Moral cultivation, meritocracy and the origin of petty people: a hypothesis by Lee, Sheng Yue

“…Specifically, one of the main problems in accounting for petty people is that everyone is born as a petty person and petty people are defined to be people who freely express their dispositions and do not pursue moral cultivation, but some are able to undergo ethical transformation and some remain as petty people. …”
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The rise and fall of Britain’s golden cohort: how the remarkable generation of 1925-1934 had their lives cut short by austerity by Hiam, L, Dorling, D

“…The British born between 1925 and 1934 experienced exceptional improvements in their annual mortality; earning them the title ‘the Golden Cohort’. …”

Rule Britannia: Brexit and the end of empire by Dorling, D, Tomlinson, S

“…In this wide-ranging and thoughtful analysis, now fully updated to cover the fallout from Brexit and the impact of coronavirus, Dorling and Tomlinson argue that if Britain can reconcile itself to its new place on the world stage, a new identity can be born from the ashes. <i>Rule Britannia</i> is a powerful call to leave behind the jingoistic ignorance of the past and build a fairer Britain, eradicating the inequality that blights our society and embracing our true strengths.…”

New Generalized Derivatives for Solving Variational Inequalities Using the Nonsmooth Newton Methods by Song, Yingkai, Barton, Paul I.

“…It is shown that our new method requires less stringent conditions to achieve local convergence than some other established methods, and thus guarantees convergence in certain cases where other methods may fail. …”
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SnO2 nanorod arrays : low temperature growth, surface modification and field emission properties by Huang, Hui, Lim, Chiew Keat, Tse, Man Siu, Guo, Jun, Tan, Ooi Kiang

“…The field enhancement factor of the Ni/SnO2/SiO2/Si increased around 3 times while the turn-on field of 8.0 V μm−1 is about one third of the SnO2/SiO2/Si device.…”
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Micro-dosing psychedelics as a plausible adjunct to psychosexual and couple’s therapy: a qualitative insight by Jacobs, Lucy, Banbury, Samantha, Lusher, Joanne

“…From the participant’s perspective, the use of micro-dosing psychedelics had a positive effect on sexual and physical well-being by reducing stress and performance-related anxiety. This, in turn, elevated sexual desire, exploration, communication and enhanced sensory and sexual experience, thus potentially supporting emotional and physical connection. …”

Resilience among Universiti Sains Malaysia nursing students by Ali, Noorsyafawani Mohamed

“…Resilience is a term commonly used to describe the ability to turn adversity into opportunities and learn from demanding situations. …”
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My research career by Ma, Xueliang

“…I was born in Rongcheng County in Shandong province on June 22. 1913. …”
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Rule Britannia: Brexit and the end of empire by Dorling, D, Tomlinson, S

“…In this wide-ranging and thoughtful analysis, now fully updated to cover the fallout from Brexit and the impact of coronavirus, Dorling and Tomlinson argue that if Britain can reconcile itself to its new place on the world stage, a new identity can be born from the ashes. <i>Rule Britannia</i> is a powerful call to leave behind the jingoistic ignorance of the past and build a fairer Britain, eradicating the inequality that blights our society and embracing our true strengths.…”

Conditional knock out of N-WASP in keratinocytes causes skin barrier defects and atopic dermatitis-like inflammation by Kalailingam, Pazhanichamy, Tan, Hui Bing, Jain, Neeraj, Sng, Ming Keat, Chan, Jeremy Soon Kiat, Tan, Nguan Soon, Thanabalu, Thirumaran

“…N-WASPK14KO (N-WASP fl/fl ; CK14-Cre) mice were born following Mendelian genetics suggesting that N-WASP expression in keratinocytes is not essential during embryogenesis. …”
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Institutions and agricultural transformation: a study of induced innovation in the Philippine rice sector by Montesclaros, Jose Ma. Luis P.

“…Problems from each of the three institutions thus aggravate one another, within a “capital-trade-technology nexus” impacting the Philippine rice sector; similarly, solutions to one of these issues contribute to solving the others. …”
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Heterogeneous nucleation of polyethylene crystals on binary hexagonal nanoplatelets by Volchko, Nathan W., Rutledge, Gregory C.

“…The strength of interaction is in turn related to the density of interaction sites at the interface: hBN has the highest density, and thus the fastest nucleation rate.…”
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A dual-modal molecular probe for near-infrared fluorescence and photoacoustic imaging of peroxynitrite by Zhang, Jianjian, Zhen, Xu, Zeng, Jianfeng, Pu, Kanyi

“…Thus, CySO3CF3 not only specifically detects ONOO- in solution and cells with the limit of detection down to 53 nM but also allows for NIRF and photoacoustic dual-modal imaging of ONOO- in the tumors of living mice.…”
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Design of ultra low power 1-bit full adder cell for logic devices by Kumar, Abhishek

“…The systems today have negligible oxide thickness and channel length and to deal with that we made a transition from Planar FET to FINFET and eventually now to GAAFET and the sole reason behind doing that is to get a higher gate controllability so that the leakage currents can be reduced and thus eventually power consumption can be reduced. …”
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Self-quenched semiconducting polymer nanoparticles for amplified in vivo photoacoustic imaging by Xie, Chen, Upputuri, Paul Kumar, Zhen, Xu, Pramanik, Manojit, Pu, Kanyi

“…The self-quenched process is induced by the incorporation of an electron-deficient structure unit into the backbone of SPs, which in turn promotes the nonradiative decay and enhances the heat generation. …”
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Leadership-as-spiritual practice: a practical pneumatology of leadership in the Church of England by Bennet, HJ

“…</p> <br> <p>In the encounter phase, chapters 6-8, via inter-disciplinary conversation, I explore how to repair this bias in discourse. I turn to systematic theology, to ecclesial practice, and the as-practice paradigm found in secular leadership studies.…”

Divine assemblies in early Greek and Mesopotamian narrative poetry by Ballesteros Petrella, B

“…Parts 1 and 2 treat each corpus in turn, reflecting a methodological concern to assess the comparanda within their own context first. …”

SP.2H3 / ESG.SP2H3 Ancient Philosophy and Mathematics, Fall 2006 by Perlman, Lee David

“…Western philosophy and theoretical mathematics were born together, and the cross-fertilization of ideas in the two disciplines was continuously acknowledged throughout antiquity. …”
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Analysis of corporate governance and corporate performance in the 2007-2008 financial crisis by Tan, Kean Bu, Teo, Jing Jing, Jodi Yanto

“…Alan Greenspan described the recent financial crisis as a “once-in-a-century credit tsunami”, born of a collapse deep inside the US housing sector. …”
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Louise Moillon by Stevenson, Lesley

“…The life and career of Louise Moillon (1609/10-1696) offers a fascinating case study of a supremely talented artist whose posthumous reputation has been mired in invisibility. Born and raised in Paris, Moillon was the sole woman in a circle of Calvinist Protestant émigrés who brought their tradition of still-life painting with them from Flanders. …”