Data Refusal From Below: A Framework for Understanding, Evaluating, and Envisioning Refusal as Design by Zong, Jonathan, Matias, J Nathan

“…We illustrate each facet by drawing on cases of people and collectives that have refused data systems. …”
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Beyond Preferences in AI Alignment by Zhi-Xuan, Tan, Carroll, Micah, Franklin, Matija, Ashton, Hal

“…We then critique the normativity of expected utility theory (EUT) for humans and AI, drawing upon arguments showing how rational agents need not comply with EUT, while highlighting how EUT is silent on which preferences are normatively acceptable. …”
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Exact algorithms for continuous pricing with advanced discrete choice demand models by Haering, Tom, Legault, Robin, Torres, Fabian, Ljubić, Ivana, Bierlaire, Michel

“…We further exploit utility breakpoints to develop the BEA, which scales polynomially in the number of customers and draws, providing a fast option for low numbers of prices. …”
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Puzzling over Phula: toward the synthesis and statement of a sub-branch by Pelkey, Jamin R.

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At the frontiers between penal and psy discourses: judicial constructions of the mentally dis/ordered defendant in Hong Kong sentencing judgments by Chiu, TCU

“…An outsider to the societal, clinical, and juridical norm, the individual must be normalised through all these gazes in the final sentence pronounced.…”

Negotiating power: examining the role of procedural elements in international peace talks by Coplen, M

“…All three studies validate the influence of procedural elements in shaping negotiation dynamics and outcomes. …”

MU'TAQAL Machine: Power, Gender and Identity in Egypt's Political Prisons, 1948-1981 by Ashmawi, HE

“…Rather, emergent public discourses on respectability, ideals of ‘real manhood’, and the tenets of the nuclear family as the basis of the nascent Egyptian nation, were all distilled by the Mu‘taqal into a panoply of gendered disciplinary discourses and acts which sought to deny its inhabitants the label, recognition and identity of ‘political prisoner’.…”

Exploring the Conceptual Definition of Islamic Financial Literacy from the Quran and Sunnah by Ab Rashid, Rosemaliza, Zainol, Zairani, Isa, Mohamad Yazid, Mohd Taib, Hasniza, Khairol Nizam, Aini Nur Hajjar

“…Next, a qualitative data analysis approach involving data condensation, data display, conclusion drawing were carried out. The findings of the analysis reveal that the Shariah primary sources do provide a comprehensive and sound economic guidance on prudent wealth and financial management at the individual level. …”
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Effect of polyvinylpyrrolidone additive in the substrate of thin-film composite forward osmosis polyvinylidene fluoride membrane on neodymium rejection by Yeoh, Yuan Xin, Mazrul Nizam, Abu Seman, Mohd Yusri, Mohd Yunus, Abdul Wahab, Mohammad, Nurul Ain, Ismail

“…Then, the non-solvent induced phase separation (NIPS) method was used to cast the substrate and the interfacial polymerization (IP) process was applied to form a polyamide (PA) thin-film active layer on the top surface. All TFC membranes except pristine PVDF membranes were able to reject neodymium higher than 94 %. …”
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Empirical estimation of metal powder bed fusion technological improvement rate by Alves de Campos, António, Torres Ferreira, Bruna, Gonçalves, Afonso, Leite, Marco, Ribeiro, Inês, L. Magee, Christopher, Henriques, Elsa

“…PBF's continuous long-term adoption growth is driven by its ability to enhance manufacturing efficiency in terms of time and raw material use, as well as its capability to produce high-quality, high-strength, complex-shaped parts. …”
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Self-healing characterizations of polyurea/polyurethane coating & its formulation optimization by Sim, Celine (Shen Silin)

“…In midst of the global rising cost of corrosion, solutions such as application of protective coating and employing regular maintenance work have been put in place. All these efforts made primarily to aim for the lifetime extension of what is being protected. …”
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Bacteriological studies for Kranji catchment by Lee, Li Jun.

“…Peng Siang sub-catchment had the highest E. coli counts among all the sub-catchment where the farm and agricultural areas show a range of E. coli from 0 to 50x106 CFU/100ml and residential area show E. coli count of not exceeding 50x103 CFU/100ml. …”
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The role of hydrodynamic conditions and pH on algal-rich water fouling of ultrafiltration by Zhang, Yan., Tang, Chuyang Y., Li, Guibai.

“…The aim of this paper was to study the membrane fouling phenomena by eutrophic water using Microcystis aeruginosa under various operational conditions (flux and air flow rate) and solution chemistry (pH). All the experiments were performed in a lab scale employing the polyvinyl chloride ultrafiltration membrane with nominal cut-off of 10 kDa. …”
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Effects of fermented products on performance, faecal pH, Enterobacteriaceae and lactic acid bacteria counts and interrelationships, and plasma cholesterol concentration in rats by Loh, T., Foo, H., Tan, S., Goh, Y., Shukriyah, M., Kufli, C.

“…Fermented products (FP), a mixed product of raw fish, sea weed, rice bran, sugar cane juice, were obtained in a process of fermentation using combination of cultures of lactic acid bacteria (LAB). …”
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Ultrasound application and its effect on quality attributes of marinated goat meat by Kumar, P., Ahmed, M. A., Hayat, M. N., Abubakar, A. A., Rahman, M. M., Ismail Fitry, M. R., Kaka, U., Sazili, A. Q.

“…Flavour and tenderness scores were highest in T2 (4.71±0.03 and 4.71±0.04) among all samples. Thus, ultrasound-assisted marination for 30 min (T2) was observed to improve the flavour and tenderness of goat meat.…”

Survival of an emerging foodborne pathogen : Group B Streptococcus (GBS) serotype III sequence type (ST) 283—under simulated partial cooking and gastric fluid conditions by Zwe, Ye Htut, Goh, Esther Zhu Hui, Chau, Man Ling, Aung, Kyaw Thu, Yuk, Hyun-Gyun

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Diazoalkane decay kinetics from UVA-active protein labelling molecules : trifluoromethyl phenyl diazirines by Djordjevic, Ivan, Wicaksono, Gautama, Solic, Ivan, Steele, Terry W. J.

“…Diazoalkanewas relatively stable over the evaluation period of 30 min (post-UVA activation) in all compounds except TPD-CH2Br, which exhibits an 11 min half-life.…”
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Current collector health monitoring of LRT trains powered by three-phase AC power rail based on inductive coupling method by Zhao, Zhenyu, Chua, Eng Kee, Svimonishvili, Tengiz, Fan, Fei, Jie, Huamin, Wang, Wensong, Shu, Zhou, Sun, Quqin, See, Kye Yak

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Structural derivation and crystal chemistry of apatites by White, Timothy John, Dong, Zhili

“…The inclusion of A(1)O6 metaprisms in structure drawings is useful for comparing apatites and condensed-apatites such as Sr5(BO3)3Br. …”
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Multi-path region mining for weakly supervised 3D semantic segmentation on point clouds by Wei, Jiacheng, Lin, Guosheng, Yap, Kim-Hui, Hung, Tzu-Yi, Xie, Lihua

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