Echo’s Bones and Samuel Beckett’s Early Aesthetics: “The Vulture”, “Alba” and “Dortmunder” as Poetic Manifestos by Sławomir Studniarz

“…These poems provide ample evidence that Beckett was already grappling with the notion of the (f)utility of art in a world filled with inevitable suffering and trying to formulate a poetic response to the pain and struggle of existence, while entertaining the possibility of redemption or transcendence through artistic creation and aesthetic contemplation. …”
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Resisting Trauma: Exploring Queer Emotional Narratives in Madame from the Perspective of Cultural Politics of Emotion in Chinese Context by Qian Junyi

“…By analyzing Fan’s experiences, encompassing childhood strife, youth prostitution, and grappling with a sense of nothingness in middle age, the exploration delves into his emotional journey and the construction of his queer identity. …”
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Precarity and Resistance: Mediating Home across Contemporary Europe through the Short Hybrid Film by Anna Viola Sborgi

“…Purposedly merging observational, participatory methods with the fictional, these two films share a focus on young people in uncertain living conditions. Grappling with their individual situations the youth at the centre of these stories build forms of resistance to their present housing struggles in the attempt to shape a better future for themselves and their community.…”
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Evaluation of a Cape Town Safety Intervention as a Model for Good Practice: A Partnership between Researchers, Community and Implementing Agency by Tali Cassidy, Melikaya Ntshingwa, Jakub Galuszka, Richard Matzopoulos

“…VPUU has a wealth of experience to share and is engaged with broader national and international policymakers and implementing agencies. Researchers are grappling with the difficulty of providing a rigorous project evaluation for these collaborations which could identify project elements that work with a view to their replication. …”
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Mammary Landscapes and Mother's Figure: Vengeance and matrilineal legacy in the poetic drama of W.H. Auden by Andrew Campbell

“…These dramas find their central protagonists grappling with the malignant influence of mothers who compel the climactic acts of revenge through the neurotic anxiety they have engendered within their sons. …”
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Smart Assessment of Wheat Suppliers via MARCOS-based MCDM Modelling under a Neutrosophic Scenario by Reda M Hussien, Amr A. Abohany, Karam M. Sallam, Ahmed Salem

“…In addition, governments are grappling with a number of difficulties, such as fast population expansion, a lack of available water, growing urbanization, and a restricted amount of wheat production in agricultural settings. …”
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Tutorial Review of Bio-Inspired Approaches to Robotic Manipulation for Space Debris Salvage by Alex Ellery

“…We present a comprehensive tutorial review that explores the application of bio-inspired approaches to robot control systems for grappling and manipulating a wide range of space debris targets. …”
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Work-family balance in times of COVID-19: a survey-study by Juan Llanes-Ordóñez, Angelina Sánchez-Martí, Maria Rosa Buxarrais-Estrada

“…The study findings unveil two distinct family profiles: those grappling with substantial work-family challenges (63.9%) and those experiencing minimal disruptions (36.3%). …”
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THE LABOR OF CARING FOR TECHNOLOGICAL TROUBLES IN EDUCATION by Hong-An Wu

“…With this understanding, I propose a posthumanist methodological approach centered on tracing the care-giving labor for emerging technologies performed by teachers along with students during moments of technological troubles as a potential direction for educational research grappling with the posthuman. Furthermore, I provide an initial foray into using this methodology to count, recount, and account for the labor of caring for emerging technologies during moments of technological troubles across my teaching experiences at a Fab Lab and public library. …”
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Designing Automated Logistics Warehouse Stackable Bidirectional Infinite-Loop Modules by Kyoungsoon Min, Daeeun Lim

“…The modern logistics industry is grappling with significant challenges brought about by rapid market transformations. …”
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Perspectives on Arts Entrepreneurship, Part 1 by E. Andrew Taylor, Paul Bonin-Rodriguez, Linda Essig

“…For these pieces we asked contributors to consider open-ended questions to which they could respond in whole or in part: what is their position in relation to arts entrepreneurship; how is arts entrepreneurship situated in relation to other disciplines or fields; what are the problems we are grappling with as scholars, practitioners, teachers, and artists; and what are the research questions we are attempting to answer individually or as a field? …”
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Dementia elderly tracker using Sigfox by Neo, Yizhe

“…Singapore has been grappling with the issue of an aging population for a number of years. …”
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AC/DC building distribution network design and management - part III (manage power usages through analyzing real-time power market prices) by Liew, Derrick Yi Liang

“…Singapore is currently grappling with escalating energy demands and rising electricity prices, attributed to factors like Covid-19, the Russian War, and electricity tariff components, there is a pressing need for Singapore to explore innovative strategies for energy management. …”
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The truth of death in the Pardoner‟s Tale. by Chee, Angeline Huijie.

“…The changing semantics of the word ‘trouthe’ and its synonyms suggests a complexity of the word that Chaucer and his contemporaries are grappling with through fiction as a medium, over the common-day legal and ethical usage of the word. …”
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Study of design issues of optical communication system by Yue, Kok Wai

“…The world is currently grappling with the issue of big data management, optical communication provides a great solution for this issue. …”
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Wingardium Leviosa Wand / Sharifah Nur Atiqah Wan Akil by Wan Akil, Sharifah Nur Atiqah

“…Today, the world is grappling with an invisible, deadly enemy, which can kill human being in just a blink of eyes. …”
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God and the problem of evil: why soul-making won't suffice by Earp, BD

“…So, Hick offers a “soul-making” theodicy—or vindication—of God, suggesting the human soul cannot fully progress to toward spiritual maturity (a kind of ultimate good on his account) without grappling with evil. In this short piece I argue that, if we accept Hick’s premises about souls and soul-making, we can indeed make sense of evil to some extent. …”

Informal practices in politics and society in Brazil by De Souza Santos, AA

“…In turn, disturbed social interactions highly affected co-dependency. In grappling with new scholarship focused on Brazil, I discuss the heterogeneity and dynamics of informality. …”

A comparison of the Welsh Workforce Development Programme and England's Train to Gain by Keep, E

“…Upskilling the adult workforce is a major policy across the OECD, and many governments are grappling with the issue of how to design interventions that can support workforce development for less skilled and/or qualified adult workers. …”

Nigerian federalism: An overview of its imperatives and impediments by Othman, Muhammad Fuad, Osman, Nazariah, Shehu, Isah

“…This article provides an overview of Nigerian federalism in relation to the imperatives and impediments of its practice, which it has been grappling with since the constitutional enactment of the system in October, 1954. …”
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