The Harawayan Bee Hotel: a tool to catalyse emancipatory change within and beyond the Education for Sustainable Development agenda in pre-service teacher training by Marco Bernardini, Jo Anna Reed Johnson

“…The article will discuss a project that emerged as part of a teacher education programme in the UK where selected insights elaborated by Donna Haraway have been used to inform a Bee Hotel project. …”
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The Consolidation of Liberal Democracy in Brazil: Encountering Global, Regional, and Local Representations by Daniela Vieira Secches, Marinana Andrade e Barros, Frederico Freire Fernandes

“…The end of the Cold War witnessed an ascendant, albeit contested, liberal democracy as a preferred regime in global imaginaries. …”
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Ethiopia’s history and historiography in perspective: a post-modernist critique and policy implications for national cohesion by Solomon Gebre Weldeananiya, Kenneth Omeje

“…Ethiopia’s history is deeply rooted and intertwined in the country’s polarized politics, leading to a complex and contested historical landscape and interpretation. …”
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Examining the correctness of the attribution of letter 53 of Nahj al-Balaghah to Imam Ali (PUH) Based on the most accurate theories of Vocabulary Richness by Soghra Falahati, Somayyeh Modiri

“…Authorship Attribution is the task of identifying the authors of contested or anonymous texts, and aims to identify the author of unknown texts, based on writing style. …”
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Considerations on the Human Body in European Art from Ancient Times to Present Day by Liviu Nedelcu

“…We outlined artistic findings from old times to contemporaneity wherever the motive of the human body was central in this selection; furthermore, the nude has made and still makes the subject of convergent discourses on its representation, intensity or weakening of its capacity for signifying. …”
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Behavioral Biases in Investor Decision-Making: A Comparative Meta-Analysis of Behavioral Finance Research by Seyed Amir Sabet, Saeed Aibaghi esfahani, Abdolmajid Abdolbaghi Ataabadi

“…This study conducts a meta-analysis of 61 empirical studies (24 domestic, 37 international) to compare the effects of 12 prominent behavioral biases, selected based on their prevalence and diversity in the literature. …”
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Gender similarities in high school mathematics: affective and cognitive aspects by Negasi Hagos Tekola, Dawit Asrat Getahun, Hailu Hagos

“…Data were collected by self-report questionnaire and achievement test from 727 (416 females & 311 males) grade 9 students, with average age of 15 years, randomly selected from three government general secondary schools in Aksum. …”
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Gender similarities in high school mathematics: affective and cognitive aspects by Negasi Hagos Tekola, Dawit Asrat Getahun, Hailu Hagos

“…Data were collected by self-report questionnaire and achievement test from 727 (416 females & 311 males) grade 9 students, with average age of 15 years, randomly selected from three government general secondary schools in Aksum. …”
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The Dynamics of Religion and Ecology in Indonesia: An Overview of Environmental Social Movements from 1990-2022 by Ronald Adam, Jonathan D. SMith, Samsul Maarif

“…This article argues that the relationship between religion and ecology is contested and changing. It provides evidence from an empirical study of how social movements use lived religion, meaning everyday practices instead of doctrines or expert definitions. …”
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Ending The Past: International Law, Intertemporality, and Reparations for Past Wrongs by Rémi Fuhrmann, Melissa Schweizer

“…This interpretation of the intertemporal doctrine has been contested more recently in international legal scholarship and practice, which both seek to instill an increased sense of ambiguity into the laws of the past, but crucially, this Article shows, these efforts do not extend this ambiguity to the doctrine of intertemporal law itself. …”
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Conscientious objection in euthanasia and assisted suicide: A systematic review. by Carlos Gomez-Virseda, Chris Gastmans

“…Titles and abstracts were independently screened by the two authors, and complete articles were selected based on predefined inclusion and exclusion criteria.…”
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Nanotechnology Foresight: How Can We Explore Employment and Skills Implications? by Ian Miles

“… Policymakers responsible for improving the skill base needed for future economic development must assess the implications of radical technological change in the future.  The example selected here is in nanoscience and nanotechnology. …”
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The socio-technical adoption and diffusion of digital health innovations: The development of the STAD-HC model based on telemedicine in Germany by Yvonne Rauner, Harald Stummer

“…Using the Decision Matrix for Theory Borrowing, DOI and SST were selected as complementary frameworks. A secondary analysis of 12 expert interviews was conducted using SST-based content analysis. …”
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Serious gaming as an experiential learning tool: exploring the human–water perspectives in the case of Mt. Kenya water tower by Charles Nduhiu Wamucii, Charles Nduhiu Wamucii, Pieter R. van Oel, Adriaan J. Teuling, Arend Ligtenberg, John Mwangi Gathenya, Erika N. Speelman

“…Serious games have been proposed as participatory tools for (social) learning in contested landscapes, however the impact of such approaches on learning is understudied. …”
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Policy stakeholders' perspectives and use of data, research evidence, and misinformation in three counties in California, USA during the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020–2022 by Joshua Murillo, Tessa R. Pulido, Aerika Brittian Loyd, Andrew M. Subica, Irene H. Yen, Denise D. Payán

“…Results: Many residents who commented during local policy discussions contested the: 1) validity of health data provided (i.e., mortality rates), and 2) efficacy of proposed preventive measures like mask wearing and vaccine receipt. …”
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Interventions to promote the health and well-being of children under 5s experiencing homelessness in high-income countries: a scoping review by Monica Lakhanpaul, Kaushik Sarkar, Priti Parikh, Raghu Raghavan, Matthew Ankers, Nadia Svirydzenka, Yanxin Tu, Zoe Palfreyman, Yvonne Karen Parry

“…The study’s primary objective is to map the content and delivery methods of culturally sensitive interventions for children under 5 experiencing homelessness in HICs.Design A scoping review guided by the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews checklist.Data sources Databases include PubMed, Medline, SCOPUS, The Cochrane Library and Google Scholar were searched up to 24 March 2022.Eligibility criteria This scoping review includes studies that describe, measure or evaluate intervention strategies aimed at improving child health programmes, specifically those yielding positive outcomes in key areas like feeding, nutrition, care practices and parenting.Data extraction and synthesis Articles were selected and evaluated by two independent reviewers, with a dispute resolution system involving a third reviewer for contested selections. …”
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Beyond IC50-A computational dynamic model of drug resistance in enzyme inhibition treatment. by J Roadnight Sheehan, Astrid S de Wijn, Thales Souza Freire, Ran Friedman

“…In this work, through a model of the treatment of chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML), we contest using fold-IC50 values as a guide for treatment selection. …”
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Developing a framework to measure the impact of large-scale land investment on sustainable development and to combat land grabbing in Africa: the case of Amhara region, Ethiopia by Assefa Mulaw, Gebeyehu Shibeshi

“…Western Armachiho district of the Amhara region, Ethiopia, was selected for this study where large-scale land-based investment has been practiced. …”
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Does bibliometric research confer legitimacy to research assessment practice? A sociological study of reputational control, 1972-2016. by Arlette Jappe, David Pithan, Thomas Heinze

“…This gap has been filled by database providers. By selecting and distributing research metrics, these commercial providers have gained a powerful role in defining de-facto standards of research excellence without being challenged by expert authority.…”
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Understanding the political economy of reforming global health initiatives – insights from global and country levels by Sophie Witter, Natasha Palmer, Rosemary Jouhaud, Shehla Zaidi, Severine Carillon, Rene English, Giulia Loffreda, Emilie Venables, Shifa Salman Habib, Jeff Tan, Fatouma Hane, Maria Paola Bertone, Seyed-Moeen Hosseinalipour, Valery Ridde, Asad Shoaib, Adama Faye, Lilian Dudley, Karen Daniels, Karl Blanchet

“…Framing of narratives about achievements and challenges is important to enable or block reforms and are vigorously contested, with stakeholders often selecting different outcomes to emphasise in justifying positions. …”
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