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

“…From Germany comes Masterpiece, the tale of a priceless oil painting that has remained in the same family for over 200 years, until… To the Channel Islands, and Members Only, where a golf ball falls out of a Christmas cracker and a young man’s life will never be the same again… To Italy, where a young man trying to book a hotel room ends up in bed with the receptionist, unaware that she… To England, where, in High Heels, a woman explains to her husband why a pair of designer shoes couldn’t have gone up in flames because… Some of these stories will make you laugh. …”

Insights from coral microatolls into sea-level variability and subduction zone behavior by Sarkawi, Gina Muthia

“…Coral microatolls form in the intertidal zone as coral colonies whose upward growth is limited to low water levels making it a useful proxy for understanding relative sea level (RSL) changes; a combination of both sea-level and land-level changes. …”
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Unknowing a southern life: writing around the abyss by Collins, K

“…One is a stick chart, a navigational aid from Jaluit Atoll in the Marshall Islands, made from thin strips of wood and seashells (see Figure 5.1). …”

Ultramafic Alteration and the Cooling of Earth and Mars by Murray, Joshua

“…I hope that in trying to meaningfully constrain these processes I plant seeds of inquiry from which myself and others can one day make more concrete statements of the cause and effect between tectonics and climate.…”
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Rupture and variable coupling behavior of the Mentawai segment of the Sunda megathrust during the supercycle culmination of 1797 to 1833 by Philibosian, Belle, Sieh, Kerry, Avouac, Jean-Philippe, Natawidjaja, Danny H., Chiang, Hong-Wei, Wu, Chung-Che, Perfettini, Hugo, Shen, Chuan-Chou, Daryono, Mudrik R., Suwargadi, Bambang W.

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The Need for Desalination in Humanitarian Crises by Bessette, Jonathan T, Winter, Amos G

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Grid integration and coordinated control of voltage source inverters with energy storage systems by Qi, Yang

“…To address this problem, a hybrid feedback and feedforward impedance-shaping control is developed, which makes the power-sharing performance robust against voltage measurement errors. …”
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A new method to estimate slab dip direction using receiver functions and its application in revealing slab geometry and a diffuse plate boundary beneath Sumatra by Feng, Mingye, Chen, Ling, Wei, Shengji, Wang, Xin, Wang, Xu, Wu, Zimu

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Subregion independence in gravity by Folkestad, Åsmund

“…The underlying reason is that localized perturbations on one side of an extremal surface contribute negatively to the mass on the other side, making the gravitational constraints behave as if there exist both negative and positive charges. …”
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