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Cinematic Science Fiction, Indigenous Mythology, and Multispecies Entanglement: An Ecological Reading of The Mermaid (2016)
No full textIn a time of anxiety about environmental annihilation and human extinction, many literary science fiction (sf) authors from the Sinophone area have explored and expressed their ecological concerns through depicting a devastated environment populated by supernatural beings. This article traces a similar trend in cinematic sf by analyzing the 2016 lm The Mermaid (Meirenyu 美人鱼), a science-fictional fairy tale written and co-produced by Stephen Chow 周星驰. The choice of merfolk, half-human half-fish creatures employed in the movie, differs, but not completely, from Han Song’s 韩松 portrayal of“aquatic humans” (shuiqiren 水栖人) in his 2004 novel Red Ocean (Hongse haiyang 红色海洋). I believe that the marine humans present in both works, reminiscent of supernatural figures belonging to Chinese and global mythology that embody a harmonious relationship between humans and nature, can be read as an attempt to to decolonize science fiction, via a symbolic display of multispecies entanglement
Age-related decreased in the opioid control of LH secretion during reproductive years in normal men.
No full textGoing Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Age-related decrease in the opioid control of LH secretion during reproductive years in normal women
No full textConcentrazioni di ossitocina nel liquido amniotico, nel sangue del cordone ombelicale ed in quello materno.
No full textEndogenous opioid mediation of the inhibitory effect of ethanol on the prolactin response to breast stimulation in normal women.
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The role of diagnostic hysteroscopy and endometrial biopsy in assisted reproductive technologies.
No full textOBJECTIVE:
To study the incidence of unsuspected endouterine abnormalities in patients for whom IVF-ET repeatedly fails.
DESIGN:
Prospective study.
SETTING:
Infertility Unit of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Arcispedale Santa Maria Nuova, Reggio Emilia, Italy.
PATIENT(S):
One hundred patients for whom two IVF-ET cycles failed in which > or =2 good-quality embryos were transferred.
INTERVENTION(S):
In-office diagnostic hysteroscopy and endometrial biopsy.
MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S):
Relation between IVF-ET failure and unsuspected endouterine abnormalities.
RESULT(S):
In 18 patients, hysteroscopy showed an important unsuspected endouterine abnormality. Fifteen of these patients did not become pregnant after IVF-ET, and 3 became pregnant but had a spontaneous abortion. Histologic examination of the endometrium revealed chronic endometritis in 1 patient and tuberculous endometritis in another.
CONCLUSION(S):
Previous studies have reported that the incidence of endouterine abnormalities is high in patients undergoing IVF-ET. Our data confirm the previous reports and lead us to conclude that diagnostic hysteroscopy should be performed on all patients before they undergo IVF-ET
Inhibition by ethanol of the oxytocin response to breast stimulation in normal women opioids.
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