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Transformative Works and Cultures, 2015 An analysis of Polish science fiction, fantasy, and role-playing game fandom brings to the fore problems of Polish identity and patriotism, as well as views on Polish fandom as a specific local phenomenon and as a part of global pop culture.
Joanna Kucharska +4 more
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Quantum sensing reveals intricate patterns linking endo‐lysosomal maturation to cardiac fibrosis progression, highlighting complexity in cellular remodeling. This study investigates fibroblast‐to‐myofibroblast transition under cell aging, stiffness, and TGF‐β stimulation, comparing nanodiamond uptake, endo‐lysosomal dynamics, and free radical ...
Aldona Mzyk +3 more
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Panorama historique des études de fans
Revue Française des Sciences de l’Information et de la Communication, 2015 This article explores the roots of fandom studies, the value of public-focusing scholarship and the importance of broadening the topics that fandom research explores.feminism, gender, participation, race, resistance ...
Henry Jenkins
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Toward a Queered and/as Affective Theory of Fandom
Transformative Works and Cultures, 2020 Wittgensteinian propositions are used to investigate whether there is some benefit from thinking about objects of fandom and their vectors via affect theory and queer theory as an inverse analytical approach: fandom as something that is not text specific
JSA Lowe
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Artificial Intelligence as the Next Visionary in Liquid Crystal Research
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.The functions of AI in the research laboratory are becoming increasingly sophisticated, allowing the entire process of hypothesis formulation, material design, synthesis, experimental design, and reiterative testing to be automated. In our work, we conceive how the incorporation of AI in the laboratory environment will transform the role and ...
Mert O. Astam +2 more
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Activismo y participación política en el fandom de Harry Potter en Argentina
Contratexto, 2022 El propósito de este artículo es indagar sobre los vínculos entre fandoms y la participación política desde experiencias situadas en Argentina. Para ello, realizamos un abordaje cualitativo del fandom de Harry Potter en este país mediante un análisis de ...
Roberta Aller +2 more
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Reprogrammable multi‐material smart textiles knitted from liquid crystal elastomer fibers undergo 2D and 3D deformation under thermal and photo stimuli. Circularly knitted tubular structures reversibly contract in radial and axial directions, enabling autonomous climbing, liquid release, and micro pumping.
Xue Wan +8 more
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Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.This manuscript describes the cultivation of viable microvessels from cryopreserved human brain tissue. When embedded in hydrogels and cultured in microfluidic devices, these microvessels exhibit complex architectures reminiscent of arterioles and capillaries, can be perfused, and display intact barrier function. Collectively, these results demonstrate
Brian J. O'Grady +5 more
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K-Pop Fandom Activism on Social Media: Refuting Accusations of Slacktivism in Internet Activism
FenomenaThe phenomenon of K-Pop fandom activism, which has been considered as a mere fanaticism movement, has experienced a developmental orientation towards the fulfillment of common interests.
Putri Ananda Saka +5 more
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Do I Dare … Disturb the Fan(atic)?
Crossings, 2016 The ability to intuitively focus on ideas of sports and the fandom that it entails has not been the strongest subject of research throughout the countries of South Asia, and to understand the psychology that comes with it has been an even more ...
Mohammed Mizanur Rashid
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