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Hindi Hauntology in Post-Liberalization Kolkata by Rahul Bjørn Parson
April 16, 2021
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Rahul Bjørn Parson received an MA and PhD from UC Berkeley, with a specialization in Modern Hindi literature.
Kolkata’s others are largely marked by religious, regional, and linguistic difference, namely as non-Bengali in language and ethnicity. Therefore, Hindi-Urdu speakers (mostly Marwari and Bihari) are seen as permanent outsiders even after generations in Bengal. Hindi and Urdu narratives perform their belonging to Kolkata by consistently exploring the deep temporalities of urban spaces and summoning the specters of bygone Calcuttas and Kalkattas. Their literary mappings calibrate the metric of historical imagination, as the narrator of Alka Saraogi’s Kalikath?: Via Bypass (1998) says explicitly, re-centering and recovering minor or lost figures of the past as agents of history and ghosts of futures canceled. The talk will explore Hindi and Urdu literary conjurings of
Triangular-shaped spikes aid the success of coronavirus transmission
COVID-19 needs no introduction. Last year, the disease, which is caused by the virus SARS-CoV-2, reached every continent across the globe.
By the end of March 2021, there had been an estimated 128 million cases recorded with almost three million of these being fatal. As scientists race to develop vaccines and politicians coordinate their distribution, fundamental research on what makes this virus so successful is also being carried out.
Within the Mathematics, Mechanics, and Materials Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST), postdoctoral researcher, Dr. Vikash Chaurasia, and Professor Eliot Fried have been using energy minimization techniques to look at charged proteins on biological particles.
Minuscule Oxygen Sensing Implant can Measure Tissue Oxygen Levels in Real Time
Written by AZoSensorsApr 15 2021
A tiny wireless implant developed by engineers from the University of California, Berkeley, can offer real-time measurements of tissue oxygen levels deep beneath the skin.
This wireless implant, developed by engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, can measure the oxygenation of living tissue deep below the surface of the skin. Image Credit: UC Berkeley photo by Soner Sonmezoglu.
The device is smaller than the average ladybug and driven by ultrasound waves. It could enable doctors to track the health of transplanted tissue or organs and offer an early warning of possible transplant failure.
Researchers discover molecular signatures of aging process in mice
Researchers have identified molecular signatures of the aging process in mice, publishing their results today in the open-access
eLife journal.
Their analyses provide one of the most comprehensive characterisations of the molecular signatures of aging across diverse types of cells from different tissues in a mammal, and will aid future studies on aging and related topics.
Aging leads to the decline of major organs and is the main risk factor for many diseases, including cancer, cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases. While previous studies have highlighted different hallmarks of the aging process, the underlying molecular and cellular mechanisms remain unclear.