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Storying stories [PDF]

open access: yesMedical Education Development, 2012
In many countries courses on Literature and Medicine (LitMed) are part of the medical curriculum, to develop and teach knowledge and skills in the area of Medical Humanities. We describe a LitMed course designed to encourage medical students at a university medical center to incorporate the biopsychosocial model into their clinical skills.
Kaptein, A.A.   +6 more
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The sleep loss insult of Spring Daylight Savings in the US is observable in Twitter activity

open access: yesJournal of Big Data, 2021
Sleep loss has been linked to heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and an increase in accidents, all of which are among the leading causes of death in the United States. Population-scale sleep studies have the potential to advance public health by helping to
Kelsey Linnell   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sentiment and structure in word co-occurrence networks on Twitter

open access: yesApplied Network Science, 2022
We explore the relationship between context and happiness scores in political tweets using word co-occurrence networks, where nodes in the network are the words, and the weight of an edge is the number of tweets in the corpus for which the two connected ...
Mikaela Irene Fudolig   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Generalized word shift graphs: a method for visualizing and explaining pairwise comparisons between texts

open access: yesEPJ Data Science, 2021
A common task in computational text analyses is to quantify how two corpora differ according to a measurement like word frequency, sentiment, or information content.
Ryan J. Gallagher   +6 more
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Allotaxonometry and rank-turbulence divergence: a universal instrument for comparing complex systems

open access: yesEPJ Data Science, 2023
Complex systems often comprise many kinds of components which vary over many orders of magnitude in size: Populations of cities in countries, individual and corporate wealth in economies, species abundance in ecologies, word frequency in natural language,
Peter Sheridan Dodds   +9 more
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A decomposition of book structure through ousiometric fluctuations in cumulative word-time

open access: yesHumanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023
While quantitative methods have been used to examine changes in word usage in books, studies have focused on overall trends, such as the shapes of narratives, which are independent of book length.
Mikaela Irene Fudolig   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The shocklet transform: a decomposition method for the identification of local, mechanism-driven dynamics in sociotechnical time series

open access: yesEPJ Data Science, 2020
We introduce a qualitative, shape-based, timescale-independent time-domain transform used to extract local dynamics from sociotechnical time series—termed the Discrete Shocklet Transform (DST)—and an associated similarity search routine, the Shocklet ...
David Rushing Dewhurst   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Toxic Climates: Earth, people, movement, media

open access: yesPerformance Philosophy, 2020
Planet Earth is toxic. Its atmosphere unbreathable. Its environments deadly intoxicated by the dehumanizing forces of xenophobia, environmental degradation and violence.
Michael Haldrup   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Lurking Nature

open access: yesПроект Байкал, 2016
The article tells about the Japanese careful and accurate attitude toward nature through the examples of greening in Tokyo and Nara.
Larisa Krylova
doaj   +1 more source

Storytelling and Arts to Facilitate Community Capacity Building for Urban Planning and Social Work

open access: yesSocieties, 2020
Creating social connections and fostering engagement in communities is a growing challenge for community work. Planners, social workers, and community activists are starting to look towards the arts and storytelling as a way to promote community capacity.
Crystal Taylor, Qinghong Wei
doaj   +1 more source

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