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The Embodied Reader and Experiential Death

open access: yesSanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry, 2023
Narratives being the cornerstone of societal development will never go out of fashion. The act of reading will naturally be a part of highly developed cognitive beings. In this paper, the ideal reader is replaced by the embodied reader.
Sree Sakthi Prem, P.T. Selvi Kohila
doaj   +1 more source

Ancestor Worship in Contemporary Japan

open access: yesRussian Japanology Review, 2023
This article examines the transformation of ancestor worship in the context of socio-political and religious conditions and identifies the characteristics of worship in contemporary Japanese society and the changes in the form of practices and functions ...
I. V. Avdiushenkova
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‘And writing […] will preserve his memory’: Laman Blanchard’s Afterlife in Letters and Ledgers

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Life Writing, 2020
This article examines the historical fragments of cemetery records and monumental masonry for the poet and journalist Laman Blanchard, who was interred in West Norwood Cemetery, London, in 1845, and whose monument was cleared a century later by Lambeth ...
Heather Scott
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2/ LGBTQ+ necropolitics

open access: yesWhatever, 2021
This is part 2 of 6 of the dossier What do we talk about when we talk about queer death?, edited by M. Petricola. The contributions collected in this article sit at the crossroads between thanatology, gender studies, and LGBT+ studies and tackle ...
Varpu Alasuutari   +5 more
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Case-control study developing Scottish Epilepsy Deaths Study Score to predict epilepsy-related death [PDF]

open access: yesBrain, 2022
AbstractThis study aimed to develop a risk prediction model for epilepsy-related death in adults.In this age- and sex-matched case-control study, we compared adults (aged ≥16 years) who had epilepsy-related death between 2009 and 2016 to living adults with epilepsy in Scotland.
Gashirai K Mbizvo   +4 more
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4/ Queering death in the medical and health humanities

open access: yesWhatever, 2021
This is part 4 of 6 of the dossier What do we talk about when we talk about queer death?, edited by M. Petricola. The contributions collected in this article sit at the crossroads between thanatology, queer studies, and the medical/health humanities and ...
Yana Kirey-Sitnikova   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Socioeconomic status as a risk factor for dementia death:individual participant meta-analysis of 86 508 men and women from the UK [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Background Life-course socioeconomic factors may have a role in dementia aetiology but there is a current paucity of studies. Meta-analyses of individual participant data would considerably strengthen this evidence base.
Cox   +12 more
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The Persistent Southern Disadvantage in Us Early Life Mortality, 1965‒2014 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Background: Recent studies of US adult mortality demonstrate a growing disadvantage among southern states. Few studies have examined long-term trends and geographic patterns in US early life (ages 1 to 24) mortality, ages at which key risk factors and ...
Braudt, David B.   +6 more
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Ancestor worship in contemporary Japan

open access: yesЯпонские исследования, 2022
This article examines the transformation of ancestor worship in the context of socio-political and religious conditions and identifies the characteristics of worship in contemporary Japanese society and the changes in the form of practices and functions ...
I. V. Avdiushenkova
doaj   +1 more source

A comparison of neonatal outcomes between adolescent and adult mothers in developed countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Evidence suggests that adolescent pregnancies are at increased risk of adverse neonatal outcomes compared to adult pregnancies; however, there are significant inconsistencies in the literature, particularly in studies conducted in developed countries ...
Marvin-Dowle, K, Soltani, Hora
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