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Czy Łukasz Górnicki w Dworzaninie polskim i Baldassare Castiglione w Il Libro del Cortegiano uważali, że kobiety nie mają poczucia humoru?

open access: yesMeluzyna: dawna literatura i kultura, 2022
Did Łukasz Górnicki in “Dworzanin polski” and Baldassare Castiglione in “Il Libro del Cortegiano” think that women have no sense of humor? --- This article is an attempt to determine whether Łukasz Górnicki and Baldassarre Castiglione really thought ...
Anna Maciejewska
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Protein pyrophosphorylation by inositol pyrophosphates — detection, function, and regulation

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Protein pyrophosphorylation is an unusual signaling mechanism that was discovered two decades ago. It can be driven by inositol pyrophosphate messengers and influences various cellular processes. Herein, we summarize the research progress and challenges of this field, covering pathways found to be regulated by this posttranslational modification as ...
Sarah Lampe   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Temporo-Parietal and Fronto-Parietal Lobe Contributions to Theory of Mind and Executive Control: An fMRI Study of Verbal Jokes

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2015
‘Getting a joke’ always requires resolving an apparent incongruity but the particular cognitive operations called upon vary depending on the nature of the joke itself.
Yu-Chen eChan, Joseph P. Lavallee
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Magic and the Prestige in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man [PDF]

open access: yesЛитература двух Америк, 2018
Invisible Man is a theatrical novel. Invisible Man is an American novel, about the American experience. An experience, Ellison instructs, “in which the possibilities are many”.
James B. Haile
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Two-Year-Olds Distinguish Pretending and Joking [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
While children understand intentions to joke and pretend by 2 or 3 years, it is unclear whether they distinguish these intentional acts. Using a normativity paradigm, we found (N=72) 2-year-olds protest against jokes more than pretending, suggesting, for
Hoicka, E., Martin, C.
core   +3 more sources

Structural instability impairs function of the UDP‐xylose synthase 1 Ile181Asn variant associated with short‐stature genetic syndrome in humans

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
The Ile181Asn variant of human UDP‐xylose synthase (hUXS1), associated with a short‐stature genetic syndrome, has previously been reported as inactive. Our findings demonstrate that Ile181Asn‐hUXS1 retains catalytic activity similar to the wild‐type but exhibits reduced stability, a looser oligomeric state, and an increased tendency to precipitate ...
Tuo Li   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Joke as psychotechnical tool of narrative understanding of the interpersonal relations [PDF]

open access: yesНациональный психологический журнал, 2019
Background. The address to facilitating practice means granting to the person of a possibility of constructing individual sense and searching for such instruments of work by the consultant which allow the clients “to go and keep the relations with others”
Mariya M. Elfimova
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11. Objectively Funny Jokes: Comedy’s El Dorado or a Simple MacGuffin? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Could there ever be an objectively funny joke or bit of humor? With the popularity of certain forms of humor, with the appearance of puns as consistent stages in the development of humor in children, this seems a reasonable query.
Cundall, Michael
core   +1 more source

Organizing the interface—Plasma membrane architecture and receptor dynamics in virus‐cell interactions

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Plasma membranes contain dynamic nanoscale domains that organize lipids and receptors. Because viruses operate at similar scales, this architecture shapes early infection steps, including attachment, receptor engagement, and entry. Using influenza A virus and HIV‐1 as examples, we highlight how receptor nanoclusters, multivalent glycan interactions ...
Jan Schlegel, Christian Sieben
wiley   +1 more source

How Jokes Change and May Be Changed: Simplifying, Transforming and Revealing

open access: yesPółrocznik Językoznawczy Tertium, 2016
Many excellent jokes can pose potential difficulties for tellers and listeners since they require considerable knowledge of the subject of the joke and have a long and elaborate narrative structure such that only a very skilled joke-teller can do justice
Christie Davies
doaj   +1 more source

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