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Lotus and Pharmakon: Drugs in the Dialectic of Enlightenment

This essay explicates the position of Adorno and Horkheimer’s Dialectic of Enlightenment on the problem of drugs. At the focus of my analysis are the passages in “Excursus I: Odysseus or Myth and Enlightenment” which interpret the Homeric myth of the ...
Pioter Shmugliakov, Shmugliakov, Pioter
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Masculinity, Prostitution, and the Imaginary Northwest in Chinese Travel Writings About Shanxi and Western Inner Mongolia, 1920–1949

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article considers travel writings by metropolitan men in Republican China about Shanxi and western Inner Mongolia as a case study to further explore the transformations and continuities of Chinese masculinities. Drawing upon a range of popular travel narratives, it shows that so‐called “Worn‐Out Shoes (poxie)” – women perceived as ...
Amanda Zhang
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Le narratoème, modèle de la nomadanse dans La Réfugiée d’Hédi Bouraoui

Voix Plurielles, 2016
Parue en 2012, La Réfugiée d’Hédi Bouraoui aborde un sujet brûlant, celui de l’altérité, de la reconnaissance d’une identité culturelle étrangère au sein du pays d’accueil.
Suzanne Crosta
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Experiences of Women and Clinicians During the Introduction of Uterine Transplantation to the UK: A Qualitative Case Study

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics &Gynaecology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To explore the experiences of women and clinicians during the introduction of uterine transplantation (UTx) to the UK. Design A qualitative study utilising prospective case study methodology (interviews and observations) over 6 years.
Daisy Elliott, Richard J. Smith, Maeve Coyle, Rhiannon Macefield, Saliha Vali, Anni King, Natalie Blencowe, Cynthia Ochieng, Christin Hoffmann, Isabel Quiroga, Ben P. Jones, Ariadne L'Heveder, Kerry N. L. Avery, Jane M. Blazeby   +13 more
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Associative analysis of the painting by G. Moro “Salome, dancing before Herod” in the novel by J.-K. Huysmans “Against Nature”

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The phenomenon of the “symbolic image” is examined using the example of the flower in Salome’s hand in Gustave Moreau’s painting “Salome Dancing before Herod” and the lotus in Salome’s hand in J.-K. Huysmans’ novel “Against the Grain.” The history of the
S. G. Gorbovskaya
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Norman and Nietzsche: The Political Project of Lindsay's The Magic Pudding

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
Australian artist and writer Norman Lindsay (1879–1969) wrote 11 novels and two children's books, one of which—The Magic Pudding first published in 1918—remains a national classic. This article argues that readers and critics have long misunderstood Lindsay's intention in writing this lengthy cartoon‐story about the adventures of Bunyip Bluegum in ...
John Uhr
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‘Jiang Luopao’: A Nelumbo Cultivar with Deep Purple-red and Bowl-shaped Flowers

HortScience, 2021
Fengfeng Du, Xiaojing Liu, Yajun Chang, Naiwei Li, Yuesheng Ding, Dongrui Yao   +5 more
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Aligning a new reference genetic map of lupinus angustifolius with the genome sequence of the model legume, Lotus japonicus

, 2009
We have developed a dense reference genetic map of Lupinus angustifolius (2n = 40) based on a set of 106 publicly available recombinant inbred lines derived from a cross between domesticated and wild parental lines.
Moolhuijzen, P.M., Swiecicki, W., K. Lesniewska, Cowling, W.A., Ellwood, Simon, Matthew N. Nelson, Paula M. Moolhuijzen, S. R. Ellwood, M. Chudy, Oliver, R.P., Simon R. Ellwood, Richard P. Oliver, Wallace A. Cowling, W. A. Cowling, Boersma, J.G., Ellwood, S.R., Magdalena Chudy, Matthew Bellgard, Oliver, Richard, B. Wolko, Chudy, M., Cowling, W., Boersma, J., Nelson, M., R. P. Oliver, J. G. Boersma, Lesniewska, K., Moolhuijzen, P., Bellgard, M., Nelson, M.N., Wolko, B., M. Bellgard, M. N. Nelson, Wolko, B.W., Karolina Lesniewska, Bogdan Wolko, P. M. Moolhuijzen, Jeffrey G. Boersma, W. Swiecicki   +38 more
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Beyond Bia Hơi? Distinction and Aspiration in Hanoi's Craft Beer Scene

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this article we examine the emergence of Hanoi's craft beer scene as a window into shifting class identities, aspirational consumption, and local–global negotiations in contemporary Vietnam. We bring together Bourdieu's theorisation of taste as symbolic capital with Appadurai's concept of aspiration to analyse how consumption practices ...
Sarah Turner, Chính Trọng Nguyễn
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Beyond lotus: Plasma nanostructuring enables efficient energy and water conversion and use

, 2019
Over millions of years, natural evolution created intricate plant microstructures to most effectively convert and use energy and water. Here we use one-step plasma carbonization and surface nanostructuring of microscopic textures of sacred lotus (Nelumbo
Luo, Tengfei, Xiong, Guoping, Yang, Huachao, Bo, Zheng, Tian, Yikuan, Yan, Jianhua, Wu, Shenghao, Cen, Kefa, Ostrikov, Kostya Ken, Hou, Yang   +9 more
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