Negotiating Meanings of Borderlands in relation to Arabness, Americanness and Muslimness: Mohja Kahf’s The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf (2006) by Dalal Sarnou

“…Kahf’s novel serves here as a case study that shows how women characters have to negotiate their Arabness, Americanness and Islamness. …”
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Les bactéries des sources hydrothermales profondes a l’origine de nouvelles molécules bioactives ? by Jean Guezennec

“…In the course of the discovery of novel polysaccharides of biotechnological interest, it is now widely accepted that extremophilic microorganisms will provide a valuable resource not only for exploitation in novel biotechnological processes but also as models for investigating how biomolecules are stabilized when subjected to extreme conditions. …”
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Cidade de Deus: entre o testemunho e a ficção by Sandro R. Barros

“…This construct phenomenon affects the novel's fictional status on the account of its truth-value. …”
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Nicholas Nickleby, Adaptation, Rehearsal and Catharsis by Luc Bouvard

“…Nicholas Nickleby might very well be Dickens’s most theatrical novel, from a formal as well as thematic point of view. …”
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We Don’t Know What We Want”: The Ups and Downs of Global Travel in Dave Eggers’s You Shall Know Our Velocity (2002) by Małgorzata Rutkowska

“…All in all, the novel downplays the role of travel in the globalized, homogenized world at the turn of the 21st century.…”
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Die Rosenkreuzer als imaginäre Gesellschaft by Ralph Häfner

“…He is convinced that Andreae’s work is an early novel, which had already been circulated as a manuscript twelve years before the publication of the Fama. …”
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Response to Novelty Correlates with Learning Rate in a Go/No-Go Task in Göttingen Minipigs by Nanna Marie Lind, Anette Moustgaard

“…In a group of 12 minipigs of mixed genders, response to novelty was measured by numbers of contacts with a novel object, and the total duration of exploration of the novel object. …”
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Marie Corelli, Wormwood, and the Diversity of Decadence by Jessica DeCoux

“…Indeed, Corelli’s novel Wormwood is generally read as an anti-Decadent creed, or at the very least a novel which disingenuously castigates Decadence while titillating readers with themes and tropes “co-opted” from works of that genre.In fact, Wormwood is so often read in these terms because it eludes easy interpretation, a quality that marks it as a distinctly Decadent text. …”
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Deconstruction of “The Pilgrim’s Progress” by John Bunyan in Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children’s Crusade” by Nataliya Krynytska

“…The purpose of the article is to study the deconstruction of Bunyan’s work in Vonnegut’s novel through the lens of jeremiad as the Puritan rhetorical form. …”
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The promising role of nanopore sequencing in cancer diagnostics and treatment by Xinming Su, Qingyuan Lin, Bin Liu, Chuntao Zhou, Liuyi Lu, Zihao Lin, Jiahua Si, Yuemin Ding, Shiwei Duan

“…In essence, this technology stands poised to unearth novel mechanisms underlying tumorigenesis while providing dependable support for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.…”
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Assembly Sequence Planning for Rectangular Modular Robots with Accessibility Constraints by Anelize Zomkowski Salvi, Henrique Simas

“…This paper introduces three novel ASP for constructing planar target structures composed of rectangular modular robots. …”
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An Interview with Hollis Seamon by Pascale Antolin

“…Hollis Seamon was invited to Bordeaux Montaigne University in April 2016 to give a lecture entitled “Mask, Cape and Crown: Disguise and Dis-ease in Somebody Up There Hates You” (2013), her latest novel. A remarkable success on both sides of the Atlantic, this novel associates illness with youth and laughter.…”
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The Specter of Oppression and National Identity in Hobomok by Alex McDonnell

“…Lydia Maria Child’s Hobomok (1824) advances a national model predicated on tolerance and inclusivity. The novel suggests that the oppressive strictures of Puritanism derive from the psychical trauma of banishment from England. …”
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Image indexing method based on clustering via Info-Kmeans under pair constraints by Wen-jie LIU, Zhi-ang WU, Jie CAO, Jin-gui PAN

“…Constructing high-quality content-based image indexing is fairly difficult due to the large amount of noise in the data set and the high-dimension and the sparseness of the image data.To meet this challenge,a novel noise-filtering and clustering was proposed using Info-Kmeans based image indexing construction method. …”
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Her Heart Lies at the Feet of the Mother by Fiona Moolla

“… Sudanese-British writer, Leila Aboulela’s novel, Minaret (2005) transforms the plot structure of Western literary and popular romance forms and develops further the plotlines of African-American Muslim romance novels. …”
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Recent advancements to enhance the therapeutic efficacy of antiepileptic drugs by Li Fuquan, Singh Akhilesh Vikram

“…These novel techniques aim to deliver an optimal concentration of the drug more specifically to the seizure focus or foci in the CNS without numerous side-effects. …”
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Bouvard et Pécuchet et le savoir médical by Norioki Sugaya

“…Finally, we will analyze an episode in the novel, that of Gouy’s typhoid fever. We shall study its genesis which will show the presence of the epistemological in the art of the novel.…”
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De Dolores, CO à Lolita, TX : Détours et retours à travers "the crazy quilt of forty-eight states" by Marie Bouchet

“…America structures Nabokov’s most famous novel, Lolita. The novel provides a double mapping process: that of the desired body of the nymphet, and that of the vast country where one finds towns called Dolores and Lolita. …”
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