Fictions of youth: childness in selected West African novels, 1991-2009 by Moellenberg, T

“…A "child" here is defined as a human person under age 18 and is referred to using the term <em>childness</em>, drawing from the work of children's literature scholar Peter Hollindale. …”

Lotte Reiniger re-imagined by Kang, Fabian Yong Sheng

“…The installation comprise two parts, Hier kommt die U-Bahn, a series of ball-point pen drawings of ‘real world’ 1920s Berlin in an exterior white-cube space; as well as Ein Abenteuer im Wunderwald, an interactive silhouette animation interface inside a black-box space. …”
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Buying influence? The international diplomacy behind donor financing of the World Bank’s International Development Association by Xu, J

“…The first is why the hegemon maintained its burden shares regardless of rise or fall in economic status; I call this <em>‘Hegemonic Lag’</em>. The second is why ascending powers were slow to assume greater burden-shares despite economic ascents; I call this <em>‘Challenger Inertia.’…”

Impact of BPL penalty functions and PSF models in PET/CT radial spatial resolution recovery by Si, Wang Jie

“…A capillary tube was used to draw the selected drop, creating the point source with volume 1 mm3. …”
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The religious life of viking armies by Abrams, L

“…This paper focuses on the mobile and predatory groups of the ninth and early tenth centuries that contemporary sources called ‘armies’. To what extent did they try to recreate the religious beliefs and practice of the Scandinavian homelands? …”

Why the rule of law? A historical perspective by Pirie, F

“…Around the world, systems of accountability are weak and dictators find ways to avoid the constraints of both national and international laws. Yet we continue to call for better laws and for aggressors to be tried for war crimes. …”

Home sweet homo : transnational connections in a Singaporean queer activist movement by Phua, Theng Hui

“…When the Indian Supreme Court made the landmark decision in 2018 to decriminalize consensual, homosexual acts, queer activists in Singapore sought to achieve the same by calling for the repeal of Section 377A of the penal code. …”
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Vile sovereignty: the carnival of power by Hallsworth, Simon, Stephenson, Svetlana

“…To explore what we propose to call the carnival of power, we examine three iterations of this tradition: the festive exercise of state violence, state carnivalisers, and the carnivalesque style in governance.…”
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Organizing and strategizing in and for extreme contexts: temporality, emotions, and embodiment by Hällgren, M, Geiger, D, Rouleau, L, Sutcliffe, KM, Vaara, E

“…The introduction concludes with a call for future studies to deepen engagement with materiality, relational dynamics, and methodological innovations, reinforcing the relevance of this field to broader management and organization studies.…”

Why do rural migrant mothers in urban China digitally monitor their children? by Murphy, R, Wu, G

“…We examine how and why some rural intra-provincial working migrant women in cities in central China used digital monitoring technologies in their mothering. The discussion draws on our 22 face-to-face interviews with the rural migrant mothers of at least one child ages 7–14 years. …”

Beyond national identity : Kuo Pao Kun’s contemporary theatre and an open culture by Wee, C. J. Wan-Ling

“…This article argues that the artistic-cultural work of the late Kuo Pao Kun (1939–2002) from the mid-1990s commenced on what tentatively can be called an extraterritorial theatre practice that engaged with the modern state’s capacity to make national identity singular in the interests of political, military and economic goals, and in which cultural formation and identity must exceed the nation-state’s purview. …”
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Data artivism and feminicide by Suárez Val, Helena, D'Ignazio, Catherine, Acosta Romero, Jimena, Teng, Melissa Q, Fumega, Silvana

“…Data has become a key format for activists to visibilizar (make visible/call attention to) and denounce social issues. Drawing on the concept of “artivism,” we name as data artivism those works that visually intervene in the contestation around an issue by mobilizing art and craft as a form of resistance and as a method to visualize data. …”
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An object category specific mrf for segmentation by Kumar, MP, Torr, PHS, Zisserman, A

“…The resulting combination, which we call the object category specific mrf, suggests a solution to the problem that has long dogged mrfs namely that they provide a poor prior for specific shapes. …”

Beyond symbolism: the roles of action planning and case-making in immigrant integration policymaking by Allen, WL, Broadhead, J

“…In response, we examine how municipal actors in 12 cities and regions across the UK have devised and communicated policies on immigrant integration—an area that lacks national policy inputs yet is locally consequential—through the mechanism of “action planning.” Drawing on 6 years’ worth of documentary evidence generated through a university-initiated collaboration with these municipalities, we show how action plans gather attention for objectives and propagate examples of practice to other cities—what we call “case-making.” …”

Assessing surface seals of soils on slopes by Liu, Chenying

“…This phenomenon is attributed to the formation of a thin dense layer called surface seal on the surface soil. The surface seal is created by interaction forces between water and soil particles such as compaction, attachment, dispersion and so on. …”
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A History of Transparency Regulations: Interdisciplinary Strategies for Shaping Social Media Regulation and Self-Governance by Vergara, Caitlyn, Jain, Raghav, Mehta, Swapneel

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Distributed classification with variable distributions by Quach, Vinh Thanh

“…The promise of distributed classification is to improve the classification accuracy of a learning agent (called party) on its respective local data, using the knowledge of other parties in the distributed network. …”
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Understanding micro costing a genomics-based diagnostic in a resource-limited setting: experiences and challenges from a Burkitt lymphoma study in sub-Saharan Africa by Ruhago, GM, Tungu, M, Morrell, L

“…This initiative is the Aggressive Infection-Related East Africa Lymphoma (AIREAL) study, which is validating a genomic sequencing of circulating tumour deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) isolated from a simple blood draw called “liquid biopsy” for diagnosis in children with suspected Burkitt lymphoma in Uganda and Tanzania. …”

Moments that matter: childhood pain treatment shapes pain for life—we can do better every time in every child by Slater, R, Walker, S, Eccleston, C, Bellieni, C, Hirekodi, T, Carbajal, R, Smart, L, Laughey, W, Cobo, MM, Friedrichsdorf, S

“…Background: Needle procedures, such as vaccinations, blood draws, and intravenous cannulation, are the most frequent source of childhood pain, causing fear and reducing the uptake of medical procedures. …”

Non-destructive Testing and Repair of Pipelines / by Barkanov, Evgeny N., editor 655999, Dumitrescu, Andrei, editor 656000, Parinov, Ivan A., 1956-, editor 656002

“…In turn, the book assesses the currently available technologies for reinforcement of pipelines, drawing on the experience gained by project partners, and evaluates the recovery of the carrying capacity of pipeline sections with local corrosion damage by means of analytical and numerical procedures. …”
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