We describe the N2 (Narrative Networks) Corpus, a new language resource. The corpus is unique in three important ways. First, every text in the corpus is a story, which is in contrast to other language resources that may contain stories or story-like texts, but are not specifically curated to contain only stories. Second, the unifying theme of the corpus is material relevant to Islamist Extremi...

The question of identity in a narrative text is one of the most influential questions that need further study. The variations in the factors that may affect the concept of identity add to the complexity of the narrative text. The study aims at analyzing the main phases, stages, themes and events of Moses’ life story as part of the narrative discourse. The effects of time and place on the main e...

OBJECTIVES Prescribing medications is an important challenge in the transition to junior doctor practice. We explored the antimicrobial prescribing experiences of foundation year (FY) doctors in two UK hospitals. The study answers three research questions: (i) What types of antimicrobial prescribing experiences do FY doctors have?; (ii) How do they make sense of their antimicrobial prescribing ...

We approach a well-known problem: how to relate component physical processes in biological systems to governing imperatives in multiple system levels. The intent is to further practical tools that can be used in the clinical context. An example proposes a formal type system that would support this kind of reasoning, including in machines. Our example is based on a model of the connection betwee...

This article is based on narrative research that focuses on corporeal experience during coma and during the rehabilitation process. Seventeen participants from different areas of Israel who had been in various kinds of coma states reveal what the corporeal experience of coma is. The participants are divided into three types of narrative protagonists--"dead-alive," "rational," and "emissaries." ...

in the classification and structural analysis of shahnameh, the authors of the article consider the conflict between good and evil (from now on c.g.e.) as the main motif of this great epic. this motif has spread all over the epic. the number of the stories being influenced by the myth of c.g.e. is at least twice as many as every other motif in the epic. considering the antiquity of the myth and...

buying and selling human organs is among the newly-arisen jurisprudential issues, about which the imāmī jurists have opted two theories in response to this issue. some of them have regarded the situational decree of buying and selling human organs as invalidity according to the traditions comprising of the contents invalidating the purchase of dead animal and the consensus on it, and have viewe...

in islam, every person who knowingly abandons one of the obligatory acts or does one of the forbidden acts regarded as sinful and must be punished. to sentence some body to prison is one of the criminal rules in the islam criminal system for the offenders. there are three types of imprisonment for the offenders: 1- to put in jail is sometimes considered as a penance 2-imprisoning is sometimes c...

jurisprudence has been originated from the qur‘ān and ḥadīth and the narrational or ma’thūr jurisprudence has been the first jurisprudential style after the rise of islam, to such an extent that in the latter periods the expansion of this jurisprudence was intermingled with rational inferences and some issues that enjoyed more widespread aspects were accepted as rules. the rule of prohibition o...