The image of the muscular manly mineworker was culturally prevalent in first half twentieth century, and trope hypermasculinity miners has persisted popular scholarly representations. How bodies formed part construction miners’ masculine identities is a crucial but overlooked aspect. This article explores embodied masculinity at different moments lifecycle within spaces home, work, wider commun...

Comparing d'Aulnoy's "Le Dauphin" and Murat's Turbot" relation to Straparola's "Pietro the Fool" each other reveals ways in which conteuses' rewriting of tale allows for differing degrees women's control over (their) sexuality. D'Aulnoy Murat both employ trope metamorphosis beyond their source tale's transformation fool add characters plot order explore issues sexual consent, female desire agen...

The cantillation signs of the Jewish Torah trope are of particular interest to chant scholars interested in the gradual transformation of oral music performance into notation. Each sign, placed above or below the text, acts as a “melodic idea” which either connects or divides words in order to clarify the syntax, punctuation and, in some cases, meaning of the text. Unlike standard music notatio...

Secure localization is a critical issue in wireless sensor networks. Providing a certain degree of localization accuracy at the presence of malicious beacons becomes a challenging task. Robust Position Estimation (ROPE) is one of the secure localization systems. However, this system suffers from compromised network entities. Trust Based Secure Robust Position Estimation filters the compromised ...

Plant biologists widely accept plants demonstrate capacities for intelligence. However, they disagree over the interpretive, ethical and nomenclatural questions arising from these findings: how to frame issue signify implications. Through trope of 'plant neurobiology' describing plant root systems as analogous animal brains nervous systems, intelligence is mobilised raise status plants. In doin...

The “crossroads” is a recurring trope in popular and academic writing on the South Caucasus. This can conjure simplistic explanatory frameworks of timeless “silk road” connectivity, or region as meeting point East West, democracy authoritarianism, Christianity Islam. However, it also evocative powerful ways that movement people, goods, ideas across have shaped its past present. In this contribu...