Thematic Set Research Articles

Building healthy schools through technology-enabled citizen science: The case of the our voice participatory action model in schools from Bogotá, Colombia

ABSTRACT The physical and social environment of school settings are important for health promotion among children and adolescents. Efforts to create supportive environments at the school level can benefit from including community engagement and empowerment processes to advocate for health promotion. The Our Voice model presents a unique opportunity for Latin American students to improve their school environments. The objective of this study was to engage and empower students (9–18 years) from five schools in Bogotá, Colombia to use the Our Voice model to assess and seek to improve their local school environments. This study employed Our Voice’s ‘citizen science by the people’ method using a mobile application for data collection. The Our Voice initiative included the following four phases: (1) Design, planning and recruitment; (2) Data collection; (3) Community meetings for thematic analysis, priority setting and initial design of feasible solutions; and (4) Community meetings with decision-makers to advocate for changes. The citizen scientists identified and advocated for safer physical activity-supportive environments and healthier food and drinks availability. This study allowed children and adolescent citizen scientists to make their voices heard by policymakers and empowered them as agents of change in the process of building healthier schools.

LEGO® készletekkel való fejlesztés lehetőségei a kora gyermekkori nevelésben

A LEGO® Education módszertan lényege, hogy játékeszközök segítségével olyan megismerő, alkotó, kreatív tevékenységet végezzenek a gyerekek, ami segíti többek között a kommunikációs, kooperatív kompetenciák vagy az algoritmikus gondolkodás fejlesztését. A metódus már a koragyermekkortól kezdve alkalmazható, így tanulmányunkban ezt a korosztályt helyezzük középpontba. Bemutatjuk a LEGO® módszertan alapjait jelentő pedagógiai hátteret, melyben a háromévesnél fiatalabb korosztály megismerési és játéktevékenységére jellemző sajátosságokra fókuszálunk, majd magát a módszertant, végül néhány tematikus szettet.

Critical metal mineralogy and ore genesis revisited: thematic set arising from the Third International Critical Metals Meeting, Edinburgh

Critical metal mineralogy and ore genesis revisited: thematic set arising from the Third International Critical Metals Meeting, Edinburgh

Infographics and their Role in the IS Propaganda Machine

Although infographics form only a small proportion of IS propaganda output, they provide an intimate insight into the functioning and agenda of the IS. This research paper analyses more than 400 infographics published by official IS media units against the thematic framework set out by Winter (2018). The three principal IS propaganda themes identified by Winter of Victimhood, Utopia and War feature to varying extents of prominence in IS infographics, with multiple subthemes respectively. This paper’s analysis shows that Religious Life and Summaries make up the majority of infographic subthemes, while the primary theme Victimhood is almost non-existent.

What’s Old Is New Again, But Still Pretty Old

Editor’s Note: The following article was written as a contribution to a larger set of papers engaging Russell McCutcheon’s fascinating and important observation of a “post-theoretical shift” in the study of religion. That thematic set of papers did not come together. However, we wanted to publish this wonderful theoretical reflection by Craig Prentiss with the hope that it will contribute to an ongoing discussion in the field and we are appreciative that he agreed to publish this article as a stand-alone piece.

Parsimonious generalization of fuzzy thematic sets in taxonomies applied to the analysis of tendencies of research in data science

This paper proposes a novel method, referred to as ParGenFS, for finding a most specific generalization of a query set represented by a fuzzy set of topics assigned to leaves of the rooted tree of a taxonomy. The query set is generalized by “lifting” it to one or more “head subjects” in the higher ranks of the taxonomy. The head subjects should cover the query set, with the possible addition of some “gaps”, taxonomy nodes covered by the head subject but irrelevant to the query set. To decrease the numbers of gaps, we admit some “offshoots”, nodes belonging to the query set but not covered by a head subject. The method globally minimizes the total number of head subjects, gaps and offshoots, each suitably weighted. Our algorithm is applied to the structural analysis and description of a collection of 17,685 abstracts of research papers published in 17 Springer journals related to Data Science for the 20-year period 1998–2017. Our taxonomy of Data Science (TDS) is extracted from the Association for Computing Machinery Computing Classification System 2012 (ACM-CCS), a six-level hierarchical taxonomy manually developed by a team of ACM experts. The TDS also includes a number of additional leaves that we added to cater for recent developments not represented in the ACM-CCS taxonomy. We find fuzzy clusters of leaf topics over the text collection, using specially developed machinery. Three of the clusters are indeed thematic, relating to the Data Science sub-areas of (a) learning, (b) information retrieval, and (c) clustering. These three clusters are then lifted in the TDS using ParGenFS, which allows us to draw some conclusions about tendencies in developments in these areas.

Satellite images in the new Atlas «Russian Arctic»

The increasing interest in the Arctic promotes appearance of new cartographic products to provide information for the primary tasks of this region development. So, several atlases of the Arctic have been already published. At the initiative and with the financial support from the oil and gas industry, a new Atlas «Russian Arctic» is being prepared for publication, in which considerable attention is given to the environmental aspects of the development of the North with account for conditions of changing climate. Unlike previous atlases, this Atlas contains thematic sets of satellite images reflecting changes in the natural environment, in particular, different types of natural ice under conditions of warming. The space part of the Atlas developed by the authors of this article covers a number of subjects. Thus, the decrease in the area of sea ice is illustrated by the materials of shooting from the space of the Northern polar cap for the period of the largest reduction in the area. Images made in different time fix retreating of the shores, composed of underground ice, being the result of the processes of thermal abrasion, thermal erosion and thermal denudation. Complicated ice conditions of navigation in the Ob Bay and characteristics of the Arctic rivers mouths are presented by pictures of tidal estuaries of the rivers Mezen and Kuloi. Images of ice jams at the mouth of the Northern Dvina River and materials of space monitoring of measures for liquidation of them are also given in the Atlas. Special attention is given to forms of permafrost relief, which are well displayed in high-resolution images. They show a polygonal micro-relief of different types and stages of development of them, as well as frost mounds, dales, and thermo-erosion forms. Formation of aufeises (naleds), thermokarst lakes, and craters of gas outbursts is also shown. The wildlife of the Arctic is represented in the Atlas as well. The pictures present a visual image of different types of tundra. The influence of warming on vegetation development is well reflected in the photo map of the dynamics of the vegetation index for 2000-2009, showing the growth of phytomass in the European North. The Atlas contains unique materials of satellite monitoring of Arctic mammals - walruses and seals. The impact of using mineral resources on the vulnerable nature of the Arctic is shown in the Khibiny region. Prominent examples of the vegetation degradation in the areas of Norilsk and Monchegorsk cities are given, where technogenic wastelands have been formed under the sulfuric acid fumes of the copper-nickel plants.

Tethyan ophiolites and Tethyan seaways

Tethyan ophiolites have played a major role in the development of the ophiolite concept during the past 200 years, and contributed significantly to the formulations of the suprasubduction-zone (SSZ) ophiolite paradigm and the plate-tectonics theory. Their melt evolution and magmatic construction witnessed the dispersal of the supercontinent Pangaea via continental rifting and seafloor spreading, opening and closure of multiple seaways in an eastward widening, latitudinal ocean basin (Neotethys), and deep mantle recycling processes through subduction-zone tectonics and plume activities. Neotethyan ophiolites are highly diverse in their crustal–mantle structures and compositions, pointing to major differences in their melt sources and tectonic settings of magmatic construction. The papers in this thematic set demonstrate these differences in the Neotethyan ophiolite record through new structural, geochemical, isotopic and geochronological data and interpretations. The Jurassic Western Alpine Ophiolites formed in a narrow basin (Alpine Tethys) that developed between Europe and North Africa–Adria–Iberia. Their peridotites represent exhumed, continental lithospheric mantle. The Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous ophiolites east of Adria formed in different Neotethyan seaways, and their SSZ magmatic construction involved multiple episodes of melting, depletion and refertilization of subduction-modified oceanic mantle. The Late Cretaceous peri-Arabian and peri-Indian ophiolites, which are discontinuously exposed along a c. 9000 km long belt from SW Anatolia to SE Tibet, formed above a Trans-Tethyan subduction–accretion system within Southern Neotethys. Diachronous collisions of Arabia and India with this intraoceanic subduction–accretion system in the latest Mesozoic and the Paleogene (respectively) resulted in diachronous ophiolite emplacement in the Mediterranean and Tibetan–Himalayan orogenic belts. Thematic collection: This article is part of the ‘Tethyan ophiolites and Tethyan seaways collection’ available at: https://www.lyellcollection.org/cc/tethyan-ophiolites-and-tethyan-seaways

Anaphora Resolution using ThemeSets

Anaphora resolution is a procedure of replacing pronouns with its referring nouns which may be available in the same sentence or in different sentences within the same document. Even multiple approaches are available for anaphora resolution; there may be some space for semantic approaches which provides solution better than syntactic or corpus based approaches. In syntactic approaches, all noun phrases from the previous or current sentences are checked for getting constrains agreement with the anaphor and score value is calculated for a pair of Noun-Pronoun based on these constrains. The pair getting the highest positive score is treated as the result. In some cases the sentence structure is not changed, hence the score corresponding to the feature values and syntactic structures are same. Here the actual replacement of pronoun with noun depends on the meaning of the sentence especially the meaning of the verb. To resolve such situations, here we are proposing a method which is a combination of syntactic and semantic approaches based on ThemeSets or thematic sets. Using ThemeSets we are exploiting the role of verbal lexemes associated with the noun or pronoun for the resolution of anaphora. Anaphora resolution in semantic way has great importance in the modern era of artificial intelligence which enhance multi-dimensional research in the area of natural language processing in a better way.

Introduction to ground-related risk to transportation infrastructure

A conference was held at the Geological Society of London on the theme of ‘Ground-related Risk to Transportation Infrastructure’. This conference attracted nearly 200 delegates from around the world and, while there was a UK focus, presentations and posters of a very high quality were given on a wide range of topics illustrated by global examples. The thematic set of papers presented in this issue of the journal give a good indication of the range and quality of the subject matter presented to the conference. Transportation infrastructure is of vital strategic importance to countries, and is often referred to as the backbone of a modern economy. Risks arising from hazards in the ground, either natural or anthropogenic, pose a significant threat to the safety and performance of such transport networks and, hence, the subject of geotechnical asset management is of great importance. This set of papers covers examples drawn from the four themes of the conference: strategic geotechnical asset management; current and future resilience and monitoring; ground-related hazards; and operational response to hazards and events. It is hoped that the spirit of knowledge sharing and discussion engendered by the conference continues with future events and publications.

Interpolating the ‘blah, blah, blah’: The Great Beauty’s vocal Rome

The city of Rome has been historically utilized in Italian cinema as the thematic setting par excellence of past and present conjoining. However, it is in Federico Fellini’s La dolce vita (1960) and Paolo Sorrentino’s La grande bellezza (The Great Beauty) (2013) that the city adopts a truly vocal quality to speak outright to its people. Using Christian Norberg-Schulz’s landmark text Genius Loci: Towards a Phenomenology of Architecture (1980) as a conceptual springboard, this article navigates through the structures and décor of Rome in both films, demonstrating how the mediums of film and architecture can symbiotically meet to fashion a unique voice for Rome’s genius loci, or ‘spirit of place’. Moreover, the article asks how and why Sorrentino’s immaculate Rome contrasts against Fellini’s atrophying Rome via setting, sound, cinematography and gesture, with the protagonists’ respective spiritual journeys being a key factor in Rome’s conversational tenor.

Introduction to the thematic set: Progress in Remediation of Polluted Soils

Lead Guest Editor: Jaume Bech Co-Guest Editors: Elena Korobova, M. Manuela Abreu, Carmen Perez-Sirvent, Hyo-Taek Chon and Nuria Roca The collection of papers presented in this Thematic Set is an outcome of the SSS8.4 Session ‘Progress in remediation for soils polluted by potentially toxic elements’, presented at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) Conference held in Vienna, April 2017. Soils are essential components of the environment, the basis of terrestrial ecosystems and a crossroad of biogeochemical cycles at the lithosphere-hydrosphere-biosphere-atmosphere interface. Soils are a limited and vulnerable resource and soil quality must be preserved. Anthropogenic mismanagement through poor industrial and mining practices, overuse of agrochemicals, bad disposal of sewage sludge and waste, cause contamination, environmental and health concerns. Therefore soil pollution needs innovative and eco-friendly technologies for its remediation. This Thematic Set contains 13 papers written by authors from 12 countries: Armenia, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Korea, Mexico, Mongolia, Philippines, Russian Federation, Spain, Thailand and USA. This collection of original studies focuses on five topics: 1) sequential extraction/speciation, 2) phytoremediation, 3) oxygen content in iron sulphides, 4) stabilization of Zn compounds in a long incubation experiment, and 5) bioavailability of potential toxic elements. ### Sequential extraction/speciation There are five papers dealing with this topic: Burachevskaya et al. studied the Zn fractional distribution in artificially contaminated Haplic Chernozem in South Russia, using the Miller and Tessier methods of sequential extraction. The authors concluded that the content of Zn in the fraction bound to the removed component obtained by the Tessier method area was lower than that obtained by the Miller method. Minkina et al. researched the Zn speciation in Technosols of the Karabash copper smelter, Southern Urals, Russia, using the combined fractionation scheme and a set of X-ray synchroton …

Introduction to the Thematic set: Carbon forms, paths and processes in the Earth

Carbon forms: paths and processes in the Earth is a thematic set of six papers arising from the lectures presented at the Lake Como School, held at Villa del Grumello, Como, Italy (15–20 October 2017), and organized by the Graduate School of Milano Bicocca. This collection of lecture notes focusses on the structure of carbon allotropes, the geodynamics of deep Earth's carbon transport and fixation at mantle conditions, carbon degassing by ascending magmas, and the vast tectonic carbon degassing at the Earth's surface. New science is emerging for carbon, one of the fundamental elements for life, energy, and global climate change on our planet. Carbon is cycled between surface, atmosphere, and oceans. Most of the recyclable carbon is stored deep in the Earth. Ingassing from the atmo-hydrosphere into the mantle occurs by subduction; in the mantle carbon resides in solids such as diamonds and is transported by fluids and melts that migrate upward. Outgassing into the atmosphere is effected by volcanism and tectono-metamorphic soil emissions. The forms and processes of carbon ingassing and outgassing are still poorly constrained. There is as yet no consensus on how and when carbon transforms from solid to fluid …

Foreword to the thematic set arising from the international conference "Basalt 2017"

Foreword to the thematic set arising from the international conference "Basalt 2017"

THE LABOR EMPLOYMENT OF GRADUATES OF MEDICAL UNIVERSITIES: THE MAIN DISCOURSES OF INVESTIGATION

The article considers main discourses of investigation of labor employment of graduates of medical universities as exposed in scientific publications. On the basis of analysis of relevant data array thematic sets of problems conditioning imbalance of labor market and inadequate efficiency of interaction of major actors involved into the mentioned process are marked out. The comprehension of nature of mechanisms of labor market accounting multi-value of the given occurrence acts as a necessary condition of development of effective strategy of solving the problem of employment of graduates of medical universities.

Technological Features of the Renewed System of Selective Dissemination of Information in the Library for Natural Sciences of the RAS

The wide spectrum of full text and bibliographic information resources (e. g. Web of Science, Scopus), which Library for Natural Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences (LNS RAS) had in its subscription for the last few years, was a ground for the autors' efforts in developing of the modern system of selective dissemination of information (SDI system). At the same time, acquisition of information sources on traditional media has been steadily decreasing in recent years.Sources of bibliographic information in this SDI system are bibliographic databases Web of Science and Scopus, and full-text platforms of foreign scientific publishers (currently — several dozen, including John Wiley & Sons, Springer Nature and ScienceDirect).The users of the SDI system have opportunity to get two kinds of service: the first one is informing on the current issues of the scientific journals which are preselected by user himself; the second one is the thematic informing based on the keywords of user thematic requests. This SDI system has the important feature that distinguishes it from traditional definition of SDI systems: we do not restrict either lists of journals reported by users nor the bibliographic sources in thematic sets by the list of full text sources available via library’s subscription. The only condition for including specific journal in the SDI system for the first kind of service or including the bibliographic source in thematic sets for the second kind of service is existing of the source as electronic web entity. If user has made order for full text material from contents/thematic information set, the library retrieves such full text material via all available ways beginning with library’s subscription and finishing with interlibrary loan.We have selected e-mail sending of personalized information sets for our users, as it was the mode selected as preferable mode by our users themselves. Personalized information sets include ordinary fields of bibliographic record (incl. abstracts if available in protosource) and some fields for increasing navigation options of records: link to full text via DOI, link for article record in Scopus and PubMed, information about library’s subscription for source where specific record is published.

The Chalk of the Northern Province: a synopsis

The thematic set of papers in this issue of the Proceedings , ‘The Chalk of the Northern Province’, arose from a symposium of the same name at the University of Hull, 10–13 September 2015. The meeting was organized jointly by the Hull Geological Society, the Yorkshire Geological Society and the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences at the University of Hull, and was supported by the Stratigraphy Commission of the Geological Society of London. The seven papers published herein represent a cross-section of the presentations enjoyed by attendees. In a broad review, Mitchell evaluates the litho- and biostratigraphy of the Chalk in the Northern Province. Six formations are recognized, although the Rowe Formation (Campanian) is hidden by drift. Unlike the Southern Province, where the Chalk rests on the Gault Clay Formation, that of the Northern Province sits on the Hunstanton Formation (=Red Chalk). The Chalk of the Northern Province is also less flint-rich and is harder with more stylolites than that of the Southern Province. Its deposition was controlled by a series of structural highs. Particular attention is paid to the internationally important sequence at Speeton with …

The Carnian pluvial episode (Late Triassic): new insights into this important time of global environmental and biological change

In May 2017, in the delightful town of Delmenhorst (Lower Saxony, Germany), the first meeting on the Carnian Pluvial Episode (CPE) was hosted by the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Institute for Advanced Study. This was a milestone event. For the first time researchers from around the world met to discuss this still poorly known episode of early Late Triassic global environmental and biological change. This thematic set originates from discussions at this first meeting, and includes state-of-the-art research on the CPE, with the most recent discoveries on the complex phenomena that happened during this fascinating interval in Earth's history.

Grand Challenges (and Great Opportunities) in Sedimentology, Stratigraphy, and Diagenesis Research

Technological advances make these exciting times for geoscientists studying Earth surface processes, their depositional products, and interactions with the biosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and lithosphere; from monitoring contemporary sediment transport processes to interpretation of sedimentary archives that record ancient environmental changes. We set out three research challenges: 1) Sedimentology and society; 2) Life and sediment interactions; 3) Sedimentary system responses to external forcings. Finally, we conclude our summaries of these cutting-edge research topics, with a rallying call for the sedimentology, stratigraphy, and diagenesis research communities to become integral to pertinent interdisciplinary research areas. The open access journal Frontiers in Earth Science: Sedimentology, Stratigraphy, and Diagenesis (SSD) is a new vehicle to enable our discipline to continue to grow, and reinvigorate these research areas as core geoscience disciplines. We are ready to receive manuscripts from across the Sedimentology, Stratigraphy, and Diagenesis research community, within and beyond the themes we summarize below. We intend that these themes will form the basis for special sessions at conferences, and to accrue open access thematic sets in the journal, which will reflect the central position of SSD research in the geosciences, and across interdisciplinary research programmes.

Introduction to the thematic set: Tectonics and petroleum systems of East Africa – Part II

Introduction to the thematic set: Tectonics and petroleum systems of East Africa – Part II