Lessons from a retrospective look at India’s upstream sector by Elango, P

“…In May 2014, a general election in India resulted a single party holding a parliamentary majority for the first time in 25 years. This has rekindled hopes of a revival in India’s domestic oil and gas sector, which has had an erratic history of performance and decision-making. …”

Generation of self-replicating airway organoids from the cave nectar bat Eonycteris spelaea as a model system for studying host-pathogen interactions in the bat airway epithelium by Chan, Louisa L. Y., Gamage, Akshamal M., Tan, Chee Wah, Tan, Kai Sen, Liu, Jing, Tay, Douglas Jie Wen, Foo, Randy Jee Hiang, Rénia, Laurent, Wang, De Yun, Wang, Lin-Fa

“…However, these ALI-AECs did not support SARS-CoV-2 infection, despite E. spelaea ACE2 receptor being capable of mediating SARS-CoV-2 spike pseudovirus entry. …”
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Topic extraction and sentiment analysis of a subreddit (r/coronavirus) by Chong, You Min

“…The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has spread its roots globally since the first outbreak in early 2020, and the first global crisis since SARS in 2002. COVID-19 has negatively impacted the world in more ways than one and has completely changed the way lives are being led. …”
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An adaptation of 'The narrow corridor' by Fenske, J

“…Acemoglu has published more in the last five years than you have in your whole career. You’re pretty sure Robinson was one of your letter writers. …”

Sorting capsules in microfluidic devices by Waters, S

“…<p>In recent years, microfluidic systems have underpinned a wealth of biotechnology applications and proposed solutions for complex problems, including the sorting and enrichment of deformable particle suspensions. …”

COVID alert’s privacy promises and surveillance risks by Cofone, IN

“…With a focus on wide-ranging topics such as cybersecurity, racial justice, and worker surveillance, among others, this series offers a roadmap as policymakers confront the privacy and human rights impacts of crises like the novel coronavirus in the years to come.…”

What difference does God make to morality? by Swinburne, R

“…I’m not going to discuss whether or not there is a God (that’s something I’m argued for a lot over the years), but simply whether if there is a God, that makes any difference to morality., I shall argue that the existence and actions of God make no difference to the fact that there are moral truths; but that the existence and actions of God make a great difference1 to the content of morality, to the seriousness of morality, and our knowledge of morality. …”

What does America's energy revolution mean for China? by Luft, G

“…Thanks to hydraulic fracturing or fracking, US oil production has grown from 5.1 million barrels a day in 2006 to 8 million in 2013 and US oil imports have dropped to their lowest level in 20 years. According to the International Energy Agency the USA will become the world’s number one oil producing country by 2015. …”

Russian Turkestan and the First World War by Morrison, A

“…It examines the economic impact of the war, the course of the 1916 revolt, and the role of wartime legacies in the revolutionary and civil war years that followed.…”

Russia’s Arctic offshore opportunities by Loe, JSP

“…This summer’s planned drilling in the Universitetskaya structure in the Kara Sea by Rosneft and ExxonMobil is this year’s most high-profile petroleum event in the Arctic; it is attracting great interest due to the high resource estimates for the area. …”

Journalism, media and technology trends and predictions 2017 by Newman, N

“…This year’s key developments will centre on fears about how changing technology is affecting the quality of information and the state of our democracy. …”

Inaudible echo-based indoor position recognition by Wong, Alexander Chong Xan

“…An example where accurate indoor localisation would be useful is contact tracing to limit the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Prior Research has been conducted in this field, the most noteworthy is RoomRecognise. …”
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Outcomes of shoulder replacement surgery in routine care by Craig, RS

“…The lifetime risk of implant revision surgery following an elective shoulder replacement was less than 1 in 20 for patients aged 85 years or older, but as high as 1 in 4 for some patients aged less than 60 years. …”

Mothers’ social networks and socioeconomic gradients of isolation by Andrew, AR, Attanasio, O, Augsburg, B, Behrman, J, Day, M, Jervis, P, Meghir, C, Phimister, A

“…We track 2,170 mothers’ networks over four years and find a high degree of isolation. Wealthier women and women from more-advantaged castes and tribes have smaller networks than their less-advantaged peers, primarily because they know fewer women within their own socioeconomic group. …”

A healthy amount of privacy: quantifying privacy concerns in medicine by Cofone, IC

“…I propose a simple method to incorporate these concerns into a standard health impact evaluation, based on quality-adjusted life years and the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio. …”

The interactions of ethnic minorities in Beijing by Hasmath, R

“…Drawing on six years of fieldwork in Beijing, this article looks at the daily interactions of ethnic minorities in local neighbourhoods and places of economic activities. …”

Brazil: pre-salt outlook by Chauhan, V

“…Less than 10 years ago, at the height of the commodities boom, Brazil was assured a place as an oil world powerhouse, following the discovery of oil in its subsalt basins. …”

Russian oil – challenges and possibilities by Moe, A

“…After Russian oil production had fallen to a low of 303 million tonnes per year in 1996–8, production picked up rapidly – some years showing an increase exceeding 10 per cent – until 2004 when it reached 459 million tonnes. …”

Recent studies on common ownership, firm behavior, and market outcomes by Schmalz, MC

“…The literature on competitive effects of common ownership has grown at a fast rate in the past two years. Anticompetitive effects have been confirmed with alternative reduced-form and structural estimation methods, in different industries, geographies, and jurisdictions. …”

Nahj al-Balāghah: the wisdom and eloquence of ʿAlī: a parallel English-Arabic text by al-Raḍī, A-S

“…<i>Nahj al-Balāghah</i>, the celebrated compendium of orations, letters, and sayings of ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib (d. 40/661) compiled by al-Sharīf al-Raḍī (d. 406/1015), is a masterpiece of Arabic literature and Islamic wisdom studied and memorized avidly and continually for over a thousand years. Showcasing ʿAlī’s life and travails in his own words, it also transcribes his profound reflections on piety and virtue, and on just and compassionate governance. …”