Preterm birth and cardiometabolic health trajectories from birth to adulthood: the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children by Clayton, GL, Howe, LD, O’Keeffe, LM, Lewandowski, A, Lawlor, DA, Fraser, A

“…<p><strong>Background:</strong> Adults who were born prematurely (&lt;37 weeks gestation) are at increased cardiovascular disease risk, but it is unclear when in the life course this risk emerges. …”

Optimizing doping thresholds for enhanced scintillation in 2D hybrid organic–inorganic perovskites by Maddalena, Francesco, Makowski, Michal, Xiao, Chengyuan, Sheikh, Md Abdul Kuddus, Kowal, Dominik, Witkowski, Marcin E., Drozdowski, Konrad J., Mahato, Somnath, Dujardin, Christophe, Calà, Roberto, Auffray, Etiennette, Mahyuddin, Muhammad Haris, Drozdowski, Winicjusz, Birowosuto, Muhammad Danang, Dang, Cuong

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"不似华人" ：19世纪至20世纪初海峡土生华人的困境 = "Not Really Chinese" : dilemma of the Straits Chinese from 19th to 20th century by 黄欣仪 Ng, Sing Yee

“…Among his narratives, the views of the local-born Chinese he concluded is that they were “Not Really Chinese”. …”
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The influence of pregnancy complications on fetal and neonatal cardiovascular development by Aye, C

“…Higher blood pressure has also been observed in those born preterm in addition to specific cardiac modifications in young adulthood.…”

Falling for Rachel / by Roberts, Nora, 1950- author 465662

A FPGA-based ultrasonic voice detection platform for whisper to voice reconstruction by Fan, Gaofeng

“…A novel engineering approach building upon a Code Excited Linear Prediction (CELP) codec was developed [1] to turn whispers to voice. The intention was to help post-laryngectomized patients regain the ability to speak. …”
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Global Bifurcations Organizing Weak Chimeras in Three Symmetrically Coupled Kuramoto Oscillators with Inertia by Ashwin, P, Bick, C

“…Hence, it is interesting to understand precisely how frequency synchrony is lost and how invariant sets such as attracting weak chimeras are generated at torus breakup, where the phase description breaks down. …”

Urban Life and the Ambient in Smart Cities, Learning Cities, and Future Cities / by McKenna, H. Patricia, 1954-, author 650202

“…"This publication is about urban life and the urbanizing process in the context of more aware people interacting with more aware technologies, contributing to understandings of the ambient turn in smart cities, learning cities, and future cities embracing rethinking of more sustainable and livable approaches to urban life in terms of research and practice"-- Provided by publisher.…”

Cohort differences in physical health and disability in the United States and Europe by Gimeno, L, Goisis, A, Dowd, JB, Ploubidis, GB

“…Still, in both the United States and Europe, we observed a structural break in disability trends, with declines observed in prewar cohorts slowing, stalling, or reversing for cohorts born since 1945. <p><strong> Discussion</strong></p> In all regions, we found evidence for worsening health across cohorts, particularly for those born since 1945. …”

Elephant in the room by Muhammad Iskandar Thani BMB, Ng, Qin Ching

“…A man born without a soul finds himself on a quest to 'fix' himself after the death of his mother. …”
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THE DOUBLE HELIX / by Trueit, Trudi Strain, author 655686

“…First, Cruz took a few shots of the canyon walls. The sky was turning a deep rose orange. Aunt Marisol would love this. …”

Online learning by Kashish Minocha.

“…More and more researchers turn to find learning models integrating both advantages of online learning and face-to-face learning. …”
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The radial spreading of volcanic umbrella clouds deduced from satellite measurements by Prata, F, Prata, A, Tanner, R, Grainger, RG, Borgas, M, Aubry, TJ

“…A hyperbolic tangent model, A ⇠ tanh (C) is presented that matches the entire radial spreading time history and has a conserved torus-shaped volume in which the intrusion depth is 20 proportional to sech (C). …”

AND THEREBY HANGS A TALE / by Jeffrey Archer, author 507936

“…Jamwal and Nisha fall in love while waiting for a traffic light to turn green in Delhi…thus begins one of the 15 short stories Jeffrey Archer has gathered from around the globe during the past five years in this, his sixth collection, of enthralling short stories. …”

Efficient digital traffic accident mapping by Koo, T. K.

“…This paper describes the design and development of one system born out of an attempt to produce a low cost, simple to use, photogrammetric-based three dimensional computer graphics visualization system for traffic accident mapping.…”
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Wireless propagation for ship by Liu, Weide.

“…Signals are being propagated up and down in the lift shaft, causing same versions of signal to arrive at the receiver in at different timing and phase. This in turn affects the quality of signal being received. …”
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Polarimetric Microwave Imaging / by Yang, Ruliang, author 643133, Dai, Bowei, author 643135, Tan, Lulu, author 643136, Liu, Xiuqing, author 643137, Yang, Zhen, author 643138, Li, Haiying, author 643139

“…Part II, which focuses on information processing, highlights the new theories and methods used in PolSAR, such as statistical properties analysis for images, speckle reduction, image enhancement, polarimetric target decomposition, and classification of PolSAR target detection. In turn, Part III, on the applications of polarimetric SAR, discusses the geophysical parameter retrieval of PolSAR data, polarimetric interferometric SAR information processing, compact polarimetric interferometric SAR information processing, and the effects of terrain tilt in azimuth direction on PolSAR data. …”

The Technology Doesn't Matter : Prioritizing the People in IT Business Alignment / by Lockett, Rachel, author 655215, John Wiley & Sons (Online service) 647106

“…In The Technology Doesn’t Matter: Prioritizing the People in IT Business Alignment, veteran IT executive Rachel Lockett delivers an engaging and insightful discussion of how to turn around IT departments struggling to effectively collaborate with their business counterparts. …”
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Localised and bifurcating structures in planar shear flows by Wang, Zhe

“…With broken rotational symmetry, periodic orbits can experience a Neimark-Sacker bifurcation leading to a torus, a phase locking, a period-doubling cascade, a heteroclinic bifurcation, a coexistence between the quasiperiodic and chaotic behaviours. …”
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DARE by Balete, Camille Louise Garcia

“…DARE celebrates grit and hardiness through a montage of imagery that illustrate struggles born from limitations. Characters are used as parallels as they go through a white-knuckled grind of preparation, pursuit, struggle, and overcoming.…”
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