Код-«мусор» – кривой почерк – опечатка: несовершенство как литературный приём в цифровой эре by Ellen Rutten

“…Blockbusters shot with cheap cameras, trash fashion, consciously blurry photos, glitch music: for the cultural producers and consumers of these and other aesthetic practices, the unpolished object is not a taboo but rather an asset or a hallmark of sincerity, authenticity, and other positive values. …”
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Mythe et colonies dans l’Allemagne de Weimar by Catherine Repussard

“…All attempts at emancipation, including the young pearl diver Matahi’s forbidden love for the beautiful girl, come up against the immutable taboo dictated by the priest Hitu, who represents Tradition (and murders Matahi), and are doomed to end in death. …”
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Quest Narratives and Heroine Journeys: the road to freebirth and the joy of undisturbed physiological birth by Gemma McKenzie

“…Freebirth (intentionally giving birth without doctors or midwives present) is a taboo and stigmatised birthing decision. In this study, 16 women who had freebirthed their babies in the UK were interviewed, and the data was analysed using the voice-centred relational method (VCRM). …”
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Managing Air Traffic Flow With Link Flow Rate Control: A Pure Integer Programming Model With More Accurate Link Connection Modeling by Han Zhong, Lai Wei, Wei Guan, Wenyi Zhang

“…Besides a new chromosome coding rule for converting binary decision into time series vectors, the algorithm uses a taboo mutation operator and an adaptive mutation probability selection operator. …”
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« Absence, ténèbres, silence et poussière ». La scénographie d’outre-tombe dans les Mémoires d’Alexandre de Tilly by Katrien Horemans

“…The initial hypothesis is that all those who strived to unveil their private lives to the eyes of the public in the French (pre)modern period had to negotiate their appearance on the public stage in order to circumvent an ‘autobiographical taboo’ that weighed heavily on discourses of the self. …”
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Les « faux » mariages homosexuels de Sidi Ali au Maroc : enjeux d’un scandale médiatique by Florence Bergeaud-Blackler, Victor Eck

“…Are the "Marriage" of Ksar el Kebir and Sidi Ali a demonstration Morocco is ready to break the taboo of homosexuality through of an homosexual "pride" ? …”
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A Narrative Inquiry to Explore Lived Experiences of Women Pursuing PhDs in South Africa by Lianne Keiller, Abigail Ruth Dreyer

“…Adding in the complexity and challenges of pursuing a PhD to the existing burden placed on women in a gender-segregated environment can be taboo. In this paper, a novel methodology of Narrative Inquiry of reflective writing is used to explore the stories that may be difficult to articulate. …”
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A Case of Cachexia Secondary to Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder by Hailey L. Gosnell, Anita S. Kablinger

“…Symptoms are broken down into five categories of obsessive-compulsive (O-C) manifestations: contamination/cleaning, symmetry/ordering, taboo thoughts, doubt about harm/checking, and worry about throwing away items that could prove useful or valuable/hoarding. …”
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Empowering employers to address domestic violence and its impact on the workplace by Adriana Marques Silva, Joaquim Pinto Contreiras, Ana Patricia Duarte

“…The results include recurring themes, such as domestic violence as a taboo subject, the difficulty of detecting this crime at work despite extant well-established indicators of this problem, its repercussions for teams, unawareness of specifically related labour laws and the need to train and inform workers. …”
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The Critical Survey of Evolution in Common Persian Slang Lexicography “By Emphasizing on Twelve Common Persian Slang Lexicons” by Ghodsie Rezvanian, Siyavash Haghjoo, Leila Darvish Ali Pour Astaneh

“…From Ghaghara era up to now, around 60 lexicons gathered but unawareness to methods and configuration of methods in micro and major structure for lexicography, the old approach to slang, low vision to slang in comparison with formal language, fear of destroying taboo words in formal language from cultural statecraft which caused more gathering merchant lexicon and unnoticed in university meetings. …”
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‘It’s a secret in my life’: frontstage and backstage experiences of women undergoing induced abortions in a rural community of Pakistan by Rubeena Slamat, Piet Bracke, Melissa Ceuterick

“…Abstract Abortion is taboo in Pakistani society, and it is stigmatised throughout the country, regardless of legal permission. …”
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Having Your Cake: Caricaturing the Business Organization in 20th-century and Contemporary American Art and Poetry by David Reckford

“…Many artists, from Henri Matisse to Marc Rothko, have turned their heads away from the business organization, although it is a cornerstone of society in the modern capitalist era; conversations with the business world have indeed been a taboo for artists of the avant-garde particularly, which explains why some artists have been taking the contrarian position of making business part of their subject. …”
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The initiation of a young plower: Between myth and reality. First turf by M. Đ. Glišić in the context of oral folklore and traditional culture of the Serbs by Perić Dragoljub Ž., Jokić Jasmina S.

“…This semiotic interpretation conducted here was carried out at the level of analysis of space and time, actors, actions, communication, as well as the analysis of their accompanying elements (taboo regulations, ritual behavior, props, food and drink, etc.) related to the plowing the first furrow in the context of the ritual of maturation. …”
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Do words compete as we speak? A systematic review of picture-word interference (PWI) studies investigating the nature of lexical selection by Korko Małgorzata, Bose Arpita, Jones Alexander, Coulson Mark, de Mornay Davies Paul

“…Some of the manipulations that have furnished reliable effects (e.g., distractor taboo interference) do not discriminate between the rival theories. …”
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Experiences of Psychosocial Support in Group Rehabilitation Interventions from Adults with Chronic Conditions – A Qualitative Systematic Review by Jenny Mäkeläinen, Ulla Jämsä, Anne Oikarinen, Maria Kääriäinen, Heidi Siira

“…Healthcare professionals have an important role in initiating conversations about topics which may be taboo. Professionals should recognize participants’ individualized needs for information and support, and foster group dynamics by supporting open communication and reflection.…”
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Digital Representations of Illness: Key Issues in Cancer Patient Narratives by Jennifer Moreno

“…Preliminary findings show that, although the word ‘cancer’ seems to be commonly used by English-speaking cancer patients, they do not often talk about death, especially about their own, suggesting that death may still be a taboo in our society. In addition, as reflected in their narratives, patients seem to change their life expectations, values and priorities after living with cancer. …”
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Perspectives on delivering sexual and reproductive health and rights information and services to young people: focus group discussions with civil society organizations in the Democ... by Landry Egbende, Viviane Mayala, Branly Mbunga, Nina Viberg, Mala Ali Mapatano, Tobias Alfvén, Eva Åkerman

“…The most common barrier in delivering SRHR information was the widespread view of sexuality as a taboo subject in communities and churches as well as in young people’s families. …”
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Discovering The Significant Potential of Edible Insects In Food, Feed, And Drug Security by Elias Mjaika Ndifon, Chidiebere Prince Osuji Emeka, Paul Inyang, Emmanuel Ankrumah

“…No insect consumption taboo was reported in the region.  Therapeutic use of insects was reported by 86.9% of the respondents. …”
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Conservation communautaire et changement de statuts du bonobo dans le Territoire de Bolobo by Victor Narat, Flora Pennec, Sabrina Krief, Jean Christophe Bokika Ngawolo, Richard Dumez

“…Locally, the MMT conservation project has sought to bolster a waning taboo on the eating of bonobos, complementing it with on bonobos and has strengthened it with national and international laws on bonobo protection. …”
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Eco-activist imagery in literary texts for children (a case study of English postmodern fairy tales and short stories) by Alla Tsapiv, Mariia Andrieieva

“…While some topics remain taboo for young readers, others are increasingly prevalent, gradually replacing magical worlds with more realistic, thought-provoking imagery. …”
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