Personal reboot and survival by A. V. Nekhaev

“…It is concluded that the main goals of critical attacks of these arguments are the temporal mismatch of psychological connectedness and continuity as well as the reductionist claim that all the facts what matters for survival can be described in an impersonal way…”
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Muslimah Creativity, Piety, and Solidarity in Mohja Kahf’s Hagar Poems by Hasnul Insani Djohar, Willy Oktaviano, Mira Utami

“…This paper investigates how Kahf’s poetry collection, Hagar Poems (2016), discovers Muslim women or Muslimah leadership by exploring Muslimah leaders, such as Hagar (Hajar), Khadija, and Aisha to undermine reductionist views of Muslim women both in Orientalism and Anglo-American feminism. …”
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A Critical Review of the Book Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History by Ali Karimi Maleh

“…In spite of various innovative and creative ideas presented in this book, its critical reading, represents some shortcomings such as reductionist understanding of the political violence, teleological and ideological understanding of the open-access order and acceptance of modernization paradigm and uni-linearism in the transformation of societies and the neglect of the asymmetrical and hierarchical relations between developed and developing countries.…”
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Mostashr al-Dawla’s View of Iran’s Backwardness: A Critical Review on the Book Modernism and Legalism by Mohammad Javad Tahsili, Maghsoud Ranjbar, Mohammad Torabi

“…The most important critique of the book, it is descriptive and the author lacks a critical approach to the work, while the treatise "One Word" by Mostashar al-Dawla can be criticized in various ways, which are discussed in this article and the most important critique of the above treatise is that Mostashar al-Dawla’s has become reductionist in understanding the law and its meaning and this has led to her serious misunderstanding of the place and meaning of law in the modern world. …”
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Challenges in nature-based health and therapy research and critical considerations for application in musculoskeletal health by Richard Doran-Sherlock, Payal Sood, Nicole Anne Struthers, Filip Maric

“…As healthcare professions such as physiotherapy and osteopathy move away from biomedical/reductionist models of care for complex conditions towards approaches which take into account social and environmental determinants of health, NBHT may become part of clinical interventions and public health messaging. …”
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Learning together: facing the challenges of sustainability transitions by engaging uncertainty tolerance and post-normal science by Michelle D. Lazarus, Silvio Funtowicz

“…Abstract Current efforts towards sustainability tend to focus on maintaining existing systems and structures, by relying on reductionist approaches to problem solving. Increasingly, there is a call for more effective action in reaching sustainability, not through reductionism (e.g. solutions which reinforce the status quo), but through transformative societal changes and cultural shifts. …”
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A Critical Review of the Book Iran in Five Narratives: About National Identity, Linguistic Diversity, Mother Tongue and the Issue of Turkish Language in Iran by Naser Sedghi

“…By referring to the ethnic-linguistic and geographical diversity of Iranian society, the author seeks to provide a pluralistic reading of the concept of Iran and national identity. Criticizing the reductionist nationalist discourse, he considers Iranianness and national identity as a category beyond the single element of being Aryan and Persian. he believes that all Iranian ethnic groups and languages ​​such as Turkish, Arabic, Kurdish, Baluchi, and Turkmen should be considered Iranian and based on that, the concept of Iran and national dignity should be redefined. …”
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Developing “You’re History, Pal!”: Employing Role-Playing Games as Pedagogical Instruments by Ștefana Iosif

“…Furthermore, it employs an interdisciplinary approach, trying to avoid the reductionist and limitative isolation of material kept in separate containers, in an attempt to avoid cross-contamination, in reality achieving sterility more often than not. …”
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Effect of fungal, oomycete and nematode interactions on apple root development in replant soil by Emma L. Tilston, Gregory Deakin, Julie Bennett, Thomas Passey, Nicola Harrison, Felicidad Fernández, Xiangming Xu

“…Methods We used a reductionist approach to determine effects of one or more members of the ARD complex on ARD in a number of selected rootstock genotypes with contrasting characteristics. …”
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Axiological concept of LAZINESS as an object of linguistics and psychology by Lili Wang

“…The concept of laziness can be a reductionist explanation for why others do not act as expected. …”
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Analyzing the Perspectives of Instructors of General Medical Modules on the Inclusion of Health Humanities Fundamentals in the Curriculum by SeyedAmir Mohseni, Fattaneh Amuei, Siavash Moradi

“…The inclusion of humanities content in the curriculum has challenges, such as cultural issues, resistance to change, medical hegemony, the presence of a clinical-oriented and reductionist point of view, the absence of an approved curriculum, and an overcrowded curriculum.…”
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Can the Rwandan Catholic Church Overcome its History of Politicization? A Reply to Philippe Denis by Anthony Court

“…I aim to show that,by not taking into account these important factors and their relevance for interpreting the historically close ties between church and state, Denis tends to endorse the church’s reductionist interpretation of the history of intergroup conflict and mass violence, which it attributes almost exclusively to ethnic animosity. …”
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Studying gender in the experiences of patients with heart failure: A scoping review of qualitative studies and methodological recommendations by Elias Thomas, Petra Verdonk, Jeanine Roeters-van Lennep, Hanneke Rhodius-Meester, Louis Handoko, Linda Schoonmade, Majon Muller, Maaike Muntinga

“…To better understand gendered experiences in HF, researchers need to avoid a reductionist and essentialist approach to gender. To this end, researchers should clearly state their conceptual approach to gender and analyse their findings using state-of-the-art gender theoretical frameworks and intersectional approaches. …”
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Advancing dental biofilm models: the integral role of pH in predicting S. mutans colonization by Jay S. Sangha, Valentina Gogulancea, Thomas P. Curtis, Nicholas S. Jakubovics, Paul Barrett, Aline Metris, Irina D. Ofiţeru

“…Although in silico models are reductionist approaches, they have the advantage of not being limited in the scenarios they can test by the ethical consideration of an in vivo system, thus significantly contributing to dental biofilm research.…”
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Proximity or Directional Model of Voting for the Turkish Voter? by Murat İnan, Gül Arıkan Akdağ

“…On one hand, it was highly reductionist to argue that political ideas on a particular issue can be expressed this way, on the other, it was highly practical from analytical point of view. …”
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The Problem of Evil: by A.S. Antombikums

“…This study argues that the open-theistic notion of divine power is reductionistic because it does not consider coercive power as part of divine power. …”
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Towards an Adequate Anthropology by Andrzej Jastrzębski

“…Generally speaking, its aim consists in the defense of a large and holistic concept of our existence in opposition to all contemporary reductionistic accounts. Developing an adequate anthropology enables us to discover the very truth about ourselves. …”
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An Ontology of the Word in Catalan Romanesque Culture by Alfons Puigarnau

“…The history of culture in Catalonia during the Romanesque period (9th–12th centuries) has often been written from a strongly positivist mentality, which is a reductionistic approach. Economic history has distorted this period’s intellectual and cultural history. …”
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Att samtala om det omätbara by Petter Eklund

“…She thinks that an epistemology that builds on scientific evidence alone leads to a reductionistic worldview. Instead, she wants to see the particularity in life. …”
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Integrated solid waste management in megacities by M.A. Abdoli, M. Rezaee, H. Hasanian

“…Furthermore, the conventional municipal solid waste management approach often is reductionists, not tailored to handle complexity. Therefore, the need to a comprehensive and multi-disciplinary approach regarding the municipal solid waste management problems is increasing. …”
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