Application of Judith Butler’s “gender performativity” in Asian cultures by Ding, Gary Yongping

“…Simone de Beauvoir’s formulation in The Second Sex has led to new conceptions in gender identity. Her assertion is based on the belief of “the noncoincidence of natural and gendered identity” (Salih 23). …”
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Upstream : Selected Essays / by Oliver, Mary, 1963-2019, author 656023, Penguin Publishing Group (Online service) 655981

“…Emphasizing the significance of her childhood “friend” Walt Whitman, through whose work she first understood that a poem is a temple, “a place to enter, and in which to feel,” and who encouraged her to vanish into the world of her writing, Oliver meditates on the forces that allowed her to create a life for herself out of work and love. …”
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Blind detection of interlever parameters for block and convolutional coded sequences by Liu, Xuezhe.

“…Channel encoding is implemented in most digital communications to combat transmission errors, which is achieved by adding additional parity check bits to the data stream. However, channel encoder will not be able to handle the effects of fading or burst errors. …”
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Can machines learn questions? by Soo, Alvin

“…To ensure the highest performance of the classifier, the dataset is pre-processed in different ways and tested to check its performance. Text pre-processing includes removal of common stop words, punctuation and numerical numbers. …”
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Non-Hermitian extension of the Haldane model induced by non-reciprocal hopping by Law, Yi Khing

“…The degeneracies in the non-Hermitian framework are categorized, followed by the Chern number topological phase transi- tions. In the presence of non-Hermiticity however, there is a failure of the correspon- dence between the bulk and the boundary which is attributed to the non-Hermitian skin effect. …”
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Unconventional exhibitions of desire. by Ng, Hwei Yun.

“…Thus, her books provide an unfolding of possibilities for society.…”
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SyROCCo: enhancing systematic reviews using machine learning by Fang, Z, Arana-Catania, M, van Lier, F-A, Outes Velarde, J, Bregazzi, H, Airoldi, M, Carter, E, Proctor, R

“…The sheer number of research outputs published every year makes systematic reviewing increasingly time- and resource-intensive. …”

Taking Flight: FROM WAR ORPHAN TO STAR BALLERINA/ by Deprince, Michaela, author 656399, Deprince, Elaine, author 656400

“…Michaela DePrince was known as girl Number 27 at the orphanage, where she was abandoned at a young age and tormented as a "devil child" for a skin condition that makes her skin appear spotted. But it was at the orphanage that Michaela would find a picture of a beautiful ballerina en pointe that would help change the course of her life. …”

古典文学中的“戏妻”、“试妻”现象 = An analysis of "Husband Teasing wife" in classical Chinese literature by 郑慧萍 Tay, Hui Ping

“…Due to the separation for many years, Qiuhu mistook his wife for another woman and even dallied with her. …”
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LinkLive : discovering Web learning resources for developers from Q&A discussions by Li, Jing, Xing, Zhenchang, Sun, Aixin

“…This paper is concerned with the situation where a developer is visiting a Web page, but at the same time is willing to explore correlated Web resources to extend his/her knowledge or to satisfy his/her curiosity. Specifically, we present an item-based collaborative filtering technique, named LinkLive, for automatically recommending a list of correlated Web resources for a particular Web page. …”
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Soulvurn by Tan, Sherneese

“…Through the symbolic representation of a character, she uses the medium of deconstructed fashion to break down societal expectations, gain agency and achieve self-actualisation. Her process is showcased through a choreography in a concept film and deconstructed garments that symbolise specific stages of her autonomy- driven process. …”
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The risk management of unemployment. by Chan, Han Eng., Ling, Julian., Sim, Rodney Boon Hian.

“…Singapore has almost achieved a developed nation status. Her population is greying. Singapore is likely to undergo a lot of changes, be it the social environment or the economic environment. …”
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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. …”

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. …”

‘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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The hunter and the wolf : male gender roles in little red riding hood by Au, Dawn

“…By re-envisioning the figure of Little Red Riding Hood as foolish, sinful and warranting punishment for straying off the straight path, Perrault entrenched her in popular culture as a sadomasochistic object on which it is acceptable to enact violence. …”
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Searching for a cultural identity in Singapore – the idea of home, belonging and not belonging through the individual and collective in Kuo Pao Kun’s The Spirits Play. by Ho, Ziting.

“…Though economically functional and able to support herself, Singapore still lacks a strong sense of cultural cultivation which is needed to give her a sense of belonging within the country itself as well as in her people. …”
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