Readapting Pandemic Premediation and Propaganda: Soderbergh’s <i>Contagion</i> amid COVID-19 by Kevin C. Moore

“…Steven Soderbergh’s pandemic thriller <i>Contagion</i> (2011) was trending strongly on streaming services in the US in the early days of COVID-19 restrictions, where the fiction took on an unforeseen afterlife amid a real pandemic. In this new context, many viewers and critics reported that the film seemed “uncanny,” if not prophetic. …”
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How does the general public view posthumous organ donation? A meta-synthesis of the qualitative literature by Newton Joshua D

“…The two most commonly identified barriers were the need to maintain bodily integrity to safeguard progression into the afterlife and the unethical recovery of organs by medical professionals. …”
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Synthesis, Characterization and Evaluation of the Application of CoZn Nanostructures as Anode Materials by Ainur M. Zikirina, Assem Temirtassova, Artem L. Kozlovskiy, Inesh E. Kenzhina, Meiram Begentayev

“…The study of the morphological properties of the synthesized CoZn nanostructures afterlife tests showed differences in the degradation processes of nanowires triggered by the phase composition alteration.…”
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Implementation of the aesthetic ideal in the ” Diary of a writer “ by F. M. Dostoevsky by Sycheva Elena O., Serebryakov Anatoly А.

“…The question of the ideal person is considered in the context of underground (afterlife) life in the story “Bobok” and above-ground space in “the dream of a funny man”. …”
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Charon or Charos? Language Groups and Cultural Levels in the Byzantine Society of the 9th – 12th Centuries by Evgeny V. Stelnik

“…In Byzantine culture, due to a series of reasons, there was no single and universal image of Charon/Charos, and hence the image of Hades, and with it all the ideas about afterlife and its inhabitants. Various social groups had their own ideas on these fundamental issues for a medieval man. …”
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Material-semiotic Transformations of the Berlin Wall in Post-Communist Bulgaria by Neda Genova

“…I show that despite the official dismantlement of the Wall commenced some thirty years ago, the structure’s afterlife continues to exert a unique influence on Bulgaria’s public life today. …”
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La representación del ritual funerario mapuche en Reducciones de Jaime Huenún by Andrea Echeverría

“…It analyzes several poems in which the lyrical subject, assuming the role of speaker of amulpüllün, performs a ritual invocation to the spirits of dead Mapuche to ensure their transition to the afterlife. This study also examines four collages created from photographs and documents archived at the Museo de La Plata in Argentina, as they constitute an alternative channel of enunciation of funeral rituals. …”
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طقسة بتر ساق العجل في مصر القديمة by Dr.Emad Ahmed Ibrahim El Sayyad

“…More specifically, it appears that by being presented with the calf’s foreleg, the deceased is then able to be reborn in the afterlife. We knew that offering scenes and lists, doesn't contain any proofs to use a foreleg in their food, so that we can consider its existence in the passages of some private tombs, an important indication of its funerary role. …”
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El arte del buen morir en los testamentos medievales de la catedral de Sigüenza (siglos XIII-XV) = The Art of Good Dying in the Medieval Wills of the Cathedral of Sigüenza (Thirtee... by Aída Portilla González

“…These wills establish models of rites and attitudes that people adopted in order to go from earthly life to the afterlife and to reach the much-coveted eternal salvation.…”
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Researching creative practice: terminology, policy, models by Ciara Chambers

“…(the conference proceedings of a series of papers delivered by practice-based researchers in the National College of Art and Design in Dublin in 2015) Desmond Bell and Rod Stoneman observe: while practice-based research towards a doctorate in the creative arts has been established now for over twenty years, a series of recurring and unresolved debates around this mode of scholarship continue to resonate with our arts schools, departments of music, drama and the performing arts and media and communications studies. (15) They go on to identify several problematic issues including the relationship between theory and practice; the balance of written and practical elements for doctoral students; the onus on the student to produce industry-standard outputs alongside rigorous scholarly theses; the nature of the viva; and the afterlife for the practical outputs. Crucially, they focus on the “distinctive character of reflective and professionally based knowledge within the academy” (15). …”
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Discovering the Factors Affecting of death anxiety in women with panic disorder and strategies to deal with it by Fatemeh Malekshahi Beiranvand, Roshsnak Khodabaksh Pirkalani, Farideh Ameri, Zohreh Khosravi

“…Conclusions: In addition to self- related factors, factors related to others, the unknown nature of death and the afterlife were involved in causing death anxiety in women with panic disorder. …”
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Cultural Transformation in Religious Activities Based on Ahlussunnah Wal Jama'ah Values in Islamic Boarding Schools by Ike Nur Jannah, Rodliyah Rodliyah, Lailatul Usriyah

“…The research findings conclude that two values become the vision and mission of the Al-Ikhlas Wuluhan Islamic boarding school; first, the value of human beings, namely the teaching that students must balance between religion and the world; in other words, Islam does not only pay attention to the afterlife issues but also pays attention to worldly problems, the second is the value of brotherhood or ukhuwah basyariyah, namely brotherhood that applies to all human beings universally without distinguishing race, religion, ethnicity and other aspects of specificity with the details of the rights of fellow human beings in property by taking into account the needs of their siblings with excess wealth, the rights of fellow human beings in guarding speech. …”
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Tariff setting for the sustainability of communal water points in Mangochi District, Malawi by Kondwani Andreah, Mtafu Manda, Mavuto Tembo

“…The results showed that 90% of the HHs were making contributions that could not sustainably support the lifecycle O&M costs or the afterlife replacement of the Afridev hand pump. This study suggests a consistent minimum annual water point fund collection of MWK142,050 (US$172.29)1. …”
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Petrarch's French fortunes: negotiating the relationship between poet, place, and identity in the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries by Jennifer Rushworth

“…This article reconsiders Petrarch’s French afterlife by juxtaposing a time of long-recognised Petrarchism — the sixteenth century — with a less familiar and more modern Petrarchist age, the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. …”
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Vegetal grave goods in a female burial on Bornholm (Denmark) from the Late Roman Iron Age period interpreted in a comparative European perspective by Sabine Karg, Ulla Lund Hansen, Anne Margrethe Walldén, Jens Glastrup, Finn Ole Sonne Nielsen

“…Southern Scandinavia has a long tradition of supplying deceased persons with vegetal material for use in their afterlife, as shown by single seeds or processed plants in the form of foods, drinks or medicines. …”
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“Lowliness majestic” : androcentric patriarchy, queerness, and the equivocal meekness of eve in John Milton’s paradise lost by Ng, Ian Alexander

“…Finally, he creates an anti-patriarchal, anti-gender essentialist vision of angelic queerness in his utopian depiction of the afterlife.…”
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Nuptial journeys: A cultural history of wedding travel in selected Habsburg unions ca 1450–1550 by Pastrnak, P

“…Chapter Seven deals with the afterlife of the transfer in panegyric literary compositions and, by pinpointing the recurrent motifs of triumphalism and travel danger, it asserts that the voyages were an ideal instrument for dynastic memorialisation and propaganda. …”

Two seconds, one frame by Toukan, O

“…The practice component, meanwhile, is a series of film works that aim to treat the afterlife of cruel images.</p>…”

‘The Standard-bearer of the Roman Church’: Lorenzo da Brindisi (1559-1619) and Capuchin Missions in the Holy Roman Empire by Drenas, A, Andrew Drenas

“…Chapter one provides a brief biographical sketch of Lorenzo’s life followed by details of his afterlife. Chapter two examines his leading role in establishing the Capuchins’ new Commissariate of Bohemia-Austria-Styria in 1600, and specifically its first three friaries in Prague, Vienna, and Graz. …”

Spaces of uneventful disaster tracking emergency housing and domestic chemical exposures from New Orleans to national crises by Shapiro, N

“…<p>In this thesis, I examine the politics, poetics, and logics of uneventful human harm in the United States by tracking the life and afterlife of a chemically contaminated emergency housing unit. …”