Coupled sleep rhythms for memory consolidation by Staresina, BP

“…How do passing moments turn into lasting memories? Sheltered from external tasks and distractions, sleep constitutes an optimal state for the brain to reprocess and consolidate previous experiences. …”

AV Dicey on English imperialism by Middleton, A

“…Dicey’s analysis of the rise of imperialist conviction reminds us that the phenomenon was not just a background to new currents of imperial political thought, but one of the transformations imperial thinkers aimed to explain. This in turn reveals an even larger, similarly neglected development in the realm of British ideas: the growing preoccupation with the structural explanation of political change in the contemporary world.…”

Decolonizing the past and confronting climate change futures: bringing the state back in by Schroeder, R

“…There are various reasons for this, but among the consequences of this gap is that an urgent social problem – climate change – has received little attention and is poorly connected to existing theories. This problem, in turn, is tied to the fact that the transition to modernity is no longer central to social theory. …”

Natural gas in Latin America and interactions with the rest of the world by Honoré, A

“…In the mid-2000s, a shortage of natural gas production coupled with political disagreements, tensions over price renegotiations, and shortfalls of deliveries from neighbours led several countries to turn to LNG imports – either to replace or supplement indigenous production and imports of pipeline gas. …”

Holographic Carrollian currents for massless scattering by Ruzziconi, R, Saha, A

“…We deduce the expressions of the stress tensor components in terms of the bulk radiative modes, and these components turn out to be local at I in terms of the twistor potentials. …”

Discovering non-equilibrium mechanisms that regulatestructure and function of biomolecular condensates usingphase-field modeling by Natarajan, Pradeep

“…However, the living cell is inherently out of equilibrium with non-equilibrium reactions that constantly burn ATP and turn over biomolecules. My thesis investigates how the interplay between biomolecular interactions and non-equilibrium reactions that turn over biomolecules affect the structure and function of biomolecular condensates. …”
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Surface water sensitivity to climate variability by Paltan-Lopez, H

“…Furthermore, anthropogenic climate change is understood to importantly perturb these mechanisms and in turn magnify hydrological risks. As such, understanding the way in which these mechanisms of climate variability influence hydrological processes has become a present and pressing scientific challenge. …”

我们 = wo men. by Zhou, Jessli Hui Fen.

“…Women and the middle-class way of life in Singapore” by Nirmala PuraShotam, which made me realize this middle class way of life that the majority of the women in Singapore pursued could turn out to be merely a beautiful illusion of modernity. …”
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Interactions between ocean carriers' operations and shippers' supply chain by Xu, Cen.

“…More shippers are also engaging in long term relationship with other players in the supply chain, including the ocean carrier and this in turn improves the supply chain performance. But besides the above strategies, very few of the shippers surveyed/interviewed have made drastic changes to their distribution strategies to cope with the current situation.…”
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Friendship and self-love through the transformed self by Ang, Charlene Hui Xuan

“…In this thesis, I explore the process of self-love which underlies one’s desire for autonomy, and in turn deepening one’s capacity for genuine friendships.…”
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Conceptual development of revenue and yield management system for shipping business by Poh, Pei Heng.

“…For this paper, we will first look deeper into the airline industry to understand the characteristics that they possess to allow yield management to be efficiently and effectively implemented. We will then turn our focus to the container industry and try to understand the principles on how they earn their revenue. …”
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XYZ translation by Au, Chong Weng

“…When 3D animated films started out, an additional depth was added for me; the ability to turn fantasy into reality, the possibility to create realistic fantasies. …”
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Wireless-sensor-networks-based localization system for tracking positions in indoor systems by Dutta, Anindya.

“…This can then be utilised to develop and solve localisation algorithms. This in turn can enable the location tracking of a sensor in a given geographical area.…”
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Using nuclear energy for cooling and heating by Chua, Alexandra Feng Kai.

“…Due to the excessive energy demand of energy, the increase of using fossil fuels are generated to meet our energy needs , which in turn increases the emission of carbon dioxide, has been identified as a major contributor of greenhouse gases. …”
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From captivity to courtship : the representation of romance in Samuel Richardson's Pamela and Disney's beauty and the beast by Siti Aishah Kasman

“…The relationship dynamics between the main characters in both narratives involves a captive and a captor, which will eventually take a turn into a romantic affair. In the midst of the similarities between the two stories, it would be most important to note the progress made in the representation of romance found in the captivity-to-courtship narrative. …”
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Investigation of the effects of wing membrane slackness on thrust generation by Chua, Jasper Dong Qiu

“…The theory for flapping wing aerodynamics is that, by increasing the angle of attack of the wing, the wing is able to achieve an increasing lift coefficient and in turn a larger lift force until a maximum is reached. …”
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The influence of nostalgia on serious leisure participation to achieve personal growth and happiness by Low, Shirmin Li Min

“…This study looks outside the scope of its innate characteristics and looks at how nostalgia could affect serious leisure participation, and in turn result in personal growth and happiness. 305 responses were collected from serious leisure participants through the completion of a questionnaire. …”
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Minne, translated: embodying liturgy, love, and trauma in the Diepenveen sister-book and the Facons revelations by Perk, GG

“…It first considers how translation of the liturgy –into the vernacular and into bodies– intervenes in trauma, before examining how trauma, in turn, intervenes in the liturgy, and mapping how trauma inflects mutual charity and enclosure, which the texts prescribe as protection against the plague. …”

On the manipulator-focused response to manipulation cases by De Marco, G, Cyr, TW

“…Though different authors take this key insight in different directions, and the mechanics of their views are quite different, these views turn out to share many key components, and this allows us to discuss several authors’ views at the same time, highlighting a variety of challenges for such views and helping to identify pitfalls to avoid in further developments of views of this type. …”

On political tradition and ideology: Russian dimensions of practical Zionism and Israeli politics by Rabkin, Y, Yadgar, Y

“…This article concerns the endurance of political traditions brought to Palestine at the turn of the 20th century from the revolutionary milieu in Imperial Russia. …”