A Study on Risk and Expense Evaluation of Agility Supply Management of Machinery by Mohammad Heydari, Kin Keung Lai

“…We provide a technical assessment and critique of the existing literature via highlighting problems associated with conceptualization and technical improvement of agility practices. By presenting a narrative evaluation of the technical review, we underscore the nature of the SC hazard in addition to agility practices and furnish a synthesis for future studies. …”
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Policy analysis in sport: a review of mainstream meso-level frameworks and developing more sustainable policy for grassroots sport by Charles Mountifield

“…This research outlines how meso-level frameworks have been applied in sport policy and issues linked to sustainability from a grassroots policy perspective. A narrative literature review provides an overview of prevalent approaches, namely Institutional Analysis, the Multiple Streams Framework, Policy Network Theory, and the Advocacy Coalition Framework. …”
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Third-wave therapies in inflammatory bowel disease: the outline therapy to reduce psychological stress, anxiety and depression in IBD adult patients by Daniele Ferrarese, Federica Di Vincenzo, Giorgia Spagnolo, Daniela Pia Rosaria Chieffo, Marco Pizzoferrato

“…Third-wave therapies, such as Mindfulness-based intervention and Acceptance Commitment Therapy, are new forms of psychotherapy, which, based on scientific evidence, have been widely demonstrated to be effective in IBD patients. This narrative review provides an overview of the current state of the art regarding the use of third-wave therapies in the management of adult IBD patients, suggesting that they may represent a therapeutic option for the management of psychological stress, anxiety, and depression in these patients.…”
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"Recalling-ls-Greatest": Personal Memory and Lyricism in Toyin Falola's A Mouth Sweeter than Salt and Counting the Tiger's Teeth by Felicia Ohwovoriole

“…In presenting actions in the two self-narratives, Toyin Faiola exploits the resources of indigenous and contemporary African songs, incantatory chants and transliterated version of many lyrics. …”
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Anton de Kom, historiographe. La construction d’un passé national pour les esclaves du Surinam by Kim Andringa

“…Two historical sources in particular serve this aim: Geschiedenis van Suriname (1861) by Julien Wolbers, an abolitionist minister, and the famous Narrative of a Five Years Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam (1796) by John Gabriel Stedman, Scottish adventurer. …”
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From the Blitz to the Boer War, Re-presenting (Inter)National and Colonial Wars and Personal Traumas: Craig Higginson’s The Landscape Painter as a lyrical epic by Mathilde Rogez

“…Written from a country still probing its own wounds almost a century and half later, The Landscape Painter (2011), Craig Higginson’s fourth novel, intertwines representations of conflicts in both the then colony and the metropolis, and combines genres and mediums: in the same way the painter of the title alternates between the sublime and the picturesque, the author mingles the lyrical, the epic and the plaasroman (or farm novel), so as to question traditional national narratives. After a series of wars which have broken the characters’ minds and maimed their bodies, language itself has been affected, disarticulated, so that the novel simultaneously questions how to re-present or commemorate those conflicts, both far and close, (inter)national, colonial and personal, the political and the esthetic being thus intimately entangled.…”
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Saillance des îlots textuels dans un corpus de presse britannique sur le Brexit et conséquences interprétatives associées by Laure Cataldo

“…The purpose of this contribution is to examine, in a British press corpus of 90 articles dealing with Brexit, the segments inserted between inverted commas within the narrative speech of the journalist (called “îlots textuels” in French) and to highlight the interpretative effects underlying their use by the journalist. …”
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Vulnerability and Shame in the Writing of the Female Body: Emilie Pine’s Notes to Self by Lucía Bennett-Ortega

“…Drawing on vulnerability studies and feminist criticism, I argue that the vulnerability and shame surrounding women’s bodies are reframed as agentic forces, motivating Pine to craft a distinctly feminist narrative. Through a confessional and feminist style that resonates with French feminists’ concept of “écriture féminine,” Pine’s writing transforms personal experience into political critique. …”
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Transcendence of the Human Far Beyond AI—Kafka’s <i>In the Penal Colony</i> and Schopenhauerian Eschatology by Søren Robert Fauth

“…Through a close reading of the narrative <i>In the Penal Colony</i>, it is demonstrated that this yearning is far more radical and uncompromising than the modern vision of extending and optimizing human life. …”
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"A watering of her desert": Depression and (Dis)consolation in Jenny Diski’s Monkey’s Uncle by Diane GAGNERET

“…This paper will dwell on how contentious the notion of consolation reveals itself to be in a narrative which, steeped in experiences of loss and mourning, seems to foster disconsolation understood alternately as dismissal of, diversion from and reversal of expected consolatory practices and effects. …”
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Nepomucká sousoší v Olomouci a v Žarošicích a jejich východočeské paralely. Příspěvek k poznání barokního sochařství na Moravě by Pavel Panoch

“…It finds the inspiration of these fully narrative themes in the literary tradition of martyr´s official hagiography, in the writings of the patriotic Jesuit Bohuslav Balbinus (Vita B. …”
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Taking Place and Finding One’s Place: Unhomely Events in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007) and Exit West (2017) by Maëlle Jeanniard du Dot

“…Putting home and event in perspective with, on the one hand, Sigmund Freud's Unheimlichkeit and its narrative manifestations, and, on the other hand, a geographical take on appearance, it discusses how Hamid's migrant subjects channel their multifaceted identities through global events which are at once strange and foreign. …”
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The Circulation of Icons in Planetary - Pictures, Popular Culture and Materiality by Nicolas LABARRE, Laura PERNA, Errol RIVERA

“…The main character in the story is an amnesiac who rediscovers this buried history—seeing the images anew, yet knowing he has experienced them before—a device which allows the trajectory of the narrative and the experience of the reader to coincide. …”
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Joyful Encounters: Learning to Play Well with Machines by Sandry Eleanor, Peaty Gwyneth

“…These encounters are often shaped by stories about the capabilities of machines and humans, while the interactions themselves go on to provoke new narratives. Although human– machine interaction can be theorized as ‘cyborg’ or ‘hybrid’, this paper argues that adopting the idea of the ‘assemblage’ is a better way recognize the flexibility of bringing disparate humans and machines together, whether in relation to playing a game or playing music. …”
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Performance Methodologies in Suicide Prevention Research: Queerness, Colonization, and Co-Performative Witnessing in Indigenous Community by Antonia R. G. Alvarez

“…Sections from the performative text, including voices from the participants, as well as feedback gathered from performances of the research, are woven together with academic narrative to form a creative and critical report of the research.…”
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Moral distress in pediatric nurses: A scoping review protocol. by Haiyan Zhou, Huiling Liao, Yuanyuan Huang, Qin Lin, Xin Wang, Huimin Li, Fang Wu, Sha Yang

“…Relevant data will be extracted, categorized, and subjected to narrative synthesis to draw comprehensive insights.…”
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The Conspiracist Strategy: Lessons from American Alternative Health Promotions by Gad Yair

“…Their graphics and apocalyptic narratives necessitate patients to take swift actions. …”
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Recovering the Loss: Infanticide, Ambivalence and Trauma in Shobha Rao’s The Lost Ribbon by Mitali Mishra, Surbhi Saraswat

“…This paper examines the narrative The Lost Ribbon from Shobha Rao’s 2006 collection An Unrestored Woman through the lens of Motherhood Studies. …”
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« I am the Resurrection and the Life » : Sydney Carton, ou les modalités du retour d’une figure familière dans A Tale of Two Cities by Isabelle Hervouet-Farrar

“…His ambiguous characterization shows a constant combination of the motifs of exclusion from and integration within a group, both at the diegetic and narrative levels. Sydney Carton’s oxymoronic characterization is never satisfactorily explained to the reader, and an analysis of the part he plays as Charles Darnay’s double simply emphasizes the motif of exclusion. …”
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Tat[o]ueur : pouvoirs du tatouage dans Little Tulip, de Jerome Charyn et François Boucq by Sophie Vallas

“…Drawing and tatooing are at the heart of the narrative, both Charyn and Boucq attempting to probe their powers: when Pavel/Paul becomes an artist in the Gulag, he learns to adorn captive bodies with insignia that reflect the strict hierarchy of the camp or with codified symbols that tell the stories of the criminals’ lives, but he also learns to penetrate those savage men’s personalities and thus to save his own skin by beautifully inking the skins of others. …”
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