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What is the <i>point</i> of a base system? Denotation, computation and the non-integers. [PDF]

Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci
Parkinson-Coombs O, Núñez R.
europepmc   +1 more source

Jungian categories as modes of reading: The case of Graham Greene's The Heart of the Matter and Aldous Huxley's Time Must Have a Stop

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay advocates renewed attention toward Jungian literary criticism, emphasizing its unique and creative perspectives on both fictional worlds and on reading. A fresh turn to Jungian criticism offers, in particular, valuable insight for texts on the peripheries of the canon.
Edsel Parke
wiley   +1 more source

The influence of iconicity and autistic traits on novel word learning: a cross-cultural investigation. [PDF]

R Soc Open Sci
Ramachandra V, Sugimoto K, Ziskind K, Verma A, Ahmad I, Godoy M, Watanabe K.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Verdun: The Longest Battle Of The Great War (Book Review) by Paul Jankowski [PDF]

, 2015
Nathaniel L. Moir
core   +1 more source

Emotions in Meaning‐Making: Toward a Sociological Theory of Cathexis

Sociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The role of emotion in meaning‐making remains undertheorized in cultural sociology. This article argues that emotions and affect are intrinsic to meaning‐making and proposes cathexis—the attachment of emotions generated in social interaction to objects, symbols, and ideas—as the fundamental mechanism by which emotions co‐constitute cultural ...
Dmitry Kurakin
wiley   +1 more source

Sleeping Spermatozoa: The Symbolism of Gamete Cryopreservation in the Context of Cancer in AYAs. [PDF]

Life (Basel)
Koscinski I, Mazzoleni C, Verhaeghe F, Klein JP, Ravel C.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Book review of Esra Ozyurek, Nostalgia for the Modern: State Secularism and Everyday Politics in Modern Turkey, Durham: Duke University Press, 2006 [PDF]

, 2007
Parla Alpan, Ayse, Parla Alpan, Ayşe
core  

“You Can't Always Run Away”: Gender Reflexivity and Personal Firearms Ownership among Civilian Women Gun Owners in Israel

Sociological Inquiry, EarlyView.
This article explores the interplay between the nation‐state, gender, and security by exploring embodied experiences of Israeli women gun owners. Growing skepticism toward Israel's historically state‐centric security model has driven a significant increase in women's personal handgun ownership, disrupting and reconfiguring traditional gender identities.
Maya Maor, Nehemia Stern, Uzi ben Shalom
wiley   +1 more source

Barriers and strategies affecting the use of assistive devices for falls prevention among people with Parkinson's disease: a qualitative pilot study. [PDF]

BMC Geriatr
Fernandes JB, Domingos J, Fernandes S, Ferreira N, Almeida AS, Chalaça A, Sousa N, Santos I, Duarte A, Godinho C.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Bothy busi/yness: Recirculating representation and practice in the Scottish landscape

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper uses the ‘busi/yness’ of Scottish mountain bothies to explore the agency of representation and its entanglement with practice. In doing so it asks, firstly, what are the material and discursive impacts of a rise in the symbolic value of an object (or in this case a building)?
Rachel Hunt
wiley   +1 more source