Competitive funding and academic-industry collaboration: policy trends and insights by Stefan Kambiz Behfar, Louis Shekhtman, Jon Crowcroft

“…In an era of globalized research endeavors, the interplay between government funding programs, funding decisions, and their influence on successful research collaborations and grant application success rates has emerged as a critical focus of inquiry. This study embarks on an in-depth analysis of cross-country funding dynamics over the past three decades, with a specific emphasis on support for academic-industry collaboration versus sole academic or industry funding. …”
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Quelle couleur pour les frères ? Regards sur l’habit des Mineurs aux xiiie-xive siècles by Véronique Rouchon Mouilleron

“…Therefore the present article is based upon a visual inquiry. Precisely because textual documentation does not deal with colour, it is not to be taken for granted that images have an equal value when we are only provided with implicit definitions in textual discourse. …”
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Discussion of Inconsiderate Cruelty Towards Animals: Further Arguments for Animal Rights by Enyimba Maduka, Chukwuemeka I. Awugosi, Pius A. Ohere, Timothy Adie Okpe, Joseph Paul Essien

“…Adopting the conversational method of inquiry, we claim that often the interests of animals are entirely disregarded, and if they were considered, many of our current practices would be indefensible. …”
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Participatory ESOL as process and product: Community-based participatory research with refugee English learners by Melissa Hauber-Özer, Joseph Decker

“…We encourage fellow community-engaged scholars to reconnect with the roots of this powerful approach and recognise the importance of living out their onto-epistemological commitments in both the process and the product of participatory inquiry. …”
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What factors affect teacher professional learning: a qualitative meta-analysis based on the Onion model by Hanqiang Li

“…Social implications – The design of teacher learning activities should combine theoretical, practical and inquiry learning to ensure that teachers are kept fresh and motivated by sustained and varied stimuli. …”
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A Qualitative Investigation of WhatsApp Interaction for English Language Grammar Learning by Nagaletchimee Annamalai, Najah Rajeh Alsalhi, Mohd Elmagzoub Eltahir, Bilal Mohammed Zakarneh, Kamariah Yunus, Samer H. Zyoud

“…This qualitative case study aimed to examine pre-service teachers’ and teacher educators’ interactions during their English grammar lessons via the WhatsApp platform. The Community of Inquiry (CoI) model was employed to categorize the WhatsApp interactions based on social, cognitive and teacher presences. …”
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Assessing the Outcomes of Digital Soil Science Curricula for Agricultural Undergraduates in the Global South by Rico Heidy, de la Puente Mario, de Oro Carlos, Navarro Daniela, Lambis Juan, Londoño Guillermo

“…This academic inquiry examines the efficacy of virtual reality (VR)-based pedagogy for higher learning, specifically analyzing immersive digital instruction for rural agriculture undergraduates studying soil science in Colombia. …”
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Cross-linguistic Phonological Transfer: by Jahurul Islam, Md. Sayeed Anwar, Shahriar Mohammad Kamal

“…However, there has been limited investigation into whether speakers can transfer discrimination abilities from the vowel contrasts in their first language (L1) to novel contrasts in a second language (L2) that differ in specific phonetic features. Focusing on this inquiry, the present research examines whether native speakers of Bangla, a language with tense/lax contrasts limited to mid vowels, can extrapolate this ability to discriminate tense/lax contrasts among high vowels in English, a language with tense/lax contrasts among both mid and high vowels. …”
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Pancreatic Laceration in a Pediatric Patient: An Unexpected Diagnosis by Michelle J. Hong, Lauren M. Porter, Debra D. Esernio-Jenssen, Andrew C. Miller, Marna Rayl Greenberg

“…The patient was admitted to pediatric surgery and underwent a successful distal pancreatectomy with preservation of the spleen. On further inquiry specific to trauma, the child disclosed that his older brother had punched him in his abdomen the night before. …”
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De l’inégalité parmi les chimpanzés : Sexe, drogues et individuation by David Jaclin

“…Following certain of these pioneer existences, this article puts forward an original perspective on some animals’ situation in our current biopolitical economy and proposes substantial elements for an interdisciplinary inquiry. As a growing number of sanctuaries shelter animals rejected from biomedical industries, military experiments or Hollywood studios, a postnatural history of US chimpanzees suggests taking into account the diversity of situations where known living organisms experience unknown (re)organizations of life. …”
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Economic security as a driver of Russian exclave development in alignment with national interests by Ksenia Yu. Voloshenko

“…Economic security in border regions emerged as a new area of inquiry in human geography, under the supervision of Prof Fedorov and with the active involvement of researchers from Kaliningrad, Rostov-on-Don, Saint Petersburg, Smolensk, and Simferopol, within the framework of the Russian Science Foundation project № 18-17-00112, titled Ensuring the Economic Security of the Regions of Russia’s Western Borderlands under Conditions of Geopolitical Turbulence. …”
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Sign Language Poetry on Screen: A Case Study of Ella Mae Lentz’s Silence, Oh Painful by Mohit Joshi, Niraja Saraswat

“…Lentz’s own performance of the poem from her presentation at the 1987 National ASL Poetry Conference is the primary site of inquiry. In comparison, Alexis Boardrow Green’s performance of the poem, for her ASL Poetry Discourse Analysis course at UC San Diego, is examined. …”
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Reporting Melanoma: A Nationwide Surveillance of State Cancer Registries by Kehinde O. Raji, Lauren Payne, Suephy C. Chen

“…A cross-sectional study design was utilized consisting of website perusal of reporting procedures, followed up by telephone and email inquiry of reporting methods from every state cancer registry. …”
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An Investigation into Information Security Managerial Practices in Selected Public Sector Organizations. by Ahimbisibwe, Benjamin K., Nabende, Peter, Musiimenta, Florence

“…Descriptive research design was adopted to describe the phenomenon under study. Being an in-depth inquiry, qualitative approach was used, survey questionnaires representing zero and one scores were designed to collect data. …”
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Conflict-induced displacement in Pakistan: a sociological study of lived experiences of involuntary migration among Afghan immigrants by Kashif Iqbal, Sheng Hongcheng, Hu Liang

“…This study transcends academic inquiry, inviting us to embrace a holistic understanding that guides us toward more equitable and inclusive societies. …”
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Coexistence of Asymptomatic Allergic Bronchopulmonary Aspergillosis and Active Pulmonary Tuberculosis: Case Report by Jia Q, Wang L, Tong X, Sun J, Fan H

“…The association between pulmonary tuberculosis infections and Aspergillus infections remains a fascinating area of inquiry. A 26-year-old female patient exhibited no symptoms. …”
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A positive deviance approach to understand gender relations and practices that support transformative adaptation: Insights from Kenya dairy households by Renee Bullock, Tanaya DuttaGupta, Philip Miriti

“…Women's and men's practices vary, and, through a positive deviance inquiry, we find the common patterns in those practices to characterize the referent group using thematic analyses. …”
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From ChatGPT to Sora: Analyzing Public Opinions and Attitudes on Generative Artificial Intelligence in Social Media by Wenyan Feng, Yuhang Li, Chunhao Ma, Lisai Yu

“…Word co-occurrence network analysis, topic modeling based on Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), and emotional characteristics based on the DLUT Emotion Ontology and psycholinguistic analyses based on the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) dictionary were employed to explore public views on these generative AI technologies. …”
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Problematic issues of vocational guidance and professional selection of candidates for service in the agencies of the National Police of Ukraine by N. E. Miloradova

“…The general shortcomings include both the peculiarities of the organization of vocational guidance (lack of a unified system of vocational guidance work, insufficient level of interaction between the participants in the process of vocational guidance, lack of an individual, differentiated and phased approach to each individual while implementing professional choice, etc.) and its content component (low level of awareness of children, parents and teachers regarding the existing social professional inquiry; improper attention to the motivational component of the profession selection, etc.). …”
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Challenges and opportunities in pediatric surgery training in Germany: a view from the trenches by Sabine Drossard, Louisa Schuffert

“…Results 75 pediatric surgery residents and 15 young specialists participated in the survey. 12 of 17 state medical chambers responded to our inquiry, but only 4 maintain detailed statistics. …”
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