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Book Review: \u3ci\u3eHindu-Catholic Encounters in Goa: Religion, Colonialism, and Modernity\u3c/i\u3e [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
A book review of Hindu-Catholic Encounters in Goa: Religion, Colonialism, and Modernity, by Alexander ...
Johnston, P. J.
core   +3 more sources

TRPM8 levels determine tumor vulnerability to channel agonists

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
TRPM8 is a Ca2+ permissive channel. Regardless of the amount of its transcript, high levels of TRPM8 protein mark different tumors, including prostate, breast, colorectal, and lung carcinomas. Targeting TRPM8 with channel agonists stimulates inward calcium currents followed by emptying of cytosolic Ca2+ stores in cancer cells.
Alessandro Alaimo   +18 more
wiley   +1 more source

Critique and Development of Modernity : From Romantic Criticism to Post-modernism

open access: yesInsaniyat: Journal of Islam and Humanities, 2017
In the East, even in the most parts of the West, modernity has been an omnipresent phenomenon. It becomes the ultimate goal of modernization.  However, modernity appears in the Western history, shortly after birth, which emphasizes the rationality of ...
Sukron Kamil
doaj   +1 more source

Cytomegalovirus infection is common in prostate cancer and antiviral therapies inhibit progression in disease models

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Human cytomegalovirus infection is common in normal prostate epithelium, prostate tumor tissue, and prostate cancer cell lines. CMV promotes cell survival, proliferation, and androgen receptor signaling. Anti‐CMV pharmaceutical compounds in clinical use inhibited cell expansion in prostate cancer models in vitro and in vivo, motivating investigation ...
Johanna Classon   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

FOSTERING THE ‘FRATERNITY OF CIVILIZATIONS’ AND THE ROLE OF ISLAM

open access: yesJournal of Islamic Thought and Civilization, 2012
The Clash of Civilizations has been extensively refuted, but remains a highly influential paradigm in international relations and intercultural discourse. It must, therefore, be exposed as a fallacious abstraction, and defeated through exploring ways to
Ms. Maryam Sakeenah
doaj  

Genetic diversity and population structure of the Taigan dog breed

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
The Taigan is a rare sighthound from the mountains of Kyrgyzstan. We used DNA markers to study its genetic diversity and compare it with other sighthound breeds. Our findings show that the Taigan shares close genetic ties with the Kazakh Tazy, suggesting a common ancestry shaped by nomadic traditions and regional adaptation.
Kira Bespalova   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Modernism

open access: yes, 2013
Modernity is usually considered a creative and productive force. However, modern dreams have also generated destruction and ruins and often failed with disastrous results, especially during the last hundred years. An archaeology of high modernism, then, has to look at the material effects of failed modernist fantasies and utopian projects.
openaire   +2 more sources

Definitional Excursions: The Meanings of Modern/Modernity/Modernism

open access: yesModernism/modernity, 2001
The main task of the present article is to characterize the changing perspectives in the description and definition of modernism and modernity in a reciprocal relationship of these two categories. The creation of definitions is described here as a processes of fictionalization with a generational viewpoint of scholars.
openaire   +4 more sources

Arctic: History and Modernity

open access: yesIOP Conference Series: Earth and Environment, 2018
PREFACE The theme of the Arctic, where geopolitical and economic interests of many countries intersect now, is truly relevant. In the Arctic ocean, Canada, Denmark, Norway, the United States and the Russian Federation (USSR) have a 370-kilometer ...

semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Construction of Touristic Modernity in Xizhou [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Tim Oakes’ (1998) concept of touristic modernity accurately describes how the Chinese national discourse surrounding tourism, as both a tool for economic growth and nation-building, has shaped what the local reality has become for many towns and villages
Benton, Katherine E.
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