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Documenting Attachment: 'Affective border control in applications for family reunification'

open access: yesNordic Journal of Migration Research, 2019
From 2002 to 2018, Denmark was the only country in the world to enforce a migration law demanding that couples seeking family reunification in Denmark documented their combined “attachment” to the Danish nation.
Sofie Jeholm, Mons Bissenbakker
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The relationship between dominant Western discourse and personal narratives of female genital cutting: exploring storytelling among Swedish-Somali girls and women

open access: yesFrontiers in Sociology, 2023
IntroductionA dominant narrative, referred to as “the standard tale,” prevails in popular representations about female genital cutting (FGC) that often contrast with how cut women traditionally narrate their FGC experience as meaningful in contexts where
Camilla Palm   +4 more
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Initial Study of Core Decisive Modes of Game Theory on Closed Couple Relationships in Conflict Situations

open access: yesEngineering Proceedings, 2023
In life, making a decision is always required. Various situations demanding decision making are encountered in life. We apply the core decisive modes of game theory to closed couple relationships in conflict situations for the following reasons. (1) Life
Chun-Ming Shih   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Fugitive Life: The Queer Politics of the Prison State [PDF]

open access: yesFeminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics, 2021
Review of the book Fugitive Life: The Queer Politics of the Prison State, by Stephen Dillon.
Mary Jo Klinker
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What Do(n't) American Undergraduate Social Work Students Learn About Sex? A Content Analysis of Sex Positivity and Diversity in Five Popular HBSE Textbooks

open access: yesCritical Social Work, 2019
Despite an emphasis within American social work to operationalize important professional values, such as embracing human diversity and promoting social justice, it is not clear how this may or may not occur with respect to human sexuality and sexual ...
Emily Prior   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Intersectional stigma and the arc of intranational migration: experiences of transgender adolescents and women who migrate within Peru

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2023
Background Migration is recognized as a key determinant of health. Yet, limited research addresses the arc of intranational migration and, even less, the experiences of transgender (trans) adolescents and women migrants and the associated health ...
Amaya Perez-Brumer   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Comics as Pedagogy: On Studying Illness in a Pandemic

open access: yesThe Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship, 2022
During the pandemic, graphic medicine has become even more central to what and how I teach. In this essay, I discuss how I used comics as pedagogy in classes on illness and illness politics that I taught during the first year of the pandemic.
Lisa Diedrich
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Using the health belief model to predict those seeking treatment for Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder among premenopausal women

open access: yesTaiwanese Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2018
Objective: Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder (HSDD) was the most common subtype of female sexual dysfunction; however, little was known about why Chinese women with HSDD were willing to seek medical help.
Yin-Jou Chou, Chun-Ming Shih
doaj   +1 more source

Speciation Through the Lens of Population Dynamics: A Theoretical Primer on How Small and Large Populations Diverge

open access: yesPopulation Ecology, EarlyView.
Population size and dynamics fundamentally shape speciation by influencing genetic drift, founder events, and adaptive potential. Small populations may speciate rapidly due to stronger drift, whereas large populations harbor more genetic diversity, which can alter divergence trajectories. We highlight theoretical models that incorporate population size
Ryo Yamaguchi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Plasmodium falciparum gametogenesis essential protein 1 (GEP1) is a transmission‐blocking target

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
This study shows Plasmodium falciparum GEP1 is vital for activating sexual stages of malarial parasites even independently of a mosquito factor. Knockout parasites completely fail gamete formation even when a phosphodiesterase inhibitor is added. Two single‐nucleotide polymorphisms (V241L and S263P) are found in 12%–20% of field samples.
Frederik Huppertz   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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