OBJECTIVES Stellate cells in the maculae flavae, located at both ends of the human vocal fold mucosa, have been considered an independent category of cells. We aimed to isolate and subculture these stellate cells, and to observe their morphological characteristics. METHODS Stellate cells from the maculae flavae and fibroblasts from Reinke's space were cultured in three normal, adult human voc...

According to Trice (1993), occupational subcultures comprise unique clusters of ideologies, beliefs, cultural forms, and practices that arise from shared educational, personal and work experiences of individuals who pursue the same profession. Results of the analysis of the IT workforce suggest that IT professionals indeed occupy a recognizable “occupational subculture” that crosses and transce...

Second Life, a participant-created multi-user virtual environment (MUVE), gained sudden media acclaim in 2006. Prior to that, the world was developing many of the characteristics that have come into their own today, such as virtual fashion lines, a thriving virtual economy, scripted interactive furniture, vehicles, and toys. Perhaps not surprisingly, much of the early content was adult in natur...

The development of three cell lines initiated from the late embryonic stages of Drosophila melanogaster is described. The primary cultures consisted of trypsinized fragments from embryos 20-24 h old. The length of time between primary culture and subsequent subculture varied from 8 months for the first line to 3 weeks for the third. All three lines have been maintained in vitro for more than a ...

This study is based on the analysis of law enforcement practice, monitoring social networks, media materials and theoretical works Russian foreign scholars topic school shooting. The paper presents characteristics columbine subculture at present stage its development in Russian-speaking segment Internet. authors describe main provisions that form basis ideology shooting, substantiates this has ...

In this paper we review recent sociological research dealing with the consumption of culture produced in the fine and popular arts realms. We note that most of the initial theoretical developments in the sociological study of culture consumption were first developed to explain audience segmentation in the fine arts realm under what we refer as the “cultural capital” paradigm developed by Pierre...