Atomic Habits : Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results : An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones / by Clear, James, author 656048

“…People say when you want to change your life, you need to think big: swap job, move house, change partner. But they're wrong. World-renowned life coach James Clear has discovered a completely different way to revolutionise your behaviour. …”
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NeuroTribes : The legacy of autism and how to think smarter about people who think differently / by Silberman, Steve, author 656044, Allen & Unwin (Online service) 656043

“…In his meticulous, haunting, and sometimes hopeful account, he reveals not only the multifaceted features of the neurotribe known as autistic people but also the affiliative inclinations of all humans, the way we gather, clamoring, and build exclusive ways of being around shared beliefs—for better and for worse. Filling in what was, before this book, a patchwork history of autism, Silberman’s story begins in the 18th century and follows the path of autistic people through the decades as they were persecuted, misunderstood, mistreated, killed, brutalized, and institutionalized. …”
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Evaluation of femtosecond laser-assisted anterior capsulotomy in the presence of ophthalmic viscoelastic devices (OVDs) by Mansoor, Hassan, Liu, Yu-Chi, Wong, Yoke Rung, Lwin, Nyein C., Seah, Xin Y., Mehta, Jodhbir Singh

“…Using 150% energy, Healon GV showed a significantly worse total arc-length (p = 0.01), total tag-length (p = 0.03) and total tag-area (p = 0.05) compared to the control group. …”
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the other child / by Atkins, Lucy, 192824 author

“…Unsettling things keep happening in the large rented house. Joe is distressed, the next-door neighbours are in crisis, and Tess is sure that someone is watching her. …”

iOS platform development for BSTAR system by Shi, Mengjie

“…This project is aimed at providing a tool for people to control a house or a building’ s condition in temperature, humidity and ventilation without touching the BSTAR system directly. …”
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Study on statistical correlation exploitation in distributed video coding by Sun, Jin.

“…Distributed video coding (DVC), i.e., lossy compression with receiver side information, enables low-complexity video encoding where the bulk of the computation is shifted to the decoder.However, compared to conventional motion-compensated interframe coding, distributed video coding (DVC) has a worse rate-distortion performance according to the existing works. …”
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Case Report: Concurrent transcatheter aortic and mitral valve replacement for symptomatic concomitant aortic and mitral valve stenoses by Bussmann, BM, Dawkins, S, Newton, J, Cahill, T

“…In patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI), multi-valve disease is common and associated with worse outcomes. Despite multiple emerging transcatheter valve treatment options, no guidelines exist for the transcatheter treatment of multi-valve disease. …”

Report to the President for year ended June 30, 2022, MIT-Woods Hole Joint Program in Oceanography and Applied Ocean Science and Engineering by Boyle, Edward

“…This report contains the following sections: Hybrid Open House; Continued Response to Covid-19; Doctoral and Master of Science Degrees Awarded; Naval Officers Master's Program Support Advances; Personnel Updates…”
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Development of techniques for making hot-wire probes and a portable hot-wire calibration device by Chua, Leok Poh, Liu, Chang Yu

“…A technqique in making the hot-wire/cold wire probe in-house is presented. The techniques leads to a great saving in cost and more importantly a great advances in turbulent research in NTU for both velocity and temperature measurements.…”
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'I do not care a pin about it myself' by Honey, A

“We are as you made us”: exploring materiality and (Dis)embodied representations of power in Singaporean AI narratives by Chen, Stephanie Pey Rui

“…These invisible infrastructures are materialised in Clara Chow’s ‘Archive House’, which uses the “house” as a location of socioeconomic value that simultaneously reifies and resists material construction. …”
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Study on system non-functional type response : user interface and batch processing by Vellingiri Naveen Prasath

“…The main aim of this dissertation is to get the transactions in the In-house systems which have higher response time using the log files data. …”
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Portable extendable dining table by Mahmod Abd Hakim Mohamad, Amir Safwan Ismail, Onn, Nurfarahin, Adnan, Ahmad Basri, Zulkeflee, Muhammad Shahrul, Wagiman, Abdullah, Tuan Ibrahim, Tuan Mohd Hafeez

“…Key findings indicate a favourable reception of the Portable Extendable Dining Table among small house residents, thanks to its adaptability and convenience, with a clear trend favouring sleek, minimalist designs and user-friendly extension mechanisms. …”
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Moral persuasion and the diversity of fiction by Liao, Shen-yi.

“…Narrative representations can change our moral actions and thoughts, for better or for worse. In this article, I develop a theory of fictions' capacity for moral education and moral corruption that is fully sensitive to the diversity of fictions. …”
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Initial public offering : voluntary disclosure and its effect on United States IPOs. by Koh, Wee Meng., Lim, Junrong., Ong, Peng Kiat.

“…On the contrary, firms that state Investment as the primary reason experience worse long run stock performance.…”
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Comparison of yard crane scheduling algorithms by Low, Yihang.

“…It was discovered that the heuristic algorithms (Nearest Neighbour, Shortest Completion-time Job First and Partial Sequence Search) produced solutions of only slightly worse quality than the optimal one found by A*, but at a far small execution time cost.…”
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Do higher politician salaries reduce corruption and improve governance? by Chin, Hong Xiang, Low, Guo Quan, Wang, Yiwei

“…Based on our results, we find that (1) in non-democracies, (a) higher salaries of top politicians are associated with higher corruption and worse governance, while (b) higher salaries of cabinet ministers are associated with lower corruption and better governance; (2) in democracies, somewhat surprisingly, there is no association between politician salaries and corruption/quality of governance. …”
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Two paradoxes in women’s wellbeing by Kaiser, C, Muggleton, N, Quispe-Torreblanca, E, De Neve, J-E

“…First, although women today report higher levels of life satisfaction and overall happiness than men, they experience worse outcomes in mental health and negative affect. …”

Immunotherapy-resistant neuropathic pain and fatigue predict quality-of-life in contactin-associated protein-like 2 antibody disease by Ceronie, B, Strippel, C, Uy, C, Paneva, S, Makuch, M, Soleimani, B, Turaga, S, Binks, S, Ramanathan, S, Michael, S, Varley, J, Easton, A, Themistocleous, A, John Dawes, Bennett, DL, Irani, A, Handel, AE, Irani, SR

“…Furthermore, these two factors—but not CASPR2 antibody levels or subclasses—independently predicted worse disability and quality-of-life at 24 months. …”

Poorer representation of minds underpins less accurate mental state inference for out-groups by Payne, B, Bird, G, Catmur, C

“…This shows that poorer mental state inference is not underpinned by a reduced propensity to consider out-group minds, but instead by a worse representation of the minds of out-groups.…”