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Sleuths and Spies: the rise of the 'Everywoman' in detective and thriller fiction of the 1920s [PDF]

, 2013
The 1920s, frequently referred to as the ‘Roaring Twenties’ or the ‘Jazz Age’, are often associated with opulent lifestyles and the emergence of striking fashion and furniture trends.
Franks, Rachel, Bydder, Jillene
core  

Ultra‐White Elastomeric Coatings for Daytime Radiative Cooling

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
Passive daytime radiative cooling meets elasticity in a new class of ultra‐white silicone coatings. Combining high solar reflectance with strong sky‐window emission, they hold surfaces below ambient temperature under full sunlight while remaining flexible and stretchable. This combination of cooling performance and mechanical flexibility enables energy‐
Abdulrahman Aljwirah, Xiaojie Liu, Khalid Alhammadi, Orlando G. Rivera Gonzalez, Won‐June Lee, Xiulin Ruan   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Colonizing the fantastic: Reading Stephenie Meyer’s Breaking Dawn as all-in-one text

Literacy Trek, 2020
As the life on the planet gets more and more complicated due to the rapid changes in the socio-cultural paradigms, the task of boundary drawing, categorization or classification appears as a hazardous task.
Baysar Tanıyan
doaj  

The Effect of Reading a Short Passage of Literary Fiction on Theory of Mind: A Replication of Kidd and Castano (2013)

Collabra: Psychology, 2018
The results reported by Kidd and Castano (2013) indicated that reading a short passage of literary fiction improves theory of mind (ToM) relative to reading popular fiction.
Iris van Kuijk, Peter Verkoeijen, Katinka Dijkstra, Rolf A. Zwaan   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

High Throughput Aerosol Jet Printing to Operationalize High Aspect Ratio Patterning

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
High‐throughput aerosol jet printing poses distinct limiting mechanisms to the printing process. These include rapidly changing ink chemistries, atomization instabilities, and liquid‐phase spreading. The combination of in‐line heating, process monitoring, and traditional optimization procedures enables rapid printing of high‐aspect‐ratio structures ...
Bella I. Guyll, Md Mahdi Ul Ishtiaque, Md Ramjan Ali, Todd A. Kingston, Ethan B. Secor   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Characterized Ecoflex Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) Hybrids for Advanced Flexible Devices

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
Ecoflex–PDMS hybrids are systematically characterized to identify an optimal composition that balances stretchability, optical transparency, and plasma bonding, enabling multifunctional applications in stretchable microfluidics, flexible sensing, and soft robotics.
Xiaoyue Kang, Zhefan Chen, Zhiyang Hong, Wanting Chen, Qingtian Zhang, Amith Mudugamuwa, Tuan‐Khoa Nguyen, Lingxi Ouyang, Nam‐Trung Nguyen, Jun Zhang, Dan Yuan   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Multimodal Locomotion in Insect‐Inspired Microrobots: A Review of Strategies for Aerial, Surface, Aquatic, and Interfacial Motion

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This review identifies key design considerations for insect‐inspired microrobots capable of multimodal locomotion. To draw inspiration, biological and robotic strategies for moving in air, on water surfaces, and underwater are examined, along with approaches for crossing the air–water interface.
Mija Jovchevska, Kaushik Jayaram, Nicole Xu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

“How Cool Was Will Freeman?”: From the New Lad to the Postfeminist Man in High Fidelity and About a Boy [PDF]

HyperCultura, 2020
This article aims to investigate the concept of contemporary masculinities reflected in two of Nick Hornby’s novels belonging to the popular fiction genre and generally associated with the New Lad phenomenon.
Cristina Chifane
doaj  

Gait Analysis of Pak Biawak: A Necrobot Lizard Built using the Skeleton of an Asian Water Monitor (Varanus Salvator)

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Pak Biawak, a necrobot, embodies an unusual fusion of biology and robotics. Designed to repurpose natural structures after death, it challenges conventional boundaries between nature and engineering. Its movements are precise yet unsettling, raising questions about sustainability, ethics, and the untapped potential of biointegrated machines.
Leo Foulds, Donan Satria Yudha, Parvez Alam   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bodies that Become Content: Reading Fujoshi’s Voices and Discursive Construction of Cuteness in Thai BL Novels

Journal of Popular Romance Studies
This article discusses BL, a literary genre depicting male-male homoerotic relationships, together with the representation of the fujoshi, a term which refers to female fans of BL media.
Bancha Rattanamathuwong
doaj   +1 more source