Sex, Gore and Provocation: the Influence of Exploitation in John Waters’s Early Films by Elise Pereira Nunes

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Sex and the City: A Situationist Reading of Jens Jorgen Thorsen’s Film Adaptation of Henry Miller’s Quiet Days in Clichy by Jennifer Cowe

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Empowering women on screen: exploring the influence of female protagonists on contemporary culture and gendered enjoyment in film by Fokiya Akhtar, Azmat Rasul

Subjects: “…Film Industry…”
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Role of Age and Sex on the Incidence of Leukemia in a Sample of Iraqi Patients by Dahlia N. AL-Saidi

“…Conclusion: There is a correlation between sex and age with the incidence of leukemia.…”
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Tear film lipid layer thickness and blink dynamics in patients with blepharospasm by Ji-Sun Paik, Min Jeong Kwon, Ga Hee Nam, Kyungdo Han, Woong-Joo Whang, Ho Sik Hwang, Suk-Woo Yang, Hyun-Seung Kim, Kyung Sun Na, Won-Kyung Cho

“…In tear film lipid profiles analyzed in BEB patients at pre-injection and 2-month follow-up after injection, average LLT significantly increased after injection (72.4 ± 22.7 nm to 83.0 ± 22.2 nm, p = 0.0215). …”
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D’un détournement mineur du discours médical sur le sexe (Glen or Glenda, 1953) by Alain Naze

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Race, sexualité, et luttes de véridiction : la racialisation dans les représentations cinématographiques de la « tournante » by Claire Cosquer

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Maternal transfer and sex-differences in brain bioaccumulation for Northern bobwhite quail (Colinus virginianus) exposed to per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances by Kenneth N. Kikanme, Adcharee Karnjanapiboonwong, Rameshkumar Angappan, Nicole M. Dennis, Farzana Hossain, Jamie G. Suski, Christopher J. Salice, Todd A. Anderson

“…Per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are highly persistent chemicals commonly found in surface protectants, and class B aqueous film forming foams (AFFF), and many other consumer and industrial products. …”
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Devenir « une belle jeune fille » : construction du genre dans les cours d’éducation sexuelle dispensés à des filles en situation de handicap by Sophie Torrent

“…The content of the discourses of the professionals during the classes taught to girls with an intellectual disability was analyzed through filmed lessons. Three trends are revealed by this analysis: (1) the assignment to a sex category when the student does not perceive their sexual identity, (2) the obligation to be happy about their feminine condition and (3) the control of gender when femininity is deemed as exacerbated and hence as dangerous to the student. …”
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„Święta misja profesora Abronsiusa”. Fantazmaty, abiektalność i transgresje w filmie Romana Polańskiego "Nieustraszeni pogromcy wampirów" by Jakub Rawski

“…This leads to the exegesis of the film from a poststructuralist perspective with a focus on the existential and sexual aspects of vampirism, a topos analyzed by Maria Janion in terms of being a bloodsucker in the face of death, in the face of sex, and in the face of the tragic human condition. …”
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Factors accounting for limited sexual reproduction in a long-lived unisexual plant species by Irene Bisang, Flavien Collart, Flavien Collart, Alain Vanderpoorten, Lars Hedenäs

“…In bryophytes, wherein fertilization involves a continuous film of water between male and female sexual organs, reproduction in unisexual species involves the sympatric distribution of male and female sex-expressing individuals. …”
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« C’était une femme à qui il fallait un époux et lui un homme qui voulait une épouse… ». Les représentations filmographiques des mariages par correspondance by Laure Sizaire, Gwenola Ricordeau

“…In addition, the studied films suggest social fantasies about romantic love and norms regarding marriage and money. …”
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“Unnatural, unnatural, unnatural, unnatural unnatural” . . . but real? The Toolbox Murders (Dennis Donnelly, 1978) and the Exploitation of True Story Adaptations by Wickham Clayton

“…Furthermore, it addresses how The Toolbox Murders is positioned as an exploitation film. Apart from exploitative uses of sex and violence, this paper posits that the appropriation and use of claims to veracity is itself exploitative of both generic exploitation and the viewer’s cognitive reception of the closing intertitle trope. …”
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Qui s’assoit où ? by Claude Forest

“…The choice and the occupation of a seat don’t concern the search for a technical optimum of viewing of the film’s projection. A differentiation of certain behaviors can be observed according to the composition of the public which varies itself according to the room, film or the hour of meeting, but the interactions mimetic between spectators is undeniable, and the recurring mechanisms of influence, independent of public’s composition, and can be structured by the architecture and the space of the room itself. …”
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Machines désirantes : des sexbots aux OS amoureux by Anthony Masure, Pia Pandelakis

“…In our daily experiences, the desire to interact sexually with a machine can be met with deception or frustration whereas sex and technology creativally overlap in sci-fi films. …”
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Deconstructing Domestic Violence in Bollywood: by Rohini Zakaria Oishee

“…Concurrently, while correlating Simone de Beauvoir’s positioning of women in her influential text, The Second Sex with Chandra Talpade Mohanty’s postcolonial alignment in “Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses,” the paper will also argue that, in spite of raising awareness about violence against women and deconstructing the stereotypical portrayal of domestic violence in Bollywood, the film inadvertently normalizes intimate partner violence (IPV) and potentially undermines the seriousness of this critical social issue. …”
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Ocular Surface Disorders in a Group of Egyptian Children with End Stage Renal Failure on Dialysis: A Cross-Sectional Study by Mohamed Anbar, Ahmed R. H. Ahmed, Abdel-Azeem M. El-Mazary, Ramadan A. Mahmoud

“…Thirty children with ESRF and 20 age and sex matched controls during the period from January 2014 to May 2015 underwent full ophthalmologic examination and the tear function was investigated by the Schirmer and tear film break-up time (TBUT) tests. …”
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High Levels of 17β-Estradiol Are Associated with Increased Matrix Metalloproteinase-2 and Metalloproteinase-9 Activity in Tears of Postmenopausal Women with Dry Eye by Guanglin Shen, Xiaoping Ma

“…Blood was drawn and analyzed for serum levels of sex steroids and lipids. Then, the following tests were performed: tear collection, Ocular Surface Disease Index (OSDI) questionnaire, fluorescein tear film break-up time (TBUT), corneal fluorescein staining, Schirmer test, and conjunctival impression cytology. …”
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Beyond the spotlight: Unveiling the gender bias curtain in movie reviews. by Jad Doughman, Wael Khreich

“…Historically, the film industry has been male-dominated both in front of and behind the camera, resulting in a longstanding gender imbalance in storytelling and representation. …”
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Risk Factors and Symptoms of Meibomian Gland Loss in a Healthy Population by Anna Machalińska, Aleksandra Zakrzewska, Krzysztof Safranow, Barbara Wiszniewska, Bogusław Machaliński

“…We correlated our findings with self-reported ocular symptoms, systemic medical history, lifestyle factors, and tear film abnormalities. Results. We observed that a high ocular surface disease index, a history of either chalazion or hordeolum, experience of puffy eyelids upon waking, and foreign body sensation all appeared to be predictors of an abnormal meiboscore after adjusting for age and sex (p=0.0007; p=0.001; p=0.02; p=0.001, resp.). …”
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