The US election: expectations vs. outcomes by Garfinkle, Adam

“…As those with varying interests and equities try to anticipate what the election outcome means for them, one question stands out above all others: What kind of American demos would choose a man to be President of the world’s most powerful democracy who has shown consistent disrespect for both its democratic rules and its classical liberal principles?…”
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IP watermarking using incremental technology mapping at logic synthesis level by Cui, Aijiao, Chang, Chip Hong, Tahar, Sofiène

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Coffee over the internet by Zhu, Yatao.

“…"Coffee Over the Internet", does not mean to drink or deliver coffee over the Internet, rather it implies "a dream" in the future. …”
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The present state of PST/PTB reconstruction: can we even write a fable in Proto-Lolo-Burmese? by Matisoff, James A.

“…How much can we really recover from the past history of languages? What do we mean when we claim to have "reconstructed a proto-language"? …”
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It's a dog eat dog world: predator prey models of the financial markets. by Choi, Wen Ting.

“…In this thesis, a model of interacting agents for financial markets was discussed. In the mean field limit of the model, the system of agents resembles a predator prey relationship described by a pair of coupled Volterra equations. …”
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Dopamine Nation : Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence / by Lembke, Anna, Dr., author 655980, Penguin Publishing Group (Online service) 655981

“…Their riveting stories of suffering and redemption give us all hope for managing our consumption and transforming our lives. …”
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Pnictogen-halide semiconductors for photovoltaics by Liu, P

“…Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) models were used to evaluate the density of pinholes in the scanning electron microscopy images, and the Segment Anything Model (SAM) was used to separate different regions within the images. …”

Antistaphylococcal and antibiofilm activities of ethanolic extract of Piper cubeba L. by Velu, Selvi

“…MIC and MBC of ethanolic extract were in the range of 0.625 – 2.5 mg/ml and 1.25 – 5 mg/ml against all tested isolates, respectively. The time-kill curve plots revealed S. aureus food isolates CM10 and CM14 were killed within 1 h of incubation at a concentration of 4× MIC. …”
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Are we apathetic? surveying Singaporeans' political attitudes, participation, and knowledge. by Chan, Boon Wee., Wong, Teck Zhung.

“…However, political participation, internal efficacy, external efficacy and political interest all had low means.…”
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Calculation of Dynamic Motions and Tensions in Towed Underwater Cables by Hover, Frank S., Grosenbaugh, Mark A., Triantafyllou, Michael S.

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Kierkegaardian selfhood as pursuit of the Greatest Commandment by Callaway, DA

“…<p>“Thou shalt <em>love</em> the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, and with all thy mind” (Matt. 22:37). …”

Fiber optic technique for determination of moisture content in honey by Mohamad Ibrahim, Nursakinah

“…The most accurate calibration equation was found at 460nm where the mean relative error between the true and predicted moisture content was 0.08.…”
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Modeling and technique to improve PSRR and PS-IMD in analog PWM class-D amplifiers by Ge, Tong, Chang, Joseph Sylvester

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Guaranteeing safe drinking water services for public schools in Kenya: a costed professional service delivery model for Kitui County by Nyaga, C, Hope, R, Charles, K, Nowicki, S, Katuva, J, Mugo, P, Hoque, S, Olago, D, Thomas, M, Mumma, A

“…Providing universal safe drinking water services in schools is a necessary and equitable step to give every child the means to achieve their individual potential. Risks from gender inequalities, droughts, floods, and health shocks mean schools struggle to cope, girls drop out of school early, qualifications are sub-standard, and the country’s education goals are missed generation after generation. …”

Antibiotic sensitivity of selected bacteria and microbiological quality of Lactobacillus-fed broiler meat in comparison with commercial broiler meat by Tan, Stephanie Yin Yi

“…All isolates were subjected to antibiotic sensitivity test. …”
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AD PERCEPTIO (Self Perception Diary) / by Diyas, Myrzakozha Dr., author 655770, Perez-Lopez, Patrick, author 655772

“…In a not too distant future, there exists the means to access the past and to watch history as it happens and not as it has been written. …”

Blockchaining for rewarding consumers for energy saving applications by Jain, Shlok

“…This project realises the importance of energy conservation and identifies electricity as its means of achieving it. It envisions an energy conservation mechanism via positive incentivisation. …”
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Threshold estimation models for linear threshold-based influential user mining in social networks by Talukder, Ashis, Tran, Nguyen H., Niyato, Dusit, Park, Gwan Hoon, Hong, Choong Seon, Mohammad Golam Rabiul Alam

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Self-supervised machine learning to characterise step counts from wrist-worn accelerometers in the UK Biobank by Small, SR, Chan, S, Walmsley, R, von Fritsch, L, Acquah, A, Mertes, G, Feakins, BG, Creagh, A, Strange, A, Matthews, CE, Clifton, DA, Price, AJ, Khalid, S, Bennett, D, Doherty, A

“…</p> <br> <p><strong>Results:</strong> The algorithm substantially outperformed reference models (free-living mean absolute percent error of 12.5%, versus 65-231%). …”

Inducing System-1-type diagnostic reasoning in second-year medical students within 15 minutes by Rosby, Lucy Victoria, Rotgans, Jerome Ingmar, Tan, Gerald, Low-Beer, Naomi, Mamede, Silvia, Zwaan, Laura, Schmidt, Henk

“…During the test phase, students responses were significantly more accurate and faster for cases which had been seen repeatedly during the training phase (mean score¼3.56/4, mean time¼2.34 s) com- pared with cases which had been seen only twice (mean score¼1.59/4, mean time¼7.50 s). …”
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