Pregnancy of undefined location by Carlos Moya Toneut, Miguel Román Sarduy Nápoles, Javier Cruz Rodríguez

“…Objective: To reflect on pregnancy of undefined location and the challenge it represents for health professionals in contemporary society. Methods: A narrative bibliographic review was carried out including various texts, articles, printed and digital materials related to ectopic pregnancy. …”
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Tourist destinations’ competitiveness: demand and performance factors by Carlyle Tadeu Falcão de Oliveira, Deborah Moraes Zouain, Luiz Alexandre Valadão Souza, André Luís Faria Duarte

“…The answers were recorded, and notes were taken about the interviewees and their narratives’ most relevant aspects. The data were then submitted to content analysis and examined by applying the Brazilian competitiveness model. …”
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The influence of urban space in dramatic conflicts: transnationality in Mexican fiction films by Silvana Flores

“… Through this article we will analyze a corpus of Mexican fiction films of its classic-industrial period, produced by Pedro and Guillermo Calderón, Palabras de mujer (José Díaz Morales, 1946) and Maternidad imposible (Emilio Gómez Muriel, 1955), that have as a common nexus the interurban transfers, based on the migration phenomenon, the exploitation of a transnational cast and the influences of differentiated urban spaces in the narrative conflicts. Those characteristics will be delineated studying the configuration of urban spaces represented on them, its interference in the dramatic structure of these films and the identity translations presented consequently. …”
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Rational Suicide, Euthanasia, and the Very Old: Two Case Reports by Anne Pamela Frances Wand, Carmelle Peisah, Brian Draper, Carolyn Jones, Henry Brodaty

“…The absence of a mood or anxiety disorder underpinning their wishes to die further emphasises the importance of understanding the individual’s narrative and the role of a formulation in guiding broad biopsychosocial approaches to management.…”
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“Nowadays the house would be called a stately home”: Pastoral Relocations in Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia by John Bull

“…Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia has a narrative structure that works backwards and forwards through time, examining concepts of change across the whole spectrum of philosophy and the arts. …”
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Recreating Place: Charles Fothergill and the Limits of Travel Writing by Pam Perkins

“…His surviving manuscripts, which range from a rough working journal covering one part of his journey to some comments on botany that seem ready to go to press, suggest some of the difficulties that he might have found both in constructing a coherent narrative of his travels and in recreating a version of Pennant’s antiquarian and scientific travels at a time when tastes in travel writing were shifting to focus more on the pleasures of landscape and aesthetics.…”
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Reassembling and remembering - the politics of reconciliation in South Africa by J. Kruger

“…The paper concludes with some remarks on the role of the church as the narrative embodiment of reconciliation conceived as reassembling ánd remembering. …”
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The persuasive function of the blood of Jesus in Matthew 26:28 by M.J. Nel

“…This article also contrasts Matthew’s intertextual approach in the passion narrative with that of his prologue. It is argued that the shift towards allusions and echoes when explaining Jesus’ death aligns with Matthew’s strategy that can be described as a kaleidoscopic atonement theory, in which he weaves various Old Testament themes together to construct a comprehensive theory of atonement in Matthew 20:28 and 26:28. …”
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Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America by Joshua Burns

“…The author, Eyal Press, traveled throughout the country to interview several people who have worked and experienced dirty work. These first-hand narratives and the in-depth analysis provided an overview of inequitable and dangerous work in the United States and an included argument that these workers deserve visibility, respect, and the challenging of norms through a change in culture and policy. …”
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UNHEARD VOICES OF WOMEN IN THE BIBLE, WITH IMPLICATIONS OF EMPOWERMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF TODAY’S CHURCH by L.M. Mudimeli, J.D.N. Van der Westhuizen

“…This article journeys with a narrative from the New Testament that encourages deconstruction of discourses that are harmful to women and reconstruction of healthy discourses that are inclusive and do not discriminate against women on the basis of gender. …”
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Factors that Play a Role in Community Participation in Creating Healthy Alleys in Makassar City by Adhe Yuniar Batari Lipu

“…This research was analyzed using the "Content Analysis" method, then interpreted and presented in narrative and matrix form. The research results found that the factors that play the most role in community participation are the will/awareness and leadership of the local government. …”
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Le jardin dans la littérature fin-de-siècle, ou quand un motif narratif devient un objet esthétique by Geneviève Sicotte

“…Moreover, the garden is no longer a narrative motif serving only the development of a story and the construction of characters; its linguistic components become essential. …”
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The Self- and Peer-Assessments in Creative Writing: Students’ Benefits and Reactions by Ni Putu Agustina Konita Dewi, Putu Kerti Nitiasih, Made Hery Santosa

“…This research is aimed at fostering students’ reflective efforts by providing self- and peer-assessment approaches during the process of learning how to write creative writing about Indonesian narrative stories. The implementation of this instructional method promotes students' writing proficiency, critical thinking abilities, and autonomy. …”
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PANDEMIC OASIS: POPULAR RELIGIOSITIES AS WOMEN’S LIFE-GIVING COMMUNITAS by K.F. Chan

“…This research uses the narratives of six Catholic women about how their immersion in various public and private devotional practices creates solidarity and communities that are inclusive, empowering, and nurturing during the outbreak of COVID-19. …”
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Methodological issues in yoga therapy research among psychiatric patients by Rama Reddy Karri, Ananda B. Bhavanani, Meena Ramanathan, Vijaya Gopal Mopidevi

“…Although research publications are growing in leaps and bounds, many methodological issues pose stumbling blocks. In this narrative review, various issues like standalone or add-on treatment, blinding, randomization, nature of dependent and intervening variables, duration of intervention, sustainability of effects, attrition bias, adherence and accuracy, all or none performance, diverse schools, heterogeneity and multidimensionality, assortment, permutations, and combinations of different components, neglect of essential ingredients, mindfulness, catch-22 situation, credentials of the instructors, cultural factors, naivety, multicentric studies, duration of collection of data, primary or standard treatment, interdisciplinary research, statistical lapses, qualitative research, biomedical research are discussed. …”
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Exploring transcendence of the quantum self and consciousness through communication symbols by Rose-Marié Bezuidenhout

“…The Jungian constructs of archetypal images, symbols, myths and mythologems are considered as the derivatives of this subjective, inner reality reflected in the text of a narrative and the dreams of an individual. An archetypal and mythical semiotic textual analysis of ‘The Alchemist’ by Paolo Coehlo, and an individual case analysis of dream symbols and a self-report based on the interpretation of a dream theme by using active imagination indicate that an inner, subjective transcendental reality is imminent in the individual. …”
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Biographie d’un esprit au corps brisé. Les pierres magiques des ancêtres zapara d’Amazonie : des sujets du passé by Anne-Gaël Bilhaut

“…This article tells the story of a spirit embodied in a stone whose story has been reconstructed by the Zapara through its description and narrations. Possessed by an ancestor then passed on to his descendants, this « stone subject » then lost its mineral body, which then modified the relation between the stone and its master.…”
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Las voces del pueblo ecuatoriano: construcción del pueblo en el fenómeno populista de Rafael Correa by Ingrid Ríos-Rivera

“…Originality: It addresses the narratives constructed about “the people,” focusing on those who comprise it as key actors in the Latin American populist phenomenon.…”
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Christian Iconography Adorning Corinthian Capitals in Syria by Ahmad Dawa

“…Additionally, the rare representation of grapevines, which held significant importance in Christian symbolism, connects them to biblical narratives and theological concepts. Overall, these elements could aid in dating unidentified Corinthian capitals in the area of study when analyzed alongside other components of the capital. …”
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Las colonias escolares durante la Guerra Civil : el caso de la colonia de Navajas de la Diputación de Madrid como contrapunto a la propaganda by Karine Lapeyre

“…When the Junta de Madrid decided to evacuate the capital city, it sent children to the colonies. The press narrated their evacuation and their relocation to Levante. …”
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