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The article concerns Soviet political jokes that arose as a reaction to the aggression of the USSR in 1968 in Czechoslovakia. It is emphasized that political folklore is an important source material that gives a fuller picture of the contemporary moods ...
Rostysław Kramar
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The Joke-Coop: Pragmatic Issues of Jokes and Joking
Abstract This paper investigates the question whether jokes and joking demand cooperative communication; where jokes refer to fictional narratives and joking refers to the performative situation in which these are told. The investigation first offers an evaluation of the distinct properties inherent to the narrative joke’s form and its ...
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Will: What did one math book say to the other? Katie: What? [Brief pause. He raises his eyebrows.] Will: I’ve got problems. [He waits a moment and then smiles.] Claire: [sarcastically] Ha ha ha.
Francis, Katie
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This review examines how cellular behavior is regulated by mechanical cues transmitted through soft biomaterials, from single‐cell mechanosensing to tissue‐level adaptation. It highlights why physiological relevance, rather than model complexity alone, is critical for translational mechanobiology and introduces a scoring framework linking material ...
Mathias Polz +9 more
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In the context of the current discussion about the ethical boundaries of humor, the study attempts to show that an approach based on Mukařovský’s functional theory is not only applicable to the discussion but also competitive.
Josl, Jan
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Dynamic compression enhances mesenchymal stromal cell proliferation in nonwoven PET scaffolds under chondrogenic differentiation conditions and triggers mechanosensitive transcriptional programs associated with extracellular matrix remodeling. These findings highlight the potential of mechanically stimulated PET scaffolds as a promising platform for ...
Graciosa Quelhas Teixeira +8 more
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Special issue "Heerlijkheden in de Lage Landen". Pro Memorie. Bijdragen tot de rechtsgeschiedenis der Nederlanden, 27(2). [PDF]
Dit ‘heerlijke’ themanummer bundelt acht bijdragen die tijdens de LORD-contactdag op 9 september 2024 in het Rijksarchief te Gent werden gepresenteerd.
Verfaillie, Joke, Cappelle, Kaat
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Dynamic mechanical loading of outer meniscus fibrochondrocytes increases extracellular vesicle (EV) yield and alters EV composition. When applied to progenitor cells, these mechanically primed EVs modulate the expression of matrix‐related genes.
Catherine Cheung +6 more
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The man as seen in Russian jokes
The cultural portrait of the man is reconstructed on the basis of contemporary Russian jokes in the context of gender studies. The author identifies such typical traits as love of drinking and watching sports programmes, laziness, ostentatious eroticism,
Yevstafyeva M.
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What makes a joke funny: Analysing joke humor through single-word ratings. [PDF]
The appreciation of humor is a universal phenomenon and a key aspect of cognition. It has been studied in thecontext of jokes, where the incongruity in expected and observed context results in the perception of humor.
Hills, Thomas, Engelthaler, Tomas
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