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Navigating troubled waters: Posthumanist vulnerability and entanglement in Richard Powers's Playground (2024)

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract Richard Powers's most recent novels to date—The Overstory (2018), Bewilderment (2021), and Playground (2024)—engage with some of the environmental and technological threats that loom over our planet, such as deforestation, species loss, the degradation of the ocean bottom, and the risks associated with the development of generative AI ...
Carmen Laguarta‐Bueno
wiley   +1 more source

Bioturbating bivalves show potential to bioremediate degraded soft sediments by restoring ecosystem function

Restoration Ecology, EarlyView.
Abstract Introduction Natural recovery of disturbed marine ecosystems can take years, mainly because long‐lived, functionally important species are lost. To regain ecosystem services, the focus of estuarine restoration is shifting from biodiversity metrics to functional restoration.
Natalie Prinz, Joanne I. Ellis, Timothy Thomson, Rebecca V. Gladstone‐Gallagher, Candida Savage, Conrad A. Pilditch   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘Who is the Gael who Would Not Weep?’: The Book of the O’Conor Don, Fearghal Óg Mac an Bhaird, and Late Bardic Poetry of Exile

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how late bardic poetry transforms the condition of exile into a literary mode that reimagines community and tradition. I argue that poetry of lament, blessing and devotion articulates a broader literary consciousness that anticipates modern notions of a national consciousness. The compilation of bardic verse in manuscript
Daniel T. McClurkin
wiley   +1 more source

Pasteurization-Triggered Heat-Resistant Enhancement of Packaging Films Derived from a Star-Shape Toughened Polylactide Stereocomplex. [PDF]

ACS Omega
Buchatip S, Supmak W, Sangroniz L, Opaprakasit M, Petchsuk A, Opaprakasit P, Müller AJ.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Enacting Lived Sovereignty Amid Epistemic and Ontological Violence in the Settler‐Colonial Academy

Sociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the tensions between Indigenous sovereignty and the structural and institutional logics of the settler‐colonial academy. Critical scholarship suggests that higher education can regulate epistemic boundaries, discipline knowledge production, and shape the subjectivities of colonized students.
Nadera Shalhoub‐Kevorkian, Abeer Otman
wiley   +1 more source

Modeling Approach to Calculate the Orientation of Liquid Crystal Polymers in a Flow Channel Under Varying Boundary Conditions. [PDF]

Polymers (Basel)
Zitzenbacher G.
europepmc   +1 more source

Spaceborne and spaceborn: Physiological aspects of pregnancy and birth during interplanetary flight

Experimental Physiology, EarlyView.
Abstract Crewed interplanetary return missions that are on the planning horizon will take years, more than enough time for initiation and completion of a pregnancy. Pregnancy is viewed as a sequence of processes – fertilization, blastocyst formation, implantation, gastrulation, placentation, organogenesis, gross morphogenesis, birth and neonatal ...
Arun V. Holden
wiley   +1 more source

The Design and Evaluation of Twisted HDPE Grass-Cutting Lines: A Performance Comparison with Commercial Nylon. [PDF]

Polymers (Basel)
Pholsuwan A, Chailad W, Simpraditpan A, Martwong E, Chattrakul K.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Polylactide Modified with ZnO and Raspberry Leaf Extract as Active Food Packaging. [PDF]

Int J Mol Sci
Zdanowicz M, Mizielińska M, Jankowski W.   +2 more
europepmc   +1 more source