Six Crimson Cranes / by Lim, Elizabeth, author 655947, Penguin Random House (Online service) 655978

“…Weaving together elements of The Wild Swans, Cinderella, the legend of Chang E, and the Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, Elizabeth Lim has crafted a fantasy like no other, and one that will stay with readers long after they've turned the last page.…”
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Narrative Power : The Struggle for Human Value / by Plummer, Kenneth, author 654982, John Wiley & Sons (Online service) 647106

“…The modern world is in crisis and long-standing narratives are being challenged in four major directions: through deep inequalities, global state complexities, digital risks, and the ever-emerging contingencies of time. …”
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Non-destructive Testing and Repair of Pipelines / by Barkanov, Evgeny N., editor 655999, Dumitrescu, Andrei, editor 656000, Parinov, Ivan A., 1956-, editor 656002

“…Presenting results obtained in the European Commission's INNOPIPES FRAMEWORK 7 programme, it develops long-range ultrasonic and phased array technologies for pipeline diagnostics, and explores their interactions with discontinuities and directional properties of ultrasonic antenna array. …”
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Cybersecurity Threats, Malware Trends, and Strategies : Discover risk mitigation strategies for modern threats to your organization / by Rains, Tim, author 656361, Youngblood, Timothy, writer of foreword 656362, Packt Publishing (Online service) 656336

“…In this edition, you'll examine long-term trends in vulnerability disclosures and exploitation, regional differences in malware infections and the socio-economic factors that underpin them, and how ransomware evolved from an obscure threat to the most feared threat in cybersecurity. …”
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The Europa Imaging System (EIS) Investigation by Turtle, E. P., McEwen, A. S., Patterson, G. W., Ernst, C. M., Elder, C. M., Slack, K. A., Hawkins, S. E., McDermott, J., Meyer, H., DeMajistre, R., Espiritu, R., Seifert, H., Niewola, J.

“…The NAC will also perform observations at long range to search for potential erupting plumes, achieving 10-km pixel scale at a distance of one million kilometers. …”
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Punching shear strength analysis of corroded reinforcement concrete slab by Fu, Yibin

“…Sea levels are rising due to climate change, hence this parameter is of increasing importance for structures under long term corrosive environment. There will be a significant decline in the shear strength resistance in the long run. …”
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Manganese phosphate coated Li[Ni0.6Co0.2Mn0.2]O2 cathode material : towards superior cycling stability at elevated temperature and high voltage by Chen, Zhen, Kim, Guk-Tae, Guang, Yang, Bresser, Dominic, Diemant, Thomas, Huang, Yizhong, Copley, Mark, Behm, Rolf Jürgen, Passerini, Stefano, Shen, Zexiang

“…Nickel-rich Li[Ni0.6Co0.2Mn0.2]O2 is considered to be the next step forward towards the realization of high-energy lithium-ion batteries and has, thus, attracted intensive attention recently. However, achieving long-term cycling stability at elevated temperatures and voltages still remains a formidable challenge for practical applications. …”
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Cold atoms laboratory in a hollow core fiber by Leong, Wui Seng

“…To avoid diffraction, I load cold atoms into a hollow-core fiber (HCF) and demonstrate four major experiments inside the fiber: inertia-sensitive Mach-Zehnder atom interferometer, long-lived quantum spin coherence, light storage and creation of an array of Schr\"odinger cat states. …”
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Strong metal-support interaction boosts activity, selectivity, and stability in electrosynthesis of H₂O₂ by Zhang, Junming, Ma, Jun, Choksi, Tej S., Zhou, Daojin, Han, Shaobo, Liao, Yen-Fa, Yang, Hong Bin, Liu, Dong, Zeng, Zhiping, Liu, Wei, Sun, Xiaoming, Zhang, Tianyu, Liu, Bin

“…However, large overpotential and poor long-term stability still prohibit their usage in many reactions (e.g., oxygen evolution/reduction). …”
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Seismic loss dynamics in three Asian megacities using a macro-level approach based on socioeconomic exposure indicators by Sarica, Gizem Mestav, Pan, Tso-Chien

“…Our framework can be used to trigger discussions between scientific community and decision-makers for better long-term risk reduction and risk awareness strategies.…”
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Construction of human digital twin model based on multimodal data and its application in locomotion mode identification by Zhong, Ruirui, Hu, Bingtao, Feng, Yixiong, Zheng, Hao, Hong, Zhaoxi, Lou, Shanhe, Tan, Jianrong

“…Data acquisition system is built to dynamically acquire and update the body state data and physiological data of the human body and realize the digital expression of multi-source heterogeneous human body information. A bidirectional long short-term memory and convolutional neural network (BiLSTM-CNN) based network is devised to fuse multimodal human data and extract the spatiotemporal features, and the human locomotion mode identification is taken as an application case. …”
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论包公形象在不同文本中的呈现方式 ：以陈州粜米故事为例 = An investigation on the representations of Magistrate Bao in different operatic texts on the story of “selling rice at Chen Zhou”... by 欧思敏 Au, Sze Mien

“…This paper investigates different representations of Magistrate Bao in different texts such as Yuan drama “Bao Dai Zhi Chen Zhou Tiao Mi”, Ming dynasty “Singing narrative on Bao Long Tu’s ‘Selling rice in Chen Zhou’” (Xin Kan Quan Xiang Shuo Chang Bao Long Tu Chen Zhou Tiao Mi Ji), Qing dynasty popular fiction “San Xia Wu Yi”, as well as folk operas “Chen Zhou Yuan” and “Bao Gong Gan Lu”.…”
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Low complexity and low power FIR filter design by Ye, Wenbin

“…First, the computational complexity to achieve the minimum number of adders is too high to be used in the design of long filters, and second, the number of adder criterion is too coarse and inaccurate for the minimization of power consumption. …”
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Rupture kinematics of the 2005 Mw 8.6 Nias-Simeulue earthquake from the joint inversion of seismic and geodetic data by Konca, A. Ozgun, Hjorleifsdottir, Vala, Song, Alex Teh-Ru, Avouac, Jean-Philippe, Ji, Chen, Sieh, Kerry, Helmberger, Don V., Briggs, Richard W., Meltzner, Aron J.

“…Source models obtained from the inversion of various combinations of the teleseismic body waves and geodetic data are evaluated by comparing predicted and observed long-period seismic waveforms (100–500 sec). Our results indicate a relatively slow average rupture velocity of 1.5 to 2.5 km/sec and long average rise time of up to 20 sec. …”
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AI as a legitimate companion by Tan, Vanessa Yi Jun

“…Finding a life partner is one of the most pertinent objectives in the human experience. …”
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Causes of failures in computer contracts in the United Kingdom by Lee Hien-Weng Kevin, Lee Teck Hoon, Low Tze Hui Audrey

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Two paradoxes in women’s wellbeing by Kaiser, C, Muggleton, N, Quispe-Torreblanca, E, De Neve, J-E

“…Using global data from 2006-2023 and long-term data from Europe and the US since the 1970s, we provide empirical illustrations. …”

Convergence and stability results for the particle system in the Stein gradient descent method by Carrillo, JA, Skrzeczkowski, J

“…The exploited method, developed by Caglioti and Rousset for the Vlasov equation, is based on finding a functional invariant for the linearized equation. …”

Vertex model with internal dissipation enables sustained flows by Rozman, J, Chaithanya, K, Yeomans, JM, Sknepnek, R

“…When coupled to cell shape anisotropy, the internal viscous dissipation allows for long-range velocity correlations and thus enables the spontaneous emergence of flows with a large degree of spatiotemporal organisation. …”

Clustering-based solutions for energy efficiency, adaptability and resilience in IoT networks by Shivaraman, Nitin

“…Communication between these devices is the highest energy consuming operation and hence, needs to be efficient to sustain their operations in a network over long periods. Additionally, devices may join, leave or move across the network in an ad-hoc manner. …”
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