THE GENESIS AND EVOLUTION OF THE FRANCE’S CULTURAL DIPLOMACY THROUGH CENTURIES by S. I. Kossenko

“…The facts taken from many latest foreign publications illustrate the narration.…”
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Playing is sharing. La condivisione e il tempo libero nelle reti sociali di gioco by Aurelio Castro

“…In addition to ethnographic observation, many narrative interviews were conducted with organizers and coordinators of associations, with shop owners, game designers and, finally, with players who use games and roleplay to do activism on gender issues and sexual orientation. …”
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The urgency of digital technology in education: a systematic literature review by Johni Eka Putra, A Sobandi, Aisah Aisah

“…The data analysis stage involved narrative synthesis of the 10 articles, reflecting the urgency of digital technology in improving the quality and effectiveness of education. …”
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The role of information skewness in shaping extremist content: A look at four extremists by Waseem Afzal

“…In the contemporary world, the ability of extremists to spread their narratives using digital information environments has increased tremendously. …”
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Enhancing language learning: EFL teachers’ insights on online autonomous learning activities by Ahmed Al Shlowiy, Praveen Raj

“…The researchers employed a survey, interviews, field notes, reflections, and class recordings to describe, examine, and interpret the data through narrative analysis. The results show encouraging trends in engagement, motivation, interest, time, independence, and future use. …”
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Indigeneity and Resistance in Zubair Ahmad’s Grieving for Pigeons by Nayab Sadiq

“… This article explores how short stories in Zubair Ahmad’s collection Grieving for Pigeons (2022) manipulate the narrative of cultural memory to project the intricate realities of the postcolonial Pakistani Punjab. …”
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Gendered Cartographies in Melissa Scott’s Science Fiction: Queering Shadow Man (1995) by Beatriz Hermida Ramos

“…In this article, I draw from different academic fields such as science fiction studies, space studies and feminist and queer studies to explore how the speculative elements of the novel influence the construal of gender identity, and I question whether Scott’s narrative can be interpreted as a hopeful space for queer liberation in the face of hostility. …”
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ACADEMIC TEXTBOOKS AS A MEDIUM FOR STUDENTS’ INTELLECT DEVELOPMENT IN TEACHING MATHEMATICS by Emanuila G. Gelfman, Marina A. Kholodnaya

“…The aim of the publication is to demonstrate the implementation results of the “Mathematics, Psychology, Intellect” (MPI) educational project used for selecting and devising the new textbook content for multipurpose learning activities and students’ intellect development in comprehensive schools.The methodology, based on the psycho-didactic approach, involves the analysis of the existing experience of textbooks development, including the traditional reference and narrative books, and the ones, organized as a dialogue with a student-reader and oriented toward the facts comprehension and reasoning. …”
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Psychoactive Substance Uses and Sexual Behavior by Esmaeil Naseri

“…Method: This study employed a narrative review methodology. To collect data, relevant articles were searched using the keywords  substance use, functions and dysfunctions, sexual behaviors, and  sexual assault. using Google Scholar and PubMed, as well as the NOORMAGS, SID, and Irandoc databases. …”
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Witchery as Tribal Primary Ethos: Negotiations and Resistance in Select Literary Representations by Saru Sachdeva, Rekha Rani

“…The belief in the existence of both benevolent and malevolent spirits among tribal communities in India has led to the emergence of numerous narratives surrounding witchcraft. Central to these beliefs is the notion of a spiritual realm that sustains the witch cult, where witches are typically portrayed as women. …”
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Ubuntu as a Dramaturgical Tool for Building Community in Protests by Refiloe Lepere, Tebogo Radebe

“…The argument posited is that embodiment of ubuntu during protests creates space for community negotiation and self-actualisation, redefining the narrative of democratic agency in protest. This study contributes to scholarship by offering a new framework for understanding the role of songs in protests as dramaturgical tools that create roles, scripts, and shared experiences. …”
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L’actualité ou le rapport de force autour de l’objet de valeur de l’Histoire by Anne-Lise Santander

“…Le passé est cependant un objet lacunaire soumis à une tension entre la logique narrative du /parvenir/ et celle du /survenir/. Observer l’actualité permet d’interroger le processus de signification de l’Histoire car elle nous replace au cœur du mode d’émergence de l’unité qui l’organise : l’événement. …”
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From occupation to independence: contemporary East Timorese history and identity in Portuguese picturebooks by Ana Margarida Ramos

“…The social change, path to democracy and educational development, as well as daily life and children’s pastimes are now the centre of a narrative that establishes the similarities and differences between modern-day Portugal and East Timor. …”
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Xylanase-Producing Microbes and Their Real-World Application by Milan Phuyal, Uttam Budhathoki, Durga Bista, Shailendra Shakya, Rajan Shrestha, Ashwinee Kumar Shrestha

“…Hinari and PubMed; irrelevant and duplicate articles were discarded and articles were summarized in a narrative way herein. This review article was written aiming to bridge the recent research activities with the commercial activities of xylanase going on around the globe. …”
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CREDIBILITY COMMITMENT AND PEACE BUILDING IN THE NIGER DELTA REGION OF NIGERIA by CHINEDU EKPERECHUKWU ETI, SUNDAY DIDAM AUDU, GOODNEWS OSAH

“…The method of data gathering is drawn from literature and biographic narratives of the actors and victims of the conflict. …”
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Ravel’s Programmatic Impulse by Peter Kaminsky

“…By this, I mean the potential difference in meaning or signification between, on the one hand, music’s representation of a narrative, text, title, idea, etc.; and, on the other hand, music’s ability to generate and connote its own meaning(s). …”
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TABERÎ’NİN TARİH ANLAYIŞI by Hasan Kurt

“…It seems that due to his oversensitivity of reliability the informative parts of his accounts in his work sometimes remained behind compared with the chain of narration. Al-Tabarî related the accounts from the creation of man to the migration of the Prophet Muhammad in accordance the subjects, while he recorded the events of the post-migration period in accordance with their chronological sequence. …”
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Childhood and adolescence physical activity and multimorbidity later in life: A systematic review by Luc Souilla, Anders C. Larsen, Carsten B. Juhl, Søren T. Skou, Alessio Bricca

“…Results were summarized narratively and we assessed the certainty of the evidence using the GRADE approach. …”
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The concept of vulnerability and its relation to equality in the context of human rights: cases from climate change, anti-discrimination and asylum by Monika Mayrhofer, Margit Ammer, Katrin Wladasch

“…The case studies show that vulnerability is a fuzzy concept, which often ends up being attached to ‘special-needs groups’ and which frequently mobilizes stigmatizing and stereotyping narratives. The concept does not have equality-promoting connotations, emphasizes individual and group-specific deficit accounts, and often fails to grasp structural factors of discrimination and inequality.…”
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‘A wound that aches yet isn’t felt ... a pain that rages without hurting’: Getting to know the identity of outsourced housekeepers through the bond of memory and social class by Viviani Teodoro dos Santos, Marivânia Conceição de Araújo, Marcio Pascoal Cassandre

“…As methodological procedures, we used a semi-structured interview with the cleaning team supervisor, two focus groups, individual narrative interviews with the eight housekeepers and a brief period of participant observation. …”
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