Morality or "false consciousness"? How moral naturalists can answer Thrasymachus's challenge by Luco, Andrés Carlos

“…False consciousness occurs when a dominant social group shapes the beliefs and desires of a subordinate group in such a way that the subordinates act for the benefit of the dominants, but against their own interests. …”
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The early Confucian worry about yuan (resentment) by Sung, Winnie

“…I attempt to use the early Confucian discussions of yuan to shed light on an aspect of human psychology, namely, when one laments about certain conditions that obtain in such a way that she sees as beyond her control and negatively affects her. …”
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In vitro reconstitution of liquid-liquid phase separation in regulating gene transcription by Gan, Jia Yun

“…TF9 was seen to start forming droplets at a concentration of 2.5 μM when incubated with 10% PEG and 150 mM NaCl buffer. …”
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Effect of oblique retroreflection from a vibrating mirror on laser Doppler shift by Agusanto, Kusuma, Lau, Gih-Keong, Liu, Ting, Zhu, Chuangui

“…A laser Doppler vibrometer (LDV) fails to measure a large out-of-plane vibration of a rotating mirror when the mirror obliquely reflects the laser beam away, causing a signal loss from being detected. …”
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Circulating current control scheme of modular multilevel converters supplying passive networks under unbalanced load conditions by Zhang, Huaitian, Wickramasinghe, Harith R., Jing, Long, Li, Jinke, Pou, Josep, Konstantinou, Georgios

“…This paper demonstrates the impact of circulating current control in capacitor voltage ripples of sub-modules and peak arm currents under unbalanced load conditions when supplying passive networks, comparing the effects of three circulating current control methods on internal variables of the MMCs. …”
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Understanding the outcomes of enterococcus faecalis and pseudomonas aeruginosa dual-species biofilms by Ong, Qian Wei

“…It was hypothesized that the increase and decrease in biofilm production was linked to the viability of P. aeruginosa as the species was found to be the major producer in biofilm when in co-culture with E. faecalis. Thus, we conducted a cell viability assay. …”
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Terahertz radiation by Wong, Yun Ming

“…From simulations, it was found that the transmission was higher when the couplers were placed above or below the domain wall and made to penetrate deeper into the PTI slab. …”
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A bi-level probabilistic path planning algorithm for multiple robots with motion uncertainty by Wang, Jingchuan, Tai, Ruochen, Xu, Jingwen

“…For improving the system efficiency when there are motion uncertainties among robots in the warehouse environment, this paper proposes a bi-level probabilistic path planning algorithm. …”
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Multi-degradation image super-resolution using texture-transfer by Susanto, Stephanie Audrey

“…This causes state-of-the-art models to not perform as well when evaluated with non-bicubic LR images. This research presents a non-blind reference-based SR (RefSR) using multi-degradation method that aims to be more well-rounded compared to leading SR methods thus far. …”
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Graphitic carbon/paraffin phase change materials for thermal energy storage by Muhammad Hafiz Mohamad Saffie

“…Our results show good thermal stability over 5 thermal cycles and latent heat variation of less than 10% when comparing the first and fifth cycle for all samples. …”
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Effect of minimum wage increase on employment and wage levels by Ng, Cheryl Tsuei Yi

“…In addition, the results for employment level are relatively consistent when we disaggregated the analysis for both covered and uncovered labour markets. …”
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Teaching the woman of colour and transatlantic women — a roundtable on The Woman of Colour (1808) : pedagogic and critical approaches (Roundtable) by Krueger, Misty

“…The course, and that very idea, inspired me to edit a volume of essays on transatlantic women travelers, which includes an essay by Octavia Cox on The Woman of Colour—a text I had not even heard of when I first designed the course. Once I read this novel, though, I realized that it was a perfect fit for my class.…”
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BIM : interoperability issues between BIM authoring software and structural analysis software (RC) by Low, Khai Jer

“…However, new issues arise when different software are adopted by the construction industry professionals with their daily works. …”
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Militarized masculinities beyond methodological nationalism : charting the multiple masculinities of an Indonesian jihadi by Duriesmith, David, Noor Huda Ismail

“…Based on fieldwork with Indonesian former foreign fighters, we make the case that feminist international relations have tended to unreflectively default to the nation when locating gender hierarchies. Exploring the multiple articulations of masculinity present in former fighters' lives, we suggest that efforts must be made to resist methodological nationalism in understanding the relationship between gender hierarchies and armed conflict. …”
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Production planning for cloud-based additive manufacturing—A computer vision-based approach by Wang, Yuanbin, Zheng, Pai, Xu, Xun, Yang, Huayong, Zou, Jun

“…Cloud-based additive manufacturing (AM) has shown its potential in the market in recent years. When the demand increases, it becomes more important to efficiently schedule tasks to achieve lower production time and cost. …”
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Face recognition using total loss function on face database with ID photos by Cui, Dongshun, Zhang, Guanghao, Hu, Kai, Han, Wei, Huang, Guang-Bin

“…However, few feature extraction models work well in the real world when the subject which is to be recognized has limited samples, for example, only one ID photo can be obtained before the face recognition task. …”
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Factors influencing junior managers' poor decisions in new market entry by Adela, Josephine, Chen, Lionel Yingren, Yeo, Marianna Xue Na

“…We found that firms that have made the wrong decision to enter a new market (hence resulting in poor financial performance) tend to have: • Entered the market hastily without a track record of success in prior markets; • Entered the market due to competitive pressure; • Justified their market entry decisions mostly based on competitive reasons; • Sunk in substantial R&Ds expenditures without commensurate marketing expenditures when launching new products in the new market. This study’s findings offer insights into the phenomenon of poor decision making. …”
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The effects of heat treatment on the AISI 316L stainless steel overlay with respect to its PREN by Khow, Stephen Junjie.

“…Delta ferrite decomposition was slowed down when samples are heated beyond 850۫c and this was also reflected by a smaller weight loss. …”
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Performance study of digital communication systems in TWDP fading by Li, Yuan

“…In this scenario, signal experiences through different paths separately to reach the destination, whose amplitude, phase and frequency would change randomly. When being added up, path components can strengthen or weaken each other, leading to the uncertain characteristic of the received signal. …”
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Match making in complex social networks by Mao, Fubing, Ma, Lijia, He, Qiang, Xiao, Gaoxi

“…We explore a few matching schemes including greedy mode, roulette wheel selection mode and completely random mode on different networks. We also investigate when social systems become more densely connected, how the match making process would be affected. …”
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