Representing Violence in Lionel Asbo by Martin Amis: ‘Extremely Lout and Incredibly Gross’ by Anne-Laure Fortin-Tournès

“…Amis’s idiosyncratic anti-hero, Lionel Asbo, plays the role of a catalyst of violence in a novel where incest, teenage pregnancy and dodgy dealings have become the rule in a ghettoized London. …”
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Antifungal activity and biocompatibility assessment with molecular docking and dynamic simulations of new pyrazole derivatives by Basma T. Abd-Elhalim, Ghada G. El-Bana, Ahmed F. El-Sayed, Ghada E. Abdel-Ghani

“…Abstract Background Because of their many bioactivities, which include psychoanalytic, antifungal, antihypertensive, anti-inflammatory, and antiviral properties, pyrazoles and their derivatives are attracting interest in pharmacology and medicine, the pressing need for novel fungicides is increased for lessened by the growing microbiological resistance of illnesses to recognized antibiotics. …”
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Call to Action: Lead Pharmacy into the Next Decade by Kerry K Fierke, Gardner Lepp, Bridget McGugan, Marta Brooks, Gregory Zumach

“…The evolving landscape of healthcare leadership demands novel perspectives, creative applications, and open-minded evaluations. …”
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La Jolie Fille de Perth de Bizet  ou comment trahir et honorer Walter Scott by Gilles Couderc

“…Yet the work pays indirect homage to Scott, whose historical novels contributed to the birth of the French “grand opera”, by rewriting scenes or situations drawn from Scott. …”
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Call to Action: Lead Pharmacy into the Next Decade by Gregory Zumach, Kerry K Fierke, Gardner Lepp, Bridget McGugan, Marta Brooks, Anthony Olson, Andrew Bartlett, Nilushi Karunaratne, Betty Exintaris

“…The evolving landscape of healthcare leadership demands novel perspectives, creative applications, and open-minded evaluations. …”
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An interval bilateral regulation framework of water resources supply and demand in irrigation area under water sources uncertainty by Zhan Shu, Yan Kang, Ying Gao, Xuemai Shi, Wanxue Li, Shuo Zhang, Songbai Song, Lingjie Li

“…A bilayer model of reservoir multi-objective operation was proposed under uncertain runoff to optimize reservoir operation rules for different sequences of reservoir water storage and supply. …”
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Maximizing Microgrid Efficiency: A Unified Approach with Extended Optimal Propositional Logic Control by Muhammed Cavus

“…This increase in the adoption of RESs has brought a considerable alteration in the topologies of traditional power networks to become novel power networks along with microgrids (MGs). …”
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The Mystery of the Past Haunts Again: Jane Eyre and Eugenie Marlitt’s Die zweite Frau by Ivonne Defant

“…In Jane Eyre and Die zweite Frau the house motif is a pivotal element that leads to our understanding of the female characters, but it is above all the mystery that reverberates through the houses of the two novels, represented by two women, the Creole Bertha  and the Indian Lotusblume, which, being crucial to the articulation of the discursive thrust underlying the two narratives, discloses the multi-layered construction of femininity.…”
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Phenotypic and genotypic characterization of Mycobacterium tuberculosis pyrazinamide resistance—India, 2018–2020 by Sembulingam Tamilzhalagan, Evanslin Santus Justin, Ashok Selvaraj, Karthick Venkateswaran, Arun Kumar Sivakumar, Suganthi Chittibabu, Heather P. McLaughlin, Patrick K. Moonan, Jonathan P. Smith, Sakthi Suba, Mukesh Kumar Sathya Narayanan, Christine S. Ho, Nishant Kumar, Srikanth P. Tripathy, Srikanth P. Tripathy, Siva K. Shanmugam, Patricia J. Hall-Eidson, Uma Devi Ranganathan

“…The majority of phenotypically PZA-resistant isolates (77%) harbored 171 distinct mutations in pncA; however, a small number of mutations in panD, rpsA and clpC1 were also observed. A set of novel mutations associated PZA resistance was uncovered, along with an additional 143 PZA resistance-conferring mutations in pncA based on application of WHO-endorsed grading rules. …”
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Alàgbà Adébáyọ̀ Fálétí as a Yorùbá Novelist by Lere Adeyemi

“…Ogunsina (1992) groups Fálétí as a prominent historical novelist who incorporates historical materials into novel writing. I agree with Ogunsina that Fálétí’s effective transfer of histori ̣ - cal materials into fiction is a revelation of the novel’s eclectic quality and also a manifestation of Fálétí’s creative genius. …”
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« You don’t suspect me of doing anything wrong, do you ? » Peurs, soupçons et paranoïa dans The Woman in White de Wilkie Collins by Laurence Taleirach-Vielmas

“…This paper examines the fears and anxieties on which Collins’s novel hinges. From mere domestic secrets to anxieties related to national security, Collins describes a modern world ruled by suspicions, and constructs his characters as paranoid patients.…”
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‘Splendid Little Soldiers’—Invasion, Empire and the Fantasy of Dominance in Saki’s When William Came by Petra Rau

“…This essay is centrally concerned with the ambivalent politics of the last antebellum invasion novel, Saki’s When William Came (1913). Saki radically disrupts the English fantasy of dominance and imagines the end of the British Empire culminating not just in a German invasion but in a lasting occupation of England. …”
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Spherical Simplex-Radial Cubature Quadrature Kalman Filter by Zhaoming Li, Wenge Yang

“…The Gaussian probability weighted integral of the nonlinear function is decomposed into spherical integral and radial integral, which are approximated by spherical simplex cubature rule and arbitrary order Gauss-Laguerre quadrature rule, respectively, and the novel spherical simplex-radial cubature quadrature rule is obtained. …”
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The Tennis Shoe Army and Leviathan: Relics and Specters of Big Government in The Road by Robert Pirro

“…To the extent that parallels can be drawn between the novel’s presentation of a tennis shoe army on the march, which resembles dream-like processions in other McCarthy novels, and Thomas Hobbes’ vision of an absolutist government as Leviathan, this essay argues that The Road can be seen as conveying an aversion to the impersonal rule of the bureaucratic state.…”
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Binding Mode Investigation of Polyphenols from Scrophularia Targeting Human Aldose Reductase Using Molecular Docking and Molecular Dynamics Simulations by Abinaya Manivannan, Prabhakaran Soundararajan, Yoo Gyeong Park, Sugunadevi Sakkiah, Byoung Ryong Jeong

“…Aldose reductase (ALR2), a vital enzyme involved in polyol pathway, has befitted as a novel drug target in antidiabetes drug discovery process. …”
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Evidence combination method based on Pignistic function transformation and correlation coefficient by Xiaoping YANG, Weijian LIAN, Mengjie LI, Zhihong QIAN

“…The situation of high conflict between evidences and one ballot veto cannot be solved by classical D-S rule,and the results obtained from classical D-S rule are contrary to the facts.To solve this problem,a new standard to measure conflicts between evidences was proposed based on the combination of Pignistic function transformation and correlation coefficient,and also a novel kind of weighted combination method which was applied to measure conflicts between evidences was put forward according to the standard.After that,a support matrix was constructed based from which the credibility of evidence was obtained,and the weighted average method was used to revise the evidence.Finally,the combination was accomplished by using Dempster’s rule.The result of numerical examples shows that it’s effective to solve the combination of conflicting evidence.Compared with other methods,the proposed method has good astringency.…”
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Improved Method for Predicting the Performance of the Physical Links in Telecommunications Access Networks by Ferenc Lilik, Szilvia Nagy, László T. Kóczy

“…A novel approach is presented which is able to predict the available maximal data transfer rate of SHDSL connections from measured frequency dependent electrical parameters of wire pairs. …”
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A Doping Bits Based BP Decoding for Rateless Distributed Source Coding Applications by N. M. Masoodhu Banu, S. Sasikumar

“…A novel doping bits based belief propagation decoding algorithm, for rate-adaptive LDPC codes based on fixed bipartite graph code, is proposed. …”
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Privacy-preserving access control for public wireless LAN utilizing the bitcoin blockchain by Yukun NIU, Lingbo WEI, Chi ZHANG, Xia ZHANG, Vejarano Gustavo

“…In designing an access control scheme for public wireless LAN (WLAN),user privacy protection and user accountability are two conflict goals.A novel user management and access control scheme was proposed to solve this problem by utilizing the bitcoin blockchain and Intel SGX.It utilized unmodified bitcoin blockchain to manage the ownership of access credentials for users without relying on any trusted third party.It adopted Intel SGX-based mixing technology to enhance anonymity of users’ access credentials.It designed verification path rule to resolve the conflicts between the privacy-preserving and accountability objectives.The effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed scheme are also demonstrated by security analysis and performance evaluation.…”
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Research on Q-learning based rate control approach for HTTP adaptive streaming by Li-rong XIONG, Jing-zhi LEI, Xin JIN

“…HTTP adaptive streaming (HAS) has become the standard for adaptive video streaming service.In changing network environments,current hardcoded-based rate adaptation algorithm was less flexible,and it is insufficient to consider the quality of experience (QoE).To optimize the QoE of users,a rate control approach based on Q-learning strategy was proposed.the client environments of HTTP adaptive video streaming was modeled and the state transition rule was defined.Three parameters related to QoE were quantified and a novel reward function was constructed.The experiments were employed by the Q-learning rate control approach in two typical HAS algorithms.The experiments show the rate control approach can enhance the stability of rate switching in HAS clients.…”
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