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Individual‐Based Simulation of the Clustering Behaviour of Epidermal Growth Factor Receptors

Scientific Programming, Volume 12, Issue 1, Page 25-43, 2004., 2004
This paper describes ongoing work on a project to simulate the behaviour of epidermal growth factor receptors. These are structures which can be found on the surface of cells in the body, which receive and process chemical signals concerned with cell growth.
Jacki P. Goldman, William J. Gullick, Colin G. Johnson   +2 more
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The Philistine Revolution: Ethel Mannin, Virginia Woolf and The Battle of the Brows

English Literature
The language of the Brows – highbrow, middlebrow and lowbrow – has continued to shape how we think and talk about literature today, with middlebrow remaining the most contested and debated of the three.
Timlin, Carrie
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Page Composing and Lettering Games: Experimentation in Italy in the 1930s

Authorship, 2012
The objective of this article is to analyze how or in what ways the most advanced visual experiments centred on “the book” as an object in the period between 1900 and 1930 in Italy, in particular in relation to the development of middlebrow literature ...
Sarah Bonciarelli
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Middlebrow Aesthetics: An Explanation and Defense

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We offer a philosophical account of the middlebrow as a theoretical category to do explanatory and critical work in aesthetics. On our account, the middlebrow ought to be understood as aspirational popular art. That is, it is art which aspires both to be popular (in a distinctive sense), and at the same time to be something more than popular ...
Aaron Meskin, Jonathan M. Weinberg
wiley   +1 more source

Who Feels Looked Down Upon? Sources of “Symbolic Violence” in the United States

Sociological Inquiry, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 87-108, February 2026.
This paper explores the factors increasing the chances of thinking one's cultural tastes and interests would be looked down upon by others, a sentiment put under the label of “symbolic violence” by Pierre Bourdieu. Using data from a survey fielded in the US in 2017–18 (n = 2,514), it examines the role of social position, lifestyle, family status and ...
Will Atkinson
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The impeccable taste of a publisher: Literary prizes and cultural value from a publishing perspective

Orbis Litterarum, Volume 80, Issue 4, Page 423-436, August 2025.
Abstract The article discusses the complex relationship between publishers and literary prizes in terms of production, marketing, and the value of literary prizes. The main argument is that publishers are instrumental not only in the creation process of literary fiction receiving prizes but also in using the values adhered to awards and nominations for
Ann Steiner
wiley   +1 more source

Mainstreaming the Avant-Garde: Modernism in Life Magazine (New York, 1883–1936)

Journal of European Periodical Studies, 2016
This paper explores the relationship between literary modernism and mainstream culture within a little-studied American magazine, Life (New York, 1884-1936). It does so by looking at three ways in which Life presented modernism to its readers: by quoting
Marianne Van Remoortel
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How to speak to the masses, part II: Hồ Chí Minh as a moral and linguistic exemplar and the dynamics of register formation in 20th century Vietnam

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 23-44, May 2024.
Abstract Hồ Chí Minh's extended essay Fixing the Way We Work, written in 1947 after he and other high‐ranking members of the recently formed DRV (Democratic Republic of Vietnam; Việt Nam Dân chủ Cộng hòa), had been forced to retreat from Hanoi to the uplands of Thái Nguyên province, elaborates on organizational and practical problems within the party ...
Jack Sidnell
wiley   +1 more source

Cyrano de Bergerac d’Edmond Rostand, le triomphe du théâtre de genre

Recherches & Travaux, 2023
This paper aims to read the success of Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac as the culmination of a literary strategy inscribed in the genesis of the play, the generic choices and the intertextual references with which it is abundantly nourished. Designed
Sarah Mombert
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The emergence of the middlebrow novel in the Netherlands: the ‘New Novels’ Series of World Library

Belphégor, 2017
Presenting the case of the introduction of a series of ‘New Novels’ in 1909, this article analyzes the early beginning of literary midcult in the Netherlands.
Erica van Boven
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