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Management and Outcomes of Anterior Urethral Injuries From Gunshot Wounds: A 7-Year Single-Center Experience
Get full text access Log in, subscribe or purchase for full access. References 1. McGeady, J.B. ∙ Breyer, B.N. Current epidemiology of genitourinary trauma Urol Clin North Am. 2013; 40:323-334 2. Patel, A.B. ∙ Osterberg, E.C. ∙ Satarasinghe, P.N. ... Urethral injuries: diagnostic and management strategies for critical care and trauma clinicians J Clin Med. 2023; 12:1495 3. Lim, P.H. ∙ Chng, H.C. Initial management of acute urethral injuries Br J Urol. 1989; 64:165-168 4. Velarde-Ramos, L.
Cell fate specification during respiratory development requires ARID1A-containing canonical BAF complex activity
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Abstract Mammalian lung development requires coordinated gene regulation to drive lung bud formation, branching morphogenesis, proximal-distal patterning, and epithelial specification. While key transcriptional and signaling regulators are known, the epigenetic regulators are less well studied. Here, we identify the canonical BAF complex as essential for lung epithelial development.
By Hyunwook Lee, Abigail Jaquish, Sharlene Fernandes, Barbara Zhao, Kathleen Cook, Sarah Trovillion, Natalia Bottasso-Arias, Simon Han, Samantha Goodwin, Nicholas Russell, Gerald Saunders, Amanda Zacharias, Samantha Brugmann, Jeffrey A. Whitsett, Debora Sinner, Xin Sun, Daniel T. Swarr, William J. Zacharias, Amber Elitz
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Software-Defined Vehicles: Synopsys & Arm Collaboration
Automakers are increasingly relying on silicon and software to meet the growing demand for smarter, safer, and AI-enabled in-car experiences. As a result, the use of chips in vehicles is surging — with the automotive semiconductor market projected to exceed by the end of the decade. However, current vehicle system architectures aren’t equipped to handle the real-time, multi-modal computing workloads required for these advanced in-car experiences.
The Return of Strikes in China
Since China’s market reform in the 1980s, the “world factory” has witnessed waves of strikes in the manufacturing sector, especially in the 2000s and early 2010s. However, factory strikes overall have declined in number and scale since 2016, and the centre of strikes has also shifted from manufacturing to service sectors, particularly the platform economy, and from coastal cities to China’s inland. What contributed to this new wave of factory workers’ strikes?
The Trick
Behold: William’s father slices his mother in half. He shackles her to the bottom of a water tank. He packs her inside a cannon and lights the fuse. Midair, she dissolves into a flurry of cherry-blossom petals that fall, confetti-style, onto the gawking audience. Look how they reach toward her, now vanished! How they insist it can’t be real, even as they pinch the petals out of the air.
Aurora B phosphorylates Bub1 to promote spindle assembly checkpoint signaling
Highlights • Aurora B cannot activate the SAC because it cannot phosphorylate Knl1 “MELT” motifs • Aurora B promotes SAC signaling by phosphorylating Bub1 • Aurora B activity promotes Mad1 recruitment via Bub1 • Aurora B activity in SAC signaling also requires the ABBA motif of Bub1 Summary a signaling mechanism that delays anaphase onset in response to unattached chromosomes, and an error correction mechanism that eliminates syntelic attachments.
Make it Sharper, Make it Stranger | Don't Write Alone
At some point during the revision process, we may feel the need to mold our sentences so they “fit” the larger vision of our work. This is especially common when we’re working from an outline or if we’re confident in the macro aspects of the story. But focusing only on how the parts fits with the whole can lead to a flattening of our prose and a constraining of our imagination. Here’s an exercise that counteracts that, by prioritizing the sharpness and strangeness of our sentences.
Audiobooks by Asian-American Authors Playlist on Libro.fm
Skip content Minor Feelings An Asian American Reckoning By Cathy Park Hong Narrated by: Cathy Park Hong Length: 6 hours 52 minutes A ruthlessly honest, emotionally charged, and utterly original exploration of Asian American consciousness and the struggle to be human “Brilliant . . . To read this book is to become more human.”—Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHY • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY...
Texas Talks with Simon Han
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Shortcuts to Identity: How We Tell Asian American Stories
Say I begin this essay by bashing bubble tea. Brown sugar boba, strawberry horchata boba, protein shake boba, boba cocktails, and in some supermarkets, boba in a can: isn’t it all a bit too much? The tapioca balls are fun to chew but not to eat. The milk dilutes the tea until it’s watery. The first sips are pleasant, but the novelty wears off. Is this worthy of the pedestal that many Asian Americans put it on—not just as a drink, but a lifestyle? Say instead of boba, I start by defending Amy Tan.
Simon Han’s Debut Novel Considers What It Means to Live Between Two Worlds
Han will discuss Nights When Nothing Happened online Monday via The Porch Feb 11, 2021 5 AM Tweet Share Simon Han’s appropriately titled debut novel, Nights When Nothing Happened, is a beautifully rendered meditation on what it means to belong — to a family, to a culture, to a particular place and time. But it is also an exquisitely written examination of living between two worlds.
Ten Texas Books We Loved in 2020
It’s been a rotten year, but a good one for Texas literature. While we missed gathering at the Capitol for the Texas Book Festival this fall, as well as heading to indie bookstores for readings, there was no shortage of wonderful new releases to choose from—and for many of us, the pandemic meant more time at home to curl up with a book. Texas Monthly asked staff members and contributors to share their favorite Texas book they read in 2020.
The Long Fall
Sleepwalking terrifies me. With zombies, at least, it’s clear that the person inside the body is lost. The sleepwalker, however, occupies a space where agency and identity become blurred, where one might act like a sloppier version of oneself (see: sleep cooking, sleep driving) or in ways profoundly different from who one is (see: sleep sex with strangers, sleep murder!). It’s a phenomenon, as Dr. Rosalind D.
Review | Simon Han’s ‘Nights When Nothing Happened’ is a poignant study of the immigrant experience
Given the flood of studies, warnings, features and books about it, insomnia may come to define our age the way nostalgia defined the Romantics. We are, by all accounts, a rest-less people. The search for better sedatives and masks and pillows charges on, but our poor sleep habits, which contribute to a host of deadly ailments, suggest something profoundly amiss about the construction of modern life.
Sleepwalking Through a Texas Childhood
Sleepwalking Through a Texas Childhood Simon Han Share article Electric Lit relies on contributions from our readers to help make literature more exciting, relevant, and inclusive. Please support our work by becoming a member today, or making a one-time donation here. . An excerpt from Nights When Nothing Happened by Simon Han Jack Cheng knew about protection.
Review: 'Nights When Nothing Happens,' by Simon Han
Last year, Kelly Ng wrote in the Atlantic about the phenomenon of “satellite babies”: Chinese American infants sent to their immigrant parents’ home country, where relatives raise them until they are old enough to attend school in the United States. This reverse migration solves the day-care problem, but it can cause other difficulties when the kids reunite with their parents, including culture shock, lack of familiarity with English and familial estrangement.
Companion Reading for This Truly Fraught Holiday Season
I once worked as a product manager of collectible Christmas ornaments. When every day is Christmas at your office, your relationship to the actual holiday changes. With hands perpetually coated in glitter—even in July—I would send emails to my angel vendor in Shenzhen in one window, and chip away at a sketch of a short story in another. As a fiction writer, I’m fascinated by the stories we live through, the ones we accept often without a second thought.
Virtual Event: Bryan Washington and Simon Han
Harvard Book Store's virtual event series welcomes BRYAN WASHINGTON— a National Book Award 5 Under 35 honoree and author of the award-winning story collection, Lot— and celebrated writer SIMON HAN for a discussion of their debut, highly anticipated novels, Memorial and Nights When Nothing Happened.
In This Debut Novel, a Chinese Immigrant Keeps His Sleepwalking Sister’s Secrets (Published 2020)
NIGHTS WHEN NOTHING HAPPENED By Simon Han How does a family find its footing after it leaves home for good? For the Chengs, who have immigrated from China, their new life in Plano, Texas, is rendered in a series of quick brush strokes, as if in a Raymond Carver story. Houses on either side of their street stand “like tombs.” A square patch of lawn is filled with “fresh, breathing sod.” Ordinary details of suburban America conjure the past.
Nights When Nothing Happened
Advance Praise for Nights When Nothing Happened "A tender, spiky family saga about love in all its mysterious incarnations. Simon Han is a wonderfully adventurous and sensitive writer." --Lorrie Moore "In this beautiful, unsettling novel, Simon Han captures the state of being awake and yet asleep, of belonging and yet not, of waiting for the moment when the world opens up. With the turn of a crystalline sentence, he reveals how fragile we are, and what it takes to survive.
Danger lurks everywhere in ‘Nights When Nothing Happened’ - even in Plano
North Texas novels usually take place either in the big cities of Dallas or Fort Worth, where anything might happen among hundreds of thousands of people who are mostly strangers, or else in a small town that keeps its secrets despite generations of everybody being up in everybody else’s business.
Review: In 'Nights When Nothing Happened,' a Chinese immigrant family struggles to fit into suburban America
“Nights When Nothing Happened” by Simon Han Photo: Riverhead Books In its first hundred pages, one might be tempted to view Simon Han’s debut novel “Nights When Nothing Happened” as in the tradition of Jhumpa Lahiri’s privileged and discomfited “immigrant fiction.” The Chengs, a family of four, are doing their best to live within the structural confines of the nuclear American family. Patty, the emotionally distant mother, works on semiconductors.
Nights When Nothing Happened
Before Liang Cheng became a father, he had been, briefly, a son. His mother died, and he lived with his father and his father’s father in the Shaanxi countryside. During summers, the plum rains pulled down the sky. They fell in drops so big he could dodge them. While Liang danced around the rain in the courtyard, his father slept. Thunder and leaky ceilings did not stir him. With enough yellow wine, he could sleep for days.
The Messiness of the Suburban Narrative
There are sexier identities than “writer of the suburbs.” Such spaces still call to mind images of picket fences, cul-de-sacs, and gated neighborhoods, uniformly and exclusively white. When someone asks me where I’m from—that familiar fraught question—I still catch myself saying that I grew up in Dallas, or at times the mythically vague “Texas.” Plano, Texas, where I spent a decade of my adolescence, now boasts a quarter million residents, a quarter of whom were born in a different country.
November 2, 2020 - The Paris Review
There are sexier identities than “writer of the suburbs.” Such spaces still call to mind images of picket fences, cul-de-sacs, and gated neighborhoods, uniformly and exclusively white. When someone asks me where I’m from—that familiar fraught question—I still catch myself saying that I grew up in Dallas, or at times the mythically vague “Texas.” Plano, Texas, where I spent a decade of my adolescence, now boasts a quarter million residents, a quarter of whom were born in a different country.
November Texas Books Preview
As we write this, ice is being flung out of the sky with the velocity of a toddler’s temper tantrum. The wind chill is twelve (12!) degrees. Obviously, it’s a good time to hunker down inside with a good book—and we’ve got you.
NIGHTS WHEN NOTHING HAPPENED
Inseparable identical twin sisters ditch home together, and then one decides to vanish. The talented Bennett fuels her fiction with secrets—first in her lauded debut, The Mothers (2016), and now in the assured and magnetic story of the Vignes sisters, light-skinned women parked on opposite sides of the color line. Desiree, the “fidgety twin,” and Stella, “a smart, careful girl,” make their break from stultifying rural Mallard, Louisiana, becoming 16-year-old runaways in 1954 New Orleans.
What Are We Saying When We Grant a Movie ‘Universal’ Status?
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a critic praising Lulu Wang’s The Farewell must describe it as “universal.” A close cousin to “accessible,” “anyone,” “everybody,” and “all families,” the word “universal” is used especially often to applaud the wide reach of culturally specific films like The Farewell, in which a Chinese American woman grapples with her family’s decision to hide her Chinese grandmother’s terminal cancer diagnosis from the dying woman herself.
Star of the River Opera
The musicians I knew about were white boys, always in groups, their sculptured hair slicked back in the images of them on textbook covers, folders, and sparkling new lunchboxes. Top 40 radio exhausted their songs; every girl at school could recite the lyrics. As for my family, we didn’t own a radio until my parents bought a car, and then they preferred the hum of the road to the glittering beats of boy-band pop. Nor was Mr. Chiu, my grandfather, an avid follower of American music.
The Tale of the Hag
Zhang Xiaogang, Big Family, 2007. Silkscreen, 36 7/10 × 51 3/5 in. © Zhang Xiaogang. When I was a little girl and living in the village, most spirit walls were made of a single plank of wood rather than stone or glazed tile. Though the wood was peeling, my uncles’ spirit wall ensured that wealth would not fly out and evil would not fly in. This wall and my uncles’ north, east, and west houses, all a few skips from one another, served as the four walls of our square enclosure.
'Three Phone Calls' by Simon Han
In the blog post announcing the opening of our fifth annual Short Story Contest, we reminded readers that last year’s winning story, Ling Ma’s “Fuzhou Nighttime Feeling,” is set in China, and we issued a challenge of sorts: “Bring the trophy back home,” we wrote, “or take it even further afield.” In a way, this year’s contest winner, Simon Han, accepted all parts of that challenge with “Three Phone Calls,” a story that takes place in both China and the United States and, stylistically, is...
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