Mythologies of American violence in Alan Ball's True Blood series by Anne-Marie PAQUET-DEYRIS

“…Vampire, werewolf movie codes and motifs are very often recycled in various episodes of the series to problematize current problems in American society such as the women’s liberation movement, the gay and lesbian rights, the civil rights movement etc. All of them provide starkly original variations on the central notions of trouble and evil.The show addresses some the following key issues: which aesthetic, formal and ideological strategies are adopted to represent the different layers of reality? …”
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A Consumer’s Guide to Eggs by Jeanine Beatty, Karla Shelnutt, Gail P. A. Kauwell

“…The first domesticated birds to reach the Americas arrived in 1493 on Christopher Columbus' second voyage to the New World. Most food stores in the United States offer many varieties of chicken eggs to choose from — white, brown, organic, cage free, vegetarian, omega-3 fatty acid enriched, and more. …”
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Privacy self-correlation privacy-preserving scheme in LBS by Weihao LI, Jin CAO, Hui LI

“…The prevalence of mobile intelligent terminals gives the location-based service (LBS) more opportunities to enrich mobile users’ lives.However,mobile users enjoy the convenience with the cost of personal privacy.The side information and mobile user’s recent requirement records were considered,which were obtained or stored by the service provider.Based on the existence of recent requirement records,adversary can employ the inference attack to analysis mobile user’s personal information.Therefore,two schemes were proposed,including of basic privacy self-correlation privacy-preserving scheme (Ba-2PS) and enhanced privacy self-correlation privacy-preserving scheme(En-2PS).In En-2PS,the privacy-preserving scheme was designed from two dimensions of aspects of time factor and query region,which increased the uncertainty inferring out the real information.Finally,the privacy analysis was illustrated to proof En-2PS’s privacy degree,then the performance and privacy evaluation results indicate that En-2PS is effective and efficient.…”
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Blockchain-based noisy data sharing control protocol by Qingqing XIE, Nianmin YANG, Xia FENG

“…Blockchain provides a trusted channel for information sharing in an untrusted network.However, blockchain ledgers are public and transparent.Hence, the sensitive data stored in plaintext on the blockchain will compromise user privacy.Considering privacy preservation, users are more inclined to provide noisy data.And in different application scenarios, the level of data noise that users need to provide also varies.To this end, a secure, efficient, and searchable noisy data sharing control protocol was proposed based on the blockchain and smart contract technology with the ciphertext policy attribute-based encryption (CP-ABE) algorithm.First, an outsourced CP-ABE algorithm was introduced to reduce the computing burden on the user side.Secondly, smart contract was implemented to perform data search on ciphertext, which could prevent malicious operations by malicious servers.Third, the proposed protocol reduced the data update complexity to O(1), which is friendly to the scenarios with real-time data update.Finally, security analysis and simulation experiments demonstrate the security and feasibility of the proposed protocol.…”
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Optimal Design of FPGA Switch Matrix with Ion Mobility Based Nonvolatile ReRAM by Peng Hai-yun, Zhou Wen-gang

“…The device has extreme short erasing time and the stored charge cannot be destroyed after power-off. …”
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De la « déportation-abandon » à la réintégration des « ex-koulaks » : les modulations de la répression à l’égard des paysans soviétiques (1930-1948) by Hélène Mondon

“…They had to remain durably in the so-called « special villages » built for their rehabilitation.This paper, based on archival materials combined with survivors’ stories, throws new light on the fate of peasant families in the North, their survival strategies when facing the most horrific first years of repression, as well as their strategies of adaptation and rehabilitation within society from the second half of the 1930s on. …”
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Rompendo o labirinto do esquecimento: redes de poder e emancipação feminina em Tia Dodô da Portela by Angélica Ferrarez de Almeida

“…Searching the labyrinths of oblivion is an opportunity to rewrite the stories of black women in the first person, since in the selection of what one wants to remember, the work and trajectory of black subjects and subjects in history went through a project of intentional erasure of knowledge and practices of groups called subordinates. …”
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Matter that remembers, protects, works, feels, and mediates. Some remarks on the third edition of “The Lost and Found” symposium (Riga 2024) by Agnieszka Patała

“…The text provides a brief summary of “The Lost and Found: Revising Art Stories in Search of Potential Changes” symposium’s third edition, held in Riga on 6–7 June 2024, organised in collaboration with Latvijas Mākslas Akadēmija, the University of Wrocław, and Universidade Nova de Lisboa. …”
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Toi, cyborg ? L’hybridation prothétique dans la nouvelle de science-fiction by Dominique Kunz Westerhoff

“…The « members » of pre-published short stories enter into romanesque « bodies » that subsume them. …”
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Solidifying dust suppressant based on modified chitosan and experimental study on its dust suppression performance by Yanghao Liu, Wen Nie, Hu Jin, He Ma, Yun Hua, Peng Cai, Wenle Wei

“…In view of the fugitive dusts caused by wind disturbance and material handling in coal bunkers, surface plants, and open-air coal stocking yards of coal businesses, the solidifying dust suppressant based on modified chitosan is synthesized and prepared through the chemical modification of –NH 2 with chitosan as a raw material and –NH 2 was replaced by –CH 2 CH(OH)CH 2 N + (CH 3 )CI − through the technique of Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. …”
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Jesus' mission and messianism through the prism of Islam and Christianity: Analysis of the Book of prophet Zechariah by Gološ Dževad

“…The Quran proves its truthfulness, the fact that it is the last Revelation to Prophet Muhammed who was the last in a series of prophets, and its supernaturalism in a number of ways - through its language, style, stories about the past and the future, ethical and legal code, and other examples of the supernatural. …”
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The Other California by Neeraj Bhatia

“…‘Containers’ are architectural shells of enclosure often sited between the formats of surfaces and conduits – for storing, refining, or distributing a particular good. …”
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A Multilevel Inverter Bridge Control Structure with Energy Storage Using Model Predictive Control for Flat Systems by Paolo Mercorelli

“…The paper presents a novel technique to control the current of an electromagnetic linear actuator fed by a multilevel IGBT voltage inverter with dynamic energy storage. The technique uses a “cascade model predictive control (MPC),” which consists of two MPCs. …”
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Les connaissances au quotidien : perceptions et savoirs des populations riveraines de l’Amazonie sur leurs ressources halieutiques by D. Sampaio da Silva, M. Lucotte, S. Paquet

“…The lack of connection between the observed changes in natural ecosystems and changes in fish stocks caught our attention. Consequently, any intervention aimed at developing and/or implementing of methods for sustainable exploitation of fisheries resources must integrate preliminary activity information. …”
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Incest, Lit(t)erally: How Joyce Censored The Wake by Stéphane Jousni

“…Censorship delayed the publication of Dubliners from 1907 to 1914 (Joyce was adamantly refusing to delete the adjective “bloody” in one of his short stories). Censorship put an abrupt end to the serialization of Ulysses that had started in The (American) Little Review in 1918. …”
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Secure data sharing scheme supporting efficient synchronous evolution for ciphertext and key by Xincheng YAN, Yue CHEN, Hongyong JIA, Yanru CHEN, Xinyue ZHANG

Subjects: “…cloud storage…”
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Doing Justice to the Future: A global index of intergenerational solidarity derived from national statistics by Jamie McQuilkin

“…This returns a comparative index score of intergenerational solidarity for 120 countries covering 92% of the world’s population. …”
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New Orleans Sketches et la Nouvelle-Orléans de Faulkner : promenades littéraires et premiers pas dans la fiction by Frédérique SPILL

“…It is in New Orleans that, encouraged by Sherwood Anderson, he worked on his first novel, Soldier’s Pay, and published in the local press a series of sketches and stories that he wrote day to day. …”
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Representing Irishness in Words and Images ; Erskine Nicol’s Illustrations of Tales of Irish Life and Character by Amélie Dochy

“…We will show that, due to the random insertion of Nicol’s works in Hall’s book, the reader is assigned the task of associating the short stories and the paintings. …”
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The Heritage-scape: Origins, Theoretical Interventions, and Critical Reception of a Model for Understanding UNESCO’s World Heritage Program by Michael A. Di Giovine

“…Including personal background stories that paint a picture of the intellectual origins and inspirations for the term, the article discusses the theory behind the heritage-scape, the concept’s contribution to the literature, and its reception by tourism and heritage theorists. …”
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