Sarah Hall's "Mrs Fox" (in Madame Zero, 2017) reflects the short story's potential to explore epistemological borders and to engage in ecocritical discourses. In recounting the transformation of a young woman into a vixen through the...Ditter, Julia...
Literary transformations from human to animal have occurred in myths, folklore, fairy tales and narratives from all over the world since ancient times, and have always provided a narrative space for depictions of power, agency, and the radical nature of change. In Following the Animal, these tr...
FastQ Screen has been implemented on similar datasets to identify the animal source of clothing for Ötzi, the Tyrolean Iceman (O’Sullivan et al., 2016) and to assess the animal of origin for medieval vellum samples (Fiddyment et al., 2015). The FastQ Screen run was implemented also ...
In doing so, it ties the micropolitics of human–canine relations to transformations in political, economic, and social governance and ways of thinking about and acting on the interactions between human and nonhuman animal species. An examination of successive waves of government regulations reveals ...
Next, we used LMM to test for associations of food intake logs recorded by the participants to levels of intestinal tract metabolites. We tested for consumption of fruit, alcohol, dessert, animal protein, vegetables, grains, coffee/tea and dairy food types ingested 6 h before swallowing capsul...
Part of the attrition may be due to low animal-to-human translational success rates; so-called “translational failure”. As far as we know, no systematic overview of published translational success rates exists. Systematic scoping review The following research question was examined: “What is the...
Although accidental cooking may have occurred (for example, the action of wildfire on animal carcasses or buried tubers), the transition from opportunistic, infrequent access to accidentally-cooked food to a long-term and stable source of extra calories would require a “lightbulb moment:” ...
To what extent, if at all, are animals historical agents? Building on recent scholarship in the fields of animal and world history, we will examine transformations of human-animal relations over time in historical and cross-cultural perspective. ...
The concept of the dual biological identity may be used to explain the Kantian concept of the two metaphysical worlds, namely of the causal necessity and of the free will (Azzone, 2001). Two concepts, namely those of complex adaptive systems (GAS) and of emergence (Holland, 2002), are ...
The human embryo undergoes morphogenetic transformations following implantation into the uterus, but our knowledge of this crucial stage is limited by the inability to observe the embryo in vivo. Models of the embryo derived from stem cells are important