Negotiating the self between past and present: narratives of older women moving towards self-employment by Tomlinson, Frances, Colgan, Fiona

“…Older people are encouraged into self-employment as a means to extend their working lives; however both age and gender are thought to constrain the capacity of individuals to take on an enterprising identity. …”
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The last career transition? A gendered perspective on retirement by Tomlinson, Frances

“…Specifically the impact of rapidly ageing populations in western industrialised societies has increased the pressure on people to extend their working lives beyond the traditional age of retirement. This chapter explores the surrounding debates from a gendered perspective, focusing on contrasts in the retirement experiences of men and women and the impact of retirement on gender relations. …”
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Book review : Capital and ideology by Haynes, Jeffrey

“…Piketty explores the material and ideological interactions of conflicting social groups that have given us slavery, serfdom, colonialism, communism, and hypercapitalism, shaping the lives of billions. He concludes that the great driver of human progress over the centuries has been the struggle for equality and education and not, as often argued, the assertion of property rights or the pursuit of stability. …”

Human nature: why ‘urban rewilding’ is good for us by Moxon, Sian

“…In cities, immersion in natural spaces and encounters with other species can be hard to come by, yet these experiences are especially crucial for city residents to counter their stressful lives. Increasing urban nature would benefit the quality of life of many people, given that in England 80% of us live in cities. …”
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Women and flexitime by Abdul Kadir, Adibah, Maulad Bahro, Khadijah, Mohd Rosli, Nur Amalina, Ismail, Fadillah

“…Therefore, they require more independent work arrangements to meet the needs of work and their daily lives. Traditionally working time where the time work began at nine to five job is increasingly not required (Manpower, 2010).…”
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SoundJam 2018: Acoustic Design For Auditory Enrichment by French, Fiona, Kendrick, Paul, Gupfinger, Reinhard

“…The day will be organized along the lines of a traditional gamejam.…”
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Where Russians go for news by Sloane, Wendy

“…Others are risking their lives – or at least their livelihoods – to protest against the current situation and, in some cases, flee the country. …”
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Wideband mosaic frequency selective surface for dichroic surface, absorber and directive antenna applications by Mohamed Nafis, Nur Biha

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Transitory microbial habitat in the hyperarid Atacama Desert by Schulze-Makuch, Dirk, Wagner, Dirk, Kounaves, Samuel P., Mangelsdorf, Kai, Devine, Kevin G., de Vera, Jean-Pierre, Schmitt-Kopplin, Philippe, Grossart, Hans-Peter, Parro, Victor, Kaupenjohann, Martin, Galy, Albert, Schneider, Beate, Airo, Alessandro, Frösler, Jan, Davila, Alfonso F., Arens, Felix L., Cáceres, Luis, Cornejo, Francisco Solís, Carrizo, Daniel, Dartnell, Lewis, DiRuggiero, Jocelyne, Flury, Markus, Ganzert, Lars, Gessner, Mark O., Grathwohl, Peter, Guan, Lisa, Heinz, Jacob, Hess, Matthias, Keppler, Frank, Maus, Deborah, McKay, Christopher P., Meckenstock, Rainer U., Montgomery, Wren, Oberlin, Elizabeth A., Probst, Alexander J., Sáenz, Johan S., Sattler, Tobias, Schirmack, Janosch, Sephton, Mark A., Schloter, Michael, Uhl, Jenny, Valenzuela, Bernardita, Vestergaard, Gisle, Wörmer, Lars, Zamorano, Pedro

“…Although microbial biomass and diversity decrease with increasing aridity in the Atacama Desert, we provide multiple lines of evidence for the presence of an at times metabolically active, microbial community in one of the driest places on Earth. …”
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Dataset for TPB, Data Security and Perceived Benefits by Yahya, Taher Ben

“…Repeated actions and behaviours are characteristic of people’s daily lives. However, there is a dilemma when this repeated action is associated with mobile phone recycling since convincing mobile users to recycle sustainably is challenging. …”
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Virtual realities in the business world by Tredinnick, Luke

“…The growing importance of digital environments in our lives has made the separation between the virtual and the real ever more palpable. …”

English diaspora in North America: migration, ethnicity and association, 1730s–1950s by Bueltmann, Tanja, MacRaild, Donald

“…While the transplanted cultural lives of the Irish, Scots and continental Europeans have received much attention, the English are far less widely explored. …”

At whose cost? Racialised differences in how domestic violence and sexual violence advocates adapted to COVID-19 by Taha, Selma, Kelly, Liz

“…An unanticipated but revealing finding was that the conjunction of the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement made visible and visceral the daily work that Black women do to manage everyday racism, including in the VAWG sector. …”

Making of intimate capitalism: from cultrural economy to creative and cultural industries by Nayak, Bhabani Shankar

“…Intimate capitalism creates conditions where the market economy interacts with the objective and subjective realms of the everyday lives of people within intimate social, religious, and cultural contexts. …”
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ABC: android botnet classification using feature selection and classification algorithms by Abdullah, Zubaile, Mohd Saudi, Madihah, Anuar, Nor Badrul

“…Smartphones have become an important part of human lives, and this led to an increase number of smartphone users. …”

Sanitation and safety while conducting a practical class among Undergraduate Vocational Education (Catering), UTHM by Ismail, Lisa Mariam Syawal, Tukiran, Nor Anis Intan Aqiah, Mohd Nasir, Muhammad Nur Hazim

“…Food is a necessity for humankind in gaining the energy and substance to live their normal lives. According to Maslow (1955) through his pyramid hieraki he developed that food essentially serves as an essential core to meet hunger and to meet the biological needs of humans for survival. …”
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The immigrants by Kollectiv, Galia, Kollectiv, Pil

“…In the first four films, through a series of small actions undertaken by costumed performers in different locations across the UK, an installation of filmed vignettes posits the futility of the border as a means of demarcating boundaries of identity, power and resources in an age of global capital flows, migrant labour forces, and environmental destruction that does not stop at abstract lines on a map. Masks drawn from sources as diverse as Romanian folklore and riot police spit masks, combined with props suggesting checkpoints and rafts, invert the hierarchies of border guards and asylum seekers, refugees in boats and Brexit flotillas. …”
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Multi-Way and Poly-Phase Wideband Differential Phase Shifter Based on Metamaterial Technology by Hamidia, A, Honarvar, M. Amin, Virdee, Bal Singh

“…This paper presents multi-way and poly-phase differential phase shifter (DPS) based on metamaterial technology to realize delay lines of equal length. The proposed phase shifter provides the required phase shift relative to the reference line over a wide bandwidth. …”
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Immigration, politics and violence in urban France: between fiction and facts by Recchia, Francesca

“…Semi-fictional accounts of immigrants’ life in the banlieues are a privileged source of information about the social distress that nurtured the explosion of urban violence. Reading between the lines of these representations helps grasping what happens underneath the surface of an overexposed situation of inequality that periodically morphs into violence. …”
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Lombok, Indonesia Earthquake: What Happened and Why? by Harun, Hasnida, A. Hamid, Hazren, Sunar, N.M., Ahmad, Faridahanim

“…Earthquakes occur most often along geologic faults, narrow zones where rock masses move in relation to one another. The vital fault lines of the world are located at the fringes of the huge tectonic plates that make up Earth’s crust [1]. …”
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