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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"self-destruction"”.
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A DLK And JNK Dependent Axon Self-Destruction Program Promotes Wallerian Degeneration
… and thus may be a component of a general axon self-destruction program.
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<i>In Vivo</i> Murine Melanoma Tumor Responses to Nanosecond Pulsed Electric Field Treatment
… tumors in 120 mice. The nsPEF Txcaused tumor self-destruction with sharply decreased cell volumes and shrunken nuclei. The apoptotic biochemical tests confirmed nsPEF Tx induced apoptosis in a time-dependent manner. Examination of gross vessel and micro-vessel density indicated direct vascular …
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Oscar Wilde's Fiction: Views on Life and Art
… wealth (monetary/non-monatary), love, devotion, self-destruction and death:: <em>The Picture of Dorian Gray</em>, "The Happy Prince," "The Devoted Friend," "The Selfish Giant," and "The Rose and the Nightingale." These four fairy tales tie in nicely with Wilde's novel to show the true value of …
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Drinking Water Out of Streams
… observation through themes of gender, the body, self-destruction, family, and obligation.
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Apoptosis and porphyrin biosynthesis by a photodynamic chemotherapeutic
… of singlet oxygen molecules, leading to self-destruction. This photo-activated destruction by ALA is enhanced by addition of the tetrapyrrole modulator 1,10-phenanthroline (Oph), by enhancing Proto accumulation. We determined the efficacy and intracellular localization and biosynthesis of …
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Desubjectification and Ritual Process
… suffering, by transmuting impulses of self destruction and violence into ceremonial and ritual processes. This work incorporates various methods into its scope, including video, performance, sculpture, painting, and gardening.
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A Bruised Sky Falling
… life. The fragmentation of the story lends itself to what Roland Barthes called a readerly text. That is, a reader may enter the text at any point and read the chapters in an order, and by doing this, the reader creates his/her own version of the author's life. The overall narrative arch is …
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Investigation into the role of DWNN in cell death
Many genes are activated to influence the self-destruction programme of the cell. This programme entails synchronised instigation and implementation of numerous subprograms. The arrival of gene targeting aided in the determining of the functions of novel genes. Such genes may have been sequenced, …
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The social body of the police
… may be partially responsible for the degree of self-construction or self-destruction of the body. A comparative analysis of two samples of Canadian police officers were examined, focusing on the differential production of the body relative to the role of occupational stress and lifestyle (i.e. …
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Understanding Violence and Conflict: Greenland as a Theory-Building Case Study
… fostering the psychological push factors to self-destruction and violence against other fragile individuals, while environmental conditions and contextual phenomena limited violence at the micro-level. More broadly, the case study demonstrates that discrimination in its wider sense is the …
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"The Grand Perhaps" - The Concept of Doubt in Browning's Religious Poetry
… face of a powerful technology that is capable of self-destruction. Man, aware of the great human achievements, may doubt the existence of a Higher Power; informed by numerous sources of reliable research he may doubt the traditional teachings or, realizing his helplessness in the face of …
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Negative faith: the heretical writings of Valéry, Bataille and Laruelle
… words themselves, the texts undergoing a form of self-destruction upon being read. They are radical heresies that disregard the traditional framework of reason, logic and scientific positivism to explore what in humans does not belong to the World. Taking root in both theological and philosophical …
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Biochemical and Cellular Characterization of NMN Adenylyltransferase 2: A Brain Specific Isoform of an Essential NAD Synthesizing Enzyme
… NAD metabolism regulates a novel program of self-destruction in axons. Nmnat2 is detected exclusively in the brain, unlike Nmnat1 and Nmnat3, which are widely expressed. Furthermore, Nmnat2 localizes to the Golgi complex in HeLa cells. Taken together, these observations suggest that Nmnat2 …
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Genuine Bonds: Investigating the Ethical Dimensions of Authenticity in Love and Friendship
… aspects of identity. The second chapter, “On Self-Destruction, Authentic Expression, and Love,” explores the classic conflict between well-being and respect for autonomy, focusing on self-destructive behavior in intimate relationships. I argue that we can respect our loved one’s authentic …
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Towards National Identity: Addiction, Subjectivity, and American Literary Culture
… identity as much as it names the criminality, self-destruction, or disease associated with drug addicts and alcoholics. Historically speaking, literary and cultural representations of alcoholics and drug users from the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries produce distinct …
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A Polanyian tack: political implications
… solve the original problem of liberalism: its self-destruction. By framing this query in terms of Polanyian intellectual freedom, I establish a way to bring together his early social theory and late epistemology to make an original contribution to Polanyian scholarship. A Polanyian tack ought …
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The Construction of the Subject in the Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe
… of alienation ('The Man of the Crowd') and self-destruction ('The Imp of the Perverse', 'The Black Cat', 'The Tell-Tale Heart') as constitutive of the subject at a determinate historical moment; the simultaneous construction and subversion of mythical signifiers of an illusory "full" …
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Poet in a hard hat: Stevie Smith and gender construction
… some extent fictional and, therefore, subject to self-invention. Smith challenges the notion of a fixed, female essence by utilizing a strategy of multivocality. Pompey, the protagonist, adopts a variety of voices which situate her as a product of literary and social discourses and prevent her …
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then moored
… growing dissent followed by more open discord, self-hatred accumulating into self-destruction, and at last, loss and acceptance, the renewal of love gentling those things we cannot change. I committed myself to research of social and familial disturbances in many cases in order to portray events …
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The fear motif in the poetry of Robert Frost
… the discovery of an awesome power for possible self-destruction. Perhaps the true keynote of this century was struck by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in his inaugural address in 1933 with his pronouncement "that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." These words did more than catch the …
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