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Time tells: plasticity and developmental asynchrony underlie trait variation in a dune‐building grass

open access: yesOikos, EarlyView.
Habitat‐modifying plants engineer landscapes through plant‐environment feedbacks. The strength of these feedbacks is determined by above‐ and below‐ground traits shaping landscape morphology. Besides interspecific differences, recent findings highlight that intraspecific trait variation, such as shoot density, can also influence landscape morphology ...
Solveig Höfer   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cyborgs from fiction to reality: marginalized other or privileged first? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
In this paper I will offer an analysis of cyber technology, cyberspace and cyborg from its appearance in fiction to its contemporary realizations, in order to show symbolic place of cyborg has changed, in the light of contemporary power relations. I will
Stojnic, Aneta
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Temporal changes in the dietary niche of sympatric seals provides insight into the role of competition in population declines

open access: yesOikos, EarlyView.
Competition theory suggests that interspecific prey competition can result in changes to the dietary niche, but obtaining timeseries of data from sympatric species experiencing temporal variation in competition is challenging. Scotland is an important area for two species of seals, but over the past 20 years, populations of harbour seals Phoca vitulina
Izzy Langley   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Formable Fluidity: The Key Consequence of Information Flow in Cyberpunk Fiction

open access: yesAmerican and British Studies Annual, 2019
Cyberpunk is one of the most recent subgenres to emerge in science fiction. In the represented world of this subgenre, information is the constituting element of all the flows, frameworks and interactions.
Hossein Mohseni, Kian Soheil
doaj  

Argentina 1982, primer ensayo para la construcción de un cuerpo cíborg. A propósito de “Primera línea” de Carlos Gardini

open access: yesLiteratura: Teoría, Historia, Crítica, 2017
El presente trabajo propone una reflexión en torno a la emergencia de la estética cyberpunk en Argentina durante la década del ochenta, a partir del análisis del cuento “Primera línea” de Carlos Gardini.
Luciana Martinez
doaj   +1 more source

The monstrous transformation of the self:translating Japanese cyberpunk and the posthuman into the living world [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This essay offers an extended, tangential reading of the cyberpunk videogame, Final Fantasy VII. I will examine itsliterary and visual motifs, patterns and codes, putting these in dialogue with a participant study on cosplay and transformative fandom ...
Mavridou, Orion
core   +2 more sources

Epistemic diversity and the politics of knowledge in plant disease management: Insights from the Xylella fastidiosa epidemic in southern Italy

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Xylella fastidiosa is a major plant pathogen affecting crops such as grapes, citrus, almonds, and olives, with potentially severe consequences for agricultural production and rural livelihoods worldwide. This paper examines the conflict around the management of the X. fastidiosa outbreak affecting olive trees in southern Italy.
Fabio Gatti   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Recycled Dystopias: Cyberpunk and the End of History

open access: yesArts, 2018
While cyberpunk is often described as a dystopian genre, the paper argues that it should be seen rather as a post-utopian one. The crucial difference between the two resides in the nature of the historical imagination reflected in their respective ...
Elana Gomel
doaj   +1 more source

Blurring Posthuman Identities: The New Version of Humanity Offered by Bicentennial Man [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
The aim of this paper is to analyse the 1999 film version of Isaac Asimov ’s “The Bicentennial Man ” (1976), a film that reflects the changing status of the dichotomy human/non-human in our culture.
Baelo Allué, Sonia
core   +2 more sources

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