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Queer configurations: The female divine, regional identity, and Queer‐religious belonging in South India

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how queerness and religion intersect in a unique enactment of Bathukamma, a flower festival honoring the female divine in Hyderabad, the capital of the South Indian state of Telangana. Drawing on theories of figuration, I analyze how local queer organizations celebrate the festival in a way that engages two distinctive ...
Stefan Binder
wiley   +1 more source

Wearable fabric electronics for sensing, memory and neuromorphic computing applications

FlexMat, EarlyView.
Overview of textile electronic devices for sensing, memory and neuromorphic computing applications. Abstract With the advent of the big data era, traditional Von Neumann architecture is facing an energy consumption bottleneck due to separated memory and computing units, inspiring the research of brain‐like neuromorphic computing devices for artificial ...
Bo Sun, Lin Lu, Jialin Meng, Tianyu Wang
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Neuroanatomical and functional correlates in borderline personality disorder: A narrative review

Ibrain, Volume 11, Issue 1, Page 19-31, Spring 2025.
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is considered a dysfunctional, stable, and pervasive alteration in personality functioning with the inability to adapt to the environment, mental rigidity, and ego‐syntonic, and like all personality disorders is a consistent pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates markedly from the expectations of ...
Giulio Perrotta
wiley   +1 more source

Induced abortion in the world: 3. In search of a minimum common ground

International Journal of Gynecology &Obstetrics, EarlyView.
Abstract The rising worldwide trend toward legalization of termination of pregnancy has been accompanied by increased polarization around abortion. Two opposite broad coalitions emerged from this confrontation, generally known as the “pro‐life” and “pro‐choice” movements. The basic issue for pro‐life advocates is that the protection of “innocent, human
Giuseppe Benagiano, Kristina Gemzell‐Danielsson, Marwan Habiba, Salvatore Mancuso, Shantha Shantha‐Kumari   +4 more
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Muddy, muddled, or muffled? Understanding the perception of audio quality in music by hearing aid users

Frontiers in Psychology
IntroductionPrevious work on audio quality evaluation has demonstrated a developing convergence of the key perceptual attributes underlying judgments of quality, such as timbral, spatial and technical attributes.
Scott Bannister, Alinka E. Greasley, Trevor J. Cox, Michael A. Akeroyd, Jon Barker, Bruno Fazenda, Jennifer Firth, Simone N. Graetzer, Gerardo Roa Dabike, Rebecca R. Vos, William M. Whitmer   +10 more
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A Recurrent Encoder-Decoder Approach with Skip-filtering Connections for Monaural Singing Voice Separation

, 2018
The objective of deep learning methods based on encoder-decoder architectures for music source separation is to approximate either ideal time-frequency masks or spectral representations of the target music source(s). The spectral representations are then
Drossos, Konstantinos, Mimilakis, Stylianos Ioannis, Schuller, Gerald, Virtanen, Tuomas   +3 more
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Relational Healing: Survivors of Sex Trafficking and Their Experiences of Connection, Disconnection, and Growth

Journal of Counseling &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this interpretive phenomenological analysis, we interviewed 10 women to make meaning of their lived experiences of sex trafficking and mental health challenges and how relational dynamics influenced their healing and sense of self. Our analysis revealed four themes: (a) central relational paradox, which described internalized shame and ...
Claudia G. Interiano‐Shiverdecker, Devon E. Romero, David J. Thompson, John J. J. S. Harrichand   +3 more
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Unidirectional mechanical amplification as a design principle for an active microphone

, 2011
Amplification underlies the operation of many biological and engineering systems. Simple electrical, optical, and mechanical amplifiers are reciprocal: the backward coupling of the output to the input equals the forward coupling of the input to the ...
Hudspeth, A. J., Reichenbach, Tobias
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Healing Beams: Radiation and Radiotherapy in Novels, Poems, Music, Film, Painting

Journal of Medical Radiation Sciences, EarlyView.
Radiation and radiotherapy are perceived by patients and the general public as mysterious, dangerous and healing. The image of radiation and radiotherapy can be analysed by studying novels, poems, music, film and painting. Our paper reviews how radiation and radiotherapy are perceived by patients, the general public, as reflected in various art genres.
Ad A. Kaptein, Jan W. Schoones, Yvette M. van der Linden, Brian M. Hughes   +3 more
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The Second Hit Hypothesis in Animal and Human Dystonia: The Role of Peripheral Nerve Trauma and Spinal Cord Injury

Movement Disorders, EarlyView.
The “second‐hit” hypothesis proposes that both a genetic predisposition and an environmental insult—such as peripheral nerve trauma or spinal cord injury—are required for dystonia development. This review explores how neuroinflammation and maladaptive plasticity, triggered by nerve and spinal cord injury, contribute to dystonia pathogenesis.
Lisa Harder‐Rauschenberger, Chi Wang Ip   +1 more
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