In this article, the authors construct a story of one woman's (Justine's) experience of learning to run within the context of a beginners group. Building on existing scholarship on narrative, aging, and physical activity, this work is part of a larger ethnographic project examining subjective accounts of the physically active aging body across the life course. Concerned with often simplisticall...

We present a tool that enables complex, unfixed temporal structures in digital narrative and also facilitates the creation of works that are a hybrid of human authorship, structural design, and machine writing. The system has basic similarities with other tools for the development of non-linear and interactive narrative, but it is unique in its form and visual/textual behavior because it takes ...

Hospital care is characterized by inpatient and outpatient departments; however, Medicare reimburses hospitals differently for treatment in each department. In this paper, I examine how hospitals respond to Medicare’s disjointed payment system. I exploit the conversion of rural hospitals to Medicare’s Critical Access Hospital (CAH) program, which implemented a universal payment system. Although...

T he problems of urban sprawl-low-density residential and commercial development, road traffic congestion and high cost public transit systems are the result of the cumulative, long-term effect of disjointed planning decisions on the urban fabric. What is needed to offset the planning mistakes of the last 30 years is an integrated approach to land use and transportation planning. Existing plann...

Narrative-centered learning environments hold significant promise for K-12 STEM education. Much of the appeal of narrative-centered learning arises from the capability of narrative to provide a meaningful structure for integrating pedagogical objectives into a unifying, coherent form that serves as a powerful motivating force for students. This chapter explores the relationship between narrativ...

This study aims at a comparative analysis of quantitative data, namely, OSM and BDOT10k. Analyses were conducted in 1 km2 hexagonal grid, seven test counties located different regions Poland, differing the degree urbanization, land cover natural environment. It is assumed that authors’ consolidated regional classification Compound Correspondence Index CCIRn attributed to geometric mapping unit ...

The police are the initial faces of law enforcement and commence criminal justice process thus hold significant responsibility for functioning order. As key representatives state, integrity in all societies is pivotal to retain public trust rule preservation internal security. When corruption exposed or perceived by be prevalent, confidence communal relations with force become disjointed. Poor ...

identification of the factors causing change in policy process plays an important role in implementing healthy policy process. narrative policy framework introduces new concepts and tools to identify the factors causing policy change. one of the important variables in narrative policy framework is narrative structure. narrative structure has so many elements which the main one is plot. plot lin...

narrative style is the main feature of mehdi akhavan sales (1928-1990), one of the famous contemporary persian poets. but what gives a special prominence to his narrative poems and makes it distinct from the works of other contemporary poets is his idiosyncratic use of narrative techniques and methods. he employed in his works the element of narration in a distinctive manner. although, the narr...