Anti-Matters: Mortal Ethics in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road by Patrick Damien O’Connor

“…To do this, it is necessary to understand how The Road depicts the material destruction of the world, and the ethical consequences such physical destruction imposes on the novel’s central protagonists. More specifically, this article argues that Cormac McCarthy’s The Road presents an anti-metaphysics with consequences for understanding philosophical concepts of memory and community, as well as McCarthy’s effort to construct universal forms of being together.…”
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Certain integral operator and strongly starlike functions by Jin-Lin Liu

“…By making use of an integral operator defined by Jung et al. (1993), we introduce two novel families of strongly starlike functions Sβα(ρ,γ) and Cβα(ρ,γ). …”
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The demonstrative THAT and the elaboration of reference: a case of linguistic accommodation by Élise Mignot

“…Our set of data is taken from the novel Lolita (Nabokov 1955), in which we conducted an inventory of THIS and THAT noun phrases (877 occurrences).…”
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Multiple Cerebral Infarction Associated with Neuroleptic-Induced Lupus Anticoagulant by J. D. E. Laugharne

“…In this case the LA may have been induced by long-term therapy with haloperidol, a novel and potentially important association.…”
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Enhanced binary Spray and Wait scheme based on reputation for DTN by Xi ZHANG, Xiao-fei WANG, Quan ZHANG, Chao-jing TANG

“…A concept of forwarding credential was introduced,and a detection protocol of behavior was designed.A novel scheme which enhanced the prevalent binary Spray and Wait routing scheme was integrated with reputation to resist the impairment of selfishness.According to the model of bundle transferring,the determination of reputation threshold was based on probability computation.The simulation results suggest that the enhanced scheme gain an advantage over original one under selfish misbehavior.…”
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Des artefacts ironiques ? Relectures de La Possibilité d’une île de Michel Houellebecq by Simon Bréan

“…This paper studies how Michel Houellebecq uses these artefacts to establish, then destabilize his novel’s admissibility, in order to have the reader look into a real form of immortality in the present rather than in the future, in an approach both ironical and respectful toward science fiction.…”
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Survey on anonymous authentication mechanisms of VANET by Tian-han GAO, Yan-qiang LI

“…VANET has an attractive prospect,it faces serious security issues but at the same time.Access authentica-tion and privacy protection will play important roles to address the issues.A detailed survey on the literature anonymous authentication mechanisms of VANET in terms of their implementation approaches were presented such as anonymous credential and digital signature.The advantages and disadvantages of each mechanism were elabo-rated and the novel research directions were also given with the help of analysis.…”
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En retrospectiva: Estrella distante de Roberto Bolaño by Guadalupe Gerardi

“…This reading proposes that the novel’s re-working of the genre and the use of aesthetic motives related to ideas of newness and participation act as a platform to reformulate notions of responsibility and justice and, fundamentally, patterns of continuity between the dictatorship and the post-dictatorship period.…”
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Mobilidade precária em Terra estrangeira e em Estive em Lisboa e lembrei de você by Marco Antonio Rodrigues

“…The article investigates the representation of the migration of lower middle-class Brazilians to Portugual in the movie Terra estrangeira (1995), by Walter Salles, and the novel Estive em Lisboa e lembrei de você (2009), by Luiz Rufatto, from topics such as mobility, identity, deterritorialization and rooting. …”
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Translators’ Personality in the Translations of D.O. Fagunwa’s Igbó Olódùmarè by Clement Odoje

“…The concern of this essay is to consider the personalities of the translators of D.O. Fagunwa’s novel, Igbó Olódùmarè in line with the theories of Natural and Directional equivalence to foreground the idea that translation is heavily dependent on the translators’ personality. …”
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Book review: Autobiography of my dead brother. Walter Dean Myers (author) and Christopher Myers (illustrator). by Angus Norquay

“…Walter Dean Myer's graphic novel highlights the daily realities of being a black teenager in the city, and the fear and danger that have to be overcome to stay alive.…”

Dans le monde des miroirs déformants by Piotr Śniedziewski

“…Of all Gustave Flaubert’s works, his first novel, Madame Bovary, is undoubtedly the most popular in Poland. …”
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Robert Louis Stevenson and the ‘Optic Nerve’. Portraiture in Weir of Hermiston by Clotilde De Stasio

“…This paper focuses on Stevenson’s last and unfinished novel, according to James ‘a splendid and tragic fragment’. …”
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Nafithromycin: Pioneering India's Indigenous Antibiotic Revolution by Irtiqa Ayani Rathore, Sana Malik, Amarjeet Singh, Vishal R Tandon, Annil Mahajan

“… Nafthromycin is a novel antibiotic derived from Streptomyces species, showing potent activity against antibiotic-resistant bacteria. …”
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Feature selection algorithm for uncertain text classification by WANG Bo, JIA Yan, YANG Shu-qiang, ZHOU Bin

“…A novel algorithm called FSUNT was proposed based on HSIC, with the focus on the vagueness and uncertainty which might be taken into account during feature selection. …”
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Comparative Genomics Reveals Evidence of the Genome Reduction and Metabolic Potentials of <i>Aliineobacillus hadale</i> Isolated from Challenger Deep Sediment of the Mariana Trench by Shaofeng Yang, Jie Liu, Yang Liu, Weichao Wu, Jiahua Wang, Yuli Wei

“…Based on the GTDB taxonomy and phenotypic data, strain Lsc_1132^T could represent a novel species of a novel genus, proposed as <i>Aliineobacillus hadale</i> gen. nov. sp. nov. …”
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Neospora caninum infection specifically suppresses the expression of a host lncRNA XR_001919077.1 to facilitate parasite propagation by modulating host cell mitochondrial function... by Shan-Shan Zhao, De-Liang Tao, Jin-Ming Chen, Ming-Yi Zhang, Xin Yang, Jun-Ke Song, Qun Liu, Guang-Hui Zhao

“…Our findings provide a novel insight to understand the interactions between N. caninum and host cells.IMPORTANCEThe uterus is an indispensable reproductive organ for embryo implantation and fetal growth. …”
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Detection of corrosion on silvered glass reflectors via image processing by Florian Wiesinger, Sarah Baghouil, Estelle Le Baron, Romain Collignon, Filipa Santos, Teresa C. Diamantino, Isabel Catarino, Jorge Facão, Cristina Ferreira, Soraia Páscoa, Florian Sutter, Aránzazu Fernández-García, Johannes Wette

“…A novel characterization technique based on image analysis is presented, intended to complement state-of-the-art reflectometer measurements. …”
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Tritordeum, barley landraces and ear photosynthesis are key players in cereal resilience under future extreme drought conditions by Ander Yoldi-Achalandabaso, Aitor Agirresarobe, Artūrs Katamadze, Giulia Burini, Omar Vergara-Díaz, Mariana Mota, Cristina Oliveira, Usue Pérez-López, Rubén Vicente

“…., landraces) or ii) developing novel species (e.g., crop hybrids). Our study aimed to identify key functional traits and stress-tolerant germplasm to contribute to designing drought-resilient crops under future Mediterranean climatic conditions. …”
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Genome-wide association analysis of composite sleep health scores in 413,904 individuals by Matthew O. Goodman, Tariq Faquih, Valentina Paz, Pavithra Nagarajan, Jacqueline M. Lane, Brian Spitzer, Matthew Maher, Joon Chung, Brian E. Cade, Shaun M. Purcell, Xiaofeng Zhu, Raymond Noordam, Andrew J. K. Phillips, Simon D. Kyle, Kai Spiegelhalder, Michael N. Weedon, Deborah A. Lawlor, Jerome I. Rotter, Kent D. Taylor, Carmen R. Isasi, Tamar Sofer, Hassan S. Dashti, Martin K. Rutter, Susan Redline, Richa Saxena, Heming Wang

“…GWASs of these six SHSs identify 28 significant novel loci adjusting for multiple testing on six traits (p < 8.3e-9), along with 341 previously reported loci (p < 5e-08). …”
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