Direct Democracy on Election Day: Ballot Measures as Measures of American Democracy by Donna Kesselman

“…S. states where they raise grassroots and often controversial “wedge issues”, they also have spill-over effects in other areas of politics and civil engagement. This introduction provides background information about their workings and an update on recent stakes in local political environments: it introduces in-depth studies published in this issue of Transatlantica.…”
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Toward World Smart Government Rank by Achmad Nurmandi, Muhammad Younus

“…This study used official world e-government and government data to defined component of smart government: Economic Growth, Policy Making, Citizen Engagement, Accountability, Interoperability, Key Enablers Innovation, Smart Service and Government Effectiveness.…”
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Produits monastiques, publicités et initiatives de certification en Grèce by Katerina Seraïdari

“…The aim is to show how the recent demand for monastic products is linked to restoration promises of the economic equilibrium, consumerism becoming in this context not only an experience but also an act of engagement. Another issue treated in this framework, the possibility for the religious domain to redefine the priorities and principles of commercial exchanges.…”
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A personal sensing technology enabled service versus a digital psychoeducation control for primary care patients with depression and anxiety: a pilot randomized controlled trial by Colleen Stiles-Shields, Karen M. Reyes, Tanvi Lakhtakia, Shannon R. Smith, Olga E. Barnas, Elizabeth L. Gray, Charles J. Krause, Kaylee P. Kruzan, Mary J. Kwasny, Zara Mir, Sameer Panjwani, Steven K. Rothschild, Lisa Sánchez-Johnsen, Nathan W. Winquist, Emily G. Lattie, Nicholas B. Allen, Madhu Reddy, David C. Mohr

“…Participants completed assessments on depression (PHQ-9), anxiety (GAD-7), health-related quality of life (PedsQL), and engagement (TWEETs) at baseline, mid-treatment (week 4), end-of-treatment (week 8), and post-treatment (week 12). …”
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Les chemins de Compostelle : Du pèlerinage à la marque ! by Christophe Alcantara

“…The aim is to show how the recent demand for monastic products is linked to restoration promises of the economic equilibrium, consumerism becoming in this context not only an experience but also an act of engagement. Another issue treated in this framework, the possibility for the religious domain to redefine the priorities and principles of commercial exchanges.…”
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Foreword by Tapiwa Chagonda

“…This special issue of Technology and Society within the African Context, illuminates the multidimensional implications of these advancements, recognising the urgency of both proactive engagement and ethical stewardship. Through ten insightful contributions, this issue seeks to provide a deep understanding of how Africa might harness these technologies to foster resilience, inclusivity, and sustainability across sectors. …”
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Pierre Bec et sa contribution à une typologie des genres lyriques médiévaux, questions d’histoire des sciences et d’épistémologie, entre structuralisme et pratique occitaniste... by Marjolaine Raguin-Barthelmebs

“…Considering its thought and practice it can be considered that he was very influenced in his work by the development of structuralist theories and his self-engagement to serve the Occitan cultural revival between 1960 and 1980. …”
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Developing and Strengthening Networks to Promote Resilience After Disasters by Angela B. Lindsey, Samantha Goldenberg, Cassie Wandersee

“… The HGHC series includes thirteen publications that focus on the work of the community outreach and dissemination team, including community engagement, outreach, and research result dissemination. …”
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Teaching and Learning: Motivating Learners by Isabella Damiani, Andrew C. Thoron, James C. Bunch

“…Educators must be aware of the continuum of motivation and appropriately provide opportunities for student engagement, learning, and growth. This 2-page document discusses how to motivate learners. …”
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Developing and Strengthening Networks to Promote Resilience After Disasters by Angela B. Lindsey, Samantha Goldenberg, Cassie Wandersee

“… The HGHC series includes thirteen publications that focus on the work of the community outreach and dissemination team, including community engagement, outreach, and research result dissemination. …”
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Rescuing policy in tourism network research by Dianne Dredge

“…Rather than arguing for increased interest in tourism policy network research as a separate subfield, the paper argues for deeper theoretical engagement with the policy dimensions in tourism network research. …”
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Whatever Happened to Projective Architecture? Rethinking the Expertise of the Architect by Lara Schrijver

“…This would entail understanding the reconfigured relation between political/societal and aesthetic/cultural engagement. Drawing from the ideas in the American debate on the ‘projective’ and the recent work of Richard Sennett on ‘craft’, this article puts forward the position that the notion of the ‘projective’ can extend the insights of critical theory towards a more fruitful dialogue with the everyday practice of architecture.…”
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Développement professionnel d’un chercheur dans une recherche-action participative. Récit et analyse by Claire Matteï-Mieusset, Pierre Boudreau

“…This article presents a narrative of the professional development of a faculty-instructor engaged in a participatory action research focused on the development of mentoring skills of cooperating teachers. …”
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Byron and Nineteenth-Century Literary Philhellenism in America by Maria Schoina

“…My discussion aims to demonstrate the American poets’ rich and diverse engagement with Byronic modes, hoping to bring a deeper understanding of the texts in question as well as of the historical frames surrounding them.…”
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El ideal de juez local Tenancingo, Intendencia de México, 1795-1800 by Claudia Guarisco

“…It was in that coming and going from custom to law and doctrine and back to local values that the engagement between Crown and subjects laid.…”
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Kay Boyle and Mary Reynolds: Friendship Intensified by War by Page DOUGHERTY DELANO

“…For both of them, their engagement in the war, Boyle as an anti-Fascist fiction writer, and Reynolds as a participant in the French Resistance, shifted their sense of citizenship—as women, as women sharing allegiances both to France and the U.S., and as engaged people. …”
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Neither Peace nor War—U.S.-Cuban Political Coexistence from 1963 to 1964 by Krzysztof Siwek

“…The purpose of this study is to examine the circumstances of the political coexistence of the United States with Cuba following the Cuban Missile Crisis and preceding the full U.S. engagement in Vietnam. The article reveals that the Cold War conditions of U.S.…”
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FE or not FE? A Play in Two Acts by Gary Husband, Paul Murphy, Joel Petrie

“…The narrative form is employed to examine the potential challenges of engagement in scholarship, particularly methodology, for lecturers in further education embarking on research on, in and of the sector.  …”
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Démarche d’investigation et problématisation en mathématiques et en SVT : des problèmes de démarcation aux raisons d’une union by Magali Hersant, Denise Orange-Ravachol

“…In France, the recent curricula for mathematics, science and technology promote primary and middle school students’ engagement in investigative approaches. These approaches are supposed to contribute to the internalization of common skills. …”
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Excerpts from a Conversation with Renfrew Christie and Rodney Wilkinson, during the Conference on ‘Anti-Nuclear Activism in Africa: A Historical Perspective’, held at the Johannesb... by Jo-Ansie van Wyk

“…We are curious to know of the international links during this period and the engagement with the government of the day. We are also curious to know the kind of actions that have been taken in the anti-apartheid struggle and engaging nuclear energy as part of that struggle. …”
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