This article presents an innovative reading of humour within the classic Spanish postwar novel, El Jarama by Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio (1955), typically deemed dispassionate, solemn, and deadly serious. Grounding its interpretation in Humour Studies, it explores undercurrents desolate, almost deliberately non-funny amusement that encourage stifled laughter from bleak situations, before immediatel...

BACKGROUND Cochlear implant in children, speech perception and oral language, hearing and oral language performance in children with pre-lingual profound sensory-neural hearing impairment, users of cochlear implant. AIM To study the hearing and oral language performance of children with pre-lingual bilateral profound sensory neural hearing impairment, users of multi-channel cochlear implant c...

Abstract Recent research has criticized medieval Jewish thought for perpetuating misogynist models inherited from Aristotle, which legitimate men’s domination of women. Critics have focused on hylomorphism. By identifying man with “form” and women “matter,” Aristotle his disciples placed the former beside being, intellect, activity, latter privation, irrationality, passivity. This article shows...

To investigate social influences on human suckling behavior, 25 healthy, full term, 7 to 14-week-old infants were each bottle-fed their own formula twice by their mother and once in each of four experimental conditions: (a) held, provided social interaction; (b) held, without interaction; (c) not held, provided interaction; (d) not held, without interaction. Volume intake (VI), Total Sucks, inf...

The regulation of metabolism in fed and fasted states is governed by hormonal and nutrient-derived signals that are mediated in part by nuclear receptors. Just as insulin and glucagon help the body store and mobilize energy through their membrane receptors, nutrient-derived lipids activate their cognate nuclear receptors (e.g., FXR and PPARs) to govern transcriptional programs involved in energ...