The Narrative Structure of Amy Tan’s ‘The Bonesetter’s Daughter’: Myth as a Critical Element by E. M. Karavaeva

“…It also helps guide Lu Ling, Liu Xin's daughter and Ruth's mother, out of the hazardous situation in China and sustains Lu Ling in times of alienation and hardship in America. …”
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De l’illusion à la culture ou le regard de Winnicott sur la créativité by Sylvie Zérillo

“…Later, the transitional area, transitional space, where creativity expresses itself through playing, provides the continuity of the relationship—which starts to loosen- between the infant and the mother. Lastly, as a grown-up, the transitional phenomena spread out, leaving space to a cultural area, in which the individual’s creativity expresses itself through the different elements of the cultural field (arts, religion, imaginary life, scientific and creative work . . .). …”
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Chamanisme féminin « contre nature » ? Menstruation, gestation et femmes chamanes parmi les Shipibo-Conibo de l’Amazonie occidentale by Anne-Marie Colpron

“…As well, they exercise their art at marriageable age, thus reconciling the roles of mother and shaman. This article demonstrates, through specific case studies, how these women are not seen to be limited by their biology: much like their male counterparts, they observe taboos which permit them to surpass their bodies and reach shamanic becoming.…”
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Untreated HSV Leading to Neonatal Death by Meghan Sawyer, Sharon Thomas

“… We discuss a case of a 10-day-old infant who presented in fulminant early-onset sepsis due to HSV (Herpes Simplex Virus), the patient ultimately succumbed to illness due to septic shock. The patient’s mother received a diagnosis of HSV in the days following delivery. …”
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Nuestra Madre Milpa Joven: una imagen de la totalidad efímera en un ritual wixárika by Regina Lira Larios

“…During an agricultural ritual celebrated in a family shrine in a Wixárika community of West Mexico, an assemblage composed by artefacts, parts of sacrificed animals and persons is produced in the course of an organized sequences of acts and recognized as Our Young Mother Corn Field (Tatei Waxa ‘iimari). We will show how each of its parts is created and manipulated throughout a ritual cycle, during interactions among humans in the ritual patio and among non humans in the ritual chant, while establishing plural and contradictory same sex, cross sex and Indian and Non-Indian relations. …”
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Analyse du parcours d’un élève « multi-dys » : être inclus ou s’inclure ? by Anne Dizerbo

“…It focuses on the case of a pupil in ordinary school, who suffers from several « dys» disorders, memory problems and rapid cognitive overload, and is based in particular on interviews with him and his mother. The analysis of his life course allows us to investigate the conditions, levers, and environments favorable to his inclusion, to the development of a feeling of well-being and to the construction of a capacity to interact with his environment, thus leading to a reflection on the challenges of valuing the expertise of the parents who assist their disabled child on a daily basis and on the narrative models available to the latter to elaborate his own life story.…”
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Humanité et dépassement dans l’œuvre de Ferran Delèris (1922-2009) by Joëlle Ginestet

“…To this heir to war accounts heard in his family –1870 and mainly 1914-1918 –, to this member of the Resistance movement during the second world war and to this witness of the conflicts that would lead to the French colonies independence, going back to his mother tongue seems to have stimulated him in his attempt to understand why a man agrees to fight. …”
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An Analysis of Factors that Influenced Students English Speaking Ability of Elementary School Teacher Education Students at STKIP Al Islam Tunas Bangsa by arimbi Pamungkas, Rahayu Soraya

“…The results of the research showed that the ability to speak English is influenced by several factors such as lack of vocabulary, lack of self-confidence, low motivation, mother tongue, and difficulties in pronunciation. …”
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Atrial Fibrillation as a Rare Complication of the Use of Nifedipine as a Tocolytic Agent: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Nikolina P. Docheva, Emily D. Slutsky, Roger Sandelin, James W. Van Hook

“…This type of cardiac arrhythmia may have considerable consequences for both the mother and the fetus. The aim of this case report and comprehensive review of the literature is to raise awareness.…”
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Repeated Doses of UVR Cause Minor Alteration in Cytokine Serum Levels in Humans by Joanna Narbutt, Aleksandra Lesiak, Malgorzata Skibinska, Anna Wozniacka, Anna Sysa-Jedrzejowska, Joalanta Lukamowicz, Henk van Loveren

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A Feminist Ethics of Abortion by Anna Réz

“…In particular, while Thomsonian accounts can successfully sidestep the conflict between the mother’s and the fetus’s rights, currently available feminist proposals can meaningfully transform but cannot eliminate this problem. …”
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Polyphonie et hantise dans Villette : quelques aspects du pacte de lecture by Isabelle Hervouet-Farrar

“…As early as the first three chapters (based on Paulina’s uncanny apparition at Bretton), the names of characters and places in Villette appear as cryptonyms pointing to an ever-present ghostly figure, the absent mother, a threat to the female subject’s autonomy. …”
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A brief overview of Bible translation in South Africa by E. A. Hermanson

“…Since the mid-1960s the Bible Society has facilitated functional-equivalent translations by teams of mother-tongue translators, and is currently completing the Old Testament in Southern Ndebele, the only South African official language without a complete Bible. …”
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The Social Construction of Motherhood in Bengali Folklore by Sraboni Chatterjee, Pranab Chatterjee

“…Four contexts are identified in Bengali folklore where the word mā (meaning ‘mother’) is used. The first involves a situation of basic and biologically prompted kinship. …”
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Uniparental maternal tetrasomy X co-occurrence with paternal nondisjunction: investigation of the origin of 48,XXXX by Keiko Shimojima Yamamoto, Sakurako Yamamoto, Taichi Imaizumi, Satoko Kumada, Toshiyuki Yamamoto

“…The parental origin of tetrasomy X in a female patient with developmental delay was analyzed; all four X chromosomes were derived from the mother, and there were no paternally derived sex chromosomes. …”
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JOHANNINE WOMEN AS PARADIGMS IN THE INDIAN CONTEXT by J. Thomaskutty

“…Women’s positive role and status in the Gospel of John enable us to understand them not merely as passive actors, but as active interlocutors and dialogue partners. Persons such as the mother of Jesus, the Samaritan woman, Mary and Martha of Bethany, and Mary Magdalene appear in the Gospel of John as representative figures and rhetorical characters. …”
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Présentations de Londres : Ackroyd, Moorcock, Sinclair et l’éthique de l’adjacence by Jean-Michel Ganteau

“…This article focuses on three contemporary novels that are emblematic of the canon of the contemporary London novel: Peter Ackroyd’s Hawksmoor, Michael Moorcock’s Mother London and Iain Sinclair’s White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings. …”
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A Physician’s Nightmare: Fever of Unknown Origin by Sana Din, Farrukh Anwer, Mirza Beg

“…The patient underwent splenectomy and was advised to continue on Senna, Miralax, and high fiber diet. Her mother reported that the fever is no longer present and there is marked improvement in her constipation and abdominal pain after splenectomy.…”
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English communicative competence and predominant language for online use through smartphones in Croatia as compared to Slovenia by Varga Mirna, Jurkovič Violeta, Sierocka Halina

“…The findings indicate that in both nationality groups the use of English prevails in receptive language activities, in particular listening and audio-visual reception, while mother tongues are mainly used for productive and interactive activities. …”
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Spinozism, Kabbalism, and Idealism from Johann Georg Wachter to Moses Mendelssohn by Mogens Laerke

“…Here, I follow this history further back than and focus on one earlier idealist reading, indeed perhaps the mother of them all. It can be found in the Elucidarius cabalisticus, sive reconditae Hebraeorum philosophiae brevis et succincta recensio by Johann Georg Wachter, a kabbalist interpretation of Spinoza published in 1706. …”
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