Results 11 to 20 of about 250 (205)

Relationships among tissues, biofluids, and otolith selenium concentrations in wild female burbot (Lota lota)

open access: yesIntegrated Environmental Assessment and Management, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract In the Lake Koocanusa‐Kootenai River system (Montana, USA and British Columbia, Canada), selenium (Se) contamination has become an international concern and is suspected to contribute to the observed burbot (Lota lota) population collapse. Due to our limited ability to sample burbot in Lake Koocanusa for monitoring studies, we used a reference
Stephanie D. Graves   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dave Eggers, I vostri padri, dove sono? E i profeti, vivono forse per sempre?

open access: yesAltre Modernità, 2016
Dave Eggers, I vostri padri, dove sono? E i profeti, vivono forse per sempre? (Milano, Mondadori, 2015, 185 pp.
Diego Zanoni
doaj   +1 more source

Demoxie: Reflections on digital democracy in Dave Eggers' novel The Circle [PDF]

open access: yesFirst Monday, 2020
The Circle is a novel written by the American author Dave Eggers (2013), and it tells the story about a powerful Internet company that works with highly developed surveillance technologies to monitor workers as well as the local and global community.
Kathrin Maurer, Christian F. Rostbøll
openaire   +2 more sources

America’s Barbarian Heart

open access: yesRSA Journal, 2017
The article explores the narrative space, the combined use of various genre tropes, and the social criticism in Dave Eggers’s Heroes of the Frontier (2016).
Virginia Pignagnoli
doaj   +1 more source

The Future of the Enhanced Self and Contemporary Science Fiction: TED Talks and Dave Eggers' The Circle

open access: yesCurrent Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, 2019
This article sets out to examine the ways in which cultural and literary texts actively shape the discourse on human enhancement. First, it identifies the emergence of a “sense of wonder” (Sawyer 87) in TED talks that advance transhumanist ideals. Second,
Loredana Filip
doaj   +1 more source

The Generational Gap and the Role of Technology in the Contemporary Family in Selected American Novels by Don Delillo, Dave Eggers and Jonathan Franzen: A Postmodern Approach [PDF]

open access: yesMaǧallaẗ Kulliyyaẗ Al-Adāb - Ǧāmiʿaẗ Al-Fayūm
Family is the source of the personal development and moral values within the society. It is often viewed as an idealistic solution to the problem of fragmentation and isolation in the contemporary society.
Mohamed Zaghlul
doaj   +1 more source

Novel “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius” by Dave Eggers in Context of a New Cultural Paradigm

open access: yesНаучный диалог
The article explores the leading metamodernist features evident in the autobiographical novel ‘A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius’ (2001) by a contemporary American writer Dave Eggers.
G. I. Lushnikova, T. Iu. Osadchaia
doaj   +1 more source

Disorder‐Driven Fast Na+ Transport: From Crystalline to Amorphous Networks in the Mixed‐Anion NaTaOxCl6−2x Oxychlorides

open access: yesAdvanced Energy Materials, EarlyView.
Oxygen substitution in NaTaOxCl6‐2x drives structural evolution from isolated [TaCl6]– octahedra, through oxygen‐bridged [Ta2OCl10]2– dimers, toward extended trans‐[TaO2Cl4]3– chain‐like arrangements. At intermediate compositions, zero‐dimensional corner‐sharing motifs are proposed to create a flexible, disordered framework that peaks ionic ...
Justin Leifeld   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

Generalized Task‐Driven Design of Soft Robots via Reduced‐Order Finite Element Method‐Based Surrogate Modeling

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
A unified, reusable modeling pipeline enables task‐driven design of soft robots across actuator families and task scenarios. High‐fidelity simulations are compressed into compact pseudo‐rigid‐body joint surrogates, while a design‐conditioned meta‐model generates new surrogates from geometry parameters without rerunning finite element method.
Yao Yao, David Howard, Perla Maiolino
wiley   +1 more source

The 9th International RASopathies Symposium

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The RASopathies are a group of congenital disorders with overlapping clinical manifestations that are caused by pathogenic germline or early somatic variants that result in the hyperactivation of the RAS/mitogen‐activated protein kinase (MAPK) signaling pathway.
Pau Castel   +41 more
wiley   +1 more source

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy