This paper deals with the ambivalences contained within actor Matthew McConaughey’s persona in an intersectional here perspective.Using the tools of gender studies, star studies and critical white studies, it looks at four parameters – gender, sexual orientation, class and race – in four of McConaughey’s characters of the last decade: Magic

A new halichondrid demosponge bubarid Ptilospongia hemisphaeroidalis gen.et sp.nov.is here described from the latest Ordovician Beigong Biota in Jingxian County, Anhui Province, South China.The new taxon is well-preserved with a two-layer choanosomal skeleton structure (basal layer and erect monactines layer) and three different types of megasclere

How we compute time is not fully understood.Questions include whether an automatic brain mechanism is engaged in temporally regular environmental structure in order to anticipate events, and whether this can be dissociated from task-related processes, including response preparation, selection and execution.To investigate these issues, a passive tem

The need for a high-speed transmission network has become essential due to the exponential increase in traffic.In this paper, a free-space-optics (FSO) link modelled by integrating two multiplexing techniques, i.e., spectral amplitude quest fryer coding-optical code division multiple access (SAC-OCDMA) using zero cross correlation (ZCC) codes and p