The embodied, relational self: extending or rejecting the mind? by Gough, J

“…If they are correct, it initially seems damning for the view that the self is the mind. …”

Equilibrium queueing analysis in a ride-hailing service with sharing option by Wang, Jianfu, Chua, Geoffrey A., Sainathan, Arvind, Vijayendiran, Akshay

“…Finally, we propose a profit-maximizing admission fee structure in the hybrid model to maximize firm profits and demonstrate its effectiveness.…”
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Investigating Social Presence and Communication with Embodied Avatars in Room-Scale Virtual Reality by Greenwald, Scott W., Wang, Zhangyuan, Funk, Markus, Maes, Pattie

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Online game for Chinese chess by Lee, Jia Woei.

“…Most of the board games and card games have been converted to online games for players around the world to spar online. …”
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An experimental investigation on the noise emission and fuel consumption of diesel engine by Foo, Jin Yuan

“…Road traffic has always been a source of noise pollution owing to the rapid advancement in technology and growing population. …”
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The thermodynamics of multicomponent high-entropy materials by Cantor, B

“…Human development has been based for millennia on manufacturing materials using a conventional alloying strategy of selecting a principal component for the primary property requirement of the material and then adding one or two minor alloying components at relatively low concentrations, either to enhance the primary property or to provide additional secondary properties. …”

The association between the housing structure and continued breastfeeding in two Southern African countries by Khanyile, Ntuthuko, McLaren, Shawn, Fairbrother, Una

“…There are many factors associated with shorter breastfeeding duration, housing structure has been associated with shorter breastfeeding duration in Kenya(Reference Kimani-Murage, Wekesah and Wanjohi3), a LMIC. …”
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Madrasah education in Singapore : the struggle to survive by Raihan Mohamed Yusoff

“…Discussion on madrasah education in Singapore seems to be circumscribed by the state’s perception of the attendant problems of madrasah education, the community’s negative reactions to the state’s policies regarding madrasah education, and parents’ perceptions of these madrasahs. …”
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Not a Religious War: Reacting to Killing of French Catholic Priest by Hedges, Paul

“…The killing of a French priest in a church in France seems to mark an escalation of ISIS/Daesh’s campaign in the West. …”
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Poincaré inequality for one forms on four manifolds with bounded Ricci curvature by Honda, S, Mondino, A

“…In this short note, we provide a quantitative global Poincar´e inequality for one forms on a closed Riemannian four manifold, in terms of an upper bound on the diameter, a positive lower bound on the volume, and a two-sided bound on Ricci curvature. This seems to be the first non-trivial result giving such an inequality without any higher curvature assumptions. …”

“I really need your help with this work..”: A System for Navigating the Tricky Terrain of Managing Up by Leveraging One’s Motivation to Get Things Done by Park, Soya, Vishwabhan, Stuti, Muller, Michael, Karger, David R.

“…When people need help from their supervisors or peers, they often have to manage up to get things done. …”
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Tibetan wa-zur and Laufer’s law by Jacques, Guillaume

“…However, Hill (2006) pointed out that this law seems to be contradicted by the existence of a genuine -wa rhyme in Old Tibetan: unless Old Tibetan -wa has a distinct origin, the sound law *-wa > -o cannot be valid. …”
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The sailor's tale by Hopkin, D

“…The style and content of sailors’ tales seems remarkably consistent both over time and space, with ancient, medieval, and modern stories of cannibals, whale islands, magnetic mountains, giant ships (ATU 1960H), among other repeated themes. …”

Why Brussels? Neruda’s ‘título absolutamente enigmático’ by Moran, D

“…<p>The primary purpose of this article is to propose a solution to longstanding literary mystery, namely, why Neruda&rsquo;s disconcertingly enigmatic poem &lsquo;Bruselas&rsquo; (from&nbsp;<em>Tercera residencia</em>&nbsp;[1947]) has a title which seems to bear little if any relation either to the city of Brussels itself or to its sometimes bewilderingly obscure content and imagery. …”

Take a “selfie” : examining how leaders emerge from leader self-awareness, self-leadership, and self-efficacy by Bracht, Eva M., Keng-Highberger, Fong T., Avolio, Bruce J., Huang, Yiming

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Leveraging the Sensitivity of Plants with Deep Learning to Recognize Human Emotions by Kruse, Jakob Adrian, Ciechanowski, Leon, Dupuis, Ambre, Vazquez, Ignacio, Gloor, Peter A.

“…However, these data sources are expensive, intrusive, and regulated, unlike plants, which have been shown to be sensitive to human steps and sounds. …”
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Optoelectronic memristive devices for retinomorphic application - 1 by Tun, Thaw Tint Te

“…Optoelectronic memristive devices can be used to achieve that goal because of their property: coalescing sensing, memorizing, and computing in a single space. Many studies have been conducted toward this research direction, however, the complete and fully functioning retinomorphic system is not well realized yet. …”
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Female “Firsts” : performing in the marriage market and on the political stage in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and Hillary Clinton’s what happened by Wan Nur Riny

“…With Clinton being the first female presidential candidate in the United States, it seems that the historically male-dominated public sphere has become more inclusive and progressive. …”
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The competing use of perfect and aorist tenses in Old Church Slavonic by MacRobert, C

“…Although a semantic account can explain the choice of perfect or aorist in many places, it seems not to be fully adequate in a number of instances where second person perfect and aorist forms are used in close juxtaposition and similar context. …”

Dataset on genetic and physiological adults׳ responses to social distress by Bonassi, Andrea, Ghilardi, Tommaso, Truzzi, Anna, Cataldo, Ilaria, Azhari, Atiqah, Setoh, Peipei, Shinohara, Kazuyuki, Esposito, Gianluca

“…Self-reported questionnaires were used to evaluate participants’ interactional patterns towards peers (Attachment Style Questionnaire, Feeney et al., 1994[1]), and the quality of bond with intimate partners (Experiences in Close Relationships Scale, Fraley et al., 2000 [2]). …”
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