Reading from the Guts: of Text and Disgust by Solveig Dunkel

“…This paper is interested in the literary and aesthetic mechanisms enabling a profoundly somatic reading of fiction, especially in the violent experience of disgust, Faulkner’s Sanctuary, Samuel R. …”
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Adipokines in Breast Cancer: Decoding Genetic and Proteomic Mechanisms Underlying Migration, Invasion, and Proliferation by Ließem A, Leimer U, Germann GK, Köllensperger E

“…Anne Ließem, Uwe Leimer, Günter K Germann, Eva Köllensperger Clinic for Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery, Spine, Orthopedic and Hand Surgery, Preventive Medicine – ETHIANUM, Heidelberg, 69115, GermanyCorrespondence: Eva Köllensperger, Clinic for Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery, Spine, Orthopedic and Hand Surgery, Preventive Medicine – ETHIANUM, Heidelberg, 69115, Germany, Email Eva.Koellensperger@ethianum.deBackground: Adipokines, bioactive peptides secreted by adipose tissue, appear to contribute to breast cancer development and progression. …”
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Supramolecular interactions-driven aggregation to prepare lipoic acid-bioadhesives for seawater-immersed wounds by Rui Lei, Wenjun Wang, Guan Li, Qian Yu, Haowei Fang, Jinghong Xu, Kunxi Zhang, Yinghai Ye

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The effect of various bulk filling techniques on the mechanical and structural characteristics of class I biomimetic composite dental fillings by Alexandra Kemény, Péter Zoltán Farkas, Borbála Leveles, Levente Borhy, Dóra Károly, Tamás Bubonyi, András Volom, Gábor Braunitzer, David S. Alleman, Balázs Varbai

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Leaf Extracts of Moringa oleifera Cultivated in Baghdad: Characterization and Antimicrobial Potential against Endodontic Pathogens by Nada E. Shafiq, Anas F. Mahdee, Zainab Y. Mohammed Hasan

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MODIFIED CLEFT LIP EVALUATION PROFILE (MCLEP) INDEX FOR UNILATERAL CLEFT LIP REPAIR OUTCOME ASSESSMENT IN SURABAYA CLP CENTER by Robertus Arian Datusanantyo, Magda Rosalina Hutagalung, Sitti Rizaliyana

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The Multifaceted Contributions of Community-Based Breeding Program of Bonga Sheep to Flock Dynamics, Animal Performance, and Socio-economic Benefits of Beneficiaries in Kafa Zone,... by Metsafe Mamiru, Aberra Melesse, Aynalem Haile, Tesfaye Getachew

“…The survey focused on flock dynamics, improvement in biological and aesthetic traits, and livelihood change of farmers. …”
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QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT OF BILATERAL CHEILORRHAPHY: A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY by Lobredia Zarasade, Pratidina Wulandari, Indri Lakhsmi Putri

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Problema protocronismului. Precizări by Edgar Papu

“…His idea about the Romanian aesthetic forms anticipating or preparing currents, motives or procedures that were later to be experienced and dealt with by the Western culture was published twice before (1977 and 1989), but this one is the first uncensored text diffused after the fall of the communist regime in Romania. …”
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Evaluation of Antimicrobial Activity and Cytotoxicity of an Epoxy Resin-Based Endodontic Sealer Containing Nanoparticles Amorphous Calcium Phosphate by Bilal H. Ibrahim, Hussain Al-Huwaizi

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Daumier : émigrants ou fugitifs ? by Jean-Philippe Chimot

“…If the artist, who was sensitive to the aesthetic dimension of thecentury's dramas and conflicts, did not financially benefit from his public or private commands, he also avoided the optimistic lies of official viewings and the self-satisfaction of “elites”. …”
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Devenir post-straight ? by Luc Schicharin

“…This writing experience is part of an artistic process—both personal and scientific—questioning self-ethnographic practice as a creative form. It leads to an aesthetic reflection on the possibility of making a philosophy about the self—“Giving an Account of Oneself”, to use the Judith Butler’s formula— as a conceptual artistic work. …”
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Aussi vite que possible… by Antoine Hennion

“…Drawing on a comparison between different genres, I would like to suggest that beyond the classical opposition between body, entertainment, collective trance music, on a side, and written music that focuses on the composition of a work and is largely developed by opposing virtuoso seduction, on the other, it is possible to give virtuosity its ability to express a musical truth by turning it into an aesthetic of performance: less a technical feat than a necessary positioning of the work in the fragility of a present that is always to be recovered.…”
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Learning from Nature: Feminism, Allegory and Ostriches in Olive Schreiner’s The Story of an African Farm (1883) by Nathalie Saudo-Welby

“…It examines how the ostrich participates in an aesthetic of relations, which ranges from Schreiner’s allegorical practice to the reader’s method of interpreting the novel.…”
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Dilema da identidade: os rataplãs do Olodum, políticas de significado e o campo etnopopular no Brasil by Edson Farias

“…We discuss how, in this aesthetical presentations, policies of meaning were engaged with human rights and black cultural identities and expressions as well. …”
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“I Don’t Think I Have an Attention Span for Real Life Anymore”: Excessive Stimulation, Sense of Meaninglessness, and Boredom in Sam Levinson’s Euphoria by Anna Pochmara

“…Directed by Sam Levinson, the show has been repeatedly praised for its dynamic aesthetic. The swirling kaleidoscope of scenes and images in Euphoria mimics the contemporary immersion in social media and digital representations. …”
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L’altérité au prisme de la polytextualité : les artefacts science-fictionnels de Points chauds (Laurent Genefort) by Simon Bréan

“…Polytextuality presents itself here not only as an aesthetic choice, but above all as a modality of cognitive access to what establishes otherness, that is to say mostly the point of view adopted. …”
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De l’exposition à la décomposition prismatique : art de la mémoire et arts visuels dans Speak, Memory de Vladimir Nabokov by Laure de Nervaux-Gavoty

“…Nabokov’s prismatic and reflexive aesthetic, lastly, is at the heart of a process of decomposition and transmutation which blurs the boundaries of truth and fiction and tries to come to terms with loss by performing a literary form of grief work.…”
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Artificial Mosaic Generation with Gradient Vector Flow and Tile Cutting by Sebastiano Battiato, Alfredo Milone, Giovanni Puglisi

“…In this paper, we propose a mosaic generation technique based on gradient vector flow (GVF) together with a set of tile cutting heuristics evaluated according to aesthetic criteria. The effectiveness of the proposed approach has been confirmed by a series of tests and comparisons with state-of-the-art techniques.…”
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Live/love-streams: poetry and relating at the time of Covid-19 by Camille MANFREDI

“…It examines the way poets rely on digital technology and the social media to foster online communities of readers, viewers, “friends” and “followers” and thus relate to the world by spreading contagion of another kind, be it emotional, aesthetic or otherwise, outside the conventional mechanisms of the commercial nexus.…”
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