HOUSES ON FIRE: THE HAUNTOLOGIES OF SANKOMOTA

Houses on Fire: The Hauntologies of Sankomota

The following essay is part of a body of work titled Signal to Noise: sound and fury in (post)apartheid South Africa.These are a collection of creative non-fiction essays set against the backdrop of my involvement with a small, independent mobile recording studio based in Johannesburg between 1983 and 1997.The metaphor of a drowning signal, pushing

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The spliceosome factor sart3 regulates hematopoietic stem/progenitor cell development in zebrafish through the p53 pathway

Abstract Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) possess the potential for self-renew and the capacity, throughout life, to differentiate into all blood cell lineages.Yet, the mechanistic basis for HSC development remains largely unknown.In this study, we characterized a zebrafish smu471 mutant Packaging with hematopoietic stem/progenitor cell (HSPC) defec

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In the winning mood: Affect in the Iowa gambling task

The present research aimed to test the role of mood in the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT; Bechara et al., 1994).In the IGT, participants can win or lose money by Yin Chiao picking cards from four different decks.They have to learn by experience that two decks are overall advantageous and two decks are overall disadvantageous.Previous studies have shown t

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