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Making steampunk jewellery
Steampunk has captured the imagination of thousands who are searching for a unique style symbolic of a richly inspired, post-apocalyptic world drawn from the heavy machinery of the Victorian age. This book shows you how to access that world and make unique jewellery and accessories that will complete an outfit and transport you to another era.
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Microglial response to increasing amyloid load saturates with aging: a longitudinal dual tracer in vivo muPET-study
Causal associations between microglia activation and [beta]-amyloid (A[beta]) accumulation during the progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD) remain a matter of controversy. Therefore, we used longitudinal dual tracer in vivo small animal positron emission tomography ([mu]PET) imaging to resolve the progression of the association between A[beta] deposition and microglial responses during aging of an A[beta] mouse model. APP-SL70 mice (N = 17; baseline age 3.2-8.5 months) and age-matched C57Bl/6 controls (wildtype (wt)) were investigated longitudinally for 6 months using A[beta] (18F-florbetaben) and 18 kDa translocator protein (TSPO) [mu]PET (18F-GE180). Changes in cortical binding were transformed to Z-scores relative to wt mice, and microglial activation relative to amyloidosis was defined as the Z-score difference (TSPO--A[beta]). Using 3D immunohistochemistry for activated microglia (Iba-1) and histology for fibrillary A[beta] (methoxy-X04), we measure microglial brain fraction relative to plaque size and the distance from plaque margins. A[beta]-PET binding increased exponentially as a function of age in APP-SL70 mice, whereas TSPO binding had an inverse U-shape growth function. Longitudinal Z-score differences declined with aging, suggesting that microglial response declined relative to increasing amyloidosis in aging APP-SL70 mice. Microglial brain volume fraction was inversely related to adjacent plaque size, while the proximity to A[beta] plaques increased with age. Microglial activity decreases relative to ongoing amyloidosis with aging in APP-SL70 mice. The plaque-associated microglial brain fraction saturated and correlated negatively with increasing plaque size with aging.
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Steampunk jewellery
Follow the simple step-by-step instructions to assemble these wonderful pieces and be inspired to invent your own original steampunk variations. Choose from pendants, bracelets, necklaces, brooches, rings, earrings and many more. 20 fantastic designs 20 great alternatives easy and fun to make.
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Steampunk Film
Steampunk Film: A Critical Introduction is a concise and accessible overview of steampunk's indelible impact within film, and acts as a case study for examining the ways with which genres hybridize and coalesce into new forms. Since the beginning of the 21st century, a series of high-profile and big-budget films have adopted steampunk identities to re-imagine periods of industrial development into fantastical histories where future meets past. By calling this growing mass-cultural fetishism for anachronistic machines into question, this book examines how a retro-futuristic romanticism for technology powered by cogs, pistons and steam-engines has taken center stage in blockbuster cinema.As the first monograph to consider cinema's unique relationship with steampunk, it places this burgeoning genre in the context of ongoing debates within film theory: each of which reflecting the movement's remarkable interest in reengineering historical technologies. Rather than acting as a niche subculture, Robbie McAllister argues that steampunk's proliferation in mainstream filmmaking reflects a desire to reassess contemporary relationships with technology and navigate the intense changes that the medium itself is experiencing in the 21st century.
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Steampunk apothecary : create enchanting jewellery and accessories
\"From a UK author, the clear step-by-step explanations and photographs show how to make the projects. Atmospheric photography throughout the book, draws the reader in. You are invited to join adventuress Emilly Ladybird as she heads off on a fantastical journey of discovery. While searching out strange artefacts for her employers Dickens and Rivett she encounters an array of astounding characters and visions. In this book she will share her exploits and observations. She will then carefully guide the reader through how to make beautiful jewellery and accessories inspired by the fairies, vampires and other intriguing creatures she met on her travels. The book features 20 projects in themed chapters, each one opening with a short story that introduces a highly individual steampunk character. The book is inspirational as well as practical, aiming to give a real feel for the style of the subject as a whole. All projects are designed to be completed by a reader with no previous experience in jewellery construction, but are still interesting and inspirational enough to be of interest to the more advanced craft.\"--Publisher's description.
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Steampunk
What is steampunk? Fashion craze, literary genre, lifestyle - or all of the above? Playing with the scientific innovations and aesthetics of the Victorian era, steampunk creatively warps history and presents an alternative future, imagined from a nineteenth-century perspective. In her interdisciplinary book, Claire Nally delves into this contemporary subculture, explaining how the fashion, music, visual culture, literature and politics of steampunk intersect with theories of gender and sexuality. Exploring and occasionally critiquing the ways in which gender functions in the movement, she addresses a range of different issues, including the controversial trope of the Victorian asylum; gender and the graphic novel; the legacies of colonialism; science and the role of Ada Lovelace as a feminist steampunk icon. Drawing upon interviews, theoretical readings and textual analysis, Nally asks: why are steampunks fascinated by our Victorian heritage, and what strategies do they use to reinvent history in the present?
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Penny Dreadful’s Queer Orientalism: The Translations of Ferdinand Lyle
Cultural expressions of Orientalism, the Gothic, and the queer are rarely studied together, though they share uncanny features including spectrality, doubling, and the return of the repressed. An ideal means of investigating these common aspects is neo-Victorian translation, which is likewise uncanny. The neo-Victorian Gothic cable television series Penny Dreadful, set mostly in fin-de-siècle London, employs the character Ferdinand Lyle, a closeted queer Egyptologist and linguist, to depict translation as both interpretation and transformation, thereby simultaneously replicating and challenging late-Victorian attitudes toward queerness and Orientalism.
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Steampunk City : an alphabetical journey
\"Enjoy a rhyming alphabetical journey through a rich and colorful steampunk world in this lavishly illustrated volume that invites readers to linger over every intricate detail\"-- Back cover.
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\Worse than Two Fathers\: Steampunk Pygmalion and a New Look at Double Standards and the Language of Things in the Digital Realm
With the USA and the European Union seeing the Internet of Things as a major contributor to these global revolutionary developments, attention is increasingly focused on issues relating to the reproduction and exchange of data that raise pressing social and cultural questions, as illustrated by The British Academy and The Royal Society coming together to sponsor a report in 2017 on the twenty-first century digital environment that pressed the need for new perspectives on \"data governance\". A brief consideration of recent steampunk productions of Pygmalion shows how we can use George Bernard Shaw's play from the start of the twentieth century to help shape an understanding of the harvesting and manipulation of data from a digitally connected world of things in the twenty-first century. Here, Cooper consider show Shaw's critical examination of a tendency to treat language as a thing produced by people having only thing-like status connects with drives to standardize and reify language in his own era. He also demonstrates how his treatment of those issues in Pygmalion is still relevant today.
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