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Fictional vernacular architecture as a worldbuilding element: Structure samples from the World of Warcraft video game

open access: yesIDA: International Design and Art Journal, 2022
This study aims to evaluate the structures of Azeroth, the fictional built world of the World of Warcraft video game, as samples of vernacular architecture. Therefore, the scope of the study contains video game architecture, vernacular architecture, and
Atlıhan Onat Karacalı
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Indianist anthroponymy in Alencar's corpus: an etymological, fictional, and contextual analysis

open access: yesDomínios de Lingu@gem, 2021
Drawing from the perspective of Contextual Fictional Etymology, in this paper we analyze four Indianist anthroponyms, namely, Irapuã, Coatiabo, Maranguab and Abaeté, found in the works O Guarani, Iracema and Ubirajara by José de Alencar. For this purpose,
Maria Virgínia Dias de Ávila   +1 more
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L’absence de l’anthroponyme du personnage principal dans L’effacement de Samir Toumi : représentation et/ou aliénation

open access: yesMultilinguales, 2002
This article examines the unusual observation of the absence of the main character’s first name in Samir Toumi’s work titled Erasure. In contrast to the common presence of first names in fictional works, this particularity raises questions about ...
Samira Ibecheninene
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TRAIL‐PEG‐Apt‐PLGA nanosystem as an aptamer‐targeted drug delivery system potential for triple‐negative breast cancer therapy using in vivo mouse model

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Aptamers are used both therapeutically and as targeting agents in cancer treatment. We developed an aptamer‐targeted PLGA–TRAIL nanosystem that exhibited superior therapeutic efficacy in NOD/SCID breast cancer models. This nanosystem represents a novel biotechnological drug candidate for suppressing resistance development in breast cancer.
Gulen Melike Demirbolat   +8 more
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Helsinki (Helsingfors) in the mirror of imperial St. Petersburg

open access: yesHistoria provinciae: журнал региональной истории, 2017
This essay discusses three aspects related to the likeness between Helsinki and St Petersburg. Firstly, the centre of early 19th-century Helsinki became to look like miniature St Petersburg because its architect C.L.
Rahikainen Marjatta
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The Enduring Influence of Female Special Operations Executive Agent Biopics on Cultural Memory and Representations in France and Great Britain

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Life Writing, 2021
Seventy-five years have elapsed since the end of World War Two. Yet, the memory of the conflict still occupies a central place in British and French collective consciousness. Fiction and film representations of the war act as powerful ‘vectors of memory’,
Sylvie Pomiès-Maréchal
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A new flow chip in combination with multiphoton microscopy as a protocol for longitudinal 3D imaging of tissue calcification under shear stress

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Miniaturized flow chip platform enabling continuous perfusion and longitudinal multiphoton 3D imaging of vascular smooth muscle cell constructs under physiological flow. Brightfield imaging guides region selection, while CellTracker Green and mRuby‐labeled fetuin‐A visualize cells and mineral deposition, respectively. Magnesium supplementation markedly
Vytautas Kučikas   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

IDENTITĂŢI HIBRIDE ÎN ROMANELE LUI DUMITRU ŢEPENEAG (HYBRID IDENTITIES IN THE NOVELS OF DUMITRU ŢEPENEAG) [PDF]

open access: yesIncursiuni în imaginar, 2017
Through his name and writings, Dumitru Tsepeneag highlights his hybrid identity. He publishes his novels under the family name of Ţepeneag, Tsepeneag and Pastenaque, a pseudonym invented in order to sign Pigeon flies.
Sonia Elvireanu
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Epilepsy‐Associated Variants of a Single SCN1A Codon Exhibit Divergent Functional Properties

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Pathogenic variants in SCN1A, which encodes the voltage‐gated sodium channel NaV1.1, are associated with multiple epilepsy syndromes exhibiting a range of clinical severity. SCN1A variants are reported in different syndromes, including Dravet syndrome, which is associated with loss‐of‐function, whereas neonatal/infantile‐onset ...
Lanie N. Liebovitz   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of Trademark Law System in Protecting Fictional Characters: A Focus on the Legal System of the United States of America [PDF]

open access: yesFaṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish-i Huqūq-i Khuṣūṣī
As cultural, artistic, and media constructs, fictional characters occupy a special and increasingly important place in today’s intellectual property rights system. These characters—created in the form of fictional works, films, animations, computer games,
Mehdi Zahedi, Sara Solhchi
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