A Tale of Two Toasters : Évolutions de la figure du Cylon dans Battlestar Galactica entre la version de Glen Larson (ABC, 1978-1979) et le reboot de Ronald D. Moore (Syfy, 2003-2009) by Donna Spalding Andréolle

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Battlestar Galactica: A Closed-System Fictional World by Florent Favard

“…This paper deals with the way the science fiction series Battlestar Galactica (Syfy, 2003-2009) creates a fictional world that can be conceived as focused on a closed system, the Colonial Fleet. …”
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What Would Jack Bauer Do? Negotiating Trauma, Vengeance and Justice in the Cultural Forum of Post-9/11 TV Drama, from 24 to Battlestar Galactica and Person of Interest by Tobias Steiner

“…Discussing the concept of cultural trauma and its role in popular television dramas such as 24 (FOX 2001-10, 2014-), Battlestar Galactica (Syfy 2004-9), Rubicon (AMC 2010) and Person of Interest (CBS 2011-16), this paper sets out to identify three distinct clusters that are part of what Newcomb and Hirsch once termed a “cultural forum”—a discursive space in which questions of justice, revenge, terror, and trauma continue to be negotiated in significantly changing ways. …”
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Accumulation solaire : la théorie des systèmes-mondes de The Expanse by Brent Ryan Bellamy, Sean O’Brien

“…The Syfy television series The Expanse (2015-) transposes a form of combined and uneven development from Earth to the solar system, making the human reality of life lived in space a central concern. …”
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Le temps des morts-vivants : formes sérielles et potentiel critique des séries télévisées zombies by Clémentine Hougue

“…It proposes to analyze the American series The Walking Dead (AMC, 2010-auj.), based on the eponymous comic book, as well as its two spin-offs (Fear The Walking Dead, AMC, 2015-2021 and The Walking Dead : World Beyond, AMC, 2020), but also Z Nation (Syfy, 2014-2018) and its spin-off Black Summer (Netflix, 2019-2021), and the British miniseries Dead Set (E4, 2008). …”
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Penser le posthumain avec les séries de SF ? by Hélène Machinal

“…Recent SF TV series (post-2010), such as Orphan Black (BBC America, 2013-2017), Westworld (HBO, 2016-) or The Expanse (Syfy, 2015-2022) show that critical posthumanism remains an operative approach, particularly since it also relates to Donna Haraway’s cyborg feminism. …”
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A Psychoanalytical Approach to the TV Series The No-End House: The Fascinating House of Desire by Jessica Folio

“…Such are the first urban-legend like pieces of information given by one character on the No-End house, the second season title and the cornerstone around which the plot of the TV series Channel Zero revolves. Aired on the SyFy channel in 2017, the series lived true to its ambition of spiralling around the topics of imagination and the supernatural. …”
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Fan-ning the Flame: Representations of Lesbian Romance on Cult Television, from Subtext to Main Text by Aviva Dove-Viebahn

“…While promoting recent seasons of supernatural Western horror series Wynonna Earp (2016), cable channel Syfy released several fan-style videos championing the show’s resident lesbian couple: the protagonist’s sister, Waverly, and police officer Nicole Haught (celebrated via the portmanteau “WayHaught”). …”
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'El Ministerio del Tiempo’, tha Introduction of New Concepts in the Spanish TV Series by Víctor Javier Martínez Román

“…This may allow Fantasy and Science Fiction genre –settled in other countries with series like Black Mirror (Channel 4, 2011-) or Battlestar Galactica (SyFy, 2004-2009)– to become as important as other genres. …”
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Una apuesta por el cambio en las series de ficción . La realidad virtual como estrategia narrativa al servicio de la inmersión del espectador by Adriana Paíno Ambrosio, M.ª Isabel Rodríguez Fidalgo

“…La presente comunicación plantea un estudio de caso basado en seis ejemplos actuales de series de ficción como son Invisible (Samsung, JAUNT, CNÉ y 30 Ninjas), Halcyon (Syfy), Game of Thrones (HBO), Sleepy Hollow (FOX), The Simpsons (FOX) y El Ministerio del Tiempo (RTVE), donde la realidad virtual se ha utilizado para expandir el universo narrativo. …”
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The Potential of Glucose Treatment to Reduce Reactive Oxygen Species Production and Apoptosis of Inflamed Neural Cells In Vitro by Juin-Hong Cherng, Shu-Jen Chang, Hsin-Da Tsai, Chung-Fang Chun, Gang-Yi Fan, Kenneth Dean Reeves, King Hei Stanley Lam, Yung-Tsan Wu

“…We previously demonstrated that 12.5–25 mM glucose restored normal metabolism in human SH-SYFY neuronal cells rendered metabolically inactive from TNF-α exposure, a common initiator of neuroinflammation, and reduced secondary elevation of inflammatory cytokines. …”
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Les ordres du spectre : la science-fiction numérique et le présent corrigé by Rebekah Sheldon

“…This article examines the aesthetics of what Anthony Dunne calls “Hertzian space” or the electromagnetic flows that enable wireless communication devices through comparative attention to three contemporary transmedia universes: the BBC’s Sherlock, SyFy’s Alphas, and Fox’s Touch. I argue that each of these shows uses the emerging conventions of neuro-atypicality in order to make visible and render as story the data streams whose omnipresence cannot be experienced as such by the human sensorium without first becoming meaningful. …”
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Agronomic Evaluation and Yield Performance of Selected Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) Landraces from Jordan by R. Al-Sayaydeh, A. Al-Bawalize, Z. Al-Ajlouni, M. W. Akash, J. Abu-Elenein, A. M. Al-Abdallat

“…Clustering analysis using genotypic data from the iSelect 9k SNP barley array showed a clear grouping based on row type with 100% similarity level between the Syfi and Arabi landraces. The characterized Jordanian landraces can be used to improve barley resilience against climate change and associated conditions and are recommended in breeding programs to improve productivity under dry conditions.…”
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