THE MAYFLY / by Hazel, James, author 656313

“…A reckoning seventy years in the making . . . When lawyer Charlie Priest is attacked in his own home by a man searching for information he claims Priest has, he is drawn into a web of corruption that has its roots in the last desperate days of World War Two. …”

Educated : a memoir / by Westover, Tara 1986- 656335, author

“…When another brother got himself into college, Tara decided to try a new kind of life. …”

Challenging the ugliness of beauty : beautification as an instrument of female agency by Chong, Eunice Chin Hui

“…I will proceed to illustrate two ways in which beautification can take the form of an informed personal choice. Firstly, when beautification is practiced to reclaim the power of feminine beauty, and secondly, when beautification is practiced for pleasure. …”
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Loss analysis of a mix-flow turbine with nozzled twin-entry volute at different admissions by Xue, Yingxian, Yang, Mingyang, Martinez-Botas, Ricardo F., Romagnoli, Alessandro, Deng, Kangyao

“…Opposite phenomenon happens when the majority is fed from lower part (near hub). …”
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Pattern and process in the bill morphology of the Great Tit Parus major by Gosler, A

“…This was especially clear in winter, so that heritability estimates for bill characters tended to be significantly higher when the offspring were measured in summer than when measured in winter. …”

The effect of interactivity on memory. by Tan, Angeline Jac Lynn.

“…In addition, there was a significant decline in memory after making decisions that were relevant to the context, but not when decisions were un-relevant. This indicates interference in memory when making decisions that are related to the context. …”
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Body . space . generative forms. by Tee, Chor Hiong.

“…Man has employed this rule as a geometric principle when he seeks to construct forms of beauty. The human body and its proportions are often used as blueprint of measurements for constructing regulating lines and division of spaces. …”
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Activity detection and analysis on Android by Ong, Xian Hui

“…Tracking and learning the activity patterns of an individual is vital when providing healthcare and awareness to the needy such as the elderly or healthcare patients. …”
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Effects of geometrical parameters on performance of miniature centrifugal pump by Liu, Guiqin

“…The shock loss is 9% of the theoretical head when the blade angle is 45˚ and is 70% when the blade angle is 30˚. …”
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Antidiscriminatory privacy by Cofone, I

“…This article offers a theoretical framework for determining, with a view of preventing discrimination, when personal information should flow and when it should not. …”

A counterexample to the coarse Menger conjecture by Nguyen, T, Scott, A, Seymour, P

“…<p>Menger’s well-known theorem from 1927 characterizes when it is possible to find k vertex-disjoint paths between two sets of vertices in a graph G. …”

Detection of latent fingerprint using optical technique by Seah, Leong Keey., Ong, Lin Seng., Murukeshan, Vadakke Matham.

“…Sensitive detection techniques are needed when dealing with very weak fluorescence signals from the test samples. …”
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Conceptualize, design, simulate and develop a contact tracing scheme based on the Android platform by Woon, Tse Liang

“…BLE beacons are small devices which can be placed in certain locations to advertise various data such as promotions when a customer walks into a store. These beacons have a certain identifier linked to it such that when an app that is already installed on the user device picks it up, it will be able to obtain the data. …”
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EXCELLENT SHEEP : The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life / by Deresiewicz, William, 1964-, author 655683

“…Some of the nation's brightest minds were adrift when it came to thinking critically and creatively and finding a sense of purpose. …”

SCHOOL OF THIEVES / by Sabrina Ismail, author 655830, Naadhira Zahari, editor 655828

“…Amra DeSilva left school when she was young and became the sole bread winner of her family. …”

Incentives and impacts: dissecting individual and collective cheating in organizations by Riyanto, Yohanes Eko, Wang, Yuxin

“…Our findings indicate that when both the harm and benefits depend on the group's outcome, participants strategically choose their responses. …”
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Electrohydrodynamic instability in an annular liquid layer with radial conductivity gradients by Wong, Teck Neng, Ding, Zijing

“…The system becomes more unstable as the dimensionless inner radius a increases. When the inner radius a is small, the critical unstable mode is stationary, while it is given by three-dimensional oblique waves when a is large. …”
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How counselling psychologists address issues of race with clients from black Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds: a discourse analysis by Madre de Deus de Sousa, Filipe Alexandre, Banbury, Samantha, Phillips, Olaide, Lusher, Joanne

“…The prejudiced experiences that Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) clients report when discussing culture, racial discrimination and race has been documented. …”
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Perceiving agency in a multi-agent context: more interactions with the environment yet reduced agency in depression by Jain, R

“…</p> <p>Research shows that individuals tend to perceive positive action-outcome relations when both action and outcome are present, and these relations are weakened when only one occurs. …”

Moments of the Riemannn zeta function and log-correlated random variables by Curran, MJ

“…Unconditionally, we can only estimate these shifted moments when k = 1 and β ≤ 2 or when k = 2 and 0 ≤ β ≤ 1. …”