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Eskridge Jr., William, Brian Slocum, and Stefan Gries. "The Meaning of Sex: Dynamic Words, Novel Applications, and Original Public Meaning." Michigan Law Review, no. 119.7 (2021): 1503. http://dx.doi.org/10.36644/mlr.119.7.meaning.

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The meaning of sex matters. The interpretive methodology by which the meaning of sex is determined matters Both of these were at issue in the Supreme Court’s recent landmark decision in Bostock v. Clayton County, where the Court held that Title VII protects lesbians, gay men, transgender persons, and other sexual and gender minorities against workplace discrimination. Despite unanimously agreeing that Title VII should be interpreted in accordance with its original public meaning in 1964, the opinions in Bostock failed to properly define sex or offer a coherent theory of how long-standing statutes like Title VII should be interpreted over time. We argue that longstanding statutes are inherently dynamic because they inevitably evolve beyond the original legislative expectations, and we offer a new theory and framework for how courts can manage societal and linguistic evolution The framework depends in part on courts defining ‘meaning’ properly so that statutory coverage is allowed to evolve naturally over time due to changes in society, even if the meaning of the statutory language is held constant (via originalism). Originalism in statutory and constitutional interpretation typically focuses on the language of the text itself and whether it has evolved over time (what we term linguistic dynamism), but courts should also recognize that the features of the objects of interpretation may also evolve over time (what we term societal dynamism). As society changes, so do social norms; what we call normative dynamism is the influence of evolving values on the interpretive enterprise, however conceptualized. Linguistic and normative dynamism create difficulties for originalism, but societal dynamism should not, as originalists have assumed in other contexts (such as Second Amendment jurisprudence). We explore the relationship among societal, linguistic, and normative dynamism and their implications for original public meaning. Putting our framework into action, we demonstrate, through the application of corpus analysis and linguistic theory, that sex in 1964 was not limited to “biological distinctions between male and female,” as all the opinions in Bostock assumed, and that gender and sexual orientation were essentially nonwords in 1964. Sex thus had a broader meaning than it does today, where terms like gender and sexual orientation (and other terms like sexuality) denote concepts that once could be referred to as sex (on its own and in compounds). In turn, today’s gays and lesbians and transgender people are social groups that did not exist (or that existed in a very different form) in 1964. By limiting the meaning of sex to “biological distinctions” and failing to recognize that societal dynamism can change statutory coverage, the Court missed the opportunity to explicitly affirm that the societal evolution of gays and lesbians and transgender people has legal significance. Finally, the Court missed an opportunity to acknowledge the importance law can assume in societal and linguistic dynamism: one reason gays and lesbians are a novel social group is that they live in a world where same-sex intimacy is not a crime and the state does not treat homosexuality as psychopathic.
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Daigle, Megan. "Love, Sex, Money, and Meaning." Alternatives: Global, Local, Political 38, no. 1 (January 23, 2013): 63–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0304375412470773.

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Since the disintegration of the Soviet Union and subsequent collapse of Cuba’s centralized economy, pursuing relationships with foreign visitors to the island has emerged as a viable means of accessing hard currency, consumer goods, travel, and emigration—of gaining admittance to a perceived better life. In the mid of escalating state repression, a discursive struggle has materialized, assigning meanings to new sexual identities, problematizing these sexual relations, and creating new objects of disciplinary power. Far from simple semantics, defining and naming allows actors within the field of relations—government, police, journalists, mass organizations, individuals—to situate young Cubans within various binaries including good/bad, right/wrong, virtue/vice. Specific labels ranging from crass ( puta or prostituta) to enigmatic ( candelero or luchadora) have ebbed and flowed in popular parlance, each loaded with different raced and gendered implications and political commitments. As state governance of bodies and sexualities evolves, this ethnographic study demonstrates that many young Cubans have begun to use bodily and sexual practices as tools to circumvent poverty, resist state dictates on morality and austerity, and create new subjectivities. Language, for its part, has become a major weapon, alternately disciplinary and liberatory, in the struggle for (self-)definition.
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Bielert, Craig. "Sex Has a Meaning and Sex Differences Are Real." Evolutionary Psychological Science 2, no. 3 (March 9, 2016): 241–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40806-016-0049-5.

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이수진. "Meaning of victim's statement in sex crimes." 법학연구 60, no. 3 (August 2019): 35–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.35275/pnulaw.2019.60.3.002.

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Johnson, Deborah G., and Mario Verdicchio. "Constructing the Meaning of Humanoid Sex Robots." International Journal of Social Robotics 12, no. 2 (September 11, 2019): 415–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12369-019-00586-z.

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Goldenberg, Jamie L., Cathy R. Cox, Tom Pyszczynski, Jeff Greenberg, and Sheldon Solomon. "Understanding human ambivalence about sex: The effects of stripping sex of meaning." Journal of Sex Research 39, no. 4 (November 1, 2002): 310–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00224490209552155.

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Bollobás, Enikő. "The Double Entendre of Sex: Pornographies of Body and Society in Péter Esterházy’s Fiction." Hungarian Cultural Studies 12 (August 1, 2019): 255–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/ahea.2019.362.

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Informed by feminist theory on the one hand and thematic and rhetorical criticism on the other, this article examines the components of discourse in two books by Péter Esterházy that share an emphatic attention to sexuality. The author interprets Esterházy’s discourse of sex as grounded in the figure of the double entendre, with a different function in each work. In Kis magyar pornográfia [‘A Little Hungarian Pornography’], vulgar corporeality and communist politics are shown as commensurate; both have a double meaning, with sex and politics referring both to themselves and to each other. In using one discourse as a cover for another, Esterházy continues the Central European Witz [‘joke’] tradition, giving a particular twist to it by making the transference of meaning two-directional, thereby assigning double meanings to sex and politics alike. In Egy nő [‘She Loves Me’], Esterházy attaches a double meaning to sex in a different manner; here sex is not a cover for something else but is shown to be reduced to itself, with a double meaning attached to its internal power relations. Sex is presented as a power game, in which man is repulsed by women yet is hopelessly attracted to them. Moreover, sex acts as the only tellable story taking the place of the untellable story of love. In this piece of postmodern fiction, the multiple perspectives bring about an interpretational uncertainty on the part of the reader as to whether sexist discourse is legitimized or subverted, and whether this legitimization and/or subversion is carried out by the narrator and/or by the implied author.
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Deavel, Catherine Jack. "On the Meaning of Sex. By J. Budziszewski." American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 87, no. 3 (2013): 543–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/acpq201387340.

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King, Jason, and Donna Freitas. "Sex, Time, and Meaning: A Theology of Dating." Horizons 30, no. 1 (2003): 25–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0360966900000037.

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ABSTRACTOur paper sets the groundwork for a Christian theology of dating. We begin with a critique of the religious and secular sources on dating. We next turn to theological works on friendship, marriage, and feminist spirituality to distill issues that we deem important for a positive Christian theology of dating. Because dating differs from these perspectives—it is both temporary (as opposed to marriage) and sexual (as opposed to friendship)—we conclude by offering a two-tiered perspective on dating. On the first level, we offer a narrative: two people are each on a separate journey, they encounter each other, their journeys become intertwined and are forever changed from the meeting even if they do not remain together. On the second level, we sublate the narrative by locating it within the broader Christian gospel.
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Hawkes, Sarah, Fariha Haseen, and Hajer Aounallah-Skhiri. "Measurement and meaning: reporting sex in health research." Lancet 393, no. 10171 (February 2019): 497–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(19)30283-1.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Meaning of sex"

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Leth, Corina. "What is the Meaning of Meaningless sex in Dystopia?" Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Akademin för utbildning och ekonomi, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-16223.

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The aim of this essay is to provide an answer to the question "What is the Meaning of Meaningless sex in Dystopia?". It will show that meaningful concepts such as sexual satisfaction, pleassure, passion, love, bonding, procreation and family are handled as threats in dystopian societies described in well-known novels as We, Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four . It will explain how the conflict between the collective and the individual influences peoples' sexuality. It will also show how leading powers in the three dystopian societies use different methods to remove the significanse and functions of sex. It will suggest meaningless sex is a means to control the masses in a collective and that meaningful sex is an act of rebelion against the state.
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Carter, Frances Hannah. "Magic toyshops : narrative and meaning in the women's sex shop." Thesis, Kingston University, 2014. http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/28758/.

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The sex shop aimed primarily at the female consumer is a phenomenon which forms part of our everyday understanding of the sexualisatian of culture or the mainstreaming of sexual representation and consumption. The women's sex shop privileges notions of female empowerment achieved through the consumption of goods and spaces dedicated to the pursuit of female erotic pleasure. Prioritising women's interpretations of the visual presence of the women's sex shop, this project establishes how the sex shop is re-made for its female consumers, making it both acceptable and desirable to a new audience. Primarily its aim is to interrogate the ways in which design is put to use to reflect, materialise and contribute to discourse around feminine sexuality and sexual pleasure. Utilising a feminist research methodology this thesis takes as a starting point the voices of women consumers and retailers, facilitating a new reading of the ways in which women negotiate the meanings invested in the spaces of gendered sexual consumption. In line with the testimony of participants, investigation begins by positioning the women's sex shop in relation to its progenitor, the traditional male sex shop, the model without which the women's shop could not be envisaged or designed. Secondly it investigates the ways in which the design of the women's sex shop and its goods, appropriate or resist established , normative and classed representations of female sexuality expressed in the geographical position of the shops, the interior layout, the external façade and the use of visual references. In conclusion, drawing on consumer narratives, research exposes a visual and spatial symbiosis between the 'seedy' masculine and the stylish women's sex shop. Key tensions and contradictions are unearthed in the things and spaces of the women's shop, calling into question the notions of female sexual agency and empowerment it proposes.
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Vicknair, Sharae R. "Words Used to Describe Same-Sex Sexuality| An Exploration of Meaning." Thesis, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10163305.

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This study explored the lexical semantics of common same-sex sexuality labels (i.e., homosexual, gay, gay man, lesbian, and no label) by presenting 395 participants with a short story about a fictitious person. The goal was to determine what effects these labels (as well as their social status) would have on participants’ willingness to interact socially with and participants’ support for their civil rights. Age, gender, religious affiliation, and contact with sexual minorities were assessed for each participant, and participants were also asked to rate the likely gender of the fictitious person. Results revealed that neither social status nor sexuality label had an influence on participants’ support for civil rights; however, participants were more willing to interact with the fictitious person when they were of higher status. Additionally, willingness to interact was also influenced by label: male participants were more willing to interact with the fictitious person who identified as a gay man or as a lesbian than the fictitious person who identified as homosexual or as gay, but labels did not have a significant influence on female participants’ willingness to interact. Contact with sexual minorities and not affiliating with a particular religion were associated with more willingness to interact with the fictitious person and higher support for their civil rights. Discussion suggests that same-sex sexuality labels may have various meaning components associated with them that influence individuals’ opinions of LGB individuals. The gendered terms gay man and lesbian had more positive valence associated with them (when compared to homosexual and gay) as demonstrated by male participants’ reactions. The term homosexual was found to be the most gender neutral option and gay appeared to be more associated with the male gender.

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Halland, Joni. "Narratives of sex work : exploring stories of entry, experience and meaning." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10638.

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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 89-94).
Research into the reasons why sex workers enter and stay in sex work has largely viewed entry from perspectives of either choice or constraint. Choice perspectives attribute entry to reasons such as female agency and empowerment, and social and financial independence, while constraint perspectives attribute entry to reasons such as economic necessity, drug and alcohol abuse, childhood sexual abuse, lack of education and job opportunity, and homelessness and truancy.
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Sahady, Mark W. "Galatians 3:28 in orthodox theology its meaning for men and women today /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1989. http://www.tren.com.

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Hanna-Walker, Veronica R. "Missing Piece of the Puzzle: Creating a General Meaning of Sex Measure." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2020. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/9022.

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The presence of and/or search for meaning has divergent and salient outcomes for individuals’ physical, mental, and emotional well-being. Although numerous domains of meaning have been examined, the literature on the meaning of sex is sparse and lacks a quantitative measure. In this study, I aimed to validate a general Meaning of Sex (MOS) Measure that captured the presence of (MOS-P) and search for (MOS-S) the meaning of sex that predicted salient relational and sexual outcomes (i.e., relationship stability and satisfaction and sexual satisfaction). The MOS measure was based off of the Meaning in Life Questionnaire (MLQ) created by Steger and colleagues (2006), which also used the subscales of presence and searching. All participants (N = 856) reported engaging in what they considered to be sexual intercourse and were either single or in a relationship. The two subscales were distinct from one another and had good reliability. The MOS-S had a stronger (and negative) association with relationship stability and sexual satisfaction than the MOS-P. Further analyses revealed that there were significant interactions between the MOS-P and MOS-S. When individuals scored high on the MOS-P, searching for a meaning of sex no longer had a significant association with relationship stability or sexual satisfaction. Creating this measure is meaningful because it provides a more holistic picture of sexuality that has not been addressed in the literature.
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Agus, Hendroyono Suphot Dendoung. "The meaning of condom : males' experience of multiple undafe sex partners in Bekasi, Indonesia /." Abstract, 2007. http://mulinet3.li.mahidol.ac.th/thesis/2550/cd400/4838733.pdf.

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McCarthy, Anthony. "Ethical sex : sexual choices and their nature and meaning : perspectives from natural law and marriage." Thesis, University of Surrey, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.682553.

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Hailey, Jan. ""Not male and female" the interpretation and scope of meaning of Galatians 3:28 in the context of the Galatian epistle /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1995. http://www.tren.com.

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Dugandzic, Peter. "The family, the nuptial meaning of the body, television, and formation in sexual morality." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2006. http://www.tren.com.

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Books on the topic "Meaning of sex"

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On the meaning of sex. Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2011.

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Sex, meaning, and the menopause. London: Continuum, 2011.

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Quay, Paul M. The Christian meaning of human sexuality. Evanston (P.O. Box 7049, Evanston 60204): Credo House, 1985.

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The Christian meaning of human sexuality. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1985.

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British Psychological Society. Division of Educational and Child Psychology., ed. Aggression, gender and meaning: Crossing the sex barrier. (s.l.): BPS Books, 1996.

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Shalinsky, Audrey. Reason, desire, and sexuality: The meaning of gender in northern Afg[h]anistan. [East Lansing, MI] (202 International Center, East Lansing 48824-1035): Women in International Development, Michigan State University, 1986.

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The meaning of sex: Christian ethics and the moral life. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2008.

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The fantasy fallacy: Exposing the deeper meaning behind sexual thoughts. Nashville, Tenn: Thomas Nelson, 2012.

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Jakobsh, Doris R. Relocating gender in Sikh history: Transformation, meaning and identity. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2003.

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Dominian, Jack. Let's make love: The meaning of sexual intercourse. London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 2001.

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Book chapters on the topic "Meaning of sex"

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Hall, Paula. "Navigating the meaning stage." In Sex Addiction, 94–108. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.: Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781351259996-11.

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Hall, Paula. "Summary for couple therapists – the meaning stage." In Sex Addiction, 121–22. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.: Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781351259996-13.

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Hutton, Christopher. "Legal Sex and Marriage." In The Tyranny of Ordinary Meaning, 59–81. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20271-2_3.

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Maloney, Marcus. "Self, Sex and the City." In The Search for Meaning in Film and Television, 73–112. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137499295_4.

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Sirisena, Mihirini. "Sex Games: Pleasures and Penance." In The Making and Meaning of Relationships in Sri Lanka, 167–84. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76336-1_7.

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Lo, Yuet Keung. "Indeterminacy in Meaning: Religious Syncretism and Dynastic Historiography in theShannüren zhuan." In Sex, Gender and the Sacred, 67–82. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118833926.ch3.

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Brown, W. S., J. T. Marsh, R. E. Ponsford, and L. E. Travis. "Language Laterality, Sex, and Stuttering: ERPs to Contextual Meaning." In Neurophysiology and Psychophysiology, 315–25. London: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003164647-33.

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Better, Alison. "Painting Desire Pink: Meaning-Making at a Romance Sex Store." In Selves, Symbols, and Sexualities: An Interactionist Anthology, 109–20. 1 Oliver's Yard, 55 City Road London EC1Y 1SP: SAGE Publications, Ltd, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781483399263.n8.

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Harker, Anita. "An Autoethnographic Mix Tape: Deconstructing Gender Identity Through Music That Has Meaning to Us." In Teaching Gender and Sex in Contemporary America, 117–29. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30364-2_13.

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Forster, Thomas. "Church’s Set Theory with a Universal Set." In Logic, Meaning and Computation, 109–38. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0526-5_4.

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Conference papers on the topic "Meaning of sex"

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Vallés, J., M. M. Santos, and J. Aznar. "EFFECT OF AGE AND SEX ON THE PLATELET FATTY ACID (FA) COMPOSITION AND IN ITS MODULATION BY PLASMA FA." In XIth International Congress on Thrombosis and Haemostasis. Schattauer GmbH, 1987. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0038-1644492.

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Age, sex and platelet hyperactivity are factors that condition the development of coronary heart disease (CHD). Platelet function is believed to be influenced by its FA pattern, which can be modulated by the FA composition of plasma lipid fractions. Therefore, it seemed of interest to evaluate the effect of age and sex on platelet FA and ascertain whether the plasma influence on platelet FA is modified by age and sex. The study has been performed in 98 subjects, 49 couples, men (M) and women (W), living together and with the same dietary habits. The subjects were divided into three age groups : G I:16-40, GII:40-60,and G III: 60. Plasma and platelet FA of phospholipids (PL), triglycerides, and free FA fractions were evaluated by gas-chromatography. The results showed scarce differences in platelet FA in relation to sex. With respect to age, the percentages of 18:2 and 20:5 in most platelet lipid fractions both in M and in W decrease with age. More interesting are the differences in correlation found between plasma and platelet FA, particularly in the PL fraction, with age and sex. In this respect an increase in the correlation coefficient was found for 16:0,18:0 and 20:4 and a decrease for 20:5 in middle aged men and postmenopausic women (Table). The similarity between these two groups of subjects may have a physiopathological meaning, if we take into account that both are more susceptible to CHD and that an increase in 16:0, 18:0 and 20:4 as well as a decrease in 20:5 may condition a platelet hyperfuntion, circumstance that may be more easily produced by plasma influence in those subjects.The results of the present study also confirm that that in general plasma greately influences the platelet content in 18:1, 18:2 and to a lower extent the saturated FA.
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Couples, G. D., and G. Minelli. "The Meaning of Fractures." In EAGE/SEG Research Workshop on Fractured Reservoirs-Integrating Geosciences for Fractured Reservoirs Description 2007. Netherlands: EAGE Publications BV, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.20147235.

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Chonpairot, Jarernchai. "Pha Nya: A Folk Cultural Treasure." In GLOCAL Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2020. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/cala2020.9-1.

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Pha nya, a type of folk poetie, has played many important roles in Northeast Thailand and in Laos PDR throughout its history. The poetic was used as a medium by young boys and girls for courting, as as a set of proverbs to remind people to adhere to accepted codes of conduct. Many pha nya poems contain multiple entendres in the form of surface and deep meaning. This paper will investigate these meanings and the roles of pha nya in Northeast Thailand and Laos PDR societies. The data were obtained from written document and interviews. The results of the study indicate that the meaning of words in pha nya poems have presented themselves as ambiguous, depending on the intention of the speaker and the way the listener’s interpretation. Here, the spaker has significant agency in the symbolism of the poems.
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Claerbout, Jon F., and Martin Karrenbach. "Electronic documents give reproducible research a new meaning." In SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 1992. Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.1190/1.1822162.

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Attri, Shalini, and Yogesh Chander. "Reproducing Meaning: A Dialogic Approach to Sports and Semiotics." In GLOCAL Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2019. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/cala2019.11-3.

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The wide variety of the components of signs stems from verbal communication to visual gestures, ciphers, images, music, and Morse code. Barthes’ Semiotic Theory restructured the theory of analyzing signs and allowed for a new understanding and interpretation of signs through seeing diverse cultures and societies. Saussure’s definition of the sign as a combination of signifier and signified led Barthes to further elucidate sign as connotative (cultural) and denotative (literal) processes. Semiotics can be applied to all aspects of life, as meaning is produced not in isolation but in totality, establishing multiple connotations and denotations. In the article “The World of Wrestling” published in Mythologies (1957), Barthes focused on images portrayed by the wrestler resulting in understanding of the wrestler’s image and the image of spectator. In Morse code, gestures can make any sport a spectacle of suffering, defeat and justice, representation of morality, symbols, anger, smile, passion etc., from which derive denotative and connotative meanings. Similarly, Thomas Sebeok identifies sign as one of six factors in communication, and which makes up the rich domain of semiotic research. These are message, source, destination, channel, code, and context. The present paper will focus on a dialogic relation between semiotics and sports, thus making it a text that reproduces meaning and represents certain groups. It focuses on various aspects of semiotics and their relation to sports. The paper also contemplates the versions and meanings of signs in sports that establish sport as an act of representation.
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Tari, Sibel Z. "Coloring 3D symmetry set: perceptual meaning and significance in 3D." In AeroSense '99, edited by Stephen K. Park and Richard D. Juday. SPIE, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.354697.

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Hong, In Seob, and Adrian Connolly. "Generalized Tolerance Limit Evaluation Method to Determine Statistically Meaningful Minimum Code Simulations." In 16th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering. ASMEDC, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icone16-48448.

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The tolerance limit approach has been internationally adopted for nuclear safety analyses as a way of identifying more realistic safety limits in the Best Estimate Plus Uncertainty (BEPU) methodology. The approach is based on the Wilks’ formula set suggested by the GRS (Gesellschaft fu¨r Anlagen-und Reaktorsicherheit), and consists of two approaches; one-sided approach to obtain a statistical meaning of the maximum output value in the multiple code runs, and two-sided approach for the minimum and maximum values at the same time. The Wilks’ formula set suggested by the GRS has been employed without questioning any ambiguities in its true meaning, especially in the two-sided approach. In this paper, the formula set is derived based on the binomial distribution as a direct vehicle to the formulas for clarification purposes. This approach is distinguished from the present integral form of the original Wilks’ formula in that it is based on the probability density function and the joint probability density function associated with the order statistics. The purposes of this paper are to derive the true meanings of the present Wilks’ formulas, which are applied in the nuclear safety analysis, and to derive a new set of formulas to determine statistically meaningful minimum number of code runs in the BEPU. An improved formula set, which consists of the Generalized Maximum Tolerance Limit (GMTL) and the Generalized Max-Mini Tolerance Limit (GMMTL), is proposed with an emphasis on a new form of the two-sided formula: Centered Two-sided Tolerance Limit (CTTL) formula, which is directly derived from the GMMTL formula. For example, a minimum number of 146 code runs is suggested in lieu of the present 93 code runs to achieve the 95th percentile with 95% confidence in the two-sided approach.
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Li, Hongxia, and Xiaobing Qi. "On Manolin's Symbolic Meaning in the Old Man and the Sea." In International Conference on Humanities and Social Science 2016. Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/hss-26.2016.67.

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Permatasari, Ranti, Ngusman Manaf, and Novia Juita. "Nuance of Meaning Synonym Transitive Verb Activities of See in Indonesia." In Proceedings of the International Conference on Language, Literature, and Education (ICLLE 2018). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/iclle-18.2018.61.

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Keyte, Julia. "The alternative history of a Victorian washstand set Meaning, Memory, Transitions." In 9th Conference of the International Committee for Design History and Design Studies. São Paulo: Editora Edgard Blücher, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.5151/despro-icdhs2014-0031.

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Hunter, Fraser, and Martin Carruthers. Iron Age Scotland. Society for Antiquaries of Scotland, September 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.9750/scarf.09.2012.193.

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The main recommendations of the panel report can be summarised under five key headings:  Building blocks: The ultimate aim should be to build rich, detailed and testable narratives situated within a European context, and addressing phenomena from the longue durée to the short-term over international to local scales. Chronological control is essential to this and effective dating strategies are required to enable generation-level analysis. The ‘serendipity factor’ of archaeological work must be enhanced by recognising and getting the most out of information-rich sites as they appear. o There is a pressing need to revisit the archives of excavated sites to extract more information from existing resources, notably through dating programmes targeted at regional sequences – the Western Isles Atlantic roundhouse sequence is an obvious target. o Many areas still lack anything beyond the baldest of settlement sequences, with little understanding of the relations between key site types. There is a need to get at least basic sequences from many more areas, either from sustained regional programmes or targeted sampling exercises. o Much of the methodologically innovative work and new insights have come from long-running research excavations. Such large-scale research projects are an important element in developing new approaches to the Iron Age.  Daily life and practice: There remains great potential to improve the understanding of people’s lives in the Iron Age through fresh approaches to, and integration of, existing and newly-excavated data. o House use. Rigorous analysis and innovative approaches, including experimental archaeology, should be employed to get the most out of the understanding of daily life through the strengths of the Scottish record, such as deposits within buildings, organic preservation and waterlogging. o Material culture. Artefact studies have the potential to be far more integral to understandings of Iron Age societies, both from the rich assemblages of the Atlantic area and less-rich lowland finds. Key areas of concern are basic studies of material groups (including the function of everyday items such as stone and bone tools, and the nature of craft processes – iron, copper alloy, bone/antler and shale offer particularly good evidence). Other key topics are: the role of ‘art’ and other forms of decoration and comparative approaches to assemblages to obtain synthetic views of the uses of material culture. o Field to feast. Subsistence practices are a core area of research essential to understanding past society, but different strands of evidence need to be more fully integrated, with a ‘field to feast’ approach, from production to consumption. The working of agricultural systems is poorly understood, from agricultural processes to cooking practices and cuisine: integrated work between different specialisms would assist greatly. There is a need for conceptual as well as practical perspectives – e.g. how were wild resources conceived? o Ritual practice. There has been valuable work in identifying depositional practices, such as deposition of animals or querns, which are thought to relate to house-based ritual practices, but there is great potential for further pattern-spotting, synthesis and interpretation. Iron Age Scotland: ScARF Panel Report v  Landscapes and regions:  Concepts of ‘region’ or ‘province’, and how they changed over time, need to be critically explored, because they are contentious, poorly defined and highly variable. What did Iron Age people see as their geographical horizons, and how did this change?  Attempts to understand the Iron Age landscape require improved, integrated survey methodologies, as existing approaches are inevitably partial.  Aspects of the landscape’s physical form and cover should be investigated more fully, in terms of vegetation (known only in outline over most of the country) and sea level change in key areas such as the firths of Moray and Forth.  Landscapes beyond settlement merit further work, e.g. the use of the landscape for deposition of objects or people, and what this tells us of contemporary perceptions and beliefs.  Concepts of inherited landscapes (how Iron Age communities saw and used this longlived land) and socal resilience to issues such as climate change should be explored more fully.  Reconstructing Iron Age societies. The changing structure of society over space and time in this period remains poorly understood. Researchers should interrogate the data for better and more explicitly-expressed understandings of social structures and relations between people.  The wider context: Researchers need to engage with the big questions of change on a European level (and beyond). Relationships with neighbouring areas (e.g. England, Ireland) and analogies from other areas (e.g. Scandinavia and the Low Countries) can help inform Scottish studies. Key big topics are: o The nature and effect of the introduction of iron. o The social processes lying behind evidence for movement and contact. o Parallels and differences in social processes and developments. o The changing nature of houses and households over this period, including the role of ‘substantial houses’, from crannogs to brochs, the development and role of complex architecture, and the shift away from roundhouses. o The chronology, nature and meaning of hillforts and other enclosed settlements. o Relationships with the Roman world
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Yatsymirska, Mariya. SOCIAL EXPRESSION IN MULTIMEDIA TEXTS. Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, February 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.30970/vjo.2021.49.11072.

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The article investigates functional techniques of extralinguistic expression in multimedia texts; the effectiveness of figurative expressions as a reaction to modern events in Ukraine and their influence on the formation of public opinion is shown. Publications of journalists, broadcasts of media resonators, experts, public figures, politicians, readers are analyzed. The language of the media plays a key role in shaping the worldview of the young political elite in the first place. The essence of each statement is a focused thought that reacts to events in the world or in one’s own country. The most popular platform for mass information and social interaction is, first of all, network journalism, which is characterized by mobility and unlimited time and space. Authors have complete freedom to express their views in direct language, including their own word formation. Phonetic, lexical, phraseological and stylistic means of speech create expression of the text. A figurative word, a good aphorism or proverb, a paraphrased expression, etc. enhance the effectiveness of a multimedia text. This is especially important for headlines that simultaneously inform and influence the views of millions of readers. Given the wide range of issues raised by the Internet as a medium, research in this area is interdisciplinary. The science of information, combining language and social communication, is at the forefront of global interactions. The Internet is an effective source of knowledge and a forum for free thought. Nonlinear texts (hypertexts) – «branching texts or texts that perform actions on request», multimedia texts change the principles of information collection, storage and dissemination, involving billions of readers in the discussion of global issues. Mastering the word is not an easy task if the author of the publication is not well-read, is not deep in the topic, does not know the psychology of the audience for which he writes. Therefore, the study of media broadcasting is an important component of the professional training of future journalists. The functions of the language of the media require the authors to make the right statements and convincing arguments in the text. Journalism education is not only knowledge of imperative and dispositive norms, but also apodictic ones. In practice, this means that there are rules in media creativity that are based on logical necessity. Apodicticity is the first sign of impressive language on the platform of print or electronic media. Social expression is a combination of creative abilities and linguistic competencies that a journalist realizes in his activity. Creative self-expression is realized in a set of many important factors in the media: the choice of topic, convincing arguments, logical presentation of ideas and deep philological education. Linguistic art, in contrast to painting, music, sculpture, accumulates all visual, auditory, tactile and empathic sensations in a universal sign – the word. The choice of the word for the reproduction of sensory and semantic meanings, its competent use in the appropriate context distinguishes the journalist-intellectual from other participants in forums, round tables, analytical or entertainment programs. Expressive speech in the media is a product of the intellect (ability to think) of all those who write on socio-political or economic topics. In the same plane with him – intelligence (awareness, prudence), the first sign of which (according to Ivan Ogienko) is a good knowledge of the language. Intellectual language is an important means of organizing a journalistic text. It, on the one hand, logically conveys the author’s thoughts, and on the other – encourages the reader to reflect and comprehend what is read. The richness of language is accumulated through continuous self-education and interesting communication. Studies of social expression as an important factor influencing the formation of public consciousness should open up new facets of rational and emotional media broadcasting; to trace physical and psychological reactions to communicative mimicry in the media. Speech mimicry as one of the methods of disguise is increasingly becoming a dangerous factor in manipulating the media. Mimicry is an unprincipled adaptation to the surrounding social conditions; one of the most famous examples of an animal characterized by mimicry (change of protective color and shape) is a chameleon. In a figurative sense, chameleons are called adaptive journalists. Observations show that mimicry in politics is to some extent a kind of game that, like every game, is always conditional and artificial.
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Planting the Seeds of the Poisonous Tree: Establishing a System of Meaning Through ISIS Education. George Washington University, February 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4079/poe.02.2021.01.

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This paper explores the administration of the Islamic State's department of education and the system of meaning set up by the group under its governance. The research systematically analyzes a collection of education-related “ISIS Files” documents using critical discourse analysis to identify common narratives, values, and themes, particularly those aimed at indoctrinating children.
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