Rec.: Hektoras Vitkus, Vygantas Vareikis, Edvinas Ubis, Justas Stončius, Macikai: atminties vieta Europos pakraštyje, Klaipėda: Klaipėdos universiteto Baltijos regiono istorijos ir archeologijos institutas, 2021.

This research paper delves into the novel "The Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad, examining it through a post-colonial lens to explore themes liberation and impact colonialism on various aspects life. The analysis chapter investigates crucial subtopics such as dream-like existence passivity colonial settlers, exploitation power weaknesses colonized, lives subalterns, imposition new systems, l...

Plants developed under constant high (> 85%) relative air humidity (RH) have larger stomata that are unable to close completely. One of the hypotheses for the less responsive stomata is that the plants have reduced sensitivity to abscisic acid (ABA). Both ABA and darkness are signals for stomatal closure and induce the production of the secondary messenger hydrogen peroxide (H2O2). In this stud...

Over 60 distinct Rab GTPases regulate specific vesicular transport steps in the mammalian central vacuolar system. Wasmeier et al. (this issue, p. 271) reveal a redundant role for two tissue-specific Rab proteins in regulating transport to a tissue-specific lysosome-related organelle, the melanosome.

The omega3 fatty-acid desaturases: FAD7 and FAD8 (plastid) and FAD3 (reticular) are responsible for trienoic fatty-acid (TA) production in plants. The expression of these enzymes seemed to be regulated differently in response to light. Darkness leads to a decrease in total TA level. Under such conditions, FAD3 and FAD8 transcript levels were undetectable but increased after re-illumination conc...

Using the startle reflex methodology, researchers have shown that darkness, a phylogenetically relevant aversive context for humans, elicits fear responses. The present study replicated these findings in an ecologically valid situation, a virtual tunnel drive. Furthermore, the study focused on the question whether the darkness-enhanced startle response is modulated by an additional task involve...

Serotonin:acetyl coenzyme A N-acetyltransferase (EC 2.3.1.5) Activity in pineal gland was assayed in rats which were born and raised under diurnal lighting conditions, in continuous darkness, or in constant light. N-Acetyltransferase activity in the pups raised under diurnal lighting showed a rhythmic pattern, with high enzyme activity during dark period. The pups raised in continuous darkness ...

We examined the role of gaze in a task where subjects had to reproduce the position of a remembered visual target with the tip of the index finger, referred to as pointing. Subjects were tested in 3 visual feedback conditions: complete darkness (dark), complete darkness with visual feedback of the finger position (finger), and with vision of a well-defined environment and feedback of the finger...

This paper explores Conrad’s Heart of Darkness to analyze Kurtz’s ghastly vision of horror (trauma) and how he overcomes this traumatic experience through the metamorphosis of becoming-animal/savage in forming his lines of flight from the oedipalizing/oppressive capitalism and imperialism. To avoid following a conventional approach to study this novella, I explore Kurtz’s unspeakable horror tha...