Dynamic Hypergraph Convolutional Networks for Hand Motion Gesture Sequence Recognition by Dong-Xing Jing, Kui Huang, Shi-Jian Liu, Zheng Zou, Chih-Yu Hsu

“…Experiments on the dynamic hypergraph (DHG14/28) and shape retrieval contest (SHREC’17) datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method, achieving accuracies of 96.4% and 97.6%, respectively, and outperforming traditional gesture recognition algorithms. …”
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If I had a magic wand: Speculative everyday anti-racism for addressing workplace racial discrimination in British Columbia's public sector by Farid Asey

“…The guiding principle behind the design of this study is that if workplaces are to respond effectively to racial discrimination in their midst, racialized workers ought to play a key role in identifying issues and proposing solutions. …”
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Making Moves: Reading Saudi Social Change through Commercial Tabletop Games by Andrew Leber

“…While the promotion of “entertainment” has been a touchstone of policy changes in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia of late, most media and academic focus has been on large‑scale spectacles that reflect top‑down efforts of the Saudi state to effect economic and social change. In this article, I look to smaller‑scale cultural production – the nascent Saudi tabletop games industry – to understand how Saudi entrepreneurs evoke, adapt, or subtly contest state narratives to advance projects of self‑improvement, social reform, and above all commercial retail. …”
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MEMORIA, MORALITY, AND MNEMONIC HEGEMONY OF ROMAN EMPERORS by Janneke de Jong

“…This article focuses on the capacity of posthumous memory to serve as a locus for negotiation, confirmation, competition, and contestation of political power by mnemonic hegemons. …”
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Epistemic Intermediaries and Europe's Defence Turn: Expert Knowledge and the Communication of the CSDP by Sara Pane, Davide Emanuele Iannace

“…Based on a cross-national survey of 129 experts, the study examines their perceptions of communication effectiveness, knowledge accessibility, and the legitimacy of the CSDP. …”
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Institutional frameworks to facilitate power sector transformation in West Africa by Tam Kemabonta, Nathan G. Johnson

“…A historical review of electrical power sector reform in the region is completed, with findings showing modest effect on energy access and operational efficiency in the region, which is almost negligible after accounting for population growth across Africa. …”
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Non-formal education and women’s empowerment: an assessment of the contemporal relevance of Freire’s concept of conscientisation in increasing district assemblywomen’s participatio... by Moses Yinkorah Namoog, Boadi Agyekum

“…The study investigated women’s abilities to contest assembly elections, effectively campaign for election, lobby for an appointment, raise funds for assembly election activities, and actively participate in assembly business. …”
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Bacterial genotoxin functions as immune-modulator and promotes host survival by Riccardo Guidi, L. Del Bell Belluz, T. Frisan

“…Typhi produce a genotoxin named typhoid toxin (TT), but its role in the contest of host infection is poorly characterized. …”
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Coécrire l’histoire locale face à la démolition des quartiers populaires, de Plaisir (France) à Belo Horizonte (Brésil) by Elise Havard dit Duclos, Philippe Urvoy

“…In contrast to this top-down memorial stance, several initiatives took place in recent years, driven by groups of inhabitants that aim to explore the history of their neighbourhood to contest demolition projects imposed by public authorities. …”
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Community-Led Alternatives to Housing Financialization: An Introduction to the Special Issue by Richard Waldron, Gertjan Wijburg

“…An emerging body of scholarship examines how insurgent practices at the grassroot contest such acts of housing financialization from within civil society. …”
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Managing Tensions in Academic Writing for Foundation Learners by Sue Crossan, Susie Jacka

“…We undertook an action research project to examine the effectiveness of our teaching of a writing assessment in two different semester cohorts. …”
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Marine Trajectory Reconstruction Method Based on Navigation State Recognition and Bi-Directional Kinematic Interpolation by Yifei Liu, Zhangsong Shi, Bing Fu, Huihui Xu, Hao Wu

“…The proposed method is verified and analyzed on the contest dataset of “Intelligent classification and recognition of XX trajectories”. …”
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A Program of Nutritional Education in Schools Reduced the Prevalence of Iron Deficiency in Students by María Nieves García-Casal, Maritza Landaeta-Jiménez, Rafael Puche, Irene Leets, Zoila Carvajal, Elijú Patiño, Carlos Ibarra

“…The nutritional education intervention produced a significant reduction in iron deficiency prevalence (25 to 14%), and showed no effect on vitamin A and folates deficiencies. There was a slight improvement in nutritional status. …”
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Envisioning Multispecies Tropical Futurity: Image-Making in North Maluku’s Frontier Zone by Danishwara Nathaniel

“…Working with a team of university students, photography clubs, journalists, and heritage and environmental activists based in Ternate, I engage with everyday socio-cultural and visual media practices that treat images as modes of address/redress mobilizing affective engagement and political effects (Spyer & Steedly, 2013), contesting possible tropical futurities. …”
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Beyond IC50-A computational dynamic model of drug resistance in enzyme inhibition treatment. by J Roadnight Sheehan, Astrid S de Wijn, Thales Souza Freire, Ran Friedman

“…In this work, through a model of the treatment of chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML), we contest using fold-IC50 values as a guide for treatment selection. …”
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Large-Scale Land Acquisitions in Cambodia: Where Do (Human Rights) Law and Practice Meet? by Ioana Cismas, Patricia Paramita

“…Being anchored in the broader policy debate on the effectiveness of international human rights standards on the ground, this chapter inquires whether human rights carry any relevance in the Cambodian landscape of contestation of large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs) and long-term leases. …”
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From Faculties to Functions: Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s Critique of Internal Senses by M. Zahit Tiryaki

“…The first point of al-Rāzī’s contestation would be the critique of the arguments for the existence of each internal sense as a separate faculty. …”
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Deconstructing the Gang Menace: Gang Policing and Police “Expert” Testimony in New York City by T.J. Braxton

“…Part III advocates for the admission of nonpolice gang experts to counteract these negative effects of police testimony. …”
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Exploring the Nexus between Greenhouse Emissions, Environmental Degradation and Green Energy in Europe: A Critique of the Environmental Kuznets Curve by Alexandra Horobet, Lucian Belascu, Magdalena Radulescu, Daniel Balsalobre-Lorente, Cosmin-Alin Botoroga, Cristina-Carmencita Negreanu

“…However, its long-term impacts are variable, especially when contrasted with its more pronounced effect on emissions in Eastern and Balkan countries. …”
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The Diplomacy of Small States: Exploring Opportunities and Limitations in the Case of Timor-Leste by O. A. Krasnyak, P. S. Shaternikov

“…However, it faces systemic challenges in effectively employing public diplomacy mechanisms. These challenges can be attributed to underdeveloped national public institutions and the enduring influence of greater powers, which affect not only Timor-Leste but also the wider region.…”
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