practice: findings of a Delphi study on assessment and identification by Snowling, M

“…<p>This paper discusses the findings of a Delphi study in which dyslexia experts, including academics, specialist teachers, educational psychologists, and individuals with dyslexia, were asked for their agreement with a set of key statements about defining and identifying dyslexia: why it should be assessed, and how and when this assessment should be conducted. Two rounds of survey responses provided a vehicle for moving towards consensus on how to assess for dyslexia. …”

Combining scene and auto-calibration constraints by Liebowitz, D, Zisserman, A

“…Second, the degeneracies that occur when constraints are not independent may be easily identified. …”

Plots, attacks, and the measurement of terrorism by Hegghammer, T, Ketchley, N

“…Despite its limitations, plot data is a more complete measure of terrorist activity that should be incorporated, when available, in quantitative studies of terrorism.…”