Disentangling the separate and combined effects of privatization and cooperation on local government service delivery by Bel, G, Elston, T

“…This we undertake for the case of solid waste collection in Catalonia, using environmental protection as our focal performance standard. Drawing on two waves of data (for 2000 and 2019) for 186 municipalities that together use all four combinations of public, private, single and cooperative service delivery, we show that superior environmental performance was initially confined to conventional cooperations involving only public production. …”

Poisson vector graphics (PVG) by Hou, Fei, Sun, Qian, Fang, Zheng, Liu, Yong-Jin, Hu, Shi-Min, Qin, Hong, Hao, Aimin, He, Ying

“…Armed with two new types of primitives, called Poisson curves and Poisson regions, PVG can easily produce photorealistic effects such as specular highlights, core shadows, translucency and halos. …”
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Tablets, Pens, and Pencils: The Influence of Tools on Sketching in Early Stage Design by Das, Madhurima, Huang, May, Yang, Maria C

“…We hypothesize that participants using tablet and pencil will produce fewer drawings than those using pen due to their ability to erase and focus on perfecting drawings, and we expect participants using the tablet to produce cleaner drawings with smoother strokes due to the tablet’s ability to auto-smooth lines. …”
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La diplomazia culturale americana, la Guerra fredda e il cinema di Hong Kong negli anni Cinquanta = American cultural diplomacy, Cold War, and Hong Kong cinema in the 1950s by Lee, Sangjoon

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Deep self-supervised representation learning for free-hand sketch by Xu, Peng, Song, Zeyu, Yin, Qiyue, Song, Yi-Zhe, Wang, Liang

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BLUE OCEAN SHIFT : BEYOND COMPETING - PROVEN STEPS TO INSPIRE CONFIDENCE AND SEIZE NEW GROWTH / by Kim, W. Chan, author 318022, Mauborgne, Renée, author 387551, Hachette Books Group (Online service) 647103

“…Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne. Drawing on more than a decade of new work, Kim and Mauborgne show you how to move beyond competing, inspire your people's confidence, and seize new growth, guiding you step-by-step through how to take your organization from a red ocean crowded with competition to a blue ocean of uncontested market space. …”
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My research career by Ma, Xueliang

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Raspberry Pi : education tool for teaching photography II by Gu, Chengying

“…A transparent overlay was created on top of the image to allow instructor to annotate on it, either by mouse-drawing or touch-based drawing. Annotation will then be pushed to students’ devices in real-time manner. …”
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Puzzling over Phula: toward the synthesis and statement of a sub-branch by Pelkey, Jamin R.

“…In response, this article seeks to present a summarized but holistic overview of the reported Phula varieties. Drawing on personal field research and insights gleaned from Chinese and English sources, the article presents a history of Phula languages and linguistics, sifts through the current complexities of Phula classification, and reports on a newly described Phula language. …”
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Recognition in India’s new service professions : gym trainers and coffee baristas by Baas, Michiel, Cayla, Julien

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International identity construction: China’s pursuit of the responsible power identity and the American Other by Boon, Hoo Tiang

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Between personalized and racialized precision medicine : a relative resources perspective by Sun, Shirley

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涂涂写写 = Alchemy of color and brushwork by Ng, Woon Lam

“…I consider brushworks and lines as drawing, and the process of filling colors as painting. …”
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Who inadvertently shares deepfakes? Analyzing the role of political interest, cognitive ability, and social network size by Saifuddin Ahmed

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Towards Perceptual Augmentation by Chin, Sam

“…It challenges traditional approaches to sensory enhancement by emphasizing the importance of perception over mere sensory input. Drawing inspiration from the diverse sensory abilities found in nature, the research aims to develop methods for meaningful augmentation of human perception that can impact daily life. …”
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An epistemic case study: how businesses exploit consumers in self-care by Kok, Wenyi

“…With references to specific companies involved in the topic of self-care, and drawing theories from Fricker, Goldman, Carson, Wokutch and Cox, businesses’ interests for profits, along with its strong influence can shape the public’s belief regarding self-care. …”
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Does knowledge make a difference? Understanding how the lay public and experts assess the credibility of information on novel foods by Ou, Mengxue, Ho, Shirley S.

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Breast cancer prevention as social behavior : integrating individual and social motivators behind early breast cancer detection amongst Chinese women by Wang, Yumeng

“…An integrated framework drawing on threat appraisal and coping appraisal from Protection Motivation Theory (PMT), subjective norms and traditional health beliefs is developed to explore Chinese women’s intentions to undertake prevention methods, including breast screening intention, breast self-examination intention, and healthy lifestyle intention. …”
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Sustainability risk management: exploring the role of artificial intelligence capabilities through an information-processing lens by Kong, Kai Yuan, Yuen, Kum Fai

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Security protocol design against malicious attacks in neighborhood area network in smart grid by Li, Xiaochen

“…However, despite its causal deployment and easy operation, the inherent security issues in WMN is increasingly drawing wide attention of experts and users. Without guarantee of safety, the value of this network will extremely decrease. …”
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