Shifting identities of Bengali female learners in ESOL : a poststructuralist feminist exploration of classed, ‘raced’ and gender identities by Bonetti, Vivijana

“…I also draw upon post-colonial, black feminist perspectives to argue that the voices from the margins that have traditionally been excluded from the knowledge making processes can bring into dispute the current discourses about ’race’, class, gender, culture, religion, patriarchy and femininity. …”
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An ethnographic study of Black Ugandan British parents’ experiences of supporting their children’s learning within their home environments by Musoke, Waliah Nalukwago

“…The study found that Black Ugandan British parents with middle class backgrounds from Uganda, but positioned as working class parents in the UK, bring their Ugandan middle class backgrounds to supporting their children’s education in the UK, which calls for the need to understand Black Ugandan British parents’ middle class backgrounds and the influence they have on their ways of supporting their children’s education. …”
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Institutional quality in the finance-growth nexus in Sub-Saharan Africa by Adu-Darko, Eunice Adwoa

“…Specifically, it seeks to achieve four main objectives: first, to capture both the market and non-market features of institutional quality in order to bring out the full contribution of institutional quality to economic growth within the framework of finance-growth nexus; second, to investigate the role of market and non-market institutions in the finance-growth nexus for a group of twenty-one SSA economies; third, to detect and account for structural breaks introduced by historical events to produce more reliable estimates in our investigation; and fourth, to consider the constant elasticity of substitution and the variable elasticity of substitution in addition to the Cobb-Douglas production function to not only relax the constraints but also check the robustness of the analysis. …”
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Sustainable tourism planning by local authorities : an investigation of the London Boroughs by Maxim, Cristina

“…Nevertheless, it has been suggested that local authorities can bring together and facilitate the cooperation between all these stakeholders, and therefore can play an essential role in the sustainable development of tourism in a destination. …”
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Can Industry 5.0 revolutionize the wave of resilience and social value creation? A multi-criteria framework to analyze enablers by Sindhwani, Rahul, Afridi, Shayan, Kumar, Anil, Banaitis, Audrius, Luthra, Sunil, Singh, Punj Lata

“…Therefore, the Industry 5.0 (I5.0) revolution is a call to bring forth the ideas of sustainability into practice, integrate human values with technology, and is considered a step forward for achieving sustainable development goals. …”
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Policing terrorism in Nigeria: challenges for the 21st century by Mbaso, Chijioke Theophilius

“…In addition, the findings confirm that the NPF and similar agencies know they lack the skill set needed to bring the issue of terrorism to a minimum. Hence, training needs have been identified and embarked on. …”
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Design, manufacturing and testing of parachute recovery system for aludra SR-10 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) by Saim, Raudhah

“…Most of all, the parachute recovery was able to support and bring the aircraft to a soft and safe landing thus, confirmed its reliability. …”
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Cold compression in direct recycling of aluminium 6061 by Chan, Boon Loong

“…It was found that an increased in the compression force above the optimum condition will not bring any significant outcome on the compressed specimen. …”
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Power Factor Correction – A Simulation Approach by Che Ros, Ziana, Nordin, Muhammad Faris, Anuar, Muhammad Abdullah, Abdul Razak, Muhammad Hazim

“…In so doing, they incur more line losses. They also must have larger capacity equipment in place than would be otherwise necessary. …”
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Compact tri-band Wilkinson power divider based on metamaterial structure for Bluetooth, WiMAX, and WLAN applications by Khajeh-Khalili, Farzad, Honarvar, M. Amin, Dadgarpour, Abdolmehdi, Virdee, Bal Singh, Denidni, Tayeb A.

“…It comprises a П-shaped transmission-line coupled to a rectangular split ring resonator metamaterial structure. …”
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Nevertheless, she resisted: the body as a site of resistance in "The Autopsy of Jane Doe" by Beddows, Amy

“…Yet portraying misogyny and violence - especially sexual violence - on screen without replicating the messages that perpetuate these complex issues (such as that women’s bodies are objects for male pleasure, or that female sexual agency is deviant), is a tricky line for filmmakers to tread. Women’s bodies are often used as a site for horror, with bloody wounds interspersed with bare skin and sexualised scenarios and the complications of combining terror and titillation are still debated today. …”
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Bandwidth enhancement of dielectric resonator reflectarray antenna by Ahmadi, Farzaneh, Forooraghi, Keyvan, Atlasbaf, Zahra, Virdee, Bal Singh

“…These results were validated using the transmission-line method.…”
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Opinion on the compatibility of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) with the European Convention on Human Rights & the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights by Korff, Douwe, Brown, Ian

“…It follows a request to find out “if the final Version of ACTA and its foreseen legislative procedure is in line with the Treaties of the European Union and which legal possibilities there are for the European Parliament to challenge this in front of the European Court of Justice.” …”
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Book review: The urban enigma: time, autonomy and postcolonial transformation in Latin America by Simone Vegliò by Levy, Helton

“…The book discusses the projects’ ambitions in line with the vision of modernity at their time while contrasting their aims with the demands of social inclusion, justice, and the continuation of colonial ideas.…”
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A review on shoreline detection framework using remote sensing satellite image by Zulkifle, Farizuwana Akma, Hassan, Rohayanti, Kasim, Shahreen, M. Othman, Razib

“…Shoreline is usually defined as the intersection of the land with the water surface of the mean high water line with the beach profile. In relation, most research in recent years has set the focus on remote sensing which makes it possible to collect data on this shoreline areas. …”
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Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy experimentation and applications by Haider, Zuhaib, Tufail, Kashif, Roslan, Sufi, Munajat, Yusof

“…Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) is one of the highly potential techniques to compete in this competitive arena for rapid elemental analysis which can be further used for real-time composition monitoring in the production line, post-production inspection, scrap sorting and even for classification of biological samples. …”
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Flexible skin-contact antenna with artificial magnetic conductor for health monitoring application by Othman, Nazirah

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Low magnetic field exposure alters prostate cancer cell properties by Lange, Sigrun, Inal, Jameel, Kraev, Igor, Dart, Dafydd Alwyn, Uysal-Onganer, Pinar

“…This study investigated the effects of LMF exposure (20 nT) by magnetic shielding on the prostate cancer cell line PC3 compared to the prostate epithelial cell line PNT2 under short-term (4 h) conditions. …”
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The influence of biosynthesis zinc oxide nanoparticles by using fruit extracts of ananas comosus towards the performance of PSF/ZNO membrane by Raja Ahmad, Raja Puteri Nurul Adibah

“…The bandgap energy value of the ZnO (C) and ZnO (P) was 2.20 eV and 3.17 eV respectively which in line with the photocatalytic activity as many as 66.4% and 96.2% for ZnO (C) and ZnO (P) respectively in this study. …”
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Partners in national cyber security strategy? : An analysis of cyber security strategies of Ministry of Defence and police in UK by Onugha, Chikaodi Viola

“…The research also found that the Cyber Security Strategy is mainly state centric while policing is human centric in approach, this accounts for the challenges in bringing the policing cyber strategy in line with the National cyber strategy. …”
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