二十世纪七八十年代新华女性小说作者的世界 = The worlds of Singapore Chinese female writers of fiction : a study of short stories and novellas during the seventies and eighties from a feminist perspecti... by 胡月宝 Aw, Guat Poh

“…Chapters four to six form the main theme of the dissertation. …”
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COMMUNICATION IN FAMILY CONTEXTS : THEORIES AND PROCESSES / by Hall, Elizabeth Dorrance, author 655059, Scharp, Kristina M., author 655060, John Wiley & Sons (Online service) 647106

“…Unlike textbooks that present a vast amount of material across only a few chapters—this innovative textbook features brief, easily-understood chapters ideally-suited for undergraduate courses on the subject. …”
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Civilisation of Virtues / by Osman Nuri Topbas, 1942-, author 543065

“…The rituals are mechanically performed as if only a kind of social custom, while the spirit of Islam has been almost totally lost. This book aims to illuminate the spiritual radiance of mainstream (Ahli Sunnah) Islam and to clothe it in stories of the lives of the Prophets and their Companions and also in the lives of exemplary Sufis. …”

Report on professional attachment with MBI technology (S) Pte Ltd. by Lau, Paterson Hung Yeong.

“…Some conclusions and ending remarks have been made concerning the attachment programme and these are included in the concluding chapter of the report. …”
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Essays on foreign direct investment: some missing pieces by Fernandez-Delgado, K

“…<p>This thesis contains three chapters. All are based on firm-level data for Chile between the mid-1990s and the mid-2000s, and all concern the effects of foreign direct investment: the first and second chapters are about the gender balance of employment and training, respectively, while the third analyses how productivity spillovers depend on distance from the productivity frontier.…”

The effect of China's weak institutional environment on the quality of Big 4 audits by Ke, Bin, Lennox, Clive S., Xin, Qingquan

“…The Big 4 are less likely to issue modified audit reports, and they charge lower audit fees for clients that are listed only in China. Finally, companies listed only in China have larger signed abnormal accruals than do companies cross-listed in Hong Kong. …”
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Large eddy simulations of turbulent circular wall jets by Zhang, Shuai, Law, Adrian Wing-Keung, Zhao, Bing

“…Most of the previous studies focus on the kinematic characteristics of the jet flows, while the mixing characteristics including the scalar transport have not been well examined. The current study performs a comprehensive investigation of the turbulent circular wall jet including both the flow and mixing characteristics using the large eddy simulations (LES) approach with proper near-wall modelling. …”
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Urban Informatics and Future Cities / by Geertman, S. C. M., editor 642892, Pettit, Christopher, editor 310233, Goodspeed, Robert, editor 642893, Staffans, Aija, editor 642894

“…Chapters were selected from a double-blind review process by the conference's scientific committee. …”

Contextualising the contrafacta of trouvere song by Quinlan, M

“…<p>Scholarship on medieval contrafacture has long been engaged in the Kontrafakturjagd, the hunt for songs whose textual and structural similarities suggest they might also share melodies. …”

Electrochemistry of modified graphene and carbon nanomaterials by Poh, Hwee Ling

“…Lastly, Chapter 12 will provide an overview of the chapters and concludes the thesis.…”
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Detailed turbulent structures investigation around piers group induced flow by Ikani, Nima, H. Pu, Jaan, Zang, Shuyan, Hussein Al-Qadami, Ebrahim Hamid, Razi, Adib

“…The result reveals that the log-law layer near wall has been enhanced by the installation of pier. …”
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Plasmonic properties of two-dimensional metallic nanoholes fabricated by focused ion beam lithography by Zhu, Shaoli, Zhou, Wei

“…The difference between the design and the experimental results may be caused by the conversion between the near field and the far field. The near field electric field distribution on the surface plasmonic nanoholes was measured by a near-field scanning optical microscope. …”
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Small molecule motion within and through organic nanomaterials: an anthology by Kaser, Sam

“…This thesis chronicles three distinct projects united by the common theme of small molecule motion in organic materials. Chapter 1 provides a holistic introduction to key background for the main body chapters, Chapters 2-4. …”
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Prose rhythm in the translation of Jin Yong by Teo, Kai Xin

“…Two frameworks were used to analyse rhythmicity in selected excerpts from The Legend of the Condor Hero, and Holmwood and Chang’s translations of the first eighteen chapters of the novel (Jin, 2018; Jin, 2019). Though the target text was deemed to be rhythmic, more techniques could have been tapped upon. …”
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Making the world a better place? English higher education and global public good by Marginson, S, Yang, L, Brotherhood, T

“…Two-thirds of science papers with UK authors involve international collaboration, one-quarter of higher education students are international, and their fees constitute more than a fifth of institutional income. …”

Clouds and hazes in Saturn's troposphere and stratosphere by Merlet, CTC

“…The haze physical and optical properties can however be independently retrieved from VIMS near-infrared spectra at shorter wavelengths in the 0.8-3.5 <em>μ</em>m spectral range. …”

Digital Transformation for Entrepreneurship / by Durst, Susanne, editor 624151, Pevkur, Aive, editor 656303, World Scientific (Online service) 655444

“…The scientific quality of each chapter has been ensured by the participation of two experienced scholars and supervisors - one of whom is the head of the Entrepreneurship and International Business group, and an active researcher on the book's topic - who have closely monitored the development process of the book"--…”
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Attentional control of goal directed behaviour by King, R

“…Chapter 3 takes a subset of patients from the previous chapter and uses a voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping approach to examine damage associated with impaired attentional control. …”

SECRETS of CLOSING the SALE / by Ziglar, Zig, 1926-2012 author 456132, Harrington, Kevin, author 199765

“…This new edition includes fresh opening and closing chapters as well as tips and examples throughout that illustrate the relevance of these truths in the marketplace today. …”

A sketch grammar of Chang. by Chor, Wan Ting.

“…In the phonology chapter, Chang has 17 consonant phonemes and 7 vowel phonemes. …”
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