“With Friends Like These”: Unpacking Panicked Metaphors for Population Ageing by Sally Chivers

“…The method uncovers attitudes that anchor the metaphor and hamper the movement’s effectiveness, particularly when trying to reach people who have not already been well served all their lives. The emphasis on a narrow version of active ageing feeds a neoliberal imagination that affects how value is assigned to an ageing population. …”
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The Dark Shadow of Virtual Reality by Claire Su-Yeon Park

“…If the account is not renewable, another socio-economic problem might arise. We should be mindful of the possible harmful consequences, the “Dark Shadow of VR,” while adopting and applying advances in VR technology to all areas of pedagogy. …”
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Exploring the impact of housing insecurity on the health and well-being of children and young people: a systematic review by Emma Hock, Lindsay Blank, Hannah Fairbrother, Mark Clowes, Diana Castelblanco Cuevas, Andrew Booth, Elizabeth Goyder

“…This led to anxiety/stress, trouble eating and sleeping, wetting the bed and health problems, such as asthma, due to poor living conditions. …”
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Changes Seen, Foreseen and Unforeseen by Michael Kirby Justice

“…[Extract] Most lawyers — but I venture to suggest all judges — owe an incalculable intellectual debt to their law teachers. …”
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Assessing Community-Level Livability Using Combined Remote Sensing and Internet-Based Big Geospatial Data by Likai Zhu, Yuanyuan Guo, Chi Zhang, Jijun Meng, Lei Ju, Yuansuo Zhang, Wenxue Tang

“…Next, we calculated the livability scores for all communities and assessed their uncertainties using Monte Carlo simulations. …”
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The concept of partnershıp work ın vocatıonal educatıon ınstıtutıons by Piriyeva Tarana Zakir

“…The experience of countries operating in market conditions shows that, among other factors, the proper formation of young people in terms of specialities and professions plays an important role in improving the living standards of the population, significantly reducing poverty. …”
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Hidden markov model for decision making among heterogeneous systems in intelligent building by Abba, Babakura

“…We hypothesized that the response time can be improved without sacrificing the system accuracy through machine learning. …”
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Doing good badly? Philosophical issues related to effective altruism by Plant, M

“…</p> <p>Roughly speaking, my main conclusions are (1) saving lives is not as straightforwardly good we tend to suppose, may not be good at all, and is not clearly a priority; (2) happiness can be measured through self-reports and, based on the self-reported evidence, treating mental health stands out as an overlooked problem that may be an even more cost-effective way to improve lives than alleviating poverty; (3) the cause prioritisation methodology proposed by effective altruists needs to be moderately reconceptualised and, when it is, it turns out it is not as illuminating a tool as we might have thought and hoped.…”

Automated evaluation of Tuberculosis using Deep Neural Networks by Truong-Minh Le, Bao-Thien Nguyen-Tat, Vuong M. Ngo

“…CONCLUSION: Tuberculosis is still one of the most dangerous illnesses in the world that needs vital methods to prevent and detect soon so that patients are able to keep their lives longer. After this research, we are constantly improving the current accuracy of the models and applying the current results of this research for later problems such as detecting the Tuberculosis areas in real-time and supporting doctors to make decisions based on the current status of patients. …”
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P.O.V : exploring truth and post-truth by Wong, Vanessa Faith Tze Yeung

“…Although it is almost impossible to completely resolve this century-old problem, we can start by spreading the awareness of cognitive bias and encourage adopting multiple perspectives when presented with a claim. …”
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Poverty Alleviation and Microfinance for the Economy of Pakistan: A Case Study of Khushhali Bank in Sargodha by Stylianou Tasos, Muhammad Ijaz Amjad, Masood Sarwar Awan, Muhammad Waqas

“…Poverty is a universal reality, and no one can deny the omnipresence of it all over the world. It is considered as the most harmful economic and social problem of human beings since their creation. …”
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On the K-Means Clustering Model for Performance Enhancement of Port State Control by Zeyu Hou, Ran Yan, Shuaian Wang

“…Although the previous methods or models are feasible for ship detention decisions, they all have shortcomings to some extent, such as large training model errors caused by the imbalance of class labels in the dataset and the fact that the training model cannot comprehensively consider all factors influencing ship detention decision due to the complexity and diversity of the problem. …”
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Everyday physics by Lee, You Xuan

“…Physics explains how our universe works, from the biggest star to the smallest atom, and it seems natural to, at the very least, seek understanding of something that is literally all we are made of and living in. Some bits of information are useful, for example, how does a touch screen work, while other bits have no obvious practical use, like the nature of quantum particles – there is no need for me to know that it exists as both a particle and a wave. …”
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Potential evolutionary trade‐off between feeding and stability in Cambrian cinctan echinoderms by Rahman, IA, O'Shea, J, Lautenschlager, S, Zamora, S

“…Cinctans, an enigmatic group of Cambrian echinoderms, exemplify this problem: their asymmetrical body plan differentiates them from all living species. …”

The Landau-Lifshitz Equation, the NLS, and the Magnetic Rogue Wave as a By-Product of Two Colliding Regular “Positons” by Artyom V. Yurov, Valerian A. Yurov

“…One particular solution that we have constructed describes two “positon”-like waves, colliding with each other and in the process producing a new, short-lived rogue wave. …”
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Using SMART Magnetic Fluids and Gels for Prevention and Destruction of Bacterial Biofilms by Jarosƚaw E. Król, Garth D. Ehrlich

“…Biofouling is a major problem in all natural and artificial settings where solid surfaces meet liquids in the presence of living microorganisms. …”
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Learning Diatoms Classification from a Dry Test Slide by Holographic Microscopy by Pasquale Memmolo, Pierluigi Carcagnì, Vittorio Bianco, Francesco Merola, Andouglas Goncalves da Silva Junior, Luis Marcos Garcia Goncalves, Pietro Ferraro, Cosimo Distante

“…The network model is then validated by using holographic recordings of live diatoms imaged in water samples i.e., in their natural wet environmental condition.…”
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From single-particle stochastic kinetics to macroscopic reaction rates: fastest first-passage time of N random walkers by Denis S Grebenkov, Ralf Metzler, Gleb Oshanin

“…We consider the first-passage problem for N identical independent particles that are initially released uniformly in a finite domain Ω and then diffuse toward a reactive area Γ, which can be part of the outer boundary of Ω or a reaction centre in the interior of Ω. …”
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POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY AND YOU : A self-development guide / by Carr, Alan, author

“…"This broad and innovative self-development guide shows readers how they can use scientific findings from contemporary positive psychology to enhance their lives. Containing dozens of practical exercises and real-life examples, it helps bring positive psychology findings from the lab into day-to-day life. …”

Visual Simulation of Turbulent Foams by Incorporating the Angular Momentum of Foam Particles into the Projective Framework by Ki-Hoon Kim, Jung Lee, Chang-Hun Kim, Jong-Hyun Kim

“…In addition, our method can be integrated with screen-space projection frameworks, allowing us to fully embrace all the advantages of this approach. In this paper, the turbulence of the foam particles was improved by minimizing the viscous motion of the foam particles without tuning the motion of the underlying water, and as a result, lively foam effects can be expressed.…”
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