A Fifty Million Dollar Piece of Dirt: Somerville as a Case Study in Development by Aizman, Asya

“…This is a case study of twenty years in Somerville real estate development, spanning 2004 to 2024. Through interviews with residents, activists, and senior city officials, I present a story of a city attempting to rectify its progressive values with the forces of neoliberalism, which it seems unable—and unwilling—to stop.…”
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Impact of free nitrous acid shock and dissolved oxygen limitation on nitritation maintenance and nitrous oxide emission in a membrane bioreactor by Jiang, Yishuai, Poh, Leong Soon, Lim, Choon-Ping, Ng, Wun Jern

“…The strategy developed in this study verified that spiked FNA shock together with DO limitation can be used for maintaining nitritation in MBRs with long SRTs. …”
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An analysis of heavy silicone oil treatment for inferior proliferative vitreoretinopathy by Hammer, M, Ie, A, Eibenberger, K, Auffarth, GU, Xue, K

“…Results: Fill-induced pressure spikes (> 30 mmHg) within 14 days post-surgery were common after Densiron tamponade, especially in patients previously on glaucoma drops. …”

Do higher politician salaries reduce corruption and improve governance? by Chin, Hong Xiang, Low, Guo Quan, Wang, Yiwei

“…Our paper addresses this gap by gathering a novel primary dataset of 963 top politician and cabinet minister salaries through official and non-official sources, which spans across 144 countries from the period of 1873 to 2015. …”
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A function-based mapping of sensory integration along the cortical hierarchy by Wei, W, Benn, RA, Scholz, R, Shevchenko, V, Klatzmann, U, Alberti, F, Chiou, R, Wassermann, D, Vanderwal, T, Smallwood, J, Margulies, DS

“…Sensory information mainly travels along a hierarchy spanning unimodal to transmodal regions, forming multisensory integrative representations crucial for higher-order cognitive functions. …”

Assessing the financial performance of container shipping companies by Cai, Kewei

“…Over the past few decades, a phenomenon was observed where container shipping lines are adapting vertical integration strategies towards the ports and logistics market, which is outside of their core business. …”
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Developing a lightscape application (using a raspberry PI) by Ong, Wenchuan

“…The project aims to develop a web application, which will be hosted within the Raspberry Pi, for controlling the brightness of constant light source from the high power LED via the Raspberry Pi’s General Purpose Input Output (GPIO) pins and gather optimal settings for projecting images with the Light Blaster. …”
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Singapore boreholes results with numerical and analytical simulation by Yap, Kai Xian

“…To achieve this, the final year project outlined in this report will leverage advanced computer software to simulate various tunnel lining designs across different soil profiles specific to Singapore. …”
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SP.776 / SP.786 Design for Demining, Spring 2005 by Heafitz, Andrew, Linder, Benjamin M.

“…MIT Design for Demining is a design course that spans the entire product design and development process from identification of needs and idea generation to prototyping and blast testing to manufacture and deployment. …”
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Large deflection of composite beams in bending by Teo, Chin Yao

“…Three-point bending tests will be conducted at spans of 150mm, 175mm, and 200mm. Load and displacement data are extracted from the Instron-5569 and plots are to be made in excel using the extracted data. …”
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The use of mobile phones among trishaw operators in Myanmar by Ling, Rich, Aricat, Rajiv George, Oreglia, Elisa, Panchapakesan, Chitra, Lwin, May Oo

“…Trishaw operators transport people and goods in a physically demanding job that often earns them as little as US$2 per day. Spanning the period before and after the widespread commercialization of mobile phones in the country, this research draws from interviews with trishaw operators in several locations. …”
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Corporate governance as a catalyst for sustainability: insights from Malaysian Public listed companies by Normarliana Laili, Romlah Jaffar, Mohamat Sabri Hassan, Ahmad Monir Abdullah

“…The study sample comprised 762 listed companies in Malaysia, spanning 2020 to 2022. Using content analysis on company annual reports, the results established the positive and significant influence of CG on CSP as consistent with the stakeholder theory. …”
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Small spherical and projective codes by Cohn, Henry

“…This data set describes the best spherical and real projective codes that are known to exist (to the best of my knowledge), for up to 32 points on spheres or 16 lines through the origin in the real projective case. …”
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Humanity's dark side: coping with a failing world order by John, Lord Alderdice

“…Various crises have exposed fault-lines in the existing global order. It has spotlighted the existing differences in ideologies across the world. …”
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The chronicles of cerebrovascular aging: an epic transcriptomic tale by Nguyen, Le Uyen Nhi

“…Endothelial cells are the lining of blood vessels, these cells play a crucial role in maintaining vascular integrity. …”
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Entrepreneurship in shipping industry : study of overseas Chinese entrepreneurship, and the influence of social network and family control. by Chen, Tian.

“…This dissertation is a case study regarding overseas Chinese entrepreneurship, it was based on the study of Pacific International Lines. The core of this dissertation is to study entrepreneurship of PIL founder. …”
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Reverse logistic operations in Asia-Pacific : an emprical study by Ho, Alex Chew Kin.

“…A 12-page survey is launched covering three main sections — Part 1: Company Profile; Part 2: Reverse Logistics Process; and Part 3: Reverse Logistics Information System. 145 companies were surveyed with a 15.7% response rate. Companies selected spanned across different industrial sectors: electronic/semi-conductor, consumer electronics, telecommunications, computer, data storage/disk drive, machinery/heavy metal, chemical and medical equipment supplies. …”
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Crepuscularis. by Lim, Aaron Zhe Yu.

“…This is achieved with the project spanning from the domain of design to that of art, where the designing of a product and the process of artistic creation convene. …”
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Bella's empowerment - why the twilight saga is not anti-feminist. by See, Shawn Kai Sheng.

“…Meyer’s compelling work is immensely popular among its young adult audience. The Twilight series spans four novels and focuses on the love story of Meyer’s female protagonist Isabella Swan (better known as Bella), and her vampire beau Edward Cullen. …”
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As firm as their foundations: creating transferable adversarial examples across downstream tasks with CLIP by Hu, A, Gu, J, Pinto, F, Kamnitsas, K, Torr, PHS

“…Solely based on open-sourced CLIP vision encoders, this method can produce highly effective adversaries that simultaneously fool more than 20 downstream models spanning 4 common vision-language tasks (semantic segmentation, object detection, image captioning and visual question-answering). …”