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Showing 1 to 20 of 212 for “"naked"”.
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Flesh, A Naked Dress
"Flesh, A Naked Dress" is a collection of five poems: "Joy of the Perfect Tool," "Texas," "Estuary," "Flesh, A Naked Dress," and "An Event in the World." The form of the serial poem, adopted for this collection, is the one described by poet Jack Spicer. It is larger scaffolding for the poetry, …
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21 skin lies & the naked truth : short fiction
21 Skin Lies & The Naked Truth is structurally comprised of forty-two pieces of short fiction varying in both length and subject matter. Presumably then, 21 are lies and 21 are the truth. Some are one-page, somewhat-isolated stories in miniature, but there are also longer, episodic pieces--each and …
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Chaucer's "Naked Text" and the Tradition of the Medieval Sublime
The dissertation challenges the familiar notion that the literary theory of the sublime did not exist during the middle ages. Analyzing the Latin tradition from the patristic period through the late medieval period, I argue for the vibrant presence of the sublime by documenting its centrality to …
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Characterisation of Cutaneous Wound Healing Process in Naked Mole Rats
Being the longest-lived rodent, naked mole-rats (NMR; Heterocephalus glaber) are an exceptional model for biogerontological research. However, unlike other rodents, not much is known about their wound healing process. To investigate that, full-thickness wounds were created in the back skin of naked …
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Understanding the Cancer Resistance Mechanisms of the Naked Mole-Rat
The naked mole-rat (NMR, Heterocephalus glaber) is a highly unusual mammal: eusocial, cold-blooded and with remarkable resistance to hypoxia, hypercapnia and acid-induced pain. Furthermore, NMRs are exceptionally long-lived and extremely cancer resistant. Few studies have attempted to explain the …
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NAKED GOBIES (GOBIOSOMA BOSC) AS INDICATORS OF OYSTER REEF RESTORATION SUCCESS
Naked gobies (</italic>Gobiosoma bosc</italic>) are the most abundant resident fish on oyster reefs in the Chesapeake Bay and serve as a critical trophic link between the benthic and pelagic communities. Their response to oyster restoration may therefore be a useful indicator of ecosystem …
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Probing the protein homeostasis mechanisms in long-lived naked mole-rats
The naked mole-rat (NMR) is a fascinating animal which has unique biological features including eusociality, strict subterranean inhabitation and poikilothermy. It is the longest-living rodent, showing negligible senescence over the majority of its lifespan and high resistance to diseases such as …
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Beating the Dead Horse: Deconstructing the Junk Genius of Naked Lunch
William S. Burroughs challenges each reader of Naked Lunch to make meaning of its convoluted pages. This project explores the two crucial keys to fuller understanding of his groundbreaking literary work: Logic and Ethics. In "Beating the Dead Horse: Deconstructing the Junk Genius of Naked Lunch," I …
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Feedback Regulation of Wnt Signaling by Naked Cuticle (Nkd) During Drosophila Embryogenesis
… osteoporosis, and diabetes. In Drosophila, the naked cuticle (nkd) gene antagonizes the Wnt/beta -catenin signaling in every segment of the embryo. Nkd is a modular, evolutionarily conserved protein that uses an EF-hand motif and adjacent sequences to target the cytoplasmic Wnt signal transducer …
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DNA Damage Response in Huntington’s Disease and Naked Mole Rat Brain Ageing
… brain ageing in the exceptionally long-lived naked mole rat (NMR) and the role of the DNA damage response in the pathogenesis of Huntington's disease (HD). Multi-omic analyses of NMR brain ageing revealed a lack of a canonical ageing signature in the NMR cortex, with no observed increase in …
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Development of next-generation near-eye and naked-eye optical display systems
… development of the next-generation near-eye and naked-eye optical display systems for virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) applications using multiple novel designs and techniques, including optical mapping near-eye (OMNI) display, holographic near-eye display, see-through display and …
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Hormonal aspects of reproductive suppression in the naked mole-rat, Heterocephalus glaber
Subordinate, female naked mole-rats (Heterocephalus g/aber) are anovulatory as a result of extremely low luteinising hormone (LH) levels. Evidence suggests that aggression from the dominant female naked mole-rat directed towards subordinates could produce these lowered levels of LH. This study …
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Naked singularities in self-similar gravitational collapse: Stability properties of the Cauchy horizon
… matter should not result in the formation of naked singularities. In the absence of a proof of this hypothesis, much effort has been directed towards examining spacetimes which contain naked singularities, in an attempt to determine the nature of the cosmic censor. One area of particular …
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The naked eye: vision and risk in the work of Gerard Manley Hopkins
This thesis takes as its subject vision and risk in the work of Gerard Manley Hopkins, 1844-1889. Because Hopkins's poetry displays so evident a fascination with the particulars of language, it is unsurprising that the critical tradition on his work has thus far been heavily dominated by matters of …
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Disruptive bodies and peripheral politics: How naked protests disrupt the patriarchal public sphere
… Wits) in Johannesburg, South Africa staged a naked protest to call for a ceasefire during the peak of the #FeesMustFall (FMF) protests. The FMF movement emerged in late 2015 as a student revolt against costly higher education fees especially for black students in South Africa. Armed police …
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London Zoo, Commercial Television, and Primate Ethology from the Launch of ITV to The Naked Ape
… by a thin veneer of culture - of ‘man’, ‘the naked ape’ - were built on British commercial television. It highlights TV as a major arena of science and cultural politics, while also unpicking its intermedial relations with other technologies of expert and mass communication. Above all, it …
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Pup ontogeny and factors influencing behavioural and morphological variation in naked mole-rats, Heterocephalus glaber (Rodentia, Bathyergidae)
… study was undertaken on laboratory-reared naked mole-rats. The main objective of the study was to provide a detailed qualitative and quantitative description of the behavioural and morphological development of naked mole-rats from birth through to adulthood. This study laid an empirical …
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The gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) system: a comparison between breeding and non-breeding naked mole rats (Heterocephalus glaber)
… and without it, reproduction cannot occur. Naked mole rats (Heterocephalus glaber) have a rigid social hierarchy. The "queen" is the most dominant female and is the only female who breeds. All aspects of reproduction are suppressed in other females in the colony: these "subordinates" are in …
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Three lessons in causality : what string theory has to say about naked singularities, time travel and horizon complementarity
We begin by presenting some results of studying certain axially symmetric super- gravity geometries corresponding to a distribution of BPS D6-branes wrapped on K3, obtained as extremal limits of a rotating solution. The geometry's unphysical regions resulting from the wrapping can be repaired by …
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