The Nightingale / by Hannah, Kristin, author 369246, Macmillan Books (Online service) 655983

“…The Nightingale tells the stories of two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals, passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path toward survival, love, and freedom in German-occupied, war-torn France–a heartbreakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the durability of women. …”
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Compensation for Historic Injustice: Does it Matter how the Victims Respond? by Miller, D

“…It seems that alongside the counterfactual world in which the wrongdoing never occurred, we should also consider the counterfactual world in which the wrongdoing has occurred, but the victims have responded to it in a prudent way. Under tort law, the damages a victim can claim are reduced if they are judged to have been contributorily negligent, thereby exacerbating the harm they have suffered. …”

An AI Dataset Carves New Paths to Tornado Detection by Foy, Kylie

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Sentinels of Afghan democracy : the Afghan national army by Chan, Samuel

“…Since the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001, the international community has contributed much in terms of manpower, monetary aid, essential equipment and expertise in rehabilitaring this war-torn Central Asia country. The Afghan National Army (ANA) has arguably been one of the leading success stories. …”
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Performance improvement simulation of a manufacturing system by Liu, Haoyu

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Ultrasonic bonding of microfluidic devices by Tan, Wei Yung

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TechX challenge by Yuan, Shenghai.

“…The concept of this competition is making future unman combat robot to replace human soldier in the future war-torn urban landscape. Robot has to function effectively in hazards situation. …”
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Overexpression of 4EBP1, p70S6K, Akt1 or Akt2 differentially promotes Coxsackievirus B3-induced apoptosis in HeLa cells by Xing, X., Huang, L., Li, X., Li, Z., Zhou, W., Tian, L., Chen, J., Chen, C., Ma, Xing, Yang, Z.

“…Our previous studies have shown that the inhibition of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) or mTOR complex 1 can obviously promote the Coxsackievirus B3 (CVB3)-induced apoptosis of HeLa cells by regulating the expression of proapoptotic factors. …”
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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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Towards automated damage detection for in-situ remanufacturing by Nguyen, Keith Wei Liang

“…With automated in-situ remanufacturing, there is increased safety, efficiency in material use, reduced turnaround time, and in turn reduced costs, and is the motivation for it. …”
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Evaluating the effect of rapamycin treatment in Alzheimer’s disease and aging using in vivo imaging: the ERAP phase IIa clinical study protocol by Svensson, Jonas E., Bolin, Martin, Thor, Daniel, Williams, Pete A., Brautaset, Rune, Carlsson, Marcus, Sörensson, Peder, Marlevi, David, Spin-Neto, Rubens, Probst, Monika, Hagman, Göran, Morén, Anton Forsberg, Kivipelto, Miia, Plavén-Sigray, Pontus

“…Background Rapamycin is an inhibitor of the mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) protein kinase, and preclinical data demonstrate that it is a promising candidate for a general gero- and neuroprotective treatment in humans. …”
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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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Tooling cost estimation model for injection molding by Tran, Duc Vi, Wang, Lan, Zhu, ZhiQiang, Padmanaban Ranganathan

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“It’s complicated” : cognitive dissonance and the evolving relationship between editorial and advertising in US newsrooms by Duffy, Andrew, Cheng, Lydia

“…It finds reluctance to embrace this evolving relationship, revealed in the fragmented and contradictory syntax editors use to talk about it as they are torn between the old (ethically driven) norm of how things should be, and the emerging (economically driven) norm of how things are. …”
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How Taoism addresses unbalanced lives of urban female : see things differently by Lam, Nu Lien Minh

“…Born, educated and grown in developing countries that are still faithful to tradition and cultural heritage, young Asian women encounter inevitable tensions between tradition and modern lifestyles that makes her loose harmony and balance in her daily life. …”
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The post-modern Japanese identity of Haruki Murakami's literature. by Ling, Shannon.

“…Japan, in particular, had undergone massive changes since the end of the Meiji era and the Second World War, giving birth to a new generation of Japanese torn between respecting the traditional and embracing the modern. …”
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Anatomy of gloom. by Lim, Gwen Yuan Wen.

“…The Puppet wakes up in a gloomy world. Like a new born baby, she is amused her existence. A spider crawls out of her heart and hynotises the puppet, shows her an perplexing illusion of a woman trapped inside a massive flower. …”
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Genomic insights into Vibrio cholerae O1 responsible for cholera epidemics in Tanzania between 1993 and 2017 by Hounmanou, Yaovi Mahuton Gildas, Leekitcharoenphon, Pimlapas, Kudirkiene, Egle, Mdegela, Robinson H., Hendriksen, Rene S., Olsen, John Elmerdahl, Dalsgaard, Anders

“…The T5 sub-lineage (ctxB3) dominated outbreaks until 1997, followed by the T10 atypical El Tor (ctxB1) up to 2015, which were replaced by the T13 atypical El Tor of the current third wave (ctxB7) causing most cholera outbreaks until 2017 with T13 being phylogenetically related to strains from East African countries, Yemen and Lake Victoria. …”
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Open source geographical information system by Wang, Jinglei.

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