Posthumanist panic cinema? The films of Andrew Niccol by Baldwin, Jon

“…Variants of the humanist solution to these issues include an authentic real, a space beyond mediation, an outside of media ecology (The Truman Show), a human spirit that is not reducible to materiality (Gattaca), an authentic identity, and actual rather than virtual reality (S1m0ne), an innate sense of justice and outside to the flow of neoliberal finance (In Time), and face-to-face rather than screen-to-screen relationality, and a real war in comparison to a virtual war (Good Kill).…”
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Biological and environmental determinants of 12-minute run performance in youth by Freitas, Duarte L., Maia, José A., Stasinopoulos, Dimitrios, Gouveia, Élvio Rúbio, Antunes, António M., Thomis, Martine A., Lefevre, Johan A., Claessens, Albrecht, Hedeker, Donald, Malina, Robert M.

“…Older boys and girls ran longer distances than younger peers, while high levels of subcutaneous fat were associated with shorter running distances. …”

Quasi-elliptic dual-band planar BPF with high-selectivity and high inter-band isolation for 5G communications systems by Riaz, Muhammad, Virdee, Bal Singh, Shukla, Pancham, Ouazzane, Karim, Onadim, Muhittin, Salekzamankhani, Shahram

“…Insertion-loss at the two passband center frequencies are 1.02 and 0.8 dB, and the return-loss is better than 20 dB. Skirt steepness of the filter is >290 dB/GHz, and isolation between the two closely positioned adjacent bands is better than 35 dB.…”
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Exploratory validation study of the individual AUDIT-C items among older people by Stewart, Duncan, Hewitt, Catherine, McCambridge, Jim

“…AUDIT-C scores were compared to an unhealthy drinking reference category of consuming more than the UK recommended weekly units of alcohol. …”
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Mindfulness-based therapies for men and women with sexual dysfunction: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Banbury, Samantha, Lusher, Joanne, Snuggs, Sarah, Chandler, Chris

“…Sub-group analysis revealed differences between study weights, where overall higher effect sizes were found among RCTs (d = 0.65) than within subject design studies (d = 0.27). However, within subject design studies tended to include pre and post-physiological measurements (e.g. vaginal photoplethysmography), which may provide a more precise evaluation of the benefits of MBI, rather than studies based on self-report measures only. …”
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A qualitative analysis of how therapists experience the therapeutic relationship with adults who were adopted as infants by Vote, Birgit

“…Research suggests that adoptees are seen in therapeutic settings in a greater proportion than their prevalence in the general population (Kennedy Porch, 2007). …”
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Rethinking jewellery for Korea: a practice-led approach to creating high-visibility wearables by Choi, Won Jeong

“…Firstly, by taking jewellery into the field of road safety, it seeks to expand the idea of jewellery; by wearing a piece of high-visibility jewellery, the wearer declares not only what they want to be seen as, but also what their public right is as a pedestrian, so that jewellery becomes a visible sign of collective action rather than just an individual form of self-expression. …”
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Collective writing: the continuous struggle for meaning-making by Jandrić, Petar, Luke, Timothy W., Sturm, Sean, McLaren, Peter, Jackson, Liz, MacKenzie, Alison, Tesar, Marek, Stewart, Georgina Tuari, Roberts, Peter, Abegglen, Sandra, Burns, Tom, Sinfield, Sandra, Hayes, Sarah, Jaldemark, Jimmy, Peters, Michael A., Sinclair, Christine, Gibbons, Andrew

“…There are many more collectively written scholarly articles than we could gather, and our reading list merely offers sources that the co-authors could think of. …”
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Forensic genomics: kin privacy, driftnets and other open questions by Stajano, Frank, Bianchi, Lucia, Liò, Pietro, Korff, Douwe

“…For example, your kin can provide valuable information in a database matching procedure against you even if you don't; and being able to read the whole of a sampled genome, rather than just 13 specific markers from it, provides information about the medical and physical characteristics of the individual. …”
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Improvement of anti-inflammation of swietenia macrophylla self nanoemulsion by Eid, Ahmad Mustafa Masoud

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Synthesis and characterization of thin film nanocomposite forward osmosis membrane for water desalination process by Emadzadeh, Daryoush

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Influence of waste glass and effective microorganism on the mechanical properties of concrete by Mallum, Isa

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Acoustical characteristic changes due to transverse rumble strips installation on roadway by Darus, Nadirah

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Pre-treatment of oil palm fronds by ozonolysis for levulinic acid production by Wan Omar, Wan Nor Nadyaini

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Nutritional intake, body composition, plasma lipids and fat-soluble vitamins, red blood cell fatty acid profile and behaviour of Omani school children by Al-Ghannami, Samia S.

“…Obtaining these data is especially important in light of the growing prevalence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) - cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cancer and respiratory diseases - which now account for more than 60% of the global disease burden and mortality, and contribute to more than 50% of annual deaths in Arabian countries, including Oman. …”
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Impact of oil prices on stock market performance by Alao, Dolapo Olateru

“…Positive shocks from macroeconomic variables impact the country’s stock market more than negative shocks of the same magnitude. Two structural breaks are identified in the Canadian economy between 1990 and 2020. …”
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Modular SPICE macromodel for operational amplifiers by Brinson, Mike, Faulkner, D. J.

“…The model performs well in comparative tests and parameter extraction from data sheets is far easier than previously published models.…”
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Characterization of the physicochemical properties of cross-linked levanase aggregates for levan-type fructooligosaccharides production by Abd. Rahman, Noor Hidayah

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Optimal tuning of fixed speed wind turbines pitch controller using grey wolf optimizer by Sule, Aliyu Hamza

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Use of Mid Upper-Arm Circumference (MUAC) as screening tool in an urban township in the Eastern Cape: rationale for testing changed cut-off values to identify malnutrition by McLaren, Shawn, Steenkamp, Liana, Venter, Danie

“…Introduction Children with a weight-for-height z-score (WHZ) < -3 standard deviations (SD) of the World Health Organisation (WHO) standard for children less than 60 months of age have a higher mortality compared to children with a WHZ > -3 SD of this standard. …”
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