Coherent Story Research Articles

IMPLEMENTATION OF IFRS SUSTAINABILITY DISCLOSURE STANDARDS INTO INTEGRATED REPORTING: A JOURNEY OF FUTURE-ORIENTED COMPANIES

The adoption of the sustainability disclosure standards is a major step forward in improving transparency and comparability of sustainability information, within reporting. This paper aims to analyze the extent to which these standards can be applied in integrated reporting and produce a coherent story about sustainability disclosures. The research uses a documentary and comparative analysis of the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) S1 and S2 with the Integrated Reporting Framework, based on a qualitative approach to analyze the integration between these two standards about integrated reporting principles. The outcomes show that integrating IFRS S1 and S2 will provide an overarching concept for reporting sustainability risks and opportunities which aligns reporting with sustainability goals. Based on these findings, the article argues that incorporating these standards not only improve investor and stakeholder decision-making but also helps companies ensure their strategies are in line with sustainable development objectives. This paper adds to a growing body of literature on the diffusion of sustainability reporting and has implications for researchers examining financial vs. non-financial disclosure as well as managers, regulators and others that care about high-quality financial and non-financial information.

Enhancing ICU care with nurse-written diaries.

Patient diaries are a supportive intervention aiding intensive care unit (ICU) survivors and their families post-critical illness. Despite their growing acceptance, ICU diary usage varies across settings. This study explored themes in nurse-written ICU diaries and their impact on nursing work and communication. This qualitative study employed an interpretative narrative methodology to explore the experiences of ICU nurses. The narrative approach enabled the synthesis of diverse events and impressions into coherent stories, facilitating a deeper understanding of participants' perspectives. Data collection involved thematic analysis of diaries following Braun and Clarke's methodology. The analysis included familiarization, coding, theme identification and validation by the research team. The findings were reviewed by participants and translated into English using the WHO's cultural adaptation guidelines, ensuring reliability and credibility in the study's outcomes. The sample consisted of 28 ICU nurses, each with professional experience ranging from 1 to 23 years. The hospitalized subjects for whom our sample wrote the diary consist of 13 participants aged 23-79 years. Two main themes emerged from the analysis: (1) simplifying the intensive care situation with specific minimization strategies and (2) attention to nonverbal communication. This study highlights the role of nurse-written ICU diaries in making the ICU environment more understandable and less intimidating for patients. Nurse-written ICU diaries contribute to improved communication and emotional support within the ICU environment. Further research is needed to explore these effects more fully and to assess the broader implications of ICU diaries on patient outcomes. Nurse-written intensive care unit (ICU) diaries have a significant impact on both patient care and nursing practice in ICUs. ICU diaries serve as a crucial tool for enhancing communication, emotional support and empathetic care within these high-stress environments. By simplifying complex medical information and focusing on nonverbal communication, nurses can make the ICU experience more comprehensible and less intimidating for patients. This approach reduces patient anxiety and psychological stress while fostering a stronger nurse-patient relationship, ultimately improving care quality.

Narrating loss in Poland 70 years after the Holocaust

ABSTRACT What do stories of loss sound like 70 years after the Holocaust and how are they remembered in the places where the losses themselves occurred? When Steven Hopman returned to Poland in 2010, as part of the March of the Living’s (MOL) Montreal contingent of survivors tasked with educating students about the Holocaust, he grappled with how best to narrate a coherent and shareable story. This article shares his struggle to go public with the ‘salvaged remnants’ of his experiences while detailing the strategies he employed to describe what was beyond loss and could not be shared.

Autobiographical memory of blind and sighted early teenagers: Memory accessibility, episodicity and phenomenology

AbstractVisual system is crucial to autobiographical memory. Research tended to show that blind adults may compensate for the loss of visual information in retrieval of their autobiographical memories. Much less is known about how blind children's autobiographical memory develops in the absence of visual information. Using cue‐word methodology, 36 sighted and 33 blind early teenagers were asked to recall memories and subsequently rated phenomenological qualities of their memories. Retrieval latency, the number of prompts provided, episodic and non‐episodic details reported for each memory were coded. In terms of memory accessibility, the blind group recalled comparable number of memories with comparable latency to retrieve memories, but they needed more prompting. Blind participants recalled similar number of episodic details; however, they reported more extraneous details, decreasing specificity. Blind early teenagers reported higher auditory imagery, a propensity to remember events from the first‐person perspective, and a tendency to remember events as coherent stories.

Narrative identity in addictive disorders: a conceptual review.

Narrative identity allows individuals to integrate their personal experiences into a coherent and meaningful life story. Addictive disorders appear to be associated with a disturbed sense of self, reflected in problematic and disorganized self-narratives. In recent literature, a growing body of research has highlighted how narrative approaches can make a dual contribution to the understanding of addiction: on the one hand, by revealing crucial aspects of self structure, and, on the other, by supporting the idea that addiction is a disorder related to unintegrated self-states in which dissociative phenomena and the resulting sense of 'loss of self' are maladaptive strategies for coping with distress. This conceptual review identified the main measures of narrative identity, i.e., narrative coherence and complexity, agency, and emotions, and critically examines 9 quantitative and qualitative studies (out of 18 identified in literature), that have investigated the narrative dimension in people with an addictive disorder in order to provide a synthesis of the relationship between self, narrative and addiction. These studies revealed a difficulty in the organization of narrative identity of people with an addictive disorder, which is reflected in less coherent and less complex autobiographical narratives, in a prevalence of passivity and negative emotions, and in a widespread presence of themes related to a lack of self-efficacy. This review points out important conceptual, methodological and clinical implications encouraging further investigation of narrative dimension in addiction.

Navigating Narrative Frontiers: Influence of Generative AI on Creative Literature

Navigating Narrative Frontiers: Influence of Generative AI on Creative Literature

Fiction-writing and wonder: documenting a collaborative, creative writing process

PurposeWe articulate cycles of creative storying and data analysis and the wonder that motivated the project by detailing our reading, thinking and writing processes to contribute to the conceptual and practical literature on collaborative writing as method.Design/methodology/approachThis paper documents a process of collaborative writing as method that produced a co-written fictional narrative that evokes questions about schooling.FindingsOur process began with world-building for our fictional future, creating characters to serve as a lens for analysis. From our discussions of the data, we crafted a plotline to present our themes in coherent story. As we explored and shared our readings, interdisciplinarity shaped our project in unique ways.Research limitations/implicationsThroughout, our collaboration and fiction-writing opened spaces for wonder, interdisciplinarity and joy that may inspire other researchers to engage in collaborative and/or creative writing processes.Originality/valueAdding to the rich literature of arts-based research methods, we contribute our reflections on the pragmatics of incorporating reading, writing and thinking for collaboration and creative writing as qualitative research methods for document analysis.

Narration with Graphics: An AI Generated Story Teller

Storytelling has always been a powerful tool to convey information, connect with people, and make an impact. The aim of our project is to generate story by using the concept of AI and Machine learning .AI generated storytelling has apotential to transform a variety of industries, for marketing and education to entertainment and beyond. By utilizing the capabilities of ML and NLP, stories generated by artificial intelligence can be tailored to meet the specific need of each industry like personalized narratives, interactive and dynamic storytelling, multimodal storytelling, cross domain storytelling. The introduction of GEN-AI can lead to both opportunities and potential challenges among different creator communities which required collaboration from both academic and industry. This topic gathers and analyse vast amount of data from various sources including literature, movies, and social media we are using natural language processing which understand and process human language enabling them to communicate with the user effectively. To use the facial recognition technology, we are using DALL-E, OpenCV which uses model like SVM, decision tree, and knn etc. The objective of the research is to investigate the power of AI software and automating the process of story generation. This exploration involves utilizing various AI models, such as natural language generation (NLG) algorithms, deep learning architectures, and reinforcement learning frameworks, to create compelling and coherent stories across different genres and themes. We're showcasing an innovative system that empowers users to effortlessly create short stories accompanied by relevant images with minimal input. Our final project is accessible through a user-friendly web page interface, allowing individuals to craft their narratives seamlessly. Key Words: Storytelling, Artificial intelligence, Natural language processing, Ai system, Narratives, Automatic, DALL -E, OpenCV.

StoryCraft AI: Exploring Generative Approaches to Story Narration through AI

In this project, we demonstrate a Storytelling AI system, which can generate short stories and complementary illustrated images with minimal input from the user. The system makes use of a text generation model, a text-to-image synthesis network, and a neural style transfer model. The final project is deployed into a website where users can build their stories. The field of AI has made significant changes in various domains, including Natural Language Processing and Generative models. One captivating application of these advancements is in the realm of storytelling. This project introduces a novel approach to story narration using a Generative AI model, specifically leveraging the GPT architecture. Traditional storytelling involves human creativity, imagination, and the ability to craft engaging narratives. However, the integration of AI into storytelling brings about new opportunities and challenges. In this project, we delve into the methodologies and techniques used to train a GPT-based model for generating coherent and captivating stories. In the end, we found that using computers for storytelling can be exciting, but we need to work together to ensure the stories are great and meaningful. Key Words: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Generative Adversarial Network (GAN), Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT)

Does Robin Hood Use a Lightsaber?: Automated Planning for Storytelling

Humans have been using stories to entertain, educate, and persuade audiences for centuries. The advent of modern AI tools in the form of Large Language Models (LLMs) such as chatGPT continues to fulfill this purpose. However while recent work has shown that LLMs can successfully be used for narrative generation, they lack coherence and can be prone to repetition and stilted language. Automated Planning can therefore be combined with Natural Language text generation to create narratives (stories) that are logical, coherent, and believable. A planning model provides scaffolding to an LLM so that the LLM's language generation is context-dependent, in order to allow users to create more coherent, logical, and believable stories in a variety of domains.

Annexation of Crowdsourcing Technique to Aid the Research Pedagogy

The synergistic integration of crowdsourcing into teaching-learning pedagogy is explored in this extensive trialing, which presents a coherent story derived from several dimensions, including mass engagement, collaborative pedagogy approaches, and an experimental project evaluating pedagogical impact on preschool-aged children. The research article explains how crowdsourcing may be revolutionary, highlighting its benefits for information collecting, problem solving, and project execution. Moving from traditional teacher-centric to Student – centered approaches, smoothly transitioning into the field of teaching and learning pedagogy. The study covers the constructivist, collaborative, integrative, reflective, and inquiry-based learning pedagogies. It emphasizes how important pedagogy is in encouraging collaborative learning settings, removing monotony, and accommodating various learning preferences. An experimental project aimed at evaluating the effects of teaching-learning pedagogy on young children in preschool. College students mediated contacts between high school students and non-digitalized preschoolers by using human networks as mediators. The approach demonstrates the viability and effectiveness of crowdsourcing for research in education while emphasizing the need for cautious execution, middleman training, and quality assurance.

앤드류 로이드 웨버의 뮤S. 엘리엇 시의 각색연구

This study is an attempt to analyze the issues of patriarchy and gender in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s adaptation of T. S. Eliot’s verses to produce the 1981 megamusical Cats. Reading the textual differences of Eliot’s original poems and Lloyd Webber’s adapted lyrics in terms of patriarchy and gender, this study puts a focus on the concepts of ‘fallen woman’ and ‘phallic woman’ in the light of the gendered reception of the female protagonist Grizabella the Glamour Cat and her historical predecessor Mary Magdalene, the female prototype of ‘fallen woman’ in the biblical era. Lloyd Webber’s adaptation of T. S. Eliot’s poems offers the spectators of Cats the chance to identify the foregrounding of gender issues by Grizabella regardless of her creator Lloyd Webber’s creative intention to regale his audiences. Let alone Lloyd Webber’s authorial design, the spectators and reviewers of Cats tend to miss or underestimate the problematics of aging, gender and patriarchy, which construct Grizabella’s subjectivity because spectacles overwhelm spectators’ desire to seek coherent story of the ruined Grizabella. The influence of Thatcherism of 1980s will be a clue to appreciate the political context of the theatrical spectacles in Cats.

Language ideologies among Spanish-speaking migrants in Germany: insights from language conflict narratives

When migrants move to a new country, they often encounter challenges in understanding and being understood. Narratives serve as a way for individuals to make sense of these experiences, reflecting on their own and other people’s actions, beliefs, attitudes, and intentions while weaving them into coherent stories. This study examines narratives of problematic language incidents among Latin American migrants living in Germany within a language ideologies framework, using narrative analysis and positioning theory. Special emphasis is placed on how the narrators position themselves and other characters relative to widely shared language ideologies. Within the narratives, three pivotal language ideologies emerge: 1. The one-nation-one-language ideology, 2. The native standard ideology, and 3. The ideology of global English. Through their positioning acts, the narrators make moral claims and either affirm or challenge prevailing language ideologies, along with the embedded moral values. While the participants resist marginalization based on exclusionary ideologies of linguistic nationalism and native speakerism, they nevertheless uphold the ideals of a linguistically homogeneous nation-state and the native speaker model. Moreover, they support the use of English as a global language to bridge linguistic inequalities, but tend to overlook its exclusionary potential.

Digital Storytelling and Multimedia Tools for Teaching Language and Literature

This study explains how digital stories are used in teaching language and literature. This paper shows how the art of storytelling can be effectively used with growing digital technology. There is a tremendous shift from print to digital media in the 21st century. The traditional oral storytelling method has changed to visual digital media stories with video, audio, and 3D objects, this helps the readers to interact with stories currently. Digital storytelling is the result of combining different media elements into a coherent story. The digital story presentation is short but it is attractive. They stimulate the senses and imagination and are suitable for different learning styles. Nowadays our student curriculum is different, they have distance education, online education, and direct education. Because of this, we have to blend our classroom education with computers and new technologies. Teachers and professors use computers, scanners, printers, cameras, and the Internet in classrooms. Teachers use effective technology to increase student learning and understanding. In the olden days, people tell stories to children at bedtime, nowadays computers are creating multiple stories, and humans need not want to break their heads to tell stories. Everything is digital now, so it is much easier to create stories for our written literature and second language teaching. The students are very interested in seeing visual stories for their lessons.

Personality and Emotion in Strong-Story Narrative Planning

Believable characters are core elements of a coherent story. Qualities that make story characters more believable include goals, beliefs, personality, and emotion. We propose computational models of emotion and personality by adapting the OCC model of emotion and the Five Factor personality model. Our models are formulated into multi-agent strong-story narrative planning with the promise of being highly reusable and domain independent. We evaluate these models using multiple human subject studies. We show that our model's reasoning about character emotions matches the expectations of human readers, and using our emotion model, we can generate a larger set of stories than precedent narrative planners. We also demonstrate that human readers can perceive and recognize the personalities of story characters through their consistent behavior generated by our model. Our final experiment supports that human readers significantly find the behavior generated by our models of emotion and personality more believable than behavior that lacks either or both.

Food for thought: How curiosity externalization is fostered through organizational identity

Curiosity has increasingly been deemed to hold pivotal influence over the ventures founders create. While this growing body of knowledge has helped us understand the origins of a venture, what is less well understood is the process by which individual curiosity gets externalized to the organizational level. Yet, the externalization of curiosity has been recognized as central for rallying organizational members behind innovation initiatives. To understand how curiosity externalizes and thereby translates into a venture’s collective property, we conducted an in-depth case study of Rasmus Munk and his two Michelin-starred restaurant Alchemist. Our empirically grounded process model draws attention to the pivotal role identity mechanisms assume in externalizing curiosity in a venture: Promoting originality through de-familiarizing the familiar at the individual level is counter-balanced by familiarizing the unfamiliar into a coherent venture story at the organizational level.

Inter-subject correlation during long narratives reveals widespread neural correlates of reading ability

Recent work using fMRI inter-subject correlation analysis has provided new information about the brain's response to video and audio narratives, particularly in frontal regions not typically activated by single words. This approach is very well suited to the study of reading, where narrative is central to natural experience. But since past reading paradigms have primarily presented single words or phrases, the influence of narrative on semantic processing in the brain – and how that influence might change with reading ability – remains largely unexplored. In this study, we presented coherent stories to adolescents and young adults with a wide range of reading abilities. The stories were presented in alternating visual and auditory blocks. We used a dimensional inter-subject correlation analysis to identify regions in which better and worse readers had varying levels of consistency with other readers. This analysis identified a widespread set of brain regions in which activity timecourses were more similar among better readers than among worse readers. These differences were not detected with standard block activation analyses. Worse readers had higher correlation with better readers than with other worse readers, suggesting that the worse readers had “idiosyncratic” responses rather than using a single compensatory mechanism. Close inspection confirmed that these differences were not explained by differences in IQ or motion. These results suggest an expansion of the current view of where and how reading ability is reflected in the brain, and in doing so, they establish inter-subject correlation as a sensitive tool for future studies of reading disorders.

Evidence for a metacognitive awareness of autobiographical memory organisation

Models of autobiographical memory (AM) recall posit some form of control process, but the extent to which we can reflect on this form of retrieval is under-researched. Here we propose a method for measuring such metacognitive awareness in AM. Since the verification of personal facts is difficult, we based our design on AM organisation. AMs are proposed to be organised into a coherent life story, that is, a subjective chronology reflecting the goals of the individual over time. We investigated the metacognitive awareness of this coherence. Eighty-three participants generated AMs and made two judgements of order for pairs of memories and gave a confidence rating. We found that participants were indeed able to distinguish pairs of memories that were coherent with their life story chronology from pairs which were not. We also found a significant effect of response time and task difficulty on confidence, suggesting that judgement of order fluency was determinant for metacognitive evaluation. This suggests common properties between metacognitive abilities related to autobiographical memory and those related to other forms of memory.

Hidden Signs? Postcritique to Solomon Marcus’s Final Article

Solomon Marcus’ final article “Hidden signs” (2016) is no coherent story but gives the sketchy outlines of his lecture notes. Marcus call needs a further explanation to his intellectual background. Marcus advanced mathematical poetics interacting between the “natural” form of literature and the “artificial” scientific fields, to be epitomized by mathematical or statistical rules. Literature and the sciences share the use of linguistic signs and symbols, but French structuralism refused to recognize the transdisciplinary relations of literature with sciences. Thus Marcus’ mathematical poetics can be set against Barthes’ negative contention by agreeing and disagreeing with the “subversive” structuralists (Lévy-Strauss and Calvino). By positioning the idea of mythical and playful interactions of science with literary phenomena, Marcus positioned this tentative hypothesis to accept the revolutionary understanding of his thoughts. The grounds of Marcus’ debate accept the understanding of his revolutionary thoughts, but the postcritical response advances the intellectual conditions and political implications of Marcus’ scholarship, which caused him to abandon the method of structuralism and embark on the semiotic expansion of the dynamism of Peirce and Derrida.

Telling Stories for Healing and Resilience: A Trauma-informed Reading of Psalms 105 and 106

The poetic telling of stories—especially stories of ancestral failings and ongoing relationship to those failings—is a key aspect of how the book of Psalms moves audiences from trauma to healing and resilience. Trauma blocks the ability of survivors to narrate a coherent story of their experiences. Learning to tell traumatic stories—and integrate them into life moving forward—is a significant factor in healing from past traumas and building the resilience necessary to survive and sustain well-being through future ones. The “twin” Psalms 105 and 106 are an example of how the book of Psalms equips audiences for this work of processing trauma, moving toward healing, and building resilience through its poetic language, narrative structures, and community context. In particular, these psalms narrate a shared history, acknowledge the good and the bad within that history, and demand participation and response.