Navigating the real world: a grounded theory-based exploration of autistic adolescents identity formation in Marcelo in the real world by Yang, Shuo, Mani, Manimangai, Omar, Noritah

“…The use of grounded theory methodology enables a full examination of Marcelo's experiences and the fundamental mechanisms guiding the development of his identity. …”
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Three Provocations for Civic Crowdfunding by Davies, Rodrigo

“…This paper considers civic crowdfunding — the use of crowdfunding for projects that produce community or quasipublic assets — and argues that its emergence demands a fresh set of questions and approaches. The work draws on critical case studies constructed through fieldwork in the US, the UK and Brazil, and a discourse analysis of civic crowdfunding projects collected from platforms by the author. …”
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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. …”

Diagrammatic Representation and Inference : 12th International Conference, Diagrams 2021, Virtual, September 28-30, 2021, Proceedings / by Diagrams (Conference) (12th : 2021 : Online) 643173, Basu, Amrita, 1953-, editor 643175, Stapleton, Gem, editor 643176, Linker, Sven, editor 643177, Legg, Catherine, editor 643178, Manalo, Emmanuel, editor 643179, Viana, Petrucio, editor 643180

Autonomy Work: Personhood, Expertise, and Activism of Disabled AI Data Workers in China by Wu, Di

“…This dissertation examines the labor and life of disabled workers in China’s artificial intelligence (AI) data annotation programs. The study draws on 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork, conducted over three years, with disabled activists, disabled workers, employment advocates, tech company staff, and government officials. …”
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Lane-aware image enhancement for lane detection in rain (part B - communications) by Tian, Zichen

“…Besides, RVPGNet features in four innovative combination layers and algorithms: 1) To save computational resources, a new information combination layer, called the 4-tiling layer, was proposed and applied; Two new feeding schemes, called 2) N-map layer and 3) 2-D Gaussian feeding layer, were designed to utilize the vanishing point better and avoid training being trapped at the saddle point; 4) The network is implemented in Caffe framework and currently under construction in PyTorch framework. …”
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Sound event recognition in unstructured environments using spectrogram image processing by Dennis, Jonathan William

“…This in turn leads to the development of a novel sound event image representation called the Subband Power Distribution (SPD) image. …”
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教会华校的特色与地位 ：以新加坡公教中学为案例 = Missionary Chinese-medium school : its traits and position with Catholic high school, Singapore as case study by 卓汶德 Toh, Boon Teck

“…Though created and supported during the pre-independence days in Singapore and Malaysia by non-governmental organisations, there are distinct differences between these so-called “missionary Chinese-medium schools”, such as Catholic High School, and the “traditional” Chinese-medium schools in terms of school management and teaching. …”
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Government resilience in the digital age by Raieste, A, Rebane, A, Tapupere, M, McBride, K

“…<br> For many governments, the COVID-19 pandemic was a wakeup call. Nearly 30% of governments in Europe had to postpone elections, education was disrupted, and many governments struggled to ensure the availability of their public services. …”

Multi-hand finger counting hardware/software system with Xillybus IP core on Xilinx Zynq by Lee, Fabian Jin Wei

“…Embedded reconfigurable systems display promising advantages: higher performance while drawing lower power with better reliability and scalability. …”
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Human centric sensing by android phones for vehicular applications by Bose, Subhodeep

“…For the purpose of this project, an android based smartphone application for sensing based functionalities was developed as part of an ongoing PhD project on ‘Intelligent Parking’ for the NTU-BMW Future Mobility Research Lab. The project draws motivation from the fact that human-centric sensing using smartphones is an area full of prospects and opportunities. …”
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The encoded codex: a digital, statistical, and codicological examination of Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds français, 24432 by Dows-Miller, SH

“…</p> <p>The first chapter presents a full codicological and palaeographical analysis of the codex. …”

Stock prediction using support vector regression by Manasa, Abburu.

“…Recent developments in the field of computational finance have led to the proposal of a novel technique called Support Vector Machine (SVM) put forth by Vapnik and his co-workers. …”
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On the most energy-efficient input functions and the lowest input energy of passive linear circuits by Smunyahirun, Radit

“…Finally, generalization of the most energy-efficient functions and the lowest input energy for any order circuits is drawn. A dummy function is introduced which is essential for generalization. …”
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Infusing epistemic perspectives on scientific practices in science teacher education by Erduran, S, Saribas, D, Kaya, E

“…Scientific practices are defined as being part of nature of science and are drawn from the account of the Family Resemblance Approach (FRA) developed by Erduran & Dagher (2014a). …”

Examining the role of social media influencers in service failure and recovery strategies: an empirical investigation of millennials’ views by Ozuem, Wilson, Willis, Michelle, Ranfagni, Silvia, Howell, Kerry, Rovai, Serena

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Attempting developmental regionalism through AFTA : the domestic politics - domestic capital nexus by Helen E. S. Nesadurai

“…Althought AFTA is acknowledged as a project of open regionalism aimed at attracting FDI to Southeast Asian region, its member surprisingly chose to accord foreign investors full market access and national treatment privileges at least ten years later than to ASEAN national investors in AFTA's investment liberalisation component programme. …”
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Nonequilibrium hyperuniform fluids by Lei, Yusheng

“…Disordered hyperuniform structures are an exotic state of matter with vanishing long-range fluctuations in many-particle systems, which have recently drawn attention from researchers in various fields such as mathematics, physics, materials sciences, etc., due to their unusual structural properties. …”
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Dynamics and stability of evaporating and condensing liquid layers by Wei, Tao

“…The prediction and control of interfacial instabilities are crucial in vapor-liquid systems, such as rupture of thin films in heat exchangers of electric devices. The present work concerns the nonlinear dynamics and stability of evaporating and condensing layers over a horizontal substrate, focusing on the effects of various interrelated physics on the gas-liquid interface. …”
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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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