Designing an effective educational toy: incorporating design-thinking in the design classroom by Natalie Houston, Ferney Manrique, Shi Mo, Wang Ruoqian, Ji Wenjing, Lu Yuting

“…The key findings emphasise the effective implementation of design principles in developing a product that not only fulfils safety and educational requirements but also provides novel learning experiences. The essay continues by recommending the wider implementation of these concepts in the creation of educational toys to encourage improved learning outcomes and the development of skills in children.…”
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Czy Muminki mogą zmienić współczesny świat? Na marginesie recenzji książki Hanny Dymel-Trzebiatowskiej Przechadzki po Dolinie Muminków. Perspektywa filozoficzno-literacka (2024)... by Dorota Michułka

“… This essay is an attempt at contextual interpretation of Hanna Dymel-Trzebiatowska’s book Przechadzki po Dolinie Muminków. …”
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From ‘Humiliation’ to Radical Beliefs: Navigating political subjectivities and ideological shifts in trajectories of radicalization. by Wagner Guilherme Alves da Silva

“…Abstract This essay delves into the analysis of the radicalization trajectory of supporters of the Early and Preventive Treatment (TPP), contextualizing it within the Brazilian political and social scenario during the 2023 elections. …”
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An Emerging Theory of School-Based Participatory Science by P. Sean Smith, Christine L. Goforth, Sarah J. Carrier, Meredith L. Hayes, Sarah E. Safley

“…Despite these benefits and others, school-based participatory science (SBPS) is not widespread. In this essay, we put forth a theory of SBPS that is emerging from a four-year study of efforts to integrate participatory science in elementary classrooms. …”
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L’esthétique au prisme de la trans‑caribéanité : Perspectives décoloniales sur l’art jamaïcain et martiniquais by Frédéric Lefrançois

“…It is a contention of this essay to answer this question by correlating the evolution of two Caribbean artistic movements with similar aspirations: the Atelier 45, born in Martinique, and the Jamaican Art Movement which appeared in Jamaica.…”
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Presence and Absence in Margaret Atwood’s Dearly by Pilar Sánchez-Calle

“…Drawing on critical studies of elegy in contemporary English-language poetry and on the role of elegy in Atwood’s poetry, this essay analyses the elegiac dimension of Dearly (2020), Atwood’s most recent poetry collection. …”
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The Enduring Conflict in Somalia: Analyzing the Dynamics of Instability and the Path to Sustainable Peace by Zoia Malik

“… Somalia has faced prolonged instability for over three decades, ranking among the least peaceful nations in the Global Peace Index 2024. This essay examines the origins and dynamics of the Somali conflict, analyzing its historical, political, economic, and social dimensions. …”
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Dissemination Models for Communication of Cultural Heritage: ‘di sotto in su’ Perspective Domes in Andrea Pozzo’s Work by Leonardo Baglioni, Marta Salvatore

“…This type of experimentation concerns perspective, in particular, the perspectives of fake hemispherical domes defined ‘di sotto in su’ (from below) painted by Andrea Pozzo between the Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries. The present essay explores the relationship between the true form of the dome and its perspective, with particular reference to the case of St. …”
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"He told me to hold my tongue" : de la violence physique à la subjectivation politique dans The History of Mary Prince by Frédéric Regard

“…She was then taken under the protection of Thomas Pringle, who would soon edit Prince’s autobiography, typed by a friend of his, Susanna Strickland.In this essay, I try to demonstrate that Prince’s narrative—through Strickland’s mediation—uses rhetoric to transfigure herself, from an animal into a British lady, thus challenging the classic distinction between the savage slave and the civilized European. …”
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Analysis of aerosol climate effects under global warming by Li Guo

“…Aerosols, as tiny particles that are widespread in the atmosphere Its climate effects are complex and uncertain, and it is a key factor in global climate change research. This essay first introduces the definition and classification of aerosols, including natural source aerosols and anthropogenic source aerosols. …”
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Cosmotechnologies of Community and Collaboration in Vandana Singh’s Speculative Architectures by Joel P.W. Letkemann

“…For architects, this means considering how much architecture today is constrained by a singular technological paradigm, and how architects can think the many technologies of architecture differently. This essay considers architectural cosmotechnology through discourses in global speculative fiction (SF), fictions proceeding from different ways of understanding and being in the world, to explore the future implications of these fictions for architecture and other technological practices in contrast to the hegemony of global modernism – what I have called cosmotechnologies of community and collaboration. …”
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L’insularità, l’isolamento e l’autonomia alimentare degli ikoots (Oaxaca, Messico) fra storia, flussi oceanici e catene globali di depauperamento by Cristiano Tallè

“…In recent decades, their communities have experienced an ever-greater dependence on the supply chains which goes hand in hand with a growing territorial conflict and a progressive loss of fish food autonomy, based on an “ocean-political sovereignty” today in deep crisis. The essay tries to read the double bond between dependence on supply chains and conditions of isolation/insularity, “channeling of vital flows” (water, fish, weather, etc.) and environmental impoverishment, taking into consideration a broad time span (from Cortés' businesses to ongoing mega-projects) and in the light of an ethnographic analysis of the local perception of the interdependence between abundant fishing and the circulation of oceanic flows. …”
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Unpleasant Operas or French Music Drama as Heard by Corno Di Bassetto by Eduardo Valls Oyarzun

“…However, this theory changes dramatically when Shaw addresses French authors, ranging from Léo Delibes, Jules Massenet and Georges Bizet to Charles Gounod. This essay examines how Shaw’s vision of the genre changes after his development of the Life Force theory, which, in turn, compels the reader to reassess Shaw’s understanding of the French opera tradition in the late 1880s and 1890s. …”
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Translating French Drama for English Audiences: Adolphe Belot’s L’Article 47 by Barbara T. Cooper

“…These are some of the questions this essay will seek to answer.…”
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The Ubiquity of Strange Frontiers: Minor Eschatology in Richard Powers’s The Echo Maker by Zachary Tavlin

“…Frontiers are ubiquitous in Richard Powers’s The Echo Maker (2006). This essay first considers the recurring epistemological frontiers in American literature and culture, including within the scholarly American Studies tradition that located ever-present links between Puritan millennialism, American Romanticism, and the settlement of the American continent. …”
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TV is the Devil, the Devil is on TV:Wild Religion and Wild Media in South Africa by Lee-Shae S.Scharnick-Udemans

“…In light of its recent history of apartheid and transition into democracy in the middle1990s,when paradigmatic constitutional and political changes took place in which the relationship between religion and the media wasreconstituted, the South African context, in particular, is ripe for exploring media technology and practices in relation tothe political economy of the sacred. This essay pays tribute to David Chidester by testing the possibilities of his theory of ‘wild religion’against two vignettes of wild media in South Africa. …”
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Between Objective and Subjective Architectural Experiences: Conceptualizing Refractive Neuroarchitecture Phenomenology by Yongjun Shin

“… This analytical essay is aimed at developing a conceptual framework to assess how people experience the built environment both objectively and subjectively through a critical literature review of neuroarchitecture, architectural phenomenology, and neurophenomenology. …”
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Towards a cyber ecology by Carlo Ratti, Daniele Belleri

“…This essay traces how designers are facilitating an extraordinary, double convergence between the natural and artificial worlds. …”
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COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF TRADITIONAL AFRICAN AND WESTERN PEACE BUILDING by TANKO SHAWULU PAUL PAUL, KINGSLEY PHILIPS NOYE, EMMANUEL ACHUS JAH

“…Hence both the traditional African method and the Western style method still live with us and peace is what everyone need. This essay is an attempt to harmonize the Africa traditional conflict resolution and western methods of peace building in conflict management in the African environment with specific touch on the IGBO of the South East Nigeria and the BUEM of Ghana . peace building theory was used. …”
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From Painting to Picturebook: Bhajju Shyam’s Insider Indigenous Art by Indraprastha University, India

“…My research uses literary and visual analysis of the picturebooks, as well ethnographic interviews with the Adivasi artists, to explore artistic agency exercised in the illustration of picturebooks. In this essay, I focus my analysis on the 2014 Creation, a collection of origin stories found in the Pardhan Gond repertoire. …”
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