Salient Distractors Can Induce Saccade Adaptation by Afsheen Khan, Sally A. McFadden, Mark Harwood, Josh Wallman

“…Unlike conventional adaptation experiments that surreptitiously displace the target once a saccade is initiated towards it, we instead attempted to draw attention away from the target by briefly presenting salient distractor images on one side of the target after the saccade. …”
Get full text

Interdisciplinarity through internationality: Results from a US–Mexico graduate course bridging computational and plant science by Daniel H. Chitwood, Alejandra Rougon‐Cardoso, Robert VanBuren

“…Abstract Interdisciplinarity is used to integrate and synthesize new research directions between scientific domains, but it is not the only means by which to generate novelty by bringing diverse perspectives together. Internationality draws upon cultural and linguistic diversity that can potentially impact interdisciplinarity as well. …”
Get full text

Towards the praxis of a sustainable knowledge‑based economy by Agnieszka Klimska

“…Management processes, including management of sustainable development which draws on the principles of a knowledge-based economy, require also taking into account those factors that can really support the sphere of praxis and hence help to shape a knowledge-based society. …”
Get full text

Evolution of power as an indicator of structural transformations: political and managerial aspect by V. V. Tyan

“…An analysis of Russian practice allows us to draw a number of conclusions of interest to political science. …”
Get full text

Self-Reported Nutrition Education Received by Australian Midwives before and after Registration by Jamila Arrish, Heather Yeatman, Moira Williamson

“…This paper explores self-reported nutrition education received by Australian midwives before and after registration. It draws on quantitative and qualitative data from a larger online survey conducted with the members of the Australian College of Midwives (response rate = 6.9%, n=329). …”
Get full text

Checkmate to Bioethics? by Fabio Alberto Garzón Díaz

“…Bioethics must take its most reflective streak, understand the phenomenon, and draw lessons from this heartbreaking experience so that we do not make the same mistakes again that are costing us so many bitter tears and deaths. …”
Get full text

A dynamic system interpretation of irreducible complexity by Abraham Boyarsky, Pawel Góra

“…We consider the dynamics of a functioning system and altered versions of it to draw conclusions about the irreducible complexity of the original system. …”
Get full text

Fresh and Mechanical Characteristics of Eco-efficient GPC Incorporating Nano-silica: An Overview by Hiwa Hamid Sharif

“…So that current and The majority of the most current studies previously published were investigated to draw attention to the influences of nano-silica on the workability, compressive strength, splitting tensile strength, and flexural strength. …”
Get full text

(Re-)construing Space as Capital: Contributions from a Study with Local Entrepreneurs by Anderson de Souza Sant'Anna, Daniela Martins Diniz

“…Notable findings include the relevance of studies that draw more systematic considerations, extrapolating economic, social, cultural and symbolic capitals (BOURDIEU, 2010), allocating a greater importance to “spatial capital”, usually relegated to a secondary plane not only in Bourdieu’s “Theory of Practical Action” as well as in classical studies into Economics and Geography (SANTOS, 2012). …”
Get full text

Facial biotype and maxillomandibular skeletal classification in Angolan patients with dentomaxillofacial anomalies by Yosvany Herrero Solano

“…<p><strong>Foundation</strong>: cephalometric measurements are a useful instrument in orthodontic care, since together with other cephalometric measurements they complete and guide the treatment plan that the specialist can draw up based on the resolution of dentomaxillofacial anomalies.…”
Get full text

School based continuous professional development practices at a selected general secondary and preparatory school in Bahir Dar town by Dereje Taye Wondem

“…This necessitates the need to reflect on the CPD practices in our schools so far vis-à-vis the review of the literature on what constitutes successful school based CPD so as to draw lessons for improvement. This study is an attempt to analyze the CPD practices of a selected Secondary and Preparatory school found in Bahir Dar city in light of this review. …”
Get full text

Dogmatic and Political-Legal Justification for the Protection of Positive Interest in the Recovery of Damages in Case of Breach of Contract by R. V. Makarova

“…This happened in parallel with the recognition by the legal order of the doctrine of counter provision.Functionally, if we draw a parallel with the domestic legal order, the counter provision in the common law system implements the idea of compensation, the form of the contract, signaling the onset of legally binding relations, as well as the achievement by the parties of mutual certainty of relations. …”
Get full text

Cruciform Theology and its Implications for African Christianity by Isaac Boaheng

“…Using a descriptive approach, this paper sought to reconstruct cruciform theology for African evangelicals and to draw lessons for Christianity in Africa. The main argument is that the cross should be at the heart of every dimension of the church’s existence, ultimately leading to the transformation of society. …”
Get full text

EVALUATION OF THE BARRIERS TO THE USE OF APPROPRIATE CONSTRUCTABILITY PRACTICES ON CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS by Abimbola Olukemi Windapo, Olabode Emmanuel Ogunsanmi

“…Results indicated that constructability practices common to contractors include checking M & E drawings for clashes and errors; site-layout planning; and preparation of schedule/construction programmes. …”
Get full text

Raising aluminum foil fists: how to speak about anger in transplant medicine by Alexandra Vieux Frankel, Eva-Marie Stern

“…Using arts-based sensory ethnographic interviews with 27 participants, this paper draws on affect theory to understand how transplant recipients critique and protest curative imaginaries while also upholding them. …”
Get full text

“The World is Cursed”: Studio Ghibli’s Radical Environmental Philosophy by Claire Patzner

“…Although American major animated film studios do not reflect as frequently or directly on the climate crisis, I draw from the more overt and didactic American major environmentalist films WALL-E, The Lorax, and Over the Hedge in these juxtapositions. …”
Get full text

The Role of the IBSA Fund in Foreign Aid Policies of IBSA and BRICS Member States by V. A. Dmitrieva, D. A. Kuznetsov

“…The authors analyze the structure, mechanisms, and priorities of IBSA projects, juxtaposing them with New Development Bank projects to highlight key differences and assess shortcomings. The research draws on releases and reports from development agencies, AidData databases, and online databases detailing cooperation projects of all IBSA members and the IBSA Fund. …”
Get full text

Exploring the Energy Efficiency of Electric Vehicles with Driving Behavioral Data from a Field Test and Questionnaire by Kezhen Hu, Jianping Wu, Mingyu Liu

“…We hope that this study would draw inspiration for future research on people’s transitioning driving behavior in an electric-mobility era.…”
Get full text

The individual strategies of Internet users’ media activity by O. A. Grimov, V. A. Belkina

“…The base of the author’s approach that specifies the novelty of the research lies on the analyses of the users’ media activity as a complex of media consumption and production which make a dialectical unity, as well as on the problematization of subject oriented research optics which draws attention to the individual as a direct media subject. …”
Get full text

“They Are Our Children”: An Examination of Faith-Based, Tuition-Free, Private Schools as Potential Sites of Educational Opportunity for Refugee Children in Egypt and Lebanon by Sally Wesley Bonet, Samira Nabil Chatila

“…(1) Background: Turning the lens away from national schooling, which has long been proven problematic for refugee populations, this comparative case study explores the educational opportunities that faith-based, tuition-free schools provide refugee youth living in protracted exile in low and middle-income neighboring countries. (2) Methods: Leveraging Shirazi and Jaffe-Walter’s concept of countertopography and Bartlett and Vavrus’s comparative case study, this article draws on ethnographic engagement (2017–2019) at “Cairo Christian Academy”, a Sudanese refugee school in Egypt, and qualitative interviews with teachers, administrators, and staff at “Beirut Covenant School” (2020–2021) in Lebanon to answer the following question: What is possible within private, faith-based, tuition-free schools—particularly schools that teach secular curricula and are open to children from all faith backgrounds, as these mirror some of the more egalitarian aspects of public education—which have absorbed refugee students as a part of their mission to care for others? …”
Get full text