Challenges of Diabetes Self-Management in Adults Affected by Food Insecurity in a Large Urban Centre of Ontario, Canada by Justine Chan, Margaret DeMelo, Jacqui Gingras, Enza Gucciardi

“…To explore how food insecurity affects individuals’ ability to manage their diabetes, as narrated by participants living in a large, culturally diverse urban centre. …”
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Community hydric monitoring: homegrown knowledge as local and environmental defense in Argentina, Peru and Colombia by Astrid Ulloa, Julieta Godfrid, Gerardo Damonte, Catalina Quiroga, Ana Paula López

“…These exchanges aim to generate counter-narratives about water quality, as well as to develop a defense strategy against mining. …”
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Validation of the Evidentiary Power of the Confessions Presented in the Prosecution by Seyyed Mohammad Mehdi Sadati, Fazlollah Foroughi, Amin , Jalili

“…It seems that the criminal legislator, relying on evidence such as the narrations that tell about the necessity of confession before the judge, the lack of the place and audience for confession, i.e. the lack of the institution of the prosecution in the judicial cycle of the Islamic judicial system, the institutionalized caution in the criminal policy of Islam in proving crimes, has inclined to the conclusion that To demote non-judicial evidence from "reason" to "judicial evidence". …”
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Need for cognitive closure, political trust, and belief in conspiracy theories during the COVID-19 pandemic by Alexander Jedinger, Lena Masch

“…The need for cognitive closure and general political trust was assessed before the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, while belief in COVID-19 conspiracy theories and specific trust in handling the crisis was fielded during the second wave of the pandemic.ResultsWe find that individuals with a high need for cognitive closure are more likely to accept conspiracy narratives, but the effect size is small. At the same time, pre-pandemic trust and concurrent trust in political and medical institutions are strongly negatively related to conspiracy beliefs. …”
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Dominant Discourses About What It Means to Be “Good” at Mathematics: How High-Achieving Young Women Negotiate Tensions Within Their Evolving STEM Identities by Terrie Galanti, Nancy Holincheck

“…In this investigation, we used a framework of dichotomies within dominant discourses about what it means to be “good” at mathematics to interpret retrospective narratives from a larger phenomenological study of accelerated mathematics course-taking. …”
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Rethinking Gender and Epistemic Injustice: A Comparative Study of Male and Female Breast Cancer Memoirs by Mahua Bhattacharyya, Ajit K Mishra

“…Breast cancer patients can negotiate credibility deficit, identity crisis, and existential crisis caused by epistemic injustice through narrating. Taking from Fricker’s epistemic injustice, later contextualised in formal healthcare by Kidd and Carel, this study considers both the male and the female points of view to identify subtle instances of injustice and ways to overcome it. …”
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OVERCOMING THE CULTURAL DIFFERENCES: PARABLE AS A MEANS OF INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE by Tetyana V. Danylova

“…Owing to its archetypical form, parable becomes one of the most popular narratives illustrating deep and multi-faceted truths that sometimes cannot be expressed by any other way. …”
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Ayuka’s Title of Daichin Khan: Examining Tibetan-Language Sources by Bembya L. Mitruev

“…So, the article introduces a variety of messages dealing with the ruling era of Khan Ayuka and narrating how the latter received the title of Daichin Khan from the then Dalai Lama. …”
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What Drives Innovation and How Its Relevance is Established. A Perspective on Electric Vehicle Promotion in La Rochelle and Gothenburg : 1989-2000 by Marika Rupeka

“…On all three levels by means of motivations, attitudes, vocabularies, and methods corporate cultures and agendas translate into the narratives arguing the relevance of territorial innovation.…”
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Eurocentric Beauty Standards: A Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis of Pakistani Skincare Blogs by Memona Mujahid, Salma Kalim

“…The analysis, conducted from the lens of corpus linguistics and Fairclough’s three-dimensional model of discourse, reveals that these blogs predominantly emphasize beauty enhancement and skin-whitening products and narratives, promoting unrealistic expectations and Eurocentric stereotypical beauty standards within Pakistani society at the expense of overall skin health. …”
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The role of Chinese folk ritual music in biodiversity conservation: an ethnobiological perspective from the Lingnan region by Yibo Liu, Yingjie Song

“…Methods We employed literature review, qualitative fieldwork, and ethnographic analysis, including interviews with local musicians and community members, to investigate how Cantonese Opera and agricultural rituals contribute to ecological sustainability by integrating cultural narratives with environmental stewardship. Results The findings reveal three main ways in which Chinese folk ritual music supports biodiversity conservation: (1) fostering ecological understanding through symbolic representations, such as the carp and water buffalo; (2) promoting sustainable practices, including traditional farming techniques and the conservation of wetland ecosystems; and (3) enhancing community cohesion and the transmission of ecological values across generations. …”
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The prevalence of chronic kidney disease in people with severe mental illness: A systematic review protocol. by Claire Carswell, Kate Bramham, Joseph Chilcot, Rowena Jacobs, David Osborn, Najma Siddiqi

“…Data from the included studies will be narratively synthesised. Meta-analyses will be conducted using random effects models to examine the prevalence and incidence of CKD among people with SMI.…”
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What is the Role of Trust in Peer Support Schemes for Underrepresented Students? by Claire Hamshire, Mimi Benjamin, Alan Soong Swee Kit

“…Using three case studies, the study explored and compared peer support leaders’ narratives about their experiences at three universities: one in the United Kingdom (UK), one in the United States (USA), and the other in Singapore. …”
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Processing Technology Based on Radar Signal Design and Classification by Jianping Ou, Jun Zhang, Ronghui Zhan

“…Radar signal classification method and related influencing factors are also contrasted and narrated. Radar signal processing technology is described in detail including multidisciplinary technology synthesis. …”
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Gender Dynamics in Online Religious Leadership in Nigeria: Investigating How Digital Platforms Shape Communication, Authority, and Influence by Bukola L. Oloba, Anne M. Blankenship

“…Utilizing mediatization theory, this research investigated how online spaces allow women to bypass traditional patriarchal structures, engage broader audiences, and influence religious narratives. Through in-depth interviews with twenty religious leaders across Nigeria’s six geopolitical zones and comment analysis from online community interactions, the study identified eight main themes that reveal the complex interactions between gender, authority, and influence in both digital and offline contexts. …”
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Rechtsgeschichte als Geschichte von Normativitätswissen? by Thomas Duve

“…The results of such a legal history might be less suggestive and fascinating than the big legal historical narratives of rationalization, professionalization and the formation of Western law that have inspired legal historians from the northern hemisphere during the 20th century. …”
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Smoke or no Smoke? Questions of Perspective in North and South by Mary Debrabant

“…As coal and steam power transformed Britain’s physical and social landscape, the industrial fiction which emerged in the 1840s chronicles the upheavals taking place, regarding environmental conditions and personal relations. Such narratives tend to be set in an improbable locale, the grimy manufacturing town with its foul air and thick smog.North and South (1855), Elizabeth Gaskell’s second novel dealing with “Condition of England” issues, contrasts various milieus in the Victorian heyday of industrial supremacy. …”
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Be Your Sister’s Keeper: Personal Experience of Travelling a Lonely Journey in Academia by Duduzile Mzindle

“…This is a qualitative self-study that I narrate my thirty-eight years of lived experiences, and it reflexively evaluates my lonely journey in academia. …”
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The use of teaching methods by the teachers who work at high schools and the reasons of their preference (Ankara province sample) by Gökhan Acar, Haluk Koc, Mustafa Koc

“…It also showed that more than half of them attended “in-service training” about teaching methods, that they often use “demonstration”, “practice and “narration” methods and that they rarely use “assignment method”. …”
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Latino Alzheimer's Caregiving: Neither a Burden nor a "Carga" by Lyda Arevalo-flechas

“…Not having a Spanish equivalent for the expression “caregiver burden.” raises concern when this concept is translated to the wordcargaand used to describe Latino caregiving.Aim:To describe the perceptions of the caregiving experience of bilingual Latino/Hispanic family caregivers of relatives living with Alzheimer’s disease, and explore the language used in their narratives.Method:Data collection and analyses followed a modified Spradley ethnographic methodology. …”
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