Prevalence and correlates of loneliness in the later life—insights from Longitudinal Ageing Study in India (LASI) Wave-1 by Priya Srivastava, Manushi Srivastava

“…Conclusion: Not being in a marital union, having more than two chronic conditions, more than two ADL and IADL difficulties, being physically inactive, non-involvement in Yoga/Meditation, and small social network are associated with higher loneliness.…”
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Ermenautica: A Way of Life for Another Kind of Republic? Some personal remarks by Tarek Elhaik

“…The article is a meditation on Ermenautica, a collective of anthropologists, navigators, activists, cultural mediators, and marine lovers based alongside the Tyrrhenian Sea in the Mediterranean. …”
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“Vuelvo y te desconozco”: vocabulario místico y vuelcos espirituales en Báculo de Babel de Blanca Andreu by Lucía Méndez Soria

“…This article analyses the second collection of poems by Blanca Andreu (A Coruña, 1959), a series of apocalyptic visions that mark a spiritual journey and a meditation on the transformative and revealing power of poetry as on the prevalence of a sacred nature of language. …”
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The spiritual mentality profile of female pietists on the South African frontier, 1750-1860 by A. W. G. Raath

“…Such a  reconstruction of the religious mentality profile of pietistic women on the frontier reveals a number of important aspects for understanding their spiritual life: self-awakenings and conversions; self-purification; self-illumination and mystically tainted experiences; recollection and the experience of quiet; meditation, contemplation, ecstasy and rapture; spiritual desertion, and abandonment of the soul and the unitive life with God in Christ. …”
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Lévi-Strauss et l’Asie. L’anthropologie structurale « out of America » by Frédéric Keck

“…If Lévi-Strauss seems to devalorize Asia in the literary meditation of Tristes tropiques, he revalorizes it in his scientific writings, seeing it as a continuation of America where phenomena of division and transformation of societies occur with greater length. …”
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Notes on an Ex White Man’s Form of Life Toward Social Death by Andrew Santana Kaplan

“…More precisely, this paper takes Du Bois’s reading of John Brown as a meditation upon what Nahum Chandler describes as the “soul of an ex White man.” …”
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To Be Real, or Not To Be Real, That Is The Question: A Content Analysis of Augmented Reality Articles in Advertising and Marketing Journals from 2017 to 2021 by Damla Karşu Cesur

“…The most statistical analysis performed in these articles was meditation analysis, while the research respondents were generally students.…”
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Cidade de Deus: entre o testemunho e a ficção by Sandro R. Barros

“…The analysis of Lins's novel under the testimonial rubric allows for a meditation on questions related to any fictional text whose content stands too close to factually recognizable events, which takes the literary work and its possible classifications to an ontological cri- sis whose repercussions problematize literature as a vehicle of social denuncia- tion, and the author as the mediator of such a process.…”
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Scoping Review of PTSD Treatments for Natural Disaster Survivors by Arjun Nanduri, Marlon Vasquez, Savithri Chandana Veluri, Noshene Ranjbar

“…The included interventions were, pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, herbal supplements, CBT, yoga, narrative exposure therapy, acupuncture stimulation, web-based interventions, and a multimodal art and meditation program. CBT is considered the standard of care for general PTSD treatment and was also found to be effective for the treatment of natural disaster-related PTSD symptoms. …”
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Die prediker as preek: basisteoretiese perspektiewe uit Handelinge by C. J. H. Venter, H. K. Kim

“…Issues relating to attitude in prayer and in Scripture reading, meditation and application of the Word are investigated as these contribute to the congruence between preacher and sermon. …”
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ANNALYTICAL BENCHMARKS IN THE WORK “ON A SUN DIAL II” FOR CLARINET B FLAT AND RECITER BY PETRU STOIANOV by Cristian BENCE-MUK

“… On a sun dial II by Petru Stoianov, for clarinet and reciter strats from Nichita Stănescu’s verses (like many others of the composer’s opuses) and offers sonorous meditation on the poetic text. From a musical point of view, we distinguish an outlook where musical morphology subordinates its syntax through the supremacy of cellular-motivic thinking, with “parsimony of means”. …”
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Événement et trauma dans Doctor Atomic de John Adams by Mathieu Duplay

“…John Adams’s 2005 opera Doctor Atomic, written in collaboration with Peter Sellars, is a case in point, not only because it deals with one of the most violent traumas in 20th‑century history—namely the nuclear test conducted at Los Alamos prior to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki—but also because, in addition to offering a potent meditation on the unthinkable, it reveals that all events, be they historical or aesthetic, call for new and as yet unformulated modes of thought ; as psychoanalysis suggests (sometimes in spite of itself), this is a clear sign of their traumatic nature.…”
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The spirituality of bishop Karol Wojtyla - John Paul II in his own notes by Jan Machniak

“…They are giving the possibility to enter in the mystery of the soul of John Paul II, to know his life of prayer, meditation and his relation to God and to Blessed Virgin Mary.…”
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Exploiting Body and Place in Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Catherine Lanone

“…Tess’s plight may be exceptional, but the exception is part of a wider meditation on instability and seasonal flux, as mutations tear the rural social fabric. …”
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From Evaluation to Prediction: Behavioral Effects and Biological Markers of Cognitive Control Intervention by Bin Xuan

“…Although the intervention effectiveness of cognitive control is disputed, some methods, such as single-task training, integrated training, meditation, aerobic exercise, and transcranial stimulation, have been reported to improve cognitive control. …”
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MINDFUL HAPPINESS NOWADAYS: by B Lemmelijn

“…Indeed, we discern them in the monastic tradition, in medieval mysticism, in the (re-)new(ed) tendencies of Christian meditation, in the Biblical texts, and especially in Biblical Wisdom Literature. …”
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Cierpienie i radość w duchowości św. Urszuli Ledóchowskiej by Marcin Godawa

“…Following via affective meditation Christ’ life she shows that human and religious problems can be placed in a perspective of heavenly joyfulness to be transformed according to a plan of salvation and a mystery of the Cross. …”
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The Edible I in Kim Fu’s For Today I Am a Boy by Veronica Austen

“…In this novel’s portrayal of Peter (see note 3), the trans woman protagonist, images of food and acts of eating (or the denial of these acts) are deployed as a meditation on the navigation of body, hence of self. …”
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Writing (at) the End: Thomas Pynchon’s Bleeding Edge by Brian Chappell

“…But the novel concludes with an extended meditation on family love and female friendship, in a way that conveys Pynchon’s source of hope. …”
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Konfrontacja ascetyki Hieronima ze Strydonu i Pelagiusza z Brytanii na podstawie wybranych dzieł by Anita Mularczyk-Budzan

“…Jerome’s asceticism was based on the allegorical reading and meditation of the Holy Scriptures, while Pelagius represented the moralistic approach to Bible and Christian life. …”
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