Definition Of Expertise Research Articles

STAGES OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE OF STATE ACCREDITATION IN THE FIELD OF HIGHER EDUCATION

The article is devoted to the consideration of the features of the procedural activity carried out within the framework of state accreditation in the field of higher education. The purpose of the article is to identify problematic issues and develop proposals for improving the regulatory acts governing the relevant administrative procedure. The author’s definition of accreditation expertise is formulated as a special procedure for studying educational activities for a specific educational program, conducted by competent experts with special knowledge in the field of education, within the framework of which accreditation indicators and educational activities of the organisation are compared, which allows determining its quality. The need to exclude from the subject of accreditation expertise such indicators as the average score of the unified state examination of students accepted based on its results for training in higher education programmes, as well as the average score of entrance examinations, is substantiated, since these indicators cannot be attributed to the indicators of the quality of educational activities for a specific educational programme of higher school. The integration of the electronic educational environment of educational institutions with the Federal State Information System “the unified identification and authentication system” is proposed. The necessity of specifying individual deadlines within the stage of accreditation expertise is substantiated, which will help to ensure the right of an educational organisation to timely receive the result of the state service for accreditation of educational activities.

Pre-Service Science Teachers’ Beliefs About Creativity at School: A Study in the Hispanic Context

The present study examines the beliefs of pre-service science teachers on creativity in science teaching and learning and identifies factors in the school environment that, in their view, can influence students’ creativity. A total of 152 Colombian prospective science teachers participated in this study. A questionnaire, with an open and a closed part, was administered to participants. Descriptive and inferential statistical analysis of the qualitative and quantitative data collected was carried out. The results revealed that (a) the concept of creativity held by the participants was incomplete and significantly diverged from expert definitions; (b) they viewed creativity as a universal potential that can be nurtured within the school system; (c) the ability to identify problems and ask challenging questions was rarely selected as a creative personality trait; (d) they demonstrated unclear ideas about the relationship between creativity and intelligence and the role of prior knowledge in students’ creativity; and (e) the subject or curricular domain was seen as an important factor influencing students’ creativity. From all this, it could be concluded that Colombian future science teachers exhibited flawed concepts of creativity based on poorly articulated beliefs, which is consistent with findings in other international studies.

Evaluating models of expert judgment to inform assessment of ecosystem viability and collapse.

Expert judgment underpins assessment of threatened ecosystems. However, experts are often narrowly defined, and variability in their judgments may be substantial. Models built from structured elicitation with large diverse expert panels can contribute to more consistent and transparent decision-making. We conducted a structured elicitation under a broad definition of expertise to examine variation in judgments of ecosystem viability and collapse in a critically endangered ecosystem. We explored whether variation in judgments among 83 experts was related to affiliation and management expertise and assessed performance of an average model based on common ecosystem indicators. There were systematic differences among individuals, much of which were not explained by affiliation or expertise. However, of the individuals affiliated with government, those in conservation and environmental departments were more likely to determine a patch was viable than those in agriculture and rural land management. Classification errors from an average model, in which all individuals were weighted equally, were highest among government agriculture experts (27%) and lowest among government conservation experts (12%). Differences were mostly cases in which the average model predicted a patch was viable but the individual thought it was not. These differences arose primarily for areas that were grazed or cleared of mature trees. These areas are often the target of restoration, but they are also valuable for agriculture. These results highlight the potential for conflicting advice and disagreement about policies and actions for conserving and restoring threatened ecosystems. Although adoption of an average model can improve consistency of ecosystem assessment, it can fail to capture and convey diverse opinions held by experts. Structured elicitation and models of ecosystem viability play an important role in providing data-driven evidence of where differences arise among experts to support engagement and discussion among stakeholders and decision makers and to improve the management of threatened ecosystems.

Emerging occupational risks in green jobs: a review.

Green jobs are to be understood as those jobs directly associated with specific sustainability issues and activities related to the efficiency, quality and innovation of goods and services offered, from an eco-sustainability perspective. The objective of the research was to fill knowledge gaps of new and emerging environmental and occupational risks related to sustainable activities and to understand the impact these might have on workers' psychological and physical well-being. A selection of several scientific articles and a critical analysis of the selected articles was carried out from the perspective of defining the concept of "emerging occupational risks in green jobs," using different keywords in the title or abstract as search criteria. Emerging occupational risks, most prevalent in the green sector are those determined by the rapid introduction of new technologies, new materials, new processes and work organizations. In order to be able to improve prevention and protection at work, it is necessary to act on a more careful and adequate risk assessment, the definition of new professional figures expert in green issues, the expansion of research and development of scientific knowledge, and the improvement of ergonomic aspects. Int J Occup Med Environ Health. 2024;37(3):244-56.

Civil Society Silos

Abstract Operation Sovereign Borders imposes protracted precarity on people seeking asylum stuck in Australia on restrictive visas. Civil society actors form a movement offering them crucial support, filling a vacuum amplified by neoliberalized welfare. Drawing on fieldwork in Naarm (Melbourne), I provide an intersectional and ethnographic exploration of power dynamics within movements by examining the creation of “civil society silos” based on diverging claims to expertise. I identify and critically analyze five forms of movement expertise—professional, lived, societal, relational, and Indigenous—alongside my own production of research expertise. These forms encompass both an encroachment of racialized neoliberal logics into movement spaces and a channel to subvert bordering regimes. The findings in this article contribute to scholarship on the political potential of civil society movements in neoliberalized migration settings, and to widening definitions of expertise to include marginalized knowledges.

Rethinking Undergraduate Computer Science Education: Using the 4Es Heuristic to Center Students in an Introductory Computer Science Course

Rethinking Undergraduate Computer Science Education: Using the 4Es Heuristic to Center Students in an Introductory Computer Science Course

Objective assessment tools in laparoscopic or robotic-assisted gynecological surgery: A systematic review.

There is a growing emphasis on proficiency-based progression within surgical training. To enable this, clearly defined metrics for those newly acquired surgical skills are needed. These can be formulated in objective assessment tools. The aim of the present study was to systematically review the literature reporting on available tools for objective assessment of minimally invasive gynecological surgery (simulated) performance and evaluate their reliability and validity. A systematic search (1989-2022) was conducted in MEDLINE, Embase, PubMed, Web of Science in accordance with PRISMA. The trial was registered with the Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews (PROSPERO) ID: CRD42022376552. Randomized controlled trials, prospective comparative studies, prospective single-group (with pre- and post-training assessment) or consensus studies that reported on the development, validation or usage of assessment tools of surgical performance in minimally invasive gynecological surgery, were included. Three independent assessors assessed study setting and validity evidence according to a contemporary framework of validity, which was adapted from Messick's validity framework. Methodological quality of included studies was assessed using the modified medical education research study quality instrument (MERSQI) checklist. Heterogeneity in data reporting on types of tools, data collection, study design, definition of expertise (novice vs. experts) and statistical values prevented a meaningful meta-analysis. A total of 19 746 titles and abstracts were screened of which 72 articles met the inclusion criteria. A total of 37 different assessment tools were identified of which 13 represented manual global assessment tools, 13 manual procedure-specific assessment tools and 11 automated performance metrices. Only two tools showed substantive evidence of validity. Reliability and validity per tool were provided. No assessment tools showed direct correlation between tool scores and patient related outcomes. Existing objective assessment tools lack evidence on predicting patient outcomes and suffer from limitations in transferability outside of the research environment, particularly for automated performance metrics. Future research should prioritize filling these gaps while integrating advanced technologies like kinematic data and AI for robust, objective surgical skill assessment within gynecological advanced surgical training programs.

An Approach to Diversifying the Selection of a Guideline Panel-The Process Utilized for the Updated Adult Critical Care Ultrasound Guidelines.

Clinical practice guidelines are essential for promoting evidence-based healthcare. While diversification of panel members can reduce disparities in care, processes for panel selection lack transparency. We aim to share our approach in forming a diverse expert panel for the updated Adult Critical Care Ultrasound Guidelines. This process evaluation aims to understand whether the implementation of a transparent and intentional approach to guideline panel selection would result in the creation of a diverse expert guideline panel. This study was conducted in the setting of creating a guideline panel for the updated Adult Critical Care Ultrasound Guidelines. Understanding that family/patient advocacy in guideline creations can promote the impact of a clinical practice guideline, patient representation on the expert panel was prioritized. Interventions included creation of a clear definition of expertise, an open invitation to the Society of Critical Care Medicine membership to apply for the panel, additional panel nomination by guideline leadership, voluntary disclosure of pre-identified diversity criteria by potential candidates, and independent review of applications including diversity criteria. This resulted in an overall score per candidate per reviewer and an open forum for discussion and final consensus. The variables of diversity were collected and analyzed after panel selection. These were compared with historical data on panel composition. The final guideline panel comprised of 33 panelists from six countries: 45% women and 79% historically excluded people and groups. The panel has representation from nonphysician professionals and patients advocates. Of the healthcare professionals, there is representation from early, mid, and late career stages. Our intentional and transparent approach resulted in a panel with improved gender parity and robust diversity along ethnic, racial, and professional lines. We hope it can serve as a starting point as we strive to become a more inclusive and diverse discipline that creates globally representative guidelines.

Body Bag Cooling with Two Different Water Temperatures for the Treatment of Hyperthermia.

INTRODUCTION: Exertional heatstroke (EHS) is a life-threatening condition that requires quick recognition and cooling for survival. Experts recommend using cooling modalities that reduce rectal temperature (TREC) faster than 0.16°C/min though rates above 0.08°C/min are considered "acceptable." Hyperthermic individuals treated in body bags filled with ice water (∼3°C) have excellent cooling rates (0.28 ± 0.09°C/min). However, clinicians may not have access to large amounts of ice or ice water when treating EHS victims. The purpose of this study was to determine if using a body bag filled with water near the upper limits of expert recommendations for EHS treatment would produce acceptable (>0.08°C/min) or "ideal (>0.16°C/min)" TREC cooling rates or different nadir values.METHODS: A total of 12 individuals (9 men, 3 women; age: 21 ± 2 yr; mass: 74.6 ± 10.2 kg; height: 179.5 ± 9.6 cm) exercised in the heat until TREC was 39.5°C. They lay supine while 211.4 ± 19.5 L of 10°C (Ten) or 15°C (Fifteen) water was poured into a body bag. Subjects cooled until TREC was 38°C. They exited the body bag and rested in the heat for 10 min.RESULTS: Subjects exercised in similar conditions and for similar durations (Ten = 46.3 ± 8.6 min, Fifteen = 46.2 ± 7.8 min). TREC cooling rates were faster in Ten than Fifteen (Ten = 0.18 ± 0.07°C/min, Fifteen = 0.14 ± 0.09°C/min). TREC nadir was slightly higher in Fifteen (37.3 ± 0.2°C) than Ten (37.1 ± 0.3°C).DISCUSSION: Body bag cooling rates met expert definitions of acceptable (Fifteen) and ideal (Ten) for EHS treatment. This information is valuable for clinicians who do not have access to or the resources for ice water cooling to treat EHS.Miller KC, Amaria NY. Body bag cooling with two different water temperatures for the treatment of hyperthermia. Aerosp Med Hum Perform. 2024; 95(4):194-199.

Expertise in surgical neuro-oncology. Results of a survey by the EANS neuro-oncology section

IntroductionTechnical advances and the increasing role of interdisciplinary decision-making may warrant formal definitions of expertise in surgical neuro-oncology. Research questionThe EANS Neuro-oncology Section felt that a survey detailing the European neurosurgical perspective on the concept of expertise in surgical neuro-oncology might be helpful. Material and methodsThe EANS Neuro-oncology Section panel developed an online survey asking questions regarding criteria for expertise in neuro-oncological surgery and sent it to all individual EANS members. ResultsOur questionnaire was completed by 251 respondents (consultants: 80.1%) from 42 countries. 67.7% would accept a lifetime caseload of >200 cases and 86.7% an annual caseload of >50 as evidence of neuro-oncological surgical expertise. A majority felt that surgeons who do not treat children (56.2%), do not have experience with spinal fusion (78.1%) or peripheral nerve tumors (71.7%) may still be considered experts. Majorities believed that expertise requires the use of skull-base approaches (85.8%), intraoperative monitoring (83.4%), awake craniotomies (77.3%), and neuro-endoscopy (75.5%) as well as continuing education of at least 1/year (100.0%), a research background (80.0%) and teaching activities (78.7%), and formal interdisciplinary collaborations (e.g., tumor board: 93.0%). Academic vs. non-academic affiliation, career position, years of neurosurgical experience, country of practice, and primary clinical interest had a minor influence on the respondents’ opinions. Discussion and conclusionOpinions among neurosurgeons regarding the characteristics and features of expertise in neuro-oncology vary surprisingly little. Large majorities favoring certain thresholds and qualitative criteria suggest a consensus definition might be possible.

Influencer’s era–the role of experts in the digital world. Do we still need their forecasts and advice?

Influencer’s era–the role of experts in the digital world. Do we still need their forecasts and advice? We live in an information society. Estimates show that by 2025 global data production will increase to over 180 zettabytes. Along with the dissemination of the Internet, the development of digital communication and the reduction of digital exclusion, we are facing a serious crisis of expert culture. Over the years, it is experts who played an important role in society, today we ask where the border between professionals and specialists with specific knowledge, and experts-soremen, who gather hundreds of thousands of thousands of users in front of the screens of mobile devices in front of the screens of mobile devices in front of the screens of mobile devices. In the course of consideration of the above issues, the authors decided to develop a new expert definition based on a review of literature together with the use of the syncretic method and the original research model. The latter was successfully used in previous studies. As part of the considerations on the indicated issues, the authors focus on four key phenomena: Influencer marketing development–as a new variety of the so -called expert sector; virtual exhibitionism in the context of surveillance capitalism; functioning of the expert sector in the Bigdata era; The role of experts- futurists reaching for the models of forecasting the future. Is there still room for experts in the thicket of data? The answer to this question is the key to defining who the expert of the future will be.

Coach as youth development specialist: developing a TPSR-based coach training program and examining participants’ experiences

ABSTRACT Background Effective youth sport coaching encompasses the promotion of personal, social, and athletic skills in a deliberate and consistent manner. Coach training protocols that highlight coaches’ best-practices that promote development emphasize the role of the coach as either a developer of athletes’ personal and social potential or as a developer of athletic talent (focusing on techniques and tactics of sport). However, there is a scarcity of literature describing how to train practitioners for this combined role. Purpose The purpose of this study was to develop and examine coaches’ experiences in coach training that teaches personal and social development, as well as fundamental movement skills called Coach as a Youth Development Specialist (CAYDS). This was conducted in two phases. First, a pilot study aimed to develop, deliver, and evaluate a coach training curriculum that addressed the needs of youth coaches to improve and finalize the CAYDS curriculum. Second, the final iteration of CAYDS was implemented to examine coaches’ lived experiences while participating in the training. Methods The pilot phase involved five-module training delivered to five graduate students. Thematic analysis was used to analyze a focus group interview and understand what participants learned and how the training helped. The results led to a final version of the CAYDS training. In its final version, the training had seven modules that were delivered to a new cohort of six participants. Hermeneutic phenomenology guided the understanding of the what and how of participating coaches’ lived experiences in the CAYDS training. Data were collected using journal reflections, a focus group interview, and individual interviews; and thematically analyzed. Findings The training successfully helped coaches perform coaching competencies, skills, and behaviors identified in the CAYDS framework (cf. Hellison, D. 2011. Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility Through Physical Activity. 3rd ed. Champaign: Human Kinetics; CCE, ASOIF & LMU. 2013. International Sport Coaching Framework v1.2. Champaign: Human Kinetics; SHAPE America. 2019. National Standards for Sport Coaches. 3rd ed. https://www.shapeamerica.org/standards/coaching/default.aspx) that foster personal, social, and athletic development for youth. Findings from this study provide evidence in support of andragogical approaches that helped coaches learn interpersonal, intrapersonal, and professional knowledge (Côté, J., and W. Gilbert. 2009. “An Integrative Definition of Coaching Effectiveness and Expertise.” International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching 4 (3): 307–323.). Participants built positive relationships with community stakeholders and activities involving outreach to parents/guardians, attending school events, and coach educators’ use of role-play were perceived to be particularly impactful. This study also found the process of learning to teach youth skills related to personal and social development inspired coaches to be more self-aware and motivated to grow personally and act in ways that are aligned with TPSR values. Finally, coaches perceived to have acquired professional knowledge that contributed to their ability to instruct fundamental movement skills for athletic development. Conclusions The CAYDS framework offers a viable mechanism to support the dual-role youth sport coaches serve as development specialists, while also parting with coach-centered professional models of coaching. Further, there is promise for this type of development-supportive coaching approach to be applied when working with athletes in their late adolescent years situated in high performance contexts.

Review and synthesis of expert perspectives on user attribute and profile definitions for fashion recommendation

ABSTRACT A key obstacle in personalised fashion recommendations is the challenge of capturing user physical attributes at a large scale, which limits exclusively computational methods (like machine learning) to readily available attributes whose influence on recommendation accuracy is variable. Expert advice is a potential means of identifying influential user attributes. However, individual experts often disagree or offer conflicting advice. Thus, identifying areas where expert advice is or isn't consistent, in the context of user attributes and profiling is critical. Here, we characterise the breadth of expert definitions of user attributes and profiles through an exhaustive assessment of 156 years of advice literature. Expert definitions of body colouring, shape, and personality attributes are extracted and compared. The range of attribute-value relationships and profile definitions in each domain is described, and coherence among authors for each domain is discussed.

Clinical characteristics and pathologic complete response (pCR) rate after neoadjuvant chemotherapy in postpartum women with breast cancer

PurposeBreast cancer (BC) is currently the leading cause of death in women worldwide. Studies have confirmed that pregnancy is an independent factor affecting the survival of BC patients. BC found during pregnancy, lactation, or shortly after delivery is what we used to think of as pregnancy-associated breast cancer (PABC). The current expert definition of this concept is not uniform; however, there is growing evidence that postpartum breast cancer (PPBC) differs from other types of BC in terms of both biological features and prognosis, with a slightly different focus on diagnosis and treatment. With the increase of female reproductive age population and changes in fertility policies in China, patients with PPBC are receiving increasing attention. Here, we systematically analyzed the clinicopathological characteristics and chemotherapeutic response of patients with PPBC. We retrospectively analyzed the clinicopathological data, molecular subtypes, chemotherapy regimens, and pathological complete remission (pCR) rates of 1343 patients with non-metastatic BC at Harbin Medical University Cancer Hospital from January 1, 2012 to May 31, 2023. The categorical data were compared by chi-square test and Fisher exact test using logistic regression model. Predictor variables with P < 0.05 in the univariate analysis were included in the multivariate regression analysis to investigate the relationship between different age groups and pCR.ResultsA total of 714 patients were eligible for analysis in this study, and 667 patients had a history of pregnancy, 40 (5.6%) of whom were PPBC patients. When diagnosed with BC, patients with PPBC were younger, more likely to undergo breast-conserving surgery (BCS), and more likely to achieve pCR (P < 0.05). In molecular typing, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER-2)-positive and triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) were more frequent. In the entire cohort, HER-2 expression and delivery status were independent predictors of pCR rates in BC patients after neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC).ConclusionOur findings suggest that postpartum status is an independent predictor of pCR attainment in BC patients. PPBC is more sensitive to chemotherapy than other patients.We need to pay more attention to this group and achieve individualized treatment, which will help us treat BC better and provide new targets and blueprints for our clinical therapy.

The concept and signs of anti-corruption expertise in public administration

The paper is devoted to the essence of anti-corruption expertise in public administration. Scientific approaches to understanding the concept of «anti-corruption expertise» are considered. The author's definition of anti-corruption expertise in public administration is proposed as a public-authority activity of authorized subjects regarding the study of current normative legal acts and draft normative legal acts for the presence in them of corruptionogenic properties of norms that contribute or may contribute to the commission of corruption offenses or offenses related to related to corruption. It was established that anti-corruption expertise in public administration contributes to the identification and elimination of corruption-inducing factors in normative legal acts and drafts of normative legal acts in the field of activity of subjects of administrative legal relations. General and special features of anti-corruption examination in public administration are given. The general features of anti-corruption examination in public administration include the following: legal activity, carried out by a person or a group of persons, based on the norms of the law and subordinate legal acts, carried out on the basis of an officially approved research methodology, is a means of improving legal acts, based on the results of conducting a conclusion is made. The special features of anti-corruption examination in public administration include the following: the goal is to identify factors in current normative legal acts and draft normative legal acts that contribute or may contribute to the commission of corruption offenses or offenses related to corruption; subjects of the event (public authorities, natural persons, public associations, legal entities); the result is a normative legal act in which corruption-inducing factors are absent or minimized; expert conclusions are not retrospective, but prospective; is a means of preventing corruption.

A new automatic gating algorithm replicates expert manual gating of immune cell subsets

Abstract Machine learning is increasingly used for the analysis of flow cytometric immunophenotyping data. Many analysis pipelines leverage unsupervised approaches such as dimensionality reduction or clustering, which may lead to populations characterized differently from expert definition. Here we show a new, supervised algorithm for population identification that faithfully replicates the expert manual gating strategy. Peripheral blood samples were drawn from 41 different donors, stained with a dry, unitized B cell panel and acquired on two cytometer units. A manual gating strategy was established, and an automatic model trained on a subset of samples (n=31 donors, split into training, validation and test set) from this study. The performance of the automatic model was evaluated on the 10 unused samples. The automatic identification of populations with differences in median abundance (lymphocytes, CD19+ B-cells and CD19+ CD10+ cells) showed a high level of correlation and lower variability compared to manual gating. The supervised approach presented here retains the gating hierarchy, in contrast to the unsupervised clustering performed by FlowSOM, which splits cells into exclusive metaclusters, leading to metacluster assignments significantly different from expert gating. By automating the identification of populations, assay reproducibility can be increased by removing inter-operator variability. We show that a supervised machine learning tool that supports user-defined panels and gating strategies can reproduce expert analysis, reduce variability of flow cytometry data analysis, and can provide better fit-for-purpose compared to an unsupervised clustering approach.

Review of Maqasid Syariah on Reto Tuo as A Waqf Member In Bengkulu, Indonesia

This study aims to analyze the implementation of reto tuo as an expert waqf in Bengkulu Province in the maqasid sharia review. This research is a qualitative research that is descriptive analytic because this research describes the application of expert waqf in Bengkulu Province. The data used in this study were obtained directly from interviews conducted with families who carry out ahl waqf, heirs who are managed by expert waqf, as well as community leaders in Bengkulu Province. In this study, the researcher used the maqāṣid asy-syarīah theory of Imam asy-Syȃtibî to see how Islamic law views the practice of Reto tuo as an expert waqf within the framework of maqāṣid asy-syarīah Imam asy-Sytibî, especially on the concept of the objectives of the Shari'a on guarding and protecting against five main elements, namely religion, soul, mind, descent and property. The results showed that the practice of Reto Tuo can be categorized as expert waqf, this is in accordance with the definition of waqf experts that the assets or benefits that are waqf (waqif) to the recipients of waqf (mauquf 'alaih) are waqif descent which is intended for virtue. In this context, it can be seen that the practice of Reto tuo has attempted to maintain the continuity of the assets owned by the family which are managed by their parents, with the hope that the maintenance of these assets can be used by the family when their parents have died. The care of family assets is the key to ensuring the continuity of family life as well as protection of the human soul in the family individually.

Dewey, Implementation, and Creating a Democratic Civic University

Dewey, Implementation, and Creating a Democratic Civic University

Listening with Elephant Ears

This article addresses Listening with Elephant Ears, a contemporary music composition and performance created by the author together with the Elefantöra (Elephant Ear) ensemble. Elefantöra is a norm-critical music ensemble that includes both disabled and non-disabled musicians. When musicians are defined as disabled, normative assumptions regarding the correct use of musical instruments and expert definitions of good sound generate rehabilitative approaches to music that perpetuate exclusions of ableism. This article examines the intersections that exist between exclusions of ableism and exclusions based on musical virtuosity. It focuses on the ways in which Elefantöra contests both exclusions of ableism and virtuosity in their creative reappropriations of sound technology. Composed in the fall of 2020 as a collaborative artistic research engagement, Listening with Elephant Ears was first performed at the Lund Contemporary Music Festival in Sweden, October 2021. The article draws on ethnographic and sound material generated from my artistic research engagement with Elefantöra. Created during the COVID-19 pandemic, Listening with Elephant Ears actively reappropriates the Zoom video conference software as a music technology. The piece embraces Zoom’s limitations and emphasizes the aesthetic value of the audio distortions and digital interference that Zoom introduces into musical performance. Critiquing regimes of regulation that situate disabled musicians differently to non-disabled musicians, Listening with Elephant Ears applies care as a theoretical perspective from which to reflect critically on rehabilitative approaches to music and the associated exclusions of ableism and musical virtuosity.

Moving beyond narrow definitions of gene drive: Diverse perspectives and frames enable substantive dialogue among science and humanities teachers in the United States and United Kingdom.

Gene drive is an emerging biotechnology with applications in global health, conservation and agriculture. Scientists are preparing for field trials, triggering debate about when and how to release gene-drive organisms. These decisions depend on public understandings of gene drive, which are shaped by language. While some studies on gene drive communication assume the need to persuade publics of expert definitions of gene drive, we highlight the importance of meaning-making in communication and engagement. We conducted focus groups with humanities and science teachers in the United Kingdom and United States to explore how different media framings stimulated discussions of gene drive. We found diversity in the value of these framings for public debate. Interestingly, the definition favoured by gene drive scientists was the least popular among participants. Rather than carefully curating language, we need opportunities for publics to make sense and negotiate the meanings of a technology on their own terms.