Editors’ introduction: Cynthia Ozick and the art of nonfiction by Mendelssohn, M, Tyson, C

“…A 2016 New York Times profile of Cynthia Ozick summarized her career in the following terms: <br> This special issue of Studies in American Jewish Literature focuses on Ozick’s essays, criticism, reviews, memoiristic pieces, and certain unclassifiable hybrids, fragments, and thought experiments—the productions, as it were, of the other hand. …”

Clinical metagenomics: ethical issues by Johnson, T, Jamrozik, E, Ramachandran, P, Johnson, S

“…We conclude by proposing recommendations for further research or the development of particular pieces of guidance to improve clinical uses of metagenomics for diagnosis.…”

Autonomous navigation system by Au, Yi Xian

“…When using multiple robots, the agents besides steer clear of obstacles but also prevent collisions with one another, the effects of having unknowledgeable or only vaguely understood maps and states estimate drift increases dramatically [11]. …”
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Operation C.Z.A.R: corporate zombie active resistance — an alternate reality game campaign on undergraduate transition from school to work. by Poh, Wee Koon., Ooi, Eldon Zhi Yi., Sim, Walter Mao Xian., Tay, Hendric Poh Teck.

“…This paper discusses research on ARG and audience participatory methods that steered the campaign direction, strategies employed to achieve campaign objectives, an evaluation of the team’s efforts and valuable lessons the students gained from the experience.…”
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21W.731-3 Culture Shock!, Fall 2002 by Faery, Rebecca Blevins

“…In the coming weeks we will read a number of articles that address current issues in popular culture along with essays, pieces of carefully-crafted nonfiction, by writers, scientists, philosophers, poets, historians, literary scholars, and many others. …”
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Rethinking the unwanted; A novel exploration of used wine corks by Ong, Shervon

“…Small and often discarded, it is invaluable as a singular piece but amasses in potential as a collective.…”
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Adulting follies by Chen, Jingyi

“…“Adulting Follies” is a soul searching and stress-inducing piece which features personal documentation of an individual's self-reflection of the exchange program to Canada. …”
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When motivations meet affordances: news consumption on Telegram by Lou, Chen, Tandoc, Edson C., Hong, Li Xuan, Pong, Brenda Xiang Yuan, Lye, Rachelle Wan Xin, Sng, Trisha Ngiag Gya

“…Guided by the Uses and Gratifications approach and the concept of affordances, this study sought to understand the phenomenon of news consumption on an emerging messaging platform—Telegram, wherein users consume concise pieces of news spontaneously through mobile devices or web interfaces. …”
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Chemical mediation of coral larval settlement by crustose coralline algae by Tebben, J., Motti, C. A, Siboni, Nachshon, Negri, A. P., Harder, T., Steinberg, Peter David, Hatta, Masayuki, Tapiolas, D. M., Schupp, P. J., Kitamura, Makoto

“…These algae-derived fractions induce settlement and metamorphosis at equivalent concentrations as present in CCA, both in small scale laboratory assays and under flow-through conditions, suggesting their ability to act in an ecologically relevant fashion to steer larval settlement of corals. Both compound classes were readily detected in natural samples.…”
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Organizational Architecture Design and Assessment of Statistical Feasibility for NPM Implementation in an Airplane Subassembly by Daigle, Lea (Lea A.)

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Nanoscale Origins of Thermal Transport Phenomena for Hybrid Layered Perovskites by Dahod, Nabeel S.

“…An exciting and fundamentally powerful modern methodology for materials development is the process by which artificial solids are rationally built piece-by-piece from nanoscale “building blocks”. …”
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Bloom : engagement kit designed to encourage social interaction between people with young-onset Alzheimer's by Komari, Amira

“…The kit consists of an interactive board, puzzle pieces as well as conversational cards. The outcomes from the activities provide indicators of wellbeing of the individual with young-onset Alzheimer’s, hence enabling caregivers to gain insight into the state of their loved ones wellbeing.…”
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EEG-based dominance level recognition for emotion-enabled interaction by Liu, Yisi., Sourina, Olga.

“…Sound clips from International Affective Digitized Sounds (IADS) database and music pieces were used to evoke emotions in the experiments. …”
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Visual bias by Caprini, G

“…I document that the visual language of US media is politically partisan and significantly polarised, to an extent comparable to the text partisanship in the same news pieces. I then demonstrate experimentally that the news’ partisan visual language is not merely distinctive of outlets’ ideological positions, but also promotes them among readers. …”

CanSat, satellite in a soda can by Koh, Jian Cheng

“…With the appropriate parafoils attached, an autonomous landing system algorithm can be used to steer the CanSat to a designated landing area for retrieval. …”
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Boosting energy efficiency and selectivity of glucose oxidation toward glucuronic acid in high-frequency ultrasound using multicavity CuO catalytic cavitation agents by Xie, Z, Mahendran, V, Jonnalagadda, US, Fan, Q, Su, X, Fischer, AF, Tan, M, Tao, L, Jérôme, F, Kwan, JJ, Valange, S, Choksi, TS, Amaniampong, PN, Liu, W

“…The present study demonstrates that by appropriately controlling the acoustic parameters (e.g. duty cycle, peak negative pressure and irradiation time) and reaction conditions (e.g. gas atmosphere and the addition of catalytic cavitation agent), it is possible to steer the selectivity of sono-oxidation of glucose towards glucuronic acid, the most value-added product, whilst minimizing the energy input to drive the sonochemical oxidation reaction.…”

Memory-efficient approximate three-dimensional beamforming by Rypkema, Nicholas R., Fischell, Erin M., Schmidt, Henrik

“…Software-based conventional beamforming (CBF) forces a trade-off between memory usage and direction resolution, since time delays associated with a set of directions over which the beamformer is steered must be pre-computed and stored, limiting the number of look directions to available platform memory. …”
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Robust assessment of railway vehicle safety risks in operation using a proposed data-driven wheel profile generation approach: Design of computer experiments and surrogate models by Braga, Joaquim A.P., Costa, João N., Ambrósio, Jorge, Frey, Daniel, Andrade, António R.

“…Wheel profiles are specifically designed to steer the vehicle and avoid derailment. Maintenance standards and train operating companies establish safe envelopes for wheel profile geometric parameters. …”
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RES.21W-01 Angles, Spring 2010 by Boiko, Karen, Faery, Rebecca Blevins, Lin, Jessica, Max, Lucy, Walsh, Andrea

“…Assigned readings are related to the thematic focus of each course, and are used as demonstrations of writing techniques. The pieces in Angles may be used as teaching tools and practical examples for other students and self-learners to emulate. …”
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Some Brief Thoughts on Housing Supply and Policy by Saiz, Albert

“…In this short piece, I make several considerations about the impact of housing supply on housing prices, affordability, and macroeconomic aggregates. …”
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