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Boron deficiency responses in maize (Zea mays L.) roots
Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract Background Boron (B) is an essential micronutrient for plants. Dicot plants respond to insufficient B supply by altering root architecture and root hair growth. How root systems of rather low‐B demanding monocot species such as maize (Zea mays L.) respond to B deficiency in terra has not been experimentally resolved, yet.
Manuela Désirée Bienert +5 more
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Children &Society, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract This article presents findings from a UK‐based qualitative study that explored parents/carers experiences of child to parent violence (CPV) from their child who has a neurodevelopmental difference. The study used semi‐structured interviews with 15 mothers who were experiencing physical and psychological violence from their child, often on a ...
Amanda Holt
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Monstrosity and the Limits of the Intellect: Philosophy as Teratomachy in Descartes
Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, 2011 For Descartes, nature must be interpreted through a limited number of simple laws used to describe the multiplicity of the real, focusing on the rule and normality rather than on the exception and monstrosity.
Filippo Del Luchesse
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, 2012 Deadgirl (2008) is based around a group of male teens discovering and claiming ownership of a bound female zombie, using her as a sex slave. This narrative premise raises numerous tensions that are particularly amplified by using a zombie as the film’s ...
Jones, Steve
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Early 21st-century Serbian exploitation cinema
Images, 2018 Exploitation films are one of the main trends of the Serbian cinema of the beginning of the 21st century, when Serbia enters the second phase of systemic transformation, striving to neutralize the effects of the crisis in the first phase of ...
Patrycjusz Pająk
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At the Edge of the World. Geographical Location, Englishness and Monstrosity
Lea, 2023 Monstrosity is a constant presence in Old English literature. In particular, Wonders of the East depicts everything that was perceived as strange, significantly located in the East, displaying a Mediterranean-centric perspective where Europe works as the
Jasmine Bria
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Disability Studies Quarterly, 2019 Obesity seems to have become prevalent in English society in the eighteenth century, likely as a result of changes in the country's diet such as an increasing consumption of sugar.
Whitney Dirks
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Lady Gaga as (dis)simulacrum of monstrosity [PDF]
, 2015 Lady Gaga’s celebrity DNA revolves around the notion of monstrosity, an extensively researched concept in postmodern cultural studies. The analysis that is offered in this paper is largely informed by Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of ...
Baudrillard J. +56 more
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Nalans, 2022 Monstrosity is an elusive term that is interlocked with the concept of normality. As a cultural construct, monster’s elusiveness stems from its contingency to spatio-temporal parameters that are ever-changing so that the normative self’s attempt at ...
Ulaş Özgün
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Revisiting the Monster Tale: Frankensteinian Tropes in Margaret Atwood’s Speculative Fiction
New Horizons in English Studies, 2020 Mary Shelley’s iconic Frankenstein is a pivotal work in the Western canon. Since its publication in 1818, the novel has been re-written and adapted many times.
Monika Kosa
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