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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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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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Hail to thee, blithe spirit! A critical study of bird agency among bird owners in China

Frontiers in Communication
IntroductionIn 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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HOW NON-HUMAN THINGS MAKE US (LESS)HUMAN: POSTHUMANISM IN YOKO OGAWA’S THE MEMORY POLICE (1994) [PDF]

Transcultural Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
If 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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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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Structure‐forward targeting of claudins with synthetic binders

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Claudins form the paracellular barriers between epithelial and endothelial tissues at tight junctions and are targets for molecular binders with the goal of modulating barrier permeability. Claudin‐binding molecules are relevant in drug delivery or in altering claudin interactions with disease‐causing proteins.
Alex J. Vecchio
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Emerging experimental and computational methods for studying redox‐regulated structural transitions

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Redox reactions can reshape proteins and alter how they behave in cells, with important consequences for health and disease. This review explores emerging experimental and computational approaches for discovering these redox‐sensitive protein switches, revealing their structural effects, and predicting their behavior, opening new opportunities to ...
Tasneem Rass, Dana Reichmann, Gábor Erdős   +2 more
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Bio art bez natury. O sztuce Marka Wodzisławskiego

Miejsce
Critiques 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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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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Going viral − Virus‐targeting nanobodies for research, diagnostics and therapy

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
The increasing prevalence of viral diseases represents a major threat for global human health. Nanobodies, small binding fragments derived from camelid heavy‐chain antibodies, offer versatile tools for viral research, diagnostics, and antiviral therapy.
Domenic Ebert, Ulrich Rothbauer
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