The Use of Blogs Among Students: Shifts in Utilization, Pragmatism, and Critical Literacy by Rahma Sugihartati, Arya Wardhana, Nadia Egalita

“…Through interviews with 203 students in the cities of Surabaya and Malang, this study reveals that students' frequency of accessing blogs is consistently increasing, and there is a growing pragmatism that could potentially compromise scholarly integrity within the higher education domain. …”
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Advancing point-of-care testing with nanomaterials-based screen-printing electrodes by Sophia Nazir

“…Although numerous studies have been conducted on multiple screen-printing electrodes (SPEs), little emphasis has been placed on systematically assessing scholarly work on nanomaterial-equipped SPEs in bioanalytical research. …”
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The Notion of “Philosophy as a Way of Life”: Ambiguities and Open Questions by Eli Kramer, Marta Faustino, Hélder Telo

“…Ever more prominent in contemporary debates, PWL has become a banner under which a very diversified work is being developed by scholars with originally very different areas of research and expertise, who gather under PWL by their dissatisfaction with what has become of philosophy (an abstract and purely theoretical undertaking) and their hopes about what philosophy can be (a way of thinking about and transforming one’s life). …”
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A Multidisciplinary Multimodal Aligned Dataset for Academic Data Processing by Haitao Song, Hongyi Xu, Zikai Wang, Yifan Wang, Jiajia Li

“…This dataset encompasses over 1.1 million peer-reviewed scholarly articles, enhanced with metadata and visuals that are aligned with the text. …”
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Personality and Motives for Self-Employment by Abu H. Ayob, Hazrul Izuan Shahiri, Hamizah Abd Hamid, Wan Kamal Mujani

“…Although considerable research has examined the typical characteristics of entrepreneurs, scholars have mostly neglected the binary motives for self-employment. …”
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Developing and validating a scale for non-academic staff’s service competencies in higher education by Phan Thi Nga, Amjad Shamim, Rohani Salleh

“…Though scholars have given significant attention to research on service quality in higher education, there is limited research exploring the contribution of non-academic staff to enhancing service quality at higher education institutions. …”
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Tracking the transition of sustainable entrepreneurship: from a bibliometric analysis to current research trends and future research directions by Mani Jindal, Mayank Kumar, Nirakar Nath Pandey, Vijayalaxmi Rajendran, Pankaj Dhaundiyal, Priyanshu Sharma, Ramji Nagariya, Chandraketu Singh

“…The future research directions will help scholars identify clear research gaps to explore this area further. …”
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A Critique on the Book The Idea of Literature. From ‘Art for Art’s Sake’ to Writings That Intervene by Hassan Zokhtareh

“…This essay is first trying to explore the Gefen's functionalist conception of contemporary literature which is very American and then compare it with the ideas of other scholars to find out the implications of Gefen's approach to literature, including the emergence of forms of moral criticism and ideological censorship.…”
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Advance in Significant Wave Height Prediction: A Comprehensive Survey by Jinyuan Mo, Xianghan Wang, Shengjun Huang, Rui Wang

“…To wrap up, the study delves into fresh research inquiries and avenues pertinent to the discipline, thereby broadening the comprehension of significant wave height prediction. In essence, this scholarly article imparts critical knowledge beneficial to the realm of marine technology.…”
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Unveiling Complexity: Cinematic Representations of Apartheid History and the Post-Apartheid Dutch- Afrikaner Relationship in <em>Black Butterflies</em> (2011) and <em>An Act of Def... by Anne Marieke van der Wal

“…The cinematic representation of Apartheid, and in particular the tendency of using white protagonists to narrate the story of black suffering, has been the object of much scholarly enquiry but this has never included Dutch films. …”
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Formation of Territorial Community as a Subject of Local Development by Mariana Blazhivska, Petro Petrovskyi

“… The study contains an analysis of the essence of decentralization and its impacts on the creation of territorial communities. Scholarly views on the essence of the concept of ‘territorial community’ are presented and its features mentioned. …”
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Islam i polityka w Maroku na początku XX wieku. Naṣīḥat ahl al-islām Muḥammada Ibn Ǧaʿfara al-Kattānīego (1857–1927) by Marek M. Dziekan

“…Both the rulers, aware of their own weakness, and Muslim thinkers and scholars were aware of this. Among them, was a man partly associated with the court, but opposed to the passive politics of the sultans, Muhammad Ibn Ǧaʿfar al-Kattāni, a Salafi thinker and historian originating from the influential mystical Kattāniyya brotherhood. …”
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Artificial intelligence and the internet of things in environmentally building water consumption model: Bibliometric analysis by Wijayaningtyas Maranatha, Lomi Abraham, Nursanti Ellysa, Sebayang Nusa, Istiqhoma Maria

“…The results of this study can provide valuable insights for scholars, experts, politicians, and funding organisations seeking a comprehensive overview of the current trends and objectives in this field. …”
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Latina Community College Presidents: Drawing from Cultural Intuition to Disrupt Leadership Norms in Higher Education by Cynthia Estrada, Eric R. Felix, Erin Nicole Reyes Vedar, Elizabeth Jimenez Perez

“…Findings exemplified four sources of cultural intuition that Latina community college presidents drew from to redefine higher education leadership and drive student equity on campus: (1) personal experiences with marginality in educational spaces, (2) accumulated professional knowledge, (3) scholarly training in graduate school, and (4) the process of leading itself. …”
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Efficient information exchange approach for medical IoT based on AI and DAG-enabled blockchain by Shanqin Wang, Gangxin Du, Shufan Dai, Mengjun Miao, Miao Zhang

“…However, security, privacy, and efficiency issues during information exchange have become pressing challenges. While many scholars have proposed solutions based on AI and blockchain to address these issues, few have focused on the impact of the slow consensus algorithm of blockchain on the efficiency of information exchange. …”
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Validation a Model of Learning Facilitators Club Related to Professional Training Development in Employees of Hormozgan Education Department by Ahad Ameri, Mohammadnoor Rahmani, Leila Khajehpour

“…Results: The findings revealed that the model of the club, pertaining to professional training and development of learning facilitators, was significantly approved and agreed upon by experts and scholars. Based on the findings, the model showcased significant relevance to the research subject, applicability, relationships between its elements, comprehensiveness, comprehensibility, innovation, and widespread use. …”
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The Order of Things. Analysis and Sketch Study in Two Works by Steve Reich by Twila Bakker, Pwyll ap Siôn

“…Kinderman’s “integrated” approach is applied during the second half of the article, when two case studies relating to Reich’s compositions— both of which have previously received detailed analytical attention by other scholars—are examined in more detail. In analyzing Reich’s music, these scholars did not have access to the wealth of sketch materials now housed at the Paul Sacher Stiftung (PSS) Basel. …”
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Providing Web Archive News Articles as Corpus Data by Jon Carlstedt Tønnessen, Magnus Breder Birkenes

“…To support usage, both programming interfaces and user-friendly web apps are offered, representing a significant step forward in making web archives usable and valuable for digital scholars.…”
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In search of comity: TEI for distant reading by Lou Burnard, Christof Schöch, Carolin Odebrecht

“…The focus of the ELTeC encoding scheme is not to represent texts in all their original complexity, nor to duplicate the work of scholarly editors. Instead, we aim to facilitate a richer and better-informed distant reading than a transcription of lexical content alone would permit. …”
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