Trauma, Romance, and the Diasporic Memory Keepers of the Holodomor in Erin Litteken’s The Memory Keeper of Kyiv by Mateusz Świetlicki

“…A few months after its publication in North America, Erin Litteken’s bestselling historical novel The Memory Keeper of Kyiv (2022) has already been translated into fourteen languages. …”
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Communication-efficient federated learning method via redundant data elimination by Kaiju LI, Qiang XU, Hao WANG

“…To address the influence of limited network bandwidth of edge devices on the communication efficiency of federated learning, and efficiently transmit local model update to complete model aggregation, a communication-efficient federated learning method via redundant data elimination was proposed.The essential reasons for generation of redundant update parameters and according to non-IID properties and model distributed training features of FL were analyzed, a novel sensitivity and loss function tolerance definitions for coreset was given, and a novel federated coreset construction algorithm was proposed.Furthermore, to fit the extracted coreset, a novel distributed adaptive sparse network model evolution mechanism was designed to dynamically adjust the structure and the training model size before each global training iteration, which reduced the number of communication bits between edge devices and the server while also guarantees the training model accuracy.Experimental results show that the proposed method achieves 17% reduction in communication bits transmission while only 0.5% degradation in model accuracy compared with state-of-the-art method.…”
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Representações interculturais de gênero no romance A república dos sonhos, de Nélida Piñon by Lúcia Osana Zolin

“…Brazilian author Nélida Piñon's novel A república dos sonhos (The Republic of Dreams) (1984) engages, on the one hand, gender representations of a medieval- inspired Galicia, with its oral traditions, pilgrimages and emigrants. …”
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„А вы в конец света верите?”. Апокалипсис в современной русской литературе: пророчества индейцев в романе Дмитрия Глуховского „Сумерки"... by Ireneusz Szarycz

“…His novel Sumerki is more than a novel – it is rather a metaphor and a manifesto.…”
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The Leopard: from unpublished romance to bestseller by Zohreh Montaseri

“…The Leopard is the only novel written by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, born in Palermo in 1896. …”
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The Driving Forces of Diffusion in John R. Commons’ Institutional Economics by Kota Kitagawa

“…Commons’ theory of institutional evolution: I draw a trajectory from where a novel principle at the micro level reached a compromise with old principles at the macro level. …”
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El comensal de Gabriela Ybarra : le creux mémoriel comme lieu de (re)construction du passé by Marion Billard

“…This is the case whithin Gabriela Ybarra's novel, entitled The Diner Guest, published in 2015. …”
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Essential oils – a review of the natural evolution of applications and some future perspectives by Stanislava Ivanova, Yana Gvozdeva, Radiana Staynova, Daniela Grekova-Kafalova, Vanya Nalbantova, Niko Benbassat, Nina Koleva, Kalin Ivanov

“…Moreover, EOs represent important key points in the development of novel environmentally friendly preservatives and pesticides.…”
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“I am a freak of nature”: Tourette’s and the Grotesque in Jonathan Lethem’s Motherless Brooklyn by Pascale Antolin

“…The specificity of the novel lies the first-person narrator and leading character suffering from Tourette’s syndrome and appropriating the nickname “freak of nature” he was given as a child. …”
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Navigating the Abyss of Trust and Mistrust: An Analysis of Maternal Relationships in 'We Need to Talk About Kevin' through Erik Erikson's Lens by Atef Ghalib Mohammad

“… This paper examines the novel "We Need to Talk About Kevin" by Lionel Shriver in the context of Erik Erikson's first stage of psychosocial development, known as "Trust vs. …”
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Transmitted Memories in David Whitehouse's The Long Forgotten by Aurelija Daukšaitė-Kolpakovienė

“…This article aims to discuss how memory is represented in David Whitehouse’s novel The Long Forgotten (2018), as it focuses on a peculiar kind of remembering which probably does not happen outside the fictional reality of the novel. …”
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Unstated Rage and Undefined Identity in Anna Burns’ Milkman: A Feminist Post-Structuralist Reading by Md Mozaffor Hossain

“… Northern Irish author, Anna Burns’ Man Booker Prize (2018) winning novel Milkman presents a narrative textured with multifarious considerations ranging from subjectivity, gender, politics, power, language, and religion to anything a reader may logically connect it with. …”
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Unstated Rage and Undefined Identity in Anna Burns’ Milkman: A Feminist Post-Structuralist Reading by Md Mozaffor Hossain

“… Northern Irish author, Anna Burns’ Man Booker Prize (2018) winning novel Milkman presents a narrative textured with multifarious considerations ranging from subjectivity, gender, politics, power, language, and religion to anything a reader may logically connect it with. …”
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Les imaginaires de l’enseignement et de l’apprentissage des langues dans trois romans de science-fiction dystopiques by Alexia Jingand

“…In the translation of the Americain novel The Languages of Pao (Vance, 1958), the novel by the French-speaking Algerian 2084 : The End of The World (Sansal, 2015) and the hitherto untranslated East German novel Das kugeltranszendentale Vorhaben (Braun and Braun, 1983), language teacher and learner characters present recurring metadidactic representations that need to be defined and categorised. …”
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Configuration Design and Topology Description of the Power Release Latch with Variable Topology Characteristic by Bai Lele, Hang Lubin, Liu Zhe, Miao Hong, Huang Xiaobo, Guo Hui, Chen Yong, Hua Yong

“…This research provides a novel idea for the design of the kinematic chain of the vehicle intelligent latch.…”
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Radiation Efficiency Improvement Method for Multifeed Circular Polarization Antenna Array with Mutual Coupling Effect by Zijian Xing, Ling Wang, Jianying Li, Kun Wei

“…To prove the concept of novel method, dual-feed antenna with stubs is developed and fabricated. …”
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Learning from our vulnerabilities: Insights from Octavia E. Butler’s parable of the sower and West Sumatra’s 2024 flood disasters by Sandika Edria, Rizano Gindho, Yeni Marliza

“…This article discusses the correlation between flood disasters in West Sumatra in March and May 2024 and the science fiction novel Parable in the Sower by Octavia E. Butler. …”
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En chair et en os ? Sens, sensations et sensationnalisme dans Desperate Remedies (1871) de Thomas Hardy by Laurence Talairach-Vielmas

“…Desperate Remedies, Thomas Hardy’s first novel, published under a pseudonym, is often regarded as a sensation novel. …”
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“Soaring Towards the Sun”: The Icarus Complex in Daphne Du Maurier’s The Flight of the Falcon by Helena Habibi

“…Bird-men, compelled fatefully to soar sun-ward, haunt Daphne Du Maurier’s novels and short stories. Her incessant re-working of the myth of Icarus finds its climax in her later novel, The Flight of the Falcon (1965), in which Aldo Donati dons Daedalus-like wings, then, “like Icarus, […] fl[ies] too near the sun” before plummeting to his death. …”
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“Just Fabric”: The Becoming Black of the (Post)Human in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun (2021) by Agnibha Banerjee

“…The ethics of such a network of production, consumption, and disposal are hardly ever called into question in the dystopian world of the novel. This essay locates the novel in a flux of debates around the nexus between capitalism, race, artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, and environmental change. …”
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