Hidden costs of providing care: a pilot study of Japanese migrant care workers’ experiences in Aotearoa New Zealand during the COVID-19 pandemic by Shinya Uekusa

“…Employing the perspective of Critical Migration Studies (CMS), this pilot study explores the hidden costs of care provision, drawing insights from in-depth interviews conducted with 10 Japanese MCWs in late 2022 and early 2023, and presents mixed findings. …”
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Form as a Driver for Regeneration: A Methodological Approach to Rethinking School Building Infrastructure in Italy by Caterina Barioglio, Daniele Campobenedetto, Lorenzo Murru, Caterina Quaglio

“…To this end, typological classification based on the current spatial characteristics of the buildings is assumed as a way to highlight the transformation potential of schools and to outline intervention priorities at a regional level. Drawing on the concept of spatial agency, the physical space of schools is therefore conceived as a shared documentary basis for the development of multi-scalar governance systems.…”
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Old Nick Crossed the Mississippi: The Figure of the Devil in Late Cold War Era Novels of the American West by Michael Walonen

“…Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian (1985), on the other hand, attributes Mephistophelean attributes (among others) to its antagonist Judge Holden as a means of dramatizing how barbarity, destruction, and expenditure are inexorably intertwined with the values and goals of civilization, while Ishmael Reed’s Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down (1969) reconfigures and repurposes the devil figure, drawing on the cultural valences of pagan male fertility figures and the Africana traditions he elsewhere conceptualizes as “neo-hoodoo” to wage a counter-cultural attack upon the pillars of American and Western Christian society.…”
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Becoming Homebaked by Jones Samantha

“…With the economic support through its extensive social network implemented through its Kickstarter campaign, the local and worldwide members of Homebaked have learned how to take matters into their own hands. Drawing on over four years of embedded PhD research, 24 Notebooks and personal experience as a volunteer and CLT board member, this paper aims to make visible the continuous shifts between a tentative agonistic framework between art biennial, artist and creative citizens as cultural co-producers, as they challenge and influence local economic drivers. …”
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Institutional Components Affecting the Internationalization of Higher Education: A Case Study on Estonia by Joamets Kristi, Vasquez Maria Claudia Solarte

“…This article contributes to the delineation of a higher education internationalization model drawing from an examination of Estonian institutional policies and regulatory trends. …”
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Study of Rock Blasting Failure Pattern with One Free Boundary by Jun Yang, Xin Liu, Zhenyang Xu, Hongliang Tang, Qi Yu

“…Ultimately, after analysis of the experimental results, the preliminary diagrammatic drawing of rock blasting failure pattern under stress wave action with one free boundary is drawn.…”
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A Gothic heterotopia: four Anglophone responses to Venice by John Thieme

“…It takes the view that outsiders invariably construct heterotopian visions of places, often drawing on past imaginaries and that Venice has habitually been cognitively perceived through Gothic lenses, in which past, present and future intermingle. …”
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“Making Sense” of Art through Design: Towards a Multisensory Theory of Reception Aesthetics by Inbal Strauss

“…Therefore, this article asks: how might the design of everyday objects ­– which engage users in visual as well as tactile, proprioceptive, auditory, olfactory, and gustatory ways ­– contribute to a theory of reception aesthetics that can illuminate and inform the ways in which sensory works of art engage audiences in the process of meaning-making? Drawing on Wolfgang Kemp’s theory of reception aesthetics on the one hand and Donald Norman’s theory of design on the other, this article proposes a methodology for analysing the impact of artistic productions in design terms (namely, affordances, constraints, signifiers, feedback, mapping, and conceptual model). …”
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Bridging the gap: Crypto users’ sense-making of a historical market crisis by Annika Aebli, Fabienne Silberstein-Bamford

“…Contrary to the promises of being ‘trust-free’ by design, this paper demonstrates that struggles for trust and control represent a focal point of the community interactions surrounding crypto. By drawing upon Dervin’s sense-making methodology to conduct interviews with 28 crypto investors, this study examines how social actors attempt to construct ‘bridges’ over a ‘gap-filled’ reality related to the moment of a historical crisis in crypto. …”
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Computational thinking for young indigenous learners in New Zealand by Wendy Fox‐Turnbull, Shaoqun Wu, Tiana Mayo, Matthew Stafford, Swati Gulati

“…Abstract Computational thinking, a key component for digital technologies, is defined as an approach to problem‐solving, designing computer systems, and understanding related human behaviours, while drawing on fundamental ideas of computing. It is critical that all young students acquire computational thinking skills during their school age. …”
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Amplifying the value of the third space to support strategic curriculum change by Annie Yonkers, Hilary Wason

“…This strategy was developed as a threefold response to an evolving education landscape in the UK. First, drawing on Kingston’s ‘Future Skills’ research on skills and the economy to influence at a sector level (Kingston University, 2023). …”
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Application of computational modeling to the kinetics of precipitation of aluminum nitride in steels by e Silva Costa A., Nakamura L., Rizzo F.

“…The correct description of the precipitation of AlN in both phases is relevant to: (a) the precipitation at higher temperatures, in the austenite field, that occurs in some steels, (b) the concurrent precipitation of this nitride with the annealing treatment, when the steel is mostly ferritic, used in the processing of some types of deep drawing steels (c) the precipitation of this nitride in some silicon alloyed electric steels at relatively high temperatures, when these steels can have significant fractions of BCC and FCC in their microstructure. …”
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Eliciting the Initial Programme Theory in a Realist Evaluation of Facility-Based Maternal Death Reviews in Benin: Methodological Process, Challenges and Lessons Learned by Christelle Boyi Hounsou, Jean-Paul Dossou, Thérèse Delvaux, Lenka Beňová, Edgard-Marius Ouendo, Marjolein Zweekhorst, Bruno Marchal

“…We used a four-step approach to elicit the IPT through a combination of literature review, document review, and in-depth interviews with key stakeholders while drawing on the experience of the research team. The literature and document reviews enabled us to identify facilitators and barriers influencing the functioning of FbMDRs. …”
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Governing bodies? by Kudzaiishe Peter Vanyoro, George Mavunga, Zvenyika Eckson Mugari

“…With the acronym of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, Asexual, Allies and Pansexual (LGBTQQIAAP) in mind, the paper explores how the flyers and posters pre-suppose that all bodies are inherently sexual, heterosexual, male/female, able-bodied, young and willing participants in sexual activities. Drawing on previous research which mainly focused on the power relations between the adverts’ composers and their potential customers, the paper explores a different dimension of the adverts by problematising instances of these adverts’ complicity in heteronormative, cisnormative, ableist, and ageist discourses that conceal the operations of power over bodies. …”
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Investigating The Extent of Cognitive Processes in Reading Skills Among Students at Suntisart School, Thailand by Yuni Lutfiah, Arjulayana Arjulayana, Imtihan Hanim, Malami Muhammad Garba

“…The data collected from the interviews and classroom observations were analyzed using the Miles and Huberman framework, which includes data collection, data reduction, data presentation, and drawing conclusions. The results found that more proficient readers applied strategies such as summarizing, making inferences, and reflecting on the text, which contributed to their understanding and retention of information. …”
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The Paradox of E-Office Adoption in Indonesian Public Service with 24.000 Apps: Innovation or Prestige? by Nadia Safira, Haris Hanan

“…This qualitative research uses case-based analysis, drawing on interviews with government employees and IT personnel involved in the ZI WBK/WBBM implementation. …”
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Evaluating Developers’ Expertise in Serverless Functions by Mining Activities from Multiple Platforms by Aref Talebzadeh Bardsiri, Abbas Rasoolzadegan

“…This study contributes to the ongoing discourse on developer expertise evaluation, highlighting the potential benefits of drawing from multiple data sources.…”
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Hydrological Layered Dialysis Research on Supply Chain Financial Risk Prediction under Big Data Scenario by Jia Liu, Shiyong Li, Xiaoxia Zhu

“…Financial institutions transform materialized capital flows into online data under big data scenario, which provides networked, precise, and computerized financial services for SMEs in the supply chain. By drawing on the risk management theory in economics and the distributed hydrological model in hydrology, this paper presents a supply chain financial risk prediction method under big data. …”
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Impact of large-scale social restriction policy on the economy in Depok City, West Java province by Ridwan Ridwan

“…Activities in data analysis are data reduction, data presentation, and conclusion drawing or verification. The results of this study show that the implementation of PSBB has a significant impact on the economic sector in Depok City, including the tourism, MSME and employment sectors. …”
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Five Misconceptions About Interview Modes or: How to Improve Our Thinking About Face-to-Face Versus Remote Interviewing by Lars E. F. Johannessen, Erik Børve Rasmussen, Marit Haldar

“…In this article, we take stock of existing writings on interview modes in qualitative interview research. Drawing on key insights from more general theorizing about face-to-face and remote interaction, we identify and challenge five key assumptions in writings about interview modes: (1) that physical copresence ensures more and better data; (2) that interview modes have determinate effects on interaction; (3) that remote interviewing should seek to replicate face-to-face interviewing; (4) that interviews modes should be held constant within each study; and (5) that face-to-face interviewing is unmediated. …”
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