Technological a priori and Communicative Action in Kurt Vonnegut’s Player Piano by Mete Han Arıtürk, Mehmet Büyüktuncay

“…In Player Piano, Kurt Vonnegut’s critical depiction of the extremely technologized and automated social world in a near future America slightly predates and even heralds the above-mentioned critical theorists’ analyses of the ideological nature of technology under corporate capitalism. …”
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Investigating Surface Effects on Thermomechanical Behavior of Embedded Circular Curved Nanosize Beams by Farzad Ebrahimi, Mohsen Daman

“…The effects of various parameters such as nonlocal parameter, surface properties, Winkler and Pasternak elastic foundations, temperature, and opening angle of circular curved nanobeam on the natural frequency and critical buckling load are successfully studied. The results reveal that the natural frequency and critical buckling load of circular curved nanobeam are significantly influenced by these effects.…”
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GADAMERIO KLAUSIMAS ISTORIJAI by Kęstutis Dubnikas

“…The latter restores to critical analysis what has been neglected in it, i.e. preconceptual experience. …”
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Decoration, Deviation, and the Selected Edition: Some Poems of Lionel Johnson (1912) by Jeremy Valentine Freeman

“…This essay explores the critical spirit informing the posthumous editions of Johnson’s poetic works and how such key figures of the period as Mathews, Yeats, and Pound articulated their critical revisions of fin de siècle poetic practices through the selective editing of Johnson’s complex poetic style. …”
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Singapore Government Securitization Measures against Transboundary Haze Pollution as a Non-Traditional Security Threat by Muhammad Ramli

“… Transboundary haze pollution (PALB) has developed into a critical concern for Southeast Asian countries in terms of transboundary issues and national security. …”
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Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors in Lung Cancer by Venkateshwar G. Keshamouni, ShouWei Han, Jesse Roman

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Reflexões críticas em torno de Rubén Darío: relendo as interpretações de José Enrique Rodó e de Manuel Gondra by Elisângela da Silva Santos

“…This article aims to retake two criticisms made to the book Prosas profanas y otros poemas, by Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío (1867-1916), criticisms that were written by Manuel Gondra (1871-1927) and José Enrique Rodó (1871- 1917). …”
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Endoscopic Management of Obstruction due to an Acquired Bronchial Web by Kevin L Kovitz, Mahtab B Foroozesh, Jose M Goyos, Edmundo R Rubio

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Sedation and Analgesia in Children with Developmental Disabilities and Neurologic Disorders by Todd J. Kilbaugh, Stuart H. Friess, Ramesh Raghupathi, Jimmy W. Huh

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Le Désert comme scène de l’avoir lieu : Robert Smithson et Noah Purifoy by Antonia Rigaud

“…This article discusses two iconic desert interventions : Smithson’s Spiral Jetty and Purifoy’s Outdoor Desert Art Museum, in order to bring forward the art history debates of the time, moving away from formalist criticism towards more socio-political criticism. By confronting the way these two artists conceive of sculpture in the desert, this article seeks to cross perspectives and to explore what a contextual reading of Purifoy’s work can bring to our reading of Smithson’s and, conversely, how a formalist criticism of Smithson’s art can help bring Purifoy away from the marginal space he has too long been assigned.…”
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The “New” Beckett and the Word/Image Parallax: An Infra-Disciplinary Short-Circuit by Robert Kilroy

“…The application of this model as a tool for textual analysis is then epistemologically justified from within the domain of literary criticism. In developing this point, I aim to illuminate the parallax logic of both Beckett’s work and the critical reaction it provokes in order to propose a new direction in scholarship. …”
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Les études de Sergio Cigada, jalons incontournables de la critique flaubertienne by Liana Nissim

“…Sergio Cigada’s dazzling insight, the clarity of his expression and the critical accuracy of his thought, all make of his essays crucial milestones for all those interested in Gustave Flaubert.…”
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On Curvilinear Regression Analysis via Newly Proposed Entropies for Some Benzene Models by Guangwu Liu, Muhammad Kamran Siddiqui, Shazia Manzoor, Muhammad Naeem, Douhadji Abalo

“…Our obtained results demonstrated that the critical temperature CT, critical pressure CP, and critical volume CV can be predicted through fifth geometric arithmetic entropy, second SK entropy, and fifth ND entropy, respectively. …”
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Explaining the prevalence of marital conflict: conceptual bifurcation and sociological explanations by Wing-Chung Ho

“…This conceptual paper aims to address this issue by first critically reviewing how scholars have assessed the prevalence of marital conflict in human societies. …”
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Experimental Investigation and Analysis of Dynamic Buckling of Drill String in Horizontal Well by Fushen Ren, Baojin Wang, Lei Zhao, Anhe Zhu

“…Furthermore, the friction curve of the drill string and the critical load of the dynamic buckling during rotation are obtained. …”
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Managing Uncertainty: Company’s Adaptive Capabilities during Covid-19 by Iva Atanassova, Peter Bednar

“…The concept of organizational learning receives increasing attention and recognition in recent years as a critical enabler of organizational adaptation, survival, and growth during uncertain times. …”
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Recent advances in detection techniques for vitamin analysis: A comprehensive review by Xiangrui Li, Huan Lv, Wencan Luo, WenJia Yang, Linghong Kong, Qiujin Zhu, Lu Zeng

“…Therefore, vitamin analysis is critical for meeting human nutritional needs and ensuring quality control. …”
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Using monitoring and simulation to analyze the failure characteristics of multizone landslides controlled by faults: a case study by Jinduo Li, Tianhong Yang, Wenxue Deng, Shigui Du, Penghai Zhang, Jia Wang, Dongdong Sun, Yuan Gao

“…Furthermore, the failure sequence analysis identified critical trigger zones within the region. The findings demonstrate that the proposed method effectively identifies the critical areas and movement sequence of multi-regional failures. …”
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Modeling and Predicting Stochastic Merging Behaviors at Freeway On-Ramp Bottlenecks by Jian Sun, Kang Zuo, Shun Jiang, Zuduo Zheng

“…Gap acceptance theory holds that when a gap is larger than the critical gap, the vehicle will merge into the mainline. …”
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Acute Poisoning Cases Presented to the Addis Ababa Burn, Emergency, and Trauma Hospital Emergency Department, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: A Cross-Sectional Study by Biruktawit Zemedie, Menbeu Sultan, Ayalew Zewdie

“…Data were collected using a structured and pretested questionnaire by the Emergency Medicine and Critical Care residents from acutely poisoned patients’ interviews and patient charts. …”
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