Ultramafic Alteration and the Cooling of Earth and Mars by Murray, Joshua

“…I show that this framework reconciles the histories of \dc{} and atmospheric loss-to-space on Mars. My final chapter quantifies the effects of the alteration of ultramafic and mafic rocks across the Taconic orogeny in Newfoundland, Canada. …”
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Advances in the chemistry of base-stabilized germanium(I) compounds towards C-C bond formation by Ong, Melissa Xin Yi

“…In addition, the application of the base-stabilized germanium(I) dimers toward catalytic C-C bond formation of α,β-unsaturated carbonyl compounds was described. In Chapter 1, a brief introduction of low-valent heavier group 14 element carbene analogues and multiple bonded heavier group 14 element compounds was described. …”
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Three essays in finance by Qian, Shuoge

“…Our analysis underscores the complementarity between state interventions and the development of market mechanisms. In Chapter 2, we present a multi-asset model where investors with gambling propensities trade with overconfident investors and investors susceptible to an affect heuristic. …”
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Assessment of novel pre-erythrocytic malaria vaccines in humans by Venkatraman, N

“…High level efficacy (> 80%) is reported in Chapter 5 with a three-dose schedule of 10/10/10μg R21/MM given 4 weeks apart. …”

Advances in Software Engineering, Education, and e-Learning : Proceedings from FECS'20, FCS'20, SERP'20, and EEE'20 / by International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering + STEM (16th : 2020 : Las Vegas, N.V.), jointly held conference 643292, Arabnia, Hamid, editor 444181, Deligiannidis, Leonidas, editor 643297, Tinetti, Fernando G., editor 643298, Tran, Quoc-Nam, editor 643300, International Conference on Foundations of Computer Science (16th : 2020 : Las Vegas, N.V.), jointly held conference 643301, International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice (18th : 2020 : Las Vegas, N.V.), jointly held conference 643302, International Conference on E-Learning, E-Business, Enterprise Information Systems, and E-Government (19th : 2020 : Las Vegas, N.V.), jointly held conference 643303, World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, & Applied Computing (2020 : Las Vegas, N.V.) 643305

“…This book contains an open access chapter entitled, "Advances in Software Engineering, Education, and e-Learning". …”

Chinese labor protest and trade unions by Chan, J, Pun, N, Selden, M

“…Foxconn Technology Group, a Taiwanese-owned transnational corporation founded in Taipei in 1974, holds more than 50 percent of the market share in global electronics manufacturing. 1 Its 1.4 million workers in China are comprised mostly of rural migrants in their late teens to twenties. This chapter considers their struggle for labor rights, the nature of union representation at the giant firm, and the joint responsibility of the enterprise and government for the protection of workers.…”

Disaster risk modeling and assessment towards enhanced infrastructure resilience under extreme events by Wang, Ying

“…The connectivity provided by transportation network heavily affects yet not guarantee its ability in satisfying travel demand. In Chapter 5, a new system performance metric based on a localized measure derived from ridership data is developed for resilience modeling of networked infrastructure systems, i.e., urban rail transit network. …”
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Nonequilibrium hyperuniform fluids by Lei, Yusheng

“…Our result suggests that the phase transformations in nonequilibrium systems can be fundamentally different from the ones in equilibrium. In Chapter 5, we study nonequilibrium reactive particle systems with additional short-ranged attractive interactions using molecular dynamics simulations. …”
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The Creative Arts in Counseling / by Gladding, Samuel T., author 248792, John Wiley & Sons (Online service) 647106

“…Text features include a new section on incorporating the creative arts in telebehavioral counseling, two-part chapter overviews, 96 creative reflections for self-discovery, 145 exercises for use in session, and a listing of creative arts and art therapies websites.…”
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Fundamentals of Manufacturing Engineering : Concepts and Applications / by Singh, D. K., author 240337

“…The book is written in a way that it presents the topics in a simple and holistic manner with end-of chapter exercises and examples. The concepts are supported by numerous solved examples and multiple-choice questions to aid self-learning. …”
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Material and Energy Balances for Engineers and Environmentalists / by Oloman, Colin, author 655457, World Scientific (Online service) 655444

“…The useful reference text includes worked examples for each chapter and demonstrates process balances in the framework of M&E concerns of the 21st century. …”
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Indonesia-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement (IJEPA): a response to a regime change. by Siti Tiefryani Fahlyah

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Report on industrial attachment with Stiefel, A GSK company by Tam, Zhi Cong

“…Following which, in the next chapter, an overview of the relevant and major trainings such as Validation, Remediation and current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) will be presented. …”
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Modelling, design and control of the virtual synchronous machine in the smart grid application by Chen, Yidan

“…The design of the synchronverter is discussed in chapter 3. In addition, the simulation results of the synchronverter are analysed in chapter 4. …”
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‘Liege lady’: Queen Victoria’s political medievalism by Broome Saunders, C

“…This chapter explores the reception and reader responses to medievalism by women who were engaged in political discussion in the long nineteenth century. …”

Implementation of Models of Care for secondary osteoporotic fracture prevention and orthogeriatric Models of Care for osteoporotic hip fracture by Mitchell, P, Åkesson, K, Chandran, M, Cooper, C, Ganda, K, Schneider, M

“…As the world's population ages, the prevalence of osteoporosis and its resultant fragility fractures is set to increase dramatically. This chapter focuses on current frameworks and major initiatives related to the implementation of fracture liaison services (FLS) and orthogeriatrics services (OGS), Models of Care designed to reliably implement secondary fracture prevention measures for individuals presenting to health services with fragility fractures. …”

The 2005 PASCAL visual object classes challenge by Everingham, M, Zisserman, A, Williams, CKI, Van Gool, L, Allan, M, Bishop, CM, Chapelle, O, Dalal, N, Deselaers, T, Dorkó, G, Duffner, S, Eichhorn, J, Farquhar, JDR, Fritz, M, Garcia, C, Griffiths, T, Jurie, F, Keysers, D, Koskela, M, Laaksonen, J, Larlus, D, Leibe, B, Meng, H, Ney, H, Schiele, B, Schmid, C, Seemann, E, Shawe-Taylor, J, Storkey, A, Szedmak, S, Triggs, B, Ulusoy, I, Viitaniemi, V, Zhang, J

“…Twelve teams entered the challenge. In this chapter we provide details of the datasets, algorithms used by the teams, evaluation criteria, and results achieved.…”

Optimisation of changi airport's future air traffic contingency management in extreme haze condition by Lo, Kar Koon

“…To understand the future flight movements, a forecast is done in Chapter 3 before using these figures in the optimisation model simulations. …”
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Leveraging Multi-Stage Machine Learning Pipelines for Extracting Structured Key-Value Pairs from Documents by Pyo, Bryan

“…This thesis discusses several pipelines that have been developed to extract data in the form of key-value pairs from specification sheets describing mechanical parts achieving accuracies ranging from 80% to 100% depending on the pipeline and the target documents and key-value pairs.…”
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Influence of nanoclay on the morphology of polypropylene foam by Chan, Weng Wan

“…Extrusion allows for high volume production of various items such as sheets, tubes and films. The thermoplastic foams are lightweight, have a high strength to weight ratios and good thermal and acoustic insulation. …”
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