‘Heavy Waters’ of Punjab: A Hydro-critical Analysis of Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ice-Candy Man by Muhammad Ali

“…The latter’s idea of water carrying both physical and metaphysical waste seems to materialize in Sidhwa’s novel, who places her story in the context of the partitioned Punjab of 1947, when a desire for ‘territorialism’ over water resulted in countless human beings turning into ‘national refuse’, or people killed in the name of nationality, whose dead bodies floating in the rivers of the Punjab turned the rivers into both a haunting site and a site foreboding an environmental crisis sooner or later. …”
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POI Data Fusion Method Based on Multi-Feature Matching and Optimization by Yue Wang, Cailin Li, Hongjun Zhang, Baoyun Guo, Xianlong Wei, Zhao Hai

“…Firstly, when dealing with POI (point of interest) data, the similarity of POI data in terms of name, address, and distance is calculated by combining the improved hybrid similarity method, the Jaccard method, and the Euclidean metric method. …”
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South African private universities: The unique challenges of private university first-generation students – The unique opportunity for private higher education institutions by Linda Meyer, Birgit Schreiber

“…FGS often grapple with a complex journey fraught with challenges around finances, social adjustment, and epistemological access, to name a few. This research adopts a quantitative approach with a cross-sectional research design. …”
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Nomenclatural standards of apple cultivars developed at Sverdlovsk Horticultural Breeding Station. Part I by A. V. Shlyavas, D. D. Telezhinskiy, L. V. Bagmet

“…Nomenclatural standards serve to confirm the authenticity of a cultivar and its name. They should be kept perpetually in the scientific herbarium collection. …”
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«Intended to prepare a march replenishment for active Red Army»: to the history and perpetuation of memory of 39th Omsk reserve rifle brigade (division) by A. V. Sushko

“…Thanks to the courage and heroism of the soldiers and officers trained in Omsk, the notable contribution of the soldiers who arrived to the front from Siberia in the victory over fascism, the country’s leadership was given the honorary name Omsk. Based on the above information on the history of the 39th Omsk reserve rifle brigade, the author comes to the conclusion that it is necessary to perpetuate her memory in Omsk, and in particular at Omsk memorials…”
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Marcel-Lenoir et la fresque by Marie-Ange Namy

“…Marcel-Lenoir, from jewel to fresco, his name is at the heart of the revival of sacred art and the resurrection of the fresco. …”
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Sustainable collection development towards greener future: Earthsavers by Tayfun Güven, Bahar Akarsu, Eray Sudaşdemir, Elçin Emekdar, Hatice Acikgöz-Tufan, Umut Kivanc Sahin, Senem Kursun Bahadir

“…In this study, a sustainable collection whose name is Earthsavers is prepared by using recycled raw materials, natural dyestuffs, etc. …”
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Approach to Management of Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura at University of Cincinnati by N. Abdel Karim, S. Haider, C. Siegrist, N. Ahmad, A. Zarzour, J. Ying, Z. Yasin, R. Sacher

“…Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (TTP) is a rare hematologic emergency, congenital or acquired, characterized by ischemic damage of various organs because of platelet aggregation. It is the common name for adults with microangiopathic hemolytic anemia, thrombocytopenia, with or without neurologic or renal abnormalities, and without another etiology; children without renal failure are also described as TTP. …”
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μ Robust Stable Extrapolation of a Stationary Random Process with Interval Limited Variance by Igor G. Sidorov

“…In a constructive form, a 4-step algorithm is proposed for determinizing the search for the optimum of an imperfectly defined functional of the variance of the estimation error to find the optimum of the same name for two fully defined (deterministic) functionals. …”
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ABOUT DEVELOPMENT OF MEASURES OF TRUST AND TRANSPARENCY IN A CONTEXT OF CALLS AND THREATS by A. Y. Malov

“…It could contain the main data on TCBMs: to their structure on a target orientation; categories MTDK; the information passport of each measure – the name, mission, the contents, scope of application, a format, a procedure, the questions which decision is necessary for its realization; possible forms of use of TCBMs on a unilateral, bilateral and multilateral basis by means of the corresponding mechanisms and the procedures being a subject of coordination between the states, expressed desire to use TCBMs in relation to the space activity.…”
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Étude croisée du rapport aux savoirs à l’égard des sciences naturelles et des sciences humaines et sociales : portraits d’élèves de la fin du secondaire au Québec by Geneviève Therriault, Agnieszka Jeziorski, Barbara Bader, Émilie Morin

“…In terms of method, two data collection instruments are mobilized: a questionnaire name "bilan de savoirs" and the semi-structured interview. …”
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ANTHROPOCENTRIC INTENTION OF HESYCHAST AND SUFISTIC PRACTICES OF FREEDOM PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT by Yurii Y. Semchuk

“…The influence and the use of spiritual advisors fundamental hesychast texts "Philokalia" in secular name and in the empyreal world alike are researched. …”
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Evaluation of the Performance of Proposed Model of “Service Table” in the Management of Metropolitans from View Point of Urban Good Governance (Case Study of Tehran Metropolitan)... by Tala Hussein, Amir Mahmoudzadeh, Keramatollah Ziyari

“…As a result of this research, according to the identified challenges and using TOPSIS method, the efficiency of the developed research model (with the proposed name of service desk) compared to the current model of Tehran urban management has been confirmed. …”
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Pseudomyopathic Changes in Needle Electromyography in Lambert-Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome by Teppei Komatsu, Kota Bokuda, Toshio Shimizu, Tetsuo Komori, Reiji Koide

“…Although the findings of needle EMG indicated myopathic changes at a glance, the motor unit potential (MUP) returned to normal after a sustained strong muscle contraction. We propose the name “pseudomyopathic changes” for this phenomenon.…”
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Co-opting the ‘public’ in public health: homelessness and the specious logic of discretionary displacement in a mid-sized US city by Lesley Jo Weaver, Claire W. Herbert, Dylan J. Podrabsky, Mackenzie L. Ní Flainn

“…In the name of public health protection, individuals and communities perceived to be diseased have long been coercively regulated through surveillance, sequestration, or various forms of criminal punishment. …”
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Clinical, genetic aspects and molecular pathogenesis of osteopetrosis by D. D. Nadyrshina, R. I. Khusainova

“…Osteopetrosis (“marble bone”, ICD-10-78.2) includes a group of hereditary bone disorders distinguished by clinical variability and genetic heterogeneity. The name “osteopetrosis” comes from the Greek language: ‘osteo’ means ‘bone’ and ‘petrosis’ means ‘stone’, which characterizes the main feature of the disease: increased bone density caused by imbalances in bone formation and remodeling, leading to structural changes in bone tissue, predisposition to fractures, skeletal deformities. …”
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THE ALBANIAN FACTOR OF DESTABILIZATION OF THE WESTERN BALKANS: SCENARIO APPROACH by E. G. Ponomareva

“…In the first case the question is of creating a pan-Albanian (con)federative polity under the provisional name of “Great Albania” in the territories of Albania, Kosovo, western Macedonia (Republic of Ilirida), south-eastern Montenegro (Malesia) and north-western Greece (Chameria). …”
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Retained multiple contact lenses in a vulnerable dementia patient by Rohit SHARMA, Zuhair SHARIF

“…Also the need for ca- reful mandatory documentation in the clinical notes and communications to the general practitioner or care home about the insertion and removal of contact lenses with dates and name of professional perfoming this.…”
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The TIR Domain Containing Locus of Enterococcus faecalis Is Predominant among Urinary Tract Infection Isolates and Downregulates Host Inflammatory Response by Thomas Daniel Kraemer, Orlando Daniel Quintanar Haro, Eugen Domann, Trinad Chakraborty, Svetlin Tchatalbachev

“…We assigned this gene the name tcpF (as in Tcp of E. faecalis). Screening of E. faecalis samples revealed that tcpF is more common in isolates from urinary tract infections (UTIs) than in human faecal flora. tcpF alleles showed moderate single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) among UTI isolates. …”
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Manuscript 50 of the Alessandrina University Library: user manual for the Libraria of Francesco Maria II della Rovere by Daniela Fugaro

“…., Ms. 50) also in terms of complexity and care in its editing, divided into three parts: a systematic topographical catalogue, a catalogue by authors and works - in which the authors are listed in alphabetical order under their proper names - and a list of headwords from the surname to the name of the authors themselves. …”
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