This paper examines how China, United States, the European Union, and Russia deal with COVID crisis creating a legitimacy narrative to promote their political projects values. The counter-pandemic measures include use of public diplomacy tools novelty vaccine. results show that presidential overexposure, tweets, language emotion are strong arguments in building an agenda international relations...

Title of Document: BRITISH MODERNIST NARRATIVE MIDDLES Michael Eli Rosenberg, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013 Directed By: Professor Brian Richardson, Department of English Middles play a key role in shaping narrative form. However, while Edward Said has shown how beginnings shape the novel and a wide range of intellectual endeavors in Beginnings: Intention and Method, and Frank Kermode has explored...

Narrative is the basic mode of human interaction and a fundamental way of acquiring knowledge. In the rapidly growing field of health communication, narrative approaches are emerging as a promising set of tools for motivating and supporting health-behavior change. This article defines narrative communication and describes the rationale for using it in health-promotion programs, reviews theoreti...

In a one-counter automaton (OCA), one can produce a letter from some finite alphabet, increment and decrement the counter by one, or compare it with constants up to some threshold. It is well-known that universality and language inclusion for OCAs are undecidable. In this paper, we consider OCAs with counter observability: Whenever the automaton produces a letter, it outputs the current counter...

This paper estimates the markup for the Mexican manufacturing sector to detect the impact of trade liberalization on market power. Using Hall’s proposal that states that a procyclical Solow residual is an indication of market power, this research estimates the markup for different periods to detect the change in market power after trade liberalization was implemented. We account for the potenti...

Stories are one way that experiences, ideas and culture shared with children in educational settings. Commercially published books the standard means schools for sharing stories. Qualitative content analysis was carried out on 30 personal narrative-based children's picture books. While range of stories told is vast, our research focuses refugee light contemporary political public focus refugees...

Key points 21.1 Introduction 21.2 What is narrative analysis? 21.2.1 The traditional status of qualitative data 21.2.2 Narrative analysis 21.2.3 Definitions 21.2.4 Example: narratives of chronic illness 21.2.5 Example: stories of homelessness 21.3 The social production of the story 21.3.1 Stories as symbolic interactions 21.3.2 Stories as political process 21.3.3 Representation 21.4 Using a nar...