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EDITORIAL. EMERGENCY REMOTE EDUCATION: METHODOLOGICAL, TECHNOLOGICAL, ORGANIZATIONAL AND POLICY ISSUES

EDITORIAL. EMERGENCY REMOTE EDUCATION: METHODOLOGICAL, TECHNOLOGICAL, ORGANIZATIONAL AND POLICY ISSUES

Review of Situating language learning strategy use: Present issues and future trends; Editors: Zoe Gavriilidou, Lydia Mitits; Publisher: Multilingual Matters, 2021; ISBN: 9781788926713; Pages: 376

Despite recently going through a sort of a crisis brought about by critical remarks made by eminent scholars (e.g., Dörnyei, 2005) about the raison d’être of the whole research area, the field of language learning/learner strategies (LLSs) is still very much alive and kicking. This is manifested by constant publication of meta-analyses (e.g., Plonsky, 2011), numerous journal articles, including state-of-the-art pieces (e.g., Pawlak, 2019), special issues of journals (e.g., Pawlak & Oxford, 2018) and books (e.g., Oxford, 2017), and the organization of a conference series (Situating Strategy Use [SSU]), all devoted exclusively to LLSs. The book under review here, Situating Language Learning Strategy Use: Present Issues and Future Trends, edited by Zoe Gavriilidou and Lydia Mitits, includes chapters originating in the talks delivered at the Second International Conference on SSU (Komotini, Greece, September 2017).

Topics in light-quark physics

This special issue of the European Journal of Physics: Special Topics entitled Topics in Light Quark Physics collects 8 papers with the intention to discuss problems in physical processes involving the particles (mesons and baryons) comprising the lighter part in the spectrum of strong interactions, though some connections to the heavy-quark sector are also discussed. Active and timely problems in this broad field are introduced and covered by experts who root their contributions in the known aspects at the same time that take us to the frontier of knowledge, while introducing in many instances new techniques for present and future further developments. The nature of the lightest scalar resonances, the hunt for the lightest glueballs, the $$\Lambda (1405)$$ as a paradigmatic example of two-pole resonances, the pion–nucleon sigma term, two- and three-body scattering amplitudes extracted from lattice QCD, the QCD phase diagram, extrapolations in the number of colors of QCD and their use for addressing properties of its spectrum, and new advances to reach renormalized scattering amplitudes with attractive/repulsive singular potentials are all items covered here.

Web-archiving and social media: an exploratory analysis: Call for papers digital humanities and web archives - A special issue of international journal of digital humanities.

The archived web provides an important footprint of the past, documenting online social behaviour through social media, and news through media outlets websites and government sites. Consequently, web archiving is increasingly gaining attention of heritage institutions, academics and policy makers. The importance of web archives as data resources for (digital) scholars has been acknowledged for investigating the past. Still, heritage institutions and academics struggle to ‘keep up to pace’ with the fast evolving changes of the World Wide Web and with the changing habits and practices of internet users. While a number of national institutions have set up a national framework to archive ‘regular’ web pages, social media archiving (SMA) is still in its infancy with various countries starting up pilot archiving projects. SMA is not without challenges; the sheer volume of social media content, the lack of technical standards for capturing or storing social media data and social media’s ephemeral character can be impeding factors. The goal of this article is three-fold. First, we aim to extend the most recent descriptive state-of-the-art of national web archiving, published in the first issue of International Journal of Digital Humanities (March 2019) with information on SMA. Secondly, we outline the current legal, technical and operational (such as the selection and preservation policy) aspects of archiving social media content. This is complemented with results from an online survey to which 15 institutions responded. Finally, we discuss and reflect on important challenges in SMA that should be considered in future archiving projects.

Racism Within: Special Journal Issue on Scholars of Color

Racism Within: Special Journal Issue on Scholars of Color

Quark–Gluon plasma and heavy-ion phenomenology

Understanding the behaviour bulk matter governed by QCD elementary degrees of freedom and interaction, and studying how it turns into hadronic matter, offers challenging perspectives and touches fundamental issues in the study of QCD in its nonperturbative regime. This special issue of the European Journal of Physics: Special Topics entitled Quark–Gluon Plasma and heavy-ion phenomenology published a set of 7 papers aiming to put in perspective the important problems that are being addressed by the researchers in this area. The main motivation of this special issue is to learn the properties of the densest and hottest forms of QCD matter that one can produce in the laboratory.

INTRODUCTION

Research Article| June 01, 2021 INTRODUCTION Steve McCourt; Steve McCourt Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Lew Ashwal Lew Ashwal Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar South African Journal of Geology (2021) 124 (2): 311–312. https://doi.org/10.25131/sajg.124.0050 Article history first online: 08 Aug 2021 Cite View This Citation Add to Citation Manager Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Search Site Citation Steve McCourt, Lew Ashwal; INTRODUCTION. South African Journal of Geology 2021;; 124 (2): 311–312. doi: https://doi.org/10.25131/sajg.124.0050 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Refmanager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentBy SocietySouth African Journal of Geology Search Advanced Search This special issue of the South African Journal of Geology recognizes the many and varied contributions of the late Maarten de Wit (Wits, UCT and NMU) to our understanding of the geology and evolution of the continental crust of Africa. Maarten was colleague, collaborator and mentor to a large number of established researchers and students in many countries during his tenure in South Africa (1978-2020) and this volume, comprising 13 full-length papers, attempts to recognize some of the many fields of geoscience to which he dedicated his time, energy, expertise and above all enthusiasm. To researchers of our generation, Maarten... You do not have access to this content, please speak to your institutional administrator if you feel you should have access.

Arts in the city: Debates in the Journal of Urban Affairs

ABSTRACT There has been growing interest in the urban affairs literature in investigating the role of the arts in the city because of its multifaceted potential to impact a place. To document central elements of the emerging debates on the arts and the city over the last 20 years, we examined key articles on the subject published in the Journal of Urban Affairs and highlighted their links with several special issues of other journals. The debates canvased over this time can be organized as (1) defining artists as human capital, (2) studying cultural amenities, and (3) examining the role of art around the city. This analysis uncovers some of the themes, methods, and places articulating these academic debates and identifies pivotal overarching economic, symbolic, and social issues. The paper suggests that key directions for future research include widening the journals to be analyzed; developing bibliometric analyses; broadening the geographic selection of case studies, including research in languages other than English; and encouraging more special journal issues focused on art and the city to facilitate multidisciplinary conversations.

Chapter 1: 21st Century Physical Education in the United States: Introduction to the Special Issue

In this chapter, we examine the system of physical education with a Janus-like perspective. We focus on examining and learning from the past as we anticipate what society, school systems, and the physical education system might look like in the future. Drawing on futuristic scenarios developed for this special journal issue, we ask a timely, pivotal question. What does all of this mean for the future of the field of physical education, including its school programs, teacher education programs, doctoral programs, and salient public policies? The several chapters in this special issue can be viewed as a response to this question—and with a delimited focus on the unique context of the United States. This chapter is structured to provide an overall context for these other contributions. It includes a discussion of relevant theories provided in this special issue and a representative summary of the other articles. Selectivity is apparent and unavoidable in every article, and it can be viewed variously as a strength or limitation.

The forced swim test: Giving up on behavioral despair (Commentary on Molendijk & de Kloet, 2021).

The forced swim test: Giving up on behavioral despair (Commentary on Molendijk & de Kloet, 2021).

Foreword to Special Issue

According to the International Council of Museums (ICOM, https://icom.museum/en/) current definition, “A museum is a non-profit, permanent institution in the service of society and its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits the tangible and intangible heritage of humanity and its environment for the purposes of education, study and enjoyment.” As we move into the third decade of the 21st century, cultural heritage institutions throughout the world are using innovative digital solutions to enhance their work in all areas and also in how they communicate and exhibit heritage. This journal Special Issue presents articles that show examples and case studies demonstrating how invention and innovation can successfully take place when Museums and Digital Media converge.

International studies of school design – Lessons for Europe on innovation and risk

This editorial sets out the context and agenda for this special issue of European Educational Research Journal, which brings together four accounts of research from diverse international contexts in relation to schools that are being designed and promoted as innovative learning environments (ILEs). The overall purpose is to advance what is known about innovation and the challenges and risks involved for those engaged in the design and occupation of ILEs. We begin by outlining some of the important considerations for researchers working in ILE projects that specifically place an emphasis on participatory approaches to innovation and put educational and social change, at the centre of the work. We then highlight some themes for readers to keep in mind as they consider the arguments developed in the papers.

Enlightening religion: Light and darkness in religious knowledge and knowledge about religion

This introduction elaborates how the relationship between religion and light can and should be addressed as a key theme for the critical study of religion. It synthesizes the principal arguments of the six articles collected in this special journal issue and locates them in a broader theoretical framework, focussing especially on the politics of knowledge production.

Editorial special issue in Dark Tourism

ABSTRACT This special issue of Journal of Heritage Tourism on dark tourism aims to encourage and advance theoretical, conceptual, and empirical research on dark tourism. The call for papers was inspired by the editor’s theoretical and research interest in dark tourism studies. The collection of articles in this special issue provides original, innovative and international tourism research that is embedded in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary theoretical and methodological thought in the study of dark tourism. Finally, this editorial will address a few lines of future research directions focusing on the experience and emotions of visitors at ‘dark tourism’ sites.

Postcolonial history education: Issues, tensions and opportunities

This paper introduces a journal special issue devoted to an exploration of post-colonial history education with contributions from Ghana, Uganda, New Zealand, Canada, Botswana, Nigeria, Cyprus, Lebanon and London. It provides an overview of key issues, tensions and opportunities around decolonising the history curriculum. Relevant contexts such as the ‘History Wars’, subaltern studies, the conception of decolonising the mind and the possibilities of de-colonising pedagogies are explored. History education lenses around critical historical literacy, historical consciousness, multidimensional identities and multi-perspectivity are brought to bear upon the question of re-thinking forms of postcolonial history education. Specific political circumstances inform the nature of history education in every national jurisdiction; here the contemporary Black Lives Matter campaign, the fallout from the mismanagement of the fate of the ‘Windrush’ settlers in the UK and the recent focus of protestors globally upon colonial oppressors memorialised in statues frame the authors’ reflections. However, echoing the optimism of most of the special issue contributions, opportunities to build bridges between divided communities, open up more inclusive history curricula to student voices and nuance and complicate homogeneous national narratives are identified and recommended.

The World Parliament of Labour: The International Labour Organisation's First Hundred Years

This special issue of the King's Law Journal includes some of the papers that were first presented at a symposium jointly organised by our respective academic institutions, KCL and UCL, in November...

Call for Papers: “Process Data in Computer-Based Assessment: Opening the Black Box”

Call for Papers: “Process Data in Computer-Based Assessment: Opening the Black Box”

Frontiers and pioneers in (the study of) queer experiences in Africa Introduction

This part issue of the journalAfricabroadly explores the idea of frontiers and pioneers in the study of queer African lives. We envisage frontiers as exploring new openings in the study of sexuality by putting forward the practices and experiences of people across the African continent. We propose to study queerness as part of broader quotidian realities so as to further theorize the study of sexualities and queerness. We propose the term ‘pioneer’ for the interlocutors in our studies: (self-identifying) women, men andqueeryingpersons who courageously explore contradictory paths in their various contexts. As such, we encourage an imaginative employment of queer as indicating a horizon of curiosity and imprecision. In making queerness not an object of study but rather a subject of its own theorization based on everyday experience, this special journal issue explicitly and deliberately asserts the vernacular and the mundane as a locus of knowledge. One implication is especially pertinent: knowledge on queerness cannot be prefabricated or preassembled in theoretical laboratories with the aim of merely applying it to an African context. By doing so, Africa functions – as it always has – only as a variable in the study of cultural difference, one that is different from, by implication, a Euro-American centre. ‘Or, as is happening too often, queer African voices and experiences will be absorbed as “data” or “evidence,” not as modes of theory or as challenges to the conceptual assumptions that drive queer studies’ (Macharia 2016: 185). Foregrounding the mundane rather than the urbane (as in ‘suave’, for which queer theory has a strong penchant), we are not trying to ‘define’ African queer sexualities; rather, we seek to provoke conversations about the terms and agencies of their expansion through the prism of frontiers and pioneers.

OCBIL theory: a new science for old ecosystems

Abstract This paper is an introduction to the special issue of the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society entitled OCBIL theory: a new science for old ecosystems. Firstly, we elaborate on the origins and development of OCBIL theory, which argues that landscape age, climatic buffering and soil fertility are key environmental dimensions shaping ecological and evolutionary processes across different scales. We then consider the 21 contributions made in this special issue in terms of cutting edge advances in the Southern Hemisphere that test, explore and apply aspects of OCBIL theory at the end of its first decade of formal publication. More attempts at refutation are urged, as untested aspects remain controversial. Lastly, a concluding discussion is offered on promising new lines of enquiry to develop the theory further and ensure its global application to pressing conservation issues facing biological and cultural diversity. Although OCBILs are absent or rare in much of the postglacial and periglacial Northern Hemisphere, we demonstrate, in south-west Europe and North America, starting with California, that they are likely to be found, thus extending the implications and applications of OCBIL theory in new directions. We also propose that, in many ways, Noongar Aboriginal cosmology from south-west Australia has developed sophisticated insights about ancient uplands that are precursors to key ideas in OCBIL theory.

The Insect Pest Control Laboratory of the Joint FAO/IAEA Programme: Ten Years (2010-2020) of Research and Development, Achievements and Challenges in Support of the Sterile Insect Technique.

Simple SummaryThe Insect Pest Control (IPC) Section and its associated laboratory (IPCL) is part of the Joint FAO/IAEA Centre of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture. Its mandate is to develop and implement the sterile insect technique (SIT) for selected key insect pests, and thereby to reduce the use of insecticides, to reduce animal and crop losses, to protect the environment, to facilitate international trade in agricultural commodities and to improve human health. With this aim, the IPCL has been implementing research in relation to the development of the SIT package for insect pests of crops, livestock and human health. This paper provides a review of the research carried out between 2010 and 2020 at the IPCL.The Joint FAO/IAEA Centre (formerly called Division) of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture was established in 1964 and its accompanying laboratories in 1961. One of its subprograms deals with insect pest control, and has the mandate to develop and implement the sterile insect technique (SIT) for selected key insect pests, with the goal of reducing the use of insecticides, reducing animal and crop losses, protecting the environment, facilitating international trade in agricultural commodities and improving human health. Since its inception, the Insect Pest Control Laboratory (IPCL) (formerly named Entomology Unit) has been implementing research in relation to the development of the SIT package for insect pests of crops, livestock and human health. This paper provides a review of research carried out between 2010 and 2020 at the IPCL. Research on plant pests has focused on the development of genetic sexing strains, characterizing and assessing the performance of these strains (e.g., Ceratitis capitata), elucidation of the taxonomic status of several members of the Bactrocera dorsalis and Anastrepha fraterculus complexes, the use of microbiota as probiotics, genomics, supplements to improve the performance of the reared insects, and the development of the SIT package for fruit fly species such as Bactrocera oleae and Drosophila suzukii. Research on livestock pests has focused on colony maintenance and establishment, tsetse symbionts and pathogens, sex separation, morphology, sterile male quality, radiation biology, mating behavior and transportation and release systems. Research with human disease vectors has focused on the development of genetic sexing strains (Anopheles arabiensis, Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus), the development of a more cost-effective larvae and adult rearing system, assessing various aspects of radiation biology, characterizing symbionts and pathogens, studying mating behavior and the development of quality control procedures, and handling and release methods. During the review period, 13 coordinated research projects (CRPs) were completed and six are still being implemented. At the end of each CRP, the results were published in a special issue of a peer-reviewed journal. The review concludes with an overview of future challenges, such as the need to adhere to a phased conditional approach for the implementation of operational SIT programs, the need to make the SIT more cost effective, to respond with demand driven research to solve the problems faced by the operational SIT programs and the use of the SIT to address a multitude of exotic species that are being introduced, due to globalization, and established in areas where they could not survive before, due to climate change.