Peak inequality: Britain's ticking time bomb by Dorling, D

“…Danny Dorling wrote his seminal work Injustice: Why social inequality persists in 2010, and as an early proponent of rapidly reducing economic inequalities, he is now much sought-after as one of the foremost contributors to the debates surrounding it. Here Dorling brings together brand new material alongside a carefully curated selection of his most recent writing on inequality from publications as wide ranging as the Daily Telegraph, the Guardian, New Statesman, Financial Times and the China People’s Daily. …”

Skewness and portfolio selection evidence from Singapore by Pan, Yu Ming

“…However, evidences on persistence of such skewness were mixed. As a whole, MVS showed strong and consistent persistence, which implied that such portfolios were likely to succeed. …”
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Tango 2: Aligning Diffusion-based Text-to-Audio Generations through Direct Preference Optimization by Majumder, Navonil, Hung, Chia-Yu, Ghosal, Deepanway, Hsu, Wei-Ning, Mihalcea, Rada, Poria, Soujanya

“…Generative multimodal content is increasingly prevalent in much of the content creation arena, as it has the potential to allow artists and media personnel to create pre-production mockups by quickly bringing their ideas to life. The generation of audio from text prompts is an important aspect of such processes in the music and film industry. …”
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Development of an AI-powered shareable bike rebalancing system by Tu, Anqi

“…Bike sharing systems with docking stations are widely deployed in many major cities, bringing convenience to citizens and promoting eco-friendly lifestyles. …”
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Unjust energy transition: vignettes from the COPs, climate finance and a coal hotspot by Sud, N

“…The trajectory of justice from ground–up environmental and climate justice struggles to multilateral climate fora and high-profile North-South just transition programmes shows elitization and depoliticization. It is no surprise that a South-based Just Energy Transition Partnership is far from bringing everybody along. …”

FOSS CAD for the compact Verilog-A model standardization in Open Access PDKs by Grabinski, Wladek, Scholz, Rene, Verley, Jason, Keiter, Eric R., Vogt, Holger, Warning, Dietmar, Nenzi, Paolo, Lannutti, Francesco, Salfelder, Felix, Davis, Al, Brinson, Mike, Virdee, Bal Singh, Torri, Guilherme B., Tomaszewski, Daniel, Bucher, Matthias, Sallese, Jean-Michel, Muller, Markus, Kuthe, Pascal, Krattenmacher, Mario

“…FOSS CAD/EDA tools combined with free and open-access PDKs can serve as a new platform for bringing together IC design newbies, enthusiasts, and experienced mentors.…”
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Youth at stake : how gambling puts the young at risk of losing more than they bargain for by Chen, Meiyue, Teo, Sarah Li Shan, Ang, Shawn Wei Wen

“…Recent research also continues to show that young gamblers are more likely to get into trouble for their gambling behaviour. …”
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Low engagement and failed choices : exploring the mechanism for harbingers of failure by Wang, Yifei(Business management scientist)Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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A temporal study of the effects of online opinions : information sources matter by Huang, Jianxiong, Boh, Wai Fong, Goh, Kim Huat

“…Premised on the theory of information search, we hypothesize that consumers are more likely to engage in active search in the early stages of a movie’s release due to greater choice uncertainty, and passive attention is more likely to kick in for later stages of a movie’s release, as uncertainty decreases. …”
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A hybrid nanostructure array for gas sensing with ultralow field ionization voltage by Liu, Hai, Yadian, Boluo, Liu, Qing, Gan, Chee Lip, Huang, Yizhong

“…We believe that the polarized platinum brings about a local enhanced electrical field, leading to the direct field ionization of gas molecules, which is confirmed by calculations of the charge accumulation and electrical field distribution.…”
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Mobile application for elderly healthcare management by Lee, Audrey Chi Yan

“…Aging population is a rising societal concern in modern societies due to the shift in lifestyle. This brings a need for more support required for the elderly to ensure their integration in society. …”
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Judging a book by its cover: cultural differences in inference of the inner state based on the outward appearance by Ji, Li-Jun, Lee, Albert, Zhang, Zhiyong, Li, Ye, Wang, Xin-Qiang, Torok, Debra, Rosenbaum, Sam

“…Conceptualizing inference in terms of the relationship between the outward appearance and the inner state generates an integrative interpretation for a wide range of phenomena. We showed that Chinese were more likely than Euro-Canadians to make inference of inner state that deviated from outward appearance, whereas Euro-Canadians were more likely than Chinese to infer a convergence between outward appearance and inner state (Studies 1-5). …”
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Euclidean terms in European languages, 1482–1703 by Wardhaugh, B

“…The paper shows that instability was distributed unevenly across languages and semantic areas, and reports where the pockets of higher and lower instability were located.…”

An atomtronic experimental setup for engineering quantised circulations by Gan, Koon Siang

“…The final imprint method followed experimental methods and used previous results to show that circulations of up to winding number 2 can be created. …”
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Plastics & Me by Jiang, Chuanrui

“…“Plastics & Me'' is a speculative installation that brings viewers into the lives of microorganisms. Creating an experience that engages different senses, viewers are encouraged to rethink about the idea of consumerism, and how their actions are affecting marine wildlife. …”
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Glow by Vuong, Minh Trung

“…More than anything, “Glow” explores the possibility of bringing said imagery into the physical world and reconstructing them using the Procedural Lightpainting (PLP) technique. …”
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Unstable bodies by Goh, Beverly Shing Yi

“…The work aims to explore the concept of monstrosity in a world of mundanity, creating a hyperbolic dystopia that brings to light the horrors of the everyday. Drawing from the sensational Sada Abe Incident that spurred the ero-guro-nansensu movement in 1930s Japan, the work is a experimental illustrated narrative that reinterprets hellish landscapes, situations and characters. …”
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Business and Company Law / by Chapple, Ellie (Larelle), author 655201, James, Nickolas, author 655212, John Wiley & Sons (Online service) 647106

“…James and Chapple’s second edition of Business and Company Law brings together two Wiley law titles into a single volume, designed to suit the typical combined unit taught in the Master of Professional Accounting program. …”
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Improved NiSi salicide process using presilicide N2+ implant for MOSFETs by Wee, A. T. S., Chan, L., Mangelinck, D., Lee, Pooi See, Pey, Kin Leong, Ding, Jun

“…Phase transformation to the undesirable high resistivity NiSi2 phase was delayed, likely due to a change in the interfacial energy. …”
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Racial discrimination against prospective tenants : evidence from the room rental market in Singapore by Chew, Ilynn Mei Xian, Goh, Pei Ying, Ng, Wan Zhyi

“…Adapting Becker’s taste-based model to the rental market, we examine discrimination for room availability and rent. Our findings show that landlords have significant discrimination against minority races: On average, the Malay and Indian profiles are half as likely to receive positive responses for room availability than the Chinese profile. …”
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