Special Section Research Articles

Introduction to Special Section on Child Welfare: Current Realities and Future Possibilities in Clinical Social Work Practice

Introduction to Special Section on Child Welfare: Current Realities and Future Possibilities in Clinical Social Work Practice

Governing global challenges through quantified futures

Many contemporary efforts to govern global challenges are driven by combinations of numbers and futures. This special section proposes the novel concept of ‘quantified futures’ as a way of grasping this widespread entanglement. Because existing scholarship has largely treated quantification and futurisation as discrete governing technologies, their intersections have remained undertheorised and underexplored. In this introductory article, we discuss similarities between quantification and futurisation to build an integrated analytical framework that outlines how quantified futures operate across transnational policy domains by shaping the salience, scope and urgency of global challenges and their solutions. The special section at large cautions against overly optimistic expectations regarding the capacity of quantified futures to tackle global challenges. Rather, it underscores the need to enquire into the mutually reinforcing effects between, on the one hand, the growing use of quantified futures and, on the other hand, the increase and diversification of global challenges.

Advancing Inclusivity in Biomechanical Engineering Research.

The ASME Journal of Biomechanical Engineering presents a Special Section dedicated to promoting inclusivity within the field of biomechanical engineering. This collection showcases diverse research articles and reviews that emphasize the importance of considering different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives in biomechanics research. By amplifying underrepresented voices and broadening perspectives, this collection advances our understanding of biomechanical principles and fosters a more inclusive and equitable approach to research and development in engineering for human health.

Introduction to special section: learning analytics as part of the higher education ecosystem

Introduction to special section: learning analytics as part of the higher education ecosystem

Post-ESREL 2021 special section: Reliability, risk, and resilience engineering for structures and infrastructures

Post-ESREL 2021 special section: Reliability, risk, and resilience engineering for structures and infrastructures

The war in Ukraine, the Global South and the evolving global order

AbstractThis special section explores how nine key countries from the Global South have responded to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. As the Western attempt to build a global anti‐Russia coalition has largely failed, the focus on countries from the Global South becomes more important but remains under‐researched in the discipline. This introductory article offers the conceptual framework for the following empirical contributions. Based on the rational and constructivist school of thinking, we develop four guiding assumptions. Accordingly, we assume that foreign policy positioning to the war relates to the varied consequences of the conflict, can be related to strategic opportunism, displays pragmatic indifference or is value‐driven. Contributions to this special section offer a detailed empirical analysis according to these four conceptual categories.

Mathematics motivation in primary education: building blocks that matter

AbstractIn this introduction, we set the stage for a collection of papers from the Co-constructing Mathematics Motivation in Primary Education–A Longitudinal Study in Six European Countries Project (MATHMot for short), an international study aiming to identify the factors that shape the development of motivation in mathematics from a comparative perspective in primary education. Students’ motivation, performance, academic emotions, and subject-related identity and agency are observed across six countries: Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Portugal, and Serbia. MATHMot builds on the belief that one of the main goals of mathematics teaching should be children’s long-term motivation for learning the subject, which in turn supports students in striving for exemplary achievement in mathematics. This special section attempts to observe students’ mathematics motivation in early grades and how different contributions from the classroom, home or the student’s individual characteristics shed light on its development and adjacent concepts like academic emotions and math-related identity and agency.

Introduction to special section: Borehole image data applications in reservoir characterization — Case studies and updates on new developments

Introduction to special section: Geographic information systems in geoscience data interpretation and analytics

Dimensional approaches to studying, assessing, and treating traumatic stress: Introduction to the Special Section.

Dimensional models of psychopathology are gaining empirical support and are, thus, increasingly common in research and clinical practice. This is true for traumatic stress studies, although the movement toward dimensional conceptualizations of traumatic stress may be somewhat slower, perhaps due at least in part to how trauma is diagnosed. The purpose of this special section is to collect and showcase cutting-edge basic, applied, and conceptual work on dimensional models of traumatic stress. Its goal is to highlight the utility of such models and to facilitate greater connection between traumatic stress studies and the broader dimensional movement in psychopathology.

Introduction to this special section: Gravity, electrical, and magnetic methods

Geophysics plays an important role in all aspects of geologic analysis, spanning from regional exploration and tectonic mapping to local prospect-level studies and energy transition projects. Out of a variety of geophysical techniques, seismic methods often play the most central role, while less expensive nonseismic methods are less frequently applied. One of the objectives of SEG's Gravity and Magnetics Committee is to promote nonseismic geophysical methods and showcase their value in various geologic applications. As members of that committee, we, the editors of this special section, assert that gravity, magnetic, and electrical methodologies are powerful yet often undervalued tools. We present this special section focused on nonseismic geophysical methods and the impact they can make on various geoscience projects. Included here are a regional tectonic study in Antarctica, a local mining exploration mapping project in Canada, and an analytical methodology capable of providing critical information about subsurface geology and helping to determine the depths of important geologic structures. Although our scope is to provide a broader discussion of different types of nonseismic techniques, all of the papers presented in this special section focus on magnetic surveying.

Introduction: digital participatory biodiversity science

ABSTRACT This introduction presents the context in which digital participatory biodiversity science has developed. After describing its basic operating model and how it is affecting scientific practice, the text suggests that a science and technology studies perspective may shed light on some of the issues raised by new ways of doing biodiversity science. It highlights issues of authority and expertise, different modes of representation and visibility, and the importance of infrastructure. Finally, the introduction briefly describes each of the four papers in the special section and draws parallels among them. Digital technologies blur previous clear-cut dichotomies between producers and users of data and reconfigure the distribution of agency among living beings and technologies. They connect local practices and achievements of biodiversity monitoring with extended outcomes, produced by the transposition, and adaptation of practices or the interoperability of data in larger infrastructures.

Special Section Guest Editorial: Lessons Learned from the James Webb Space Telescope Program

Special Section Guest Editorial: Lessons Learned from the James Webb Space Telescope Program

In-Stent Restenosis Overview: From Intravascular Imaging to Optimal Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Management

Despite ongoing progress in stent technology and deployment techniques, in-stent restenosis (ISR) still remains a major issue following percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and accounts for 10.6% of all interventions in the United States. With the continuous rise in ISR risk factors such as obesity and diabetes, along with an increase in the treatment of complex lesions with high-risk percutaneous coronary intervention (CHIP), a substantial growth in ISR burden is expected. This review aims to provide insight into the mechanisms, classification, and management of ISR, with a focus on exploring innovative approaches to tackle this complication comprehensively, along with a special section addressing the approach to complex calcified lesions.

Editorial: A Special Issue

This editorial introduces the March issue, which includes a main Special Issue section on Emerging Technologies and Innovation for Digital Economy and Transformation, as well as papers from the general submissions. The popular reprint from the Telecommunication Journal of Australia is back.

Matemática recreativa. Cómo algunos problemas fáciles de entender originan teorías matemáticas complejas

This article presents a historical approach to recreational mathematics and the kinds of questions it deals with. I will present some authors, their works, the problems they contributed, and the fields of knowledge to which they gave rise, from Egyptian mathematics through the Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution to the 19th century, devoting a special section to the work of Leonhard Euler. I will present the problems, but not the solutions, so that the readers can actively participate by solving them or, if they wish, by checking the solutions in the references given.

Mitigating the regressivity of private mechanisms of financing healthcare: An Assessment of 29 countries

Progressive financing of health care can help advance the equity and financial protection goals of health systems. All countries’ health systems are financed in part through private mechanisms, including out-of-pocket payments and voluntary health insurance. Yet little is known about how these financing schemes are structured, and the extent to which policies in place mitigate regressivity. This study identifies the potential policies to mitigate regressivity in private financing, builds two qualitative tools to comparatively assess regressivity of these two sources of revenue, and applies this tool to a selection of 29 high-income countries. It provides new evidence on the variations in policy approaches taken, and resultant regressivity, of private mechanisms of financing health care. These results inform a comprehensive assessment of progressivity of health systems financing, considering all revenue streams, that appears in this special section of the journal.

Special Section Guest Editorial: Free Space Optical Communications

Special Section Guest Editorial: Free Space Optical Communications

Introduction: Between the Field and the Gallery: Exploring Anthropological Knowledge in South Asia

This special section brings together the work of historians, anthropologists and museologists, exploring how anthropological and sociological knowledge has been produced, consumed and reproduced in India. In particular, the special section is interested in analysing how these academic disciplines consolidated themselves as sciences informing the way a newly independent nation-state was to define its future, present and past in social and cultural terms. Anthropology and sociology were seen as tools to understand the diverse ethnic, religious and cultural background of India. Scholars used these disciplines to define what aspects of society were foreign or indigenous; what cultures, religions and languages were to be preserved; and what aspects of society were to be eliminated or integrated in order to achieve ‘progress’. Thus, anthropology and sociology shaped and continued to shape how we see India as a country and society. To understand how this process took place, the articles forming this special section are organised under three main categories: genealogies, methods and museums. The section on genealogies explores the way the first generation of Indian anthropologists and sociologists simultaneously challenge racial hierarchies coming from Europe while accepting caste and racial differences in India. The ‘methods’ sections looks at the trend of action anthropology in this case through social science approaches to ‘marginal’ citizens, whose cultures were explored as part of a larger citizenship complex stressing modernity, assimilation and secularism. The museum section contextualises a wide variety of national, state and house museums within the post-independence tribal integration policies and explores indigenous critiques that decolonise essentialising narratives of the state and nation.

From the field to the screen: Reflexivity and collaboration in visual and multimodal contemporary practices

AbstractThis special section, titled “From the Field to the Screen: Reflexivity and collaboration in Visual and Multimodal Contemporary Practices,” presents a collection of papers that explore the challenges, opportunities, and ethical considerations inherent in reflexive and collaborative practices within ethnographic visual and multimodal research. Drawing from diverse methodologies and approaches, the papers delve into topics such as autobiographical storytelling, virtual reality, sensory experiences, and archival‐based filmmaking. Through critical reflections and case studies, the section aims to provoke dialogue and reflection on the complex intersections of reflexivity and collaboration in visual anthropology. It addresses the challenges and pitfalls of producing visual and multimodal ethnographic data beyond film through a multilayered analysis that conveys ethical, aesthetic, and methodological implications. Each paper invites readers to engage with innovative methods and perspectives that complicate research processes—from design to dissemination—contributing to contemporary debates in visual and multimodal anthropology with implications for audiences beyond the discipline.