Inanimate Nature. Pondering the Reproductive Daguerretype by Geoffrey Batchen

“… Little has been published about reproductive daguerreotypes, a genre of photographic still life in which another picture – a drawing, an engraving, a lithograph, a painting, a printed text – is the sole referent. …”
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Heidegger and van Gogh’s Shoes by Wrathall, M

“…Reception of Heidegger’s philosophy of art has, to a surprising degree, been shaped by a sharply critical essay published by the art historian Meyer Schapiro in 1968, entitled ‘The Still Life as a Personal Object – A Note on Heidegger and Van Gogh.’ …”

La Peinture naïve de Thalia Kalligianni : un panorama paysagiste et culturel de la Crète dans la première moitié du xxe siècle by Alexandra Kouroutaki

“…In the second part, we proceed to the analysis of some of her paintings representative of her rich thematic areas, created with oil colors or watercolors: landscapes or “veduti”, portraits of Cretan people, paintings of ethnographic interest, still-life painting and mythological subjects. In the third section, the study considers the peculiarity of this « innocent » painting which suggests an intimate realism and transmits “the aromas” of Crete. …”
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Calvary by Irina Z. Surat

“…Akhmatova’s poem "Requiem” and I.A. Brodsky's poem “Still-life.” El.A Shvarts’s poem “Rembrandt’s etching — Christ and the thieves” represents ekphrastic versions of the biblical story.…”
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Voces contra la desigualdad. El teatro testimonial de Emily Mann e Eve Ensler / Voices against Inequality. Emily Mann´s and Eve Ensler´s Theatre of Testimony by Marta Fernández Morales

“…Thus, in Annulla Mann revises World War II from a feminist point of view, and in Still Life she places centre stage, facing a veteran, two women who never fought in the Asian battlefield, proving that the «home front» is a concept that must be acknowledged in the construction of history about war. …”
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Perspective of Iranian Digital Games by Alireza Razazifar, Alireza Khoshnevis, Fatemeh Nemati

“…We investigated “Garshasb, "Eighth Combat 2” and “Murders in The Streets of Tehran” as case studies and respectively compared them with “Dante’s Inferno”, “Battelle Field 3” and “Still Life”. Our finding demonstrates that Iranian digital games used low quality graphic pictures and unreal movement, then they would have failed in front of foreign digital game industry. it is because of lack of transparency of medium and intimacy with gamers. …”
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According to the normal weight, overweight and obese comparison of bioelectric impedance analysis method with the other methods by Evrim Cakmakcı, Fatma Arslan, Hüsamettin Vatansev, Meryem Ayrancı

“…Women are faced with the problem of obesity because of over-nutrition, still life and birth weight. To Assess overweight and obesity are used with Body mass index (BMI), waist circumference, waist/hip ratio and skinfold thickness measurement method and Bioelectrical impedance analysis method. …”
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Authenticity and conservation state of art works: the market and auction houses & Presentation of the historical-technical Journal “Conservation Science in Cultural Heritage" by Salvatore Lorusso

“…Giorgio Morandi conceived art as a “practice of silence”, where his “still life” functioned as a filter to observe the world outside his small cloistered art studio. …”
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The Metaphysics of Presence and the Invisible Traces: Eduard Steinberg’s Polemical Dialogues by Irina Sakhno

“…The article analyzes the influence Vladimir Veisberg and his “invisible painting” had on Steinberg, including the “white on white” style, as well as Giorgio Morandi’s still-life vision of metaphysical painting. The author believes that by relying on analogies and reminiscences, Steinberg refers his audience to his predecessors and joins them in an intertextual dialogue. …”
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John Byrne's The Slab Boys: Technicolored Hellhole in a Town Called Malice by Donaldson, William

“…Presents a detailed discussion and appreciation of the Slab Boys tetralogy, a sequence of four plays by the Scottish playwright and painter John Byrne, beginning with The Slab Boys (1978), focused on a group of apprentices in the color-mixing room of a Paisley carpet-factory in the 1950s, and then tracing the divergence of their lives through three later plays, The Loveliest Night of the Year (1979, later titled Cuttin' A Rug), Still Life (1982), and Nova Scotia (2008); examines Byrne's characterization, "excoriatingly destructive wit," and "rambunctiously demotic language"; analyzes the tetralogy's continuing major themes of the relation between art and life, high art and popular culture; and concludes that these are plays of "striking intellectual breadth" and "superb verbal inventiveness," combining "international with distinctively Scottish themes," and "producing a fusion of realism and fantasy probably unmatched in Scotland since the heyday of Hugh MacDiarmid."…”
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ANTI-FIBROTIC AND ANTIOXIDANT AMELIORATIVE EFFECTS OF NARINGENIN AGAINST THIOACETAMIDE INDUCED LIVER FIBROSIS by Haytham A. Ali, Mohamed Afifi

“… Liver fibrosis still life-threatening problem and searching out ameliorative products motives many scientists, so this work evaluated the anti-fibrotic and antioxidant role of naringenin (NAR) against thioacetamide (TAA) induced liver fibrosis. …”
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What bereaved parents want health care providers to know when their babies are stillborn: a community-based participatory study by Lynn L. Farrales, Joanne Cacciatore, Christine Jonas-Simpson, Shafik Dharamsi, Jaime Ascher, Michael C. Klein

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Del bodegón a la basura. Representaciones de alimentos en la historia del arte desde la perspectiva de la fotografía contemporánea by María Victoria Legido García

“…Continúa con la idea de que las sobras en las antigüedad eran orgánicas y sin embargo, en la actualidad los still life se han convertido en representaciones de basura, de desechos, y desperdicios en todas sus acepciones. …”
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Present situation of bacterial neuroinfections across the globe – review by Krzysztof Bielewicz, Karolina Ryba, Anna Karaś, Kinga Kawałko, Kamil Pondel

“… Bacterial meningitis is still life-treating disease, which cause about 1.2 million cases and it is responsible for over 100 thousand of deaths across the globe. [2][ The most common pathogens which case the disease are Neisseria meningitidis, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae and Listeria monocytogenes. …”
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RUSSIA OF CHICHIKOV AND RUSSIA OF GOGOL IN THE POEM “DEAD SOULS” by Mosaleva G. V.

“…The anti-aesthetics of a still life in the poem is intended to symbolise the world of the death of the human soul. …”
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Construction of a High-Density Genetic Linkage Map for the Mapping of QTL Associated with Growth-Related Traits in Sea Cucumber (<i>Apostichopus japonicus</i>) by Wei Cui, Da Huo, Shilin Liu, Lili Xing, Fang Su, Hongsheng Yang, Lina Sun

“…An important growth-related candidate gene, protein still life, isoforms C/SIF type 2 (<i>sif</i>), was identified in LG18. …”
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Lateral flow immunoassay-based laboratory algorithm for rapid diagnosis of diphtheria [version 1; peer review: 2 approved] by Anja Berger, Vyacheslav G. Melnikov, Andreas Sing, Alexandra Dangel

“…Background: In industrialised countries diphtheria is a rare but still life-threatening disease with a recent increase in cases due to migration and zoonotic aspects. …”
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Tonal design : a mathematical guide in constructing mood and weather by Ng, Woon Lam

“…For art forms such as drawing and painting, the training generally depends on perceptual exercises, such as still-life drawing or outdoor painting exercises. Fine artists often develop their own preferences for various tonal designs depending on their working environment, location, or their travel experiences elsewhere. …”
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Single nucleotide polymorphisms of the SIF gene and their association with growth traits in swimming crab (Portunus trituberculatus) by Baohua Duan, Tongxu Kang, Haifu Wan, Shumei Mu, Yueqiang Guan, Weibiao Liu, Zejian Li, Yang Tian, Yuqin Ren, Xianjiang Kang

“…Among the genes associated with growth traits, “protein still life, isoforms C/SIF type 2 (SIF)” is thought to be an important gene affecting animal growth and development. …”
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The edges of the city: the generative frontier in contemporary Chinese fiction and art by Massey, AM

“…The second chapter concentrates on the work of digital photomontage artist Yang Yongliang and filmmaker Jia Zhangke’s celebrated 2006 <i>Still Life</i> (<i>Sanxia haoren</i>) to explore how urban ruins and the “post-shanshui image” intersect in China today. …”