Enriching students’ cross-cultural and multilingual communication: the serious play approach utilizing Playmobil pro figures by Meletiadou, Eleni

“…Thematic analysis was used to analyse the data which revealed that Playmobil pro facilitated intercultural communication in the post-COVID-19 era as students seemed to be unwilling to work with their peers in face-to-face classes, possibly suffering from trauma. …”
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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.…”

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. …”

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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Immersion two-phase liquid cooling of data cards by Lioewanta, Sebastian Markus

“…Instead of simulating the electronic components with heaters, an actual printed circuit board (PCB) is used as the heat generating component. …”
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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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Normal People / by Rooney, Sally, author 631806, Faber (Online service) 656045

“…Well-off Marianne blossoms at university, becoming pretty and popular, while Connell struggles for the first time in his life to fit in properly with his peers. The two weave in and out of each other's lives during their university years, developing an intense bond that exposes their traumas and insecurities.…”
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The Inspiration Design Toolkit: A Human-Centered Design Tool for a System Engineering Course by Lee, Sheng-Hung, Yang, Maria C, Carramolino, Beatriz, Rudnik, John

“…The aim of the IDT is to improve the participants’ learning experience and course engagement, increase opportunities for them to interact with their peers and teaching team, enable them to practice and reinforce the concepts through the creation of their own IDT cards, and share the cards in the discussion to increase learners’ engagement with course material and peers. …”
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Machine learning for industrial IOT by Yeow, Brandon Wei Liang

“…This paper concludes by proposing an algorithm for peer-to-peer Federated Learning where clients search for peers up to the 𝑘th degree and perform the best actions with 𝑛 peers under bandwidth constraints. …”
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Best practices and factors to enhance transfer of training in Oman by Al Ghafri, Ahmed Mohammed Issa

“…The list includes training designers, trainers, supervisor, managers, peers, top management, and customers or clients of the organizations. …”
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Weakly nonlinear water waves over varying topography by Xiao, Rong

“…This thesis consists of 2 sections, part A chapters 1-6 and part B chapters 6-7 with references and appendices. …”
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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. …”

Facial expression quantification and analysis by Ramya Sridharan

“…This dissertation mentions some of the latest techniques available in the above field and proposes two design techniques that exceed the performance of their peers in both technical aspects and applications.…”
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Self-healing materials for flexible electronic devices by Tiwari, Naveen

“…Transparent and flexible healable heaters (TFHH) with good mechanical and thermal stability were fabricated using these electrodes for potential applications in thermochromics, electrically driven displays and defrosters. …”
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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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The GCSE attainment gap: assessing the influence of permanent school exclusion by Hills, Stephen, Walker, Matthew, Guinn, James, Kent, Aubrey

“…Research has shown that pupils who have been permanently excluded are at a greater risk of negative life outcomes when compared with their non-excluded peers. However, the idea that disadvantaged groups are disproportionately represented amongst those excluded has not previously been tested in prior work. …”
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Thermocapillary actuation and droplet manipulation in microfluidics by Jiao, Zhenjun

“…In the experiments, wire heaters were used to create alternate heat fluxes at two ends of the working portion along the capillary tube. …”
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Identifying novel neuromodulator targets of human cognition by Colwell, MJ

“…<strong>Chapter 6</strong>, the final chapter, unifies the research findings reported within this thesis, placing them in a broader literature context, with suggestions for potential directions of travel for future research. …”

Divine assemblies in early Greek and Mesopotamian narrative poetry by Ballesteros Petrella, B

“…The comparative approaches in Part 3 are developed in two chapters (9-10). Chapter 9 offers a detailed comparison of this typical scene's poetic morphology and compositional purpose. …”