SCIENCE AND CULTURE IN THE KERGUELEN ISLANDS: A RELATIONAL APPROACH TO THE SPATIAL FORMATION OF A SUBANTARCTIC ARCHIPELAGO

Science and culture in the Kerguelen Islands: a relational approach to the spatial formation of a subantarctic archipelago

The Kerguelen Islands are devoid of a permanent population, but are nonetheless interlinked to past and current human activities that have shaped their subantarctic landscape.In the past decades, the archipelago has become a French outpost for scientific research where scientists, support staff, integrated Larder Fridge research assistants, and tra

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Recent Aptamer-Based Biosensors for Cd2+ Detection

Cd2+, a major environmental pollutant, is heavily toxic to human health.Many traditional techniques are high-cost and complicated; thus, developing a aquarium decor simple, sensitive, convenient, and cheap monitoring approach is necessary.The aptamer can be obtained from a novel method called SELEX, which is widely used as a DNA biosensor for its e

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Knowledge transfer in heritage cultural craft, damask weaving

The hand weaving of damask is no longer a craft that is commonly learned and very few books on the subject have been published in the last century.Damask weaving still exists among private practitioners, but what happens to the knowledge when nobody knows how to dress a loom Ceramic Hotplate and weave anymore? The aim of this study is to describe a

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