Cultural collapse

In a gas and liquid system, when gas is introduced into a culture medium, bubbles are formed. The bubbles rise rapidly through the medium and dispersion of the bubbles occurs at surface, forming froth. The froth collapses by coalescence, but in most cases the fermentation broth is viscous so this coalescence may be reduced to form stable froth. Any compounds in the broth, such as proteins, that reduce the surface tension may influence foam formation. The stability of preventing bubbles coalescing depends on the film elasticity, which is increased by the presence of peptides, proteins and soaps. On the other hand, the presence of alcohols and fatty acids will make the foam unstable. 

Anthrax. A nonspecific prodrome (i.e., fever, dyspnea, cough, and chest discomfort) follows inhalation of infectious spores. Approximately 2-4 days after initial symptoms, sometimes after a brief period of improvement, respiratory failure and hemodynamic collapse ensue. Inhalational anthrax also might include thoracic edema and a widened mediastinum on chest radiograph. Gram-positive bacilli can grow on blood culture, usually 2-3 days after onset of illness. Cutaneous anthrax follows deposition of the organism onto the skin, occurring particularly on exposed areas of the hands, arms, or face. An area of local... 

Dale, B. A., Presland, R. B., Lewis, S. P., Underwood, R. A., and Fleckman, P. (1997). Transient expression of epidermal filaggrin in cultured cells causes collapse of intermediate filament networks with alteration of cell shape and nuclear integrity. J. Invest. Dermatol. 108, 179—187. 

Adorno perceived in the American landscape of lightness, brightness and substitution a kind of madness. Adorno s description of a bookcase in a villa he visited in Maine in t959 conveyed his terrors in the phoney society. The great titles of literature faced him and he reached out to take one. The whole display collapsed. It was all fake. The world as a simulation of itself is a crazy thought, but a true one too. In Adorno s story there is something else at play. It concerns the death of learning, the death of culture and the victory of the culture industry . But the phoniness is present everywhere. Adorno mentions wily restaurants that sell bottles of counterfeit red wine coated by a layer of synthetic dust.54 Time itself is synthesized. 

Staufenbiel, M. and Deppert, W. (1982) Intermediate filament systems are collapsed onto the nuclear surface after isolation of nuclei from tissue culture cells. Exp. Cell Res. 138, 207-214. 

J. Israel, in his extensive discussion of the Low Countries in the early modern period, has called the years between 1702 (death of William iii) and 1806 (collapse of the Batavian Republic), the age of decline. Israel. (1995). The Dutch I epublic. In the discussion on the Low Countries in the early eighteenth century I rely heavily on the work of Israel. See also Jacob, M.C., Mijnhardt, W.W. (1992). The Dutch Republic in the Fifteenth Century. New York. For an overview of the Dutch Golden Age see also Price, J.L. (1998). The Dutch Kepublic in the Seventeenth Century. New York Davids, K., Lucassen, J. (Eds.). (1995). Fl Miracle Mirrored. The Dutch Kepublic in EuropeanPerspec-tive. Cambridge Schama, S. (1987). A.n Embarrassment of Kiches. An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age. London. 

A 54-year-old man with rheumatoid arthritis for 12 years was given infliximab, with remission. He then developed a painful, confluent, erythematous, pustular rash over his trunk and limbs. Skin biopsy showed an acute pustular dermatitis. Five hours later he collapsed with a tachycardia (140/minute) and a blood pressure of 120/70 mmHg. He was apyrexial. His left leg was very tense, painful, and swollen, and he had a disseminated intravascular coagulopathy. There was marked necrosis of his adductor compartment and fascia of his left thigh and necrotic muscles were debrided. Blood cultures and skin swabs grew group A hemolytic streptococci. He then became unstable and died, despite efforts at resuscitation. 

In contrast, high concentrations of methylmercury (1 or 2 m) did not increase the frequency of sister chromatid exchanges in cultured blastocysts of early ICR mouse embryos (Matsumoto and Spindle 1982). Severe toxicity, which was more intense in blastocysts than in morulae, consisted of cessation of preimplantation development, blastocoel collapse, and mitotic delay. 

Kapfhammer, J. P. and Raper, J. A., Collapse of growth cone structure on contact with specific neurites in culture, J. Neurosci., 7, 201, 1987. 

Yaeger, J., D. Hodell. 2007 The Collapse of Maya Civilization Assessing the Interaction of Culture, Climate, and Environment. In El Nino, Catastrophism, and Culture Change in Ancient America, ed. by D.H. Sandweiss J. Quilter, pp. 197-251. Washington, D.C. Dumbarton Oaks. 

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