Carlos Castillo-Chavez: A century ahead by James Schatz

“…When the opportunity to contribute a short essay about Dr. Carlos Castillo-Chavez presented itself in the context of this wonderful birthday celebration my immediate reaction was por supuesto que sí! …”
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Urban Landscape in Circular Images: Panoramas and Cylindrical Anamorphosis by Fabrizio Agnello, Maria Isabella Grammauta

“…In order to remedy this difficulty, or simply to help visitors to recognise the depicted places, panoramas were also represented in a synthetic image, produced by the projection of the cylindrical canvas onto a horizontal plane; these images were called ‘horizontal panoramas’. This essay analyses the projective relationship between the cylindrical panorama and the horizontal panorama; unfortunately, as far as the authors know, the two images have been preserved only in two panoramas: the panorama of Constantinople, realised in 1801 by Henry Barker, and the panorama of Thun, realised in 1814 by Marquard Wocher. …”
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Truly emergent? A critique of ‘third space’ in cross-cultural context by Michael Begun

“…Bhabha discusses his own conception of third space in response to questions about his ground-breaking 1988 essay ‘The commitment to theory’, in which he appears to first introduce the term ‘third space’ in a relevant context. …”
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« J’ai lu votre livre » by Marion Marx

“…Thus, the article shows how this epistolary meditation was able to offer Marina Tsvetaeva a space for intimate, salutary and above all, free expression – as evidenced by its form, at the crossroads of the letter, the prose poem and the essay – thereby outlining the contours of a feminine and lesbian « creative constellation », certainly imagined, but intrinsically restorative.…”
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Codzienność rozszczelniona. O "Codziennej walce" Manu Larceneta by Damian Kaja

“…The interpretation of Larcenet’s graphic novel was carried out based on three premises: (1) the everyday settles into fiction thanks to mimesis; (2) contact with everyday life may lead to an epiphanic revelation of a spiritual truth (drawing on Jolanta Brach-Czaina’s concept described in her philosophical essay Szczeliny istnienia [Cracks in Existence], this phenomenon can be called the “unsealing” of everyday life); (3) literary depictions of human daily existence are where literature and sociology intersect, as a result of which literary works (or, comics in this case) help reveal the structures of everyday life.…”
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An Attempt to Account for Distributed Cognition in Translating the Poetry of Juhan Viiding by Miriam McIlfatrick-Ksenofontov

“…The significant role that social connections and public reception play in Viiding’s creative work is illustrated by an essay by Elo Viiding, a poet and Juhan Viiding’s daughter, in which she describes nine types of reader of Juhan Viiding’s poetry, each of which creates their own distinct ‘Juhan Viiding’. …”
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Récit de guerre et éthique. Singularité, communauté et temporalité Adieu à tout cela de Robert Graves et La main coupée de Blaise Cendrars by Anne MOUNIC

“…They both understood the ethical issue raised by the war, which Graves called “murder” until the very end of his life. Cendrars wrote an essay called “J’ai tué”.The war experience caused those two poets to refuse the idealistic dualism of the absolute; they rejected the post-war exaltation of manhood, as described by G.L. …”
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Towards Transformation of the Nigerian Youths: The Place of Yoruba Popular Music by Kayode Olusola

“…The song lyrics by the old juju, fuji, apala, sakara, and Pop musicians are found to be more effective because of the Yoruba cultural concepts and moral values inherent in them. This essay concludes that music has an affective mechanism that positively influences the lives, personalities, and world-views of Nigerian youths in general if properly channeled towards a positive dimension. …”
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Teaching Graduate Student Practitioner-Scholars with Affordable Learning Materials (ALMs): Closing the Research-to-Practice Gap by Elizabeth Pope, Phillip Grant

“…In using ALMs, we, as instructors, were forced to step outside the use of traditional, commercial textbooks and consider what may be more beneficial to adult learners. This essay describes a more student-oriented approach to teaching and learning research methods. …”
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Horsing Around: Carnivalesque Humor and the Aesthetics of Dehierarchization in Mister Ed by Stefan L. Brandt

“…This essay discusses the aesthetics of dehierachization in one of the pioneering sitcoms in American television—the CBS-produced Mister Ed (1961–1966). …”
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Current Trends of Nanobiosensors for Point-of-Care Diagnostics by Naumih M. Noah, Peter M. Ndangili

“…Biosensors are very critical components of point-of-care devices since they are directly responsible for the bioanalytical performance of an essay. As such, they have been explored for their prospective point-of-care applications necessary for personalized health care management since they usually estimate the levels of biological markers or any chemical reaction by producing signals mainly associated with the concentration of an analyte and hence can detect disease causing markers such as body fluids. …”
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Russification and Russianization in Modern Historiography: Recent Developments and Future Directions by Nicholas W. Sessums

“…These scholars began to interrogate the policies of the imperial administration toward ethnic and national groups in the borderlands from the imperial administrative perspective. In this essay, I geographically circumnavigate the borderlands of the Russian Empire through secondary studies published since the 1980s to understand how scholars have reinterpreted these policies since gaining access to the imperial administrative perspective. …”
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V.N. Institute of Forest Arboretum, Krasnoyarsk as the Object of Ecological Education by Bazhina Ekaterina Alexandrovna, Bazhina Elena Vasilievna, Koretc Mihail Anatolievitch

“…The essay presents the possibilities of using the Arboretum of the Forest Institute in the educational process of students of higher educational institutions. …”
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PENGARUH MODEL PROJECT BASED LEARNING (PjBL) PADA KONSEP SISTEM KOORDINASI MANUSIA TERHADAP KETERAMPILAN METAKOGNITIF SISWA KELAS XI SMA NEGERI 4 BANJARMASIN by Aulia Mahfuzah, Siti Ramdiah

“…Data collection techniques using essay tests. Assessment of metacognitive skills refers to Corebima (2009). …”
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Research on Multiobjective Optimal Operation Strategy for Wind-Photovoltaic-Hydro Complementary Power System by Guo Zhao, Chenxi Wan, Wanqing Zuo, Kefei Zhang, Xinyi Shu

“…Taking the minimum grid fluctuation index, the minimum wind-photovoltaic-hydro discard rate and the greatest economic effectiveness of the power station as the goal functions and considering various constraints of the wind, photovoltaic, and hydrostation units, a triobjective optimization running model of the wind-photovoltaic-water synergy system is established. Meanwhile, this essay suggests an IMOSSA on the basis of tent chaotic sequence and random wandering strategy to settle the described triobjective optimization issue. …”
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The study of the stylistic components of the \"Hajme Sabz\" of Sohrab Sepehri by شیرزاد طایفی, لیلا کمالخانی

“…The stylistic approach of any work is the way by which one finds the inner layers and thoughts of the author’s work. In this regard, this essay, with an emphasis on the library studies and with reference to the inductive manner, based on the definition and the analysis, tries to clarify the stylistics’ components of the “Hajme Sabz” the work of Sepehri within the different phonetic, lexical, syntactic and the eloquent and mental layers, so as to find the state of the poet’s thoughts and his special style, by using the study’s achievements.  …”
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Intergovernmental or fully independent? Designing a scientific panel on evidence for action against antimicrobial resistance. by Arne Ruckert, Steven J Hoffman, Julia Bishop, Susan Rogers Van Katwyk, Patrick Fafard, Mathieu J P Poirier

“…A Scientific Panel on Evidence for Action against AMR (SPEA) could address this gap, as well as contribute to additional governance gaps in the space of AMR, by facilitating better global coordination and cooperation; establishing real-time evidence to guide policy actions; and monitoring progress towards any globally agreed upon AMR goals and targets. In this essay, we argue that SPEA has the potential to fulfill several governance functions, and we explore two design options for such a scientific panel to promote equitable and evidence-informed policy implementation. …”
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau and his ideas in the spectrum of the pressing challenges of our time: to the postulates of modern psychological and pedagogical interaction by Irina Manokha

“…In this article with the elements of an essay – the proposal is to make a fascinating excursion, full of unexpected discoveries into the world of Rousseau. …”
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Higher Education and the Politics of the Radical Imagination by Henry A Giroux

“…The central issue for this essay is what it might mean for educators to take seriously the notion that democracy should be a way of thinking about education - one that thrives on connecting equity to excellence, learning to ethics, and agency to the imperatives of social responsibility and the public good. …”
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Development of a Numeracy Assessment Instrument for Vocational High School (VHS) Students by Jumini Jumini, Kana Hidayati

“…Data  analysis  used  the  Item Response Theory (IRT) of the Quest program with the outputs: (1) An instrument consisting of 35  questions  involving multiple-choice,  complex  multiple-choice,  short answer,  and  essay.  All items are valid qualitatively based on expert judgment and quantitatively based on infit and outfit MNSQ value and unidimensionality. …”
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