Legitimate priority-setting: refining accountability for reasonableness and its application within NICE by Rand, L

“…NICE’s application of AFR illustrates how problems in the theory translate into challenges for practice. I address some of these challenges to legitimacy with the additional requirement of fair consideration.…”

Fair division for avoidance of biodiversity impacts by Booth, H, Milner-Gulland, E, Bang, A, Bull, J, Moreno-Ternero, JD, Squires, D

“…Biodiversity is declining at alarming rates, with some negative impacts caused by activities that are necessary for meeting basic human needs and others which should be avoided to prevent ecological collapse. …”

Overall quality of life perception among occupants of green and non-green office buildings in Malaysia by Laiche, Abdelfatah Bousbia, Dahlan, Nur Dalilah, Shari, Zalina, Zaky Jaafar, Mohamad Fakri

“…Findings from the case studies reveal that the four buildings varied in the aspect of Behavioural Environment, where some of the IEQ factors in the green buildings were perceived as slightly uncomfortable. …”
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Physician-Researchers’ Experiences of the consent process in the sociocultural context of a developing country by Malik, A

“…</p> <p><strong>Results:</strong> This article presents variable findings with regards to communication, comprehension, and decision making. While some physicians consider that social factors such as lack of education, a patriarchal family system, and skepticism about research can make patients dependent on either the physician-researcher or the family, others believe that patients do make independent decisions. …”

Demonstration of neutron identification in neutrino interactions in the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber by Abratenko, P., Alterkait, O., Aldana, D. A., Arellano, L., Asaadi, J., Ashkenazi, A., Balasubramanian, S., Baller, B., Barnard, A., Barr, G., Barrow, D., Barrow, J., Basque, V., Bateman, J., Rodrigues, O. B., Berkman, S., Bhanderi, A., Bhat, A., Bhattacharya, M., Bishai, M.

“…While modern fully-active tracking calorimeters such as liquid argon time projection chambers in principle allow the measurement of all final state particles above some detection threshold, undetected neutrons remain a considerable source of missing energy with little to no data constraining their production rates and kinematics. …”
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Enhancing local binary patterns distinctiveness for face representation by Ghahramani, Mohammad, Yau, Wei-Yun, Teoh, Eam Khwang

“…However, the amount of information extracted is limited which reduces the LBP discriminative power. Recently, some enhancements have been proposed by adding preprocessing stages or considering more neighbor pixels to enrich the extracted feature. …”
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Sensorimotor hand representation following altered input by Wesselink, DB

“…Together, this suggests hand representation is preserved in all amputees, but does require some prior hand experience. Then, congenitally blind individuals are shown to have typical hand representation in the primary somatosensory cortex. …”

Blockchain and its applications b by Ho, Zong Hua

“…When it comes to making big decision where the public is involved voting has always been a decision tool for society when deciding major issues in the community. …”
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Robust Markov decision processes: a place where AI and formal methods meet by Suilen, M, Badings, T, Bovy, EM, Parker, D, Jansen, N

“…Markov decision processes (MDPs) are a standard model for sequential decision-making problems and are widely used across many scientific areas, including formal methods and artificial intelligence (AI). …”

Algorithmic Pluralism: A Structural Approach To Equal Opportunity by Jain, Shomik, Suriyakumar, Vinith, Creel, Kathleen, Wilson, Ashia

“…The theory contends that each decision-point or “bottleneck’’ limits access to opportunities with some degree of severity and legitimacy. We extend Fishkin’s structural viewpoint and use it to reframe existing systemic concerns about equal opportunity in algorithmic decision-making, such as patterned inequality and algorithmic monoculture. …”
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Relative effects of reer and real wages on unemployment in Hong Kong. by Li, Aaron Junhong., Sim, Ching Wee., Tan, David Soon Kuan.

“…Using the results, the report hopes to shed some light in terms of policy making, and provide useful statistical evidence to aid policy recommendations.…”
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The agency in language agents by Butlin, P

“…They include LLM-based chatbots but can have a wide range of additional features to support learning, reasoning and decision-making. Goldstein and Kirk-Giannini argue that some language agents have beliefs and desires, but it is not obvious that they are agents at all, since they select outputs by querying language models. …”

Integrating quantitative and qualitative methodologies to build a national R&amp;D plan using data envelopment analysis based on R&amp;D stakeholders’ perspectives by Park, Wan, Kim, Sang-Gook

“…We realized that the relative efficiency of some R&amp;D technologies increases after reflecting qualitative ideas of experts. …”
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A PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR DEVELOPING MATHEMATICAL THINKING / by Yudariah Mohammad Yusof, author 508824, Roselainy Abdul Rahman, author 495711, Sabariah Baharun, author 367572, Zaleha Ismail, 1959-, editor 225544

“…This guide offers a fresh perspective to support the learning of mathematics which engages students in thinking mathematically, making use of their natural powers to make sense of the world around them. …”

Is Affirmative Action Fair? : The Myth of Equity in College Admissions / by Warikoo, Natasha Kumar, 1973-, author 655000, John Wiley & Sons (Online service) 647106

“…Some argue that it undermines racial equity. Others advocate for its ability to promote equal opportunity in a racially unequal society. …”
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Room temperature solid-state quantum emitters in the telecom range by Zhou, Yu, Wang, Ziyu, Rasmita, Abdullah, Kim, Sejeong, Berhane, Amanuel, Bodrog, Zoltán, Adamo, Giorgio, Gali, Adam, Aharonovich, Igor, Gao, Wei-bo

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Microfabrication and Nanofabrication : Precision Manufacturing / by Kalita, Kanak, 1988-, editor 644744, Ghadai, Ranjan Kumar, 1990-, editor 656005, Davim, J. Paulo, editor 207699

“…It covers micro and nano fabrication, which revolutionizes conventional manufacturing by creating minuscule yet highly functional parts, some even smaller than the width of a human hair. …”
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Higher education scholarships as a soft power tool : an analysis of its role in the EU and Singapore by Chia, Charles Sheng-Kai

“…A comparative analysis of these programs will hopefully provide some insight into the proximity between foreign policy-making and higher education internationalisation. …”
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Learning design for short-duration e-textile workshops: outcomes on knowledge and skills by Ioannou, Andri, Miliou, Ourania, Georgiou, Yiannis, Timotheou, Stella, Barkhuus, Louise, Rode, Jennifer

“…We further document a series of emerging challenges, including the children’s unwillingness to engage or lack of adeptness with software, a tension between aesthetics and construction, creativity limited by samples of previous e-textile projects, and the difficulty in grasping the materiality of e-textiles. We propose that some direct instruction and facilitation is not incompatible with the making ethos; the approach can help address these challenges, allowing young children to benefit from their participation in short-duration e-textile workshops.…”
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The unseen duties. by Nur Juliana Mohd Johan.

“…This paper will discuss some of the non-commercial-instrumental activities that take place amidst the profit making institution of convenience stores and how it might shed light on the society of today through a qualitative study on two convenience stores. …”
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