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Originality of Appian of Alexandria
Authors: Price Jonathan J.
Published: February 2025

Despite his long dismissal in Classical scholarship as an unoriginal historian, Appian of Alexandria wrote a panoramic history of the Roman Empire according to an original conception and methodology. His work is far more than its former classification as a hunting-ground for lost sources. Two aspects of originality and independent thought are examined here. First, his innovative organization of a huge amount of material according to ethnic divisions, as a method to explain Rome’s historical achievement. Second, his choice of the murder of Tiberius Gracchus as the first incident in the Roman civil war, revealing his conception of the last century of the Roman Republic as a single prolonged, episodic event, a conception influenced by Thucydides’ model of stasis.
Marble Cubid Weight Carved with Eros from Khirbet Ibtin
Authors: Gersht Rivka , Gendelman Peter
Published: February 2025

The Khirbet Ibtin cuboid weight, sculpted with an image of a sleeping Eros, was found in a house of a Roman village—possibly ancient Gamada/Gamda—situated in Western Galilee. The article places the weight within the frame of cuboid weights from other sites outside the Land of Israel; explores the issue of marked and unmarked weight values; the iconography, provenance and craftsmanship of the weight; and the significance the Khirbet Ibtin weight, ornamented with a sleeping Eros, could have had where agriculture was the essence of the settlement.
“Marsyas of the Forum” image on Roman city coins of the Southern Levant
Authors: Palistrant Shaick Ronit
Published: February 2025

This article assembles all ‘Marsyas of the Forum’ depictions appearing on city-coins from the Southern Levant (particularly in the region between Antioch and Alexandria) and examines the reasons for and the importance of their inclusion on the coins. Marsyas was meant to manifest the city’s status as a Roman colonia, its Romanitas, and, as I suggest, the wealth the city enjoyed under Roman rule. Of all the colonies in the region, eleven chose to portray Marsyas, with no necessary correlation between Marsyas and ius Italicum. It emerges that the image was immensely popular and diversely represented. Marsyas was shown in a clear civic context: either standing next to Tyche, or before the city’s symbols, or within a central structure of the city. These three types of Marsyas’s depictions were originated in the region, mainly in Tyre’s mint. They indicated the cities’ aspiration to publicize themselves as Roman colonies from the east maintaining their local identity. All Marsyas’s representations in the region are dated from the time of Septimius Severus onward, even those of colonies granted colonial status prior to the Severan period, including, as I suggest, the coins of Berytus (without the emperor head). The motif was prevalent mostly on coins of emperors who had deep familial bonds in this region.
Towards an Unusual speculum principis? Virtues in the Confucius Sinarum Philosophus’s Proemialis Declaratio
Authors: Balbo Andrea , Della Calce Elisa , Mollea Simone
Published: February 2025

The Confucius Sinarum Philosophus (1687) represents one of the first attempts to translate some fundamental texts of Confucianism into a European language, Latin. In doing this, the Jesuits—and Philippe Couplet in particular—paid attention to the right ways to present Confucius to a Western audience. This appears all the more clear in the Proemialis Declaratio, a long introduction to the work. This paper focuses on those value concepts (pietas, iustitia, and prudentia), which are important both to Confucian and Western Greco-Latin Cultures and which contribute to reading relevant passages of this introduction as a speculum principis, thereby enhancing the success of this work in the French court of Louis XIV.
Legal Ostraca from Herodium
Authors: Eshel Esther , Misgav Haggai , Porat Roi
Published: February 2025

This article marks the first publication of two small fragments of legal documents on sherds found at Herodium with estimated dating to the period of the Great Revolt. Lacking a precise date, we surmise that these original sherds could have been brought to the site by refugees from the revolt, in a similar fashion to the documents found at Muraba‘at.
OMONYA on Late Antique Wedding Objects
Authors: Papanikolaou Dimitrios
Published: February 2025

The paper is concerned with a group of published late antique wedding objects bearing the Greek inscription OMONYA. The paper argues that the curious unorthographical spelling is nothing more than a specimen of the postclassical (Hellenistic and Roman-era) vernacular spelling of the oi diphthong as an υ, which ceased to exist only during the eleventh to twelfth centuries. The analysis presents the rings as valuable testimonies to this pronunciation since the rings belong to the quite late period (sixth to early eighth century AD) when the papyrological evidence on it becomes scarce.
TWO WEDDING CEREMONIES: ALCESTIS AND SOME JEWISH PARALLELS
Authors: Tabory Joseph
Published: February 2025

A problem in Alcestis is the contradiction about where she was married. A suggestion, based on ancient Jewish sources, is that there were actually two ceremonies: the first was an engagement ceremony held at her paternal and the second was a wedding ceremony, held when she arrived at her husband's home.
Hesiod’s Ate Again
Authors: Roisman Hanna M.
Published: February 2025

The paper answers W.J. Verdenius' objections to my claim that atē in the meaning of ‘ruin’ is not only post-Homeric but post-Hesiodic as well. I base my claim on a close analysis of all the aorist participles in Works and Days showing that there is no instance of a coincidental/modal aorist participle which would correspond to the case of WD 215-216 on which Verdenius bases his claim.
Enchantment and Other Effects of Poetry in the Homeric Odyssey
Authors: Finkelberg M.
Published: February 2025

Although the effect of poetry most frequently mentioned in Homer is pleasure, it was not the only effect Homer intended for poetry to produce. Such a programmatic passage as the poet’s request for knowledge in the invocation of the Muses preceding the Catalogue of Ships (Il. 2.484-93) cannot be accounted for in terms of pleasure. It should be kept in mind in this respect that the effects of poetry described in the epics are invariably the effects of performance, which involved not only recitation but also music and dancing. Yet the total of the oral poem did not reside in performance. Although the Homeric singer was professionally committed to satisfying the communi­ty’s need for entertainment, his song was also the song of the Muses, deriving from the goddesses’ knowledge of everything that happens on earth. That is to say, while the song of the Muses is employed as a means of entertainment, it is far from being its only function. The Muses’ song is also the vehicle through which  people  have  access  to  things  not  given  to  them  in  their  immediate experience.  As the Sirens’ episode shows, it is this aspect of the song that produces enchantment in the listeners.
Euripides Troades 1244: υμνηθημεν PV ΰμνηθειμεν Hermann
Authors: Meridor Ra'anana
Published: February 2025

This note demonstrates through several examples taken from Euripides and Plato that, contrary to the accepted opinion, an aorist indicative with ἄν in an apodosis which follows an unreal protasis can refer to an action imagined in the future (which will not be realized) and is not restriced to unrealized action in the past or instant present. Consequently the ms. reading ὑμνήθημεν at Troades 1244 should be retained and Hermann’s conjectured optative ὑμνηθεῖμεν is unnecessary.
SIDE-SCROLLING GAME OF THE LEGEND OF NAYA SENTIKA USING THE FEATURE-DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT (FDD) METHOD
Authors: Emil Herdiana  , M. Adi Kuncoro  , Tony Tristianto  , Buhori Muslim
Published: February 2025

Games are highly favored applications among Gen Z, and nearly every smart device comes with games installed. However, this generation should ideally be more inclined towards educational applications. Therefore, this research aims to develop an educational and entertaining platform based on folk tales that can be played on smartphones. This initiative is motivated by the lack of knowledge among today’s youth about traditional folk tales. By using games as a medium, the author seeks to preserve Indonesian folklore that is gradually being forgotten, making it more engaging and enjoyable. The development method chosen for creating this folklore-themed game is Feature-Driven Development (FDD), as conceptualized by Peter Coad. FDD consists of five stages: developing an overall model, building a feature list, planning by feature, designing by feature, and building by feature. The result of the development process using FDD is a game platform with the folklore theme of Naya Sentika, titled "The Legend of Naya Sentika," which can be played on smartphones. For the development, the researcher used Unity as the main software, along with C# as the programming language, written in Visual Studio for scripting.
ANALISIS NETWORK PERFORMANCE MENGGUNAKAN PARAMETER QoS (QUALITY OF SERVICE) PADA JARINGAN INTERNET (STUDI KASUS : HONDA AGUNG MOTOR PACET)
Authors: Rifa'i Mochamad Fikri , Indra Nugraha  , Asep Agus Suryana
Published: February 2025

Kualitas jaringan internet yang stabil dan handal menjadi faktor penting dalam menunjang produktivitas dan efisiensi operasional perusahaan, khususnya di era digital seperti sekarang. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis kinerja jaringan internet di Honda Agung Motor Pacet dengan menggunakan parameter Quality of Service (QoS). Parameter QoS yang diukur meliputi mengetahui kemampuan kinerja jaringan yang ada. Pengujian menggunakan Wireshark untuk memperoleh nilai parameter throughput, jitter, delay dan packet loss. Data dikumpulkan melalui pengujian pada berbagai titik jaringan dan dianalisis secara statistik. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa secara umum kinerja jaringan internet di Honda Agung Motor Pacet cukup baik. Namun, terdapat beberapa titik yang mengalami kendala pada parameter tertentu, seperti latency yang tinggi pada jam-jam sibuk. Berdasarkan hasil analisis, penelitian ini memberikan rekomendasi perbaikan kinerja jaringan untuk meningkatkan kualitas layanan dan mendukung aktivitas bisnis Perusahaan. Dengan nilai Throughput =  135/kbits/s, Loss Packet = 0,3% yaitu data yang hilang mendekati nol, Delay 3,818s dengan nilai Bagus dan Jitter = 9,962 ms dengan indeks 3 Bagus. Ketersediaan internet yang stabil dan baik pada Honda Agung Motor Pacet dibutuhkan untuk meningkatkan layanan konsumen dan kinerja pegawai. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk melakukan analisis kualitas jaringan internet pada Kantor Honda Agung Motor Pacet.
Paving the Way Forward for Data Governance: a Story of Checks and Balances
Authors: Graef Inge
Published: February 2025

Data governance is a phenomenon that brings many interests and considerations together. This editorial argues that active involvement of various stakeholders is vital to advance discussions about how to create value from data as a means to stimulate societal progress. Without adequate checks and balances, each stakeholder group on its own will not have sufficient incentives to do its utmost to achieve this common goal. Policymakers and regulators need to be stimulated to look beyond short-term results to ensure that the design of their initiatives is fit for purpose. Industry players have to be transparent about their practices to prevent strategic behaviour that may harm society. And researchers must inform their findings with real-world evidence and proper terminology.
Trustworthy AI
Authors: Slosser Jacob Livingston , Aasa Birgit , Olsen Henrik Palmer
Published: February 2025

The EU has proposed harmonized rules on artificial intelligence (AI Act) and a directive on adapting non-contractual civil liability rules to AI (AI liability directive) due to increased demand for trustworthy AI. However, the concept of trustworthy AI is unspecific, covering various desired characteristics such as safety, transparency, and accountability. Trustworthiness requires a specific contextual setting that involves human interaction with AI technology, and simply involving humans in decision processes does not guarantee trustworthy outcomes. In this paper, the authors argue for an informed notion of what is meant for a system to be trustworthy and examine the concept of trust, highlighting its reliance on a specific relationship between humans that cannot be strictly transmuted into a relationship between humans and machines. They outline a trust-based model for a cooperative approach to AI and provide an example of what that might look like.
On the legal responsibility of artificially intelligent agents
Authors: Waltermann Antonia
Published: February 2025

This paper tackles three misconceptions regarding discussions of the legal responsibility of artificially intelligent entities: these are that they
(a) cannot be held legally responsible for their actions, because they do not have the prerequisite characteristics to be ‘real agents’ and therefore cannot ‘really’ act.
(b) should not be held legally responsible for their actions, because they do not have the prerequisite characteristics to be ‘real agents’ and therefore cannot ‘really’ act.
(c) should not be held legally responsible for their actions, because to do so would allow other (human or corporate) agents to ‘hide’ behind the AI and escape responsibility that way, while they are the ones who should be held responsible.
(a) is a misconception not only because (positive) law is a social construct, but also because there is no such thing as ‘real’ agency. The latter is also the reason why (b) is misconceived. The arguments against misconceptions a and b imply that legal responsibility can be constructed in different ways, including those that hold both artificially intelligent and other (human or corporate) agents responsible (misconception c). Accordingly, this paper concludes that there is more flexibility in the construction of responsibility of artificially intelligent entities than is at times assumed. This offers more freedom to law- and policymakers, but also requires openness, creativity, and a clear normative vision of the aims they want to achieve.
Enhancing Workplace English Oral Skills Through Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT): An Experimental Study Among Industrial Workers in Faisalabad
Authors: Muhammad Abubaker  , Muhammad Shaharyar Sabiri  , Momina Ejaz
Published: February 2025

Task-based language teaching (TBLT) was recognized because of its ability to incorporate real-world tasks in pedagogical settings. In Pakistan English has the status of second language and is used in every aspect of life especially in industrial sector where workers need to communicate internationally. The current study was inspired from this concept and was aimed to investigate the impact of TBLT on English language oral skills and fluency of industrial workers of Faisalabad. The study used pre-test, post-test experimental research design for which 80 participants equally belonging to both genders (males and females) were selected from Faisalabad’s industry. Experimental group was taught using TBLT and control group through grammar translation method (GTM). The results of the study showed significant difference among the groups and also highlighted the impact of TBLT on English language oral skills and fluency but also highlighted the need of tailorized content and learning for learners. The research proved very significant and provided a pathway to use TBLT for teaching English for specific purposes by tailoring the contents according to the needs of the learners belong to their specific areas of expertise (fields).
Needs Analysis using ESP Approach: A perception of Nursing Students and other Stakeholders in Pakistan
Authors: Tajamal Tayyaba , Kalim Salma , Meher Farhat
Published: February 2025

This study examines the distinctive discipline-specific English language needs of nursing students in Pakistan in academic and clinical settings using the concept of large-scale needs analysis. Large-scale needs analysis is crucial for comprehensively identifying learners' needs in order to determine the linguistic and communicative needs of the nursing discourse community effectively. Grounded in Brown’s (2016) four views of needs and Anthony’s (2018) large-scale perspective, this study employed mixed-method approach and collected questionnaires (04) and interviews (03) with stakeholders including students (94), nurse teachers (30), clinical preceptors (30), English teachers (02) and deans (05). Findings revealed that nursing students need to be proficient in productive skills (writing, grammar, vocabulary, and speaking) and all stakeholder highly prioritized the need to integrate diverse reading and writing genres in specially designed discipline-specific ENP course. Participants argued for focusing on developing competencies to read and write case studies, research reports, shift reports, care plans, handovers, nursing notes, history taking, reflections, discharge notes, patient discharge letters, patient transfer notes/letters, bed statements, and are found to be important. The study concluded with the learner’s needs addressed for pedagogical implications, necessitating the integration of Second Language Acquisition (SLA) principles and English Language Teaching (ELT) methodologies tailored to the specific language requirements of nursing students. In addition, the study recommended finding pedagogical practices used to teach ENP to nursing students to further design materials and resources for genre-specific ENP course.
University Students’ Motivation for Intercultural Competence: A Case Study of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Pakistan)
Authors: Ali Muhammad Waqar , Zeenath Khan
Published: February 2025

An emergent interest in cultivating intercultural competence in wake of enduring internationalization of the world has generated a pressing demand for investigation of variable exerting impact on fostering intercultural competence. However, limited research on this phenomenon in the context of Pakistan creates space for further investigation about academic context in Pakistan. Resultantly, the current paper intended to investigate the interplay between motivation and gender, and their respective influence on fostering intercultural competence. The researcher employed quantitative research design.  A 10-statement questionnaire was employed to collect data on 5-point Likert scale from 52 undergraduates (female = 51%; male = 49%) from a university in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The results revealed that the treatment boosted their enthusiasm for future intercultural education. The female partakers manifested higher motivation level than their male counterparts on certain question. However, the difference was not found to be significant. The conclusions suggest some implications for educators, policy makers, curriculum designers, and material developers.
Chamak Patti; Gauging the Cultural Rhythm of Truck Art in Pakistan
Authors: Anum Mahmood
Published: February 2025

Truck art has been recognized throughout the world as the indigenous art of this region. These moving murals from Pakistan, take weeks to be prepared by the artists of the region, turning them into magnificent galleries. The process of making this beautiful truck has evolved over time, now with the evolution of technology, artists have started working as chamak patti, using different colored tapes to create these magnificent creations. The paper discusses this intricate process of turning usual tapes into an un denying art form. Embellishing the truck with different mediums and materials shows the enthusiastic passion of the owner of decorating the truck and makes it different and appealing from other trucks and vehicles and the driver feels pride and enjoy for these ornamentations. Now a day’s truck art became a global phenomenon that reflects the diversity of our bright culture and artistic skills of creativeness of this country. Our rich culture is full of colors that represent the high-spirited values of this land. This form of truck art reflects the varied skills of adorning the truck with different mediums and materials through painting, designing the truck and embellished it with additional accessories like strings of bells and chains, reflective tapes, metallic and plastic elements, colorful lights, ribbons, scarves, frills, small mirrors, reflected tape and loops of beads. All these elements leading to the creation of an outstanding art form.
Forskningsbaseret undervisning og tvivlens goder
Authors: Ryberg Marie Larsen
Published: February 2025

De senere årtiers debatter om forholdet mellem forskning og undervisning på universitetet har peget på, at forskningsbaseret undervisning må gentænkes i masseuniversitetet. Det er imidlertid ikke entydigt, hvad en sådan gentænkning involverer i praksis. Med afsæt i et etnografisk studie af en række kurser, der har eksperimenteret med at integrere forskning i undervisningen, argumenterer denne artikel for, at en gentænkning af forskningsbaseret undervisning fordrer en opmærksomhed på tvivlens goder. Artiklen peger på, at et væsentligt aspekt, når studerende arbejder i forsknings- eller forskningslignende processer, er, at de kommer i tvivl. På denne baggrund indkredser artiklen, hvordan vi kan forstå tvivlens rolle i forskningsbaseret undervisning på baggrund af den amerikanske pragmatismes idéer om tvivl som forudsætning for videnskabelig tænkning, samt den nyere franske pragmatismes idéer om tvivl som grundlag for kritik. Artiklen udpeger opmærksomhedspunkter omkring organiseringen af undervisningen, så studerende kan spejle sig i hinandens og forskerens produktive tvivl.
Hvordan skriver man egentlig en diskussion?
Authors: Kristiansen Bente , Bruun Maja Hojer , Krause-Jensen Jakob , Møller Karen Louise
Published: February 2025

Det at understøtte og udvikle akademiske skrivekompetencer indebærer en række udfordringer (se bl.a. Wingate 2015; Greek & Jonsmoen, 2017). En af udfordringerne er, at akademisk skrivning kan være omgærdet af mystik, fordi de faglige praksisser, der ligger bag tekstproduktionen, ofte er underforstået (Lillis, 2001).
Denne artikel beskriver, hvordan en gruppe studerende forstår tre konkrete aktiviteter, der har til hensigt at understøtte akademisk skrivning i en konkret opgave. Aktiviteterne og de studerendes forståelse af dem analyseres på baggrund af fokusgruppeinterview i forhold til tre forståelser af akademisk skrivning (Lea og Street, 1998). Undersøgelsen peger dels på betydningen af at italesætte de faglige praksisser, der ligger bag fagets skriftlighed, dels på betydningen af at skabe muligheder for at se mange forskellige relevante faglige måder at udtrykke sig på.
Med baggrund i denne undersøgelse diskuteres muligheder for at understøtte de studerendes udvikling af faglige akademiske skrivekompetencer gennem øget fokus på faglig praksis.
Skriftlig peer feedback imellem studerende i projektgrupper
Authors: Frederiksen Dennis Jim
Published: February 2025

Denne artikel undersøger, hvad der karakteriserer skriftlige peer feedbackkommentarer, som studerende skriver til hinanden i projektgrupper, hvor de individuelt eller i undergrupper producerer delafsnit og udkast, der er bidrag til et samlet skriftligt produkt.
Gennem en tematisk analyse af skriftlige kommentarer identificerer artiklen 13 forskellige typer kommentarer og diskuterer to overordnede mønstre. Først, at der er lav grad af begrundelse og baggrund inkluderet i kommentarerne og dernæst, at kommentarerne ofte formuleres som enten/eller valg, der er målrettede mod at gøre teksten færdig.
Analysen opsummeres i en model, der udpeger et potentiale i at undervise og træne studerende i også at anvende procesfokuserende og åbnende kommentarer som en del af deres peer feedback-praksis.
Artiklen bidrager til forståelsen af, hvordan studerende i grupper samarbejder om at forbedre skriftlige tekster gennem peer feedback især i en dansk universitetskontekst.
Matematikundervisning på universitetet
Authors: Larsen Dorte Moeskær , Midtiby Henrik Skov
Published: February 2025

Universitetets matematikundervisning er typisk struktureret omkring forelæsninger med envejskommunikation, efterfulgt af instruktortimer, hvor studerende engagerer sig i opgaveløsning. Dette studie præsenterer en undersøgelse, hvor en underviser på to forskellige matematikhold inden for ingeniøruddannelsen har lavet undersøgelser med ny undervisningspraksis beskrevet som ”Det tænkende klasserum” udviklet af Peter Liljedahl. Denne praksis involverer bl.a. indledning af undervisningen med åbne problemløsningsopgaver, anvendelse af tilfældigt sammensatte trepersonersgrupper i undervisningen og brugen af lodrette, ikke-permanente tavleflader under gruppearbejdet.
Gennem semesteret er der systematisk indsamlet data i form af undervisningsobservationer, evalueringssurveys og instruktorinterviews. Artiklens resultater belyser forskellige potentielle fordele ved denne tilgang, men identificerer også enkelte udfordringer. Dette bidrager til en dybere forståelse af dynamikken, der opstår ved implementeringen af disse nye undervisningsmetoder og deres indvirkning på både undervisningsprocessen og de studerendes sociale tilhørsforhold samt læring af matematik på universitetet.
Model for digitale kompetencer
Authors: Dahl Mads Ronald , Hansen Rasmus
Published: February 2025

Artiklen præsenterer en struktureret tilgang til udvikling af digitale kompetencer inden for uddannelsesinstitutioner. Den foreslår en model, der integrerer udvikling af digitale kompetencer på tværs af discipliner og niveauer for at opbygge en omfattende digital kompetenceprofil for studerende, med målet om at forberede dem til den digitale arbejdsstyrke. Artiklen argumenterer for at integrere digitale kompetencer i uddannelsesprogrammer og for at fremme bredere diskussioner om udvikling af digitale kompetencer. Artiklen understreger vigtigheden af en tværfaglig og niveauintegreret terminologi for effektivt at adressere de nuværende og fremtidige krav til digitale kompetencer i et hurtigt udviklende digitalt samfund.
Pedagogical reflections from a transnational PhD course in ageing
Authors: Liveng Anne , Eriksson Jeanette , Christensen Jonas
Published: February 2025

This article is based on an interdisciplinary PhD course on ageing societies. The course brought together researchers, practitioners, and PhD students representing diverse welfare regimes and scientific traditions. It departed from the assumption that learning is a process involving both cognitive, emotional, and social dimensions. It was inspired by three collaborative learning theories and contained a number of non-traditional learning activities.
The students' motivation during the course was exceptionally high, and as teachers and organisers we became interested if this could be understood through the theory of resonance pedagogy.
The article presents parts of the course documentation. Activities and students’ responses are described and discussed in relation to the pedagogical inspirations. Rosa’s resonance pedagogy is used as a theoretical framework in a final synthesising discussion.
Diversity in scientific orientations, national backgrounds, learning activities, and using collaborative pedagogical thinking can support a learning environment with potentials for resonance.
Tech-fri undervisning
Authors: Dahler-Larsen Peter
Published: February 2025

Et valgfag på statskundskabsstudiet blev gennemført uden brug af computere og mobiltelefoner i undervisningslokalet. Afskåret fra internettets og mobiltelefonens distraktioner oplevede de studerende styrket lytning, hukommelse, koncentration og fokus. De vurderede i hovedtræk effekten på deres læreproces som positiv.
Mange oplevede, at deres håndskrevne noter blev mere selektive og relevante, mens andre frygtede, at deres noter i længden ikke var nyttige, og de savnede Powerpoint-præsentationer til ”opslag.”
I tech-fri undervisning kan det være en god ide at styrke undervisningens visuelle side, herunder tavleorden, udleverede handouts og tillige undervisning i notetagning.
Det kræver en overvindelse at nå frem til tech-fri undervisning. Man skal ikke bruge de studerendes forhåndsforventninger som beslutningsgrundlag, for de studerendes faktiske oplevelser med tech-fri undervisning er samlet set langt mere positive end deres holdning på forhånd.
Being in the teaching laboratory
Authors: Malm Rie Hjørnegaard
Published: February 2025

The laboratory has long been conceptualised as central for learning science in higher education. Students are provided with possibilities to learn content and develop skills, thereby gaining experience, practice, and confidence working in a laboratory. However, the affordances of the laboratory as a space where humans interact with each other as well as materials and technology are understudied from a learning perspective. By drawing on the post-phenomenological philosophy of technology, this study argues for including a sensitivity towards both the socio-cultural and socio-material in explorations of learning in the laboratory. To develop this argument, the article offers a qualitative study of instructors’ discourses and observations of students’ laboratory-based learning. Grounded in socio-cultural and socio-material analysis, I show how instructors conceptualise changes in student behaviour as a proxy for learning progression, as technologies become a part of their movement and of being in the laboratory.
Fostering student agency
Authors: Stenalt Maria Hvid , Nielsen Birgitte Lund
Published: February 2025

Student agency is recognised as important to student success. This guide outlines seven strategies for educators in supporting students’ agency construction: (1) Support the students in in becoming students, (2) foster self-determination and autonomy in coursework, (3) be aware of power relations and cultivate an agency-supportive learning environment, (4) give attention to students’ sense of belonging, during studies and in a futures perspective, (5) ensure that the physical and digital environment support students’ opportunities for agentic actions, (6) reframe expressions of resistance as agentic events and (7) examine how to encourage agentic repositions such as students persistence.
Universitetspædagogisk kompetenceudvikling: Eksplicitering og pædagogiske overvejelsers betydning
Authors: Andersen Hanne Leth , Tofteskov Jens , Ulriksen Lars
Published: February 2025

Artiklen tager imod invitationen i Eva Bendix Petersens (EBP) artikel i DUT nr. 36 om ekspliciteringog brudflader i det universitetspædagogiske felt. Vi diskuterer først den forståelse af’eksplicitering’, som bruges i artiklen, og argumenterer for, at den rummer en kortslutning, somfører til en skæv forståelse af universitetspædagogik.
Dernæst diskuterer vi forholdet mellem det, EBP kalder ’VIP’er’ og ‘universitetspædagoger’, og deforskellige opgaver og positioner, de indtager. Der er en risiko for, at universitetspædagogerlægger for ensidig vægt på pædagogik i form af redskaber, og vi peger på, at det vil være enstyrke, hvis de universitetspædagogiske enheder også var vidensproducerende. EBP peger eftervores opfatteslse på nogle vigtige spørgsmål og dilemmaer, som vi mener, fortjener en merenuanceret diskussion, hvor såvel VIP-positionen som universitetspædagog-positionen kanudfordres og reflekteres.
Boganmeldelser AI
Authors: Horak Ruth
Published: February 2025

AI – især NLP og store sprogmodeller – formår at engagere folk på tværs af discipliner og interesser; efterligningen af menneskelig sprogforståelse og interaktion giver ikke bare anledning til nysgerrig undren i forhold til teknologien, men sætter også tanker i gang om, hvad det ”egentligt menneskelige” ved sprog, kommunikation, intelligens og tænkning er.De tre bøger, jeg har valgt, har til fælles, at de ikke kun har et teknologifokus, men også kommer ind på de større, afledte spørgsmål: Melanie Mitchell henvender sig til ”tænkende mennesker”, Anders Søgaard forbinder et teknologisk med et filosofisk perspektiv, og Mark Coeckelbergh fokuserer på teknologifilosofiske og politisk-epistemologiske spørgsmål. Tilsammen giver min ”bogpakke” en god introduktion til kunstig intelligens som felt og ridser nogle af de spørgsmål op, vi bør stille os selv og hinanden i de kommende år.
Universitetspædagogikkens mangfoldighed og transformative potentiale
Authors: Nørgård Rikke Toft
Published: February 2025

DUT 37 præsenterer over mere end 300 sider en omfattende og diversificeret udforskning af universitetspædagogikkens rolle, udfordringer og potentiale i en tid, hvor videregående uddannelser står over for krav om forandring og innovation. Gennem kritisk refleksion, transformative praksisser og forskningsarbejde tilbyder DUT 37 gennem debat, artikler, guides og inspiration et kalejdoskopisk indblik i feltets viden, praksis og mulige udviklingsretninger.
Kolofon DUT 37
Authors: DUT Redaktionen
Published: February 2025

Titel: DUT 37Årgang 20, Nummer 37/2025Sponsoreres af Dansk Universitetspædagogisk Netværk
Einleitung zur Themensektion: Rollen/Roles in der Schreibwissenschaft
Authors: Knorr Dagmar , Heine Carmen
Published: February 2025

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Professionelle Kommunikation und ,intelligente‘ Werkzeuge – zur Neubestimmung eines Verhältnisses
Authors: Zehrer Christiane
Published: February 2025

Inwiefern haben Berufsbilder der professionellen Kommunikation in Zukunft noch eine Daseinsberechtigung? Diese Frage wurde von der breiten Öffentlichkeit und auch von einigen Fachpersonen aufgeworfen, als im November 2022 die so genannte „Künstliche Intelligenz“ mit der Veröffentlichung von ChatGPT fast menschenähnliche Kommunikationsfähigkeiten zu zeigen schien. Dieser Artikel zeigt demgegenüber, dass die neuartigen Werkzeuge sich auch als Weiterentwicklung bekannter Software verstehen lassen. Zusätzlich erklärt er deren Funktionsweise und aktuelle Grenzen (Stand Februar 2024).
Refining the Definition of Student Peer Feedback: The Role of Roles
Authors: Heine Carmen , Vesterager Anja
Published: February 2025

Refining the definition of student peer feedback in text production pedagogy and extending the definition to include the concept of peer-feedback roles, this article roots in higher education and explores definitions of peer feedback based on multiple characteristics. Its primary objective is to contribute to the landscape of student peer-feedback research in writing and translation studies. Its secondary objective is to provide a discourse-sensitive definition of student peer feedback at the crossroads of symbolic interactionism and social constructivism. This article reconceptualizes the role that peer-feedback roles play in student peer-feedback settings, drawing on peer-feedback research to cut across the disciplines. It broadens the perspective on the perceived dichotomy of the roles of feedback provider and receiver, based on role theory as a critical framework to synthesize theoretical approaches. This article suggests future conceptualization and theorization of roles as a framework for educators and researchers.
Gaming Cancer
Authors: Yoshimi Jeff
Published: February 2025

Can experimenting with game design increase our chances of finding a cure for cancer?

Cancer is crafty, forcing us to be just as clever in our efforts to outfox it—and we've made excellent progress, but is it time for a new play in the playbook? In Gaming Cancer, Jeff Yoshimi proposes a new approach to fighting an increasingly exhausting war. By putting the work of cancer research into the hands of nonspecialists, Yoshimi believes, we can accelerate the process of outgaming the disease once and for all.

Gamers have already used “serious games” to discover new galaxies, digitize ancient texts, decode viruses, and solve theoretical problems in neuroscience. Cancer is a multilayered threat, and our best bet at overcoming it is via more minds working in concert. Gaming Cancer is an instruction manual for engineering games that motivate users to strain and sweat to find cancer cures. It integrates game design with research in cancer biology, data visualization techniques, and developments in cognitive science and AI while remaining sensitive to the limitations of citizen science and ethical concerns. Yoshimi sees in cutting-edge game technology the potential to educate and empower people to outwit cancer, an indirect route to richer science literacy that draws on the boundless resources of the mind.

This book offers anyone invested in beating this seemingly intractable disease a concrete playbook that combines real science with creative vision in an effort to defeat the boss monster, cancer.
Farming the North Sea Coast, 900-2000
Authors: Cruyningen Piet van
Published: February 2025

"The author opens a powerful dialogue between agricultural history on the one hand and environmental history on the other... a brilliant and provocative synthesis of a thousand years of coastal farming." Tim Soens, University of Antwerp, Belgium.

The fascinating story of how the North Sea coast has been farmed is ever changing. Long before the industrial revolution, the inhospitable fens and marshes of the low-lying coastal wetlands on both sides of the Sea had been transformed into one of the most productive agricultural regions in Europe. Agriculture in the coastlands reached its apogee during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as is witnessed by the many impressive farm buildings established then. However, more recently, it has become clear that lowland farming and even the physical existence of the lowlands are in jeopardy, owing to rising sea levels and problems of drainage.

This book offers a history of farming and water management on the North Sea coast, assessing the forces driving - and inhibiting - agricultural progress more broadly. It examines the ways in which farmers in the past dealt with the two main constraints on their decision-making: the natural environment and the human environment of institutional rules and customs regulating behaviour. It looks in particular at how setbacks were overcome, and how farming practices were improved which then raised the money with which to finance the maintenance of dykes, canals, and sluices.
The Reception of Papal Legates in England, 1170-1250
Authors: Christensen Emil Lauge
Published: February 2025

Considers the reception of legatine missions to England during a significant period in the development of Anglo-Papal relations.
Papal legates, as the most powerful representatives of the pope, wielded significant influence in establishing and upholding papal authority throughout Christendom. The adventus - the elaborate ceremony of lordship on their arrival - provided a reception to mark their status. While the ceremony was ostensibly a straightforward display of power, communicating the lordship and authority of the papal legate, and a tool for establishing, negotiating, and gauging the relationship between the pope and other European powers, it was also susceptible to manipulation and distortion.

This book investigates how four chroniclers - Roger of Howden, Gervase of Canterbury, Roger of Wendover, and Matthew Paris - observed and interpreted such legatine adventus ceremonies in England in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. These writers, aware of the curia's view that the reception of a papal legate signified acquiescence to papal authority and hegemony, offer a range of responses, from ridicule to praise. Drawing on chronicles, customaries, decretals, and other sources, it sheds new light on the intricate interplay between the expectations of both the papacy and the legates, and the diverse viewpoints found in the response of English writers.
Cord Direct Antiglobulin Test for Predicting the Need for Phototherapy in Neonates with ABO Incompatibility: A Prospective Cohort Study
Authors: Balan Ranjith , Balaji Sakthipriya , Kumar Arun , Sundar Subash , Krishnan Shrinidhi , Chandrasekaran Ashok
Published: February 2025

Introduction: The Direct Antiglobulin Test (DAT) is a screening technique used to detect Immunoglobulin G (IgG) antierythrocyte antibodies on foetal Red Blood Cells (RBCs). Universal bilirubin screening decreases the incidence of severe hyperbilirubinemia. The diagnostic efficacy of DAT in cases of ABO incompatibility is not well established, in contrast to Rh incompatibility.

Aim: To evaluate the diagnostic ability of routine cord blood DAT in neonates ≥35 weeks of gestation with ABO incompatibility in predicting the requirement for phototherapy. Additionally, to compare the diagnostic ability between two methods of DAT estimation, namely the semiagglutination gel method and the conventional tube method.

Materials and Methods: This prospective cohort study was conducted from September 2022 to March 2024 at SRM Medical College Hospital and Research Centre, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Following the acquisition of informed consent, cord blood samples were collected from 934 neonates delivered after 35 weeks of completed gestation to mothers with O blood type. In cases of ABO incompatibility (523 neonates), DAT was performed using both the manual tube method and the automated semiagglutination gel method in the blood bank. Serum bilirubin levels, complete blood counts with peripheral smear analysis and reticulocyte counts were performed on day 3 or earlier, as clinically indicated. The neonates were treated in accordance with the American Academy of Paediatrics (AAP) 2004 recommendations on phototherapy. Babies were monitored for jaundice until 14 days of age.

Results: Out of 3,092 eligible deliveries, 523 babies with ABO incompatibility were enrolled. The baseline characteristics were comparable. Bilirubin levels in DAT-positive and DAT-negative neonates were 14.60±3.58 mg% and 13.18±3.16 mg% (p-value <0.001), respectively. The adjusted odds ratio of positive DAT for both methods in predicting the requirement for phototherapy was 3.21 (95% CI 2.1-5.8). The sensitivity, specificity, positive likelihood ratio and negative likelihood ratio of the tube method were 37.5%, 85.16%, 2.53, and 0.73, respectively, while for the gel method they were 37.08%, 86.57%, 2.76, and 0.73, respectively.

Conclusion: In cases of ABO incompatibility, neonates with positive cord DAT had higher odds of requiring phototherapy; however, a high negative likelihood ratio indicates that additional factors may be involved in hyperbilirubinemia that necessitate phototherapy.
Industry data on alcohol sales in South Africa between 1995 and 2022 and its value in detecting the impact of policy interventions related to packaging and Covid-19 alcohol availability
Authors: Parry, Ph.D. Charles
Published: February 2025

Aims: To assess changes in total alcohol consumed over time, changes in consumption of different alcoholic beverages and the utility of industry sales data to evaluate the impact of policy changes related to a packaging ban on wine products in September 2007 and bans on alcohol sales during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021 in South Africa.
Design. Alcohol industry sales data as a proxy for consumption was assessed using statistics presented in South African Wine Industry Information & Systems (SAWIS) booklets released annually between 1995 and 2022 and used to describe changes over time in consumption overall, and by product, and the impact on consumption from changes in policy.
Results. Per capita consumption of alcoholic beverages overall has held steady or declined over time, but declines were noted in the market share of wine and beer (especially) and a massive increase for RTDs. The consumption data also indicated short term effects of Covid-19 interventions (especially in 2020) in terms of reducing overall alcohol consumption, with a return to prior levels in 2022. Industry data on packaging for wine was able to show the immediate and longer-term impact of the 2007 ban on wine sold in foil-bags.
Conclusion. Industry data are a useful adjunct to consumer measures of alcohol use, as well as in detecting the impact of policy changes related to availability and packaging, notwithstanding gaps in information on illicit/unrecorded sales and other limitations.
Growth, Productivity, Available Nitrogen, Available Phosphors, Available Potassium, Available Sulphur Influenced by Different Plant Spacing and Nitrogen Levels of Maize (Zea mays L.) in Bathinda Districts of Punjab, India
Authors: Jindal Varun , Verma Karan , Kumar Ashish , Singh Akashdeep , Komal  , Singh Amritpal , Mehla O.P
Published: February 2025

A field experiment was conducted during (Kharif) seasons of 2023 at the Guru Kashi University, Talwandi Sabo, Bathinda, Punjab, to effect of different plant spacing and nitrogen levels on growth, productivity and available NPK of maize. The experiment was laid out in a split plot design with three replications, under three plant spacings of 45 cm x 15 cm, 55 cm x 20 cm, and 65 cm x 25 cm were included in the treatment plan, along with four nitrogen levels: control (75% of RDN (31.5 kg N/ha), 100% of RDN (42 kg N/ha), and 125% of RDN (52.5 kg N/ha). At every stage of the crop's growth, the leaf area index (LAI) with 125% of RDN was the highest and much better than that with 75% and 100% of RDN. Throughout the crop's growth stages, the spacing of 55 cm x 20 cm generated the least amount of dry matter. At a 45 cm X 15 cm spacing, the highest grain weight of 30.33 g was attained, which was comparable to the remaining plant spacing. At 55 cm X 20 cm, the lowest grain yield (52.76 q/ha-1) was observed. With respect to nitrogen, highest harvest index (34.74%) was associated with application of 75% of RDN which was significantly superior over 100% of RDN With respect to plant spacing significantly highest harvest index (36.64%) was recorded at 45 cm X 15 cm and lowest harvest index (31.98%) was recorded with 65 cm X 25 cm and it was on par with 55 X 20 cm (33.24 %). With regard to plant spacing, higher soil available nitrogen and phosphorous was recorded at spacing of 65 cm X 25 cm, higher available potassium at spacing of 45 cm X 15 cm.