A stunning collection of new short stories originally commissioned by The New York Times Magazine as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, from twenty-nine authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Colm Toibin, Kamilia Shamsie, David Mitchell and more, in a project inspired by Boccaccio’s The Decameron....

Lizzie doesn\"t like the way she looks. Though she dates guys online, she\"s afraid to send pictures: no-one wants a fat girl. So Lizzie starts to lose weight. With punishing drive she counts almonds consumed and pounds dropped, navigating double-edged validation from her mother, her friends, her husband and her own reflection in the mirror....

We call them Bunnies because that is what they call each other. Seriously. Bunny. Samantha Heather Mackey is an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at Warren University. In fact, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort - a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other \"Bunny\"....

Antimony is primarily used in alloys, ceramics, glass, plastics, electrochemical energy conversion, semiconductor devices and flame retardant materials. Also antimony oxides are used as electrocatalysts, in making electric display devices and photoconductors....

Книга "Efficient Learning Machines. Theories, Concepts, and Applications for Engineers and System Designers". ...

Order batching in supply chains provides economic benefit in aggregating demand to save in production and transportation costs. However, rounding of orders to achieve a batch size is recognized as a source of the bullwhip effect problem within supply chains....

In the present study, the density and abundance of zooplankton and it"s infections with ecto and endo parasites in Iraqi marine and estuarine brackish water of NW Arabian Gulf were studied. Sixty taxa of zooplankton were identified in the present study,35 taxa were copepods, while 25 taxa were belonging to other zooplankton....