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GOO:GA : ‘if I have to maybe squeeze a corpse out of my pussy, I’m going to get a fucking good show out of it.’
Full text linkThis practice research article and collection of extracts from GOO:GA (2021), a comic live art film made during and about the pandemic pregnancy of lead artist Hannah Ballou, discusses the project’s investigation of comic subjectivity in pregnant performance. The effects of the re-performance of comic material made by/about a pregnant body during a subsequent traumatic pregnancy on the process of the comedian are analysed. Iris Marion Young’s theory of the doubling of the pregnant subject is expanded as a tripling, as the pre-pregnant self and the uneventful pregnancy are joined by the precarious pregnancy when Ballou’s fetus is diagnosed with a rare cardiac anomaly. As a development of recent scholarship on ambivalence in pregnant comic practice, not only is the abjection of pregnancy mined for comedy, but also the taboo of precarious pregnancy, resulting in a practical counterargument to a Bergsonian model of comedy vis-à-vis trauma
Trans fatty acids and saturated fatty acids in margarines and spreads in Kazakhstan : study period 2015–2021
No full textDual-emission ratiometric fluorometric platform using Cu@NCDs/eosin system for sensitive detection of metformin : pharmacokinetic studies in normal and disease states
No full textImproved Neisseria gonorrhoeae culture media without atmospheric CO2
Full text linkBacterial culture on solid media is the crucial step in diagnosing Neisseria gonorrhoeae infections and is the gold standard for determining their antimicrobial resistance profile. However, culture of Neisseria spp. can be challenging in resource poor areas, relying on specialist incubators or other methods of supplying 5% CO2 for growth of the bacteria. Even when such incubators are available, the CO2 to run them may be scarce; there were CO2 shortages during the COVID-19 pandemic, for example. Although culture jars with gas packs or candles can be used, these are inefficient in terms of use of incubator space and researcher time. To achieve simplicity in culturing of N. gonorrhoeae, the standard Oxoid GC agar base medium, made with the Kellogg’s glucose and iron supplements was improved with the addition of 0.75 g/l sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO3), which is inexpensive and readily available. This improved media in a standard incubator performed as well as standard Oxoid GC agar media with supplements in a 5% CO2 incubator. Chocolate agar and Thayer-Martin agar with sodium bicarbonate were also developed, with all showing good growth of N. gonorrhoeae without the need for atmospheric CO2
Microplastic in seafood from the Persian Gulf : occurrence, characteristics, risk assessment, and human exposure
No full textMicroplastic (MP) pollution is abundant and affects the aquatic environment. The ecotoxic effect and fate of MPs in exposed aquatic species is largely unknown. This study investigated MPs in commercially important fish, mollusks, lobsters, and crabs with varied biometry, trophic levels, feeding habits, and habitat characteristics from the Bushehr Port (Persian Gulf). Liver, gonad, and dorsal muscle samples were investigated from 150 specimens. Samples were chemically digested and the extracted MPs were counted and analyzed with optical microscopy, Raman spectroscopy, and SEM-EDX. Microfibers (50–250 µm) were the only shape of MPs found in this study. No correlations were found between the concentrations of extracted MPs and the organisms’ biometric properties. MP fibers were more abundant (p < 0.05) in benthic than pelagic species. The highest mean number of MPs per organs was: liver samples (1 ± 0.71 MPs/10 g) from Brachirus orientalis, gonad samples (2 ± 1.58 MPs/10 g) from Acanthosepion pharaonis, and dorsal muscle samples (4 ± 4.53 MPs/10 g) from A. pharaonis. There were no significant variations in MPs abundance among various tissues, feeding habits and trophic levels (p < 0.05). The number of microfibers were estimated to pose minor risk, while their polymer compositions, especially polyvinyl chloride (PVC), followed by polyurethane (PU) and polycarbonate (PC), were dangerous for the investigated biota. The maximum estimated daily intake (EDI) was found for A. pharaonis (1.37 MPs/kg bw/day for children and 0.40 MPs/kg bw/day for adults). Further investigations should address the sorption and leaching of toxicants from microfibers, including further fragmentation of microfibers, to know more about their derived health effects
Frequency of upper body muscular demands in contemporary and ballet dance performance : a cross sectional performance analysis
Full text linkPose-centric motion synthesis through adaptive instance normalization
Full text linkIn pose-centric motion synthesis, existing methods often depend heavily on architecture-specific mechanisms to comprehend temporal dependencies. This paper addresses this challenge by introducing the use of adaptive instance normalization layers to capture temporal coherence within pose-centric motion synthesis. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our contribution through state-of-the-art performance in terms of Fréchet Inception Distance (FID) and comparable diversity scores. Evaluations conducted on the CMU MoCap and the HumanAct12 datasets showcase our method’s ability to generate plausible and high-quality motion sequences, underscoring its potential for diverse applications in motion synthesis
Large eddy simulation of acoustic characteristics of a subsonic jet outflowing from conical nozzle
Full text linkThe calculation of noise generated by a jet of viscous compressible gas flowing out from a conical nozzle is considered.
The calculations used the implicit version of the LES (Implicit LES, ILES), in which the role of the subgrid turbulence model performs numerical dissipation used finite-difference scheme. The distributions of the gas-dynamic and acoustic characteristics of the jet upon changing the conditions of its outflow are discussed. The analysis of the modal composition of the received noise is carried out and the correspondence between the features of the received directionality of the noise is determined by its various components and sources. The numerical simulation results are compared with the available experimental and calculated data
