Effectiveness of mental health interventions for older adults in South Asia: A scoping review. by Hoimonty Mazumder, Farah Faizah, Easter Protiva Gain, Irfath Sharmin Eva, Kaniz Ferdouse Mou, Nobonita Saha, Farzana Rahman, Jyoti Das, A M Khairul Islam, Fazilatun Nesa, M Mahbub Hossain

“…Across studies, mental health interventions can be broadly categorized into the following types- 1) traditional Yoga, Tai chi, or other meditative movements; 2) behavioral, occupational, or learning-based interventions; 3) tech-based interventions; 4) music therapy; and 5) new healthcare model. …”
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Using virtual reality mediation in a workplace setting for employees with disabilities: A pilot study by Hung Jen Kuo, Nigel Newbutt, Sarah George, Michael Laird

“…One such innovation use case is the integration of VR meditation practices. VR meditation offers a promising avenue to enhance the well-being of individuals with disabilities in the workplace by providing an immersive method to manage stress, enhance focus, and foster relaxation. …”
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À la fin, tout i/y passe by Jean-Marie Privat

“…The focal point will first be the hand’s role in Flaubert’s scriptural handicraft, the scribe’s fleeting meditations on the language artifacts of his literature and the graphic meditations of the writer struggling with the arbitrariness of linguistic linearity. …”
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SHARIA CONTEMPLATION IN THE WORLD OF SUFISM: SYNERGIZING ACPECTS OF HAQIQA AND SHARIA IN THE SUFISTIC DIMENSION by Amir Maliki Abitolkha

“…Contemplation of Shari›a as one of the spiritual practices emphasizes the importance of meditation and emptying the mind from everything except Allah SWT. …”
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Wikipedia and archival problems: A Derridean impression by Dominic Pretorius

“… As much as Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression is Jacques Derrida’s meditation on the notion of archives as it relates to Sigmund Freud, the person and the psychoanalytic tradition, many of his insights can be applied to theories of the archive in general. …”
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Creating smiles: a case study on the transformational power of dental CAD/CAM technology by Zeina Darwich, Atef Darwich, Marwan Al-Raeei, Chadi Azmeh

“…The study emphasizes the applications of CAD/CAM technology and showcases the state-of-the-art Medit i700 intraoral scanner for detailed dental impression scanning. …”
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« J’ai lu votre livre » by Marion Marx

“…Indeed, this long letter, written in French, adopts the form of a true poetic meditation, at least doubly addressed: to Natalie Clifford Barney and, secondly and implicitly, to Sappho. …”
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Childhood trauma and subclinical PTSD symptoms predict adverse effects and worse outcomes across two mindfulness-based programs for active depression. by Nicholas K Canby, Elizabeth A Cosby, Roman Palitsky, Deanna M Kaplan, Josie Lee, Golnoosh Mahdavi, Adrian A Lopez, Roberta E Goldman, Kristina Eichel, Jared R Lindahl, Willoughby B Britton

“…Study 2 also examined meditation-related side effects (MRSE) and MRAE as outcomes and current subclinical and past PTSD symptoms as predictors. …”
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Editorial by Editor

“…The study discusses how guided visualization practices within this meditation technique contribute to emotional regulation, empathy, and mental clarity. …”
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Mindfulness Intervention for Health Information Avoidance in Older Adults: Mixed Methods Study by Chenyu Gu, Liquan Qian, Xiaojie Zhuo

“…In addition, it evaluates the effectiveness of mindfulness meditation as an intervention strategy to mitigate these behaviors. …”
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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 dental health and technology. Contributions and contradictions by Zhenia Véliz Águila, Virgina Pentón García, Bárbara Prado Lemus, Isabel Noriega Cabrera, Limaisi Brunet Herrera, Irma Sueiro Sánchez

“…Presently article is meditated on the narrow existent relationship between the terms information, technology and health in Stomatology and some contradictions that reveal the importance of understanding the techno-science, demonstrating the importance of this relationship as the basis and driving force which will result in the development related to health, which will help to improve every day functioning and quality of dental services.…”
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DIGITAL AND ESTHETIC APPROACHES TO THE ASSESSMENT OF GINGIVAL AND DENTAL PARAMETERS by Andra Ardelean, Roxana Buzatu, Otilia-Cornelia Bolos, Laura-Cristina Rusu, Anca Tudor, Marius Traian Leretter

“…Intraoral scans of the dental arches were performed using the Medit i700 scanner to obtain virtual 3D models. In the Medit Design application, measurements were taken of the distance between the zenith of the maxillary lateral incisor and the line connecting the zeniths of the maxillary central incisor and canine on the same hemi-arch, along with measurements of the width and height of the maxillary central incisor, calculating their proportions accordingly. …”
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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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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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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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O espaço dos possíveis, de Pierre Bourdieu by Maria Thereza Rosa Ribeiro

“…In the reference of participant objectification, the interface between phenomenology and “Pascalian meditations” is opposed to positivism and scientific rationalism.…”
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