Violence and New Media Ethics by Arafat Noman

“… Who could have imagined the speed and depth of new media until Hosni Mubarak of Egypt was overthrown by an upsurge resulted from an acute civil resistance or until the self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi? No doubt, the Arab Spring was germinated in a virtual world and further escalated into the “real.” …”
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KEJATUHAN PEMERINTAHAN BEN ALI MELALUI PERGOLAKAN POLITIK RAKYAT TUNISIA by , Widya Rani Hapsari, , Dr. Siti Muti�ah Setiawati, M.A.

“…Political upheaval in Tunisia was triggered by self-immolation of a young, educated and unemployed man named Mohamed Bouazizi because he was inhumanly treated by the local authorities. …”

In these (end) times: Sh. Idiatullin's Volgaic fantasy fiction by Maria S. Savelyeva, Alexander V. Savelyev

“…One of the key themes of “Poslednee vremja” is language loss, and some scenes, such as the self-immolation of the pagan priest Arβuj-Kuγə̑za, make a clear reference to the contemporary history of the region. …”
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Suicide Pattern in Malaysia 2001 - 2005 by Ling, Chin Meei

“…Chinese were noted for the highest frequency of CO poisoning (17 cases), drowning (16 cases), hanging (174 cases), jumped from a height (75 cases), self- immolation (four cases) and 'other' methods (ten cases). …”
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Gender Analysis Republishing Violence on Celebrities' Instagram Pages by Talat Sadat Kamali, Afsaneh Tavassoli

“…With the general public perception of this group and the impact of their actions on directing collective thought and behavior, their performance in the face of all forms of violence against women is worth considering. using qualitative research method and content analysis approach, the posts published in the accounts of these people with the focus on violence against women were examined. 145 pages of active celebrities on Instagram were monitored and recurring topics of acid spraying, self-immolation and acts of violence against women were selected. 74 image posts form of photos, videos and graphic designs were analyzed according to the gender element in the content and the owners of the content analysis page. …”
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Etiology and outcome of burns in Hamadan, Iran: A registry-based study by Salman Khazaei, Fatemeh Shirani, Maryam Afshari, Ensiyeh Jenabi, Zahra Hamzei, Mohammad Torabi, Tayebeh Bathaei

“…Furthermore, this study shows that self-immolation with a high rate of case fatality should be considered as a mental health challenge, and it is necessary to design preventive strategies to reduce it.…”
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Suicide rates in rural Tamil Nadu, South India: verbal autopsy of 39 000 deaths in 1997-98. by Gajalakshmi, V, Peto, R, Peto, R

“…About 50% of suicides were by self-poisoning, one-third by hanging and one-eighth by self-immolation.…”

Targeted intracellular delivery of dimeric STINGa by two pHLIP peptides for treatment of solid tumors by Anna Moshnikova, Michael DuPont, Marissa Iraca, Craig Klumpp, Hannah Visca, Dana Allababidi, Phoebe Pelzer, Donald M. Engelman, Oleg A. Andreev, Yana K. Reshetnyak

“…The kinetics of linker self-immolation and dMSA release, the pharmacokinetics, the binding to plasma proteins, the stability of the agent in plasma, the targeting and resulting cytokine activation in tumors, and the biodistribution of the construct was investigated. …”
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Indian Diplomatic Mission to Emperor Octavian Augustus: Indo-European Contact by Roman Pyrih

“…The interesting details of the Indian embassy include the attention to the self-immolation of one of its members – Zarmanoheg. The author contemplates the possible motives for his actions, the history of ritual suicides, the connection with the cult of Hermes and the Eleusinian Mysteries, refers to historical records of similar actions of Indian ascetics and rulers. …”
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Stake and stage: judicial burning and Elizabethan theatre, 1587-1592 by Yardy, D

“…In Part II, I argue that Marlovian fire spectacles evoke tableaux from the <em>Acts and Monuments</em> to encourage partisan spectatorship, informed by the rhetoric of martyrdom. Dido's self-immolation courts this rhetoric by dismissing the sword from her death, while Tamburlaine’s book burning is condemned through its emphatically papist undertones. …”

Rate and Causes of Suicide in Ilam: A Report of the Suicide Registry by Kourosh Sayehmiri, Ali-Ashraf Mozafari, Reza Valizadeh, Norollah Yadeghari, Marzieh Rostamkhani, Ali Khorshidi, Ali-Ashraf Aivazi, Maryam Deldar

“…Rate of completed suicides was higher in men (6.5%) compared to women (4.5%), (p = 0.005), age groups over 65 years (P < 0.001), retirees and farmers (P = 0.009), illiterate people (P < 0.001), villagers (P = 0.02), people motivated due to physical problems (P = 0.016), suicide by physical methods (P < 0.001) and self-immolation (P < 0.001). Logistic regression showed that incidence of completed suicide was significantly higher in the age group over 65 years, illiterate people, people using physical methods, villagers, and men. …”
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Suicide related to the COVID-19 pandemic in India: A systematic review by Firoj Al-Mamun, Mark Mohan Kaggwa, Ismail Hosen, Md. Tajuddin Sikder, Mark D. Griffiths, Mohammed A. Mamun

“…In addition, jumping from high buildings, poisoning, drowning, burning, cutting or slitting throat or wrists, self-immolation, medication overdose, electrocution, pesticide, and gun-shot were also used to carry out the suicide. …”
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The frequency, type and outcomes of trauma during pregnancy in patients referring to the trauma referral center in Guilan from July 2017 to July 2019 by Leila Kouchakinejad Eramsadati, Enayatollah Homaie Rad, Nasrieh Khalatbari Soltani, Masoumeh Foroutan, Naema Khodadadi Hassankiadeh

“…The most common mechanism of trauma was falling (35.5%) and then traffic accidents (31.9%), other mechanisms (sharp objects penetrating in the limbs, falling of the object on the person, dog bite, etc.) (21%), violence (10.9%) and self-immolation (0.7%). In terms of frequency, the most reported fetal outcomes were without outcome (87%), preterm birth (7.8%) and abortion (5.2%), respectively; the most common maternal outcomes were reported as uncomplicated (67.5%), bleeding (11.7%), bone fractures (11.7%), uterine contractions and cervical dilatation (9.1%). …”
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Cognitive behavioral therapy for the treatment of PTSD by Ioannis Syros

“…TF-CBT is designed for children with PTSD with or without comorbid depression, anxiety, and other emotional problems associated with trauma (shame, self-immolation). It is delivered separately to children and their parents in 12–20 sessions and is suitable for youth aged 3 to 18 years. …”
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Nongenetic engineering of subcellular targeted therapeutic agents to facilitate precise cell activity manipulation by Do, Cong Thang

“…Upon specific uptake and cleavage of the furin peptide moiety, the free azide sugar is released after self-immolation of the linker. The unnatural sugar subsequently undergoes a metabolic process to express clickable azide functional group on the cancer cell surface. …”
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Octreotide Conjugates for Tumor Targeting and Imaging by Eduard Figueras, Ana Martins, Adina Borbély, Vadim Le Joncour, Paola Cordella, Raffaella Perego, Daniela Modena, Paolo Pagani, Simone Esposito, Giulio Auciello, Marcel Frese, Paola Gallinari, Pirjo Laakkonen, Christian Steinkühler, Norbert Sewald

“…In this study, we conjugated octreotide to cryptophycin, which is a highly cytotoxic depsipeptide, through the protease cleavable Val-Cit dipeptide linker using two different self-immolative moieties. The biological activity was investigated in vitro and the self-immolative part largely influenced the stability of the conjugates. …”
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Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of RGD–Cryptophycin Conjugates for Targeted Drug Delivery by Adina Borbély, Eduard Figueras, Ana Martins, Simone Esposito, Giulio Auciello, Edith Monteagudo, Annalise Di Marco, Vincenzo Summa, Paola Cordella, Raffaella Perego, Isabell Kemker, Marcel Frese, Paola Gallinari, Christian Steinkühler, Norbert Sewald

“…In this study, cryptophycin was conjugated to the cyclopeptide <i>c</i>(RGDfK), targeting integrin &#945;_v&#946;₃, across the protease-cleavable Val-Cit linker and two different self-immolative spacers. Plasma metabolic stability studies in vitro showed that our selected payload displays an improved stability compared to the parent compound, while the stability of the conjugates is strongly influenced by the self-immolative moiety. …”
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Hybridised Performance: Disruption and Deferment in Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde by Susan Broadhurst

“…There are nuances within music and libretto which invoke all of these in the work’s treatment of 'Liebestod', self-immolating romantic passion. This production was conducted by Edward Gardner, directed by Daniel Kramer, and designed by Anish Kapoor with digital assistance from Frieder Weiss.…”
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The way of Herodotus : travels with the man who invented history / by Marozzi, Justin, 1970-

Evaluation of a reducible disulfide linker for siderophore-mediated delivery of antibiotics by Neumann, Wilma, Nolan, Elizabeth Marie

“…We synthesized and evaluated Ent–SS–Cipro, a siderophore–antibiotic conjugate comprised of the triscatecholate siderophore enterobactin and the fluoroquinolone antibiotic ciprofloxacin that contains a self-immolative disulfide linker. This linker is designed to be cleaved after uptake into the reducing environment of the bacterial cytoplasm. …”
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