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Gerontology in Bryony Lavery’s A Wedding Story (2000) and Sebastian Barry’s Hinterland (2002)
Studi Irlandesi, 2023 Old age is perceived as a narrative of decline, recently, an alternative perspective was introduced known as positive aging or Gerotranscendance. This paper examines ageing in Bryony Lavery’s A Wedding Story (2000) and Sebastian Barry’s Hinterland (2002)
Rania Mohamed Rafik Abdel Fattah Khalil
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Anthropological Review, 2017 For a very long time, ageing has been an insurmountable problem in biology. The collection of age-dependent changes that render ageing individuals progressively more likely to die seemed to be an intractable labyrinth of alterations and associations ...
Chmielewski Piotr
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Human ageing, longevity and evolution: can ageing be programmed?
Anthropological Review, 2019 Understanding the proximate and ultimate causes of ageing is one of the key challenges in current biology and medicine. These problems are so important that they are sometimes referred to as the Holy Grail of biology and the Great Conundrum in ...
Chmielewski Piotr Paweł
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Population ageing research from a geographical perspective - methodological approach.
Bulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series, 2007 In this paper population ageing studies are shown from a geographical perspective. Four main aspects of population ageing in a geographical approach are considered: theoretical aspects in connection with the demographic transition theory, the cognitive ...
Sławomir Kurek
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Hyper-dependence, hyper-ageing properties and analogies between them: a semigroup-based approach [PDF]
, 2001 In previous papers, evolution of dependence and ageing, for vectors of non-negative random variables, have been separately considered. Some analogies between the two evolutions emerge however in those studies.
SPIZZICHINO, Fabio +4 more
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Meaning in life and the experience of older people
International Journal of Ageing and Later Life, 2019 In this article, we introduce a general theory about meaning in life developed by our first author, and apply it to the context of ageing. The seven components of meaning distinguished by this theory – purpose, moral worth, selfworth, control, coherence,
Peter Derkx +3 more
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The cell origin of reactive oxygen species and its implication for evolutionary trade-offs
Open BiologyThe allocation of resources in animals is shaped by adaptive trade-offs aimed at maximizing fitness. At the heart of these trade-offs, lies metabolism and the conversion of food resources into energy, a process mostly occurring in mitochondria.
Maïly Kervella +3 more
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Evolution Letters, 2019 Classical theory maintains that ageing evolves via energy trade‐offs between reproduction and survival leading to accumulation of unrepaired cellular damage with age.
Martin I. Lind +5 more
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The Threshold Theory of Ageing
Gerontologia, 2009 Uploaded by Plazi for TaxoDros. We do not have abstracts.
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Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov: life and work
Annals of Mechnikov's Institute, 2020 On May 15, 2020, we celebrated the 175th anniversary of the Ilya Metchnikoff, the author of the hypothesis about parenchymella, the father of cellular immunology and inflammation theory, founder of gerontology, aging and longevity science.
V V Minukhin +5 more
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