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Exploring the Immortological Imagination: Advocating for a Sociology of Immortality

Social Sciences
The digital age has rekindled popular and academic interest in immortality. While the idea of immortality has long been recognized as fundamental to human societies, unlike death, within the field of sociology, immortality has not yet established itself ...
Katarzyna Nowaczyk-Basińska, Paula Kiel
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Dementia Incidence in Individuals With Parkinson's Disease in the Framingham Heart Study

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Limited information exists on incident dementia in individuals with Parkinson's disease (PD) in US community‐based samples. We examined cognitive statuses and PD diagnoses of 183 individuals in the Framingham Heart Study (FHS) to establish incident dementia, mortality rates, associations with sex, age at PD onset, and education level.
Joshi Dookhy, Michael Cummings, Eden Price, Yulin Liu, Santiago Gutierrez‐Gomez, Sarah O'Shea, Samuel Frank, Rhoda Au, Ashita S. Gurnani, Ting Fang Alvin Ang, Jesse Mez, Ludy C. Shih   +11 more
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Characteristics and outcomes of male participants in the Australian Scleroderma Cohort Study (ASCS).

Arthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.
Objective To determine the differences in demographic, serologic and clinical characteristics between male and female patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) in an Australian cohort. Methods Retrospective observational study using data from the Australian Scleroderma Cohort Study (ASCS). Males (M) were compared to females (F) using chi‐squared, Wilcoxon
Emily Lin, Dylan Hansen, Laura Ross, Gene‐Siew Ngian, Susanna Proudman, Gabor Major, Maryam Tabesh, Mandana Nikpour, Jennifer Walker, Lauren Host, Nava Ferdowsi, Alannah Quinlivan, Wendy Stevens, Joanne Sahhar, Diane Apostolopoulos   +14 more
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Universal Mortality Law, Life Expectancy and Immortality

, 2004
Well protected human and laboratory animal populations with abundant resources are evolutionary unprecedented, and their survival far beyond reproductive age may be a byproduct rather than tool of evolution.
Arantes-Oliveira, Azbel', Azbel', Azbel', Carey, Carnes, Charlesworth, Coale, Curtsinger, Deevey, Euler, Finch, Gompertz, Halley, Jazwinsi, Kirkwood, Mair, Mark Ya. Azbel', Olshansky, Pearl, Shama, Stauffer, Strehler, Vaupel, Yu   +24 more
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From Lab to Landscape: Environmental Biohybrid Robotics for Ecological Futures

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This Perspective explores environmental biohybrid robotics, integrating living tissues, microorganisms, and insects for operation in real‐world ecosystems. It traces the leap from laboratory experiments to forests, wetlands, and urban environments and discusses key challenges, development pathways, and opportunities for ecological monitoring and ...
Miriam Filippi
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Lucretius on Imagination and Mental Projection

Aitia, 2020
Lucretius sometimes speaks of the mind ‘projecting’ itself, echoing the Epicurean Greek technical term epibolē. The way in which he and other first-century BCE Epicureans use this concept, however, elevates it beyond anything we can find in Epicurus, and
David Sedley
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Survival Outcomes of Gemcitabine–Cisplatin–S‐1 Versus Gemcitabine–Cisplatin in Unresectable Biliary Tract Cancer: A Multicenter Retrospective Study With a Focus on Conversion Surgery

Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
In this multicenter retrospective study conducted by the Biliary Tract Club, we compared survival outcomes between gemcitabine–cisplatin–S‐1 (GCS) and gemcitabine–cisplatin (GC) in patients with unresectable biliary tract cancer, with a particular focus on conversion surgery. GCS was associated with longer overall and progression‐free survival compared
Hisashi Kosaka, Masahiko Kinoshita, Satoshi Yasuda, Satoru Kakizaki, Rie Sugimoto, Jun Sakata, Kiyonori Yamai, Takeshi Hatanaka, Yusuke Yamamoto, Toshifumi Sato, Toru Ishikawa, Takanori Morikawa, Jun Hanaoka, Haruki Mori, Hidenori Toyoda, Tsuyoshi Sanuki, Misaki Yokoi, Hiroyuki Shibata, Koji Fukuda, Kazuhito Kawata, Koji Amaya, Takashi Ito, Masaaki Hidaka, Atsushi Naganuma, Keishi Sugimachi, Satoshi Toshiyama, Makoto Yamasaki, Masaki Kaibori   +27 more
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Gods of Transhumanism [PDF]

, 2019
Purpose of the article is to identify the religious factor in the teaching of transhumanism, to determine its role in the ideology of this flow of thought and to identify the possible limits of technology interference in human nature.
Halapsis, Alex V.
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The Concept of Death in John Donne and Sohrab Sepehri: A Comparative Study [PDF]

, 2017
Death has always permeated human’s thoughts at all levels. This preoccupation with death is manifested in the realm of literature. John Donne is one of the artists whose obsession with death is universally recognized.
Behnam Mirzababazadeh Fomeshi
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Живое универсальное разумное существо, остоящее из сознания и тела-трансформера [PDF]

Философия и космология, 2012
The problem of the survival and development of Homo sapiens put the need for a radical extension of human life on the agenda in the XXI century. Among the many possible scenarios, there is extreme radical scenario of human transformation and the creation
Кричевский С. В.
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