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. …”

Industrial policy refraction: how corporate strategy shapes development outcomes in Brazil by Zylberberg, E

“…For states seeking to catch up, the acquisition and assimilation of frontier technology has always been paramount (Abramovitz, 1986).</p> <p>Multinational firms based in industrialized countries have long been seen as sources of technology (Evans, 1979). …”

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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Inferring electrospray emission characteristics from molecular dynamics and simulated retarding potential analysis by Schroeder, Madeleine, Gallud, Ximo, Petro, Elaine, Jia-Richards, Oliver, Lozano, Paulo C

“…The percentage of monomers, dimers, and trimers in the beam is approximately 45%, 30%–43%, and 13%–25%, respectively. …”
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What is to reproduce? On the overlap, development, and persistence account of reproduction by Palacios-González, C

“…Her account seems able to answer the question of whether reproduction takes place, and who reproduces, when we employ biotechnologies that bear little to no resemblance to naturally occurring human sexual reproduction. …”

Just Doing My Job: Normative Dimensions of Social Roles by Wells, Eliza

“…It also means that role-occupants are not off the moral hook. Ultimately, we each bear responsibility to create a more just social world.…”
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Protein delivery options: how well have we succeeded? by Ng, Xu Wen, Subbu, Venkatraman

“…Another antibody, Avastin®, indicated for bowel cancer, accounted for $6.7 billion among these top-selling drugs, while Herceptin®, used to treat breast cancer, had sales of $6.6 billion. These numbers bear eloquent testimony to the increasing demand for protein therapeutics. …”
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Experimental investigation of methane storage under ambient conditions employing adsorption technology by Chua, Bernard Zhen Cong

“…All this knowledge has been used for industrial applications which requires adsorption science and technology. …”
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Fine-tuning selective layer architecture of hydrogel membrane towards high separation performances for engineered osmosis by Qin, Detao, Liu, Zhaoyang, Bai, Hongwei, Song, Xiaoxiao, Li, Zhengtao, Sun, Darren Delai

“…Analysis of reverse osmosis (RO) experimental results reveals hydrogel layer resistance to water permeation is linearly reduced by 1.40 × 1013 m−1 as the layer is tailored thinner per 10 nm, which leads to the remarkable enhancement of water permeability by ~10 times from 0.49 L m−2 h−1 bar−1 of 500 nm thickness to 4.75 L m−2 h−1 bar−1 of 30 nm thickness. …”
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Preliminary study on the characteristics of FO/PRO hollow fiber membranes by Chen, Yunfeng.

“…The substrate is mechanically tough and has large pure water permeability (PWP) of 462.4 L m-2 h-1 bar-1. After interfacial polymerization, the TFC HF membrane has PWP of 2.01 L m-2 h-1 bar-1 and solute permeability of 0.525 L m-2 h-1. …”
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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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Phenomenological observations of quinone-mediated zinc oxidation in an alkaline environment by Mallia, Christopher T, Brushett, Fikile R

“…The development of such systems requires knowledge of underlying reaction mechanisms, which bear similarities to the processes that underpin corrosion and semiconductor electrochemistry. …”
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Prosopanche: a remarkable genus of parasitic plants by Hatt, SA, Cameron, DD, Grace, OM, Rocamundi, N, Cocucci, AA, Martel, C, Thorogood, CJ

“…Growing almost entirely underground with a complete lack of leaves, plants of Prosopanche bear more resemblance to fungi than plants and have many remarkable aspects to their life history and ecology that require further investigation. …”

Why Brussels? Neruda’s ‘título absolutamente enigmático’ by Moran, D

“…<p>The primary purpose of this article is to propose a solution to longstanding literary mystery, namely, why Neruda&rsquo;s disconcertingly enigmatic poem &lsquo;Bruselas&rsquo; (from&nbsp;<em>Tercera residencia</em>&nbsp;[1947]) has a title which seems to bear little if any relation either to the city of Brussels itself or to its sometimes bewilderingly obscure content and imagery. …”

Influence of no-core fiber on the focusing performance of an ultra-small gradient-index fiber probe by Bi, Shubo, Wang, Chi, Zhu, Jun, Yuan, Zhiwen, Yu, Yingjie, Valyukh, Sergiy, Asundi, Anand

“…The light-beam expansion effect of a no-core fiber on the focusing performance of an ultra-small gradient-index fiber probe is investigated with a view to optimizing the optical performance of such probes. …”
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Detection of damaged supports under railway track based on frequency shift by Wang, Longqi, Zhang, Yao, Lie, Seng Tjhen

“…A lot of research has been conducted to guarantee the safety of railway track because of its importance, and more concern is expressed about monitoring of track itself such as railway level and alignment. …”
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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. …”

The junior officers of the Roman army, 91BC - AD14 by Wrobel, T

“…There follow three chapters of diachronic analysis, each analysing the number of officer positions available, the roles and functions of the junior officers, and the status of the junior officer positions in the periods 91 – 50BC, 49 – 31BC, and 30BC – AD14, and finally three thematic chapters examining professionalism and other motivations for service, the perception of service as a junior officer, and the role of the municipal elite within the junior officer corps. …”

A landscape of conflict? Rural fortifications in the Argolid (400 – 146 BC) by Blomley, AM

“…</p> <br> <p>Chapters 2–4 “set the scene” for the analysis of fortified sites in the Argolid. …”