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Humour scandals in the Finnish political public sphere in 1990–2020
The European Journal of Humour ResearchHumour is a part of contemporary mediated political struggles. At times, humour itself becomes politicised, turning into public controversies or humour scandals.
Juha Herkman, Joonas Koivukoski
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‘Laugh a defiance, Laugh in hope’: Suffrage Comedy and Humour as Political Protest
Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2022 In the context of the women’s movement at the turn of the 20th century and the campaign for the vote, the Actresses’ Franchise League produced and performed a body of plays known as « suffrage drama », many of which were comedies.
Eleanor Stewart
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"Racism's part of my culture": Nation, race and humour in Irish Jam (2006) and The Guard (2011)
Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 2017 This article applies theories of humour (incongruity, superiority, relief) to a reading of the films Irish Jam (John Eyres, 2006) and The Guard (John Michael McDonagh, 2011) in order to interrogate their depiction of racial, national and cultural ...
Loretta Goff
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Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Japan has one of the highest dialysis prevalence rates worldwide and a shrinking, aging population. Whether dialysis burden has entered a sustained post‐peak phase or whether recent declines partly reflect pandemic‐related disruptions remains uncertain.
Hatice Şahin +2 more
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Nemzetiségi szereplők neveinek összehasonlító elemzése bécsi és magyar élclapokban
Névtani Értesítő, 2011 Comparative analysis of names for characters from national minorities occurring in Viennese and Hungarian humour magazines The paper compares the personal names appearing in the Viennese humour magazine Figaro and those occurring in some ...
Ágnes Tamás
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Humour in the classroom: Teachers’ perceptions [PDF]
, 2014 The key questions of this study are whether Greek primary school teachers acknowledge the benefits and risks of involving humour in the classroom, how important they consider it, and to what extent and in which way they incorporate it into their teaching.
Chaniotakis, Nikos
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, 2020 This Commentary has two main aims. The first is to argue that systematic approaches to “humour” have been hampered and skewed by terminological Anglocentrism, i.e. by reliance on terms and categories which are English-specific, such as ‘amusing’, ‘joking’
Goddard, Cliff
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Gut microbiome and aging—A dynamic interplay of microbes, metabolites, and the immune system
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Age‐dependent shifts in microbial communities engender shifts in microbial metabolite profiles. These in turn drive shifts in barrier surface permeability of the gut and brain and induce immune activation. When paired with preexisting age‐related chronic inflammation this increases the risk of neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative diseases.
Aaron Mehl, Eran Blacher
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From the Humour of Science to (pedagogical uses for) the Science of Humour [PDF]
, 2016 Science is generally seen as a serious subject, yet scientific discoveries may sometimes have humorous aspects. Joking about science is often used as a coping strategy by the general public, as a means of dealing with feelings of inadequacy about the ...
Chateau - Smith, Carmela
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The ubiquitin system in normal and infected germinal center B cells
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.The ubiquitin system plays a central role in germinal center (GC) B cells, influencing differentiation to long‐lived memory B cells. Oncogenic gammaherpesviruses gain access to memory B cells by establishing latency in GC B cells. Mapping ubiquitin mechanisms in normal and infected GC B cells will define specific molecular circuits in B cells germane ...
Destiny Davis +2 more
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