John Byrne's The Slab Boys: Technicolored Hellhole in a Town Called Malice by Donaldson, William

“…Presents a detailed discussion and appreciation of the Slab Boys tetralogy, a sequence of four plays by the Scottish playwright and painter John Byrne, beginning with The Slab Boys (1978), focused on a group of apprentices in the color-mixing room of a Paisley carpet-factory in the 1950s, and then tracing the divergence of their lives through three later plays, The Loveliest Night of the Year (1979, later titled Cuttin' A Rug), Still Life (1982), and Nova Scotia (2008); examines Byrne's characterization, "excoriatingly destructive wit," and "rambunctiously demotic language"; analyzes the tetralogy's continuing major themes of the relation between art and life, high art and popular culture; and concludes that these are plays of "striking intellectual breadth" and "superb verbal inventiveness," combining "international with distinctively Scottish themes," and "producing a fusion of realism and fantasy probably unmatched in Scotland since the heyday of Hugh MacDiarmid."…”
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Expanding the Conceptual and Analytical Basis of Energy Justice: Beyond the Three-Tenet Framework by Joohee Lee, Joohee Lee, John Byrne, John Byrne, John Byrne

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Love in social care: necessary pre-requisite or blurring of boundaries by John Byrne

The Village Says “No”: Why Online ADR is Not (Yet) Working in Rural India by John Clammer, Matthew John Byrne

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External jugular vein thrombosis secondary to deep tissue neck massage by Sneha Raju, HBSc, John Byrne, MB BCh, FRCSI, MD

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The Influence of β-1,3-1,6-Glucans on Rabies Vaccination Titers in Cats by John Byrne, Darryn Knobel, Susan M. Moore, Stephanie Gatrell, Patrick Butaye

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Smart Cities and Urban Energy Planning: An Advanced Review of Promises and Challenges by Saeed Esfandi, Safiyeh Tayebi, John Byrne, Job Taminiau, Golkou Giyahchi, Seyed Ali Alavi

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Investigating a simplified method for noninvasive genetic sampling in East African mammals using silica dried scat swabs by Andrew J. Tighe, Sarah Overby, Kiera Thurman, Robert Gandola, Bernerd Fulanda, John Byrne, Jens Carlsson

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Plant and Soil Effects of Alternative Sources of Phosphorus over Three Years of Application by Anna Karpinska, Thomais Kakouli-Duarte, S.M. Ashekuzzaman, John Byrne, Achim Schmalenberger, Patrick J. Forrestal

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Aortic graft infection with enteric organism after embolization of late type II endoleak by Ben Li, BHSc, Kong Teng Tan, MD, Mary Elizabeth MacDonald, MD, PhD, John Byrne, MB BCh, MD

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Nanopore metatranscriptomics reveals cryptic catfish species as potential Shigella flexneri vectors in Kenya by Andrew J. Tighe, Sean Grayson, John Byrne, Sanni Hintikka, Lisa Jessen, Jake Dempsey, Lauren Browne, Mary Kelly-Quinn, Bernerd Fulanda, Neil M. Ruane, Jens Carlsson

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Troponin in acute chest pain to risk stratify and guide effective use of computed tomography coronary angiography (TARGET-CTCA): a randomised controlled trial by Kuan Ken Lee, David Lowe, Rachel O’Brien, Ryan Wereski, Anda Bularga, Caelan Taggart, Matthew T. H. Lowry, Amy V. Ferry, Michelle C. Williams, Giles Roditi, John Byrne, Chris Tuck, Denise Cranley, Praveen Thokala, Steve Goodacre, Catriona Keerie, John Norrie, David E. Newby, Alasdair J. Gray, Nicholas L. Mills

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THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF AUSTRALIAN URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING / by Sipe, Neil G., editor, Vella, Karen, editor

The Irish DAFNE Study Protocol: A cluster randomised trial of group versus individual follow-up after structured education for Type 1 diabetes by Newell John, Byrne Molly, O' Hara Mary, Dinneen Seán F, Daly Lisa, O' Shea Donal, Smith Diarmuid

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Unified machine learning protocol for copolymer structure-property predictions by Lei Tao, Tom Arbaugh, John Byrnes, Vikas Varshney, Ying Li

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Machine learning strategies for the structure-property relationship of copolymers by Lei Tao, John Byrnes, Vikas Varshney, Ying Li

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