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Cairo collages
Cairo is a city of collective exhaustion. From the 2011 revolution to Sisi's seizure of power in 2013, like millions of others, Mona Abaza was swallowed by a draining and exhausting daily life of a city caught up in the aftermath of revolt - a daily life that transformed countless people into all-embracing apolitical subjects.Cairo collages narrates four parallel tales about Cairo's urban transformations in the twenty-first century, examining everyday life and resilience after 2013. Weaving personal narrative with incisive theoretical discussions of the quotidian and the everyday, Abaza raises essential sociological questions regarding global orientations pertaining to emerging military urbanism. With reflections on the long hours of commuting to the gated communities in the desert east of Cairo and the daily material lives and social interactions of residents in decaying middle-class buildings, Abaza's collage of landscapes weaves together the transmutations underway in the various Cairene geographies.With the military seizing overt power in Egypt, Cairo's grand and dramatic urban reshaping during and after 2011 is reflected upon under the lens of a smaller story narrating everyday interactions of a middle-class building in the neighbourhood of Doqi.
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Raman Analysis of E2 (High) and A1 (LO) Phonon to the Stress-Free GaN Grown on Sputtered AlN/Graphene Buffer Layer
The realization of high-speed and high-power gallium nitride (GaN)-based devices using high-quality GaN/Aluminum nitride (AlN) materials has become a hot topic. Raman spectroscopy has proven to be very useful in analyzing the characteristics of wide band gap materials, which reveals the information interaction of sample and phonon dynamics. Four GaN samples grown on different types of buffer layers were fabricated and the influence of graphene and sputtered AlN on GaN epitaxial layers were analyzed through the E2 (high) and A1 (LO) phonon. The relationship between the frequency shift of E2 (high) phonons and the biaxial stress indicated that the GaN grown on the graphene/sputtered AlN buffer layer was stress-free. Furthermore, the phonon lifetimes of A1 (LO) mode in GaN grown on graphene/sputtered AlN buffer layer suggested that carrier migration of GaN received minimal interference. Finally, the Raman spectra of graphene with the sputtered AlN interlayer has more disorder and the monolayer graphene was also more conducive to nucleation of GaN films. These results will have significant impact on the heteroepitaxy of high-quality thin GaN films embedded with a graphene/sputtered AlN buffer, and will facilitate the preparation of high-speed GaN-based optoelectronic devices.
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Ecocritical Perspectives in Fiction: Object Earth as a Lens for the Planetary and the Global in Samantha Harvey’s Orbital
The numerous causes of climate change and the unintended scalar effects of human activity are increasingly highlighting the chasm between the workings of the planet and human actions, entangled in a complex web of causes and effects that seems to eschew a comprehensive view. This widening gap is posing challenges to human cognition and, as a result, to ecocritical fiction. This article aims to analyse how the fracture between the planetary and the global, discussed by Dipesh Chakrabarty, is rendered in fiction in Samantha Harvey’s Orbital through the representation of object Earth. By interweaving Iovino and Oppermann’s material ecocriticism with ecocritical scholarly reflections, I will show how the object Earth in the novel —apparently observed from the outside area of the International Space Station— thematises the difference between the planetary and the global, and how Harvey’s narrative strategies attempt to capture climate change and the planet by circumventing the hurdle posed by scale. Las numerosas causas del cambio climático y los efectos escalares accidentales de la actividad humana resaltan cada vez más la diferencia entre los mecanismos de funcionamiento del planeta y las acciones humanas, en un entramado multifacético de causas y efectos que parece eludir una visión integral. Esta creciente diferencia está planteando desafíos a la cognición humana y, en consecuencia, también a la ficción ecocrítica. Este artículo tiene como objetivo analizar cómo la fractura entre lo planetario y lo global, comentada por Dipesh Chakrabarty, se representa a nivel narrativo en Orbital, de Samantha Harvey, a través de la representación delobjeto Tierra. Entretejiendo la ecocrítica material de Iovino y Oppermann con las reflexiones ecocríticas de varios académicos, mostraré cómo el objeto Tierra novelístico —observado desde el lugar aparentemente externo de la Estación Espacial Internacional— pone en primer plano la diferencia entre lo planetario y lo global, y cómo las estrategias narrativas de Harvey intentan captar el cambio climático y el planeta, sorteando el obstáculo de las magnitudes escalares.
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Grammatical gender in Zapotec/Spanish monolingual and bilingual speakers
As inanimate nouns are not classified according to grammatical gender in Zapotec, it is legitimate to wonder whether it is possible that the influence of Zapotec on Spanish plays a role in the quantity and in the grammatical and structural contexts where pronoun “lo” is used as a substitute for “la”. We also address whether or not there are differences between the Zapotec/Spanish bilinguals and the Spanish monolinguals, as Spanish monolinguals have been in contact with Zapotec/Spanish bilinguals for generations. We have analyzed data from 40 adults, 20 Spanish monolinguals and 20 Zapotec/Spanish bilinguals in San Cristóbal Lachirioag, Oaxaca, Mexico. The data analysis carried out on the three experimental tasks administered to the participants shows differences between the bilingual and the monolingual groups, both in terms of the number of inherent feminine nouns that are pronominalized with \"lo\" and with respect to the structural contexts where this occurs. Another relevant finding relates to the differences between the first task (classification of nouns according to gender) and the second task (gender agreement), which leads us to propose that the two groups of participants have problems with gender agreement but not with gender assignment.
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Sodium Thiosulfate for Protection from Cisplatin-Induced Hearing Loss
Cisplatin is an effective treatment for hepatoblastoma but often leads to lifelong irreversible hearing loss. The addition of sodium thiosulfate 6 hours after cisplatin administration preserved the antitumor effect and led to a lower risk of hearing loss (33% vs. 63%).
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Proceedings of the 34th National Conference of the Italian Group for the Study of Neuromorphology “Gruppo Italiano per lo Studio della Neuromorfologia” G.I.S.N
Proceedings of the 34th National Conference of the Italian Group for the Study of Neuromorphology \"Gruppo Italiano per lo Studio della Neuromorfologia\" G.I.S.N., Catania, November 22-23, 2024.Proceedings of the 34th National Conference of the Italian Group for the Study of Neuromorphology \"Gruppo Italiano per lo Studio della Neuromorfologia\" G.I.S.N., Catania, November 22-23, 2024.
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