Marta Czok URBE by Scarso, Jacek Ludwig, Ionescu, Georgiana, Czok, Marta

“…Marta Czok sees Rome, her adopted city since the 1970s, with her experience of stateless identity: fascinated by this context, but with a perspective that is both familiar and external to it. …”
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Predicting bank failures : a comparison of the Cox proportional hazards model and time-varying covariates model. by Cheng, Philip Yim Kwong.

“…As a contribution to bank regulation by improving the accuracy of predicting failed banks, I first illustrate the use of martingale and other residuals as diagnostic checks for Cox’s proportional hazards model. Second, I discuss and substantiate the claim that a time-varying covariates model is superior to the Cox model as a bank failure model.…”
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The next train = 下一班车 by Lou, Mei Jun

“…The Next Train consists of a short film and a film installation based on a non-linear narrative of a Girl who struggles to reconcile with memories of her parents' divorce a decade ago. She does this a train station where she used to spend time with each of her parents - prior to and after the divorce. …”
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Anatomy of gloom. by Lim, Gwen Yuan Wen.

“…Like a new born baby, she is amused her existence. A spider crawls out of her heart and hynotises the puppet, shows her an perplexing illusion of a woman trapped inside a massive flower. …”
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Empowerment through suicide in “The little mermaid” and “Giselle ou les wilis” by Wong, Angelene Suet Fong

“…This individual assertion enables her to pursue her desire to enter the human realm, but estranges her from the undersea world. …”
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THE SKY SERPENT / by Ismim Putera, author 655827, Ikram Wazir, editor 655732

“…What should Bawang do to defend her home against Nangkawang?…”

Serenading Silence / by Ivy Abdullah, author 655926

“…With honesty and vulnerability, a medical student and depression survivor shares the emotional highs and lows of her journey. Through her own silent battle, she confronts stigma, navigates struggles, and celebrates triumphs on her path to healing. …”

Simone de beauvoir against the power of phallocentrism. by Yeo, Cheryl Zhi Zhen.

“…Beauvoir has tried to answer 'the woman question' in The Second Sex, but in her attempt to do so, she loses her ground and ironically reveals her conflicting notions as well as the influence which the patriarchy had on her instead. …”
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BLOOD NOIR / by Hamilton, Laurell K., author 407538

“…A favor for Jason, vampire hunter Anita Blake's werewolf lover, puts her in the center of a fullblown scandal that threatens master-vampire Jean- Claude's reign, and makes her a pawn in an ancient vampire queen's new rise to power.…”

Louise Moillon by Stevenson, Lesley

“…Born and raised in Paris, Moillon was the sole woman in a circle of Calvinist Protestant émigrés who brought their tradition of still-life painting with them from Flanders. During her lifetime, she was able to enjoy a degree of professional independence and attract enough recognition to be regarded as on a level with her male counterparts, yet her exquisite work and enigmatic story are little known today. …”

Songs of The Runaway Heart / by Marisa Fendi, author 655832

“…Kamelia’s goal was to get into Harvard. It led her to loneliness, spending nights studying, deserted by friends. …”

Umbrella by Khoo, Siew May

“…Ah Girl accidentally brought her opened umbrella into the house one day and her grandmother went into a panic mode. …”
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The Nightingale / by Hannah, Kristin, author 369246, Macmillan Books (Online service) 655983

“…FRANCE, 1939 - In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac says goodbye to her husband, Antoine, as he heads for the Front. …”
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Preparation of 1T′-phase ReS2xSe2(1‑x) (x = 0−1) nanodots for highly efficient electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction by Lai, Zhuangchai, Chaturvedi, Apoorva, Wang, Yun, Tran, Thu Ha, Liu, Xiaozhi, Tan, Chaoliang, Luo, Zhimin, Chen, Bo, Huang, Ying, Nam, Gwang-Hyeon, Zhang, Zhicheng, Chen, Ye, Hu, Zhaoning, Li, Bing, Xi, Shibo, Zhang, Qinghua, Zong, Yun, Gu, Lin, Kloc, Christian, Du, Yonghua, Zhang, Hua

“…Here, by combining chemical vapor transport and Li-intercalation, we have prepared a series of 1T′-phase ReS2xSe2(1-x) (x = 0–1) nanodots to achieve high-performance HER in acid medium. …”
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“Main Teri Dushman” : critiquing the patriarchic suppression of female identity through Sridevi. by Mohammed Shafie Haja Mohaideen.

“…This paper would argue that Sridevi straddles binaries using her body to embody different patriarchal stereotypes only to subvert the very rules that govern her body within patriarchy. …”
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‘Liege lady’: Queen Victoria’s political medievalism by Broome Saunders, C

“…This chapter explores the reception and reader responses to medievalism by women who were engaged in political discussion in the long nineteenth century. <br> From her very accession, Queen Victoria used the nineteenth-century cultural fascination with medieval and chivalric revival to her own political advantage, to manipulate public opinion in favour of her monarchy and her consort, and to explore the social complexities of her own position. …”

The Devotion of Suspect X / by Higashino, Keigo, 1958-, author 656116, Smith, Alexander O., translator 656118, Alexander, Elye J., translator 656119, Minotaur Books (Online service) 656121

“…Yasuko lives a quiet life, working in a Tokyo bento shop, a good mother to her only child. But when her ex-husband appears at her door without warning one day, her comfortable world is shattered. …”
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新移民的跨国实践和离散论述 ：孙侠(铃铛)个案研究 = Transnational practice and diasporic discourses of new immigrant : a case study on Sun Xia (Ling Dang) by Sun, Guizi

“…She views her role of a Chinese national as the basis of her identity, enabling her to embrace the differences and similarities between China and Singapore’s Chinese cultures. …”
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Delving deeper into the whorl of flower segmentation by Nilsback, M, Zisserman, A

“…This is a challenging problem because of the sheer variety of flower classes, the variability within a class and within a particular flower, and the variability of the imaging conditions – lighting, pose, foreshortening, etc.…”

Please, let me go / by Spencer, Caitlin, author 656310, Brown, Linda Watson author 656311

“…From the age of 14, Caitlin was completely controlled, repeatedly raped, provided with alcohol, given drugs, sold and passed on to new gangs over and over again. The majority of her abusers were Pakistani men, who were blatant in their attacks upon her, often collecting her from school or home, to be taken to flats they owned, family homes, or hotels booked for the day, to be horrifically and systematically abused. …”