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The Fantastic-Grotesque in Beh’Āzin’s “The Snake Stone” [PDF]

مطالعات زبانی و بلاغی
The present study offers a reading of “The Snake Stone,” penned by Mahmũd Etemādzāde aka. Beh’Āzin (1915-2006), as a tale of fantastic-grotesque. With a preliminary discussion on the grotesque and fantastic in relation to non-western literature, the ...
Nahid Shahbazi Moghaddam
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Optimization of Lithium‐Ion Battery Circular Economy in Electric Vehicles in Sustainable Supply Chain

Battery Energy, Volume 4, Issue 2, March 2025.
Lithium batteries constitute a pivotal component in electric vehicles (EVs) owing to their rechargeability and high‐power output capabilities. ABSTRACT Lithium batteries constitute a pivotal component in electric vehicles (EVs) owing to their rechargeability and high‐power output capabilities.
Mohsen Alizadeh Afroozi, Mohammad Gramifar, Babak Hazratifar, Mohammad Mahdi Keshvari, Seyed Behnam Razavian   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Aspire Regional Collaboratives: A Flexible Model for Cultivating a Diverse and Inclusive STEM Faculty at Community Colleges

New Directions for Community Colleges, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Aspire Regional Collaborative (RC) initiative fosters community college and university partnerships that strengthen pathways to STEM faculty positions in community colleges. In this study, we draw from the designing educational innovation for sustained adoption (DEISA) framework to document the progress of the RC initiative.
Jessica Gregg, Chandra Turpen, Jana Foxe, Craig Ogilvie, Gigi Delk, Lorenzo Baber, Gianina Baker, Agniprava Banerjee, Cassie Barlow, Mary Darrow, Dale Fields, Rory Flinn, Benjamin Flores, James P. Grover, Jeongsan Hwang, Edward Leach, Adrienne Linnell, Anneke Lisberg, Erica Staehling, Karla Velasco, Laura Watkins, Maria Wright   +21 more
wiley   +1 more source

Joint power control and user grouping mechanism for efficient uplink non‐orthogonal multiple access‐based 5G communication: Utilising the Lèvy‐flight firefly algorithm

IET Networks, EarlyView., 2023
We utilise a metaheuristic optimisation method, inspired by nature, called the Lévy‐flight firefly algorithm (LFA), to tackle the power regulation and user grouping in the NOMA systems. Abstract The non‐orthogonal multiple access strategies have shown promise to boost fifth generation and sixth generation wireless networks' spectral efficiency and ...
Zaid Albataineh, Khaled F. Hayajneh, Haythem Bany Salameh, Raed Al Athamneh, Yaser Jararweh   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reading the Visual Aspects of the Grotesque Body in the Iranian Cinema and Theater Posters (1390s) [PDF]

هنرهای زیبا. هنرهای تجسمی
Grotesque is an artistic and literary form that has appeared in contemporary art, having a history as long as the 16th century. According to Mikhail Bakhtin, a 20th-century literary theorist, a critical approach is formed in the official space of society,
Amir Hossein Pormehr Yabandeh, Mohsen Marasy   +1 more
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Microtubule Destabilizing Kinesins: A Historical Perspective and Thoughts for the Future

Cytoskeleton, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The microtubule cytoskeleton plays critical roles in multiple cellular processes such as mitotic spindle assembly and chromosome segregation. Cells contain a number of microtubule‐associated proteins that regulate microtubule dynamics both temporally and spatially in cells. The microtubule depolymerizing kinesins include members of the Kinesin‐
Claire E. Walczak
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Aqueous Supercapacitor with Wide‐Temperature Operability and over 100,000 Cycles Enabled by Water‐in‐Salt Electrolyte

ChemSusChem, Volume 18, Issue 6, March 15, 2025.
This study presents a symmetric supercapacitor with activated carbon electrodes and a “water‐in‐salt” electrolyte (WiSE) based on lithium perchlorate, offering over 100,000 cycles with over 90 % capacity retention. The supercapacitor operates efficiently from −20 to 80 °C, enhancing performance, stability, and all‐season operability.
Zahid Ali Zafar, Radim Weisser, Ghulam Abbas, Martin Silhavik, Prabhat Kumar, Jiří Červenka   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The grotesque body in Ian McEwan’s short stories

NJES: Nordic Journal of English studies, 2017
The subject matter and imagery prevalent in Ian McEwan’s early fiction are shockingly unpleasant and justifiably notorious for their portrayal of grotesqueries to the extent that their significance has been ignored or undermined compared to his later ...
Nahid Shahbazi Moghadam, Arbaayah Ali Termizi   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Facilitating the Grotesque Reception and Human-Nature Interrelationship in Tunku Halim’s Dark Demon Rising

, 2016
Horror novels often celebrate gore, darkness, madness and emotional repression as the central themes to invoke terror and horror in readers. In the novel Dark Demon Rising (1997) the elements of grotesque and nature provide the impetus and the plot, thus
Nur Fatin Syuhada Ahmad Jafni, W. Yahya, Hardev Kaur   +2 more
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Classroom boundaries and teacher agency: Challenges of implementing Ireland's new primary curriculum

The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This article reports on a doctoral study examining teacher agency in one Irish primary school at a timely moment ahead of the implementation of the new Primary Curriculum Framework in September 2025. The framework embeds teacher agency as a central professional principle, yet findings from this study reveal a more cautious and bounded reality.
Máiréad Nally, Carmel O. Sullivan, Karin Bacon   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source