Life writing and the Southern Hemisphere: texts, spaces, resonances

“…Exploring lives lived, written and narrated in and from the Global South, the far South and the ultimate South, Antarctica, this book asks how life writing from southerly compass points impact both how we understand and read life narratives, and ultimately how we perceive our planet. …”

The Svanbergfjellet Formation: Eukaryotic life in a Tonian sea by Mughal, S, Millikin, AEG, Zhang, T, Gibson, TM, Rooney, AD, Tosca, NJ, Bergmann, KD, Strauss, JV, Anderson, RP

Unknowing a southern life: writing around the abyss by Collins, K

An on-skin electrode with anti-epidermal-surface-lipid function based on a zwitterionic polymer brush by He, Ke, Liu, Zhiyuan, Wan, Changjin, Jiang, Ying, Wang, Ting, Wang, Ming, Zhang, Feilong, Liu, Yaqing, Pan, Liang, Xiao, Meng, Yang, Hui, Chen, Xiaodong

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Towards indicating human skin state in vivo using geometry-dependent spectroscopic contrast imaging by Ni, Guangming, Ge, Xin, Liu, Lin, Zhang, Jing, Wang, Xiangzhou, Liu, Juanxiu, Liu, Linbo, Liu, Yong

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Electrospun aligned PCLl/gelatin scaffolds mimicking the skin ECM for effective antimicrobial wound dressings by Ghomi, Erfan Rezvani, Lakshminarayanan, Rajamani, Chellappan, Vijila, Verma, Navin Kumar, Chinnappan, Amutha, Neisiany, Rasoul Esmaeely, Amuthavalli, Kottaiswamy, Poh, Zhi Sheng, Wong, Brandon Han Siang, Dubey, Nileshkumar, Narayan, Roger, Ramakrishna, Seeram

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Wet-adhesive on-skin sensors based on metal–organic frameworks for wireless monitoring of metabolites in sweat by Yang, Xue, Yi, Junqi, Wang, Ting, Feng, Yanan, Wang, Jianwu, Yu, Jing, Zhang, Feilong, Jiang, Zhi, Lv, Zhisheng, Li, Haicheng, Huang, Tao, Si, Duanhui, Wang, Xiaoshi, Cao, Rong, Chen, Xiaodong

“…More importantly, the lightweight sensor can conformably self-adhere to sweaty skin and exhibits high water-vapor permeability. …”
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The effect of ultraviolet-light exposure on ornithine decarboxylase (ODC1) and pigmentation in human skin cells by Ong, Yee Hwee

“…A common photo-protective response is an upregulation of skin pigmentation. This results in the formation of melanin caps around the nucleus of skin cells, which protect against DNA damage. …”
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Visualizing vein patterns from color skin images based on image mapping for forensics analysis by Tang, Chaoying, Zhang, Hengyi, Craft, Noah, Kong, A. W.

“…We proposed a computational method based on skin optics to uncover vein patterns from color images. …”
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Les Œuvres complètes de Voltaire et le travail autour des manuscrits by Pink, G

A hand-targeted auxiliary personal protective equipment for intervention of fomite transmission of viruses by Tan, Justin Kok Soon, Song, Shang Wei, Zeng, Jialiu, Lo, Chih Hung

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BodyPrinter: Fabricating Circuits Directly on the Skin at Arbitrary Locations Using a Wearable Compact Plotter by Choi, Youngkyung, Ryu, Neung, Kim, Myung Jin, Dementyev, Artem, Bianchi, Andrea

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Classification of non-tumorous skin pigmentation disorders using voting based probabilistic linear discriminant analysis by Liang, Yunfeng, Sun, Lei, Ser, Wee, Lin, Feng, Thng, Steven Tien Guan, Chen, Qiping, Lin, Zhiping

“…Non-tumorous skin pigmentation disorders can have a huge negative emotional impact on patients. …”
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Synthesis, modification and application of fish skin gelatin-based hydrogel as sustainable and versatile bioresource of antidiabetic peptide by Munawaroh, Heli Siti Halimatul, Pratiwi, Riska Nur, Gumilar, Gun Gun, Aisyah, Siti, Rohilah, Siti, Nurjanah, Anisa, Ningrum, Andriati, Susanto, Eko, Pratiwi, Amelinda, Arindita, Ni Putu Yunika, Martha, Larasati, Chew, Kit Wayne, Show, Pau-Loke

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Functional roles of transforming growth factor activated Kinase-1 (TAK1) in skin wound healing by Tan, Siew Hwey

“…Healing wound and maintaining new skin growth requires complex interactions of the epithelium and mesenchyme purportedly mediated by growth factors and cytokines. …”
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Lights, camera, and action : vertebrate skin sets the stage for immune cell interaction with arthropod-vectored pathogens by Chong, Shu Zhen., Evrard, Maximilien., Ng, Lai Guan.

“…Such diseases are vectored by hematophagous arthropods that deposit pathogens into the vertebrate host’s skin during a blood meal. These pathogens spend a substantial amount of time in the skin that allows for interaction with cutaneous immune cells, suggesting a window of opportunity for development of vaccine strategies. …”
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Ideas of note : one man's philosophy of life on Post-Its / by Hutton, Chaz author 656343

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Measuring the predictability of life outcomes with a scientific mass collaboration by Salganik, Matthew J., Lundberg, Ian, Kindel, Alexander T., Ahearn, Caitlin E., Al-Ghoneim, Khaled, Almaatouq, Abdullah, Altschul, Drew M., Brand, Jennie E., Carnegie, Nicole Bohme, Compton, Ryan James, Datta, Debanjan, Davidson, Thomas, Filippova, Anna, Gilroy, Connor, Goode, Brian J., Jahani, Eaman, Kashyap, Ridhi, Kirchner, Antje, McKay, Stephen, Morgan, Allison C., Pentland, Alex, Polimis, Kivan, Raes, Louis, Rigobon, Daniel E., Roberts, Claudia V., Stanescu, Diana M., Suhara, Yoshihiko, Usmani, Adaner, Wang, Erik H., Adem, Muna, Alhajri, Abdulla, AlShebli, Bedoor, Amin, Redwane, Amos, Ryan B., Argyle, Lisa P., Baer-Bositis, Livia, Buchi, Moritz, Chung, Bo-Ryehn, Eggert, William, Faletto, Gregory, Fan, Zhilin, Freese, Jeremy, Gadgil, Tejomay, Gagne ́, Josh, Gao, Yue, Halpern-Manners, Andrew, Hashim, Sonia P., Hausen, Sonia, He, Guanhua, Higuera, Kimberly, Hogan, Bernie, Horwitz, Ilana M., Hummel, Lisa M., Jain, Naman, Jin, Kun, Jurgens, David, Kaminski, Patrick, Karapetyan, Areg, Kim, E. H., Leizman, Ben, Liu, Naijia, Moser, Malte, Mack, Andrew E., Mahajan, Mayank, Mandell, Noah, Marahrens, Helge, Mercado-Garcia, Diana, Mocz, Viola, Mueller-Gastell, Katariina, Musse, Ahmed, Niu, Qiankun, Nowak, William, Omidvar, Hamidreza, Or, Andrew, Ouyang, Karen, Pinto, Katy M., Porter, Ethan, Porter, Kristin E., Qian, Crystal, Rauf, Tamkinat, Sargsyan, Anahit, Schaffner, Thomas, Schnabel, Landon, Schonfeld, Bryan, Sender, Ben, Tang, Jonathan D., Tsurkov, Emma, van Loon, Austin, Varol, Onur, Wang, Xiafei, Wang, Zhi, Wang, Julia, Wang, Flora, Weissman, Samantha, Whitaker, Kirstie, Wolters, Maria K., Woon, Wei Lee, Wu, James, Wu, Catherine, Yang, Kengran, Yin, Jingwen, Zhao, Bingyu, Zhu, Chenyun, Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne, Engelhardt, Barbara E., Hardt, Moritz, Knox, Dean, Levy, Karen, Narayanan, Arvind, Stewart, Brandon M., Watts, Duncan J., McLanahan, Sara

“…How predictable are life trajectories? We investigated this question with a scientific mass collaboration using the common task method; 160 teams built predictive models for six life outcomes using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a high-quality birth cohort study. …”
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Stem Life: A Framework for Understanding the Prebiotic-Biotic Transition by Fournier, Gregory P.

“…In this new paradigm, extant life’s ancestral lineage emerged alongside and was dependent upon many other complex prebiotic chemical systems, as part of a diverse and fecund prebiosphere. …”
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The trend of life insurance industry in selected asian emerging economies. by Choi, Yan How., Chin, Zhi Liang.

“…This report studies the trend of life insurance industry in selected Asian emerging economies from 1988 to 2004, through analyzing the determinants of the demand for life insurance, both qualitatively and quantitatively. …”
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