The religious life of viking armies by Abrams, L

“…This paper focuses on the mobile and predatory groups of the ninth and early tenth centuries that contemporary sources called ‘armies’. To what extent did they try to recreate the religious beliefs and practice of the Scandinavian homelands? …”

Market outlook of VLCCs in the next 5 years by Cheah, Peifang.

“…The report shall focus on analyzing the demand and supply factors and subsequently draw a conclusion based on their effect on the freight rates. …”
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Why the rule of law? A historical perspective by Pirie, F

“…Around the world, systems of accountability are weak and dictators find ways to avoid the constraints of both national and international laws. Yet we continue to call for better laws and for aggressors to be tried for war crimes. …”

Vile sovereignty: the carnival of power by Hallsworth, Simon, Stephenson, Svetlana

“…In this paper we seek to extend Bakhtin’s reading of the folk carnival and apply it to help understand the carnivalesque, performative aspects of state power. Drawing on the work of Agamben, Foucault, Lacan and Žižek and recent scholarship on the role of laughter in the Stalinist totalitarian culture, we argue that the state can also laugh and that it can have its own carnival tradition as well. …”
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Multi-facet in heterogeneous information network representation learning by Zhao, Tianqi

“…The process of converting raw HIN datasets into dense matrixes of lower dimensions while still preserving the network structure as much as possible is called graph embedding or representation learning, which is the very first step to be carried out before any algorithm could be applied on the network to study its structure or node relationships. …”
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Home sweet homo : transnational connections in a Singaporean queer activist movement by Phua, Theng Hui

“…When the Indian Supreme Court made the landmark decision in 2018 to decriminalize consensual, homosexual acts, queer activists in Singapore sought to achieve the same by calling for the repeal of Section 377A of the penal code. …”
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Assessing surface seals of soils on slopes by Liu, Chenying

“…Infiltrometer tests were carried out at twelve locations at the crest, the face and the toe of a residual soil slope. Quick draw tensiometer test was also performed at the same location to provide corroboration of infiltration rate. …”
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The political economy of oil and economic diversification: a neglected research field Robert Mabro would certainly like us to revive by Aissaoui, A

“…The less obvious reason is that multiple country case studies can help reflect the diversity of contexts and conditions and draw on distinct sources of evidence to discern national idiosyncrasies.…”

Organizing and strategizing in and for extreme contexts: temporality, emotions, and embodiment by Hällgren, M, Geiger, D, Rouleau, L, Sutcliffe, KM, Vaara, E

“…Extreme contexts—marked by unpredictability, high stakes, and urgency—challenge organizational capacities and demand innovative responses. Drawing on the foundation of extreme context research, this introduction explores three perspectives: extreme as an event, a situational context, and a socially constructed practice. …”

The third space, student and staff co-creation of gamified informal learning: an emerging model of co-design by Bamford, Jan, Moschini, Elena

“…This paper draws from the authors’ exploration of an innovative third space approach to engaging students with informal learning through the use of co-design and co-creation, which sits outside traditional subject delivery spaces. …”
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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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Meaningful eating: a new method for food design by Zampollo, Francesca

“…Osborn (1953) for example calls this initial phase of the design process, the preparation phase, defined by problem understanding and data gathering, or preparation. …”
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Activity detection and analysis on Android by Ong, Xian Hui

“…Features extracted from the raw inertial sensor data are first collected from the mobile device and subsequently used to build classification models using different machine learning algorithms in WEKA Analyzing Tool. …”
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An innovative design of household civil defence shelters by Khong, Zhi Cong.

“…In order to be less dependent on foreign imports for raw materials, there is a need to come up with alternatives to reduce the amount of sand needed. …”
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Innovation and firm survival: the role of timing, funding, and networks by Gao, Ming

“…Overall, particularly noteworthy is the finding that the moderating influence of collaborative networks on firm innovation-survival relationship mainly depends on the types of innovation activities. This study draws on a sample of 229 SMEs in the high-tech nanotechnology industry, which provides a suitable context for our empirical investigation. …”
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Data artivism and feminicide by Suárez Val, Helena, D'Ignazio, Catherine, Acosta Romero, Jimena, Teng, Melissa Q, Fumega, Silvana

“…Data has become a key format for activists to visibilizar (make visible/call attention to) and denounce social issues. Drawing on the concept of “artivism,” we name as data artivism those works that visually intervene in the contestation around an issue by mobilizing art and craft as a form of resistance and as a method to visualize data. …”
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A phenomenology of kenosis: Jean-Luc Nancy after the theological turn by Deketelaere, N

“…<p>This study outlines what Jean-Luc Nancy can offer the phenomenology of religion by reading his deconstruction of Christianity in the context of the so-called ‘theological turn’ of recent phenomenology. …”

Beyond symbolism: the roles of action planning and case-making in immigrant integration policymaking by Allen, WL, Broadhead, J

“…In response, we examine how municipal actors in 12 cities and regions across the UK have devised and communicated policies on immigrant integration—an area that lacks national policy inputs yet is locally consequential—through the mechanism of “action planning.” Drawing on 6 years’ worth of documentary evidence generated through a university-initiated collaboration with these municipalities, we show how action plans gather attention for objectives and propagate examples of practice to other cities—what we call “case-making.” …”

RanDumb: random representations outperform online continually learned representations by Prabhu, A, Sinha, S, Kumaraguru, P, Torr, PHS, Sener, O, Dokania, PK

“…Our primary contribution is empirically demonstrating that existing online continually trained deep networks produce inferior representations compared to a simple pre-defined random transforms. Our approach embeds raw pixels using a fixed random transform, approximating an RBF-Kernel initialized before any data is seen. …”