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Structural imaging biomarkers of sudden unexpected death in epilepsy. [PDF]
, 2015 Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy is a major cause of premature death in people with epilepsy. We aimed to assess whether structural changes potentially attributable to sudden death pathogenesis were present on magnetic resonance imaging in people who ...
Balestrini, Simona +12 more
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Some issues of shaping thanatology as a discipline: Ethnological and anthropological perspectives [PDF]
Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2016 Development of death studies, choice of topics and aspects of their interpretations were influenced by many factors, both global and local.
Pavićević Aleksandra
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Accepting higher morbidity in exchange for sacrificing fewer animals in studies developing novel infection-control strategies. [PDF]
, 2020 Preventing bacterial infections from becoming the leading cause of death by the year 2050 requires the development of novel, infection-control strategies, building heavily on biomaterials science, including nanotechnology.
Busscher, Henk J. +16 more
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Epigenetics and cell death: DNA hypermethylation in programmed retinal cell death. [PDF]
, 2013 BackgroundVertebrate genomes undergo epigenetic reprogramming during development and disease. Emerging evidence suggests that DNA methylation plays a key role in cell fate determination in the retina.
Enke, Raymond A +5 more
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Duty not to delete: towards the question of the rights of the digital person after death [PDF]
Омский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность"The article examines the concept and scope of a discipline called ‘digital thanatology’, which explores how death and dying continue in digital space, transcending physical life through data preservation, virtual memorials, chatbots, digital trace and
I. N. Kazarina
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Cultura, Lenguaje y Representación, 2021 The title of the book shows, based on a metaphor, the use of euphemism to refer to death. The reader can obtain a transversal vision of this subject: from traditional thought to the great change that took place in the 19th century with the ...
Esperanza Morales
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Hopelessly Mortal: The Role of Mortality Salience, Immortality and Trait Self-esteem in Personal Hope [PDF]
, 2015 Do people lose hope when thinking about death? Based on Terror Management Theory, we predicted that thoughts of death (i.e., mortality salience) would reduce personal hope for people low, but not high, in self-esteem, and that this reduction in hope ...
Arnaud Wisman +9 more
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Kulturella Perspektiv, 2013 This article deals with Cryonics (freezing of “dead” bodies) and how it is described and criticized in media in the US. The results show three forms of criticism.
Bo Nilsson
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Man against death: Identity, language, technology
RUDN journal of Sociology, 2023 The article is a review of the book by D. Davies Death, Ritual, and Belief: The Rhetoric of Funerary Rites (Moscow: NLO, 2022. 480 p.). The author notes the growing interest of society in the phenomenon of death and makes an attempt to systematize the ...
M. V. Subbotina
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Continuous Deep Sedation Until Death—a Swiss Death Certificate Study [PDF]
Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2018 In the last decade, the number of patients continuously deeply sedated until death increased up to fourfold. The reasons for this increase remain unclear.To identify socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of sedated patients, and concurrent possibly life-shortening medical end-of-life decisions.Cross-sectional death certificate study in German ...
Ziegler, Sarah +4 more
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