Risk communication and policymaking: examining participation context, digital media, and scientific evidence

Risk communication may shape how risks are defined and addressed by policy. This study examines stakeholders' risk communication practices within participatory approaches to policymaking through a multiple-case study design, covering both top-down and bottom-up pathways. The study pursues three interrelated objectives: to examine the forms of knowledge through which stakeholders communicate risk, including lived experience, situated accounts of perceived risk, and judgments of policy feasibil...

Sexual Non-Occurrence: Celibacy in Elizabeth Bowens Interwar Fiction

This article examines the structuring tension between the occurrence and non-occurrence of sexual events in Elizabeth Bowens novels Friends and Relations (1931) and The House in Paris (1935), arguing that the conflict between sex and celibacy operates as a central narrative motor in her interwar fiction. Reframing this dynamic through the related distinction between occurrence, non-occurrence, and event, I suggest that Bowens novels are organized not simply around sexual acts or their...

Translation, cultural adaptation, and validation of the international patient decision aid standards minimal criteria instrument for the portuguese population

Introduction. Patient decision aids support health care decision making by dynamically integrating evidence-based information with patients' values, goals, and preferences. However, most of these aids are available only in English, limiting accessibility for non-English-speaking populations. Although Portuguese is one of the most spoken languages worldwide, validated decision aids and evaluation instruments in Portuguese remain scarce. Objectives. To translate, culturally adapt, and conduct p...

Sedução e honra no Auto dos Enfatriões

The masculine main characters of Auto dos Enfatriões' two narratives, Feliseu and Anfatrião, show, with their sayings and doings, the functioning of two important categories of masculinity: seduction and honour. This study aims to explore how Feliseu and Anfatrião's masculine subjectivity develops around the tension between their desires and wants and the inevitability of the sixteenth-century hegemonic ideals of "being a man". If Feliseu's case shows the intricacies of seduction, even endowe...