Painting and animating with graphics strokes by Cheong, Ying Ying.

“…The application is break down into two modes – Drawing Mode and Animation Mode. In the Drawing Mode, the user can draw brushstrokes using mouse motion, edits brushstroke’s form by manipulating the Catmull-Rom spline’s control points, all through an interactive 2D graphical user interface. …”
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Turning rebellion into money? Social entrepreneurship as the strategic performance of systems change by Teasdale, S, Roy, MJ, Nicholls, A, Hervieux, C

“…</p> <p><strong>Managerial Summary:</strong> Social entrepreneurs often call for systems change to tackle wicked problems such as poverty or climate change. …”

The Accident / by Pavone, Chris, author 656312

“…Taking place over the course of twenty-four hours, The Accident draws on the rich worlds of publishing, politics and international spies to tell a suspenseful tale of intrigue in the vein of John Grisham and Laura Lippman. …”

Financial planning application using MATLAB App Designer by Renganathan, Preethi

“…FinanceMLab simplifies usage by using dynamic calculators that draw on reputable government sources [1], [2]. This ensures precise and consolidated financial planning. …”
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Questioning the Herderian ideal by Mishra, Pritipuspa, Tan, Ying Ying

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Toward a differentiation-based framework for middle power behavior by Teo, Sarah

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Beyond national identity : Kuo Pao Kun’s contemporary theatre and an open culture by Wee, C. J. Wan-Ling

“…His deliberations on contemporary art and culture draw from older ideals of modern cultural formation and is conjoined, it may be contradictorily, with postmodernism’s rhetoric of the decentred and the multiple; but if so, this contradiction becomes an adumbration of the fraught attributes of the contemporary.…”
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Doctor, Will You Pray for Me? : Medicine, Chaplains, and Healing the Whole Person / by Klitzman, Robert, author 655971

“…Healthcare chaplains have been filling the void, developing valuable approaches and insights. …”
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Global fertility in 204 countries and territories, 1950–2021, with forecasts to 2100: a comprehensive demographic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by Bhattacharjee, NV, Schumacher, AE, Aali, A, Almidani, O, Bandyopadhyay, S, Graham, SM, Lacey, BWH, Maude, RJ, Runghien, T, Rodriguez, JAB

“…Uncertainty from past data inputs and model estimation was propagated throughout analyses by taking 1000 draws for past and present fertility estimates and 500 draws for future forecasts from the estimated distribution for each metric, with 95% uncertainty intervals (UIs) given as the 2·5 and 97·5 percentiles of the draws. …”

ADVANCING WOMEN LEADERSHIP IN HIGHER EDUCATION / by Lei Mee Thien, Rahimi Che Aman, Muhammad Muftahu

“…It unveils critical issues, such as gender inequality, cultural barriers and the glass ceiling, drawing attention to these persistent obstacles. Readers will discover how women leaders are breaking boundaries, inspiring change and thriving in their roles. …”

Imagining post-fossil tourism mobilities with Norwegian tourists by Hopkins, D, Landa-Mata, I, Kr Steen Jacobsen, J, Farstad, E, Higham, J

“…Sustainable mobility has become a catch-all term to describe forms, modes, policies and practices of mobility that are thought to have a lower environmental footprint and/or fewer social exclusions than the contemporary mobility system which is reliant on fossil fuels and private ownership. …”

Prism by Ho, Clement Yong En

“…The question is: what makes these games so addictive and what draws people to them?…”
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Atomic Habits : Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results : An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones / by Clear, James, author 656048

“…Clear is known for his ability to distill complex topics into simple behaviors that can be easily applied to daily life and work. Here, he draws on the most proven ideas from biology, psychology, and neuroscience to create an easy-to-understand guide for making good habits inevitable and bad habits impossible. …”

Automatic hyperparameter tuning of topology optimization algorithms using surrogate optimization by Ha, Dat, Carstensen, Josephine

“…This paper presents a new approach that automates the tuning process in topology optimization of parameters that are traditionally defined by the user. The new method draws inspiration from hyperparameter optimization in machine learning. …”
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A proposed framework of research on the influencing factors of burnout-based on the perspective of individual work scenarios by Lu, Guangguo, Kanjanapathy, Malini, Mohamed Saat, Maisarah

“…Job burnout is a pervasive issue that spans all sectors, exerting profound impacts on individuals, teams, organizations, and societies. …”
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Do investors get benefits from corporate green sukuk issuance by Riaz, Tabassum, Selamat, Aslam Izah, Mohd Nor, Normaziah, Sheikh Hassan, Ahmad Fahmi

“…Further, this study draws a comparative analysis of investors' response to the announcements of corporate green sukuk and corporate green bond issuance, and the findings also show that investors respond positively to the announcements of green bond issuances. …”
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Buying influence? The international diplomacy behind donor financing of the World Bank’s International Development Association by Xu, J

“…The first is why the hegemon maintained its burden shares regardless of rise or fall in economic status; I call this <em>‘Hegemonic Lag’</em>. …”

EMS of hybrid AC/DC micro grid by Zhao, Yi

“…The fast development of renewable resources draws much attention to the dc grid, because most electricity comes from renewables is dc. …”
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Formal contracts mitigate social dilemmas in multi-agent reinforcement learning by Haupt, Andreas, Christoffersen, Phillip, Damani, Mehul, Hadfield-Menell, Dylan

“…It is an open problem in MARL to replicate such cooperative behaviors in selfish agents. In this work, we draw upon the idea of formal contracting from economics to overcome diverging incentives between agents in MARL. …”
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A study of shoppers' motives and profiles by Ang, Delphine Ling Ling, Seah, Beng Huey, Hee, Li Ling

“…The study also revealed that the draw factors for the two kinds of shopping centres differ. …”
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