Reimagining the Singaporean dream : the rise of entrepreneurial pursuits amongst young adults by Chiang, Alicia Chor Hong, Ong, Chu Wen

“…This paper positions ‘Ideology’ as a key mechanism in influencing the pursuit of entrepreneurship in Singapore given its power to influence its desirability, and the findings suggest that social environment for one to start a business venture in Singapore is not as conducive as it seems at face value given the dynamics of ‘ideological state apparatuses’ at play.…”
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Investigating effects of avatars on primary school children’s affective responses to learning by Theng, Yin-Leng, Aung, Paye

“…Specifically, the study aims to examine whether the expressions of avatars have an influence on these young children’s emotional responses and motivation towards learning. Preliminary findings with twenty-four young children participants showed that they loved avatars and influenced by avatars’ expressions on their performances. …”
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The effectiveness of project management by stakeholders in enhancing project and stakeholder management by Aladpoosh, Hamid

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Navigating an invisible labyrinth: the effect of involuntary bogus self-employment on female Greek-Cypriot educators’ job satisfaction and subjective well-being by Meletiadou, Eleni

“…Implications of the findings are discussed to unveil the gendered challenges that women with caregiving responsibilities still face in the workplace due to insufficient childcare and caregiving support.…”
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State and faith: the supply-side theory of religion and the case of Turkey by Gurses, Mehmet, Fox, Jonathan, Öztürk, Ahmet Erdi

“…We argue this is because hegemonic religious policies may create crosscutting effects which both increase and decrease religiosity. The findings also have political implications that are undertheorized in the supply-side literature.…”

Negotiating publicity, publicising domesticity: women-authored Heian kana memoirs, circulation, reception, and power by Tome Valencia, I

“…</p> <p>This thesis presents a comparative approach to different modes of authorship, dynamics of patronage, questions of publicity, the circulation of women-authored texts, and their relation with the sphere of domesticity; and finds itself in the intersection between premodern literature and Queer studies.…”

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). Our findings highlight the concerning safety risks introduced by the extensive usage of publicly available foundational models in the development of downstream systems, calling for extra caution in these scenarios.…”

Urban trust in Kenya and Tanzania: Cooperation in the provision of public goods by Burbidge, D

“…In Kisumu, in contrast, with participants reflective of the dominant Luo ethnicity, the lack of state provision of public services has seen a feeble and individualistic response. The findings demonstrate how ethnic distribution matters less for public goods provision than commitments amongst citizens themselves and between citizens and local authorities.…”

A tale of disregard? Reception of the jurisprudence of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities before the European Court of Human Rights by Cali, B, Galand, AS

“…By focussing on the right to legal capacity, accessibility and reasonable accommodation, we demonstrate that the transformative jurisprudence of the CRPD Committee was met with visible disregard in Strasbourg. Our findings point to both the importance of specialised human rights treaties and jurisprudence in advancing the rights of historically discriminated groups and the challenges of judicially diffusing transformative protections for the rights of persons with disabilities into general human rights law. …”

Perceived climate risk and stock prices: an empirical analysis of pricing effects by Ameur, HB, Dao, D, Ftiti, Z, Louhichi, W

“…Our results show that perceived climate risk is priced into Standard and Poor's 500 (S&amp;P 500) Index stock returns and is robust when different asset-pricing models are used. Our findings have implications for market participants, as understanding the relationship between perceived climate risk and asset prices is crucial for investors seeking to navigate the financial implications of climate change and for policymakers aiming to promote sustainable financing and mitigate the potential damaging effects of climate risk on financial markets, and a pricing model that accurately incorporates perceived climate risk can facilitate this understanding.…”

Mental disorder and its treatment as a transformative experience by Villiger, D

“…The paper examines pharmacological, psychological, and psychedelic-assisted treatment and reveals that each of them uses a different transformative route to recovery: a finding relevant, for example, to ongoing debates in medical ethics about informed consent.…”

Encephalitis: diagnosis, management and recent advances in the field of encephalitides by Alam, AM, Easton, A, Nicholson, TR, Irani, SR, Davies, NWS, Solomon, T, Michael, BD

“…In parallel, the number of autoimmune encephalitis syndromes has rapidly expanded and clinically characteristic syndromes in association with pathogenic autoantibodies have been defined. By focusing on findings presented at the Encephalitis Society's conference in December 2021, this article reviews the causes, clinical manifestations and management of encephalitis and integrate recent advances and challenges of research into encephalitis.…”

Public functions of political parties in the United Kingdom by Trueblood, L

“…This article challenges this finding by offering a framework, drawn from current case law, for establishing when political parties are exercising public functions. …”

Multi-level encoding of reward, effort and choice across the frontal cortex and basal ganglia during cost-benefit decision making by Härmson, O, Grennan, I, Perry, B, Toth, R, McNamara, C, Denison, T, Cagnan, H, Manohar, S, Walton, M, Sharott, A

“…Co-active cell assemblies, ensembles of neurons that repeatedly co-activated within short time windows (<25ms), represented the same decision variables, despite the members often having diverse individual coding properties. Together, these findings demonstrate a multi-level encoding structure for cost-benefit computations, where individual neurons are coordinated into larger assemblies that can represent task variables independently of their constituent components. …”

Inflammation of the nasal mucosa is associated with susceptibility to experimental pneumococcal challenge in older adults by Urban, BC, Gonçalves, ANA, Loukov, D, Passos, FM, Reiné, J, Gonzalez-Dias, P, Solórzano, C, Mitsi, E, Nikolaou, E, O'Connor, D, Collins, AM, Adler, H, Pollard, A, Rylance, J, Gordon, SB, Jochems, SP, Nakaya, HI, Ferreira, DM

“…However, older adults who were protected from colonization showed increased degranulation of CD8+ T cells, both before and after pneumococcal challenge. These findings suggest age-associated cellular changes, in particular enhanced mucosal inflammation, that may predispose older adults to pneumococcal colonization.…”

Genome-wide association analysis provides insights into the molecular etiology of dilated cardiomyopathy by Zheng, SL, Henry, A, Cannie, D, Lee, M, Miller, D, McGurk, KA, Bond, I, Xu, X, Issa, H, Francis, C, De Marvao, A, Theotokis, PI, Buchan, RJ, Speed, D, Abner, E, Adams, L, Aragam, KG, Ärnlöv, J, Raja, AA, Backman, JD, Baksi, J, Barton, PJR, Biddinger, KJ, Boersma, E, Lindgren, CM

“…We demonstrate that polygenic scores predict DCM in the general population and modify penetrance in carriers of rare DCM variants. Our findings may inform the design of genetic testing strategies that incorporate polygenic background. …”

Single point mutations in ATP synthase compensate for mitochondrial genome loss in trypanosomes by Dean, S, Gould, MK, Dewar, CE, Schnaufer, AC

“…Our results provide insight into the molecular mechanism of compensation for kDNA loss by showing FO-independent generation of the mitochondrial membrane potential with increased dependence on the ADP/ATP carrier. Our findings also suggest that, in the pathogenic bloodstream stage of T. brucei, the huge and energetically demanding apparatus required for kDNA maintenance and expression serves the production of a single F1FO–ATPase subunit. …”

Vitamin D in Gambian children with discordant tuberculosis (TB) infection status despite matched TB exposure: a case control study by Stockdale, L, Sambou, B, Sissoko, M, Egere, U, Sillah, AK, Kampmann, B, Basu Roy, R

“…Mean vitamin D levels were 2.05 ng/mL (95% CI - 0.288 to 4.38) higher in 24 highly TB-exposed uninfected children compared with 24 matched highly TB-exposed infected children (p = 0.08). The findings warrant further investigation in larger studies to understand the implications and significance. …”

Disciplining the state: virtue, violence, and state-making in modern China by Thornton, P

“…Scholars of European history assert that war makes states, just as states make war. This study finds that in China, the challenges of governing produced a trajectory of state-building in which the processes of moral regulation and social control were at least as central to state-making as the exercise of coercive power. …”

Self-diagnosis of mental disorders: a qualitative study of attitudes on Reddit by Foulkes, L, Underhill, R

“…Together, these themes highlight that there is considerable anger, derision and criticism targeted towards people who self-diagnose with mental disorders, and that this is particularly targeted towards adolescents who self-diagnose on or as a result of social media. The findings have important implications for understanding how to support and validate people, particularly adolescents, who (sometimes accurately) use diagnostic language to express how they are feeling.…”