Artificial Intelligence and the US-China Balance of Power by Chang, Benjamin Angel

“…Finally, the third essay exploits supply chain datasets to assess each side’s ability to bring AI-enabled autonomous weapons to bear in future conventional conflicts. …”
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Efficiency analysis for active rectifier in more electric aircraft (MEA) generator by Lim, Sin Guang

“…The objectives of this project are to investigate the power losses of the semiconductors in various topologies and identify the semiconductor and topology that will bring the maximum efficiency of the rectifier.…”
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Machine translation of English relative clauses to Chinese in commercial contracts -- a contrastive evaluation of the outputs by SYSTRAN translate, Baidu translate and Google trans... by Li, Yidi

“…Online machine translation (MT) systems are used by millions of people for communication across language barriers, and their performance has been optimized with the state-of-art neural network technology. Relative clauses bring difficulties to MT due to their unique syntactic feature. …”
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Deep generative model for remote sensing by Kok, Melvin Xinwei

“…While the concept of satellite imagery would bring typical Electro-Optical (EO) Red Green Blue (RGB) images to mind, in remote sensing, there are many other important computational imaging systems such as synthetic aperture radar imaging (SAR), multispectral image fusion, as well as infra-red imaging. …”
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Predicative adjectives in Thai: diachronic changes in the past century by Jaratjarungkiat, Sureenate, Park, Kyung-Eun, Tan, Samuel Yuan Han

“…The first is to categorize predicative adjectives in Thai in order to bring to light a rarely-mentioned group of adjectives that differ from prototypical adjectives. …”
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Development of compact power electronics inverter using gallium nitride (GaN) devices by Sinurat, Hendry Donald Hanesty

“…Its development from time to time has shown huge potential to bring electronics into a more advanced and sophisticated stage. …”
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Biochemical characterisation of NS2B-NS3 protease from flaviviruses by Nah, Jojo Qian Hui

“…The virus is transmitted by mainly Aedes aegypti mosquito. Despite bringing adverse effects to the health and economy of the society, there is no effective antiviral against DENV. …”
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The application of augmented reality to enhancing man machine systems by Tay, Zijing

“…The man machine systems of tomorrow are shifting toward relationships centered on collaboration between man and machines, bringing with them a new set of challenges in designing man machine interfaces that can facilitate this collaborative nature. …”
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An investigation of friction-based tendon sheath model appropriate for control purposes by Tjahjowidodo, Tegoeh, Lau, Michael Wai Shing, Phee, Soo Jay, Do, T. N.

“…The new structure of this new model allows a simplified calculation, bringing more valuable practicability and providing an accurate prediction for haptic feedback and control purposes.…”
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Intertainer Asia (A) : programming and distributing Hollywood movies on-line in the Asia-Pacific countries by Rieck, Olaf, Tan, Shirley

“…In addition, the case traces the start-up process of Intertainer Asia and documents how the two entrepreneurs identify, evaluate, and approach market opportunities, form opportunistic relationships in gaining access to critical resources, and bring together those resource components necessary to set up this business. …”
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The great problems are in the street : a phenomenology of men's stranger intrusions on women in public spaces by Vera-Gray, Fiona

“…This thesis contributes new and unique evidence to the limited body of empirical literature on men’s stranger intrusion in public space, commonly termed ‘street harassment’, through a transdisciplinary study bringing a philosophical framework to the study of violence against women and girls (VAWG). …”
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Nicknames in early medieval England: a socio-onomastic study of agnomina before the twelfth century by Alphey, TK

“…Building from a socio-onomastic framework, an inter-disciplinary methodology is advanced, by which a broad range of nickname studies are used to construct hypotheses to bring to our historical data.</p> <br> <p>A number of methodological challenges stand in our way: legibility, orthographical variation, phonetic modification, and determining culture-specific ‘meaning’. …”

Legal politics in the Libyan constitution-making process by van Lier, F

“…However, constitution-making processes in politically unstable countries often do not bring about the desired stability and security. As scholarly research in constitution-making has remained largely normative, there is still little detailed knowledge about why this is the case.…”

Mobilizing bodies: unsettling sustainable mobility through cycling in Los Angeles by Davidson, AC

“…</p> <p>In this dissertation, I work through a methodology of 'riding theory' by bringing together (material) feminist, queer and critical race theories with multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork on cycling practices, focusing mainly on Los Angeles, California. …”

Industrial policy refraction: how corporate strategy shapes development outcomes in Brazil by Zylberberg, E

“…My findings are brought to bear on three traditionally disparate bodies of research –industrial policy, corporate strategy and institutional theory – extending each and also bringing them into fruitful communion with one another.…”

Soft law, hard stakes? State commitment to non-binding international instruments and the case of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by Villeneuve, L

“…In this thesis, incorporating insights from public international law into rationalist IR approaches, I argue that soft law instruments can have important effects over time and bring substantial costs for states to bear. This is particularly the case for soft law instruments ‘hardening’ through domestic law, treaties or customary international law, increasing the sovereignty and implementation costs attached to commitment. …”

Dharmakīrti versus Akalaṅka on the nature, object, and structure of perception by Nahata, S

“…While Dharmakīrti defends the unique triad of perceptual non-conceptualism, epistemic idealism, and non-dualism with a hitherto unseen philosophical rigour, Akalaṅka carves an equally novel path for himself through his defence of a thoroughgoing perceptual conceptualism and a defiant common-sense realism. By bringing to light this sophisticated Buddhist-Jaina philosophical debate, this thesis may contribute to the following areas of study: (1) The reception of Dharmakīrti’s philosophy by Jaina philosophers, (2) The philosophical polemics of marginalised Jaina philosophers such as Akalaṅka, and (3) The history of Indian philosophy understood as an integral part of the global history of philosophy.…”

Uncovering latent features in massive open online courses by Gillani, N

“…<p>Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) bring together a global crowd of thousands of learners for several weeks or months. …”

Belgrave's quest for moral order in Bahrain, 1926-1957 by Fakhro, E

“…It shows how colonial officials responsible for exercising authority over Bahrain viewed these trends with alarm, as likely to spur a broader process of social decline, and ultimately bring about challenges to Britain’s political legitimacy in Bahrain.…”

Developing Industrial Energy Co2 Emission Taxation using An Environmental Input-Output Framework and its Economic Impacts (S/O 13814) by Harun, Mukaramah, Ahmad, Siti Aznor, Zamzuri Noor, Mohd Saifoul, Che Mat, Siti Hadijah, Fadzim, Wan Roshidah

“…The aggressive emission reduction would bring high welfare loss with the reduction in real incomes. …”
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