Medical humor and its role in the process of social perception of the disease (and of the patient)
Research and Humanities in Medical Education, 2021 According to evolutionary theory, humor is a psychological coping mechanism - a ploy that the human brain uses for conflict resolution. This study aims to investigate, through an autoethnographic approach based on one of the author's (HP's) personal ...
Helio Plapler, Fabiana Buitor Carelli
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Ablutionary Urbanisms: Water Infrastructures, Cultural Production and Charitable Dispensation
Frontiers in Water, 2022 With interest in advancing inclusive urban landscapes and guided by principles of social and cultural sustainability, this essay speculates as to localized water infrastructures as “ablutionary urbanisms,” important forms of contemporary design ...
Brook Muller
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On the Vernacular Language Games of an Antagonistic Online Subculture
Frontiers in Big Data, 2021 In this paper we develop an empirical, big data approach to analyze how alt-right vernacular concepts (such as kek and beta) were used on the notorious anonymous and ephemeral imageboard 4chan/pol/and the fan wiki Encyclopedia Dramatica.
Stijn Peeters +3 more
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Resilience of vernacular and modernising dwellings in three climatic zones to climate change
Scientific Reports, 2021 Climate change impacts buildings in multiple ways, including extreme weather events and thermal stresses. Rural India comprising 65% of the population is characterised by vernacular dwellings evolved over time to passively regulate and maintain ...
Khadeeja Henna, Aysha Saifudeen, M. Mani
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Circularity in the New Gravity—Re-Thinking Vernacular Architecture and Circularity
Sustainability, 2021 The mounting climate change crisis and the rapid urbanization of cities have pressured many practitioners, policymakers, and even private investors to develop new policies, processes, and methods for achieving more sustainable construction methods ...
M. Dabaieh, Dalya Maguid, D. el-Mahdy
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Pensar la traducción como un contacto cultural: El potencial conceptual de la "Transculturación"
Mutatis Mutandis, 2008 La noción de "transculturación" ha sido recurrente en el análisis cultural en América Latina, especialmente en la segunda mitad del siglo XX. El término, acuñado por el académico cubano Fernando Ortiz, ha sido retomado por críticos como Ángel Rama y ...
María Constanza Guzmán
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Visual Sociology of the Vernacular Urban Landscape: An Interview with Jerome Krase
Interfaces, 2020 Visual sociologist Jerome Krase looks at how cities change with immigration, globalization, and gentrification, with a focus on Brooklyn as well as comparative work in cities around the world.
Jerome Krase +2 more
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TRANSLATION OF VIRTUAL FICTION WORLDS IN THE ASPECT OF RECEPTIVE COMPETENCE DEVELOPMENT
Гуманитарные и юридические исследования, 2021 This article offers an analysis of the main dilemmas that the translator has to face while working with texts that explicate the virtual fiction world based on the socio-cultural specifiers of the original language culture.
S. N. Bredikhin, T. R. Kotieva
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MEMAHAMI “URBAN” VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE [PDF]
, 2011 Urban vernacular, sebagian pengamat mengartikannya sebagai fenomena yang terjadi sebagai akibat proses vernakularisasi dalam ruang dengan setting urban (perkotaan).
Subadra Abioso, Wanita
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The influence of tourism on the sustaining of vernacular architechtural tradition embodied in the Bai and Naxi dwellings in Yunnan, China. [PDF]
Yunnan is an economically underdeveloped region in south-western China, in which many ethnic settlements are preserved well. Within the last two decades, many ethnic communities at a grass-roots social level have been conducting a series of tourism ...
Li, Zhaoning
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