Driving Miss Norma : AN INSPIRATIONAL STORY ABOUT WHAT REALLY MATTERS AT THE END OF LIFE / by Bauerschmidt, Tim, author 655967, Liddle,Ramie, author 655968

“…But instead of confining herself to a hospital bed for what could be her last stay, Miss Norma - newly widowed after nearly seven decades of marriage - rose to her full height of five feet and told the doctor, "I'm ninety years old. …”

Deception in the Cotswolds / by Tope, Rebecca, author 647154

“…"In the wake of a series of unfortunate house-sitting experiences in the Cotswolds, Thea Osborne, accompanied by her spaniel Hepzibah, is perhaps optimistic about the English summertime and the possibilities of her latest assignment-house-sitting for transatlantic reptile breeder Harriet Young. …”

Revisiting “conversations between father and son” by Ong, Bendini Junior Boon Kok

“…Revisiting “Conversations Between Father and Son” (2014) is a participatory installation where the audience joins the artist in revisiting her last conversations with her father, a medium, before his legal death in 2009. …”
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The host : a novel / by Meyer, Stephenie, 1973- 317653

“…But there was one difficulty Wanderer didn't expect: the former tenant of her body refusing to relinquish possession of her mind. …”

An examination of the "Pathology" of relationships within the dynamics of illness in Jane Austen's EMMA by Saradetch Melissa-Mae.

“…The importance of Emma seems to be that it provides Austen with a Active space within which she displaces her personal frustration over the "illnesses" of her society.…”
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离散、家国、女性 ： 韩素音的中国性论述 = Diaspora, home, feminism : the Chinese-ness in Han Suyin’s works by 梁依婷 Neo, Yi Ting

“…She was born in China, with her father being Chinese and her mother being Belgian. …”
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SU(3) topological insulators in the honeycomb lattice by Bornheimer, U., Miniatura, Christian, Grémaud, B.

“…In this paper, we focus on the topological properties of the single-particle band structure, namely, Chern numbers (lattice with periodic boundary conditions) and edge states (lattice with strip geometry) and their connection to time-reversal symmetry and the sublattice symmetry. …”
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The artifice that endures the burden of the past : analysing memory in Angela Carter's fictional works. by Yuvaneswari.

“…This essay hopes to prove that memory is integral to Carter’s cause and that her texts show her subtle but significant involvement with the process of memory. …”
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Introduction — a roundtable on The Woman of Colour (1808) : pedagogic and critical approaches (Roundtable) by Sinanan, Kerry

“…Olivia is sent to marry her white cousin Augustus Merton to whom she will be-queath £60,000 in return for being protected and assured of her freedom. …”
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Drafting ‘Anon’ and killing anon: Virginia Woolf and the genesis of English literary language by Phillips, J

“…Rather, it is narrated multiple times in multiple drafts which attest to Woolf’s ongoing attempts to think through her literary history as she writes. First, this essay gives a brief overview of the corpus of drafts Woolf left at the time of her death. …”

Investigating viral glycosylation pathways for drug and vaccine development by Brun, J

“…Chapter 5 discusses the establishment of a medium-throughput drug screening platform against SARS-CoV-2. FDA-approved compounds were prioritised and triaged within the screen for clinical committees such as the UK steering group for therapeutics for COVID-19. …”

From Sample to Answer: Innovations in sample processing and CRISPR-based diagnostics for enhanced clinical translation and field deployment by Arizti Sanz, Jon

“…However, the global diagnostic testing capacity is currently insufficient to effectively respond to emerging infectious disease threats, which has fueled the spread of Lassa, Ebola, SARS-CoV-2, and Zika virus in recent years. Globally, this diagnostic gap is particularly pronounced at the primary care or community level, an essential site for swift and effective response. …”
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Representing perpetrator trauma in Ian McEwan’s The Children Act by He, Qijia, Kaur, Hardev, Ujum, Diana Abu, Ching, Florence Toh Haw

“…Specifically, it explores how Fiona’s personal traumas happened earlier in life are reactivated and drive her to take the role of a perpetrator, and to hurt Adam Henry with her coldness and aggression that facilitates Adam’s death. …”
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Best practices for ports and shipping companies to build resilience against pandemics by Tan, Hui En

“…The maritime industry has experienced similar kinds of pandemic outbreaks (SARS and Avian Flu), but they still faltered in the face of COVID-19. …”
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The making of kebaya - project book by Beh, Wen Jing, Poh, Trevor Ji En, Heng, Jing Yu, Chew, Alvin Jia Liang, Vu, Quang Ngoc, Muhammad Adam Rosli, Yip, Vanessa Yee Sing

“…Kebaya is a short narrative film about a young air stewardess (Ting) who has to navigate her role as a caregiver for her estranged grandmother, while managing and dealing with her relationship with her distant father (David).…”
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Frail Line by Er, Kia Hui, Ong, Grace Xi Wei, Ho, Baofei, Tan, Jit Quan, Boithar, Faizal

“…The daughter is a hair dresser with long hair, she cuts her hair after the breakup with her boyfriend. Disillusioned with romantic love, the daughter seeks solace and escape in the company of her father, a male figure who has re-entered her life. …”
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Bella's empowerment - why the twilight saga is not anti-feminist. by See, Shawn Kai Sheng.

“…Meyer delineates how caught in between the fantastical world of these mythical arch-enemies, Bella, a weak and hapless human, successfully navigates and plots her own path such that by the end of the series supernatural hostilities are buried and Bella is able to create her very own happily ever after.…”
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A high-performance main-memory query engine on emerging many-core processors by Cheng, Xuntao

“…We recognize that a key component of ageless computing systems is the storage, processing, and management of data collected from the elderly people, based on which customized cares can be provided. For example, health care providers can provide more fine-grained and accurate services to the elderly if they are enabled to track important bio-metrics and analyze them in a timely manner for each elderly individual. …”
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Development of a learning system for robot control by Marcelino, Michael Aldren

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Enhanced symmetries in minimally-twisted three-dimensional supersymmetric theories by Garner, N, Raghavendran, S, Williams, BR

“…We demonstrate this in a range of examples, including $N = 4$ Yang-Mills theories and superconformal Chern-Simons theories, describing how the symmetries are implemented at the level of local operators.…”