Narrative analysis

An excerpt of the narrative analysis characterizing the modelling activities of Jackie and Marvin follows ... 

A traditional anthropological method is ethnographic in nature and may include long-term participant observation and the collection of detailed oral histories and life stories by telling their own stories to the researcher, refiigees themselves and the ethnographer her or himself are able to develop a narrative analysis to interpret the reasons for their displacement. Eastmond (2007) finds that narratives can help researchers uncover the causes of displacement by listening to the voices of the displaced ... 

Speakers can use these combinations to represent their own experience or they can assume the viewpoint of others. Like the Welsh miner in chap. 4, speakers can integrate the viewpoints of many different individuals and organizations into a single narrative. Analysis of viewpoint in speech and gesture adds a new dimension to the analysis of viewpoint that we presented in chap. 4-... 

What-if produces a table of narrative questions and answers suggesting accident scenano.s. consequences, and mitigation. Table 3.3.2-1 shows a typical What-If analysis for the Dock 8. < in the left in the line above the table is indicated the line/vessel that is being analyzed. To the right is the date and page numbers. The first row in the table contains the column headings beginning with i ie what-if question followed by the consequences, safety levels, scenario number and comments. 11C comments column may contain additional descriptive information or actions/ recommendations. 

The results of a What-If/Checklist analysis are documented like the results of a What-lf analysis as a table of accident scenarios, consequences, safety levels, and action items. The results may also include a completed checklist or a narrative. The PrHA team may also document the completion of the checklist to illustrate its completeness. The PSM rule requires detailed... 

A Safety Case is a narrative that literally makes the case that an adequate level of safety has been reached for an installation. It requires looking at all potential hazards which could lead to a loss of the installation, a loss of life, or a major pollution event. A risk analysis is performed on each hazard evaluating the probability of the event occurring and describing the magnitude of the consequences. A discussion is then given of the measure undertaken to lower the probability of occurrence or to mitigate the consequences and a case is made that the risk for the installation meets the ALARP safety criteria. 

Data gathered in the lessons were used to produce case studies for each of the groups of students because such case studies yield rich descriptions of events that are presented in a chronological narrative that incorporates the researcher s observations. Due to the possible inclusion of such an interpretation of the data, case studies go beyond simple descriptions of the situation and support the analysis of the phenomenon being studied (Cohen, Manion, Morrison, 2000). In order to discuss the research questions, we browsed the original case studies to identify evidence of how the students dealt with the levels of representation. Whenever it is appropriate, such evidence is included in the later sections of this chapter. 

This manuscript was first discussed by Carbonelli, but he did not provide a detailed analysis of its style and contents and it has received little attention since.The text is composed of aphorisms of famous alchemists who include Hermes Trismegistus, Aristode, Geber, Amald of Villanova, Senior and characters from the Turba Phibsophorum, such as Rasis. They give instructions about the secrets of the process and the text is supported by visual imagery, arranged in a narrative... 

In the early Christian era the earliest resurrection narrative had been created by Paul in his account of the seed which must die in the earth so that a new plant could arise. His view was never popular since it implied that the resurrected entity was different from that which had died. This theory was abandoned in favour of the notion of physical reconstitution. The issue was bitterly disputed throughout the Middle Ages, emerging as a distinctive theological doctrine in the mid-sixteenth century in Schwenckfeld s Pauline-based analysis of Christ s two physical bodies, that into which he had incarnated and that of the risen body in which he had ascended into heaven. The alchemists, like Schwenckfeld, continued to use Paul s... 

This analysis is done separately from focus on any one object. (Diagrams such as this one help make clear the principal relationships in a description but are insufficient in themselves. They should always be accompanied by an explanation, in a separate dictionary or embedded in narrative, of what the elements represent.)... 

A model of object state is used to define a vocabulary of precise terms on which to base an analysis, specification, or design. A well-written document should contain plenty of narrative text in natural language along with illustrative diagrams of all kinds, but the type models are used to make sure that there are no gaps or misunderstandings. More on this in Chapter 5, Effective Documentation. 

The appearance of a type in more than one diagram means only that it has the attributes and operations gathered together from all its appearances. All OO analysis and design support tools allow you to separate big models into smaller diagrams. Some of them make it easy for the individual diagrams to be embedded within narrative text with others, you must cut and paste. 

In what follows, I do not present a comprehensive survey of the history of chemistry, nor do I construct a systematic model of discipline formation. This is a historical narrative and analysis of aspects of the idea of chemistry, the idea of "theoretical" chemistry, and the institutional and intellectual processes that constructed disciplines in chemistry in their various historical forms. While considerable attention is paid to the ways in which chemists demarcated their domain against other domains, as well as to their statements of a chemical epistemology and their development of systems of chemical language and imagery, the overall study is guided by two premises. 

If there is a middle way between the newer sociological construction of discipline bounding and the more traditional narrative of biography and ideas, it may lie in the analysis of research or teaching schools. 10 In 1981, Gerald Geison published an essay in History of Science that argued the centrality of... 

A.V. (1997) Adsorption of a corticoid on colloidal hematite particles of different geometries. J. Colloid Interface Sd. 187 429-434 Verdonck, L. Hoste, S. Roelandt, F.F. Van der Kelen, G.P. (1982) Normal coordinate analysis of a-FeOOH - a molecular approach. J. Molecular Structure 79 273-279 Vermilyea, D.A. (1966) The dissolution of ionic compounds in aqueous media. J. Electro-chem. Soc. 113 1067-1070 Vermohlen, K. Lewandowski, H. Narres, H-D. Schwager, M.S. (2000) Adsorption of polyelectrolytes onto oxides - the influence of ionic strength, molar mass and Ca " ions. Coll. Surf. A 163 45-53... 

Traditionally, one did a review of those studies writing a narrative about them and drawing conclusions based on the subjective evaluation of this information by the reviewer. A different way to write review articles, named meta-analysis, was introduced into clinical medicine by Chalmers. It has been defined as a systematic review of studies that uses quantitative statistical procedures to combine, synthesize, and integrate information across these studies . What this methodology does is take a group of... 

When possible, meta-analyses were computed to summarize the overall effects from controlled clinical trials. These summarized data are used to compute an effect size and to calculate the probability that a given drug is different from placebo and equivalent to or more effective than standard drug treatments. The goal is to estimate the extent of clinical improvement with a specific treatment as an aid to therapeutic decision-making. In one sense, a meta-analysis can be seen as a quantitative literature review using a more explicit and structured approach. Thus, it can complement a narrative review and often accompanies a literature summary (6). 

We believe the file drawer issue is less of a problem in meta-analysis than in the narrative review, which often lists only those publications that support a particular conclusion. Too often, narrative reviewers emphasize the results of other positive reviews. Thus, the reference list gives a false impression of more studies than were actually done, because duplicate publications and review articles are quoted as if they were independent studies. Other problems include ... 

Zawawi, Ibrahim 2001. Voices of the Crocker Range Indigenous Communities in Sabah. Social Narratives of Transitioin in Tambunan and its Neighbours. Kuching Institute of East Asian Studies, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak. Zenner, Walter 1991. Minorities in the Middle a Cross-cultural Analysis. Albany State University of New York Press. 

Integrated summary of data from all studies and analysis of pertinent findings for interstudy and interspecies comparisons. Narrative summary for each study report describing the notable features and results of each study. A comprehensive study for notable findings in related studies for each species and notable species differences should be provided. 

The number of clinical communications published per year has increased to staggering proportions. Matthews (2006) noted that there are currently on the order of20,000 biomedical journals that publish on the order of two million articles a year. This makes it extremely difficult for a clinician who would like to research a particular topic to locate all of the relevant articles. Accordingly, two kinds of review papers can be very helpful. The first is narrative reviews. These collate, compare, discuss, and summarize the current state of knowledge (Matthews, 2006). Narrative reviews are descriptive in nature. The second kind of review incorporates meta-analysis. These reviews are quantitative in nature. 

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