In their article "The Futures of Comparative Literature Envisioned by Chinese Comparatists" Sheng Meng and Yue Chen discuss the future of Comparative Literature from the perspective of Chinese comparatists. They argue that in response to the latest rhetoric around the crisis and death of Comparative Literature as a discipline, Chinese comparatists have fallen into four major representative grou...

S ............................................................................................. 45-69 BIOCHEMICAL EFFECTS Mechanisms of sodium fluoride-induced endothelial cell barrier dysfunction: role of MLC phosphorylation Wang P, Verin AD, Birukova A, Gilbert-McClain LI, Jacobs K, Garcia JG ........... 45 2A Fluoride Vol. 36 No. 1 Pages 1-78 February 2003 Effects of selenium and fluoride on...

In their article "Comparative Literature in Chinese" Xiaolu Wang and Yan Liu describe the development of comparative poetics in Chinese by sketching major publications and the general institutional situation of the discipline. Wang and Liu suggest that comparative work remains impulsive while at the same time dynamic. Like other fields in the humanities, the study of poetics — comparative or ot...

In their article "Problem-based Variations in Teaching Stephen Dobyns's 'Kansas' in China" Tao Zou and Hong Zeng discuss the multiple variations in their experience of teaching foreign literature in China, with the teaching of Stephen Dobyns's short story "Kansas" as an example and the positive results of their approach. Variations in a broad sense occur with the differences in the choice of li...

Neurophysiological research suggests that understanding the actions of others harnesses neural circuits that would be used to produce those actions directly. We used fMRI to examine brain areas active during language comprehension in which the speaker was seen and heard while talking (audiovisual) or heard but not seen (audio-alone) or when the speaker was seen talking but the audio track remov...

s Wednesday June 17 2015 East Lake Hall 08:00 -12:30 JW1A • Opening Ceremony and Plenary Presider: Jesper Moerk,; Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark Xinliang Zhang; Wuhan National Lab for Optoelectronics, China JW1A.1 • 08:15 Plenary Submission Bioimagers – Life at the Intersection of Engineering and Sciences, M. J. Deen; Dept. of Electrical and Computer Eng., McMaster University, C...

Stromal derived factor-1α (Sdf-1α), a chemoattractant chemokine, along with its exclusive receptor CXCR4, plays a major role in tumor growth, angiogenesis, metastasis and in development. Recently, the Sdf-1α signaling pathway was shown to be important for zebrafish somitogenesis (Holloway, et al 2007). Somitogenesis is an important embryological process as it establishes the segmented nature of...