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. …”

Social media-based civic engagement solutions for dengue prevention in Sri Lanka : results of receptivity assessment by Lwin, May O., Vijaykumar, Santosh, Foo, Schubert, Fernando, Owen Noel Newton, Lim, Gentatsu, Panchapakesan, Chitra, Wimalaratne, Prasad

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‘Who’s the fairest of them all?’ The impact of men on the stepmother-daughter relationship in Snow White by Tan, Aaron Justin Li Jie

“…Additionally, the various adaptations of the tale expound on men being arbitrators of women’s worth, which results in her stepmother vying for male attention that is worth analysing.…”
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Implementation of mesh-distortion tolerant 8-node quadrilateral plane elements using user-subroutine feature in abaqus by Zhou, Ye.

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Costly information acquisition, social networks, and asset prices : experimental evidence by Halim, Edward, Riyanto, Yohanes Eko, Roy, Nilanjan

“…Social communication crowds out information production as a result of an agent's temptation to free ride on the signals purchased by her neighbors. Although information exchange among traders increases trading volume, improves liquidity, and enhances the ability of asset prices to reflect the available information in the market, it fails to improve price informativeness. …”
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Imprisonment, resistance and circularity in Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa by Ang, Jinghui

“…Bringing in Foucault, feminist thinker Beauvoir and Sartre's notion of "bad faith", this essay provides a reading of "Clarissa" in a continuing dialogue with earlier Clarissa critics like Margaret Doody, Terry Castle, Terry Eagleton and Maud Ellmann to liberate Clarissa from the much argued position of a victim rather than a triumphant resistant fighter who obtains a liberation her captors does not.…”
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For you, I dance = 為你而舞. by Lim, Zuo Han., Ow, Yan Lan., Yap, Charmaine Shu Hui., Lim, Edwin Zong Da.

“…He is instantly attracted to her but keeps his feelings locked away in a deep corner of his heart. …”
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Tsewang Norbu NGB by Cantwell, C, Mayer, R

“…It also shares with the sDe dge xylograph the feature of a separate section at the end with additional rDzogs chen tantras. The mTshams brag manuscript from Bhutan (available in a modern photo-offset litho reproduction of the original mTshams brag monastery manuscript) is often textually quite good, and also has the most texts within it of any rNying ma'i rgyud 'bum collection, but doxographically seems to be only partially organised, as though its redactors produced it without a fully finalised doxographical program in mind. …”

Bagan Mural project : building a robust digital library on Wordpress by Chia, Yew Boon, Ng, Kiak Peng

“…In the Bagan Mural project, a history professor had taken many photographs of the mural paintings in the temples of Bagan in the course of her field trips. These photographs are simply stored in her computer folders and are therefore not easily searchable or shareable. …”
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Identification of novel functional compounds from forest onion and its biological activities against breast cancer by Nurkolis, Fahrul, Kurniatanty, Isma, Wiyarta, Elvan, Permatasari, Happy Kurnia, Mayulu, Nelly, Taslim, Nurpudji Astuti, Tjandrawinata, Raymond Rubianto, Hardinsyah, Hardinsyah, Tallei, Trina Ekawati, Tsopmo, Apollinaire, Radu, Son, Hadinata, Edwin, Kim, Bonglee, Ribeiro, Rosy Iara Maciel Azambuja, Syahputra, Rony Abdi

“…The most promising compound was avenasterol binding PARP-1, HER2, iNOS receptors with values of −11.26, −8.34, and −9.17 μg/mL, respectively. …”
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Application real options infrastructure projects by Cheah, Charles Yuen Jen.

“…In all large engineering and infrastructure projects, valuation constitutes an important step during the initial stage as each stakeholder assesses the prospect of his/her investment. The complexity of valuation increases dramatically in the face of uncertainty especially when the risks are dynamic and stochastic in nature. …”
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SUPERHERO OF LOVE : HEAL YOUR BROKEN HEART & THEN GO SAVE THE WORLD / by Fonger, Bridget, 1962-, author 655765

“…This book helps clear the decks by shedding light on the shadow-filled, broken pieces of the reader's heart to bring them to an even stronger, healthier, more powerful place. The author shares her personal experience of going through a painful breakup and presents a five-part superhero method for recovery. …”

Robot programming using augmented reality by Chong, Jonathan Wun Shiung

“…The ability of the user to make sense of an unknown environment is utilized by enabling him/her to intuitively define subsets of the free space that are relevant to his/her goals. …”
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The discourse of tradition and modernity in contemporary Indian culture by Ahuja Richa

“…It focuses specifically on the Hindu/Indian woman, and the way in which this discourse plays out on her body. I argue that the Victorian morality that the British colonisers of India imposed on their colonised subjects has affected the way in which tradition and modernity are viewed in contemporary India, and because of this influence, the historical concepts of tradition and modernity have been skewed. …”
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The absurd, exile and the beginning of ethics by Yong, Ade Wernmei

“…I will be referring to these concepts as they are understood by Camus and Levinas, to argue that Desai’s novel, in its exploration of themes of alienation, exile, otherness and transcendence – all of which inform the existential milieu of her work – provides us a philosophy of ethics.…”
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Legally enforceable smart contract wills by Chua, Kelvin Chong Hung

“…By using blockchain technology with the innovations of the best aspects of electronic wills, a blockchain will could serve as a reliable, authentic, and secure record of a decedent's last wishes for disposition of her property.…”
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Winter in the warmth. by Zhuang, Harry Weifu.

“…It’s about a teacher who managed to conform to her new work environment after she chanced upon a mystical seminar. …”
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Kite might by Xiong, Wei

“…Daya is challenged by Gus that if she manages to fly her massive kite, he would eat his own. The tenacious girl then embarks on a determined journey to prove the bully wrong. …”
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"Preserved Through Childbirth": reading deep in Mrs Dalloway's virginity by Oldham, J

“…Dalloway (1925), described as a virgin, despite her marriage and daughter? Direct references to virginity in the novel expose how it can be read as an expansive and somewhat humorous conceit, rather than as a superficial character detail. …”

French foreign policy towards Poland (1989-1993) by Dangelmayer, AM

“…</p> <p>This thesis attempts to analyse why and how France transformed her foreign policy and her approach towards Poland, in the context of post-Cold War changes in Europe beginning in autumn 1989.3 It analyses and explains the transformation of French foreign policy as well as the increasing multilateralisation of Franco-Polish relations within the context of the European Community (EC). …”