Young activists, new movements: Contemporary Chinese queer feminism and transnational genealogies

As young, diasporic feminist activist–scholars involved in queer feminist move- ments across China, Taiwan, and New York City, we reflect on the emergent ‘‘new’’ queer feminism in China today, with its amorphous cohesion and dramatic impact, as highlighted by the subway protest. Drawing on transnational feminism, we are part of this latest ‘‘new’’ response to growing global inequalities and neo-colonial feminist discourses that calls for a critical re-engagement with global politics (Grewal & Kaplan, 2001). However, as activists who center our political involvement in Asia, ‘‘transnationalism’’ is not only a vision, but an already exist- ing state, as we see our movements converge under international pressure coming from both radical and neoliberal forces. Though exhilarated by this moment of possibility in Chinese feminism, we argue that our practices as young feminists and the ‘‘newness’’ of the movement we identify with must be situated and examined in the ambivalent genealogy of feminism in the Chinese Communist past, the hegemonic Western feminist discourse, and transnational politics

Acinetobacter baumannii: an evolving and cunning opponent

Acinetobacter baumannii is one of the most common multidrug-resistant pathogens causing nosocomial infections. The prevalence of multidrug-resistant A. baumannii infections is increasing because of several factors, including unregulated antibiotic use. A. baumannii drug resistance rate is high; in particular, its resistance rates for tigecycline and polymyxin—the drugs of last resort for extensively drug-resistant A. baumannii—has been increasing annually. Patients with a severe infection of extensively antibiotic-resistant A. baumannii demonstrate a high mortality rate along with a poor prognosis, which makes treating them challenging. Through carbapenem enzyme production and other relevant mechanisms, A. baumannii has rapidly acquired a strong resistance to carbapenem antibiotics—once considered a class of strong antibacterials for A. baumannii infection treatment. Therefore, understanding the resistance mechanism of A. baumannii is particularly crucial. This review summarizes mechanisms underlying common antimicrobial resistance in A. baumannii, particularly those underlying tigecycline and polymyxin resistance. This review will serve as a reference for reasonable antibiotic use at clinics, as well as new antibiotic development

Effect of Cd isoelectronic substitution on thermoelectric properties of Zn0.995Na0.005Sb

AbstractZnSb as a kind of material with abundant resource and low cost has a low thermal conductivity and a high Seebeck coefficient, giving the potential of high thermoelectric properties. In this paper, Cd isoelectronic substitution was adopted to further improve the thermoelectric performance by reducing the lattice thermal conductivity of ZnSb. The results show that Cd substitution reduces the lattice thermal conductivity and increases the electrical conductivity. A high ZT value of 1.22 is achieved at 350 °C for Zn0.915Na0.005Cd0.08Sb