Examining discrimination in home improvement financing (Home Mortgage Disclosure Act 2012–2016) and neighborhood health in the United States by Davis, Brigette A., Arcaya, Mariana C., Williams, David R., Metzger, Molly, Krieger, Nancy

“…We find non-Hispanic Black applicants are significantly more likely to be denied loans (OR: 2.28 p < 0.01), and that loans for areas with a high proportion of non-Hispanic Black residents (OR: 1.09, p < 0.01) are most likely to be denied, while applications in tracts with the highest proportion of non-Hispanic white residents (OR: 0.90, p < 0.01) are least likely to be denied. …”
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Blocking of counter-partisan accounts drives political assortment on Twitter by Martel, Cameron, Mosleh, Mohsen, Yang, Qi, Zaman, Tauhid, Rand, David G

“…In addition to preferentially following-back copartisans, we found that users were 12 times more likely to block counter-partisan accounts compared to copartisan accounts in the first experiment, and 4 times more likely to block counter-partisan accounts relative to a neutral account or a copartisan account in the second experiment. …”
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Decoding China's cyber warfare strategies by Raska, Michael

“…While conventional, low-intensity, asymmetric, or non-linear conflict scenarios are plausible for East Asia’s strategic flashpoints, the next major conflict involving China will likely start in cyberspace.…”
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Indonesia's political outlook 2012 by Yoes, C. Kenawas, Sebastian, Leonard C

“…The major political events that dominated the news in 2011 are likely to continue to shape Indonesian politics in 2012. …”
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Age and productivity : a sector perspective by Gan, Geraldine Xinya, Shia, Lisong, Yang, Fan

“…The least productive sector is also likely to have more influence on the overall productivity profile. …”
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Connecting Local Economic Decline to the Politics of Geographic Discontent: The Missing Link of Perceptions by Green, J, Jennings, W, McKay, L, Stoker, G

“…Using original survey questions in the British Election Study, we theorise five models to explain who is likely to perceive local economic decline, and why. …”

Impostor syndrome and pretense by Levy, N

“…I argue that we are especially likely to notice pretense when we’re made self-conscious, and that failing to match the stereotype of one’s profession or domain of expertise tends to give rise to self-consciousness. …”

Southeast Asia’s Naval Shipbuilding Industry: Challenges Ahead by Bitzinger, Richard Allan

“…Naval shipbuilding in Southeast Asia, although ambitious in scope, is likely to remain limited to low-tech manufacturing (hulls and sub-assemblies), MRO (maintenance, repair, and overhaul), and a few showcase projects.…”
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Russian equipment and technology transfers to North Korea: a cause for concern? by Nah, Liang Tuang

“…Russia is likely assisting North Korea with military modernisation. …”
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Are environmental concerns deterring people from having children? Longitudinal evidence on births in the UK by Powdthavee, Nattavudh, Oswald, Andrew J., Lockwood, Ben

“…A person entirely unconcerned about environmental behaviour is estimated to be just over 50% more likely to go on to have a child than a deeply committed environmentalist.…”
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Currency Crisis : The Next One in ASEAN? by Lim, Christopher H., Tan, Ming Hui

“…The impact of such currency turmoil would likely be more severe than the 1997-98 Asian Financial Crisis.…”
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Robust Transit Frequency Setting Problem With Demand Uncertainty by Guo, Xiaotong, Mo, Baichuan, Koutsopoulos, Haris N, Wang, Shenhao, Zhao, Jinhua

“…The large-scale origindestination (OD) matrices for real-world transit problems bring computational challenges in solving the optimization problem. …”
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9th International Workshop on Mental Health and Well-being: New Research Directions by Adler, Daniel, Xu, Xuhai, Salekin, Asif, Mishra, Varun, Kwon, Hyeokhyen, Sano, Akane, Abdullah, Saeed, Bardram, Jakob, Zhao, Yiran, Kalanadhabhatta, Manasa, Zhang, Han, Murnane, Elizabeth, Choudhury, Tanzeem, Musolesi, Mirco, Rahman, Tauhidur, King, Zachary, Krell, Rony, D'Alfonso, Simon

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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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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’. …”