America’s “China-First” grand strategy and the transatlantic bargain: revisiting the security–economics nexus by Desmaele, Linde

“…Accordingly, this article’s driving hypothesis is that the more significance the USA assigns to its European allies in the context of its China agenda, the more it will, for better or worse, seek to maintain (some degree of) European security dependence on the USA. …”
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Seven children inequality and Britain’s next generation by Dorling, D

“…And how can we reverse the trends leaving all children worse off than their parents?…”

Study on the oxidation and corrosion properties of titanium aluminide from a microstructural viewpoint by Chan, Shao Wei

“…It appears that the samples with larger ratio of γ to α2phase tendto fare worse in oxidation and corrosion performance, and these results point towards the need of optimizing the presence of γ/α2to compromise between oxidative and mechanical properties.…”
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Performance study of digital communication systems in TWDP fading by Li, Yuan

“…In the real application, fading sometimes can be worse than the known models, thus one has proposed a general analytical distribution named two-wave with diffuse power (TWDP) to pertinently express the localarea fading traits. …”
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Deep learning for multiple object tracking by Gao, Junjie

“…Our face detection network applies the anchor-free structure on face detector and the performance is just slightly worse than the state-of-the-arts anchor-based face detector. …”
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Surviving the economic crisis In distribution and warehousing business by Tan, Ai Leen

“…The financial meltdown that happened in the US had a global impact on economies worldwide, resulting in a global recession in 2008 which was said to be much worse than the Great Depression in the 1930s (Lightman, 2009). …”
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MMSE multiuser detection for uplink DS-CDMA with regenerative cooperative relaying by Liu, Yan.

“…When the number of users increases, the BER performance with direct transmission gets worse, but the BER performance of Max-Cooperate improves significantly. …”
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"Better is never better for all” : a study of feminist dystopia in Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Lessing’s The Marriages between Zones Three, Four, and Five ; as narrated by The... by Eliza, Isa

“…If we cease to judge this world, we may find ourselves, very quickly, in one which is infinitely worse (Atwood 6). I do think that sometimes I hit a kind of wavelength—though I think a lot of writers do this—where I anticipate events. …”
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You look familiar … but what’s your name? Word learning in Singaporean older adults by Tan, Justina Yu Han

“…Interestingly, known faces were learnt better than unknown faces, but familiarized faces were learnt worse than unfamiliarized faces. However, while younger adults were negatively affected by the familiarization task, older adults seemed to benefit from the additional exposure. …”
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An autonomous vehicle simulation study : the misunderstood impact of a night driving environment on takeover performance by Lee, Lennell

“…This suggested that drivers showed worse takeover performance in the night driving environment or when facing person hazards.…”
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Relationship between gestalt processing and affect recognition : comparing youths with and without autism by Khoo, Ser Wee

“…They had comparable gestalt processing ability to typically developing participants on the visual closure subtest but performed significantly worse on the intact scene stimuli in the computerized task. …”
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Gaps In Primary Care And Health System Performance In Six Latin American And Caribbean Countries by Macinko, James, Guanais, Frederico C., Mullachery, Pricila, Jimenez, Geronimo

“…Reports of more primary care problems were associated with worse perceptions of health system performance and quality and less receipt of preventive care. …”
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Evaluating machine learning for predicting youth suicidal behavior up to 1 year after contact with mental-health specialty care by O’Reilly, LM, Fazel, S, Rickert, ME, Kuja-Halkola, R, Cederlöf, M, Hellner, C, Larsson, H, Lichtenstein, P, D’Onofrio, BM

“…Logistic regression is not clearly worse than machine-learning approaches. Ongoing research is needed to examine how prediction models can augment clinical decision-making.…”

Challenges of Social Media Marketing in Digital Technology: A Case of Small Traders of Agricultural Products in Malaysia by Othman, Zakirah, Abu, Noor Hidayah, Mohd Shafie, Shafini, Kamarul Zaman, Nur Badriyah, Alias, Emmy Farha, Wan Yahaya, Wan Ahmad Jaafar

“…The Small-to-Medium Enterprises (SMEs), especially in the agricultural sector are not an exception and faced numerous challenges in technology, particularly in digital marketing. It becomes worse when these enterprises were also affected by Covid-19 pandemic. …”
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Load frequency control of power systems with renewable energy sources by Yan, Huan

“…However, while developing the society and world, the large consumptions of traditional fossil-based energy has produced a huge amount of carbon dioxide which causes climate change. What’s worse, traditional energy will run out in few decades. …”
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Implications of human-nature interactions for livelihoods and conservation in Kasungu, Malawi by Mandoloma, L, Clark, M, Hughes, K, Coad, L, Milner-Gulland, E

“…Without this context, interventions risk being impractical or ineffective, potentially leaving both people and nature worse off. We used mixed methods to understand human-nature interactions in Kasungu, Malawi. …”

API Governance at Scale by Ahmad, Mak, Geewax, J. J., Macvean, Andrew, Karger, David, Ma, Kwan-Liu

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Information FOMO: The Unhealthy Fear of Missing Out on Information—A Method for Removing Misleading Data for Healthier Models by Pickering, Ethan, Sapsis, Themistoklis P.

“…Our method improves sample-wise error convergence and eliminates instances where more data lead to worse performance and instabilities of the surrogate model, often termed sample-wise “double descent”. …”
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A numerical study on bio-inspired aerofoils oscillating in tandem by Chua, Kok Nam

“…As a result, when considering the aft-aerofoil’s mean lifting performance through one full oscillation, it was found to have performed worse than the fore-aerofoil. The thrust performance for the aft-aerofoil was found to largely depend on the specific vortex dynamics of each motion case, and no obvious trend was observed as frequency and amplitude was varied. …”
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Experimental results of bispectral invariants discriminative power by Kubicki, Karol., Kakarala, Ramakrishna.

“…It is shown that the bispectral invariants outperform power spectral invariants, but perform worse than other descriptors proposed in the literature such as SHELLS and SHD. …”
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