Game Factors and Game-Based Learning Design Model by Yen-Ru Shi, Ju-Ling Shih

“…This study presents macrodesign concepts that elucidates 11 crucial game-design factors, including game goals, game mechanism, game fantasy, game value, interaction, freedom, narrative, sensation, challenges, sociality, and mystery. …”
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Rabbits, Rabbits, Rabbits: Pet Rabbit Record Book by Joy C. Jordan, Loretta Rodriguez, Jessica Kochert, Bill Heltemes, Chris Decubellis, Renee Gore

“…By tracking inventory, financial records associated with their project, rabbit health and grooming details, and related information, youth will be well prepared to relate their experiences in a written narrative as part of their project completion activities. …”
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Ali se mudou a aventura… O imaginário mítico no pensamento de Luís Krus by Carlos F. Clamote Carreto

“…Recognizing the rhetorical, anthropological and ideological importance of the fictional narrative for the legitimization of the lineage and the construction of a discourse on the past, Luís Krus has devoted not only his work to an important renewal of the traditional viewpoints of Portuguese Medieval Historiography. …”
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Rabbits, Rabbits, Rabbits: Pet Rabbit Record Book by Joy C. Jordan, Loretta Rodriguez, Jessica Kochert, Bill Heltemes, Chris Decubellis, Renee Gore

“…By tracking inventory, financial records associated with their project, rabbit health and grooming details, and related information, youth will be well prepared to relate their experiences in a written narrative as part of their project completion activities. …”
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Oral manifestations of autoimmune connective tissue diseases by Akshat Pandey, Mimansha Pandey, Ved Prakash Pandey, Vinod Ravindran

“…For the purpose of this narrative review we searched the databases such as MEDLINE the Embase and Cochrane library using search terms including “rheumatic” “autoimmune,” “connective tissue diseases,” “dental,” “oral,” and “manifestations” and the names of individual known diseases and also a manual search of bibliographies of these articles and of previously published reviews and animal studies. …”
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Withania somnifera (Ashwagandha) supplementation: a review of its mechanisms, health benefits, and role in sports performance by Mateusz Sprengel, Radosław Laskowski, Zbigniew Jost

“…Although clinical effects have been previously reviewed, the specific mechanism of Ashwagandha’s action and its impact on different aspects of physical performance, body composition, as well as medical effects need more thorough analysis. Therefore, this narrative review delves into the available research examining the effects of Ashwagandha supplementation on such qualities as: strength, endurance, power, recovery, muscle mass, body fat, fertility, anxiety, metabolic health and aging, with additional focus on potential mechanisms underlying these effects. …”
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Méditerranéïté et romanité en Tunisie : l’inquiétante étrangeté d’un patrimoine by Habib Saidi

“…It scrutinizes a dual promotional narrative. One is explicit, outward-oriented, aimed at strengthening geopolitical ties with Europe, and meeting the expectations of Western tourists. …”
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Podemos: ¿regeneración democrática o impugnación del orden? Transición, frontera política y democracia by Javier Franzé

“…It analyzes their discourse in relation to the narrative of the Transition, which legitimizes the Spanish political order, taking the 15M discourse as a historical precedent. …”
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Cells of the Innate and Adaptive Immune Systems in Kaposi’s Sarcoma by Owen Ngalamika, Sody Munsaka

“…It is therefore expected that different cell types of the immune system likely play distinct roles in promoting or inhibiting KS development. This narrative review is focused on discussing cells of the innate and adaptive immune systems in KSHV infection and KS pathogenesis, including how these cells can be useful in the control of KSHV infection and treatment of KS.…”
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Translation as growth: Xiangsheng’s growing trajectory in China and abroad by Ye Tian, Guanpeng Wang

“…This article reviews the development in China and abroad of xiangsheng, or ‘crosstalk’, a Chinese comic double-act that relies on quickfire exchanges and narrative skills on stage. It brings together a blend of scripted material and improvisation whose address to the audience is immediate. …”
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The Mystery of “those icy climes” (Shelley 269): Literature, Science and Early Nineteenth-century Polar Exploration by Catherine Lanone

“…While glaciers become the sublime site of Romantic poetic epiphany, Mary Shelley subverts the euphoric associations of pristine settings by choosing to locate a crucial confrontation between creature and creator in the Alps, then by opting for Walton’s search for the North Pole and the Northwest Passage as a frame for Victor’s narrative. Walton’s delusion and search for an open sea ties in with the journals of contemporary expeditions, as if Mary Shelley had sensed that the jingoistic expeditions might turn into epic disasters. …”
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One More Word: The Translator’s Archive in Secession with Insecession by Angela Carr

“…In Erin Moure and Chus Pato’s Secession with Insecession, an encounter between two poets produces a “third text” that disrupts the linear narrative of translation (from source to target text). …”
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De l’écrit éphémère à l’acte pérenne ? Remarques sur le processus de la mise par écrit au xie siècle aux confins du Dunois et du Chartrain by Chantal Senséby

“…This article examines five original charters issued by the monks of Marmoutier (France, Indre-et-Loire) between 1064 and 1072 and relating to the church of Dangeau and the land of Sonville (Eure-et-Loir) located in frontier : one charter and four « narrative notices ». One of them is a brief document without notification and it appears as a Vorurkunden or a note. …”
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William Robertson’s Unfinished History of America. The Foundation of the British Empire in North America and the Scottish Enlightenment by Florence Petroff

“…It explores the other designs of this narrative of the foundation of the first English colonies in North America. …”
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Birmingham’s Women Poets: Aestheticism and the Daughters of Industry by Marion Thain

“…In doing so, this essay not only uncovers an unacknowledged part of the narrative of British aestheticism, it also disrupts some of the convenient critical boundaries which have become entrenched within our study, and which currently limit its scope.…”
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Verkenning van 'n postmoderne epistemologiese konteks vir die praktiese teologie by J Dill, DJ Kotzé

“…It is true to say postmodernism is a reaction to the standard scientific method, but at the same time it proposes new epistemological outcomes to problems (critical realism, holism, pluralism, ermeneutics, discourse analysis, and the narrative paradigms). Practical theology can also benefit from these metatheories and alternative to the limiting effect of subject centered thinking, as is the case with the standard scientific method. …”
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Концепція мультифронтиру як спроба реалізації просторового підходу в сучасній українській історіографії... by Олександр Удод

“…Among the many variants of such a scheme, the concept of a multifrontier as a basis for the modern Ukrainian grand narrative looks promising. A historiographical analysis of scientific works created on the basis of the multifrontier concept is presented.…”
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Migration discourses in Italy by Elena Benelli

“…In order to counterbalance this inhospitable rhetoric of the State, I examine the construction of migrant’s narrative identity through the writings of some Italophone authors (Methnani, Ebri and Scego) who started to discuss issues of representation in their works and to reflect on the rapidly changing Italian society. …”
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Implementing Shoah-Themed Literature into Teaching with the Example of <i>The Boy From Block 66: A WW2 Jewish Holocaust Survival True Story</i> by Milan Mašát

“…I am convinced that this narrative is the one in which the events that relate to the Shoah are presented authentically and in an attractive way for young readers, and whose presentation leads to a certain de-abstracting of these ideas.…”
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The changing landscape of treatment for acquired hemophilia A by Massimo Franchini, Daniele Focosi

“…Recent studies have renewed the interest towards the immunosuppressive agent rituximab for FVIII inhibitor eradication and have suggested a potential role for emicizumab for the prevention of bleeding in AHA patients. This narrative review will focus on the placement of these two emerging drugs within the treatment landscape for AHA. …”
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