BACKGROUND There are strong theoretical arguments for using narratives in teaching and learning within medicine, but little is known about how they are used in medical lectures. This study explores the types of narratives lecturers use, the attitudes of lecturers and students to the use of narratives in teaching, and the aspects of learning that narratives may facilitate. METHODS Observation ...

Abstract In the current media environment of growing information disorder and social platforms emerging as primary news sources, creation spread disinformation is becoming increasingly easy cost-effective. The projection strategic narratives through campaigns an important geopolitical tool in global competition for power status. We have analysed close to 1,000 individual pieces from more than 6...

Folk literature has many different genres. They are folktales, myths, worships, beliefs, rituals, proverbs, idioms and performing arts. found that the ideas in songs stories presented folk aimed at reconstructing history so they theorized them. The of helps to reconstruct grassroot people advance identity politics. Narrative also have such characteristics but mythological narratives can an impa...

handsome contribution. In Ireland's time the subject was still emerging from the anecdotal and even mythological stage. It is largely due to the efforts of Dr. Tredgold that the topographical outlines of mental deficiency have been filled in. I say topographical advisedly for, despite much revision and the addition of new and valuable material, the book still bears the imprint of having been wr...

for 22 Oct. 2015 The Lernaean Hydra was a mythological creature, which, when one of its many heads was cut off, immediately grew two more. One of the ten labors of Hercules was to slay the Hydra. In order to help Hercules slay a mathematical version of the Hydra, we will introduce transfinite ordinal numbers, to do what Peano arithmetic cannot. Bring swords, helmets and spears, and a willingnes...

some believe that ancient mythological and literary texts solely aimed to amuse and entertain, and were sprouted from their feelings and thoughts, and do not regard the study of the ancient and mythological stories as having the definiteness and clarity which science is known for it. hence, this is why mythological stories in reality convey the beliefs, nature, attitudes and the extent of human...

This thesis describes EM-ONE, an architecture for commonsense thinking capable of reflective reasoning about situations involving physical, social, and mental dimensions. EM-ONE uses as its knowledge base a library of commonsense narratives, each describing the physical, social, and mental activity that occurs during an interaction between several actors. EM-ONE reasons with these narratives by...

This thesis describes EM-ONE, an architecture for commonsense thinking capable of reflective reasoning about situations involving physical, social, and mental dimensions. EM-ONE uses as its knowledge base a library of commonsense narratives, each describing the physical, social, and mental activity that occurs during an interaction between several actors. EM-ONE reasons with these narratives by...

Narratives are invaluable assets of human lives. Due to the distinct features of narratives, they are useful for supporting human reasoning processes. However, many useful narratives become residuals in organizations or human minds nowadays. Researchers have contributed effort to investigate and improve narrative generation processes. This paper attempts to contemplate essential components in n...