Shattered nation: inequality and the geography of a failing state by Dorling, D

“…<br> Britain was once the leading economy in Europe; it is now the most unequal. …”

Design, implementation, and extension of thermal invisibility cloaks by Zhang, Youming, Xu, Hongyi, Zhang, Baile

“…While designs of thermal invisibility cloaks inherit previous theories from optical cloaks, the uniqueness of heat diffusion leads to more achievable implementations. Thermal invisibility cloaks, as well as the variations including thermal concentrator, rotator, and illusion devices, have potentials to be applied in thermal management, sensing and imaging applications. …”
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The Science of Plants : Inside their Secret World / by Fewster, Helen, editor 655692, Ambrose, Jamie, contributor 655693, Bayton, Ross, contributor 655694, Candeias, Matt, contributor 655695, Jose, Sarah, contributor 655696, Mikolajski, Andrew, contributor 382928, Ripley, Esther, contributor 655697, Summers, David, contributor 260394, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, contributor 10725, DK Publishing, Inc 584081

“…DK's elegant introduction to botany is packed with sumptuous photos and crystal-clear artworks that explain the mechanics of photosynthesis, why leaves change colour, how cacti store water, and how seeds know when to grow. Filled with fascinating stories of how plants protect themselves from predators, and how flowers use colour and scent to interact with - and manipulate - the creatures around them, The Science of Plants is a fresh and engaging introduction to the mysterious inner workings of the plant world.…”

Effect of fertilizer on yield and quality of Jatropha curcas L. Oil. by Zhou, Yanfang.

“…The yield and quality of the oil extracted from Jatropha seeds were investigated under three different controlled nutrient conditions based on the amount of Osmocote® Plus added. …”
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Improving depth sensitive fluorescence spectroscopy with wavefront shaping by Hsieh, Chao-Mao, Liu, Quan

“…However, the low target to background ratio caused by multiple scattering in tissue leads to weak fluorescence measurement from the target layer inside. …”
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Digital data transmission over non-linear satellite channels by Quah, Kian Wah.

“…Both these non-linear effects can lead to significant signal distortion and system performance impairment. …”
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Mental accounting and its impact on outbound leisure traveler’s overspending Behavior. by Chu, Peng., Leng, Wei Yi., Song, Wanyi Celestine.

“…Firstly, we found that mental accounting does leads to higher probability of outbound leisure travelers overspending. …”
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De novo genome sequence assembly of the RNAi-tractable endosymbiosis model system Paramecium bursaria 186b reveals factors shaping intron repertoire by Leonard, G, Jenkins, BH, Savory, FR, Kilias, ES, Maguire, F, Varma, V, Milner, DS, Richards, TA

“…To explore intron evolutionary dynamics further we show that alternative splicing leading to intron retention occurs at a higher frequency among the smaller number of longer introns, identifying a source of selection against longer introns. …”

Sproutly : plantable packaging by Dhanusha Surendran

“…The packaging is 100% compostable, made with recycled paper, and embedded with seeds. As such, the packaging germinates when planted. …”
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A dormant overmassive black hole in the early Universe by Juodžbalis, I, Maiolino, R, Baker, WM, Tacchella, S, Scholtz, J, D’Eugenio, F, Witstok, J, Schneider, R, Trinca, A, Valiante, R, DeCoursey, C, Curti, M, Carniani, S, Chevallard, J, de Graaff, A, Arribas, S, Bennett, JS, Bourne, MA, Bunker, AJ, Charlot, S, Jiang, B, Koudmani, S, Perna, M, Robertson, B

“…Several different models have been proposed to explain these findings, ranging from heavy seeds to light seeds experiencing bursts of high accretion rate10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15–16. …”

Birth and growth of cavitation bubbles within water under tension confined in a simple synthetic tree by Quinto-Su, Pedro A., Vincent, Olivier, Marmottant, Philippe, Ohl, Claus-Dieter

“…Then, a diffusion driven expansion leads to filling of the cavity. Analysis reveals that the nucleation of a bubble releases a tension of several tens of MPa, and a simple model captures the different time scales of the expansion process.…”
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Mill before Liberalism (parts I and II) by Ghosh, P

A well-conditioned collocation method using a pseudospectral integration matrix by Wang, Li-Lian, Samson, Michael Daniel, Zhao, Xiaodan

“…Moreover, the new basis leads to an exact inverse of the pseudospectral differentiation matrix of the highest derivative (at interior collocation points), which is therefore called the pseudospectral integration matrix (PSIM). …”
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Phonon transport in nanowire with contacts : size and doping by Li, Jing, Au Yeung, Tin Cheung, Kam, Chan Hin

“…With the size decreasing, the significant reduction in the number of phonon modes leads to a smaller thermal conductance density. The dopant (Ge) atoms are used to substitute the atom in the wire to study the doping effect. …”
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Thickness-dependent evolutions of domain configuration and size in ferroelectric and ferroelectric-ferroelastic films by Huang, C. W., Chen, Z. H., Chen, Lang

“…As the film thickness decreases, the stable domain pattern also changes from a ferroelectric-ferroelastic domain to a ferroelectric one, which leads to the divergence of domain size scaling.…”
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Pseudospin dynamics in multimode polaritonic Josephson junctions by Pavlovic, G., Malpuech, G., Shelykh, Ivan A.

“…In particular, it can lead to renormalization of the oscillation frequency, appearance of higher order harmonics, and induce transition between the regimes of free Josephson oscillations and macroscopic quantum self-trapping.…”
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Stochastic optimization model for water allocation on a watershed scale considering wetland’s ecological water requirement by Xu, Ye, Wang, Yu, Li, Sha, Huang, Guohe, Dai, Chao

“…However, the situation of water amount reduction and quality degradation leads to ecological water shortage and occupation. …”
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Lane formation and aggregation spots in a model of ants by Bruna, M, Burger, M, de Wit, O

Fear and attraction : two sides of the same coin? by Muhammad Hidayat Isnin.

“…Fear and attraction are functional behaviours selected by evolution due to their contributions in the survival of an animal species. Fear leads to avoidance from aversions such as predators whereas attraction results in close proximity to food and mates. …”
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Surface-tension-driven buckling of a thin viscous sheet by Ryan, NPJ, Breward, CJW, Griffiths, IM, Howell, PD

“…We derive leading-order governing equations and boundary conditions for a sheet of viscous fluid retracting freely under surface tension. …”