Impact of non-Hermiticity and nonlinear interactions on disorder-induced localized modes by Bhupesh Kumar, Jonathan Andreasen, Patrick Sebbah

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Analysis of the Protection Performance of Face Guard for Large Mining Height Hydraulic Support by Lirong Wan, Shuai Zhang, Zhaosheng Meng, Yunyue Xie

“…However, at present, the hydraulic jack is mostly considered as rigid in the analysis of protection mechanism. …”
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Mit, Ritüel ve Söz by Elmas Karakaş

“…Dünyanınönde gelen antropolog ve tarihçilerinden Jack Goody’nin sosyal antropoloji,tarih gibi alanlarda yazmış olduğu kitaplarından büyük bir kısmı Türkçeyekazandırılmıştır. …”
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Queering Gay Tourism as Activism: Guy Hocquenghem’s Political Journey in the United States by Thomas Muzart

“…Focusing on the entries dedicated to New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, this article shows how the guide politicizes the ways in which homosexuals in the United States have been inventing new ways of life, which, in the words of Jack Halberstam, elaborate queer understandings of time and space that can inspire the aftermath of the sexual revolution while resisting homonormativity.…”
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The Laplacian-Energy-Like Invariants of Three Types of Lattices by Zheng-Qing Chu, Jia-Bao Liu, Xiao-Xin Li

“…This paper mainly studies the Laplacian-energy-like invariants of the modified hexagonal lattice, modified Union Jack lattice, and honeycomb lattice. By utilizing the tensor product of matrices and the diagonalization of block circulant matrices, we derive closed-form formulas expressing the Laplacian-energy-like invariants of these lattices. …”
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Biomechanical Impact of Vertebral Augmentation Techniques: Clinical and Radiological Results in the Literature by Eliodoro Faiella, Federica Vaccarino, Domiziana Santucci, Elva Vergantino, Bruno Beomonte Zobel, Rosario Francesco Grasso

“…This review explores third-generation devices such as the SpineJack^®, Vertebral Body Stenting System^® (VBS), and OsseoFix^®, which offer enhanced vertebral height restoration, stability, and reduced complications. …”
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Social Trauma and Suicide in Historical Perspective by Howard I. Kushner

“…Building on the often cited but rarely read work of Jack Douglas (Social Meanings of Suicide), I suggest an alternative approach to the etiology of suicide that relies on social meaning and that challenges the essentialist assumptions that human aspirations, successes, and failures have the same meaning and definition everywhere and that assumes cultural uniformity of the motives and the understanding of suicide among different genders, ethnicities, and classes.…”
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The Dickensian Tropism in Contemporary Fiction by Georges Letissier

“…This article draws from Jay Clayton’s study on Dickens and postmodernism to track down different contemporary responses from Kathy Acker to Sarah Waters and the Antipodean rewritings of both Peter Carey’s Jack Maggs and Lloyd Jones’s Mister Pip.…”
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A Suspected Case of Lyme Borreliosis in a Dog from Belgium by Marina Gatellet, Sébastien Vanderheyden, Michel Abee, Łukasz Adaszek, Marie Varloud

“…A 5-year-old Jack Russell Spaniel was presented in December 2017 to his veterinarian in Belgium for sudden weakness, reluctance to move, and pain. …”
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Looking into the attribute of transcendent genius: George Henry Boker and Robert Conrad’s use of Shakespeare by Ronan Ludot-Vlasak

“…While Conrad aimed at providing a melodramatic counter-model to 2 Henry VI in Jack Cade, he failed to grasp Shakespeare’s ambivalent stance and to challenge his figure as a symbol of literary genius. …”
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Réécriture parodique dans un road novel de Peter Handke by Jenny Brasebin

“…It belongs to a particular genre, the road novel, which emerged in the post-war western world, undoubtedly influenced by the seminal work of Jack Kerouac. Interestingly, Handke’s novel, published in 1997, is closely related to a story written eight centuries prior : Yvain ou le chevalier au lion by Chrétien de Troyes. …”
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Le genre féerique illustré à l’époque victorienne : splendeurs et déclin d’un genre entré en résistance by Audrey Doussot

“…But the vocation of fairy tales being, according to Jack Zipes, to interact with society, they also conveyed social resistance (against rising capitalism, growing materialism or stifling gender roles) as De Morgan’s or Housman’s tales testify. …”
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Bilatéralité vs conceptions androcentriques de la parenté en Europe : quelques réflexions à partir des arbores consanguinitatis de la fin du Moyen Âge by Simon Teuscher

“…An important branch of historical kinship research in the tradition of Jack Goody and Claude Lévi-Strauss used to assume that catholic canon law conceptualizations of kinship stood in the way of androcentric conceptions, favored weak forms of kinship organization and thus contributed to the uniqueness of the West and its individualism. …”
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LA TEORÍA QUEER Y LAS NARRATIVAS PROGESISTAS DE IDENTIDAD by Mariela Nahir Solana

“…En particular, examinaremos su crítica a Judith Butler y Jack Halberstam, con el fin de extraer algunas conclusiones que den cuenta de la relación intrínseca que existe entre la estructura narrativa de las teorías de género y la valoración del grado de autenticidad y transgresión de las identidades de género.…”
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 ‘Twisting herself into all shapes’: blackface minstrelsy and comic performance in Harriet Wilson’s Our Nig by Elizabeth Boyle

“…Using movement, costume and material props, Wilson imagines new ways to present her protagonist’s body through the minstrel stereotypes of Topsy, Jim Crow, Zip Coon and Jasper Jack. Wilson then turns the joke on her white readers, ultimately demonstrating that whiteness, like blackness, is a performative identity. …”
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The Guidebook and the Medicine Pole: Staging Memory at a Nineteenth Century Battle Site in the American West by Wendy Harding, Jacky Martin

“…This article examines the way in which it presents one of these features, «Captain Jack’s Stronghold», the site of a confrontation between the U.S. army and a small band of Modoc Indians that took place in 1872-73. …”
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Suspensión de género: travestismo y la cuestión de lo trans en Salón de belleza (1999) by Jorge Sánchez Cruz

“…Pasando por la argumentación sobre lo trans* de Jack Halberstam y una teoría travesti-trans de Marlene Wayar, el artículo culmina al apostar a imaginar otro mundo de posibles, ahí donde lo trans y lo travesti movilizan y reconfiguran las esferas de lo social.…”
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Duncan’s Open Form and Cagean Intermedia: The Practice of “Theatre” After Black Mountain by Edward Alexander

“…Roughly contemporaneous with Jack Spicer’s “Poetry as Magic” workshop, Charles Olson’s west coast delivery of the Special View of History lectures and Duncan’s staging of Medea at Colchis were Cage’s classes on experimental composition at the New School for Social Research. …”
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An Analysis of the Quality of Repeated Plate Load Tests Using the Harmony Search Algorithm by Kook-Hwan Cho, Sungho Mun

“…The results of RSPLTs depend on the experience and expertise of the engineer carrying out the test, as well as the loading device, hydraulic jack assembly, and bearing plates. To identify outlier data points, well-tested data were used to develop a characteristic function model using a harmony search algorithm error minimization technique. …”
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Design and Analysis of Clamping Mechanism for Transmission Tower Climbing Robot by Zhao Huiru, Lu Shouyin, Shi Lirong

“…The clamping hand realizes the grasping of the diagonal steel by the cooperation of the screw jack and the sliding rail, and the abduction mechanism perpendicular to the clamping arm changes the position of the gripping hand by adjusting the exhibition distance thereof, and the V-shaped block on the front end of the ejector mechanism ensures that the robot body is always parallel to the angle. …”
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