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

“…Jamwal and Nisha fall in love while waiting for a traffic light to turn green in Delhi…thus begins one of the 15 short stories Jeffrey Archer has gathered from around the globe during the past five years in this, his sixth collection, of enthralling short stories. …”

Development of kinetics model for torrefaction of empty fruit bunch from palm oil waste by Nur Hazirah Huda, Mohd Harun, Noor Asma Fazli, Abdul Samad, Suriyati, Saleh

“…During the torrefaction process, biomass is thermally decomposed thus resulted in biomass weight loss which is known as an anhydrous weight loss (AWL). …”
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The Mnemosyne number and the rheology of remembrance by Jamali, Safa, McKinley, Gareth H.

“…The Mnemosyne number is, thus, a measure of the flow strength compared to the thixotropic time scale. …”
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Dissolving the segmentation of a shared mobility market: A framework and four market structure designs by Guo, Xiaotong, Qu, Ao, Zhang, Hongmou, Noursalehi, Peyman, Zhao, Jinhua

“…In the governance of the shared mobility market of a city or of a metropolitan area, there are two conflicting principles: 1) the healthy competition between multiple platforms, such as between Uber and Lyft in the United States, and 2) economies of network scale, which leads to higher chances for trips to be matched, and thus higher operation efficiency, but which also implies monopoly. …”
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Experimental Characterization of Iron-Sulfur Cluster Excited States and their Relevance to Electron Transfer Reactions by Skeel, Brighton A.

“…We find that the energy scale associated with both of these phenomena is commensurate with that of the thermal energy at ambient temperature, and that these alternate valence arrangements and spin configurations are thus relevant to understanding the room temperature reactivity of biological Fe−S systems. …”
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Know Thy Cell-Free DNA: Early Detection of Microsatellite Instability Using Ultra-Low-Pass Cell-Free DNA Sequences by Lu, Nicole

“…Less expensive sequencing methods such as ultra-low pass (ULP) sequencing exist, but thus far have not been utilized for detection of microsatellite instability. …”
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“Am I talking to a human or a robot?” : a preliminary study of human’s perception in human-humanoid interaction and its effects in cognitive and emotional states by Baka, Evangelia, Vishwanath, Ajay, Mishra, Nidhi, Vleioras, Georgios, Thalmann, Nadia Magnenat

“…The current preliminary study concerns the identification of the effects human-humanoid interaction can have on human emotional states and behaviors, through a physical interaction. Thus, we have used three cases where people face three different types of physical interaction with a neutral person, Nadine social robot and the person on which Nadine was modelled, Professor Nadia Thalmann. …”
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Process optimization for selective laser sintering of polypropylene by Wu, Kunlin

“…From the fatigue fractography, the area with unmelt powder particles acted as the stress concentrator, thus leading to the crack.…”
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Design and analysis of a novel electromagnetic-propulsion rotary machine with external blending-shaped tessellation magnet pattern by Dong, Ziwei, Yan, Liang, Su, Hang, Chen, I-Ming

“…First, it helps to increase the magnetic flux density in the airgap, and thus the torque output is increased. Second, it enhances the self-shielding effect greatly, and thus the back iron can be removed completely and replaced with low-density materials. …”
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Tensile tests of composite coupons with prescribed porosity by Tan, Shemual Pinhan

“…However, it was observed that the greater the amount of glass bubbles used, the more viscous the resin mixture, thus increasing the difficulty of the fabrication. …”
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Bio-aerosol dynamics in buildings by Lee, Benedict

“…Constantly breathing in poor air quality can cause negative health effects such as ischaemic heart disease. Thus, the understanding of bioaerosol dynamics can help to negate the harmful effects of bioaerosols on the human body. …”
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Develop nano-bubbles for molecular imaging and therapy by Lim, Hui Ying

“…There is reliable evidence that microbubbles can accelerate ultrasounds-mediated heating thus enhancing formation of lesions. Researchers have observed that the presence of acoustically driven microbubbles results to an increase in heating rate and overall temperature during HIFU (International Symposium of the Therapeutic Ultrasound, 2002). …”
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Studies on the main group-based aromatic compounds : 1,4,2-Diazaborole and Germanium(0) species by Su, BoChao

“…Thus, in this thesis we have demonstrated that by use of N-heterocyclic carbene as the supporting ligand several novel aromatic species containing boron or germanium elements could be isolated successfully. …”
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Controlling Cherenkov angles with resonance transition radiation by Lin, Xiao, Easo, Sajan, Shen, Yichen, Chen, Hongsheng, Zhang, Baile, Joannopoulos, John D., Soljačić, Marin, Kaminer, Ido

“…For example, ring-imaging Cherenkov detectors must employ materials transparent to the frequency of interest as well as possessing permittivities close to unity to identify particles in the multi-gigaelectronvolt range, and thus are often limited to large gas chambers. It would be extremely important, albeit challenging, to lift this fundamental limit and control Cherenkov angles at will. …”
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Privacy: a political approach by Bogue, RC

“…This thesis argues that privacy has this quality because it exists in a relationship of opposition to “the public” and thus lacks any essential characteristic other than being not-public, not-visible, or not in the common view. …”

Potential of Cosmos caudatus Kunth. extract as a natural food sanitiser by Yusoff, N.A.H., Rukayadi, Y., Abas, F., Khatib, A., Hassan, M.

“…These phenomena, however, become a concern when consumers begin to demand the safety of the food they consume, thus resulting in a search for natural plant extracts as an alternative. …”
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The (un)straight truth about trees by Ab Shukor, Nor Aini

“…Related tree improvement programmes should thus focus on genetic selection and improvement and the development of appropriate viable propagation techniques involving variations at all levels. …”
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Degradation of chemical oxygen demand, suspended solids and ammoniacal nitrogen from sewage by sweet potato peel coagulant under the influence of pH by Shaylinda, M Z N, Jismi, N M M N, Nazari, A N A, Akbar, N A, Ishak, M F, Talib, S H A, Mohd-Salleh, S N A

“…Meanwhile, optimisation of dual coagulant (pH 9) demonstrated 39%, 73% and 42% removals of COD, SS and AN, respectively. Thus, SPP, as a composite coagulant, outperformed the dual and single coagulant of SPP…”
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Effects of bonus issues. by Husin Tjandra., Chia, Chuen Huei., Chong, Boo Chien.

“…There are different views regarding the effects of bonus share issues : • Fundamentalists argue that bonus share issues will not benefit investors because the equity of the company remains the same. Thus, investors will get "nothing" out of "nothing". • Others believe that they can reap abnormal profits from bonus share issues as a bonus share issue is an indication (signal) of better future for the company.…”
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International women's magazines in Korea : the relationship with transnational advertising by Oh, Hyun Sook

“…International women's magazines have been approached as a significant site for exploring the dynamic interaction between global and local forces. Thus, my study investigated how the interaction of the global and local forces is involved in the production of international woman's magazines in the specific context and how that dynamic interaction influences the content of the magazines.…”
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