Yoga: As a Transformative Approach to Addressing Male Infertility and Enhancing Reproductive Health in Men: A Narrative Review by Anjali Yadav, Prabhakar Tiwari, Rima Dada

“…By incorporating physical postures, breath control and meditation, yoga promotes emotional well-being and enhances reproductive health by improving the integrity of nuclear and mitochondrial genomes as well as the epigenome. …”
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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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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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Nursing Stress and Thought Control in a Multiperspectival Interpretive Phenomenological Analyses from the United Kingdom, United States and Switzerland by Yumna Ali, Syeda Farhana Kazmi

“…It is essential for nurses to practice mindfulness, meditation, thought control, and stress relief processes to work optimally. …”
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Les femmes et le confit politique nord-irlandais à l’écran : images d’une population exclue ou victime dans le film Maeve ? by Cécile Bazin

“…While it is very rare to see women’s political involvement in the Northern Irish conflict on screen, Maeve (Pat Murphy, 1981) projects specific images of the Troubles through a feminist meditation on the status of Catholic women coming from a Republican background in Northern Ireland. …”
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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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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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The Empty Stage in Edward Hopper’s Early Sunday Morning, Girlie Show, and Two Comedians by Philip Smith

“…By evoking the empty stage, Hopper’s work, I seek to demonstrate, invites meditations on the impermanence of stagecraft.…”
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Na pochybách. Pascal a Descartes by Gachonová, Kateřina

“…An attempt at the relativization of these compartmentalizing poles brings the author of the study to a starting point that is common to Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy and Pascal’s Pensées (Thoughts): the act of skepticism and radical doubt. …”

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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Transplantation et hybridation transculturelle dans la poésie d’Olive Senior by Myriam Moïse

“…A metaphor of the Caribbean biodiversity, Olive Senior’s poetry is a Creole meditation on Caribbean landscape and its processes of hybridization, proliferation and reproduction. …”
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Mezi filosofií a medicínou. Ke Kantovu překonání karteziánského dualismu mysli a těla by Pech, Robin

“…Since its basic assumption is that the body and mind of a person, however different they might be, are mutually connected so that the diseases of the body can be cured by way of the mind, it is the author’s interpretation that this concept is a peculiar attempt to overcome the substantive dualism of mind and body seen in Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy (1641). At the same time, however, Kant follows on from what Descartes himself attempted.…”

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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Marsolaire d’Amira de la Rosa. La violence occultée by Mercedes Ortega González-Rubio

“…Rape is a subject which has rarely triggered a profound meditation in the region’s literary manifestations, perhaps because it would imply a radical criticism of Caribbean society, therefore revealing the power relations which include part of an idiosyncrasy seen as legitimate and natural.…”
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Dark Aesthete: Gothic Elements in the Fiction of Walter Pater by Geoffrey Johnston Sadock

“…Walter Pater is today celebrated for his imaginary portraits, ekphrastic meditations on landscape, paintings, and sculpture; for his aesthetic method and prose style. …”
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DEKARTIŠKASIS DIEVO ĮRODYMAS: PRIELAIDOS IR INTENCIJOS by Skirmantas Jankauskas

“…DESCARTES' PROOF FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD: PREMISES AND INTENTIONS Skirmantas Jankauskas  Summary The article deals with Descartes’ Meditations, where his proof for the existence of God is taken as the starting point of the analysis. …”
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DEKARTIŠKASIS DIEVO ĮRODYMAS: PRIELAIDOS IR INTENCIJOS by Skirmantas Jankauskas

“…DESCARTES' PROOF FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD: PREMISES AND INTENTIONS Skirmantas Jankauskas  Summary The article deals with Descartes’ Meditations, where his proof for the existence of God is taken as the starting point of the analysis. …”
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