Gamson going global? Cabinet proportionality in comparative perspective by Chaisty, P, Power, T

“…Using a sample of 1551 country-years of coalitional government in 97 countries from 1966 to 2019, and comparing all main constitutional formats (parliamentary, presidential, and semi-presidential), we find that Gamson’s Law does not travel well outside its context of origin. …”

Apple's iPad City: subcontracting exploitation to China by Chan, J, Ngai, P, Selden, M

“…Violations of factory workers’ fundamental rights in export-oriented industry nevertheless remain intractable, prompting scholars and practitioners in corporate responsibility to promote the leverage of private and public power to create ‘just supply chains’ (Locke 2013; Mayer and Gereffi 2010; Boston Review 2013). The main effort of public–private partnerships is to call on a shared commitment of the national governments, transnational corporations and non-governmental labour organizations to better protect workers.…”

Bayesian image super-resolution, continued by Pickup, LC, Capel, DP, Roberts, SJ, Zisserman, A

“…By inte- grating over the registration parameters rather than the high-resolution image, our method allows for more realistic prior distributions, and also reduces the dimen- sion of the integral considerably, removing the main computational bottleneck of the other algorithm. …”

Multi-criteria decision analysis for aiding glyph design by Hsieh, H-P, Zavatsky, A, Chen, M

“…Glyph-based visualization is one of the main techniques for visualizing complex multivariate data. …”

Function and regulation of the ADP-ribosylhydrolase TARG1 by Groslambert, J

“…To do so, I examined TARG1’s interplay with the main cellular ADP-ribosylhydrolase, PARG. An additional research goal emerged from studying the synergistic function of TARG1 and PARG, namely revealing the molecular mechanisms that regulate the degradation of TARG1 upon PARG inhibition.…”

Must refugees be grateful? by Buxton, R, Gibney, MJ

“…We examine the normative argument that refugees have a duty to be grateful to their host society, arguing that when the workings of the system of refugee protection are examined, it becomes clear that no such duty exists. Our main concern is that state-imposed barriers and hardships that refugees must endure to access asylum undermine any gratitude to the asylum state. …”

Stable isotope ratio analysis: an emerging tool to trace the origin of falsified medicines by Roncone, A, Kelly, SD, Giannioti, Z, Hauk, C, Caillet, C, Newton, PN, Perez-Mon, C, Bontempo, L

“…This review presents the main approaches, based on stable isotope ratios of the bio-elements, mainly Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry and Site-specific Natural Isotopic Fractionation by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, that can contribute to identifying the origin of these products, both in terms of geographical origin and raw materials employed as well as for the batch controls by the producers.…”

Relationship between Islam and democracy in Dr. Mahathir Mohamad’s thought by Jaf, Dana Nawzar Ali

“…Content analysis and interview are used as the main data collection methods. The study has academic significance as a contribution to the knowledge in the field of Islam and democracy debate. …”
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Intangible factors contribution to value or benefit creation in infrastructure asset valuation by Hamzah, Ezdihar, Abdullah Hashim, Hariati, Ismail, Azizah

“…The findings of this research have classified the items detailed for infrastructure asset valuation in the case study of Custom, Immigration and Quarantine Complex (CIQ Complex). As the main contribution of this research, the value and benefit creation from the intangible factors are analysed and the relationship are summarised. …”
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Human Resource Investment in Luxury Hotels: Developing A Compensation Plan that Addresses The Issue of High Dependence on Foreign Labours (S/O 13801) by Ahmad, Rozila, Mustaffa, Che Su

“…Poor compensation is often mentioned as the main cause of local workforce refusal to work in the hotel industry. …”
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High p16 expression and heterozygous RB1 loss are biomarkers for CDK4/6 inhibitor resistance in ER+ breast cancer by Palafox, Marta, Monserrat, Laia, Bellet, Meritxell, Villacampa, Guillermo, Gonzalez-Perez, Abel, Oliveira, Mafalda, Brasó-Maristany, Fara, Ibrahimi, Nusaibah, Kannan, Srinivasaraghavan, Mina, Leonardo, Herrera-Abreu, Maria Teresa, Òdena, Andreu, Sánchez-Guixé, Mònica, Capelán, Marta, Azaro, Analía, Bruna, Alejandra, Rodríguez, Olga, Guzmán, Marta, Grueso, Judit, Viaplana, Cristina, Hernández, Javier, Su, Faye, Lin, Kui, Clarke, Robert B., Caldas, Carlos, Arribas, Joaquín, Michiels, Stefan, García-Sanz, Alicia, Turner, Nicholas C., Prat, Aleix, Nuciforo, Paolo, Dienstmann, Rodrigo, Verma, Chandra Shekhar, Lopez-Bigas, Nuria, Scaltriti, Maurizio, Arnedos, Monica, Saura, Cristina, Serra, Violeta

“…Here, we show that p16 overexpression is associated with reduced antitumor activity of CDK4/6 inhibitors in patient-derived xenografts (n = 37) and estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer cell lines, as well as reduced response of early and advanced breast cancer patients to CDK4/6 inhibitors (n = 89). …”
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Dismantling silos: The case for an integrated approach to address childhood determinants of lifelong brain health by Raju, Ravikiran M, Tsai, Li-Huei

“…Early-life environments have an immense influence on long-term health outcomes. We have started to elucidate the mechanisms underlying this association but have made little progress in reducing the disease burden of environmentally mediated neurological and psychiatric illness. …”
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Building a Scalable Electrification Infrastructure in Logistics by Alam, Muhammad Ashhad

“…This work develops analytics-based solutions to support and assess the electrification of long-haul logistics operations, by applying the methods to PepsiCo’s operations in Texas.…”
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Meals matter by Feng, Yuxin

“…Meals Matter, therefore, aims to guide young Singaporeans toward healthier eating through three steps: learning key nutrition information, putting it into practice, and cultivating long-term habits of consuming varied, balanced meals by tracking.…”
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A note on the Tibetan kinship terms khu and zhang by Nagano, Sadako

“…Tibetan kinship terminology is an important topic, not just for learning about the language and culture of Tibet, but also for learning about the languages and cultures of other Sino-Tibetan peoples. This subject has long been discussed from the standpoints of culural anthropology, history and linguistics. …”
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Subband adaptive algorithms for high-order transversal filters by Lee, Kong Aik

“…One application of interest is acoustic echo cancellation (AEC), which involves colored excitation and the modeling of long impulse response. Acoustic echo canceller finds application in hands-free telephone systems, audio or video conference systems, hearing aids, voice-control systems, and many more.…”
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Regression assisted evolutionary optimization by Ayyappan, Murugan

“…As some industrial applications involve complex calculations to evaluate a single solution, optimization takes an intractably long time to complete. The aim of this project is to reduce the number of these evaluations during an optimization run, which would in turn reduce the computational time of the evolutionary optimization. …”
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Tool use and hand preference in Macaca fascicularis aurea. by Tan, Virnice Pinlin.

“…Tool use among long-tailed macaques in natural environments has been limited to anecdotal reports. …”
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Personal positioning and location inferences by Niu, Xudong.

“…SPs represent the “hotspots” which the user visits frequently and/or dwell for relatively long period of time, while trajectories reflect how the user traverses among the SPs. …”
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Investigate the efficiency and effectiveness of material handling in a pharmaceutical factory by Cen, Yizhe

“…Simulation-based analysis and financial analysis were performed to prove that the additional forklift truck solution was more cost-effective in the short run and the conveyor solution was better suited in the long run.…”
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