Mechanistic cutting force model for ball-end milling by Girsang, Irving Paul.

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Women’s quest for home: spatial imaginary in Kazuo Ishiguro’s a pale view of hills by Ling, Xu, Awang, Mohammad Ewan, Singh, Hardev Kaur Jujar

“…This paper examines the meanings of home in A Pale View of Hills by drawing upon Blunt’s and Dowling’s concept of home as a spatial imaginary. …”
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Is moral understanding a kind of moral vision? by Hills, A

End of the line by Chia, Wei Ting

“…My Final Year Project “End of the Line” is an experimental effort to create an expressive piece of game design, writing and drawing to explore the possibilities of creating a narrative driven card game that combines elements of walking simulators, interactive fiction, and strategic card games. …”
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Engineering culture: logics of optimization in music, games, and apps by Morris, JW, Prey, R, Nieborg, DB

“…Through comparative cases of music, games, and apps that draw on trade press and industry discourse, institutional and financial analysis, and select interviews with musicians, we consider various forms of, and strategies for, what we call cultural optimization. …”

The strategy of coercive isolation U.S. security policy by Timonthy W. Crawford

“…From this discussion we also draw several conclusions about the conditions that favour the success of coercive isolation strategies. …”
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‘I don’t care who joins my choir’: investigating attitudes to diversity and inclusivity in lower- and upper-voice choirs in the United Kingdom by MacGregor, E

“…We conclude by making initial recommendations for how choirs might recognise and address such challenges, and call for a shift in the research agenda to pay greater attention to exclusionary factors in amateur and community music participation…”

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. …”

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

“…Beyond a compilation of insights, this book serves as a call to action. It invites educational policymakers to initiate pragmatic policies, fostering an inclusive environment where women's voices are heard and valued. …”

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>. The second is why ascending powers were slow to assume greater burden-shares despite economic ascents; I call this <em>‘Challenger Inertia.’…”

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? …”

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. …”

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

“…To explore what we propose to call the carnival of power, we examine three iterations of this tradition: the festive exercise of state violence, state carnivalisers, and the carnivalesque style in governance.…”
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Organizing and strategizing in and for extreme contexts: temporality, emotions, and embodiment by Hällgren, M, Geiger, D, Rouleau, L, Sutcliffe, KM, Vaara, E

“…The introduction concludes with a call for future studies to deepen engagement with materiality, relational dynamics, and methodological innovations, reinforcing the relevance of this field to broader management and organization studies.…”

Why do rural migrant mothers in urban China digitally monitor their children? by Murphy, R, Wu, G

“…We examine how and why some rural intra-provincial working migrant women in cities in central China used digital monitoring technologies in their mothering. The discussion draws on our 22 face-to-face interviews with the rural migrant mothers of at least one child ages 7–14 years. …”

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

“…This article argues that the artistic-cultural work of the late Kuo Pao Kun (1939–2002) from the mid-1990s commenced on what tentatively can be called an extraterritorial theatre practice that engaged with the modern state’s capacity to make national identity singular in the interests of political, military and economic goals, and in which cultural formation and identity must exceed the nation-state’s purview. …”
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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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An object category specific mrf for segmentation by Kumar, MP, Torr, PHS, Zisserman, A

“…The resulting combination, which we call the object category specific mrf, suggests a solution to the problem that has long dogged mrfs namely that they provide a poor prior for specific shapes. …”

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.” …”