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Perception of dead conspecifics increases reproductive investment in fruit flies
Functional Ecology, Volume 36, Issue 8, Page 1834-1844, August 2022., 2022 Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Adaptive plasticity in life‐history traits is often critical to maximize fitness in the face of environmental heterogeneity. For example, many organisms respond to a threat to their survival (and hence residual reproductive value) by adaptively increasing their ...
Quentin Corbel, Pau Carazo
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Behavioral responses to injury and death in wild Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus) [PDF]
, 2016 The wounding or death of a conspecific has been shown to elicit varied behavioral responses throughout thanatology. Recently, a number of reports have presented contentious evidence of epimeletic behavior towards the dying and dead among non-human ...
B Majolo +38 more
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Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 545-557, June 2022., 2022 Abstract Background In coming decades, the number of people affected by illnesses who need palliative care will rise worldwide. Registered Nurses are in a central position in providing this care, and education is one of the necessary components for meeting coming requirements. However, there is a lack of knowledge about palliative care in undergraduate
Carina Lundh Hagelin +5 more
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The Hopping Dead. Zombies in the Chinese Culture. Translation into English
Corpus Mundi, 2023 The article examines the image of zombies in Chinese culture, the traditional perception of their appearance and internal characteristics. A wide scope of written sources served as the basis of the study: inscriptions on oracle bones, ancient fortune ...
Asia A. Sarakaeva, Elina A. Sarakaeva
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'Without burial and without tears': from the negation of death to the ‘‘abnegation’’ of life
DNA Di Nulla Academia, 2021 Death and disease, isolation and loneliness of the dying, metaphor of war, abandonment, lack of the urn and mourning without bodies: the global epidemic forced us to a violent encounter with the end of life, which in our society continues to constitute a
Jessica Castagliuolo
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The Crossroads of Plastination and Pilgrimage
Religions, 2018 At the Singapore Science Centre in 2010, I went to Body Worlds, an exhibit set up by the Institute for Plastination, founded by Gunther von Hagens. As I later learned, he pioneered plastination—the art, science, and technique of preserving entire bodies ...
Chadwick Co SY SU
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Luxus: A Thanatology of Luxury from Nero to Bataille [PDF]
, 2016 In this article, I seek to explore the psychopolitical significance of the contemporary idea of luxury through reference to the Roman concept of luxus, which means excess, extravagance, indulgence, and debauchery.
Featherstone, MA
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Psychodrama and moviemaking in a death education course to work through a case of suicide among high school students in Italy [PDF]
, 2018 This study describes the psychological effects of an experience of death education (DE) used to explore a case of suicide in an Italian high school. DE activities included philosophical and religious perspectives of the relationships between death and ...
Galgani, Michele +5 more
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Duty not to delete: towards the question of the rights of the digital person after death [PDF]
Омский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность"The article examines the concept and scope of a discipline called ‘digital thanatology’, which explores how death and dying continue in digital space, transcending physical life through data preservation, virtual memorials, chatbots, digital trace and
I. N. Kazarina
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Se préparer à mourir au Moyen Âge: présentation de quelques Arts de bien mourir en français [PDF]
Diversitate si Identitate Culturala in Europa, 2021 The global health crisis that marks the start of the 21st century has sparked renewed interest in the research community for the great plague episodes that have marked history.
Juliette PANIS, Annick ENGLEBERT
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