A phenomenology of kenosis: Jean-Luc Nancy after the theological turn by Deketelaere, N

“…The engagement with phenomenology’s turn towards theology therefore parallels Nancy’s engagement with Christianity: he draws on the theological notion of kenosis—according to which God empties himself of his divinity in the Incarnation (Philippians 2:7)—to understand Christianity as deconstructing or de-theologising itself. …”

Culinary civilization: the representation of food culture in Ford Madox Ford, Gertrude Stein and Virginia Woolf by O'Brien, N

“…The second is grounded in material history, establishing the contexts and conditions of food culture in the first half of the twentieth century. Drawing on sociological thinking from Norbert Elias's conception of the civilizing process and Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of distinction, and using a combined methodology of close reading, biographical and historical analysis, I show that food acts as a lens for these authors' ideas about civil society and modernity. …”

Arsenic (III) removal from water using natural sedimentary rocks by Yusof, Nur Zulaikha

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Using machine learning to discover candidate localised transcripts from microscopy and genome-wide bioinformatics data by Kiourlappou, M

“…Next, I present the innovative pipeline I use to systematically manage the output raw microscopy images and to create figures (approximately 1400 figures). …”

Interventions for managing skeletal muscle spasticity following traumatic brain injury by Synnot, Anneliese, Chau, Marisa, Pitt, Veronica, O'Connor, Denise, Gruen, Russell Lindsay, Wasiak, Jason, Clavisi, Ornella, Pattuwage, Loyal, Phillips, Kate

“…The four studies without useable results were funded by pharmaceutical or medical technology companies. It was difficult to draw conclusions about the effectiveness of these interventions due to poor reporting, small study size and the fact that participants with TBI were usually only a proportion of the overall total. …”
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Impact of BPL penalty functions and PSF models in PET/CT radial spatial resolution recovery by Si, Wang Jie

“…Tubes filled were placed at 5 cm intervals from the center towards the PET/CT FOV's periphery. …”
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Colloidal quantum dot light-emitting diode architectures for high performance by Leck, Kheng Swee

“…QD-LEDs have made great progress in terms of device performance over the years and there is room for further improvement. With all these findings and demonstrations in this thesis, we conclude that QD-LEDs hold great promise for potential applications in lighting and displays…”
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The evolution and fate of waste plastics in landfills subject to physical and biochemical processes — implications for microplastics by Lu, Xuhong

“…In total, 7 leachate samples and 5 refuse samples from different MSW landfills were investigated. MPs were found in all the samples. The results indicate the identification of over 10 types of MPs in both refuse and leachate samples, with the majority of MPs were fragment-shaped MPs, exhibiting a size of less than 100 μm. …”
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Lanthanum strontium vanadate in solid oxide fuel cells. by Ge, Xiaoming.

“…When drawing a current of 0.2 A/cm2 at 900°C, the overpotential is 0.13 V in pure H2, and slightly higher in wet CH4, 0.20 V. …”
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Carbon nanomaterial/thermoplastic polyurethane composites for sports application : preparation, characterization and simulation by Jing, Qifei

“…Regarding the thermal stability, PU filled with 1 wt% FGO showed the largest extent of improvement. …”
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Tsewang Norbu NGB by Cantwell, C, Mayer, R

“…Waddell, who identified it as the most splendid and significant of all the great number of literary artifacts he procured during that expedition. …”

Semantic scene understanding on 3D point clouds by Dong, Shichao

“…Even without having any instance-related ground-truth, we design an approach to break point clouds into raw fragments and find the most confident samples for learning instance centroids. …”
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Data driven and learning based approaches for integrated landside airside operations optimization by Ali, Hasnain

“…As copious amount of data becomes easily available, our ability to learn, draw insights and obtain actionable knowledge using past operations data is a pre-requisite for establishing efficient airport operations that are sensitive to passenger needs.…”
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POWER TO CHOOSE / by Sargent, Haydn, author 656354

“…It's a book for people of all ages and from all walks of life. It comes from the pen of a man who has had a brush with cancer and writes with a positive view of life - DICK SMITH. …”

Creative Research : The Theory and Practice of Research for the Creative Industries / by Collins, Hilary (Hilary J.), author 656091

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Notes on Thermodynamics : Hot Oolong Cools / by Kang, Hway Chuan, author 655469, World Scientific (Online service) 655444

“…In the discussions of the Second Law the book highlights this, emphasizing that all the processes we observe in our universe are irreversible. …”
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Slowdown: the end of the great acceleration—and why it's good for the planet, the economy, and our lives by Dorling, D

“…Danny Dorling uses compelling visualizations to illustrate how fertility rates, growth in GDP per person, and even the frequency of new social movements have all steadily declined over the last few generations. …”

Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 371 diseases and injuries in 204 co... by Ferrari, AJ, Santomauro, DF, Aali, A, Lacey, BWH, Rodriguez, JAB

“…For three decades, the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) has filled that need. A global network of collaborators contributed to the production of GBD 2021 by providing, reviewing, and analysing all available data. …”

Career Development and Counseling : Putting Theory and Research to Work / by Brown, Steven D. (Steven Douglas), 1947-, editor 370878, Lent, Robert W. (Robert William), 1953-, editor 370884, John Wiley & Sons (Online service) 647106

“…This book illuminates scientifically informed career practices from an interdisciplinary perspective, engaging readers with concrete strategies and practical tips for working with clients of all kinds. Drawing on vocational, industrial, organizational, and personality psychology, Career Development and Counseling is ideal for graduate students at the masters and doctoral levels in counseling, counseling psychology, counselor education, and educational psychology.…”
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Fabrication of artificial defects in aircraft components for nondestructive testing using 3D printing by Chan, Marcus Jia Jun

“…Eddy current tests were then being performed using various types of probes. It was found that all eddy current probes and defects were able to demonstrate an indication on the impedance plane. …”
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