Low wage work in the United Kingdom

“…The United Kingdom's labor market policies place it in a kind of institutional middle ground between the United States and continental Europe. …”

What can literature do that philosophy can't? Entering the hybrid worlds of Simone de Beauvoir and Iris Murdoch by Holt, N

“…As dual practitioners they were each expertly positioned to reflect on these topics. Yet neither of them has been studied much as a philosopher of literature. …”

Exploring c Environment (S/O: 12826) by Abdul Rahman, Syariza, Ku Mahamud, Ku Ruhana, Ramli, Razamin, Benjamin, Aida Mauziah, Omar, Mohd Faizal

“…The problem has constraints which have not been modelled before; the timeslots and days assignment and splitting exams across several rooms. …”
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Intention to purchase family takaful: An extension of decomposed theory of planned behavior by Qazi, Mansoor Ahmad, Md Husin, Maizaitulaidawati

“…Takaful has been gaining a strong position in the insurance market because it is free from interest and this product is an alternative to conventional insurance. …”
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Hedonic and non-hedonic bias toward the future by Greene, Preston, Latham, Andrew J., Miller, Kristie, Norton, James

“…Further, it has been assumed that our third-person preferences are always time-neutral. …”
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Affective-cognitive design of product ecosystems for user experience by Zhou, Feng

“…Further, traditional usability studies often consider interactions between the user and a single object (product), ignoring the kind of user interactions in a context of product ecosystems that consist of multiple interdependent products, users, and ambient factors (e.g., environmental settings and cultural factors). …”
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The ethics of silence : reading the lover's discourse in contemporary trauma narratives by Goh, Pei Hua

“…She therefore proposes a “transmission of the gap” (156) where writing has to “write against itself” (39) in conveying the very impossibility of representation. …”
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Energy management in ports and its impact on port sustainability and regional competitive advantage by Li, Jianni

“…All in all, this study has shown that port of Singapore has an optimistic outlook in their energy management. …”
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Gate-all-around nanowire FET sensors with ultrahigh sensitivity and low noise by Pushpapraj Singh

“…In this research work, new kinds of field-effect transistor (FET)-based sensing elements were developed to maximize the detection limits of conventional piezoresistors. …”
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Stories of the Sky by Chen, Zhanyi

“…The sky has never been merely a smooth surface but is striated with all kinds of machines, politics, and power dynamics. …”
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Universal machine learning classifier using extreme learning machines by Chen, Jinnan

“…The general way to address this problem is applying back propagation algorithms into each of the three kinds of problems, but it could be time-consuming and computationally expensive. …”
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Missing links in The China Model by Li, Chenyang

“…It is therefore important for us to spell out explicitly what kind of work we are dealing with here before we dive into other substantive issues. …”
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An experimental investigation on relation of stress with occurrence of tinnitus by Ng, Chee Seng.

“…Four different stress experiments were designed for different kind of stressor. Sleep deprivation induced stress experiment investigates the effect of short term sleep loss and long term sleep loss to human stress response system and occurrence of tinnitus. …”
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Setting TOU electricity tariffs for NTU electricity consumers by Goh, Michael Yeow Liang

“…With rising electricity costs and advanced technology advancements, it has stimulated considerable research in the area of residential consumers’ electricity usage. …”
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E-learning for mobile learning platform by MacInnes, Catriona

“…Understanding the model used to classify this kind of data is very important. By doing so, it can provide insight into how knowledge can be measured and provide a gateway to developing and creating future models. …”
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An investigative study of a sound reducer cum locator of a perforated panel by Lo, Desmond Jian Wen

“…Other than modifying the perforation sizes in order to acquire the required opening ratio, the location of the panel will also be experimented in order to determine what kind of effect perforated side panels will have on the sound transmission loss.…”
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Energy democracy, public participation, and support for local energy system change in Canada by Fiander, J, Walker, C, Rowlands, IH, Devine-Wright, P, Wilson, C, Soutar, I, Gupta, R

“…These findings, some of the first of their kind in the realm of energy democracy in Canada, provide useful insights relevant to scholars, policymakers, and practitioners working on LSG implementation as well as others with an interest in socio-technical innovation and energy system change.…”

Rational construction of highly transparent superhydrophobic coatings based on a non-particle, fluorine-free and water-rich system for versatile oil-water separation by Gao, Shouwei, Dong, Xiuli, Huang, Jianying, Li, Shuhui, Li, Yuwei, Chen, Zhong, Lai, Yuekun

“…In the current work, we present a simple approach to fabricate robust superhydrophobic surfaces on different kinds of substrates using phase-separation method. …”
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Subtle, natural and socially acceptable interaction techniques for ringterfaces : finger-ring shaped user interfaces by Pang, Natalie, Rissanen, Mikko J., Vu, Samantha, Fernando, Owen Noel Newton, Foo, Schubert

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Nonreciprocal phenomena in superconductivity by Davydova, Marharyta

“…Nonreciprocal superconductors describe certain classes of unconventional superconductors that include certain kinds of mixed-pairing and finite-momentum ones. …”
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