Unstated Rage and Undefined Identity in Anna Burns’ Milkman: A Feminist Post-Structuralist Reading by Md Mozaffor Hossain

“…I intend to unravel the stereotyped gender and subjectivity features of feminist poststructuralism in the novel, which hinge upon the social mechanism, lived experiences, and language and power relations both directly and indirectly portrayed in the narrative. …”
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Understanding multiplication concept: Exploring PMRI-enhanced thematic learning using traditional games for primary teachers by Zakaria Zakaria, Andi Harpeni Dewantara

“…Involving concrete situations and utilizing contexts that are closely related to students' daily lives is highly promising in creating enjoyable and meaningful mathematics learning experiences. …”
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A Method of Intrusion Detection Based on WOA-XGBoost Algorithm by Yan Song, Haowei Li, Panfeng Xu, Dan Liu

“…With the development of information technology, computer networks have become a part of people’s lives and work. However, computer viruses and malicious network attacks make network security face huge challenges, and more accurate detection of attacks has become the focus of attention to current computer fields. …”
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Horrible British Histories: Young people in museums interrogating national identity through principles and practices of critical pedagogy by Sadia Habib

“…Drawing on my experiences as the Our Shared Cultural Heritage Project Coordinator at Manchester Museum, I argue the case for cultural and heritage institutions to create safe spaces for young people from diverse ethnic and class backgrounds to explore and celebrate the meanings and complexities of their lived experiences of Britishness. Museums can become crucial cultural sites where young people can lead a critical interrogation of the idea of nation, through an exploration of the discourses attached to British identities that play out at local, national and global levels.  …”
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Reconciling Homeostatic and Use-Dependent Plasticity in the Context of Somatosensory Deprivation by John J. Orczyk, Preston E. Garraghty

“…However, there is less certainty regarding the in vivo contribution of homeostatic mechanisms as in vitro experiments rely on manipulations that create states that do not normally occur in the living nervous system. Homeostatic plasticity seems to occur, but more in vivo research is needed to determine mechanisms. …”
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Plural Identity and Migrant Communities in Guy Gunaratne’s In Our Mad and Furious City (2018) by Margarida Pereira Martins

“…This paper explores the complexity of plural identities of the characters living within the sociocultural space of a London community, who define themselves as being from “here” and “elsewhere,” in Guy Gunaratne’s In Our Mad and Furious City (2018). …”
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Nine quick tips for open meta-analyses. by David Moreau, Kristina Wiebels

“…We further emphasize the importance of reproducibility, for example, by sharing search syntax and analysis scripts, and discuss the benefits of planning for dynamic updating to enable living meta-analyses. We also recommend publication in open-access formats, as well as open data, open code, and open access publication. …”
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Method of Recognition and Assistance Combining Passive RFID and Electrical Load Analysis That Handles Cognitive Errors by Dany Fortin-Simard, Jean-Sébastien Bilodeau, Sébastien Gaboury, Bruno Bouchard, Abdenour Bouzouane

“…However, to reach the full potential of applications using network embedded systems such as assistive smart home, the first challenge to overcome is the recognition of the ongoing inhabitant activity of daily living (ADL). Moreover, to provide adequate assistance, it is essential to be able to detect every perceptive error. …”
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Étudiants, sitters, nouchi et bakoroman by Muriel Champy

“…Divided into recurring themes like political mobilisation, waiting and mobility, it shows that, far from only being a question of age, youth presents itself as an implicitly male category, which is designated as such only when it acquires a certain sociopolitical visibility and oppositional firepower.Finally, based on the author’s research among young people living on the streets in Burkina Faso (bakoroman), this article concludes by observing the “young” category’s recent intrusion into Burkina Faso’s political scene, to the point that a re-transcription of vernacular language seems to be asserting itself in the “zenna” written form.…”
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E-government sebagai solusi reformasi terciptanya good governance by Eka Wira Dharmawan, Hardi Warsono, Kismartini Kismartini, Retno Sunu Astuti

“…Various aspects of people's lives are now connected to digitalization. In recent years, Indonesia has begun to implement e-government development. …”
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Deux programmes d’éducation environnementale pour la conservation des grands singes africains: Club Ebobo et Club P.A.N. by Claudia Borchers, Julia Riedel, Christophe Boesch, Thomas Breuer

“…In both projects, children learn about the importance of the conservation of their regional ecosystems and the protection of the endangered great apes living close to them – the west African chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) in Ivory Coast, and the western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) and common chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes troglodytes) in the Republic of Congo. …”
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Healthy Foods as Proxy for Functional Foods: Consumers’ Awareness, Perception, and Demand for Natural Functional Foods in Pakistan by Akhter Ali, Dil Bahadur Rahut

“…Geographically the people in the cities were more aware and willing to pay more for the functional foods as compared to people living in the villages. Majority of the consumers think that consumption of functional foods can help them to maintain good health, hence the policy makers’ needs to create more awareness.…”
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Immunological Links to Nonspecific Effects of DTwP and BCG Vaccines on Infant Mortality by Mogens Helweg Claesson

“…In contrast, similar studies suggest that many African females and males may have their lives saved each year by the nonspecific immunological benefits of Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccination. …”
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SEGMENTATION OF THE TOURISM MARKET USING THE IMPACT OF TOURISM ON QUALITY OF LIFE by MARIA JOÃO CARNEIRO, CELESTE EUSÉBIO

“…Quality of life (QOL) has become a central issue of concern in peoples’ lives and the research on this topic has largely increased in the past decades. …”
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Integrated readings for the urban green roof. Expressive codes and forms of nature by Alberto Bologna, Adriana Ghersi, Stefano Melli

“…In particular, green roof gardens, by guaranteeing new connections with the context, prove to be a new strategic possibility to give value and space to nature, looking at the built city as a living system. An increasingly frequent, sometimes generative element of the language of the ‘third digital green industrial revolution’, green roof gardens have provided a compositional, formal and ornamental response to the need to save energy and reduce the consumption of materials and natural resources on a city-wide scale, as well as that of architecture, in different climatic and socio-technical contexts. …”
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Rethinking Autonomous and Robotic Systems in Residential Architecture by Sotirios Kotsopoulos, Jason Nawyn

“…The features of three home prototypes are presented to supply evidence for this claim: a Connected Sustainable Home that is a prototype of connected sustainability; the PlaceLab, a living laboratory for studying health-related home systems; and the CityHome, a series of robotically-transformable apartment prototypes. …”
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Why Be Funny: The Influence of Social Norms on the Communicative Functions of Humor by Nathan Miczo, John C. Meyer

“…The discussion highlights the role that normative mechanisms play in shaping the ways people use humor in their everyday lives.…”
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Katharsis and Phantasia in Plotinus’ Thought by ilker Kisa

“…The processes of image-making and formation of mental representations are very intricate in the philosopher’s thought, finding its start at the level of the organic, living body, which is alive thanks to the presence of the soul within. …”
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Interpretation of Disruptive Innovation in the Era of Smart Cities of the Fourth Industrial Revolution by Gábor Nick, Ferenc Pongrácz, Edit Radács

“…The essence of the smart city approach is to put the latest tools of technological advancement in serving the social, economic and ecological sustainability of cities' lives for the inhabitants as well as for the enterprises of the city. …”
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The ‘one bright light’ of Life in a Dark Cell: Reading and Writing in Victorian and Edwardian English Prisons by Alice Bonzom

“…From escapism to protest, from moral elevation to fellowship, written words, authorised or clandestine, were (and still are) a ‘bright light’ in prisoners’ lives.…”
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