Wood decayed and colored by fungi, colloquially known as ‘spalted wood’, has been a source of art folklore across numerous cultures. From intarsia marquetry in Italy Germany to woodturning the U.S. carving mythology Chile, uses of, stories about, spalted wood are explored, well how those have shaped their surrounding cultures modern science.

This panel deploys a range of qualitative methodologies to investigate how processes datafication meet with the subjective experiences ordinary people, and practices everyday life. We draw on model ‘everyday data cultures’ proposed by Burgess (2017) explore ways diverse – including production circulation visualisations, modes storage vernacular engagements literacy can be understood as aspects ...

The latest in a growing number of edited volumes that take science communication as phenomenon to be explored through cultures is rich book full theoretical and methodological rigour. There are 17 chapters included here from 33 authors across 16 different countries containing selected paper contributions the 2018 Science & You conference Beijing jointly organised by Chinese National Academy...

background: the purpose of this study was to investigate the enhanced thermal resistance mechanism of the du145 tumor spheroid cultures as compared to the prostate carcinoma cell line's monolayer cultures. materials and methods: du145 cells were cultured either as spheroids or monolayers. cultures were treated with hyperthermia in a precision water bath (at 43°c for 60 minutes) and/or quercetin...