bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Using journey maps to understand patient-reported outcome measures in the cancer journey
Authors: Kwon Jae-Yung , Moynihan Melissa , Wolff Angela , Irlbacher Geraldine , Joseph Amanda , Wilson Lorraine , Horlock Hilary , Hung Lillian , Lambert Leah , Lau Francis , Sawatzky Richard
Published: November 2024

urpose: The purpose of this qualitative study is to demonstrate the use of patient-reported outcome measure-based journey maps in facilitating clinicians’ ability to communicate with patients about their well-being at each phase of their cancer journey. Methods: Individual semi-structured online and phone interviews were conducted with older adults in British Columbia, Canada. Participants (n = 6) were asked to describe their cancer experiences associated with their well-being score using the Edmonton Symptom Assessment System revised questionnaire throughout their cancer journey (i.e., pre-diagnosis, diagnosis, treatment, to post-treatment). Results: Six older adults who received cancer treatment were interviewed. Six journey maps were developed with evidence of fluctuation in participants’ level of well-being through their cancer journeys. Conclusion: Journey maps can facilitate patient-clinician communication for tailoring interventions and draw clinicians’ attention to additional prompts to better understand patients’ well-being throughout the cancer journey. Keywords: patient-reported outcome measures, journey maps, radiation therapy, cancer care, older adults
Evaluation of the incidence rates of subclinical hypothyroidism and hypoparathyroidism in breast cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy
Authors: Rahimi Niloofar , Feizi Iraj , Mashayekhi Farzaneh , Salehi Oveis , Norouzi Faezeh , Iranparvar-Alamdari Manochehr , Kani Amir , Zandian Hamed , Khalaji Amirreza
Published: November 2024

Background: The current advances in radiotherapy (RT) have improved the outcome of breast cancer (BC) patients. Despite its therapeutic benefits, the iatrogenic toxicities of RT and its impact on BC survivors are still debated, and further evaluations should be considered. This study aims to assess the rate of subclinical hypothyroidism and hypoparathyroidism among BC patients who were exposed to therapeutic radiation. Methods: Seventy females undergoing RT for BC were enrolled in this cross-sectional study. Laboratory assessment of thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH), free thyroxine (fT4), and free triiodothyronine (fT3) levels was obtained to evaluate thyroid function. The parathyroid function was evaluated by measuring serum levels of Calcium (Ca), Phosphorus (P), and parathyroid hormone (PTH) at baseline, six and 12 months after RT. Results: The mean age of patients was 54.3±6.4 years. We found no cases of hypothyroidism before radiotherapy. However, nine patients developed hypothyroidism in the six months after radiotherapy (one clinical and eight subclinical, 13% in total), and six patients were identified with hypothyroidism in the 12 months after radiotherapy (one clinical and five subclinical, 8.7% in total). Significant relationships were observed in the hypothyroidism rate at both six months (p = 0.003) and 12 months (p = 0.028) after RT compared with the baseline. There was no case of hypoparathyroidism before and after RT. Conclusion: In summary, we found that thyroid and parathyroid dysfunction after RT are relatively common findings among women with BC. It is a treatable source of morbidity in patients undergoing RT. Therefore, routine thyroid function monitoring should be recommended to improve the quality of life in BC survivors. Keywords: radiotherapy, subclinical hypothyroidism, breast cancer, hypoparathyroidism
Attentes et besoins des survivantes d’un cancer gynécologique à la fin du traitement primaire : étude convergente à méthodes mixtes
Authors: Lawrynuik Alexandra , Alsius Agnes , Galica Jacqueline
Published: November 2024

Objectif : Les survivantes d’un cancer gynécologique souhaitent bénéficier d’interventions de soutien holistiques et axées sur la personne pour répondre aux besoins non satisfaits après le traitement. L’élaboration de ce genre d’interventions nécessite de comprendre à la fois les attentes et les besoins des survivantes de cancer gynécologique. L’objectif de la présente étude était de comprendre les attentes et les besoins des survivantes de cancer gynécologique après le traitement, et d’examiner comment ces attentes et ces besoins convergent et divergent afin d’orienter les soins. Méthodologie : L’étude faisait appel à un devis convergent à méthodes mixtes (qualitative+quantitative) parallèles. Les données qualitatives ont été recueillies lors d’entrevues téléphoniques individuelles. Les données quantitatives ont été recueillies à l’aide du questionnaire sur les besoins non satisfaits des survivants au cancer (Cancer Survivors’ Unmet Needs). Résultats : En tout, 24 personnes ont participé à l’étude. Les attentes des survivantes par rapport à la période post-traitement comprenaient deux catégories d’interventions (tant pour la mise en œuvre que pour les résultats) : la lutte contre l’inconnu et l’information fiable pour renforcer les capacités. Les besoins non satisfaits les plus courants touchaient l’aspect existentiel de la survivance; toutefois, l’analyse à méthodes mixtes a révélé que les participantes s’attendaient surtout à ce que les interventions post-traitement comblent leurs besoins informationnels. Conclusion : Les conclusions mettent en lumière les attentes et les besoins des survivantes de cancer gynécologique après le traitement, de même que l’importance d’analyser le moment où il convient de planifier les soins et de les dispenser. Les cliniciens pourront utiliser ces conclusions pour concevoir et raffiner les interventions visant à répondre aux besoins non satisfaits des survivantes de cancer gynécologique.
The role of mental health nursing in pediatric hematology/oncology – Part 3: Evaluating feasibility, acceptability, and appreciation
Authors: Bernier Pascal , Desjardins Leandra , Charette Marie-Claude , Harnois Jacinthe , Poirier Éloise , Daigle Karyne
Published: November 2024

Introduction: In February 2022, we introduced the innovative new role of mental health nurse clinician (MHNC) in pediatric hematology/oncology in a pediatric hospital in Quebec with the aim of better addressing the needs of young cancer patients and their families. In two previous articles, we explained the method used to develop the role, as well as the strategy employed to implement it. Objectives: In this article, we seek to evaluate the effectiveness of the implementation strategy by measuring role feasibility. We will also examine role acceptability and appreciation 1 year following implementation. Methodology: We asked three groups of participants (adolescents, parents and care providers) to complete a research questionnaire based on the Theoretical Framework of Acceptability (TFA), with good inter-rater reliability and discriminant validity. The questionnaire, which was made available online, consisted of statements with Likert-scale responses (from 1 to 5), as well as open questions. We performed a standard descriptive analysis and used the responses to the open questions to support or add nuance to the quantitative results. Results: In total, 31 healthcare professionals, 10 adolescent cancer patients and 10 parents of adolescent cancer patients filled out the questionnaire. Between February 2022 and February 2023, the MHNC provided a total of 691 interventions to 112 individuals (patients and parents). Follow-up sessions were offered to 61 individuals, and 99.6% of them accepted. We found a very strong correlation (r = 0.96) between the number of hours worked by the MHNC and the number of interventions provided. The vast majority of participants from all three groups agreed that the role is appropriate, appreciated and necessary, and that it brings much-needed clinical expertise in mental health to the department. Care providers, adolescents, and parents indicated that they would request this service again and would recommend it to others, if it were needed. The results, therefore, demonstrate excellent feasibility and high levels of acceptability and appreciation. Conclusion: Our study shows that the implemented MHNC role helps improve the clinical management of the mental health of adolescents with cancer, as well as their parents. The role brings much-needed expertise in psychiatric nursing care and supports the clinical practice of care providers. Another study will be conducted in the near future to measure the effectiveness of the MHNC’s interventions. Keywords: pediatric oncology, nursing, mental health, role, advanced practice nursing, psychiatric consultation-liaison, psycho-oncology
The experiences of living with multiple myeloma and a palliative approach to care: A grounded theory study
Authors: Weerahandi Ambereen , Sinclair Shane , Raffin-Bouchal Shelley , Watson Linda , Lemieux Laurie
Published: November 2024

Purpose: Multiple myeloma is an incurable hematologic cancer. A palliative approach to care can be used in conjunction with curative therapy to alleviate suffering, but is underutilized in the hemato-oncology population. The purpose of this study was to explore living with multiple myeloma and individuals’ experiences with, and perceptions of a palliative approach in their care. Methods: Straussian grounded theory was employed. Ten individuals with multiple myeloma participated between October 2021 and May 2022. Results: A theoretical model depicting the process of living with multiple myeloma was developed. Seven categories emerged from the data, as well as a core category: ‘existing in the liminal space between living with and dying from multiple myeloma’. Results demonstrate that a palliative approach to care was inconsistently utilized. Conclusions: The model designed from the participant data offers an explanation of the process of living with multiple myeloma and how a palliative approach to care can be utilized to help these individuals. Keywords: multiple myeloma, palliative approach to care, grounded theory
Freedom of Speech and the Function of Rhetoric in the United States
Authors: Donnelly Michael
Published: November 2024

This book is about Freedom of Speech and public discourse in the United States. Freedom of Speech is a major component of the cultural context in which we live, think, work, and write, generally revered as the foundation of true democracy. But the issue has a great deal more to do with social norms rooted in a web of cultural assumptions about the function of rhetoric in social organization generally, and in a democratic society specifically. The dominant, liberal notion of free speech in the United States, assumed to be self-evidently true, is, in fact, a particular historical and cultural formation, rooted in Enlightenment philosophies and dependent on a collection of false narratives about the founding of the country, the role of speech and media in its development, and the relationship between capitalism and democracy. Most importantly, this notion of freedom of speech relies on a warped sense of the function of rhetoric in democratic social organization. By privileging individual expression, at the expense of democratic deliberation, the liberal notion of free speech functions largely to suppress rather than promote meaningful public discussion and debate, and works to sustain unequal relations of power. The presumed democratization of the public sphere, via the Internet, raises more questions than it answers—who has access and who doesn’t, who commands attention and why, and what sorts of effects such expression actually has. We need to think a great deal more carefully about the values subsumed and ignored in an uncritical attachment to a particular version of the public sphere. This book seeks to illuminate the ways in which cultural framing diminishes the complexity of free speech and sublimates a range of value-choices. A more fully democratic society requires a more critical view of freedom of speech.
Mothers Work
Authors: Napierski-Prancl Michelle
Published: November 2024

Through a series of focus group interviews and an analysis of the media and popular culture, Mothers Work examines the institution of motherhood and the arenas in which mothering occurs. MichelleNapierski-Prancl explores shared and divergent experiences, perspectives, lives, and challenges through the voices of experts on the topic of motherhood: the mothers themselves. Mothers Work analyzes how mothers feel about themselves, each other, and the culture that situates them against one another.
Witchcraft As a Social Diagnosis
Authors: Richter Roxane , Flowers Thomas , Elias Bongmba, Rice University Rice University
Published: November 2024

This interdisciplinary manuscript examines one nonprofit’s five years of medical outreach in the condemned witches village of Gnani in Ghana, focusing on the clashes between traditional Ghanaian beliefs, African religious tenets, and contemporary Western medical science. The research draws upon 1,714 patient interventions and 95 personal interviews, exposing the inherent challenges of separating indigenous beliefs surrounding fate and witchcraft convictions from contemporary interpretations of biological pathogens, structural and gender-based violence, and evidence-based medicine.

This book offers a novel perspective on witchcraft as it examines questions of stigmatization in order to extrapolate how disease, injury, and illness relate to social condition and the dialogue surrounding witchcraft. These unprecedented insights will serve to uncover and explore rural Ghanaian challenges in gender-based violence, religion, legal and political tenets, human rights, and medical science and their many implications for those in search of health parity, social justice, gender equity, and human rights.
Kinship and Human Evolution
Authors: Bergendorff Steen
Published: November 2024

Kinship and Human Evolution: Making Culture, Becoming Human offers an exciting new explanation of human evolution. Based on insights from anthropology, it shows how humans became “cultured” beings capable of symbolic thought by developing kinship-based exchange relationships. Kinship was as an adaptive response to the harsh environment caused by the last major ice age. In the extreme ice age conditions, natural selection favored those groups that could forge and sustain such alliances, and the resulting relationships enabled them to share different food resources between groups. Kinship was a means of symbolically linking two or more groups, to the mutual reproductive advantage of both. From an evolutionary point of view, kinship freed humans from their dependence on their immediate environment, vastly expanding the niches they could occupy. If we take kinship to be the major factor in human evolution, networks and alliances must precede cultural units, becoming the defining element of localized cultures. Kinship and Human Evolution argues that it is living in networks that produces cultural differences and not culturally different groups that encounter one another; it shows that kinship both saved and created humanity as we know it, in all its cultural diversity.
Hemp and the Global Economy
Authors: Hashim Nadra O.
Published: November 2024

Hemp helped not only to define economic development in southern and border-states, it also played a crucial role in agricultural production in the Mid-Atlantic, as well as industrial development in the North-east. From the founding of the nation, the manufacture of American hemp helped monetize the US economy. US hemp producers also established a range modern labor practices, including the identification and training of skilled labor, the use of seasonal workers, and ultimately, the creation of a sliding scale of wages. This book chronicles this history, as well as the contemporary controversy obstructing the production of both industrial hemp and medical marijuana. The analysis concludes with a survey of current industrial hemp projects, including several promising adaptations - as a potential medicine, a bio-fuel, and most promisingly, a reliable source of clean computing fabrication.
Building the Moral Community
Authors: Chambers David W.
Published: November 2024

Building the Moral Community: Radical Naturalism and Emergence demonstrates how very simple models of moral engagements based on natural, incomplete, value-laden frames of the world can lead to general moral progress for the human community. All moral behavior affects more than one person, which means that the moral community is more than the sum of the individuals included in it.

David W. Chambers argues that there is no ethically detached and superior position from which to operate, and that such claims are focused on ethics, not on acting morally. Therefore, he cautions against mistaking theories of ethics composed on statements about what is good and right for actual moral behavior that moves broadly and inevitably toward a better world.

This book explores naturalistic ethics, offering a modified classical analytic philosophy exploration of morality that is consistent with emerging thinking in psychology, neurobiology, game theory, and self-adjusting systems.
Writing the Earth, Darkly
Authors: Hoving Isabel
Published: November 2024

Why do we find so many references to nature and the environment in the many Caribbean literary texts that try to come to terms with the contemporary age of globalization? Even when these novels and poems do not seem to be concerned with environmental issues at all, they abound with fragrant, creepy or dark references to flowers, insects, trees, gardens, and mud. This book discusses a range of Anglophone and Dutch-language Caribbean literary texts to propose an answer. It shows that some writers evoke nature to question oppressive notions of what is natural, and what is not, when it comes to race, gender, and desire. Other writers choose to counter the destructive dichotomies of wildness/order, nature/culture, nature/human that marked colonialism. Instead, they represent the environment as a field of interconnectedness, marked by intense semiotic interaction, in which human beings are also implicated. But writing about nature can also be a means to reconnect with the very foundations of life itself. In the most dramatic cases, references to nature evoke an extra-discursive space that then functions to subvert existing discourses. That space may even mark the site of the annihilation of discourse, or of the self. These texts suggest that, in times of globalization, it is only the dark, queer turn to matter that will free the path to imagining human existence in a new way.

The book’s proposal to understand some of these fascinating texts as an effort to relate to the mind-baffling, explosive real is inspired by postcolonial trauma theory, posthumanism, and new materialism. However, Caribbean literature is a layered practice, that does much more than merely explore the world’s materiality. It works simultaneously as cultural critique, counter-discourse, and as the manipulation of affect. This book therefore brings together ecocriticism with Caribbean and postcolonial studies, the study of globalization, trauma theory, the study of gender and sexuality, posthumanism and new materialism, to bring out the full complexity of these wise texts. Thus, it hopes to show its readers their extraordinary innovative potential.
Socrates' Request and the Educational Narrative of the Timaeus
Authors: Ives Charles
Published: November 2024

Timaeus is not an independent work. Rather, it is the premier dialogue in an unfinished trilogy that also includes Critias, of which we have only a fragment, and Hermocrates, which is forecast in Critias but was presumably never written. There is demand, and has been for some time now, for an account of the relevance between the extant parts of the trilogy, namely the pertinence of Timaeus’ cosmology to Critias’ war story. Over time this demand has been refined. There is now a more specific interest in the relevance of the cosmology to what is commonly known as “Socrates’ Request”—that is, what Socrates is asking of his interlocutors at the outset of the trilogy. While Charles Ives certainly addresses the former, more general demand, the primary concern in this book is with the latter, given the obvious aptness of Critias’ contribution. Socrates, at least in part, is asking for a story about a war, and Critias provides it. What is far from obvious is how Timaeus’ contribution fits into this picture.

In order to illuminate the nature of this contribution, Ives first establishes that Socrates is asking for an encomium with two areas of focus, which will be taken up by Critias and Timaeus. Critias will speak on war—more precisely, on the war between ancient Athens and Atlantis. Timaeus will speak on the warriors’ education as philosophers, and in particular on the formation and nature of the philosophical soul. To show the relevance of Timaeus’ speech to the request, Ives highlights the educational aspects of the dialogue, charting the progress of an educational program that aims at health. The book especially focuses on the convalescence of intellect, which ushers in discussions of the medical dimensions of Timaeus’ physics; the markedly Platonic project of becoming like god; and the comprehensively philosophical soul that leads its possessor to success on the battlefield.

Socrates’ Request and the Educational Narrative of the Timaeus is written for those interested in ancient philosophy and philosophy of education.
Nietzschean Psychology and Psychotherapy
Authors: Wernik Uri
Published: November 2024

Friedrich Nietzsche declared himself to be “a psychologist who has not his peer.” Nietzschean Psychology and Psychotherapy: The New Doctors of the Soul illustrates why he was correct and indicates that he was also a soul doctor “who has not his peer.” He is usually unknown to psychologists and treated by philosophers as if he was a philosopher who, as such, wrote about some issues relating to the philosophy of mind. This book acquaints psychologists with Nietzsche and introduces him to philosophers in a new light. It presents Nietzsche’s contributions to psychology, wisdom of life, and psychotherapy dispersed throughout his writings. It hails him the “Overturner,” demonstrating how he overturned many of our notions about love, crime, happiness, morality, language, consciousness, logic, memory, emotions, happiness, and self-actualizing. He is portrayed as the precursor and champion of action-, chance-, and acceptance-oriented self-help and therapy, far from being, as is often claimed, a proponent of depth-, dynamic- or insight-oriented psychotherapy.
An Alternative History of Bicycles and Motorcycles
Authors: Alford Steven E. , Ferriss Suzanne
Published: November 2024

An Alternative History of Bicycles and Motorcycles: Two-Wheeled Transportation and Material Culture accounts for the nineteenth-century creation and development of two-wheeled vehicles, both human-powered and motorized. Specifically, the book focuses on the period from 1885 (which saw the appearance, simultaneously, of the Safety bicycle and the Einspur, the first motorcycle) to 1920, while exploring implications for later bicycling and motorcycling. We argue that invention of these vehicles, rather than the product of gifted individuals, should be seen as the consequence of a number of historical, economic, cultural and political forces that intersect so unpredictably that the notion of a genius inventor is reductive.

The common evolutionary model of development from the bicycle to the motorcycle oversimplifies both the technology and its origins. Stripping the vehicles of all their material and cultural associations, such a model fails to advance our understanding of the devices, their creators, and their riders. Taking a contemporary vehicle and tracing its lineage creates a false sense of evolutionary necessity in its creation, and fails to account for the many possible developmental paths that were, for whatever reason, abandoned. By contrast, our book adopts a material culture approach, a form of inquiry that stresses the connections between artifacts and social relations. We consider not simply the bicycle and motorcycle as material objects but focus also on the complex socio-political and economic convergences that produced the materials, materials that in turn themselves shaped the vehicles’ appearance, function, and adoption by riders.
Interests and Epistemic Integrity in Science
Authors: De Winter Jan
Published: November 2024

Scientific research is often influenced by financial interests, political interests, or personal career interests of the scientists involved. For instance, the pharmaceutical giant Merck manipulated clinical trial data in order to make sure that data confirmed the safety of one of its products, Vioxx, in order to serve the company’s short-term commercial interests. This case is obviously unacceptable. But why exactly is it unacceptable? One way to account for this judgment is on the basis of the ideal of purity. According to this ideal, scientific decision-making should be pure— that is, unaffected by financial interests, political interests, career interests, and so on. Although this ideal is questionable, many people (including philosophers of science) still hold on to it.

In Interests and Epistemic Integrity in Science: A New Framework to Assess Interest Influences in Scientific Research Processes, Jan De Winter first argues that it is better to fully abandon the ideal of purity, then proposes an alternative ideal to assess interest influences in science: the ideal of epistemic integrity. He spells out and systematically defends a new concept of epistemic integrity, using it not only to analyze the Vioxx debacle, but also to identify unacceptable interest influences in aerospace science, climate science, and biology, and to explain exactly why these interest influences are unacceptable. These analyses make a compelling case for the new concept of epistemic integrity which will be interesting and useful for philosophers of science, scientists, engineers, science policymakers, and anyone else concerned about the integrity of science.
Language, Literacy, and Social Change in Mongolia
Authors: Marzluf Phillip P.
Published: November 2024

Language, Literacy, and Social Change in Mongolia is the first full-length treatment of literacy in Mongolian. Challenging readers’ assumptions about Central Asia and Mongolia, this book focuses on Mongolians’ experiences with reading and writing throughout the past 100 years. Literacy, as a powerful historical and social variable, shows readers how reading and writing have shaped the lives of Mongolians and, at the same time, how reading and writing have been transformed by historical, political, economic, and other social forces.

Mongolian literacy serves as an especially rich area of inquiry because of the dramatic political, economic, and social changes that occurred in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. For the seventy years during which Mongolia was a part of the communist Soviet world, literacy played an important role in how Mongolians identified themselves, conceived of the past, and created a new social order. Literacy was also a part of the story of authoritarianism and state violence. It was used to express the authority of the communist Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party, control the pastoral population, and suppress non-socialist beliefs and practices. Mongolians’ reading and writing opportunities and resources were tightly controlled, and the language policy of replacing the traditional Mongolian script with the Cyrillic alphabet immediately followed the violent repression of Buddhist leaders, government officials, and intellectuals.

Beginning with the 1990 Democratic Revolution, Mongolians have been thrust into free-market capitalism, privatization, globalization, and neoliberalism. In post-socialist Mongolia, literacy no longer serves as the center for Mongolian identity. Government subsidies to pastoral literacy resources have been slashed, and administrators now find themselves competing with other “developing countries” for educational funding. Due to the pressures caused by globalization, Mongolians have begun to talk about literacy and language in terms of crisis and anxiety. As global flows of English compete with new symbols from the distant past, Mongolians worry about the perceived lowering standards of Mongolian linguistic usage amid rapid economic changes. These worries also reveal themselves in official language policies and manifest themselves in the multiple languages and scripts that appear in the capital of Ulaanbaatar and other urban areas.
A Christian Exploration of Women's Bodies and Rebirth in Shin Buddhism
Authors: Largen Kristin Johnston
Published: November 2024

Jōdo Shinshū Buddhism inherited many negative doctrines around women’s bodies, which in some early Buddhist texts were presented as an obstacle to rebirth, and a hindrance to awakening in general. Beginning with an examination of these doctrines, the book explores Shin teachings and texts, as well as the Japanese context in which they developed, with a focus on women and rebirth in Amida’s Pure Land. These doctrines are then compared to similar doctrines in Christianity and used to suggestion fruitful avenues of Christian theological reflection.
Sport and the American Occupation of the Philippines
Authors: Gems Gerald R.
Published: November 2024

This interdisciplinary case study invokes historical, sociological, and anthropological means to examine the ascendance of the United States to a world power in its first imperial venture. In the aftermath of the Spanish-American War of 1898 the U.S. acquired and occupied the Philippine Islands for nearly a half century in an attempt to install a democratic form of government, a capitalist economy, the Protestant religion, and a particular value system. Sport became a primary means to achieve such goals, fostered initially by the military, and then widely promoted in the schools and the YMCA. Competitive programs, including international athletic spectacles, channeled Filipino nationalism against Asian rivals rather than the American occupiers as guerrilla warfare ensued in the islands. The strategies learned in the Philippines, now known as “soft power” remain prominent factors in current American foreign policy.
Noticing Oral Corrective Feedback in the Second Language Classroom
Authors: Kartchava Eva
Published: November 2024

Noticing Oral Corrective Feedback in the Second Language Classroom: Background and Evidence contributes to the accumulated knowledge regarding the noticeability of corrective feedback (corrective responses to learner ill-formed productions) in the field of second language teaching and learning. The book provides a comprehensive overview of research into the role of noticing of form, details several original studies on the phenomenon, and outlines language teaching plans and strategies to augment noticing of errors in the language classroom. This volume will appeal to researchers and graduate students of applied linguistics as well as to language teachers and teacher educators interested in furthering their understanding and knowledge of this important area of second language acquisition and education.
Twentieth Century Forcible Child Transfers
Authors: Amir Ruth
Published: November 2024

The current surge of displaced and trafficked children, child soldiers, and child refugees rekindles the virtually dead letter of the Genocide Convention prohibition on transferring children of one group to another.

This book focuses on the gap between genocide as a legal term and genocidal forcible child transfer as a catastrophic experience that disrupts a group’s continuity. It probes the Genocide Convention’s boundaries and draws attention to the diverse, yet highly similar, patterns of forcible child transfers cases such as colonial genocide in the US, Canada, and Australia, Jewish-Yemeni immigrants in Israel, children of Republican parents during the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath, and Operation Peter Pan in Cuba. The analysis highlights the consequences of the under-inclusive protection granted only to four groups.

Ruth Amir argues effectively for the need to add an Amending Protocol to the Genocide Convention to protect from forcible transfer to children of any identifiable group of persons perpetrated with the intent to destroy the group as such. This proposed provision together with Communications and Rapid Inquiry Procedures will highlight the gravity of forcible child transfers and contribute to the prevention and punishment of genocide.
African Immigrant Families in the United States
Authors: Shani Serah
Published: November 2024

Sub-Saharan African immigrants are emerging as the new model minority in the United States, excelling in education and social mobility. In African Immigrant Families in the United States: Transnational Lives and Schooling, Serah Shani examines the socioeconomic and cultural mechanisms behind their high levels of success. Shani explores the dynamics of Ghanaian transnational immigrants’ lives and portrays a complex relationship between class, context, beliefs, and cultural practices. This book is recommended for scholars of anthropology, sociology, education, and African studies.
People, Place, and Attachment in Local Bars
Authors: McEwen John W.
Published: November 2024

In the United States, places of drink are historically linked to community and social interactions, and such establishments often possess loyal patrons for whom going to the local bar is a natural and routine part of their daily life. In People, Place, and Attachment in Local Bars, John McEwen places drinking establishments at the fore of American geography as containers of material culture and collective history. McEwen draws on ethnographic data collected in four local bars in West Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to present a new unified theory of people-place relationships. McEwen highlights sense of place, place attachment, and the concept of rootedness.
Desegregation and the Rhetorical Fight for African American Citizenship Rights
Authors: Paulson Sally F.
Published: November 2024

Focusing on the NAACP’s twentieth-century attempt to overturn the “separate but equal” doctrine through school desegregation cases, Desegregation and the Rhetorical Fight for African American Citizenship Rights analyzes the rhetorical/legal dynamics inherent in the struggle to determine African American citizenship rights. This book begins by identifying the fundamental dialectical tension existing within all American citizenship rights between the Declaration of Independence’s guarantee of “ideal equality” to all citizens as opposed to the Constitution’s privileging of local, “practical” decision-making through Article IV Sect. 2, the “privileges and immunities” clause. It contends that as a consequence of that dynamic, American citizenship rights are rhetorical concepts produced through argument grounded in “all the available means of persuasion,” including logical, emotional, and ethical appeals. Ultimately, this book demonstrates that the school desegregation issue came down to a question of credibility/ethics. Recommended for scholars interested in communication, law, history, political science, and cultural studies.
The Assassination of William Mckinley
Authors: Federman Cary
Published: November 2024

This book is an examination of the assassination of President William McKinley by Leon Czolgosz, an American-born purported anarchist. This work offers a new and different way to approach historical crime stories. Rather than accepting the idea that Czolgosz was inherently dangerous because of his ethnic background or his obscure political statements, Federman argues, rather, that political relations, historical events, and the developing discourses in the natural and social sciences toward normal and pathological behaviors structured the meaning of the assassination. Federman proposes there are six ways to view an assassin, each corresponding to a social science. Consequently, each chapter of this manuscript examines a social science and its relation to the assassination. Overall, there are three purposes to this work: One is to examine the rise of the social sciences at the time of the assassination. The second is to explore the historical and political understanding of political violence; and the third is to examine the meaning of legal responsibility.
Presidential Conflict in Côte D'Ivoire
Authors: Okosun T. Y.
Published: November 2024

Presidential Conflict in Côte d’Ivoire: Governance, Political Power, and Social Justice explores the 2011–2012 presidential conflict in Cȏte d’Ivoire, focusing on the conflict’s impact on governance, political power, civil society, security, and social justice. The book examines the ways in which dictatorial governance detracts from democratic and civil society aspiration, the intersection of power based conflict and its impact on citizens and their security, and the role ethnic sentiments and negation play in de-emphasizing the humanity of non-favored groups. Moreover, the presidents’ conflicting perspectives on the nature of governance and political power marginalized concerns specifically regarding the significance of democracy, civil society, and social justice. Despite President Laurent Gbagbo’s challenge and demand for democracy, his presidency was unable to avoid morphing into dictatorial and autocratic governance. Autocracy and dictatorship had already inseminated Cȏte d’Ivoire during the thirty years of President Felix Houphouët-Boigny’s benign dictatorship. It is within this rigidity that Gbagbo, a product of Ivoirian socio-political history, socialized in dictatorial, ethnic, and elite sentiments, constructed his version of autocracy and dictatorship, and refused to yield power to a new president elect, Alassane Ouattara, triggering a national presidential conflict.

This analysis of the presidential conflict is an effort to forestall future similar issues around the globe, but specifically in poor and developing nations, from destabilization and violence. The book concludes with an African Conflict Transformation model constructed as a consultative option for political conflict mitigation purposes.
Corporate Responsibility and Human Rights
Authors: James-Eluyode Jide
Published: November 2024

In Corporate Responsibility and Human Rights, Jide James-Eluyode provides a comprehensive analysis of critical human rights developments and topical issues and trends in corporate social responsibility practices. James-Eluyode examines how corporate entities fulfill their responsibility to respect human rights in general and indigenous peoples’ rights in particular. Given the momentous impact of corporate projects and recent developments in the area of international human rights, James-Eluyode contends that the establishment of a universally-binding, corporate code of conduct is inescapable, and concludes that respect for human rights by corporations is not simply a discretionary moral or binding legal matter but a bottom-line issue.
Comparative Literature in the Light of Chinese Prosody
Authors: Chen Shudong
Published: November 2024

In the light of Chinese prosody and various mutually illuminating major cases from the original English, Chinese, French, Japanese and German classical literary texts, the book explores the possibility of discovering “a road not taken” within the road well-trodden in literature. In an approach of “what Wittgenstein calls criss-crossing,” this monographic study, the first ever of this nature, as Roger T. Ames points out in the Foreword, also emphasizes a pivotal “recognition that these Chinese values [revealed in the book] are immediately relevant to the Western narrative as well”; the book demonstrates, in other words, how such a “criss-crossing” approach would be unequivocally possible as long as our critical attention be adequately turned to or pivoted upon the “trivial” matters, a posteriori, in accordance with the live syntactic-prosodic context, such as pauses, stresses, phonemes, function words, or the at once text-enlivened and text-enlivening ambiguity of “parts of speech,” which often vary or alter simultaneously according to and against any definitive definition or set category a priori. This issue pertains to any literary text across cultures because no literary text would ever be possibleif it were not, for instance, literally enlivened by the otherwise overlooked “meaningless” function words or phonemes; the texts simultaneously also enliven these “meaningless” elements and often turn them surreptitiously into sometimes serendipitously meaningful and beautiful sea-change-effecting “les mots justes.” Through the immeasurable and yet often imperceptible influences of these exactly “right words,” our literary texts, such as a poem, could thus not simply “be” but subtly “mean” as if by mere means of its simple, rich, and naturally worded being, truly a special “word picture” of dasDing an sich. Describable metaphorically as “museum effect” and “symphonic tapestry,” a special synaesthetic impact could also likely result from such les-mots-justes-facilitated subtle and yet phenomenal sea changes in the texts.
Radical Generosity
Authors: Kashani Ali
Published: November 2024

In this bold and original work, Ali Kashani argues that the rise of the far right political

discourse, xenophobia, and the current immigration and refugee crisis indicate that

existing values, norms, and practices are inadequate. Thus, it is vital to critique and

resist existing values and norms that produce ultra-nationalistic and xenophobic

practices. Thus, radical generosity is crucial and necessary. The concept of radical

generosity opens the possibility for the transformation of ethical and political practices

and a move toward cosmopolitanism.

Kashani develops the concept of radical generosity as a social and political practice

and as an original grounding for cosmopolitanism, as both an ethical and political

transformative practice-and as a critique to resist the rise of the far right political

discourse and xenophobia. Radical Generosity suggests, a new way to bridge

ethical and political practices and moves beyond ethical subjectivity by Derrida and

Levinas and draws inspiration from the Stoics, Aristotle’s virtue ethics , radicalized by

Nietzsche’s concept of magnanimity with anarchist tendencies,and Marx’s idea of

praxis as social transformative practice.
Urban Mountain Beings
Authors: Fine-Dare Kathleen S.
Published: November 2024

Urban Mountain Beings is an ethnographic and historically grounded study of recognition strategies and ethnogenesis carried out on the flanks of Mt. Pichincha in Quito, Ecuador. Kathleen S. Fine-Dare employs feminist geographical and Indigenous pedagogical frameworks to illustrate how histories of exclusion have created attitudes and policies that treat Native peoples as “out of place and time” in cities. Fine-Dare concentrates on two overlapping contexts for Indigenous vindication: the Yumbada of Cotocollao, an ancestral performance through which mountain and other spirits are called into the urban plaza; and Casa Kinde (Hummingbird House), a cultural organization that engages in workshops, filmmaking, photography, commerce, community education, and the formation of alliances with anthropologists, activists, filmmakers, engineers, and teachers.
The Politics of Knowledge
Authors: Laird Richard K.
Published: November 2024

Whether or not the U.S. is in decline can be debated, but there is evidence that its political system is becoming less able to solve major problems. This is in part because loyalty to a belief or an ideology may be taking priority over learning how to understand the problems. This work attempts to revitalize the importance of learnability by reviewing some fundamentals of who we are, how the system works, and why learning is difficult. Humans driven by opinions and perceptions tend to discount politics similar to the way they might discount science, yet it was the study of science and politics that brought much of mankind to remarkably higher standards of living. Government, and the economic system it implemented, was initially designed for the purpose of channeling self-interests into public benefits. Understanding what an inclusive political culture is, or why there is a Constitution, for example, could be useful toward restoring the credibility of our central political organization, the core of society’s stability and development. We are losing respect for our government’s decision-making ability, but in a democracy, citizens must be held more accountable for who their government is. The hypothesis is that if more humans are more learnable, we will increase the possibilities for finding the “best” solutions to big problems.
American and Chinese Energy Security
Authors: Opsal Ryan
Published: November 2024

This book explores the complex relationship between grand strategy and energy security by conducting a focused, comparative study on the United States and China. By including energy security as a component of grand strategy, the author is able to present an analysis of the complex, multifaceted approaches large consuming states take to secure their critical energy supplies. Inclusion of energy as part of the core strategic agenda increases explanatory power and provides insights as to how states may elect to pursue supply security under times of greater scarcity, or increased conflict. A ranking system is also developed, allowing a more systematic approach to inform this qualitative study.
Education: inequalities and attainment gaps
Authors:   Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology, Maisuria Alpesh , Lally Clare
Published: November 2024

Educational attainment gaps are widening for disadvantaged children and translating into unequal employment outcomes. How can policymakers address this?
ЦИФРОВІ ІНСТРУМЕНТИ АНАЛІЗУ ТЕКСТІВ ЗІ СТУДЕНТАМИ ФІЛОЛОГІЧНИХ І ПЕДАГОГІЧНИХ СПЕЦІАЛЬНОСТЕЙ
Authors: Качак Тетяна , Близнюк Тетяна , Яців Світлана
Published: November 2024

Мета статті. У цьому дослідженні пропонуємо зміст та результати апробації моделей використання цифрових інструментів під час літературознавчого та лінгвістичного аналізу художніх текстів зі студентами у процесі вивчення дисциплін «Дитяча література та методика навчання літературного читання», «Англійська література для дітей» та «Іноземна мова».
Методологія дослідження побудована на комплексному осмисленні змістового та методичного компонентів аналізу художніх текстів зі студентами педагогічних і філологічних спеціальностей. Особливу увагу звернено на специфіку використання й ефективність цифрових інструментів під час опрацювання художніх творів. Для реалі- зації поставлених завдань використано теоретичні та емпіричні методи дослідження.
Наукова новизна. Вперше запропоновано й апробовано методичну модель, у якій підібрано цифрові інструменти й медіапродукти для різних етапів літературознавчого й лінгвістичного аналізу тексту зі студентами педагогічних і філологічних спеціальностей.
Висновки. Використання цифрових інструментів у процесі аналізу текстів зі студентами педагогічних і філологічних спеціальностей дозволяє глибше осмислити прочитане, усвідомити проблематику, сюжет, жанрові особливості, уявити й візуалізувати героїв, передати емоційну оцінку твору. На етапі аналізу тематики й контекстуального розгляду твору доцільним є використання ресурсів для створення хмар слів, асоціативних кущів, інтерактивних плакатів. Під час аналізу сюжетно- композиційних особливостей, образного рівня поетики твору продуктивними є методики з використанням ментальних карт, інфографіки, вправ і завдань, створених на платформах Learning Apps, Canva. Буктрейлери й відеовідгуки дозволяють увиразнити емоційно-оцінну характеристику твору й популяризувати читання й літературу. 
Особливо продуктивною є робота студентів з онлайн-словниками, використання тезаурусів, платформ для редагування й перевірки текстів у процесі лінгвістичного аналізу тексту.