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Post-Modernism, Agency, and Democracy

open access: yesPhilosophies, 2018
This essay presents a general summary of post-modern philosophy’s conception of agency. It argues that while post-modern philosophers offer formidable intellectual tools for criticizing contemporary restrictions on agency, their conception falters ...
Matthew McManus
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From Appendicism to Post-Modernism, from Post-Modernism to New Appendicism. Literature and TV Narration

open access: yesCuadernos de Filología Italiana, 2017
The success currently enjoyed by season upon season of TV dramas must not make us forget the “season” which originated them all: that is the heyday of the 19th century feuilleton, the seven decades of the popular serial novels one would find in the last ...
Bruno Pischedda
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Six Open Debates on Sumak Kawsay

open access: yesÍconos, 2014
This essay tries to shed light on six open debates about sumak kawsay, its meaning, translation, origin, cultural referent, relation with development, and destination. Such debates are analyzed from the premise that the authors who participate in them do
Antonio Luis Hidalgo-Capitán   +1 more
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Feasibility and Safety of High‐Dose Proton Re‐Irradiation in Recurrent Pediatric Central Nervous System Tumors: A Single‐Institution Retrospective Study

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose Pediatric central nervous system (CNS) tumors often recur despite multimodality therapy. Although re‐irradiation (re‐RT) has historically been limited by concerns for severe late toxicities, modern techniques have renewed interest in this approach. Proton therapy provides dosimetric advantages that may enable curative re‐treatment with
Jin‐Ho Song   +15 more
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Signifying on Passing: (Post) Post-Racialism, (Post) Post-Modernism, and (Post) Post-Marxism

open access: yesColumbia Journal of Race and Law, 2011
The social and legal relevance of racial passing appears to be fading as we ostensibly enter a color-blind, post-race era. During the “Age of Obama,” the notion of passing in our multi-racial society seems to many to be antiquated and unnecessary. As the
Christian B. Sundquist
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Constitutionalism's Post-Modern Opening [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
AbstractThis chapter focuses on the radical potential of contemporary constitutionalism, whereby constituent power is neither colonized by nor in symbiosis with the legal. This potential is illustrated in the work of Negri, in which it remains a latent revolutionary possibility which lies behind the legally constituted authority of the polity.
openaire   +3 more sources

Molecular dynamics simulations of positively selected codons in FcγRI reveal novel biochemical binding properties

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Evolutionary analysis across 32 placental mammals identified positive selection at residues H148 and W149 in the immune receptor FcγR1. Ancestral reconstruction combined with molecular dynamics simulations reveals how these mutations may influence receptor structure and dynamics, providing insight into the evolution of antibody recognition and immune ...
David A. Young   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Lie of the Land: Irish Modernism in a Nativist Ireland

open access: yesStudi Irlandesi, 2015
In Waiting for Godot (1953) Beckett draws upon a non-temporal stasis that has paralyzed the nation over the past decades, and demystifies such a paralysis by structuring the play around not only a fixed milieu and an unnamable saviour but also a ...
Shahriyar Mansouri
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Aarup 1960 and the poetics of materials

open access: yesFORMakademisk, 2021
All design has its own conditional modes of expression; however, these are realised through the maker’s sense of the possibilities of materiality. This essay was inspired by a reclaimed piece of 1960s furniture designed in the modernist idiom, and is ...
Liv Mildrid Gjernes
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