Three Novels / by Lodge, David, author 1935- 591213

“…The British Museum Is Falling Down, working through inspired parodies, paints a richly comic portrait of a recently married postgraduate student taking refuge in fantasy from the Vatican's ruling on contraception - only to find that real life is even more fantastical. How Far Can You Go? …”

What Do We Mean When We Write About Ethics, Equity, and Justice in Engineering Design? by Das, Madhurima, Roeder, Gillian, Ostrowski, Anastasia K, Yang, Maria C, Verma, Aditi

“…We find that the prevalence of these terms has increased over time and that the terms come up throughout various stages of the design process. …”
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What Do We Mean When We Write About Ethics, Equity, and Justice in Engineering Design? by Das, Madhurima, Roeder, Gillian, Ostrowski, Anastasia K, Yang, Maria C, Verma, Aditi

“…We find that the prevalence of these terms has increased over time and that the terms come up throughout various stages of the design process. …”
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The Influence of Digital Sketching Tools on Concept Novelty and Evolution by Das, Madhurima, Huang, May, Xu, Christine, Yang, Maria C

“…Additionally, we find no strong differences in overall concept evolution quantities between the two tools, though we see that iPad sketches exhibited more cases of consecutive concept evolution than nonconsecutive whereas paper and pen sketches showed an equal amount of both consecutive and nonconsecutive concept evolution. …”
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Exploring how socioeconomic status affects neighbourhood environments’ effects on obesity risks: A longitudinal study in Singapore by Tan, Shin Bin, Dickens, Borame L., Sevtsuk, Andres, Zheng, Siqi, Zeng, Kangwei, Lee, Yung Seng, Yap, Fabian, Chan, Shiao-Yng, Chan, Jerry Kok Yen, Tan, Kok Hian, Chong, Yap-Seng, Eriksson, Johan G., Chong, Mary F.-F., Arcaya, Mariana C.

“…We also find that increased access to bus stops was associated with an increase in BMIz of children with lower socioeconomic status, but with a decrease in BMIz of children with higher socioeconomic status, while increased access to rail stations was associated with a decrease in BMIz of children with lower socioeconomic status only. …”
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In Harm's Way? The Effect of Disasters on the Magnitude and Location of Low‐Income Housing Tax Credit Allocations by Brennan, Mark, Mehta, Aditi, Steil, Justin

“…These findings suggest that states and housing developers are using the LIHTC program to support disaster recovery by expanding subsidized rental options in disaster‐struck counties and ameliorating risk to low‐income renters by locating those units outside of floodplains.…”
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Looking at the Map, Together: Modeling Treatment Center Location Selection and its Effects on Access to Gene Therapy in Brazil by Wertheimer, Sarah R.

“…Regarding facilitation, we find that quick, low-stakes modeling and joint discussion could allow stakeholders to consider approaches they might not otherwise consider.…”
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Protein spatiotemporal dynamics in gene regulation and disease pathology by Zheng, Ming

“…In addition to transcriptional proteins, we find insulin receptors (IRs) are incorporated in dynamic condensates in normal cells to perform metabolic signaling transduction. …”
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An Integrated Vehicle, Payload, and Trajectory Optimization Framework for Highly-Coupled Aircraft Systems by Dewald, Annick J.

“…These design points are then evaluated within the objective space, a hyperspace where each axis corresponds to a different objective, to understand the performance capabilities with respect to each objective and evaluate trade-offs between objectives. Findings from this objective space exploration can then be communicated to the science stakeholder to find the design that is best capable of meeting the identified science mission needs. …”
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The effects of online social interactions on life satisfaction of older Chinese adults: new insights based on a longitudinal approach by Zhou, Dong, Xu, Yi, Ai, Pengya

“…Based on a nationally representative sample of around 5200 older adults in China over the period of 2014-2018, we explore the effects of online social interactions (OSIs) on the life satisfaction of older adults. We find that OSIs can improve the levels of life satisfaction of older Chinese adults. …”
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Cruise ship industry in Singapore – after COVID and beyond impulsive buying behaviour and influential factors in the cruise package industry by Lee, Min Young

“…There is a difference between cruising before and after covid pandemic as people are finding ways to have holidays in a more safe and enjoyable way. …”
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Simulation tests on dehumidifiers for optimal energy usage by Lee, Germaine Cai Hui.

“…With the development of EnergyPlus program, it has become possible for design engineers to analyse the energy usage of dehumidifiers and find a room size that best fits the dehumidifier with respect to cost savings and water removal. …”
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Video surveillance for intelligent transportation system by Liu, Jiamin

“…Our major contribution is to find a way that is not consuming too many computational powers as machine learning to detect and classify the vehicle. …”
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Petri net-based efficient determination of optimal schedules for transport-dominant single-arm multi-cluster tools by Yang, Fajun, Wu, Naiqi, Qiao, Yan, Zhou, Mengchu, Su, Rong., Qu, Ting

“…It is a great challenge to find an optimal one-wafer cyclic schedule for a single-arm multicluster tool that is widely adopted in semiconductor fabrication. …”
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Organizational complexity and audit report lag in GCC economies: the moderating role of audit quality by Khan, Faisal, Abdul-Hamid, Mohamad Ali, Fauzi Saidin, Saidatunur, Hussain, Shatha

“…Second, for robustness purposes, the study applies the propensity score matching technique. Findings This research study finds that the firms’ complexity increases ARL. …”
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Dealing, music and youth violence: neighbourhood relational change, isolation and youth criminality by Alexander, James

“…The study considers the emergence of drill music, county lines and the lowering of the threshold of when weapons are used to explore the isolated social environments so many young people find themselves in. …”
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Beam heating explains critical current suppression measured during ion irradiation of REBCO tapes by Devitre, Alexis, Fischer, David, Riva, N., Rae, M., Kortman, Lauryn, Woller, Kevin, Fisher, Zoe, Short, Michael, Whyte, Dennis, Hartwig, Zachary

“…As such, accelerator-based facilities aiming to reproduce the operation of REBCO magnets in a nuclear fusion environment should find strategies to minimize interface thermal resistance. …”
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Mechanics of fracture and flexure in Antarctic ice sheets and ice shelves by Zhang, H

“…</p> <br> <p>In Chapter 5, I focus on calving and flexure near the shelf edge. …”

21W.742J / SP.575J / WGS.575J Writing About Race, Spring 2003 by Faery, Rebecca Blevins

“…Du Bois wrote that "…the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color line." A century after Du Bois penned those words, most Americans would agree that at the beginning of the twenty-first century, the color line remains one of our most pressing social issues. …”
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Design of a localization and navigation system for multi-mobile robot coordination by Tan, Jiue Lin

“…With the fast-paced development of the technology, robots like unmanned aerial vehicle or automated guided vehicle are made more human-like to reduce human labour. …”
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