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The Swift and Secret Messenger: John Wilkins’s Mercury and the Paradoxes of Language

open access: yesStudia Anglica Posnaniensia, 2016
John Wilkins’s Mercury or the Secret and Swift Messenger: Showing How a Man May with Privacy and Speed Communicate His Thoughts to a Friend at Any Distance was first published in 1641.
Łączyńska Klaudia
doaj   +1 more source

A peer-driven community-based supervisory model: development from an evaluation of an ethics workshop for doctoral students undertaking research with children [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Differing doctoral supervision models currently exist. Three key conceptual supervisory models relevant to doctoral students from within the healthcare professions were identified from a literature review: the ‘functional pre-modern’ model, the ‘team ...
Hunt, Jane, Swallow, Veronica
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Self‐Assembling Peptide Hydrogels Support Stromal Vascular Fraction Viability to Promote In Vivo Nerve Regeneration

open access: yesAdvanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Stromal vascular fraction (SVF) may enhance nerve repair, especially when delivered in a self‐assembling peptide hydrogel (SAPH). In vitro, softer SAPH increased neuronal explant outgrowth and supported greater SVF viability and proliferation. In a rat sciatic defect, SVF in an optimized SAPH produced motor and sensory recovery equivalent to autograft ...
Liam A. McMorrow   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

CONSTANTLY WIRED WORLD: OBVIOUS BENEFITS AND HIDDEN COSTS

open access: yesФилологический класс, 2017
The article analyses the play «Love and Information» (2012) written by the contemporary British dramatist C. Churchill. Special attention is paid to the experimental structure of this drama: it consists of several dozen of episodes which are but ...
doaj   +1 more source

Archeo‐Inspiration from the Cultural History of Glass: Historic Accounts, Anecdotes and Hard Facts as Challenges to Modern Material Science

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
Glass, historically valued for its purity and durability, has long inspired artists and societies. This article introduces the concept of “Archeo‐Inspiration”, drawing on cultural and historical contexts of glass to guide future material innovations.
Eva von Contzen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social (in)Justice, or the Condition of Global Capitalism in the Lost Child (2015) by Caryl Phillips

open access: yesStudia Anglica Posnaniensia, 2019
The present article is a critical rereading of Caryl Phillips’s latest novel The Lost Child (2015). It looks at the text as both a literary comment on the crisis of today’s global capitalism and as an acute socio-economic analysis of the crisis’ roots ...
Frątczak-Dąbrowska Marta
doaj   +1 more source

Book review: young British muslims: identity, culture, politics and the media [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
In Britain’s highly politicised social climate in the aftermath of the 7/7 London bombings, this book provides an in-depth understanding of British Muslim identity through migration history, family settlement, socio-economic status, religion and culture,
Sandberg, Russell
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Electron Channeling Contrast Imaging of Ferroelastic Domains

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
A simple scanning electron microscopy technique, electron channeling contrast imaging, unveils nanoscale ferroelastic domains and their coupling to functional properties in oxide heterostructures. The work demonstrates high‐resolution mapping of both surface and buried domains, broadening the experimental toolbox for ferroic and quantum oxide systems ...
Wei Peng   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Literary Characters as a Source Domain of Precedent Names in the UK Media

open access: yesНаучный диалог, 2020
The article deals with precedent names (PN) from the source domain “Literature”, functioning in the UK media. The material for the study was 104 examples of precedent names used in the British print media (The Guardian, The Times, The Daily Mail, The ...
E. V. Budaev
doaj   +1 more source

HUNGER AND WAITING IN THIRD WORLD LITERATURE [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Using colonial discourse and post-colonial theory as a point of reference, this article takes a look at colonialism as experienced in the so-called third world and see how the experience has helped shaped the literary production of the countries and ...
Akujobi, R.
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