Mitos sobre el estreñimiento by Wendy J. Dahl

“…This 2-page Spanish-language fact sheet addresses common myths about constipation. Written by Wendy J. Dahl and published by the UF Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, May 2011. …”
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Koro Syndrome: Epidemiology, Psychiatric and Physical Risk Factors, Clinical Presentation, Diagnosis, and Treatment Options by Yukino N. Strong, David Y. Cao, Jessica Zhou, Maya A. Guenther, Danyon J. Anderson, Alan D. Kaye, Brian E. Blick, Prathima R. Anandi, Hirni Y. Patel, Ivan Urits

“…The condition typically affects young males who believe in sex-related myths, and many individuals can co-present with anxiety, depression, or even psychosis. …”
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கவிதா சொர்ண வல்லியின் சிறுகதையில் பாலின இடம் / The Place of Gender in the Short Stories of Kavitha Sornavalli... by முனைவர் அ. ஹெப்சி ரோஸ் மேரி / Dr. A. Hepsy Rose Mary

“…Kavita Sornavalli questions the myths about femininity that Tamil society has secretly built up over time with her stories unfolding them in the female voice. …”
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Tracking the Indigenous Sacred, Chidester-style by Rosalind I.J. Hackett

“…By adopting a more dynamic and open-ended approach to religion as a set of resources and strategies, Chidester provides critical insights on the production, appropriation, and interpretation of indigenous religious myths and ritualsin the post-apartheid setting. …”
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BLOCKCHAIN: PHILOSOPHY, TECHNOLOGY, APPLICATIONS AND RISKS by V. V. Godin, A. E. Terekhova

“…Blockchain infrastructure in implementation has been analyzed: reality and myths. An attention has been paid to current trends of blockchain usage in business and society in terms of opportunities, threats and risks. …”
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Living With Lovebugs by Norman C. Leppla

“…The author discusses several myths about these much-maligned creatures and describes some of the benefits they provide as well as tips for coping with them. …”
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Living With Lovebugs by Norman C. Leppla

“…The author discusses several myths about these much-maligned creatures and describes some of the benefits they provide as well as tips for coping with them. …”
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Energy Efficient Homes: Ceiling Fans by Kathleen C. Ruppert, Wendell A. Porter, Randal A. Cantrell, Hyun-Jeong Lee, Giovanna Marie Benitez

“…One of the myths about ceiling fans is that they lower the temperature in a room. …”
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Le film de mobilisation centrasiatique by Valérie Pozner

“…Of modest ambition, generally short, made with what was at hand by evacuated film-makers, these movies appealed to the local myths and to the major figures of the national pantheon. …”
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The Drug-Trafficking Economy and Its Dynamics in Latin America by Daniel Pontón C.

“…It is argued that with an economic understanding of drug trafficking one can capture the true capacity of infiltration and cooptation, analyze the wide variations in the supply and demand of these products and their impact on current dynamics of criminality in Latin America, and, lastly, de-construct several myths surrounding this economy. This opens the possibility for a new methodological framework for designing policies that seek to adapt state controlling, neutralization, and prevention capacities to the new and changing rationalities of the world economy of drug trafficking.…”
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« Chez nous, on ne tue pas le chien sans raison » by Christian Seignobos

“…For the societies of the northern Mandara Mountains (North Cameroon), the dog has kept a part of humanity up to sharing with the family the sacrifices to the ancestors’ manes and standing like a kind of guardian of the family morality.“Myths” set out to recall the eminent services dog rendered to mankind. …”
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Le corps morcelé de Dionysos by Frédérique Ildefonse

“…This article aims to show that the distinction between whole and part is an operator for the dismemberment of the Infant Dionysus and for its aftermath, distinct depending on the source. The opposing myths exceed the application of an opposition—even a complementary one—between unity and multiplicity, as shown by the parallel drawn between the dismembered body of Dionysus and that of Osiris. …”
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Memória coletiva de culturas do Nordeste by Domingos Sávio de Almeida Cordeiro

“…We present here some reflections beaconed in the capture of oral narratives in which residents identify symbolic contents of the city, its founder, the transmission and exchange of experiences, and we propose an outlook that it is essential to give place to the voices on the myths of social origin formation, because there are in them senses that echo in the subsistence of the symbolic order and provide references to local social groups.…”
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A morte de Odin? As representações do Ragnarök na arte das Ilhas Britânicas (séc. X) by Johnni Langer

“…For theoretical framework, we employ the ideas of Régis Boyer, Margaret Clunie Ross, Hilda Davidson and John Mckinell, concerning the Norse myths. Jérôme Baschet and Jean-Claude Schmitt will be used as a reference for analysis of images in the Medieval Period and Herne Fuglesang for interpretation of Nordic images.…”
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Ribeirinho Food Regimes, Socioeconomic Inclusion and Unsustainable Development of the Amazonian Floodplain by Tatiana Schor, Gustavo S. Azenha

“…The changing of alimentary habits is a strong indicator of changes in perceptions, uses, and engagements with nature in the Amazon, providing a useful vehicle for examining the gap between the myths of sustainability and the reality of rapid urbanization and changing livelihoods in the contemporary Amazon. …”
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Concepción de partida y prácticas profesionales de atención a la discapacidad en Bolivia by Marta García-Domingo, Virginia Fuentes, Maria Carmen Martín-Cano, Yolanda De-la-Fuente

“…Prevalence social and institutional isolation towards functional diversity is also identified, based on prejudices, myths and wrong beliefs not yet overcome. Then, medical and social care models coexist, as well as an intervention based on assistance and promotion.…”
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In the Shadow of the Volcano: the Etna Region in the modern Period by Emanuela Garofalo

“…The fascination aroused by volcanic eruptions throughout the centuries certainly contributed to the persistence of myths and the development of a collective imaginary, resulting in the construction of local identities that are deep-rooted in the strong character of the territory itself, with significant effects in the architectural sphere as well. …”
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Néotène, Hybrides et Chimères by Marika Moisseeff

“…In the West, the idea of man as a creature made by God in His own image has progressively given way to a biological conception that locates humanity’s specific place and ontology between those pertaining to two distinct species: the primates that preceded humans in the course of phylogenesis, and the species that will descend from them, such as the transgenic or chimerical entities that biotechnology should allow them to create. Like other myths in other times and places, works of science fiction portray hybrid beings that, in this case, reveal contemporary Western understandings of human nature. …”
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Power Relations in 2023 Merapi Eruption Management by Khuzaimah, Fransiscus Xaverius Sri Sadewo, Farid Pribadi

“…Amid the eruption, societal myths circulated, asserting that Merapi erupted to conceal mining-induced holes. …”
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Les chants du corps by Edoarda Barra

“…In the novels of Achilles Tatius and Longus the Sophist, two adolescent couples’ transition to adulthood and discovery of sexuality is punctuated by the myths of Syrinx and Echo. Because they rejected Pan, the two nymphs are dismembered; and while Syrinx becomes the god’s flute—an instrument used to test virginity during an ordeal—Echo reproduces Pan’s sound by blowing into his flute. …”
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