‘All work is prostitution’: an exploration of sex work, exploitation, and dis-organising by Westwood, K

All the Islands the Island: the crafting of Cortázar's 'La isla a mediodía' by Moran, DP

“…Lawrence’s story ‘The Man Who Loved Islands’, various works by Aldous Huxley, and, above all, William Golding’s novel Pincher Martin. …”

ASEAN needs a repatriation plan for a Taiwan contingency by Abdul Rahman Yaacob, Muhammad Faizal Bin Abdul Rahman

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Influence of hydro, mechanical, and chemical treatments to seed for germination and seedling growth of Saraca asoca (Roxb. de Wilde) by Manohar Kandileri, Abha, Shukla, Gopal, Louis, Libin T., Kizha, Anil Raj, Husen, Azamal, Chakravarty, Sumit

“…It has been noticed that Saraca asoca (Roxb. de Wilde) populations are drastically declining in the wild. …”
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Protein delivery options: how well have we succeeded? by Ng, Xu Wen, Subbu, Venkatraman

“…Of the ten top-selling drugs in 2013, the first three (Humira®, Enbrel®, Remicade®) were all monoclonal antibodies for treating autoimmune diseases; together these three accounted for approximately $28 billion in sales. …”
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Transmission planning by minimizing curtailment of market transactions by Gunnaasankaraan, Harivina, Viswanath, Aparna, Mahata, Kaushik, Goel, Lalit

“…This paper suggests that the decision to expand transmission facilities will depend on the loss sustained by the customer due to curtailment of market transactions vs. cost of installing new transmission facilities over a planning period. Thus, in a power system, the sum total cost of investment to expand transmission facilities and cost of cumulative loss due to curtailment of transactions to all the customers is set up as a minimization problem, which results in optimal transmission expansion needed over a planning period. …”
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GaAs/AlAs/AlGaAs quantum well infrared photodetector by Fan, Weijun

“…In this project, the n-type QW structures of GaAs/AlGaAs and GaAs/AlAs/AlGaAs with specific parameters are grown by all solid source MBE on the GaAs substrates. Two material systems and quantum well structures are systematically characterized and investigated. …”
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Vision-based patient wellness monitoring using facial cues by Sathyanarayana, Supriya

“…A confidence measure, based on the intensity and persistence of the wellness indicators, has been incorporated to accommodate situations in which not all relevant wellness indicators were present. …”
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The role of executive function in cognitive reappraisal: a meta-analytic review by Toh, Wei Xing, Keh, Jun Sheng, Gross, James J., Carstensen, Laura L.

“…To address this issue, we conducted a meta-analysis of the literature in which 179 effect sizes from 59 independent samples (N = 4,703) were included. …”
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Predicting traffic congestion evolution : a deep meta learning approach by Sun, Yidan, Jiang, Guiyuan, Lam, Siew-Kei, He, Peilan

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MISE: meta-knowledge inheritance for social media-based stressor estimation by Wang, X, Feng, L, Zhang, H, Cao, L, Zeng, K, Li, Q, Ding, Y, Dai, Y, Clifton, D

“…To this end, we cast the stressor estimation problem within a practical scenario few-shot learning setting, and propose a novel meta-learning based stressor estimation framework that is enhanced by a meta-knowledge inheritance mechanism. …”

Planned Geological Investigations of the Europa Clipper Mission by Daubar, I. J., Hayes, A. G., Collins, G. C., Craft, K. L., Rathbun, J. A., Spencer, J. R., Wyrick, D. Y., Bland, M. T., Davies, A. G., Ernst, C. M., Howell, S. M., Leonard, E. J., McEwen, A. S., Moore, J. M., Phillips, C. B., Prockter, L. M., Quick, L. C., Scully, J. E. C., Soderblom, J. M., Brooks, S. M., Cable, M., Cameron, M. E., Chan, K., Chivers, C. J., Choukroun, M., Cochrane, C. J., Diniega, S., Dombard, A. J., Elder, C. M., Gerekos, C., Glein, C., Greathouse, T. K., Grima, C., Gudipati, M. S., Hand, K. P., Hansen, C., Hayne, P., Hedman, M., Hughson, K., Jia, X., Lawrence, J., Meyer, H. M., Miller, K., Parekh, R., Patterson, G. W., Persaud, D. M., Piqueux, S., Retherford, K. D., Scanlan, K. M., Schenk, P., Schmidt, B., Schroeder, D., Steinbrügge, G., Stern, A., Tobie, G., Withers, P., Young, D. A., Buratti, B., Korth, H., Senske, D., Pappalardo, R.

“…Geological investigations planned for the Europa Clipper mission will examine the formation, evolution, and expression of geomorphic structures found on the surface. …”
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Practice of consulting firms in corporate strategic planning. by Chapman, Beverly Jean.

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401(k) plans and tax-deferred savings by Poterba, James M., Venti, Steven F., Wise, David A.

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Factors affecting the extent of retirement planning in Singapore. by Law, Boon Huey., Kwek, Jenny Chiew Ling., Sim, Sei Lin.

“…The aim of this research is to determine the significant factors that affect one's extent of retirement planning. Three aspects of retirement planning are being investigated-financial, health and psychological. …”
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Demo application of the intelligent planning and scheduling system by Fang, ShuHui

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Adaptative grasp planning for manipulation of micro-objects by Li, Jiuyun

“…In this thesis, an adaptive grasp planning method is developed for grasping of micro-objects, where the shapes or contours of the target objects are considered in the grasping process. …”
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Microgrid operation planning toward high reliability by Lee, Jia Yi

“…This report investigates the operational planning of microgrids to achieve high reliability, focusing primarily on the incorporation of photovoltaic (PV) systems and battery energy storage systems (BESS). …”
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Path planning and simulation for two mobile robots by Sheng, Hao Ran

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PCS network planning using genetic algorithm by Li, Juan.

“…In this thesis the author has addressed the Personal Communication Services (PCS) network-planning problem as a complex combinational optimization problem. …”
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