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Fiction in a fictionalized society [PDF]
, 2015 Book synopsis: The new millennium has been a period of rapid change and under this stimulus British fiction has evolved in new and sometimes unpredictable directions. It is the mercurial nature of its subject matter, which makes the study of contemporary
Brooker, Joseph
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Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Combining a biomimetic soft‐robot with deep‐learning data analytics sheds light on a unique peripheral dynamics seen in the biosonar system of bats: Bats modulate their ultrasonic biosonar signals upon emission as well as reception with variable, yet highly coordinated motion patterns of their noseleaves and pinnae.
Shuxin Zhang +4 more
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Analyzing Use of Thanks to You: Insights for Language Teaching and Assessment in Second and Foreign Language Contexts [PDF]
, 2011 This investigation of thanks to you in British and American usage was precipitated by a situation at an American university, in which a native Arabic speaker said thanks to you in isolation, making his intended meaning unclear.
Crompton, Peter, Lanteigne, Betty
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.Biomass‐derived lignin is used as a sustainable precursor to synthesize Mo single atoms anchored on a nitrogen‐coordinated carbon framework. As the Mo structure transitions from MoC clusters to isolated single‐atom sites, oxygen evolution reaction (ORR) activity progressively improves.
Junbeom Park +16 more
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.A synergistic antibiofilm hydrogel platform (ZBAg@FNP) is developed by encapsulating an organic small‐molecule photothermal agent (FNP) within a silver ion‐mediated supramolecular hydrogel (ZBAg), enabling photothermal disruption of biofilm integrity and controlled Ag⁺ ion release upon irradiation.
Yinghui Wen +8 more
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Literary Engagement with the (Traumatic) Past
American and British Studies Annual, 2015 Review of History, Memory, Trauma in Contemporary British and Irish Fiction by Beata Piątek (Krakow: Jagiellonian University Press, 2014)
Šárka Bubíková
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Neo lines: Alan Hollinghurst and the apogee of the eighties [PDF]
, 2005 When Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty won the Booker Prize in October 2004, it sealed the arrival in fiction of a retrospective exploration of the 1980s which had already been unmistakable in British culture.
Brooker, Joseph
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.A bio‐inspired Micro‐wrinkled Janus elastomeric flexible strain sensor mimicking wrinkled‐leaf viburnum is developed. Endowed with a synergistic sensing mechanism including wrinkle‐guided microcracks, modulus‐gradient‐driven strain division, and a parallel conductive circuit, it achieves ultra‐high linearity, sensitivity, wide strain range, and ...
Jing Lin +11 more
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Alienation in Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting
Literator, 2010 This article examines how Melvin Seeman’s theory of alienation (1959) and modern alienation research manifest in Irvine Welsh’s “Trainspotting”. This is an important novel, not only because of its commercial success, but also because it depicts a ...
B.A. Senekal
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, 2010 [About the book]: Featuring over 500 entries written by an international team of scholars, The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction is an authoritative reference resource of up to date scholarship.
Haslam, Sara
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