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Empowering the deaf. Let the deaf be deaf [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2000
Deafness is often regarded as just a one and only phenomenon. Accordingly, deaf people are pictured as a unified body of people who share a single problem. From a medical point of view, we find it usual to work with a classification of deafness in which pathologies attributable to an inner ear disorder are segregated from pathologies attributable to an
Muñoz Baell, Irma María   +1 more
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Language, thought and deafness : conceptual and methodological issues, with reference to visual-spatial processing, control of attention and sign language [PDF]

open access: yes, 1990
A review of the literature indicated that a reappraisal of the conceptual and methodological approach to the study of deafness was necessary if research is to explain why deaf children fail to achieve the scholastic potential predicted by I. Q. tests.
Borgia, S, Borgia, Sandi
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Seeing the Deaf in "Deafness" [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2008
This article draws on some of the existing literature on the politics of identity and representation as related to minority group formation. It applies this to constructions of Deaf2 identity from a cultural and linguistic perspective and contrasts this with dominant constructions of Deaf people as disabled. It highlights a number of ways in which Deaf
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Deaf cultures: towards decolonisation of body, disability, and deafness

open access: yes, 2023
The article discusses the concept of disability, body, and deafness in the context of colonialism, and Brahminism. In this paper, I argue that Deafness is not limited to hearing loss, but it's a “social and cultural condition.”
Shubham, Shreeti
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How level and type of deafness affects user perception of multimedia video clips [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Our research investigates the impact that hearing has on the perception of digital video clips, with and without captions, by discussing how hearing loss, captions and deafness type affects user QoP (Quality of Perception).
Gulliver, Stephen R.   +3 more
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Hearing in 44-45 year olds with m.1555A > G, a genetic mutation predisposing to aminoglycoside-induced deafness: a population based cohort study. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Background The mitochondrial DNA mutation m.1555A>G predisposes to permanent idiosyncratic aminoglycoside-induced deafness that is independent of dose.
Pearce, K   +9 more
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To Deaf or not to deaf: That is the Question [PDF]

open access: yesPsychology, 2019
Names are both personal and political, as they relate to identity. Woodward’s 1975 etic article first mentioned a naming convention for D/deaf and prominent scholars have debated the issue since. To evaluate current preferences, the research team used an online questionnaire to gather emic insights and opinions from the community, as well as a more ...
Kimberly K. Pudans-Smith   +3 more
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Neurobiological insights from the study of deafness and sign language [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The study of deafness and sign language has provided a means of dissociating modality specificity from higher level abstract processes in the brain.
Rudner, M   +17 more
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Enhancing direct cytotoxicity and response to immune checkpoint blockade following ionizing radiation with Wee1 kinase inhibition

open access: yesOncoImmunology, 2019
Tumor cells activate the G2/M cell cycle checkpoint in response to ionizing radiation (IR) and effector immune cell-derived granzyme B to facilitate repair and survival. Wee1 kinase inhibition reverses the ability of tumor cells to pause at G2/M.
Priya Patel   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Characterization of the development of the mouse cochlear epithelium at the single cell level

open access: yesNature Communications, 2020
How the development of the cochlear epithelium is regulated is unclear. Here, the authors use single cell RNAseq analysis to provide insight into the transcriptional changes arising during development of the murine cochlear inner and outer hair cells.
Likhitha Kolla   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source

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