Biblical Turns of Phrase, Repetition and Circularity in Oscar Wilde’s Salome by Sébastien Salbayre

“…If the play was considered outrageous in Victorian Britain it was obviously because of the author’s use, appropriation and transformation of Biblical sources. Indeed, in Salome, the extremely short accounts of the beheading of John the Baptist that can be found in the Gospels turn into a sexual tragedy in which lust, perversity and frustration are the main motivating forces behind the characters’ actions. …”
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Signal denoising based on the Schrödinger operator's eigenspectrum and a curvature constraint by P. Li, T.M. Laleg‐Kirati

“…Experiments validate that the proposed denoising method does indeed remove noise accurately and consistently from pulse shaped signals compared to some of the state‐of‐the‐art methods.…”
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Contribution à l’étude du peuplement préhistorique de la vallée de la Petite Creuse : bilan de dix ans de prospection sur la commune de Clugnat et ses marges (Creuse) by Jean-François Pasty, Philippe Alix, Michel Gallemard

“…A Gravettian industry is more important on the site of Les Tailles, just like the final Neolithic era. Final Neolithic is indeed omnipresent on the whole of the sites and is in particular marked by the importation of tools made from Berry and of Touraine flints.…”
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Quentin Tarantino : du cinéma d’exploitation au cinéma by Philippe Ortoli

“…This first observation should not be limited to the sociological perspective that has often been adopted since Reservoir Dogs (1992). Indeed, the films of Tarantino do not so much promote a pantheon of films that differs from that erected by the archeologists of cinema, but are driven by a desire to revisit the categories of film history, and thus of art history, ultimately leading to a redefinition of the very object of this quest: cinema, of course, and more generally, the image itself. …”
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Thomas More et l’utilisation du paradoxe comme discours de la méthode by Isabelle Bore

“…This third step will lead us to situate his writings in the literary and academic tradition of his time and to assess his originality and the pertinence of his discourse. Indeed, studying the nature of the Morean paradox and its function in the discourse will give us the possibility to differentiate between the stylistic composition and the methodological principle and to show the fecundity of this discourse.…”
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A Correctness Checking Approach for Collaborative Business Processes in the Cloud by Qi Mo, Yuqi Wang, Jixiang Xiang, Tong Li

“…With the increasing popularity of cloud computing, especially the emergence of Business Process as a Service (BPaaS), more and more enterprises construct their process collaborations based on BPaaS services. Indeed, the collaborative business process built by BPaaS services can be seen as a complex system, as it covers multiple business processes (i.e., BPaaS services) and they act independently. …”
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Utilising Smartphone Light Sensors to Measure Egg White Ovalbumin Concentration in Eggs Collected from Yinchuan City, China by Linlin Liu, Hualin Bi

“…Most of the materials required for conducting this experiment can be easily found in simple school laboratories, and it allows solution concentrations to be quickly assessed by high school students in the data collection and analysis phase. Indeed, the data collected using smartphone light sensors were similar to those obtained using a spectrometer. …”
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Like Mother, Like Daughter. Intergenerational Transmission of Infant Mortality Clustering in Zeeland, the Netherlands, 1833-1912 by Ingrid K. van Dijk, Kees Mandemakers

“…We find that mortality clustering is indeed transmitted from grandmothers to mothers, and that the socioeconomic status of the family, the survival of mothers and fathers, and the demographic characteristics of the family affected infant survival. …”
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Distance without Remoteness: The Objectivist Poetics of Nonmimetic Pain by Xavier Kalck

“…This article concludes that, while such poetics may seem far removed from today’s emphasis on reading as a sensory and indeed somatic event, these poets’ practice of mitigating and even of attempting to heal from the suffering that had accumulated still does hold precious insights into what and how literature can or should make us feel.…”
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« L’étrangeté vocalique » dans quelques nouvelles de Flannery O’Connor et de Barry Hannah by Claudia Desblaches

“…All these symptoms of the “vocalic uncanny” tend to show that any vocal change has a metaphorical impact, thus encouraging the reader to discover hidden meanings in sounds, graphical errors or “strange and alien occurrences”. Indeed, as Julia Kristeva argues in Le Langage, cet inconnu, there are “acoustic images” in both writers’ stories, which disturb representation and create a network of indeterminate referents. …”
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À propos de l’article de S. Lecouteux, « Une reconstitution hypothétique du cheminement des Annales… ». À propos de la version révisée et continuée des Annales de Flodoard, introdu... by Stéphane Lecouteux

“…Finally, various observations invite us to work on a critical re-edition of the Annals, since Philippe Lauer’s edition deserves to be updated on many points: decisive works have indeed been carried out on the study of this work over the past century.…”
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The Olive Groves of Andalusia: Analysis of the Dynamics Through Heritage, Identity (Inhabitants) and Tourism in the UNESCO Inscriptions’ Process by Isabelle Brianso

“…Today, the Andalusian olive grove has gone far beyond its traditional agricultural definition. Indeed, this intangible heritage and its preservation (know-how and landscape) have played a crucial role in the recognition of identity and memory claimed by the inhabitants during the inscription process. …”
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Does Media Discourse Favour the Emergence of Avalanche Risk in Medium-High Mountain Regions? Between Ignorance and Underestimation, the Example of the Vosges Mountains by Florie Giacona, Brice Martin, Nicolas Eckert

“…A comprehensive review of the daily press, as well as national and regional television news, shows that media discourses do not counter this point of view strongly. Indeed, unlike the Alpine environment, whose risk the media presents in a concrete and sometimes pedagogical way, the Vosges Mountains receive very little coverage with respect to risk. …”
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Effects of Inositol(s) in Women with PCOS: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials by Vittorio Unfer, John E. Nestler, Zdravko A. Kamenov, Nikos Prapas, Fabio Facchinetti

“…It affects about 5–10% of women of reproductive age who typically suffer from obesity, hyperandrogenism, ovarian dysfunction, and menstrual irregularity. Indeed, PCOS is the most common cause of anovulatory infertility in industrialized nations, and it is associated with insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and increased cardiovascular risk. …”
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THE RACIAL FACTOR AND PAN-AFRICANISM IN NIGERIAN FOREIGN POLICY by JOHN TOR TSUWA, AFONGU AONDOAKAA IORNUMBE

“…Nigeria’s effort to end racism and encourage Pan-Africanism had a very profound impact on the national liberation struggle of the African people. It has helped and indeed informed the development and articulation of a philosophy for the global engagements of the post-colonial African states. …”
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Minimizing the Average Delay at Intersections via Presignals and Speed Control by Mina Ghanbarikarekani, Xiaobo Qu, Michelle Zeibots, Weiwei Qi

“…It has been increasingly popular in urban cities. While presignals indeed reduce the average delay per traveler, they cause extra stops of private vehicles, which might compromise the overall efficiency, safety, and sustainability. …”
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Water fetching and musculoskeletal health across the life-course in Sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review. by Soren Meeuwisse, Susan J Elliott, Alexa Bennett, Videsh Kapoor

“…Water is quintessentially a gendered issue; indeed, sociocultural norms hold women responsible for household water collection, requiring them to travel far distances while carrying water. …”
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Building an African Counter-Terrorism Architecture by Jolaade Omede, Arinze Ngwube

“…To tackle these issues, nation-states, sub-regional, regional and continental bodies face the daunting task of evolving effective strategies for checkmating or containing the phenomenon. Indeed, many African countries have come to be faced with the problem of how to curtail the activities of terrorist groups, most of who operate on an established external link with notable and wealthy global insurgency groups. …”
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Sword of Heaven : Political Theology in Measure for Measure by Richard Wilson

“…This article revisits the long-standing debate on Middleton’s adaptation of the text of Measure for Measure for the 1623 Folio by suggesting that the idea of a double authorship, surprising as it may seem, is symbolically congruent with the play’s main plot and recurrent substitution themes. Indeed, Shakespeare and Middleton look like such strange bedfellows, the one with suspect Catholic connections in Stratford, the other an official of the City of London Protestant elite, that their alliance in the aftermath of the 1605 Gunpowder Plot, initially on Timon of Athens and Macbeth, suggests a shotgun marriage. …”
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ANTIMONOPOLISM AS A SYMPTOM OF AMERICAN POLITICAL DYSFUNCTION by Ramsi A. Woodcock

“…Contemporary American interest in using antitrust law to address wealth inequality is a symptom of American political dysfunction rather than a reflection of any intellectual advance regarding the sources of inequality. Indeed, both the original American progressives of a century ago, as well as Thomas Piketty, whose work sparked contemporary intellectual interest in inequality, agree that inequality’s source is scarcity, rather than monopoly, and so will persist even in perfectly competitive markets. …”
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