This article reads two narratives of catastrophe, Octavia Butler’s “Speech Sounds” (1983) and Ted Chiang’s “The Great Silence” (2015), in an attempt to explore how their concern with disaster destabilizes the binary human/nonhuman. Conjuring up visions transformation extinction before after stories interrogate humanist accounts subjectivity through focus on language consciousness, prompting us ...

Perceived racism contributes to persistent health stress leading to health disparities. African American/Black persons (BPs) believe subtle, rather than overt, interpersonal racism is increasing. Sue and colleagues describe interpersonal racism as racial microaggressions: "routine" marginalizing indignities by White persons (WPs) toward BPs that contribute to health stress. In this narrative, e...

Normal People, the TV series, aired in Ireland during pandemic lockdown spring 2020 and became an instant hit. This romantic drama, based on Sally Rooney’s acclaimed novel, offers updated representation of tensions inherent process growing up for Irish youth, a context extensive to other Western countries. The aim this article is explore critique behind romance through in-depth interpretation p...

Ian McEwan is the writer of most controversial texts contemporary British fiction. One outstanding examples his literature shock, McEwan’s The Cement Garden, a challenging narrative in sense that it depicts disturbing experiences family, ranging from incest to death. fact these are narrated through an adolescent boy’s point view makes even more depiction events this narrator’s focalized. Throug...

Adozelesin is an alkylating minor groove DNA binder that is capable of rapidly inhibiting DNA replication in treated cells through a trans-acting mechanism and preferentially arrests cells in S phase. It has been shown previously that in cells treated with adozelesin, replication protein A (RPA) activity is deficient, and the middle subunit of RPA is hyperphosphorylated. The adozelesin-induced ...

This paper reports on the articulatory–acoustic relationships involved during vocal tract growth. Data were taken from a database of ten French vowels uttered by 15 speakers ranging in age from 3 years old to adulthood. Despite the important acoustic variation encountered, one feature is displayed by all the speakers: the production of extreme focal vowels /i/, /u/, /]/, and /y/, realized with ...

BACKGROUND Malnutrition among hospitalized patients increases length of stay (LOS) and carries extra hospitalization costs. OBJECTIVE To review the impact of malnutrition on hospital LOS and costs in Europe. METHODS PubMed and Google Scholar search. All articles from January 2004 until November 2014 were identified. Reference lists of relevant articles were also manually searched. RESULTS...

As its main goal, this study seeks to contribute the analysis of narrative discourse by investigating strategies and devices provided modern prose fictions like D.H. Lawrence’s The Fox for constructing/representing fictional minds or consciousness characters in texts. paper is structured two sections. Drawing from insights both Classical Poststructuralist narratology, theoretical section brings...

In this paper, we compare the sensitivity of two imaging configurations, both based on laser optical feedback imaging (LOFI). The first one is direct imaging, which uses conventional optical focalization on target, and the second one is made by a synthetic aperture (SA) laser, which uses numerical focalization. We show that SA configuration allows us to obtain good resolutions with high working...