Imagination Of Researchers Research Articles

Persons in Context. A Model to Represent Observations and Reconstructions of Historical Persons in Linked Data

Reconstruction of historical persons and family ties is the bread and butter of many researchers and genealogists. With the increasing digital availability of historical person records, the scope and depth of person reconstructions speaks to the imagination of researchers and genealogists. Yet, the lack of standardisation in the description of historical person data has hurt the interoperability and sustainability of both small and large databases. Persons in Context, or PiCo, presents a data model for historical person records within the Resource Description Framework (RDF). RDF or Linked Data is specifically designed for clear, unambiguous information exchange between multiple parties over the internet. We show how reuse of existing ontologies and concentric description are the building blocks of a flexible, straightforward, and stringent data model that emphasises provenance.

More than Magnitude: Towards a multidimensional understanding of unprecedented weather to better support disaster management

The 1900 Galveston Texas Hurricane, the 2021 Pacific Northwest heatwave, and the 2023 Tropical Cyclone Freddy were all events that were unprecedented in diverse ways and had severe humanitarian impacts. Understanding past and future risk of unprecedented weather is an emerging question across climate science disciplines but use of this research by the humanitarian sector has been limited. This cross-disciplinary paper is an effort by climate scientists and humanitarian practitioners to address this gap. For it, we combined narrative and scoping literature reviews with structured practitioner engagement to develop a working definition and typology of unprecedented weather through a disaster management lens. We qualitatively coded over 400 peer-reviewed articles to highlight the current state of research on unprecedented weather, and then discussed these findings in a workshop with 48 humanitarian practitioners. Our results show that, while analyses of past and future unprecedented weather often focus on the magnitude of such events, extreme weather can be unprecedented in many other dimensions, all which have significant implications for early warning, anticipatory action, and disaster response planning. We conclude with a call for more imagination and diversity in research on extreme weather risks, and for closer collaboration between climate scientists and disaster managers to design and answer questions that matter for humanitarian outcomes.

The Promise and Challenges of Integrating Biological and Prevention Sciences: A Community-Engaged Model for the Next Generation of Translational Research.

Beginning with the successful sequencing of the human genome two decades ago, the possibility of developing personalized health interventions based on one's biology has captured the imagination of researchers, medical providers, and individuals seeking health care services. However, the application of a personalized medicine approach to emotional and behavioral health has lagged behind the development of personalized approaches for physical health conditions. There is potential value in developing improved methods for integrating biological science with prevention science to identify risk and protective mechanisms that have biological underpinnings, and then applying that knowledge to inform prevention and intervention services for emotional and behavioral health. This report represents the work of a task force appointed by the Board of the Society for Prevention Research to explore challenges and recommendations for the integration of biological and prevention sciences. We present the state of the science and barriers to progress in integrating the two approaches, followed by recommended strategies that would promote the responsible integration of biological and prevention sciences. Recommendations are grounded in Community-Based Participatory Research approaches, with the goal of centering equity in future research aimed at integrating the two disciplines to ultimately improve the well-being of those who have disproportionately experienced or are at risk for experiencing emotional and behavioral problems.

Symposium 3: Phenomenology and networked learning - a found chord

Phenomenology has captured the imagination of researchers since Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) began to use the term. Examples of phenomenology within the networked learning conference proceedings are notable yet few, as examined by Healey-Benson (2020) and Johnson (2020) in the 12th Networked Learning Conference, and who then went on to form https://hanfod.NL . The goal to ‘engage the networked learning community in discussing the suitability of choosing phenomenology as a research methodology’ (Oberg and Bell 2012, p209) had been demonstrated by Dohn (2006) and continued by Adams (2014).

Transformation of Applied Linguistics in the Global South Context of Bangladesh: Researcher Agency, Imagination, and North-South Cooperation

Abstract This article examines the transformation of applied linguistics knowledge production in the Global South taking postcolonial Bangladesh as a case. In the 1990s, one could not locate even a dozen applied linguistics articles in international journals authored by Bangladeshi researchers. However, in about two decades, Bangladeshi researchers can claim hundreds of journal articles, book chapters, monographs, and edited volumes. Drawing on bibliometric data and autoethnography, this article seeks to document a new dawn in applied linguistics research in Bangladesh complemented by researchers’ engagement in Southern epistemological thinking in a decolonial spirit. While demonstrating the role of researcher agency and imagination in this transformation, we also highlight the role of North-South interaction and collaboration. We argue that despite the hegemony of Eurocentric views underpinning language, epistemology and geopolitics of knowledge, there may be hope for Southern applied linguists to decolonize their research imagination and bring disciplinary changes in line with Southern perspectives to make the world a better place for the global community.

His-Tagging: Exploring Precise Chemical Modification of Histidine-Containing Bioactive Peptide Sequences

AbstractThe modification of biomolecules, particularly peptides, has garnered considerable attention from researchers, effectively serving as a connection between chemistry and biology. The modification of peptides can facilitate, among others, the generation of peptide drugs, antibody–drug conjugates, and probes for molecular imaging. Herein, we have carefully curated reactions and chemical transformations of bioactive peptide sequences equipped with histidine amino acids that are conducive for biological applications. This Account also highlights strategies for the chemical modification of histidine that might capture the imagination of both peptide researchers and synthetic chemists.1 Introduction2 Histidine Modification in Bioactive Peptides and Proteins3 Remote Bioactive Peptides and Protein Modification Adjacent to Histidine4 Conclusions and Future Directions

CONFIRMING HEATING TRENDS OF NEAR-SURFACE OCEAN TEMPERATURES, 1988 TO 2022

The issue of global warming captures the imagination of researchers and media people, as well as government leaders. It is in this light that a study was undertaken to discover the changes in ocean temperature off the coast of Hawaii for the years between 1988-1992 and 2018-2022. Data was collected of the top 100 m of the water column in what is known as the mixed layer, from a long-term study sponsored by the National Science Foundation, 100 km off the north coast of Oahu, Hawaii. The study is ongoing and is tasked to collect temperatures roughly once a month, through summer and winter. The scope is limited to this one location with the statistical belief that this comprehensive sample serves as a representative of the population comprising all oceans. If the oceans are warming, the continents should also scientifically be warming. The temperature data for every monthly reading along the entire column at every two meters is averaged for 1988-1992 and then for 2018-2022. The statistical difference between means is calculated and ascertained for 99.49% confidence. The result clearly shows that there is a statistically significant difference in ocean temperatures in the mixed layer over the past 30 years, thus proving beyond a reasonable doubt that ocean temperature increase is taking place.

From student-centred learning (SCL) to school as learning community (SLC)? Democracy, (neo)liberalism, and ‘listening’ to others

ABSTRACT The spread of neoliberal policies across East Asia in the mid-1990s generated a counter-movement among East Asian scholars and practitioners centred on the ‘School as Learning Community’ (SLC). Today, thousands of schools across the region have joined the movement, spreading outward from Japan to Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Vietnam, and Indonesia. Herein we review the philosophy and practice of SLC, highlighting how it replaces the independent individuals posited by Western liberalism – as foregrounded in both student-centred learning (SCL) and neoliberal accumulation of knowledge/skills – with the themes of interdependence, relationality, and ‘listening’, in the sublime Deweyan sense. Given that SLC has remained virtually invisible within the English-speaking research literature, it remains difficult to imagine practical pedagogical alternatives to liberalism and neoliberalism. However, SLC helps resuscitate the Anglo-American research imagination by providing an actual example of educational practice predicated on a different onto-epistemic basis. In analysing SLC we also gain a better sense of how philosophies of interdependence and relationality can be concretely operationalised in actual school settings, if we can somehow learn to ‘listen’ to East Asia.

Hierarchically Structured Metal-Organic Framework Polymer Composites for Chemical Warfare Agent Degradation.

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have captured the imagination of researchers for their highly tunable properties and many potential applications, including as catalysts for a variety of transformations. Even though MOFs possess significant potential, the challenges associated with processing of these crystalline powders into usable form factors while retaining their functional properties limit their end use applications. Herein, we introduce a new approach to construct MOF-polymer composites via 3D photoprinting to overcome these limitations. We designed photoresin composite formulations that use polymerization-induced phase separation to cause the MOF catalysts to migrate to the surface of the printed material, where they are accessible to substrates such as chemical warfare agents. Using our approach, MOF-polymer composites can be fabricated into nearly any shape or architecture while retaining both the excellent catalytic activity at 10 wt % loading of the MOF components and the flexible, elastomeric mechanical properties of a polymer.

Taking ’Asia as method’ seriously in decolonizing comparative curriculum studies in South Korea

ABSTRACT This conceptual article is to problematize Western-centered comparative curriculum studies in South Korea, drawing on research related to postcolonial criticisms of comparative education and curriculum studies, and to suggest a decolonial research imagination for comparative curriculum research in South Korea and East Asia broadly, based on Kuan-Hsing Chen’s idea of Asia as method. To this end, I elaborate on Chen’s concepts of inter-referencing and critical syncretism for decolonizing the compliant research imagination. Additionally, I argue for the shift of the point of reference towards Asia, the extension of curriculum manifestation as a unit of comparison with curriculum conceptualized as a space for constructing cultural imaginary and subjectivity, and curriculum researchers’ onto-epistemological considerations as a comparativist. I conclude the paper with a caution not to dismiss Western contributions to curriculum research in Asia and the possibilities of the existence of resistance to Western-dominant knowledge structure in South Korean curriculum scholarship in the forms of translation and/or hybridity. This study can contribute to decolonizing the intersection of comparative education and curriculum studies that has been Western-centered in South Korea and suggesting a transgressive onto-epistemological orientation for comparative curriculum studies in the contexts of South Korea in particular and East Asia in general.

Globally coordinated acoustic aquatic animal tracking reveals unexpected, ecologically important movements across oceans, lakes and rivers

Acoustic telemetry is a popular approach used to track many different aquatic animal taxa in marine and freshwater systems. However, information derived from focal studies is typically resource‐ and geography‐limited by the extent and placement of acoustic receivers. Even so, animals tagged and tracked in one region or study may be detected unexpectedly at distant locations by other researchers using compatible equipment, who ideally share that information. Synergies through national and global acoustic tracking networks are facilitating significant discoveries and unexpected observations that yield novel insight into the movement ecology and habitat use of wild animals. Here, we present a selection of case studies that highlight unexpected tracking observations or absence of observations where we expected to find animals in aquatic systems around the globe. These examples span freshwater and marine systems across spatiotemporal scales ranging from adjacent watersheds to distant ocean regions. These unexpected movements showcase the power of collaborative telemetry networks and serendipitous observations. Unique and unexpected observations such as those presented here can capture the imagination of both researchers and members of the public, and improve understanding of movement and connectivity within aquatic ecosystems.

A Study on the Performance of Employees in the Banking Sector and its Impact on the Organizational Health

Purpose: The enactment of workers in the banking sector is intricately linked to the organizational health of the institution. Nurturing a work environment that prioritizes employee well-being, promotes collaboration, and supports growth can lead to improved employee performance, enhanced customer experiences, and ultimately, sustainable success for the bank. To explore two interconnected aspects that play a pivotal role in the banking sector: employee performance and the impact of organizational health. The performance of employees within a banking institution is not only a reflection of their individual capabilities but also an outcome of the organizational environment in which they operate. Design: This research implemented the case study method by using an imaginative research design. Secondary data has been collected and analyzed to find out the factors affecting the Banking sector. Findings: The findings regarding employee performance in the banking sector and the impact of organizational health underscore the symbiotic relationship between engaged employees and a thriving organization. As the industry continues to evolve, recognizing the significance of fostering a supportive work culture and prioritizing employee well-being emerges as a strategic imperative. By cultivating a positive organizational environment, banks can elevate employee performance, enhance customer satisfaction, and position themselves for sustainable success. Studies indicate a strong connection between organizational health and employee performance in the banking sector. Banks with healthy work environments tend to achieve better financial results due to improved employee satisfaction, enhanced customer relationships, and efficient operations. Originality/value: This study includes a detailed analysis of the performance of employees in the Banking Sector and the impact of organizational health. Paper Type: Conceptual Research.

(Invited) Towards Understanding the Competition of Electron and Energy Transfer in Nanographene

Graphene has captured the imagination of researchers around the world due to its groundbreaking chemical and physical properties. Opening a band gap in graphene must be achieved without, however, compromising its exceptional properties as they are of paramount importance for its use in electronic devices. Notable is the fact that the band gap design in graphene is typically carried out by either chemical or physical methodologies. Chemical modification of graphene is mostly centered around “top-down” or “bottom-up” approaches. The earlier alters, nevertheless, the graphene lattice and, as a consequence, poorly defined structures emerge. The latter by means of, for example, organic synthesis offers a wide palette of tools to control sizes as well as geometries of the resulting “molecular” nanographenes with atomic precision. It allows the fabrication of uniform and well-defined molecular structures. Such “molecular” nanographenes are compelling choices for “on demand” molecular electronics, photovoltaic applications, hydrogen storage, and sensing. In recent years, two main strategies have been developed to fabricate “molecular” nanographenes of defined chemical structures. It is, on one hand, oxidative cyclodehydrogenation of custom-made polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and, on the other hand, on-surface cyclodehydrogenation, which enabled the preparation of atomically precise “molecular” nanographenes. To this end, the 13 fused-benzene rings of hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene (HBC), which are arranged in a 2D disk-shaped fashion, render HBCs the smallest “molecular” nanographenes.

(Invited) Machine Learning for Solid-State Batteries – Progress Versus Hype

Machine learning in materials science and solid-state batteries are two topics that have captured the imagination of researchers in recent years. Therefore, it is unsurprising that many researchers have attempted to apply the advances in ML to the discovery and study of materials for solid-state batteries. In this talk, I will discuss the importance of going back to fundamentals in the application of ML to materials for solid-state batteries, in particular, the critical solid electrolyte component and its interfaces. I will highlight areas where ML has had a transformative impact on our understanding and discovery of solid electrolytes, and what are some of the remaining challenges that remain to be surmounted.

Partition at 75: reflections on migrant memories in the British South Asian diaspora

ABSTRACT In 2017, the 70th anniversary of the Partition of British India was widely discussed in the UK, not only within academic and cultural circles, but also in popular culture. Five years later, on the 75th anniversary of Partition, the scholarly, cultural and community interest in the events of 1947 intersected with the commemorations of the 50th anniversary of the expulsion of the South Asian population from Uganda, and the 70th anniversary of the Language Movement that led towards Bangladesh independence in 1971 - the 50th anniversary of which was celebrated just the year before. Based on the work of the Migrant Memory and the Postcolonial Imagination research project (Loughborough University) this article will explore the entanglement of the memories of these events within the South Asian diaspora, and how their transmission and communication shape the construction of contemporary diasporic identity and concepts of community, belonging and ‘home.’

Correction to: Decolonizing research imagination: a journey of reshaping research epistemology and ontology

Correction to: Decolonizing research imagination: a journey of reshaping research epistemology and ontology

Throwing and manipulating and cheating with a DNA nano-dice

Artificial molecular machines have captured the imagination of researchers, given their clear potential to mimic and influence human life. Key to behavior simulation is to reproduce the specific properties of physical or abstract systems. Dice throwing, as a stochastic model, is commonly used for result judgment or plan decision in real life. In this perspective we utilize DNA cube framework for the design of a dice device at the nanoscale to reproduce probabilistic events in different situations: equal probability, high probability, and low probability. We first discuss the randomness of DNA cube, or dice, adsorbing on graphene oxide, or table, and then explore a series of events that change the probability through the way in which the energy released from entropy-driven strand displacement reactions or changes in intermolecular forces. As such, the DNA nano-dice system provides guideline and possibilities for the design, engineering, and quantification of behavioral probability simulation, a currently emerging area of molecular simulation research.

Systems biology as a framework to understand the physiological and endocrine bases of behavior and its evolution—From concepts to a case study in birds

Organismal behavior, with its tremendous complexity and diversity, is generated by numerous physiological systems acting in coordination. Understanding how these systems evolve to support differences in behavior within and among species is a longstanding goal in biology that has captured the imagination of researchers who work on a multitude of taxa, including humans. Of particular importance are the physiological determinants of behavioral evolution, which are sometimes overlooked because we lack a robust conceptual framework to study mechanisms underlying adaptation and diversification of behavior. Here, we discuss a framework for such an analysis that applies a “systems view” to our understanding of behavioral control. This approach involves linking separate models that consider behavior and physiology as their own networks into a singular vertically integrated behavioral control system. In doing so, hormones commonly stand out as the links, or edges, among nodes within this system. To ground our discussion, we focus on studies of manakins (Pipridae), a family of Neotropical birds. These species have numerous physiological and endocrine specializations that support their elaborate reproductive displays. As a result, manakins provide a useful example to help imagine and visualize the way systems concepts can inform our appreciation of behavioral evolution. In particular, manakins help clarify how connectedness among physiological systems—which is maintained through endocrine signaling—potentiate and/or constrain the evolution of complex behavior to yield behavioral differences across taxa. Ultimately, we hope this review will continue to stimulate thought, discussion, and the emergence of research focused on integrated phenotypes in behavioral ecology and endocrinology.

Decolonizing research imagination: a journey of reshaping research epistemology and ontology

Epistemology has been recognized as a useful conceptual tool to explore how knowledge has been produced and/or reproduced in higher education research and its linkages to hidden global geopolitics and historical forces. The topic has attracted considerable attention in the literature, particularly that of scholars in the Global South (Canagarajah, 2008; Chen, 2010; Kenway & Fahey, 2008; Rizvi, 2006a, 2006b; Santos, 2014). Equally, utilizing the researcher’s self to carve out the complex trajectories of the researcher’s ontology and epistemology seems to add value to the research and debate on this topic. This research topic especially applies to researchers who have crossed the border and lived and worked abroad. “Educators working in international contexts encounter these ontological and epistemological borders daily and are brought to grapple with the role of Otherness in their scholarly practices,” remarks Kester (2021). In this paper, we draw on autoethnography as a research methodology to answer two key questions: What sorts of ontological and epistemological transformations might educators experience during long-term periods abroad? and How might these transformations initiate decolonial moves in regard to educational pedagogy, policy, and practice? We critically reflect on and thus manifest the journeys of Dr. Nhai Nguyen and Dr. Yeow-Tong Chia—diasporic academics in Australia. Regarding this journey, these scholars provide insights into how they decolonize their research imagination, regain their research agency, and thereby transform their research epistemology and ontology. They finally put forward some implications for shaping a defiant research imagination for novice researchers.

超越论想象力的存在论重构功能——海德格尔《康德与形而上学疑难》研究

超越论想象力的存在论重构功能——海德格尔《康德与形而上学疑难》研究