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AbstractThe present study intends to examine the link between clothes and cultural identities in Jhumpa Lahiri's "Hema and Kaushik" (2008). It will argue that Lahiri explores her protagonists' cultural displacement through their items of clothing. We want to suggest that the protagonists' clothes are employed in each narrative as signifiers for the characters' cultural identities. The study will further show that each item of clothing could be loaded with the ideological signification of two separate cultures. In other words, it aims to demonstrate how ideology imposes its values, beliefs, and consequently its dominance through the dress codes each defines for its subjects. Moreover, it intends to suggest that the link between clothing and identity is most visible and intense in the case of female immigrant characters rather than men. Drawing on Luptan's structure of the Cinderella line, we will explore Lahiri's protagonists' cultural transformation from simple ethnic girls to stylish American ladies through their items of clothing. The study will conclude that the "Cinderella line" does not work in Lahiri's realistic stories the way it does in fairy tales and romance fiction.

Using the model of the early Christian Church in his novel Hypatia, Charles Kingsley criticised mid-nineteenth-century Roman Catholicism for its bigotry. As such, his historiographic rendering of Hypatia's life highlights the power relations between the early Christian Church and Hellenistic philosophy as a politico-religious allegory against mid-nineteenth-century Catholicism and its intolerance of female intellectuality and personal faith. Highlighting Kingsley's views accordingly, a Foucauldian analysis of Hypatia's politico-philosophical parrhesia, that is, speaking the truth in the light of political philosophy before Cyril's early Christian theocracy, seems intriguing. Hypatia represents an illuminating world of power struggles between Hypatia's peaceful intellectuality and the early Christian bigotry, a fact represented in Hypatia's virtue and knowledge before the blind fundamentalism of the religious oligarchy and the outrageous extremism of the early Christian mob, only to culminate in the lynching of the innocent Hypatia. Kingsley's historiographic novel thus tries to historicise his attacks against nineteenth-century Tractarian Catholic extremes regarding the practice of religion and gender issues.

Absorption of carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas from a mixture of CO2 and N2 in a continuous falling film reactor (FFR) has been designed and developed. The reactor length and inner diameter were 1m and 0.021m, respectively. In this paper, the absorption of CO2 by DEA (Diethanolamine) in FFR is studied by means of COMSOL Multiphysics and Design expert. Design expert is used to developing an empirical equation for CO2 absorption when reacting with DEA. The simulation is performed with COMSOL Multiphysics for a second-order reaction and the velocity profile is considered the effect of shear stress. The result shows that the penetration depth of CO2 in the falling film reactor is 0.006mm and the absorption rate increases with increasing gas flow velocity and inlet CO2 concentration. Also, this study is performed on low Reynolds number (1 ≤ ReG ≤ 6 and 4 ≤ ReL ≤ 40 at 298 K) which has not been considered by other researchers.