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The Influence of Life Events on Young Consumers’ Compulsive Shopping Tendencies [PDF]
Journal of Emerging Trends in Marketing and Management, 2023 This research aims to uncover which life events (if any) might increase young consumers’ tendencies toward compulsive shopping. Existing literature suggests that stressful events can trigger addictive behaviors, including compulsive buying, with ...
Natasha Nagel, Monica M. Popa Sârghie
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Hail to thee, blithe spirit! A critical study of bird agency among bird owners in China
Frontiers in CommunicationIntroductionIn contemporary China, human-animal interactions remain predominantly influenced by anthropocentric ideologies. This phenomenon is especially pronounced concerning non-mammalian species beyond common pets like cats and dogs.
Ziyi Wong
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D. H. Lawrence and the Avoidance of Darwinian Tragedy
Études Lawrenciennes, 2021 Darwin’s theories helped both to destroy D. H. Lawrence’s early Christianity, and to shape the latter’s beliefs in the primacy of the organic, of non-rational forces, and of the animality of man – even though Lawrence soon saw materialism as begging more
Catherine Brown
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HOW NON-HUMAN THINGS MAKE US (LESS)HUMAN: POSTHUMANISM IN YOKO OGAWA’S THE MEMORY POLICE (1994) [PDF]
Transcultural Journal of Humanities and Social SciencesIf you cannot identify objects around you, their significance, your bonds with them, your history together, are you still who you are? Yoko Ogawa conceptualizes an answer to this question in The Memory Police (1994), experimenting with a dystopian world ...
Ola Elgohary
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Global Efforts to Reduce Paediatric Cancer Care Disparities in Radiotherapy: A Decade Change
Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background We present an update on the status, needs and challenges faced by paediatric imaging and radiotherapy (RT) programmes globally after a previous survey conducted by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) 10 years prior. Methods We developed and distributed a 121‐question survey to radiation oncologists, medical physicists and ...
Raymond B. Mailhot Vega +10 more
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How do data come to matter? Living and becoming with personal data
Big Data & Society, 2018 Humans have become increasingly datafied with the use of digital technologies that generate information with and about their bodies and everyday lives.
Deborah Lupton
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Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Chronic micro‐inflammation in patients with end‐stage renal disease (ESRD) is a significant driver of cardiovascular complications and diminished quality of life. While standard hemodialysis (SHD) effectively manages small‐molecule clearance, its ability to remove medium‐to‐large uremic toxins—the primary catalysts of systemic ...
Hongwei Zuo +5 more
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Bio art bez natury. O sztuce Marka Wodzisławskiego
MiejsceCritiques of the Anthropocene and the interest in posthumanism and new materialism are imbuing bio art practices with new meanings. A primary example of this shift is the increasingly acclaimed yet still relatively obscure practice of Marek Wodzisławski (
Łukasz Mojsak
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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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La composante darwinienne et la philosophie de Bergson dans la poésie de Thomas Hardy
Miranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone, 2010 This article addresses the affinities between Henri Bergson's philosophy and Thomas Hardy's poetry. Both draw upon Charles Darwin's theories of natural science : Hardy was greatly influenced by them, whereas Bergson transmuted Darwinism as his élan vital
Ilaria Mallozi
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