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Integrins are transmembrane glycoproteins that act as essential adhesion receptors, allowing cells to communicate with the extracellular matrix (ECM). This interaction not only helps cells regulate adhesion, but also transmits signals that guide a variety of cellular processes. Once bound to the ECM, integrins play an important role in the cell differentiation, migration, proliferation, and surviv

This chapter presents a case study of artistic data collection within a project at the intersection of opera, technology, and embodied cognition. The collaborative process in the research project First Person Singer provided an opportunity to examine how artistic and scientific practices can create shared spaces for mutual exchange. It demonstrates how a single dataset may simultaneously serve as

Background: Peptic ulcer disease (PUD) is characterized by an ulcer in the gastric or duodenal mucosa, approximately 3–5 mm deep. This global health concern significantly impacts health and quality of life, necessitating increased public awareness for the prevention and control of its risk factors. Materials and Methods: The study employed a cross-sectional online questionnaire targeting 400 adult

Over the past two decades, collaboration has emerged as a keyword and an important methodological and ethical concern in various disciplines, which has nurtured interdisciplinary approaches that often encompass innovative processes of knowledge production. In sonic practice, trends such as participatory art, the workshop turn, and ideas of Do-It-With-Others contributed to the emergence of creative

The plethora and availability of digital tools and practices have transformed the ways art is created, perceived and disseminated. This had a distinct impact on how research is conducted across the arts and humanities as a whole from practice-led to process-focused and people-centred research. Airea’s first issue “Computational tools and digital methods in creative practices” germinated from a ser

This article discusses a prototype that explores the simultaneous manipulation of three-dimensional digital forms and sound. Our multi-media study examines the aesthetic affordances of tight parameter couplings between digital three-dimensional objects and sound objects based on notions of process and user-machine interaction. It investigates how effective cohesion between visual, spatial and soni

Sound is a fundamental element of our relationship to others and to the world. Current environmental, sociopolitical, cultural, and economic dimensions of our society can be captured and studied through sound. This article investigates ways of listening to future versions of our cities. Sound’s role is explored in the transformation of spaces and communities based on a dialectic between sound art,

Following the successful first Urban Sound Symposium held at Ghent University in 2019, the second edition in 2021 had to face the challenges of the pandemic. The symposium turned this challenge into an opportunity for giving easier access to practitioners and experts from around the globe who are confronted with urban sound in their professional activities. It was organized simultaneously in Ghent

The pervasive influence of human agency on biodiversity in the Anthropocene gives rise to several new challenges for national and international wildlife law, including questions regarding what is natural and what is alien. Ultimately, a new vision and new rules are called for but in the meantime wildlife lawyers and other conservation professionals must work with conventional legal frameworks. Str