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Hopelessly Mortal: The Role of Mortality Salience, Immortality and Trait Self-esteem in Personal Hope [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core   +1 more source

Kryonik

open access: yesKulturella 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
doaj   +1 more source

Ferroptosis, a new form of cell death: opportunities and challenges in cancer

open access: yesJournal of Hematology & Oncology, 2019
Ferroptosis is a novel type of cell death with distinct properties and recognizing functions involved in physical conditions or various diseases including cancers. The fast-growing studies of ferroptosis in cancer have boosted a perspective for its usage
Yan-hua Mou   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Man against death: Identity, language, technology

open access: yesRUDN 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
doaj   +1 more source

Are Asians comfortable with discussing death in health valuation studies? A study in multi-ethnic Singapore [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
BACKGROUND To characterize ease in discussing death (EID) and its influence on health valuation in a multi-ethnic Asian population and to determine the acceptability of various descriptors of death and "pits"/"all-worst" in health valuation ...
Cheung, Y.-B.   +9 more
core   +5 more sources

Pet Loss and Representations of Death, Attachment, Depression, and Euthanasia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
T Studies that have examined pet loss hypothesize that attachment, representations of death, and the belief in an afterlife for animals may influence owners\u2019 bereavement and depressive outcomes.
De Cataldo, Loriana   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Continuous Deep Sedation Until Death—a Swiss Death Certificate Study [PDF]

open access: yesJournal 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
openaire   +3 more sources

Food-related illness and death in the United States.

open access: yesEmerging Infectious Diseases, 1999
correctly identified E. faecium and E. faecalis to the species level, most (4 of 5) did not correctly identify E. gallinarum (three misidentified it as E. casseliflavus and one as E. faecalis).
C. Hedberg
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Epigenetics and cell death: DNA hypermethylation in programmed retinal cell death. [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core   +3 more sources

PTEN Regulates Glucose Transporter Recycling by Impairing SNX27 Retromer Assembly

open access: yesCell Reports, 2017
Summary: The tumor suppressor PTEN executes cellular functions predominantly through its phosphatase activity. Here we identified a phosphatase-independent role for PTEN during vesicular trafficking of the glucose transporter GLUT1.
Swapnil Rohidas Shinde   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

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