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Kuzmin, Sergius L. "Feeding of amphibians during metamorphosis." Amphibia-Reptilia 18, no. 2 (1997): 121–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853897x00017.

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AbstractThe feeding ecology of 28 amphibian species with complete life cycles has been studied from the last pre-metamorphic stages to metamorphosed juveniles. The widespread view that feeding ceases completely during metamorphosis is not confirmed. Generally, however, amphibian feeding rate decreases at metamorphosis. Foraging in Caudata either does not cease (Hynobiidae, rheophilous Salamandridae) or ceases only before the end of transformation, which takes less than one metamorphic stage. The cessation of foraging in Anura coincides with the transformation of the mouth and digestive tract at the beginning of the metamorphic climax. Foraging on small animals starts just after the change from a larval to a post-metamorphic mouth, i.e., before the end of metamorphosis.

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King, Anna S. "Spirituality: Transformation and Metamorphosis." Religion 26, no. 4 (October 1996): 343–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/reli.1996.0028.

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Ginsberg, Warren. "Dante, Ovid, and the Transformation of Metamorphosis." Traditio 46 (1991): 205–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0362152900004244.

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In the seventh bolgia of the Inferno, Dante encounters the thieves, who are punished by undergoing an horrific series of Ovid-like metamorphoses in which men are changed into snakes or unidentifiable amalgams of matter. Since theft violates particular justice, which is a dynamic process that coordinates relations, I will argue that Dante properly makes metamorphosis and the lack of relation it creates between the forms that are changed the fitting punishment for thieves. Ovidian metamorphosis, however, can only image the mutations they experience because Dante's sinners have undergone a transformation even before they are changed into snakes. For particular justice, as Aristotle says, is only part of a more general kind of justice which is complete excellence. In the Inferno, this global justice is the final cause of Hell (‘Giustizia mosse il mio alto fattore,’ Inf. 3, 4), and the principle of retribution that establishes the balance between the punishment and crime of those in it. This general justice, I shall argue, also effects a metamorphosis in the damned prior to their particular punishments, a metamorphosis of unbecoming which makes each of them a perverse parody of what God had originally made them. Every sinner in Hell is undergoing a deformation, a disordering movement away from form which unbalances the vital relationship between body and soul that had made him or her human. More precisely, even though we learn from Statius in the Purgatorio that the damned retain the rational soul, it no longer functions as the form of the body, for it has ceased to be that determining element which allows us to understand the one it is in is a member of the species man. Indeed, as the particular transformations of Agnello and Buoso will make clear, the substantial form of all the damned has become less the intellectual soul than the shape of their matter, from which the intellect can no longer abstract any intelligible form. And as their increasing corporeality suggests, the sinners throughout Hell are being transformed into creatures of ever greater density, who lack inner depth, creatures devoid of an animating essence whose powers persist despite outer change.

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Veres, Ottilia. "Spaces in Between in the Myth of Myrrha: A Metamorphosis into Tree." Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica 11, no. 1 (November 1, 2019): 83–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ausp-2019-0006.

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Abstract Within the larger context of metamorphoses into plants in Greek and Roman mythology, the paper aims to analyse the myth of Myrrha and her metamorphosis into a tree, focusing on the triggering cause of the transformation as well as the response given to her newly-acquired form of life. Myrrha’s transformation into a myrrh tree takes place as a consequence of her transgressive incestuous act of love with her father, Cinyras. Her metamorphosis occurs as a consequence of sinful passion – passion in extremis –, and she sacrifices her body (and human life/existence) in her escape. I will look at Ovid’s version of the myth as well as Ted Hughes’s adaptation of the story from his Tales from Ovid. My discussion of the transformation into tree starts out from the consideration that metamorphosis is the par excellence place and space of in-betweenness implying an inherent hybridity and blurred, converging subjectivities, a state of being that allows for passages, overlaps, crossings, and simultaneities. I am interested to see in what ways Myrrha’s incestuous desire for her father as well as her metamorphosis into a tree can be “rooted” back to her great-grandfather Pygmalion’s transgressive love for the ivory statue Galatea.

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Cheng, Ming. "Quality as transformation: educational metamorphosis." Quality in Higher Education 20, no. 3 (September 2, 2014): 272–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13538322.2014.978135.

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Li, Hua, Wenyu Liu, Guangxi Zhu, and Yaoting Zhu. "Object Metamorphosis Based on Generalized Morphology Transformation." International Journal of Virtual Reality 5, no. 1 (January 1, 2001): 92–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.20870/ijvr.2001.5.1.2671.

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A metamorphosis or a morphing is the process of continuously transforming one object into another, and are popular in computer animation, industrial design, and growth simulation. In this paper, a novel approach is presented for computing continuous shape transformation between polyhedral objects in this paper. Metamorphosis can be achieved by decomposing two objects into sets of individual convex sub-objects respectively and constructing the mapping between two sets, this method can solve the metamorphosis problem of two non-homotopic objects (including concave objects and holey objects). The results of object metamorphosis are discussed in this paper. The experiments show that this method can generate natural, high quality metamorphosis results with simple computation. This method can also be used in font composition and interpolation between two keyframes in 2D and 3D computer animation automatically.

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Usmanova, Shoira Rustamovna. "The Application Of The Method Of Metamorphosis In The Folklore Of The Peoples Of The East." Psychology and Education Journal 58, no. 1 (January 29, 2021): 1033–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.17762/pae.v58i1.852.

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In recent years, interdisciplinary research, including folklore, ethnography, linguoculturology and other disciplines, has been expanding. The complex study of materials related to various sciences ensures the complementarity of the fields of science, contributes to a deeper and more systematic understanding of the phenomena of language and culture. In particular, the comparative study of the specific motives and methods in the discourse of mythological traditions and fairy tales in folklore texts serves to determine the way of thinking, mentality and imagination of different peoples. This article is devoted to the study of the phenomenon of metamorphosis, which is reflected in the folklore of the peoples of the East. Metamorphosis is the transformation of any being or thing, form or species into a new, different form and type, as well as an unusual change in something. Metamorphoses rely on the most ancient mythopoetic ideas and reflect their unique characteristics. The article comparatively studies the application of the method of metamorphosis in the myths, legends, epics and fairy tales of the peoples of the East, the universal and different aspectsof metamorphoses. The types of metamorphoses, their ways of occurrence, causes, factors and peculiarities are also described.

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Grande. "Immigration and Transformation: My Literary Metamorphosis." World Literature Today 93, no. 4 (2019): 78. http://dx.doi.org/10.7588/worllitetoda.93.4.0078.

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Sim, Euiyong. "The Study of Transformation and Metamorphosis." Journal of Humanities and Social sciences 21 10, no. 5 (October 30, 2019): 1639–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.22143/hss21.10.5.117.

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Leys, David. "Flavin metamorphosis: cofactor transformation through prenylation." Current Opinion in Chemical Biology 47 (December 2018): 117–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpa.2018.09.024.

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Zeleny, Milan. "The roots of evolutionary economics: Crisis, transformation and metamorphosis." Human Systems Management 40, no. 3 (June 8, 2021): 315–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/hsm-219003.

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Most world economies are undergoing fundamental transformations of economic sectors, shifting their employed workforce through the secular sequence of (1. Agriculture⟶2. Industry⟶3. Services⟶4. Government). The productivity growth rate is the driving force. Most advanced economies have reached the final stages of the sequence. Assorted recessions, crises and stagnations are simply cofluent, accompanying phenomena. Crises might be cyclical, but economic evolution is unidirectional. Traditional economics can hardly distinguish phenomena of crisis from those of the transformation. Because there is no “fifth sector”, some economies are entering the phase of metamorphosis, for the first time in history. Metamorphosis is manifested through deglobalization, relocalization and autonomization of local and regional economies. We are entering the Age of Entrepreneurship.

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Walsh, Lisl. "The Metamorphoses of Seneca's Medea." Ramus 41, no. 1-2 (2012): 71–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0048671x00000266.

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Seneca's Medea is not a rewriting of Euripides' character. At least, Seneca's Medea shares more similarities with Ovidian Medeas (the extant ones, at any rate) than the Euripidean Medea. Rather than focusing on Seneca's departures from the tragic legacy of Euripides (however important they are for an informed reading of the play), I would like to focus on Seneca's Medea as a potentially Ovidian character. Specifically, I would like to posit that the Senecan Medea reads more like a dramatisation of Medea's experience within the ellipsed Corinthian episode of Ovid's Metamorphoses (7.394-97). Seneca's Medea (more so than Euripides' Medea) identifies with a specifically transformative project, and, one might initially suspect, supplies a neat explication of the transformation missing from Medea's narrative in the Metamorphoses. What we find, however, is that, in dramatising her process of metamorphosis, Seneca irreparably alters our relationship with the transformed Medea.In the Metamorphoses, ‘Ovid does not explain the reason for Medea's transformation into a sorceress and semidivine, evil being…’, but it is clear in the narration that a metamorphosis does occur: ‘Ovid passes abruptly from a sympathetic portrayal of Medea as love-sick maiden to a tragi-comic account of her career as accomplished pharmaceutria (witch) and murderess.’ But the metamorphosis of Medea's character is signalled just as much by her own retreat into silence. The ‘love-sick maiden’, who lays her thoughts out in the open, gives way to the ‘semidivine, evil being’, who speaks only pragmatically (in incantatory language or to the daughters of Pelias) or not at all (e.g., while flying, in Corinth, and in Athens). The loss of Medea's perspective is much of the reason why Ovid's ‘transformed’ Medea seems so unsympathetic. Seneca provides this missing perspective, and in doing so creates a uniquely sympathetic and inhuman result: Seneca's Medea leaves the stage as abruptly as Ovid's Medea leaves Iolcos and Athens (Met. 7.350 and 7.424, respectively), having committed the same crimes as Ovid's Medea, and as ‘supernatural’ as Ovid's Medea (if not more so), yet her newfound system of values is completely comprehensible. In creating a comprehensible account of her motives for transformation, Seneca's Medea, even as the semidivine ‘pharmaceutria’, seems more sympathetic even as she maintains similarities to Ovid's character.

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Mishra, Dhananjay, and K. Venu Achari. "Transformation of Rana tigrina during Progressive Metamorphosis." Journal of Ravishankar University (PART-B) 30, no. 1 (January 30, 2021): 102–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.52228/jrub.2017-30-1-13.

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We determined the kinetics of metamorphosis, apoptosis, and tail regression in Rana tigrina. Acid phosphatase activity (µMole Pi.hr-1.tail-1) in the growing and regressing tail attended six to thirty fold increase respectively. However total activity in the trunk was decreased through progressive growing stages of metamorphosis. Total protein content in the trunk of tadpoles at climax stage (XXI) was decrease (35%) from 2.6mg/ml to 1.7mg/ml. The tail of tadpole tissue has shown a two fold increase in total Ribonucleic Acid (RNA) content from stage III to stage XVIII. But there was again decrease in total RNA content at climax stage (stage XXI). This might be possible due to decreased protein synthetic status. When the experiment was performed in trunk homogenate the amount of total carbohydrate (mg/ml) was slightly increased from 37mg/ml to 38.6mg/ml. this might be due to increase in the activity of α-amylase enzymes in the viscera of developing tadpole when it reached the climax stage.

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Sokolov, Danila. "Mary Wroth, Ovid, and the Metamorphosis of Petrarch." Modern Language Quarterly 81, no. 1 (March 1, 2020): 1–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00267929-7933063.

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Abstract The language of arboreal metamorphosis in Lady Mary Wroth’s pastoral song “The Spring Now Come att Last” from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus (1621) may invoke the myth of Apollo and Daphne. However, the Ovidian narrative so central to Petrarchan poetics celebrates the male poet by erasing the female voice. This essay instead explores parallels between Wroth’s poem and the metamorphosis of the Heliades, who turn into poplars while mourning their brother Phaeton in book 2 of the Metamorphoses. Their transformation is predicated on an act of female speech, however precarious and evanescent. This alternative Ovidian scenario offers a model of lyric that capitalizes on the brief resonance that the female voice acquires at the point of vanishing. By deploying it in her song, Wroth not only rewrites Petrarch through Ovid in order to articulate a gendered lyric voice but shows herself a poet attuned to the crucial developments in English lyric of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, in particular the complex relationship between the Petrarchan and the Ovidian legacies.

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Barolsky, Paul. "As in Ovid, So in Renaissance Art." Renaissance Quarterly 51, no. 2 (1998): 451–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2901573.

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AbstractThis essay is a prolegomenon to the general study of Ovid's relations to Renaissance art and art theory. As is well known, the Metamorphoses determined the subjects of numerous works of art during the Renaissance. What is not sufficiently appreciated, however, is the extent to which the ancient poet's sense of "metamorphosis" as a figure of poesis, making or "poetry," helped shape Renaissance notions of poetic transformation in the visual arts. The emergent taste for the non finito in the Renaissance, most notably in the work of Michelangelo, had important roots in Ovidean aesthetics.

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Williams, Bronwyn T. "Metamorphosis Hurts: Resistant Students and Myths of Transformation." Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy 50, no. 2 (October 2006): 148–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1598/jaal.50.2.7.

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Kleinberg, Samantha, and Bud Mishra. "Metamorphosis: the Coming Transformation of Translational Systems Biology." Queue 7, no. 9 (October 2009): 40–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1626135.1629775.

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Mustafa, Muhammad Khalik. "Metamorphosis." Idealogy Journal 6, no. 2 (September 1, 2021): 53–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.24191/idealogy.v6i2.291.

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The word metamorphosis representing the meaning the process of transformation, alteration, change and rebirth. Metamorphosis is an idea inspired from the adaptation of traditional Malay male attire which is transformed into a more casual and fashionable attire as well as wearable for any occasions. This contemporary design of traditional Malay male attire provides a phenomenon as it goes together with the current fashion development in the world of globalization. The main aim of this study is to explore, examine and analyze the nature of Malay clothes. This study also describes the existence of type of dresses, the way they are used and sensitivity to clothes received as a heritage of Malay culture. As stated by Siti Zainon Ismail (2004) since the 15th century AD, there is the concept of clothing, "wearing the Malay way" recorded in old Malay literary texts in “Hikayat Hang Tuah”. The writing is viewed as a cultural record of clothing, how it is used and elements of traditional values and norms in the Malay culture. Objective for this product is to transform the traditional style of Malay male attire to a “new look” by following the current fashion trend. Every piece of the design plays with the characters and the uniqueness of this traditional attire which is persistently inscribed in the Malay history books such as kekek, pesak, cekak musang, tulang belut and many more. The wearing of traditional Malay male attire can be seen nowadays only in certain events and occasions. Among the attire studied here are baju Kurung teluk belanga, baju sikap, baju kehormatan Barat, baju takwa, and baju kurung cekak musang. These original designs are given a new twist or in other word, new fashion trends. The usage of stripes and checker patterns gives life and reminisce the memory the once loved age-old patterns. The softer denim fabric is used to give it a trendier effect instead of the usually used fabrics. It can be concluded that what modernization have done on this traditional attire to be as a casual wear for Malaysian men is acceptable.

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Mohorič, Aleš, Janko Božič, Polona Mrak, Kaja Tušar, Chenyun Lin, Ana Sepe, Urša Mikac, Georgy Mikhaylov, and Igor Serša. "In vivo continuous three-dimensional magnetic resonance microscopy: a study of metamorphosis in Carniolan worker honey bees (Apis mellifera carnica)." Journal of Experimental Biology 223, no. 21 (October 6, 2020): jeb225250. http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jeb.225250.

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ABSTRACTThree-dimensional (3D) magnetic resonance microscopy (MRM) is a modality of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) optimized for the best resolution. Metamorphosis of the Carniolan worker honey bee (Apis mellifera carnica) was studied in vivo under controlled temperature and humidity conditions from sealed larvae until the emergence of an adult. The 3D images were analyzed by volume rendering and segmentation, enabling the analysis of the body, tracheal system and gastrointestinal tract through the time course of volume changes. Fat content sensitivity enabled the analysis of flight muscles transformation during the metamorphosis by the signal histogram and gray level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM). Although the transformation during metamorphosis is well known, MRM enables an alternative insight to this process, i.e. 3D in vivo, which has relatively high spatial and temporal resolutions. The developed methodology can easily be adapted for studying the metamorphosis of other insects or any other incremental biological process on a similar spatial and temporal scale.

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Nargiza Arivovna, Kadirova. "Parallelism in transformation motives of Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Stevenson and The Metamorphosis by Kafka." International Journal on Integrated Education 2, no. 6 (December 9, 2019): 23–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.31149/ijie.v2i6.191.

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Two great novelists, Franz Kafka and Robert Louis Stevenson at first blush seem to have absolutely nothing in common. But a detailed analysis of two distinguished works of thewriters, reveals surprising similarities in some aspects of their storylines. In particular, comparison of Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde with The Metamorphosis of Kafka shows that both works depict the issues of the struggle between Good and Evil through elements of metamorphoses that have common roots and motives. Focusing on the ideas that are implied rather than explicitly stated unveils deep correlation between these two seemingly unrelated novels

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Koschmal, Walter. "Poetik einer neuen Metamorphose: zu Róža Domašcynas Dichtung." Zeitschrift für Slawistik 66, no. 1 (March 30, 2021): 1–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/slaw-2021-0001.

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Summary The paper characterizes the poetics of the Sorbian poet Róža Domašcyna (*1951). Domašcyna creates diverse methods of metamorphosis in her numerous lyrical works. Different concepts of metamorphosis from Ovid to Goethe as well as concepts of Chinese philosophy are discussed. The novelty of Domašcyna’s concept lies in her language, particularly in the mutation of sound and transformation of all reality. The paper uses “parkfiguren,” a speech composition created together with the composer Harald Muenz, as an example to analyze Domašcyna’s new metamorphosis. It is precisely her extremely uncertain take on metamorphosis that makes this poetic language the language of our present.

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Ohmura, Hiroshi, and M. Wakahara. "Transformation of skin from larval to adult types in normally metamorphosing and metamorphosis-arrested salamander,." Differentiation 63, no. 5 (1998): 237. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s002580050248.

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Urbanski, Stefan J., Lynn From, Alexander Abramowicz, Andreas Joaquin, and Shing C. Luk. "Metamorphosis of dermal cylindroma Possible relation to malignant transformation." Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology 12, no. 1 (January 1985): 188–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0190-9622(85)80015-3.

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Lara Malvacías, Luis. "Morphylapxis." TDR/The Drama Review 64, no. 2 (June 2020): 2–3. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/dram_a_00911.

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As a brown, Latinx, immigrant, queer artist, metamorphosis, transformation, and multiplicity are ways of becoming, and disguising. Using masks, wigs, costumes as a survival strategy, I have lived for years disguised both on the stage and in my everyday life. In this work, I apply the tactic of metamorphosis and concealment by superposing images of costumes and masks from past performances.

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Mythen, Gabe. "Exploring the Theory of Metamorphosis: In Dialogue with Ulrich Beck." Theory, Culture & Society 35, no. 7-8 (November 22, 2018): 173–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263276418810420.

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This interview with Ulrich Beck was undertaken in late August 2014. At this juncture Beck was preparing what was to be his final book, The Metamorphosis of the World (2016). The conversation is reflective of Beck's thinking around the theory of metamorphosis at that time and represents his views on the underlying dynamics of social transformation and the mobilizing power of global risks.

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Cheung, Richard, and John H. Youson. "Immunohistochemical localization of somatostatin within the pineal gland of metamorphosing lampreys, Petromyzon marinus L." Canadian Journal of Zoology 69, no. 5 (May 1, 1991): 1416–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/z91-202.

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The distribution and onset of immunoreactivity to anti-somatostatin-14 and anti-somatostatin-34 within the pineal gland of metamorphosing lampreys, Petromyzon marinus, were examined by immunohistochemistry. No staining was observed with anti-somatostatin-34. Somatostatin-14 immunoreactive cells were not found in the larval pineal complex but were present within the pineal pellucida of the pineal gland beginning at stage 5 of transformation and through the final two stages (6 and 7) of metamorphosis. No immunoreactivity was seen in the parapineal gland. The time of onset of this immunoreactivity in the pineal gland may denote an important transition period from larval to adult life.

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Kaji, Takao, Yoichi Hoshino, Yasuhisa Henmi, and Kinya Yasui. "Longitudinal Observation of Japanese Lancelet, Branchiostoma japonicum, Metamorphosis." Dataset Papers in Biology 2013 (September 23, 2013): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.7167/2013/839671.

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The lancelet (amphioxus) performs metamorphosis and produces minute and ciliate pelagic larvae commonly found in other metamorphic marine invertebrates. During larval life and metamorphosis, however, the animal displays interesting combination of features not found in other animals such as long coexistence of ciliate and muscular locomotion and no change in feeding behavior. The uniqueness of lancelet metamorphosis can provide important data to understand the evolutionary history of this animal as well as the metamorphosis broadly appeared in metazoans. Although lancelet metamorphosis has been studied, all previous studies depended on cross-sectional observations. To get serial data on metamorphic events, we performed longitudinal observations on the Japanese lancelet under the culture condition and confirmed the following: (1) there were individual variations of the duration of metamorphosis from 15 to 27 days; (2) growth was arrested for a month and the maximum reduction of the body length (2.2%–3.2%) occurred when gill slits became paired; (3) during rather long duration of metamorphosis, the oral transformation and the division of the gill pores by tongue bar were completed within two to four days. Our observations suggest that the duration and mode of lancelet metamorphosis depend mainly on intrinsic requirements rather than on extrinsic selective pressures.

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Davies, Malcolm. "A convention of metamorphosis in Greek art." Journal of Hellenic Studies 106 (November 1986): 182–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/629653.

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As part of his recent study of ‘Narration and allusion in Archaic Greek Art’, Professor A. M. Snodgrass has cause to treat of the famous Attic black-figure vase which depicts Circe handing a cup containing her sinister brew to one of Odysseus’ sailors. She is stirring it with her wand the while, and yet this sailor, and three companions besides, have already been transformed into various animals (or at least his head, and their heads and arms have been). Professor Snodgrass has no difficulty in explaining the apparent simultaneity of separate events here and elsewhere on this vase-painting as relating to what he calls the ‘synoptic’ technique of early Greek Art, that familiar device whereby several successive episodes in a narrative are presented together within the same picture. And he is inclined towards a similar line of explanation as regards the partial transformation of Odysseus’ ἑταῖροι: the artist ‘wished to express the passage of time by indicating a half-way stage in the transformation’.

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Karatsuba, M. "MOTIV OF TRANSFORMATION AS ONE OF THE KEY MOBITES OF THE PEOPLE BALADE OF THE SOUTH SLOVENIAN." Comparative studies of Slavic languages and literatures. In memory of Academician Leonid Bulakhovsky, no. 35 (2019): 238–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/2075-437x.2019.35.23.

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The proposed article analyzes one of the most representative motifs presented in folk ballads of the Southern Slavs – the motive of transformation. The introductory part argues the importance of applying for consideration of this motive for understanding the genre of the folk ballad in general and the specifics of its existence in the South Slavic territories, in particular. The subject of research attention is Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Bosnian folk ballads – all texts where there is a motive of transformation, and where it has an important meaning. This question is not fundamentally new, as domestic as well as foreign researchers have already turned to certain aspects of the functioning of the motive of transformation in folk ballads. Among researchers from the South Slavic area to this issue practiced almost all the more and less well-known scholars, in the focus of their attention were, however, some varieties of transformations-metamorphosis or their purpose in the context of understanding the ballad text. Despite the general didactic guideline for which the motive is involved in a whole array of ballad texts, the circumstances in which it is used are completely different. The author below aims to demonstrate to what types of metamorphosis we encounter the folk ballads of the Southern Slavs. The author, undoubtedly, stops only at certain episodes of the functioning of the motive of transformation, tracking it on examples from the collections of ballads of individual peoples.

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Heikkurinen, Pasi. "Degrowth: A metamorphosis in being." Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 2, no. 3 (August 21, 2019): 528–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2514848618822511.

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The call to transform the growth society lacks an analysis of the human will. Problematically for degrowth, the enactment of this so-called will to transform has undesired matter-energetic consequences. Every act of transformation requires matter–energy, adding to the cumulative throughput of societies. To revert the ecospherical metabolism from a state of overshoot to one of degrowth, a metamorphosis in being is proposed. Building on Heidegger’s fundamental ontology, the article invites degrowth practitioners to become releasers by waiting for the unexpected and then to prepare for the expected, the collapse of civilization. A practice of releasement, where meditative thinking resides, is considered as an effective way to counter the destructive will to transform, and hence contribute to degrowth.

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Evans, Barbara I., and Russell D. Fernald. "Retinal transformation at metamorphosis in the winter flounder (Pseudopleuronectes americanus)." Visual Neuroscience 10, no. 6 (November 1993): 1055–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0952523800010166.

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AbstractWinter flounder (Pseudopleuronectes americanus) are hatched as bilaterally symmetric larvae which live near the ocean surface. At metamorphosis, they become laterally compressed, one eye migrates to the opposite side of the head, and they live the remainder of their lives lying on their blind side on the ocean floor. The present study characterizes and quantifies retinal cell distribution throughout the larval period and contrasts it with the adult retina. Based on light- and electron-microscopic analyses, retinas of larval flounder contain only a single cone-like photoreceptor type, arranged in a hexagonal array. In contrast, after metamorphosis, the adult retina has three types of photoreceptors: rods, single cones, and double cones. Rod photoreceptors are numerous in the ventral retina and decrease in density dorsad. The cone photoreceptor density, in contrast to rods, is higher in the dorsal retina decreasing ventrad. Adult cone photoreceptors are arranged in a square mosaic with four double cones surrounding one single cone. The differences in larval and adult retinal morphology reflect the distinctly different habitat each occupies.

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Parries, Shawn C., and Louise R. Page. "Larval development and metamorphic transformation of the feeding system in the kleptoparasitic snail Trichotropis cancellata (Mollusca, Caenogastropoda)." Canadian Journal of Zoology 81, no. 10 (October 1, 2003): 1650–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/z03-154.

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Trichotropis cancellata Hinds, 1849 has a planktonic larval stage that feeds on microalgae and a benthic stage that feeds both by ctenidial suspension feeding and by stealing food ("kleptoparasitism") from several species of suspension-feeding, tube-dwelling polychaete worms. We used scanning electron microscopy, histological sections, and observations on live animals to document the sequence and timing of morphogenetic events during larval and metamorphic development of T. cancellata. These data were compared with other accounts of gastropod development to test for differences in the timing of developmental events among feeding larvae of two major gastropod clades: the caeno gastropods and heterobranchs. In T. cancellata, as in feeding larvae of previously studied caenogastropods, components of the post-metamorphic body plan differentiate at an earlier stage of larval development (relative to times of hatching and ability to undergo metamorphosis) than in feeding heterobranch larvae. Metamorphosis of T. cancellata was induced by polychaete hosts of this snail's kleptoparasitic benthic stage, and young juveniles of T. cancellata could steal food from these polychaetes within a day after snail metamorphosis began. Rapid onset of kleptoparasitic feeding following metamorphosis of T. cancellata was permitted by development of a specialized feeding structure, the pseudo proboscis, during the larval stage. This novel embellishment of larval development was likely preceded during evolution by selective larval induction by polychaete hosts.

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Heitmann, Bernhard. "Migration and Metamorphosis: The Transformation of Shapes, Ornaments, and Materials." Metropolitan Museum Journal 37 (January 2002): 107–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1513078.

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Yoshizato, Katsutoshi. "Death and Transformation of Larval Cells during Metamorphosis of Anura." Development, Growth and Differentiation 34, no. 6 (December 1992): 607–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-169x.1992.tb00028.x.

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Halligan, Fredrica R. "Metamorphosis: Change & Continuity, Chaos & Order, Conflict & Transformation." Journal of Religion and Health 43, no. 3 (2004): 221–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/b:jorh.0000039655.36087.4f.

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Adkins, Evelyn. "THE SKIN OF A SWALLOW: APULEIUS, METAMORPHOSES 6.26." Classical Quarterly 69, no. 1 (May 2019): 457–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0009838819000338.

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In Book 6 of Apuleius’ Metamorphoses, Lucius contemplates his possible death at the hands of the robbers. After one robber threatens to throw him off a cliff, he remarks to himself how easily such an act would kill him (Met. 6.26):‘uides istas rupinas proximas et praeacutas in his prominentes silices, quae te penetrantes antequam decideris membratim dissipabunt? nam et illa ipsa praeclara magia tua uultum laboresque tibi tantum asini, uerum corium non asini crassum, sed hirudinis tenue membranulum circumdedit. quin igitur masculum tandem sumis animum tuaeque saluti, dum licet, consulis?’‘Do you see that ravine nearby and the sharp rocks jutting into it which will impale you before you hit the bottom and tear you limb from limb? For that wondrous magic of yours gave you only the appearance and hardships of an ass, but in truth it surrounded you not with the thick hide of an ass but with the thin little membrane of a leech. Why not, therefore, take up your manly spirit at last and seek your safety while you can?’Lucius seems to contradict the description of his metamorphosis at 3.24: pili mei crassantur in setas, et cutis tenella duratur in corium, ‘my hair thickens into bristles and my thin skin hardens into hide’. Met. 6.26 suggests that Lucius’ metamorphosis may not be as complete as it initially seemed: his skin is not the thick hide of an ass but the delicate membrane of a leech. This passage is further complicated by a textual dispute: where all modern editions and most translations read hirudinis, ‘leech’, our earliest and best manuscripts have hirundinis, ‘swallow’. I propose that we should restore ‘swallow’ on the testimony of these manuscripts and because it better reflects Lucius’ initial desire for an avian rather than an asinine transformation. My examination of this passage will also highlight the liminal nature of Lucius’ metamorphosis. Despite his apparent physical transformation, he remains caught between the human and the animal worlds in both mind and body.

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Ohmura, Hiroshi, and Masami Wakahara. "Transformation of skin from larval to adult types in normally metamorphosing and metamorphosis-arrested salamander, Hynobius retardatus." Differentiation 63, no. 5 (October 1998): 237–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1432-0436.1998.6350237.x.

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Perrott, Bruce E. "Towards a Model of Transformation: Manager's Perceptions of Transformation in an E-business Environment." Journal of Information & Knowledge Management 07, no. 02 (June 2008): 63–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0219649208002007.

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In the Entrepreneurial Millennium, companies and industries must come to terms with change. When change is radical, they must manage a metamorphosis by way of transformation. Here industry structures and relationships may change radically where new rules and guidelines are needed to manage the business and its customers in the transformed dimension. Some studies have conducted research and analysed findings according to the transformational impact on the organisations showing that early adopters of e-business show a trend towards cost reductions and administrative efficiencies while more mature users focus on strategic level change and advantage (Ash and Burn, 2003). Other researchers have studied the challenges that major organisations have encountered while expanding their ebusiness transformation strategy (Ranganathan, Shetty and Muthukumaran, 2004). Managers therefore need to develop a better understanding of the theory and processes associated with the transformation in an e-business context. This paper reviews the findings of field research and uses it as a basis to propose a new model of transformation which may guide future research and lead to a better understanding of what is involved in the process.

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Halimatusa’diyah, Iim. "Religious Celebrity: The Metamorphosis of Islamic Preachers in Indonesia." JURNAL INDO-ISLAMIKA 2, no. 1 (June 20, 2012): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.15408/idi.v2i1.1658.

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The article critically discusses the transformation of popular Islamic preachers in Indonesia into religious celebrity. One of the explanations is that the phenomenon of this transformation is a direct result of the increasing using of media technology as a new tool in the dissemination of Islamic discourse. Through the support of mass media technology, these contemporary Islamic preachers are easily obtained a wide audience and simultaneously obtained a public recognition. This article, at least, found two important points related to the exploitation of the media. First, people are able to exploit the media as a tool to disseminate religious discourse. Second, the media can also exploit religion by making it as commodities to gain a greater advantage.

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Guo, Cong. "Project study of transformations in the works of F. Kafka and M. A. Bulgakov (“The Metamorphosis” and “Heart of a Dog”)." Litera, no. 7 (July 2021): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.25136/2409-8698.2021.7.35794.

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The subject of this research is the literary works of F. Kafka “The Metamorphosis” and M. A. Bulgakov “Heart of a Dog”. The object of this research is the metaphor of transformation in the aforementioned novels. The article employs comparative, analytical, and descriptive methods. The methodological framework is comprised of the works of Russian and Chinese scholars. The study is founded on the compilation of research experience of such Chinese authors as Liang Kun, Wen Wenwen, Zhao Lijun, and Zhang Meng), and determines the peculiarities of transformations in the works of F. Kafka and M. A. Bulgakov from the perspective of project study. Practical importance of this research lies in application of the acquired results for creating various methodological textbooks, including cross-cultural direction, for the purpose of bringing Chinese and Russian people together, improving communication, and studying Russian (or Chinese) language on the example of classical literature and analysis of the literary works by Chinese researchers. This work is also valuable for the linguists, as it enriches the knowledge in the area of foreign language research and creation of literary works. The conclusion is made that the use of the metaphor of transformations in the novels “Heart of a Dog” and “The Metamorphosis” answer the social questions faced by Kafka and Bulgakov. Although, it is important to underline the differences in the use of this metaphor as a literary technique. The transformation is associated with the personality of the protagonist. Despite the different social origin of the writers, their works resemble a concern on the social status of a person, and describe emotional torments and life difficulties of the ordinary people. The work aims to broaden the theoretical framework of the research by synthesizing the results of analytics of the selected literary works, as well profound analysis towards seeking the additional meanings of transformation in the novels of F. Kafka and M. Bulgakov in “The Metamorphosis” and “Heart of a Dog”.

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Xie, Caixia, Shanliang Xu, Linlin Yang, Zhonghe Ke, Jubin Xing, Junwei Gai, Xiaoling Gong, Liuxiong Xu, and Baolong Bao. "mRNA/microRNA Profile at the Metamorphic Stage of Olive Flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus)." Comparative and Functional Genomics 2011 (2011): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/256038.

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Flatfish is famous for the asymmetric transformation during metamorphosis. The molecular mechanism behind the asymmetric development has been speculated over a century and is still not well understood. To date, none of the metamorphosis-related genes has been identified in flatfish. As the first step to screen metamorphosis-related gene, we constructed a whole-body cDNA library and a whole-body miRNA library in this study and identified 1051 unique ESTs, 23 unique miRNAs, and 4 snoRNAs in premetamorphosing and prometamorphosingParalichthys olivaceus. 1005 of the ESTs were novel, suggesting that there was a special gene expression profile at metamorphic stage. Four miRNAs (pol-miR-20c,pol-miR-23c,pol-miR-130d, andpol-miR-181e) were novel toP. olivaceus; they were characterized as highly preserved homologies of published miRNAs but with at least one nucleotide differed. Representative 24 mRNAs and 23 miRNAs were quantified during metamorphosis ofP. olivaceusby using quantitative RT PCR or stem-loop qRT PCR. Our results showed that 20 of mRNAs might be associated with early metamorphic events, 10 of mRNAs might be related with later metamorphic events, and 16 of miRNAs might be involved in the regulation of metamorphosis. The data provided in this study would be helpful for further identifying metamorphosis-related gene inP. olivaceus.

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Yongnian, Zheng. "Interest Representation and the Transformation of the Chinese Communist Party." Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies 16 (March 10, 2002): 57–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.22439/cjas.v16i0.5.

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At the 80th anniversary celebration of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on 1 July 2001, Jiang Zemin called on the party to admit into its ranks of 'outstanding social elements' of private entrepreneurs, professionals, technical and managerial personnel from non-state firms and MNCs. Party ideologues, however, have raised a great hue and cry. In order to establish his political legacy, the CCP leadership has intensified the campaign to educate its cadres and members. Reform and development have bourgeoisified and benefited many party members and cadres. Jiang's public support of the capitalists is not going against the tide but is a recognition of reality instead. In fact, to continue to grow and expand, the party must embrace the better educated and the most enterprising in society. The capitalists within the party will certainly be catalysts to quicken the transformation of the party. In its attempt to admit capitalists, has the CCP unknowingly let in the Trojan horse? Jiang Zemin's original aim may have been to strengthen the party-state by broadening its social base. And as the party metamorphoses, perhaps into a kind of social democratic party, Jiang will be favourably judged for paving the way for such a metamorphosis. Nevertheless, it is not an easy transition: insurmountable difficulties lie ahead for the party leadership.

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Huque, Sana, Sarmistha Pattanaik, and D. Parthasarathy. "Cityscape Transformation and the Temporal Metamorphosis of East Kolkata Wetlands: A Political Ecology Perspective." Sociological Bulletin 69, no. 1 (January 30, 2020): 95–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0038022919899020.

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Cities are changing globally because neoliberalism demands so. But the impacts of these changes do not remain confined within urban limits only. Kolkata similarly is attempting to change itself in leaps and bounds because it has to keep up with the demands of neoliberalism. However, along with the city, the wetlands in the eastern vicinity of Kolkata are also undergoing a major transformation. This article attempts to look at these transformations that have been the result of changing times. The focus is upon tracing the details of how the city and the wetlands have changed over the years of its existence and examine those changes through the lens of political ecology perspective.

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Rabossi, A., P. Wappner, and L. A. Quesada- Allué. "LARVA TO PHARATE ADULT TRANSFORMATION IN THE MEDFLY CERATITIS CAPITATA (WIEDEMANN) (DIPTERA: TEPHRITIDAE)." Canadian Entomologist 124, no. 6 (December 1992): 1139–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.4039/ent1241139-6.

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AbstractGross morphological changes in Ceratitis capitata (Wied.) during metamorphosis within the puparium are described and temporally correlated with the appearance of main differentiation markers. A table that allows determination of physiological age of pupal and pharate adult stages is presented.

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Barker, Andrew. "Giant Bug or Monstrous Vermin? Translating Kafka's Die Verwandlung in its Cultural, Social, and Biological Contexts." Translation and Literature 30, no. 2 (July 2021): 198–208. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/tal.2021.0463.

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Since it would have been feasible for Kafka to call his story ‘Die Metamorphose’, the article first considers why most translators render Die Verwandlung as (The) Metamorphosis and not literally as The Transformation. Given the widespread impact of Darwinism and Social Darwinism when Kafka wrote the work in 1912, particular attention is paid to socio-biological factors that may have influenced his choice of title. The article further considers the possible impact of Yiddish theatre and Nietzschean philosophy upon Kafka's decision. It then examines how translators have tackled the story's opening sentence, given the difficulties of rendering the phrase ‘ungeheures Ungeziefer’ (literally ‘monstrous vermin’) in a way that does justice to the sentence's original structure and vocabulary. Finally, the article offers a possible solution to this problem.

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Dohal, Gassim H. "Transformation in Chaucer’s the ‘Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale’." World Journal of English Language 11, no. 2 (August 31, 2021): 121. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/wjel.v11n2p121.

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In Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales (c. 1387), the Wife of Bath appears “as a woman of very strong opinions who believes firmly in marriage” and as well “in the need to manage husbands strictly” (Thornley & Gwyneth 1993, p.16), and hence her story is about an Arthurian knight who rapes a maiden and has to face the consequences of his deed. The pilgrims of Chaucer’s masterpiece undergo transformations, which are chronicled in this literary text. These transformations occur in a variety of forms and take different shapes. The Wife of Bath is one of these travellers. In the following discussion, I'll look at how the ‘Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale’ handles metamorphosis. By reading this article, readers will realize that transformation is not limited to the one of the hag that occurs at the end of the tale.

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Jacqueline Reid-Walsh. "Eighteenth-Century Flap Books for Children: Allegorical Metamorphosis and Spectacular Transformation." Princeton University Library Chronicle 68, no. 3 (2007): 751. http://dx.doi.org/10.25290/prinunivlibrchro.68.3.0751.

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Welz, Claudia. "Identity as self-transformation: emotional conflicts and their metamorphosis in memory." Continental Philosophy Review 43, no. 2 (May 2010): 267–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11007-010-9142-9.

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Aboul-Ella, Hassanien, and Masayuki Nakajima. "Image metamorphosis transformation of facial images based on elastic body splines." Signal Processing 70, no. 2 (October 1998): 129–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0165-1684(98)00118-2.

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Reiter, Megan, Andrés E. Guzmán, Thomas J. Haworth, Pamela D. Klaassen, Anna F. McLeod, Guido Garay, and Joseph C. Mottram. "Illuminating a tadpole’s metamorphosis II: observing the ongoing transformation with ALMA." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 496, no. 1 (June 2, 2020): 394–414. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa1504.

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ABSTRACT We present new Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array observations of the tadpole, a small globule in the Carina Nebula that hosts the HH 900 jet+outflow system. Our data include 12CO, 13CO, C18O J=2–1, 13CO, C18O J=3–2, and serendipitous detections of DCN J=3–2 and CS J=7–6. With angular resolution comparable to the Hubble Space Telescope, our data reveal for the first time the bipolar molecular outflow in CO, seen only inside the globule, that is launched from the previously unseen jet-driving protostar (the HH 900 YSO). The biconical morphology joins smoothly with the externally irradiated outflow seen in ionized gas tracers outside the globule, tracing the overall morphology of a jet-driven molecular outflow. Continuum emission at the location of the HH 900 YSO appears to be slightly flattened perpendicular to outflow axis. Model fits to the continuum have a best-fitting spectral index of ∼2, suggesting cold dust and the onset of grain growth. In position–velocity space, 13CO and C18O gas kinematics trace a C-shaped morphology, similar to infall profiles seen in other sources, although the global dynamical behaviour of the gas remains unclear. Line profiles of the CO isotopologues display features consistent with externally heated gas. We estimate a globule mass of ∼1.9 M⊙, indicating a remaining lifetime of ∼4 Myr, assuming a constant photoevaporation rate. This long globule lifetime will shield the disc from external irradiation perhaps prolonging its life and enabling planet formation in regions where discs are typically rapidly destroyed.

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