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Artifacts, agency and affordances: Some issues concerningthe concept of material agency in contemporary debate [PDF]

, 2016
La recuperación de la materialidad como tópico de análisis en el pensamiento contemporáneo ha derivado principalmente de los teóricos de la sociología, la antropología y la arqueología.
Parente, Diego Carlos
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Personalized Selumetinib Dosing in Pediatric Neurofibromatosis Type 1: Insights From a Pilot Therapeutic Drug Monitoring Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To evaluate selumetinib exposure using therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) in pediatric patients with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) and plexiform neurofibromas (PN), assess interpatient pharmacokinetic variability, and explore the relationship between drug exposure, clinical response, and adverse effects.
Janka Kovács, Zoltán Köllő, Balázs Gellért Karvaly, Mahmoud Obeidat, Rita Nagy, Péter Hegyi, Brigitta Teutsch, Eszter Tuboly, Miklós Garami   +8 more
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Proposal of a prototype plant based on the exfoliation process for the treatment of irradiated graphite

Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 2020
Most of irradiated graphite that should be disposed comes from moderators and reflectors of nuclear power plants. The quantity of irradiated graphite could be higher in the future if high-temperature reactors (HTRs) will be deployed.
Silvia Pozzetto, Mauro Capone, Nadia Cherubini, Maria Letizia Cozzella, Alessandro Dodaro, Giambattista Guidi   +5 more
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Fashioning liminal space : the meaning of things and women's experience in the practice of domestic shrine making in Aotearoa/New Zealand : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Social Anthropology at Massey University [PDF]

, 2003
This paper aims to bring together two lines of analysis that converge upon the specific spaces that are women's domestic shrines. One line examines the material culture of the spaces and objects on the shrines of ten different women and seeks to reveal ...
Savage, Deirdre Anne
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Understanding the exercise of agency within structural inequality: the case of personal debt [PDF]

, 2009
This article contributes to debates about agency (meaning the behaviour of individuals) and structure, by drawing on empirical research into personal debt.
Bauman, Beck, Berthoud, Brewer, Burgess, Cook, Deacon, Deacon, Dominy, Edwards, Etzioni, Field, Giddens, Herbert, Hoggett, Jencks, Kempson, Lister, McKay, Mead, Mead, Mead, Michael Orton, Murray, Murray, Orton, Parker, Ritchie, Rock, Summers, Turley, Williams, Williams   +32 more
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Preferences of Pediatric Patients and Their Caregivers for Chemotherapy‐Induced Nausea and Vomiting Control Endpoints: A Mixed Methods Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose Although not always achieved, complete chemotherapy‐induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) control is the conventional goal of CINV prophylaxis. In this two‐center, mixed‐methods study, we sought to understand the preferences of adolescent patients and family caregivers for CINV control endpoints.
Haley Newman, Tadi Hondonga, Alison Berry, Caitlin Elgarten, Jason Freedman, Katelyn Oranges, Sara McDonough, Caroline Diorio, L. Lee Dupuis   +8 more
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Fresh Twigs, Drying Blood, and Popped Corn: The Ephemeral Materiality of Eastern Minyag Ritual Objects

Religions
The Eastern Minyag is a small community located east of Gangkar Mountain (Chinese: gongga shan) in Southwest China. Their complex rituals, performed by ritual specialists (sutcywu), serve various purposes: diagnosing the causes of individual psycho ...
Valentina Punzi
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Transnational social capital: the socio‐spatialities of civil society [PDF]

, 2020
Civil society remains a contested concept, but one that is widely embedded in global development processes. Transnationalism within civil society scholarship is often described dichotomously, either through hierarchical dependency relations or as a more ...
Abrahamsen R., Barbados Advocate, Beckles H., Bourdieu P., Brizan G., Comaroff J., Della Porta D., Edwards M., Edwards M., Featherstone D., Ferguson J., Gilroy P., Hall S., Hashemi S., Herod A., Hinds-Harrison K., Keck M., King R., Lewis V., Mamdani M., Massey D., Massey D., Massey D., Massey D., Mawdsley E., Moloney M., Mosse D., Murray Li T., Nurse K., Obadare E., Payne A., Piper N., Pugh J., Pugh J., Putnam R., Steele B., Tvedt T., Urry J., Van Rooy A.   +38 more
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Prevalence and Trajectory of Household Material Hardship Among Children With Advanced Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Families of children with advanced cancer living in poverty experience inferior outcomes including poor parent mental health and worse child quality of life. Household material hardship (HMH: food, housing, transportation, and/or utility insecurity) is a modifiable poverty exposure—and potential intervention target—that ...
Sarah Wright, Morgan A. Paul, Selena Murcia Mendez, Emily Jones, Lucille Lokko, Chelsea Heneghan, Nicholas Purol, Morgan Arnold, Rahela Aziz‐Bose, Colleen A. Kelly, Sandi L. Pruitt, Joanne Wolfe, Kira Bona, Puja J. Umaretiya   +13 more
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Heterogeneous Networks Underfoot: the Agency of Colorful Socks

Вісник Харківського національного університету імені В.Н. Каразіна. Серія: Соціологічні дослідження сучасного суспільства: методологія, теорія, методи
This article examines the role of objects as active agents in the production of social relations and group formation, using the case of colored socks in the Ukrainian context.
Vladyslav Tyaglo
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