Governments of Israel and Egypt : a study of economic and legal policies and their effects on business invesment and opportunities by Ang, Rick Khoon Beng, Loh, Steven Kah Kheong, Tong, Yona Jun Bing, Yeo, Conrad Chien Min

“…This report provides readers with an overview of the economic policies, government structures, taxation policies and legal aspects in Egypt and Israel which may impact the carrying out of businesses in either of these two countries or both. …”
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'A poem in leaden hexameters': on rehabilitating Dorotheus’ Carmen Astrologicum by Lightfoot, JL

“…He does not fight shy of specialist terms and concepts, but makes them easy for the reader to process. He avails himself of poetic formulary, which he also ingeniously repurposes, to serve the ends of <i>variatio</i> and to flatter the reader’s cultural competence and <i>paideia</i>. …”

Dionysus and Apollo in Badenheim 1939: a Nietzschean interpretation of Aharon Appelfeld’s post-Holocaust work by Amati, G

“…Art becomes the Apollonian medium, which, similar to tragedy, enables survivors and readers to come in contact with the Dionysian experience of the Holocaust without surrendering to it.…”

Internal and external co-engineering of stable cathode interface improves cycle performance of polymer sodium batteries by Pan, Jun, Hu, Lulu, Zhang, Yuchen, Zhang, Tao, Wang, Nana, Dou, Shixue, Fan, Hong Jin

“…Internally, the effect of low-cost Fe substitution in the obtained Na0.67Mn2/3Fe1/3O2 cathode material renders favorable effects in several aspects. First, the increased lattice constant facilitates Na+ intercalation and thereby lowers the diffusion barrier of Na+ ions. …”
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The FGFR inhibitor PD173074 binds to the C-terminus of oncofetal HMGA2 and modulates its DNA-binding and transcriptional activation functions by Ahmed, Syed Moiz, Ragunathan, Priya, Shin, Joon, Peter, Sabrina, Kleissle, Sabrina, Neuenschwander, Martin, Schäfer, Reinhold, Kries, Jens Peter V., Grüber, Gerhard, Dröge, Peter

“…HMGA2 is not expressed in most normal adult somatic cells, which renders the protein an attractive drug target. An established cell-based compound library screen identified the fibroblast growth factor receptor (FGFR) inhibitor PD173074 as an antagonist of HMGA2-mediated transcriptional reporter gene activation. …”
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Subnanometric osmium clusters confined on palladium metallenes for enhanced hydrogen evolution and oxygen reduction catalysis by Prabhu, P., Do, Viet-Hung, Yoshida, Takefumi, Zhou, Yingtang, Ariga-Miwa, Hiroko, Kaneko, Takuma, Uruga, Tomoya, Iwasawa, Yasuhiro, Lee, Jong-Min

“…Theoretical investigations reveal that the strong electron redistribution between Os and Pd elements renders a precise fine-tuning of respective d-band centers, thereby guiding adsorption of hydrogen and oxygen intermediates with an appropriate binding energy for the optimal HER and ORR.…”
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Oikeion, Agathon, and Archaia Phusis in Plato’s Symposium by Crüwell, HS

“…I argue that this interpretation of Diotima’s response to Aristophanes, which would render her position an ethical anomaly in Plato’s dialogues, should be rejected. …”

Jaya algorithm hybridized with extreme gradient boosting to predict the corrosion-induced mass loss of agro-waste based monolithic and Ni-reinforced porous alumina by Dele-Afolabi, T.T., Jung, D.W., Ahmadipour, Masoud, Azmah Hanim, M.A., Adeleke, A.O., Kandasamy, M., Gunnasegaran, Prem

“…The precision that can be obtained by modifying hyper-parameters with the Jaya method, combined with the well-known accuracy of XGBoost, renders the proposed model novel.…”
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A postfeminist reading of Chick Lit : Sex and the City. by Low, Carmen Kar Mun.

“…My essay seeks to achieve a more open-minded opinion of Chick Lit and recognize that consciousness-raising writing is not the only option for female readers who wish to gain a sense of empowerment and an authentic female view.…”
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Commodity price prediction using neural networks by Seah, Isaac Zhe Hao

“…To evaluate the data accuracy, statistical modelling and the MATLAB program were applied. This project offers readers a conclusive insight to different ANN and supervised learning models on crude oil price prediction.…”
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Over-efficiency in the lower criminal courts: understanding a key problem and how to fix it by Yates, Shaun S.

“…Yates’ work concludes by providing socio-legal and criminological readers with ways to fix this over-efficiency problem. …”
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Bounded functional calculi for unbounded operators by Batty, C, Gomilko, A, Tomilov, Y

“…They can also be used to derive several well-known operator norm-estimates, provide generalisations of some of them, and extend the general theory of operator semigroups. Our aim is to help readers to make use of these calculi without having to understand the details of their construction.…”

Editors’ introduction: Cynthia Ozick and the art of nonfiction by Mendelssohn, M, Tyson, C

“…Much of their interest resides in the linguistic virtuosity with which Ozick gives voice to attachments and aversions that some readers may find bewilderingly fierce. And then there is her magnificent...…”

Reading and ideology: the case of the free public libraries movement by Spowage, K, Toth, HG

“…This theory treated literary texts as containers of ideas and values that could be transmitted to readers. It responded to the social tensions emerging from industrial capitalist society, but located conflict in the realm of ideas, rather than in material reality. …”

Desire and disinterest in Dusklands by Hayes, P

“…Yet the need to which it points persists, as is evident from Coetzee’s discussion of ‘free play’ in his essay ‘Erasmus: Madness and Rivalry’ (1992), where a certain conception of aesthetic disinterest (a sought-for ‘evasive (non)position inside/outside the play’) is seen as being related to, rather than disavowing, the desire of writer and readers alike. This paper traces the prehistory of these important remarks back to the period of <i>Dusklands</i>, and to Herbert Marcuse’s attempt to conjoin Freudian psychoanalysis with post-Kantian aesthetic theory. …”

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for COVID-19 / by Al-Turjman, Fadi, editor 622956

“…This book brings together a broad multidisciplinary community, aiming to integrate ideas, theories, models, and techniques from across different disciplines on intelligent solutions/systems, and to inform how cognitive systems in Next Generation Networks (NGN) should be designed, developed, and evaluated while exchanging and processing critical health information. Targeted readers are from varying disciplines who are interested in implementing the smart planet/environments vision via wireless/wired enabling technologies. …”

Model Predictive Control of High Power Converters and Industrial Drives / by Geyer, Tobias, 1975-, author 656156

“…Model Predictive Control of High Power Converters and Industrial Drives will enable to reader to learn how to increase the power capability of the converter, lower the current distortions, reduce the filter size, achieve very fast transient responses and ensure the reliable operation within safe operating area constraints. …”
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Non-Destructive Material Characterization Methods / by Otsuki, Akira, editor 655994, Jose, Seiko, editor 655996, Mohan, Manasa, editor 655997, Thomas, Sabu, editor 391529

“…Non-Destructive Material Characterization Methods provides readers with a trove of theoretical and practical insight into how to implement different non-destructive testing methods for effective material characterization. …”
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Women Entrepreneurs in the Middle East : Context, Ecosystems, and Future Perspectives for the Region / by Nziku, Dina M., editor 656305, Dana, Leo Paul, editor 189293, Clausen, Helene Balslev, editor 656306, Salamzadeh, Aidin, editor 656307, World Scientific (Online service) 655444

“…Recognising that entrepreneurship does not take place in a vacuum, it focuses on contexts, and the ecosystems of this region with largely patriarchal societies, that are influenced by culture, religion, and colonial experience. This book provides readers with a topical analysis of women entrepreneurs in the Middle East on the context, ecosystems, and future perspectives for the region. …”
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The Survey Method : The Contribution of Surveys to Sociological Explanation / by Marsh, Catherine, author 192668

“…Catherine Marsh's aim is to contribute to the methodological debate on survey research; this sixth title in the Con-temporary Social Research series will accordingly find most of its readers among academic sociologists. The book does however contain a wealth of detail on the history of surveys and an extensive annotated bibliography of the major survey literature. …”