In a keeping with the view that Shakespeare harbored a sympathetic attitude to Catholic ways of seeing, this essay argues that Macbeth is a study in the dangers of oversimplification and certainty. In contradistinction to how Spenser’s Redcross...
This article reads William Oldroyd’s Lady Macbeth (2016) through the lens of Michel Foucault’s concept of the heterotopia to explore the film’s ambivalent gender and racial politics. The country house that Katherine Lester is locked...
The paper examines the challenges related to solar photovoltaic (PV) development with a pivotal focus on the impacts of the dynamics of the relevant markets and technological advancements in the solar industry. In this regard, household investments i...
Due to the important advantages it offers, gamification is one of the fastest-growing industries in the world, and interest from the market and from users continues to grow. This has led to the development of more and more applications aimed at diffe...
Shakespeare’s Macbeth has traveled a long way from its original milieu. This paper takes three major 21st-century Indian adaptions of Macbeth as its primary texts. The city of Mumbai in the west in Maqbool, an imaginary coastal Bengal village i...
Systems that supply medicinal gases—oxygen, nitrous oxide and medical air—serve all care units of a hospital; for example, they feed distribution systems for operating theatres, neonatal and pediatric units, dialysis, X-ray, casualty, spe...
The sanitation sector faces significant challenges in achieving the universalisation goals established by the new 2020 regulatory framework. Prioritising these investments is essential due to the limited financial resources available, especially in s...
The extraction of device-independent color values from affordable and accessible digital images based on a standard color space system is crucially necessary for agricultural applications, where color information for plant monitoring or diagnostics i...
Gamification is an innovative teaching technique that may prove hugely beneficial when properly used. For this reason, since 2002, the number of situations in which gamification is used has increased exponentially. This large number of options makes...
The multiple uses of religion in Shakespeare’s plays seem to counter each other at every turn. In one respect, though, I have found a surprising consistency. Moments when Shakespeare’s drama imagines the afterlife are moments that lend si...
The transportation of goods plays a fundamental role in the global economy. In Brazil, specifically, a significant portion of what is transported goes through highways, and the provision of this service is carried out through the hiring of specialize...
Maintenance is one of the most rapidly expanding activities in the industrial environment, since its application is no longer limited to simple, regular fixes. In the case of thermal power plants maintenance is essential, since they only operate when...
The increase in the importance given to the social dimension of companies has led to an awareness in society of the right to require economic, social and environmental responsibility. Although several methodologies of corporate social responsibility...
Human activities continue to affect our water quality; it remains a major problem worldwide (particularly concerning freshwater and human consumption). A critical water quality index (WQI) method has been used to determine the overall water quality s...
The constant problems evidenced in the Brazilian hydrological scenario, where the source of hydraulic potential corresponds to about 63.9% of the energy matrix, coupled with the exponential growth in the supply of renewable energy, corroborates the i...
Over the past decade, multifactor models have shown enhanced capability compared to single-factor models in explaining asset return variability. Given the common assertion that higher risk tends to yield higher returns, this study empirically examine...
Health Care Organizations are large consumers of energy resources. This is due to the large number of services they must offer continuously, the strict requirements of temperature and humidity for patients and comfort for all visitors. Facilities for...
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The impact of naturally occurring regulatory T cells (nTregs) on the suppression or induction of lung allergic responses in mice depends on the nuclear environment and the production of the pro-inflammatory cytokine interleukin 6 (IL-6). These activi...
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Microgravity has been shown to be an excellent tool for protein crystal formation. A retrospective analysis of all publicly available crystallization data, including many that have not yet been published, clearly demonstrates the value of the microgr...
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Although treatment options for melanoma patients have expanded in recent years with the approval of immunotherapy and targeted therapy, there is still an unmet need for new treatment options for patients that are ineligible for, or resistant to these...
Background/Objectives: Immunotherapy has significantly improved clinical outcomes for patients with late-stage melanoma, yet a substantial portion of patients fail to respond to these treatments. The variability in responses to immunotherapy, both am...
The importance of downside risk cannot be denied. In this study, we have replaced beta in the five-factor model of using downside beta and have added a momentum factor to suggest a new six-factor downside beta capital asset pricing model (CAPM). Two...
Shakespeare’s plays have become the subject of filmic remakes, as well as the source for others’ plot lines. This transfer of Shakespeare’s plays to film presents a challenge to filmmakers’ auterial ingenuity: Is a film direct...
This research evaluates four hydrogen (H2) production technologies via water electrolysis (WE): alkaline water electrolysis (AWE), proton exchange membrane electrolysis (PEME), anion exchange membrane electrolysis (AEME), and solid oxide electrolysis...
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Flax is a flowering plant cultivated for its oil and contains various unsaturated fatty acids. Linseed oil is known as the “deep-sea fish oil” of plants, and is beneficial to brain and blood lipids, among other positive effects. Long non-...
This article shows how temporal disorder diffuses into the wildernesses within early modern English drama. Those areas beyond the walls of cities and castles in—among other plays—The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Ju...
Investment funds manage a portfolio composed of financial instruments; therefore, their accounting reports should undergo a careful process of preparation and auditing. The main purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of being audited by a Big...
The unprecedented global health crisis caused by COVID-19 is undoubtedly having a major impact on international tourism for two reasons. While the imposed travel restrictions have discouraged people from traveling, travelers are struggling with growi...
(1) Background: The NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) is a basic indicator of photosynthetic activity frequently employed in landscape and urban ecology. However, the high-resolution determination of NDVI requires an expensive multi-spect...
Selecting a sustainable cross-country natural gas pipeline project portfolio plays a vital role in enhancing energy security and national self-reliance. The interdependencies between projects augment the complexity of project portfolio selection. Hen...
The rising concern about climate change and other challenges faced by the planet led society to look for different design solutions and approaches towards a more balanced relationship between the built and natural environment. The circular economy is...
The role of the private sector is essential in providing energy access to all by 2030. However, private investors often face the decision problem of deciding where to implement off-grid projects. This selection process can be considered a multifactor...
Recent events have demonstrated the devastating impact of meteorological hazards on buildings and infrastructure. The possible effects of climate change on their frequency and intensity but also the rise in the value of assets may increase future ris...
The integration of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) principles into investment strategies represents a potential pathway for advancing financial sustainability and long-term market resilience. The usage of ESG screening techniques in portf...
Recent studies of the conceptualization of the Devil in the early modern period have pointed to the shifting theological and philosophical coordinates, which made possible a diverse spectrum of representation of diabolical evil—from Francis Bac...
This study examines whether oil and gas risk factors are priced in the returns of Malaysian oil and gas stocks employing asset pricing model with improved version of Fama-MacBeth two-stage panel regression. The findings reveal that oil price risk, ga...
Diagnosing gastrointestinal disorders (GIDs) remains a significant challenge, particularly when relying on wireless capsule endoscopy (WCE), which lacks advanced imaging enhancements like Narrow Band Imaging (NBI). To address this, we propose a novel...
Healthcare systems worldwide are facing problems in providing health care to patients in a pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus (COVID-19). The pandemic causes an extreme disease to spread with fluctuating needs among patients, which significantly...
Timely and accurate diagnosis of gastrointestinal diseases (GIDs) remains a critical bottleneck in clinical endoscopy, particularly due to the limited contrast and sensitivity of conventional white light imaging (WLI) in detecting early-stage mucosal...
In this work, we address the problem of spectral reflectance recovery from both CIEXYZ and RGB values by means of a machine learning approach within the fuzzy logic framework, which constitutes the first application of fuzzy logic in these tasks. We...