CASTERS OF EVERVILLE / by Yap, Cherilyn, author 655829, Ikram Wazir, editor 655732

“…Wyn, a demon fairy with a heart of gold, is accused of a mysterious illness that spreads across the small town of Everville. Honey, his childhood friend, is determined to find a cure and put her life on the line in order to save her friend. …”

Biodegradable antenna on fiber-based substrate by Tan, Yun Xian

“…With the increase in demand for better healthcare, large amounts of money are being devoted to improve and create new kinds of Implantable Medical Devices (IMDs). …”
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EMC-Compatible Shielding : Magnetic Materials for Shielding - Practical Examples - Device Design / by Gräbner, Frank, author 643041

“…A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation. …”

Principles : Life and Work / by Dalio, Ray, author 656003, Simon & Schuster (Online service) 656004

“…Forty years later, Bridgewater has made more money for its clients than any other hedge fund in history and grown into the fifth most important private company in the United States, according to Fortune magazine. …”
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Graphene based-coating effective ways of preventing corrosion by Siti Maznah, Kabeb, Azman, Hassan, Zurina, Mohamad

“…This book is the culmination of nearly four years of work I have done on epoxy-based nanocomposite coatings. …”
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Nonverbal communication cues of bank CEOs and long term performance during financial crisis. by Goh, Le Min., Liang, Sihui., Lim, Shi Bin.

“…Standardised earnings surprise, amount of TARP money borrowed, duration of TARP money borrowed, as well as probability of getting into TARP, are used as long term performance measures to determine the predictability effect of each non-verbal observation on the financial performance of each company. …”
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The Survey Method : The Contribution of Surveys to Sociological Explanation / by Marsh, Catherine, author 192668

“…The Survey Method is neither a pure defence of surveys nor a text-book on how to do them. It does, after all, criticise the kind of surveys that are often done, and it is particularly hostile to some new and manipu-lative developments in the often anti-democratic use made of survey results and opinion polls. …”

A study of inflation in China by Hu, Xiaoli, Xu, Jiajia, Yang, Wanyu

“…We remark that in the long run, the primary source of inflation in China is growth of money supply or bank loans. In the short run, we conclude that while both growth of money supply or bank loans and inflationary expectations influence China’s inflation, inflationary expectations play a more important role.…”
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The Influence of Human Resource Practices towards Improving Organizational Performance by Mansor, Mohd Fitri, Abu, Noor Hidayah, Kamil, Syahida, Nasir, Hussein

“…Human Resources is the most valuable assets of any organization with the machines, materials and even the money, nothing get done without manpower. In view of that, the aim of study is to investigate the influence of human resource practices towards improving organizational performance. …”
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Comparative studies on the cost of funds in various leading financial centres by Chooi, Chee Seng, Ng, Carolyn Wai Mun, Phan, Siew Leong

“…Having examined the foreign and local market conditions, the study discusses further the local interbank money market and the problems faced by the local money market desk in their costing of funds computation. …”
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Application of smartphone-based biophotonic instrumentation for glucose sensing using photometric method by Aziz, Nur Anis Huda

“…Glucose sensing is vital in health such as monitoring blood glucose levels in managing diabetes and food quality, for instance, adulterated honey detection. Current methods involve invasive, expensive equipment and highly trained personnel to carry out the test, which can limit the detection and application of glucose at on-site determination. …”
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Ethical theories and their application by Forcehimes, Andrew T.

“…Mundane or momentous, you have no doubt thought about whether what you did is, in point of fact, what you ought to have done. Think, for example, about something you did that you deeply regret. …”
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Glorious autarky? Foreign resources and the British fiscal-military state, 1688-1815 by Graham, A

“…Relying upon cheap foreign money enabled the British state to hold down taxation and expensive borrowing. …”

Exploring students' hypertext reading behaviour and social media use in their learning by Sharifah Maisharah Mohamed

“…Other studies have shown that students display a tendency to compromise aspects of information seeking when done in haste and the need for information literacy efforts to be more cognizant of students’ increasingly networked learning environment. …”
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Designing for policy effectiveness : defining and understanding a concept by Peters, B. Guy, Capano, Giliberto, Howlett, Michael, Mukherjee, Ishani, Chou, Meng-Hsuan, Ravinet, Pauline

“…Past studies have helped clarify the role of historical processes, policy capacities and design intentions in affecting policy formulation processes, and more recently in understanding how the bundling of multiple policy elements together to meet policy goals can be better understood and done. While this work has progressed, however, the discussion of what goals policy designs should serve remains disjointed. …”
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SOULWARE : THE AMERICAN WAY IN CHINA'S HIGHER EDUCATION / by Kuo, Way, 1951- author 347028, John Wiley & Sons (Online service) 647106

“…This book is a critical account of the history, evolution and challenges of higher education in mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, with important reflections on other systems, notably those in the US, UK, Korea and Japan. …”
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Translational GTPase BipA is involved in the maturation of a large subunit of bacterial ribosome at suboptimal temperature by Goh, Kwok Jian, Ero, Rya, Yan, Xin-Fu, Park, Jung Eun, Kundukad, Binu, Zheng, Jun, Sze, Siu Kwan, Gao, Yong-Gui

“…Based on the growth curve, soft agar swimming assay, and sucrose gradient sedimentation analysis, mutation of the catalytic residue His78 rendered plasmid-borne bipA unable to complement its deletion phenotypes. …”
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Beyond compliance: an event history analysis of environmental stewardship by Pitsakis, Konstantinos, Gössling, Tobias, Vink, Remco

“…The longitudinal (10-year period) dataset consists of adoption events per company, their business characteristics and historic socio-economic data per region in the respective European countries. Examination was done by means of an event history analysis using the program “R.” …”
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An investigation into air traffic control communications protocols by Ang, Kenneth Patrick

“…Additionally, studies done on 3D display show improvements in ATC-pilot communication. …”
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The practical rationality of purchasing life insurance by Yeo, Jasper Bo Wen

“…Whilst there may exist agents who, in their non-conformity to the increasing marginal disutility of lost money, may rationally be better-off without life insurance than with it, they are merely outliers. …”
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