Cinema and Identity: Criss-Cross Reflections by Irina S. Semenenko, Vladimir I. Pantin, Elena V. Morozova

“…Cinema is regarded as an effective tool for creating and revising historical narratives, for promoting new images and meanings and for exposing prospects for future social development. …”
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Exodus 2:1–10 and Dialectics on Maternal Virtues in Contemporary Igboland, Nigeria by Onyekachi Chukwuma

“…The inquiry is underpinned by a popular Old Testament narrative, Exodus 2:1-10. The pericope reports the story of the birth of Moses, who was born at the climax of a chaotic situation in Egypt. …”
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Athletes’ Personal Branding on Social Media: A Case Study of Eileen Gu during the Beijing Olympics by Fang Xie, Dongye Lyu, Hao Zhang

“…In addition, grounded in semiotics theory, the study identifies key themes and patterns within Eileen Gu’s social media content. Eileen Gu’s narrative serves as a pertinent context for exploring the dynamics of personal brand development within the intersection of sports and social media. …”
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Oxy-inflammation in hyperbaric oxygen therapy applications by Gerardo Bosco, Andrea Brizzolari, Matteo Paganini, Enrico Camporesi, Alessandra Vezzoli, Simona Mrakic-Sposta

“…Currently, there are 15 indications for HBOT approved by the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine Society, categorized into three groups: emergency medicine, wound healing acceleration, and antimicrobial effects. The present narrative review aims to elucidate the mechanisms action underlying HBOT, particularly oxy-inflammation, in various pathologies within these categories. …”
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Exzentrisch geformte Klang-Landschaften. Dimensionen des Zyklischen im Lichte von 106 Tonaufnahmen von Schuberts Winterreise aus dem Zeitraum 1928–2020 by Christian Utz

“…Die Diskussion bezieht statistische Verfahren ein (Korrelations- und Faktorenanalyse), aber auch qualitative Aspekte wie narrative, klangfarbliche oder semantische Facetten der Interpretation. …”
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Understanding compassion fatigue among social workers: a scoping review by Tian Wu, Chun-Rong Lu

“…Five themes were identified through the use of a narrative approach to synthesizing the literature by a Five-step framework of scoping review, including the prevalence, factors related, attributes and characteristics, consequences and strategies or interventions to reduce compassion fatigue among social workers. …”
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Visual Research Methods: A Novel Approach To Understanding The Experiences of Compulsive Hoarders: A Preliminary Study by Satwant Singh, Colin Jones

“…The photographs were then used to encourage narrative dialogue in a subsequent semi structured interview. …”
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The Victorian Thumb Bible as Material Object: Charles Tilt’s The Little Picture Testament (1839) by Alyssa J. Currie

“…Intended to provide children with a simplified introduction to Biblical narratives and religious instruction, thumb Bibles illustrate the mediation of religious instruction through material culture. …”
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The health burden of unhealthy homes in New Zealand: a call for more action and a change in perspective by Gabrielle Ou

“…The principle of landlord reported compliance continues the narrative of placing inequitable burden on vulnerable communities, leading to a cycle of health disparities. …”
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Language and Sustainability, Linguistic Sustainability: Between Economization and Simulative Democracy? by Goranka Rocco

“…The considerations lead to a reflection on the possibilities and limits of linguistic sustainability with regard to the progressive economization of knowledge and science, which influence language use, and on the other hand with regard to the gap between real developments, which seem to privilege one or at best a few languages, and the official narratives on the promotion of multilingualism. This gap is interpreted in the context of the hypothesis of structural or systemic social unsustainability (Blühdorn 2020) and particularly in line with Blühdorn’s concept of ‘Simulative Democracy’ (2013). …”
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Referential Choices and Specific Language Impairment: Sensitivity to Contrast Levels and Grammatical Role by Maja Stegenwallner-Schütz, Flavia Adani

“…Existing findings on referential choices by children with SLI are currently inconsistent and have mainly been reported based on narratives. We used an elicited production task to manipulate the referent’s accessibility by means of two factors: (a) contexts that instantiate different levels of contrast (one vs. two contrasts) and (b) the grammatical role of the expression (subject vs. object). …”
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"He told me to hold my tongue" : de la violence physique à la subjectivation politique dans The History of Mary Prince by Frédéric Regard

“…She was then taken under the protection of Thomas Pringle, who would soon edit Prince’s autobiography, typed by a friend of his, Susanna Strickland.In this essay, I try to demonstrate that Prince’s narrative—through Strickland’s mediation—uses rhetoric to transfigure herself, from an animal into a British lady, thus challenging the classic distinction between the savage slave and the civilized European. …”
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Rabbits, Rabbits, Rabbits: Show 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 such as monthly care schedules, show earnings, show registration/entry/remark cards, youth will be well prepared to relate their experiences in a written narrative as part of their project completion activities. …”
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Mitificación del desarrollo y mistificación de la cultura: el etnodesarrollo como alternativa by Pablo Palenzuela Chamorro

“…Whether it originates from academia or from the “developmentalistcomplex”, this ideology has led to the essentialist mystification of the notion of development,to the point of becoming a dogma in the narrative of modernity. The second challengeis to critically examine the ethnocentric relationship between development and culture in thehegemonic model of development. …”
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O mundo nas mãos do adolescente: entre Apolo e Dioniso, entre o eros e o caos by Paula Mastroberti

“…It begins to present the series within its graphic context showing how it contributes to an identification between text and reader; following the protagonist in a relation with the remaining narrative elements, reflecting about the way she uses her power and its meaning while metaphor of the psychic and body-sensual conflicts, caused by typical age changes. …”
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Parker Mountain, or the Geography of Pathos in Russell Banks’s Affliction (1989) by Claire Omhovère

“…Dès la première lecture d’Affliction, il est manifeste que la géographie ne sert pas seulement à transposer l’espace en images, ni même à fournir un fond à l’intrigue, mais qu’elle contribue pleinement à la cohérence spatio-narrative du roman. Cet article s’attachera donc tout particulièrement à étudier les perturbations qu’introduit la représentation de la montagne dans le régime réaliste du roman. …”
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Opioid Sparing Analgesics in Spine Surgery by Logan A. Reed, Mihir Patel, Kevin Luque, Steven M. Theiss

“…The purpose of this review article is to investigate the various opioid sparing medications that have been used to decrease morbidity in spine surgery and better assist surgeons in managing postoperative pain. Methods. A narrative review of published literature was conducted using the search function in Google scholar and PubMed was used to narrow down search criteria. …”
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Internet Memes as Stabilizers of Conspiracy Culture: A Cognitive Anthropological Analysis by Emily Godwin, Brittany I. Davidson, Tim Hill, Adam Joinson

“…Internet memes have emerged as the de facto language of the internet, where standardized memetic templates and characters distill and communicate narratives in simple, shareable formats. While prior research has highlighted their broad appeal as they traverse diverse audiences, their cultural function within online communities has received less attention. …”
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Power, tourism, and ecology: a critical inquiry into aconcagua’s power structures and conceptions of nature by Henry Mooney

“…This research contributes to political ecology scholarship by illuminating co-constructed narratives on nature, politics, and societal structures in high mountain areas which can overlook the profound effects of power dynamics and economic interests on local ecology in managed park systems in periphery states.…”
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From Painting to Picturebook: Bhajju Shyam’s Insider Indigenous Art by Indraprastha University, India

“…An insider, bearer of a ritual bardic cultural function, narrates the story of his work and his community using the medium at hand. …”
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