Georgia / by Pearse, Lesley, author

“…Penniless, sleeping rough, Georgia is soon introduced to the sleazy Soho world of brassy strippers, sweat shops, camaraderie and hardship. Fired by a fierce ambition, blessed with an extraordinary voice, her long struggle for fame and fortune begins. …”

Context-Aware VoIP Congestion Control Service by Gordon Agutu, Karim Djouani, Elmarie Biermann, Guillaume Noel

“… IP networks can have difficulty coping with delay-sensitive VoIP traffics during emergency situations caused by fires and related disasters. During emergencies there is a huge increase in voice and video traffic, causing a huge strain on the network. …”
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From e-commerce to m-commerce : a new competitive environment for wireless vendors by Von Meyer zu Knonow, Andreas, 1962-, Shoffner, Mann A., 1971-

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Reading between the lines : blueprints for a worker support infrastructure in the peer economy by Cheng, Denise Fung

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Five themes for ecostylistics by Goatly Andrew

“…These themes are illustrated by poetic examples from Wordsworth and Edward Thomas, and detailed analysis of the following texts: Gerard Manley Hopkins’ “As Kingfishers Catch Fire” and “Nature is a Heraclitean Fire”; Edward Thomas’s “The Word”, Alice Oswald’s “Sonnet” and “Birdsong for Two Voices”, and, returning to a text whose analysis by Michael Halliday was seminal for Stylistics, William Golding’s The Inheritors. …”
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Fear of Being Black in America by Adriana Barešić

“…The title of the book is a reference to James Baldwin's work The Fire Next Time, published about fifty years prior to this book, since it discusses the same themes of race and identity but in a more contemporary context and through voices of various authors.The authors wrote the book in relation to all the historical events that led to the current position of black people in America while also describing their own experiences and reactions to the more contemporary events of police brutality and the Black Lives Matter movement. …”
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Analytical Study of the Characteristics, Motives and Socio-political Causes of Profanity in the Literature of the Constitutional Era by Mahdi Zarifian, Mohammad Jafar Yahaghi, Homa Katouzian

“…The violence that is a symbol of the inner turmoil and the endless impatience that burns the writers of this period in its fire, blocks the way to any gradual reform or toleration of the opposing voice, and it is not satisfied except to destroy the previous constructions and try to build a new building. …”
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Eestlaste kiigekultuur enne ja nüüd by Anu Vissel

“…Large North Estonian swings can be found on open-air stages, fire making places where festivities are held during the Midsummer Days, swing hills, parks and tourist farms. …”
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Social and Ecological Dimensions of Tropical Peatland Restoration: Foreword by Samantha Grover, Sarah Treby, Daniel S. Mendham, Tri Wira Yuwati, Niken Sakuntaladewi, James D. Langston, Andrea Rawluk

“…This Special Volume of Mires and Peat is a collaborative effort by an Indonesian and Australian team of biophysical and social scientists to showcase primary research and systematic reviews that engage with the complexity of tropical peatland fire, conservation and restoration in Indonesia. …”
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Distant Drums And Thunderous Cannon: Sounding Authority In Traditional Malay Society by Andaya, Barbara Watson

“…At the very basic level, thunder—the voice of the heavens—established the benchmark and the basis for comparison for awe-inspiring sounds that humans could attempt to replicate, notably in the beating of drums and the firing of cannon. …”
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Spelling interface using intracortical signals in a completely locked-in patient enabled via auditory neurofeedback training by Ujwal Chaudhary, Ioannis Vlachos, Jonas B. Zimmermann, Arnau Espinosa, Alessandro Tonin, Andres Jaramillo-Gonzalez, Majid Khalili-Ardali, Helge Topka, Jens Lehmberg, Gerhard M. Friehs, Alain Woodtli, John P. Donoghue, Niels Birbaumer

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Intraoperative Sentinel Events in the Era of Surgical Safety Checklists: Results of a National Survey by John D. Cramer MD, Karthik Balakrishnan MD, MPH, Soham Roy MD, C. W. David Chang MD, Emily F. Boss MD, MPH, Jean M. Brereton MBA, Taskin M. Monjur, Brian Nussenbaum MD, MHCM, Michael J. Brenner MD

“…Wrong site/patient/procedure events were reported by 38 (7.3%) respondents, retained surgical items by 33 (6.4%), and operating room fire by 18 (3.5%). Although 414 (79.9%) respondents felt that time-outs before the case have been the single most impactful checklist component to prevent serious patient safety events, several respondents also voiced frustrations with the administrative burden. …”
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Entangled Tongues: A Poststructuralist and Postcolonial Reading of Acts 2:1-13 by Christy Cobb

“…The focus of my study will be Acts 2:1-13, the Pentecost narrative, where the reader first interacts with tongues of fire and with the experience of glossolalia, speaking in tongues. …”
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Conflicts in Intergenerational Relationships and Patterns of Coordination among Chinese–African Families in Guangzhou by Yang Zhou

“…Although all three models attempt to balance intergenerational voices and decision-making power, the first two models are generally present in relatively stable family relationships, while the last model consists of relatively negative aspects that actually add fuel to the fire when family conflicts arise. …”
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Prophetic praises in the era of the Crusades by Nazim Rasheed

“…In every state, a prince speaks to his neighbor, plots for him, and lurks about him in circles, to launch raids on his state, reprimand from his possession with the spoils and plunder, and leave him with body parts, water, fire and destruction, in compliance with the ambitions of ambitions, and the motives of goals and objectives. …”
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Pragmatic Reference in Elvis Gbanabom Hallowell's The Dining Table by Olusegun Oladele Jegede

“…This was evident with the deployment of  referents such as dinner, tonight, gun wounds, desert tongues, vegetable blood, pepper, scorpions, guests, oceans of bowls, vegetables, tongues, the table, an island, guerrillas, crocodiles, surf, Alphabeta, empty palms, switchblades, silence, voices, playground, children`s toys, roadblocks, cup of life, ticks, cracked lips, milk, moon, revolutionary, Nile, tributaries, night, lovers of fire, gun wounds, boots, walk. …”
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The representation of bodily pain in late nineteenth-century English culture by Bending, L, Bending, Lucy

“…In Chapter Three I argue that despite popular belief, voiced most clearly by Virginia Woolf, that 'there is no language for pain', sufferers find language that is both metaphorical and directly referential to express their bodily suffering. …”

Pitch representations in the auditory nerve : two concurrent complex tones by Larsen, Erik, Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Rethinking the governance of geothermal power industry: The roadmap for sustainable development by Mohd Alsaleh, A.S. Abdul-Rahim

“…The European geothermal heating market, at one time dominated by only a handful of countries, is set to experience a purple patch in the coming years as governments scramble to find an affordable alternative to expensive gas-fired heating. The primary focus of this study will be to investigate what effect will worldwide governance factors and economic growth on the geothermal energy output among the 27 European Countries from the time being 1996 to 2021. …”
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Improved cookstoves to reduce household air pollution exposure in sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review of intervention studies by Eunice Phillip, Jessica Langevin, Megan Davis, Nitya Kumar, Aisling Walsh, Vincent Jumbe, Mike Clifford, Ronan Conroy, Debbi Stanistreet

“…Most (86.9%) of the improved cookstoves showed a reduction in harmful emission levels compared to the traditional three-stone fire. However, the levels were higher than the WHO-recommended safe levels. …”
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