Postmemory as a form of civic courage. Watchword: resist, resist, resist

Does Life resist desynchronisation?

Does resistin resist insulin?

Diabetes remains one of the oldest diseases all over the world and is the major cause of morbidity and mortality in human populations. The pathology is a consequence of a lack of insulin or resistance to insulin, resulting in an increase in blood glucose levels. Resistance to insulin is an important risk factor in the industrial world and is often associated with obesity. Taking the proportions...

Phosphonated polyurethanes that resist calcification.

Cardiovascular implant mineralization involving bioprosthetic materials, such as glutaraldehyde cross linked porcine aortic valves or synthetic materials such as polyurethanes, is an important problem that frequently leads to clinical failure of bioprosthetic heart valves, and complicates long-term experimental artificial heart device implants. Novel, proprietary, calcification resistant polyet...

Sexual reproduction as an adaptation to resist parasites (a review).

Darwinian theory has yet to explain adequately the fact of sex. If males provide little or no aid to offspring, a high (up to 2-fold) extra average fitness has to emerge as a property of a sexual parentage if sex is to be stable. The advantage must presumably come from recombination but has been hard to identify. It may well lie in the necessity to recombine defenses to defeat numerous parasite...

Characteristics of resist films produced by spinning

A model is presented for the description of thin films prepared from solution by spinning. Using only the centrifugal force. linear shear forces. and uniform evaporation of the solvent. the thickness of the film and the time of drying can be calculated as functions of the various processing parameters. The model is compared with experimental results obtained on positive photoresists and excelle...