Prophetic promise: the lineal return of ‘lopp'd branches’ in Shakespeare's Cymbeline
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This paper identifies the early‐modern conception of prophecy as a word‐magic performed across generations, a verbal promise that anticipates its own realisation in posterity. Just as Francis Bacon upheld the generative power of prophetic utterances by noting their ‘springing and germinant accomplishment throughout many ages’, Shakespeare's ...
Rana Banna
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Enhancing Childbirth Experience: The Combined Effects of Free Positioning and Mindful Relaxation Techniques on Pain Alleviation and Labor Duration Reduction. [PDF]
Int J Gen MedChen Y, Wu M.
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Digital First? Understanding Citizens' Communication Needs in Digital Public Encounters
Social Policy &Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Two decades of intense digitalisation and automation of public service delivery have introduced new communication channels for the public to interact with the State, in the shape of digital self‐services, websites, chats and automated systems.
Ida Lindgren +1 more
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The experience of manual removal of placenta in women with retained placenta: a qualitative study. [PDF]
BMC Pregnancy ChildbirthPan S +7 more
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Beading wáwya: Counting coup on cancer
The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract In November of 2022, I was diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer. After 26 years in remission, radiation treatments from my first cancer caused another one. In the months that followed my diagnosis, I gained a greater personal insight into both the medical field—their successes and shortcomings—and the power of creative processes ...
Gretchen Stolte
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The midwifery clinical faculty model: An innovation in midwifery education in Iran. [PDF]
Eur J MidwiferyToosi M +3 more
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Cosmovision as Cognitive Technology: The Case of Mesoamerican Medicinal Knowledge
Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract We examine the use of cognitive technologies in the acquisition and retention of botanical and medicinal knowledge. We focus on the Cruz‐Badianus codex, a 16th‐century Nahua (Aztec) herbarium which discusses the use of plants for a range of illnesses.
Johan De Smedt, Helen De Cruz
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Influencing factors for childbirth readiness among pregnant women based on the reciprocal determinism theory and backpropagation neural network: a cross-sectional study in China. [PDF]
BMC Pregnancy ChildbirthMengmei Y +4 more
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