Old Myths, New Myths: Challenging Myths in Public Health
American Journal of Public Health, 2015 Myths are widely held beliefs and are frequently perpetuated through telling and retelling. We examined 10 myths in public health research and practice. Where possible, we traced their origins, interrogated their current framing in relation to the evidence, and offered possible alternative ways of thinking about them.
Sarah M, Viehbeck +2 more
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The construction of global management consulting - a study of consultancies’ web presentations [PDF]
, 2010 Management consulting increasingly appears as a global endeavour as reflected in the increasing dominance of a few large, global management-consulting firms. However, features of the consulting service (e.g. its immaterial and interactional character) as
Bäcklund, Jonas, Werr, Andreas
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Theorizing Myth to Facilitate Comparison and Re-Description in Biblical Studies
Religions, 2022 This article promotes the theorizing of myth in ways that facilitate comparison and re-description of data within Biblical Studies. After addressing background categorical issues within Religious Studies and Biblical Studies, I chart the old model of ...
Debra Scoggins Ballentine
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Current status of nylon teeth myth in Tanzania: a cross sectional study
BMC Oral Health, 2018 Background Nylon teeth myth is a belief of associating infant illnesses with bulges on infants’ alveolus that mark the positions of underlying developing teeth and that it is necessary to treat the condition mainly by traditional healers to prevent ...
Emeria Abella Mugonzibwa +3 more
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The Pygmalion-Galatea myth in relation to simulation scenarios in Star Trek [PDF]
, 2013 Star Trek has existed since 1966, with a total of 738 hours of viewing time. Like most science fiction, the series frequently alludes to religion or myth but censors such references for the modern world-view by sanitising them with scientific or ...
Grech, Victor E.
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Two approaches to the myth of city foundations: Syntagmatic and paradigmatic
Sign Systems Studies, 2002 The paper discusses the myth of the founding of Vilnius as an example of a myth of city foundation. The myth has received two independent semiotic interpretations.
Kestutis Nastopka
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Southward expansion: The myth of the West in the promotion of Florida, 1876–1900 [PDF]
, 2010 This article examines the ways in which promoters and developers of Florida, in the decades after Reconstruction, engaged with a popular myth of the West as a means of recasting and selling their state to prospective settlers in the North and Midwest ...
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AGAMA DAN MITOS: Dari Imajinasi Kreatif Menuju Realitas yang Dinamis
El Harakah, 2010 Myth always comes to be a debatable discourse among the scholars and observers of Islam. Frequently, a scientific study of myth leads to an extreme ideological analysis.
Roibin Roibin
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The Myth And Reality of Oral Literature of Ciacia People in The Island of Batuatas as Cultural Power [PDF]
, 2009 This study aims to introduce a variety of oral literatures of the fisheries community in the island of Batuatas that contain elements of myth and those that do not, (2) to reveal various elements of the myth in the oral literature, and (3) to express the
La , Ode Balawa, La , Taena
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Undergraduate Research Journal, Volume 14 [PDF]
, 2015 Table of Contents: The Myth of Chechen Radical Islam / by Jonathan Parker (p.1-8) -- Genre and the Perception of Massacre... / by Lauren Ferguson (p.9-18) -- Sentinel of Liberty: Captain America on the Home Front in WWII / by Carolyn McNamara (p.19-34) --
Ferguson, Lauren +8 more
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