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Historical Dictionary of Judaism
Authors: Solomon Norman
Published: February 2025

This third edition of Historical Dictionary of Judaism covers the history of the Jewish religion, ranging from its biblical roots, through its formulation in the era of the Talmud, to the present day. This collection covers the development of Judaism in the medieval Christian and Islamic worlds, its varied responses to Enlightenment and modernity, the creation of new philosophies of Judaism in the wake of the Holocaust, and the establishment of the State of Israel, and contemporary issues such as feminism, secularism, and the ethics of war and medicine. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 800 cross-referenced entries on important personalities in Jewish religious history, including biblical personalities with an emphasis on how they are understood in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic tradition. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Judaism.
Historical Dictionary of Rwanda
Authors: Twagilimana Aimable
Published: February 2025

Blessed with natural beauty and rich vegetation, Rwanda is often called the “land of a thousand hills” (le pays des mille collines), a reference to its many lush and green rolling hills. Moreover, for many Rwandans, at least in the past, Rwanda, in spite of its small size, is vast; in fact, it means the universe. This idyllic view, however, sharply contrasts with the sad history of ethnic strife that unfolded since the 1950s: the 1959 Hutu Revolution followed by years of anti-Tutsi pogroms, undemocratic regimes, the civil war of 1990-1994, and, more significantly, the April-July 1994 genocide against the Tutsi and the killing of Hutu who opposed the killings. The 1994 genocide against the Tutsi remains the most defining single event in contemporary Rwanda, and many people in the world today know of this central African nation from the prism of extreme mass violence that sullied the end of the 20th century amid international indifference and has since haunted the world’s conscience.

This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Rwanda contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Rwanda.
Doing Women's History in Public
Authors: Huyck Heather
Published: February 2025

A complete guide to interpreting women’s history.

Women’s history is everywhere, not only in historic house museums named for women but also in homes named for famous men, museums of every conceivable kind, forts and battlefields, even ships, mines, and in buckets. Women’s history while present at every museum and historic site remains less fully interpreted in spite of decades of vibrant and expansive scholarship. Doing Women’s History in Public: A Handbook for Interpretation at Museums and Historic Sites connects that scholarship with the tangible resources and the sensuality that form museums and historic sites-- the objects, architecture and landscapes-- in ways that encourage visitor fascination and understanding and center interpretation on the women active in them. With numerous examples that focus on all women and girls, it appropriately includes everyone, for women intersect with every other human group. This book provides arguments, sources (written, oral, and visual), and tools for finding women’s history, preserving it, and interpreting it with the public. It uses the framework of Significance (importance), Knowledge Base (research in primary, secondary, and tertiary sources), and Tangible Resources (the preserved physical embodiment of history in objects, architecture, and landscapes). Discusses traditional and technology-assisted interpretation and provides Tools to implement Doing Women’s History in Public. Using a hospitality model, museums and historic sites are the locales where we assemble, learn from each other, and take our insights into a more gender-shared future.
Containing Tehran
Authors: Jones Seth G.
Published: February 2025

Following the U.S. killing of Qasem Soleimani, head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force (IRGC-QF), the United States and Iran are involved in an escalating conflict. What is badly needed now is a coherent long-term U.S. strategy to deal with Iran in ways that protect U.S. national security and leverage U.S. partners. The United States’ “maximum pressure” campaign has not led to a change in Iran’s behavior—at least not yet—though U.S. sanctions have severely damaged Iran’s economy.

As this CSIS report highlights with new data and analysis, the IRGC-QF has supported a growing number of non-state fighters in Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Afghanistan, and Pakistan—including nearly a 50 percent increase since 2016. Thanks to Iran, these forces are better equipped with more sophisticated weapons and systems. This report also uses satellite imagery to identify an expansion of IRGC-QF-linked bases in countries like Iran and Lebanon to train non-state fighters. Iran has constructed more sophisticated and longer-range ballistic and cruise missiles and conducted missile attacks against countries like Saudi Arabia. In addition, Iran has developed offensive cyber capabilities and used them against the United States and its partners. In the nuclear arena, Iran has ended commitments it made to limit uranium enrichment, production, research, and expansion—raising the prospect of Iranian nuclear weapons.

Moving forward, the United States should implement a containment strategy against Iran that attempts to de-escalate the current military situation and work toward achieving several goals:

Prevent Iran from becoming a regional hegemon capable of dominating other states in the Middle East.

Stop nuclear proliferation in the region and prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons, including thwarting Iran from pursuing weapons-grade uranium enrichment, warhead development, and plutonium reprocessing.

Curb significant Iranian military, political, and ideological expansion in the region, including the export of Iran’s revolutionary ideology.

Encourage a process of change inside Iran toward a more pluralistic political and economic system in which the power of the clerical establishment is gradually reduced.

This report highlights a range of weaknesses that make Iran vulnerable to containment and lays out the political, military, economic, and informational components of such a strategy. The United States needs to credibly demonstrate that its policy toward Iran is not a blueprint for an endless struggle, but instead an effort to encourage Iran to be more democratic and open, as political and economic change must be driven by Iranians themselves.
Why Half of Teachers Leave the Classroom
Authors: Rinke Carol R.
Published: February 2025

The statistics are familiar: almost 50% of new teachers leave the profession within their first five years in the classroom. The challenge of recruiting and retaining teachers carries high costs for today’s schools and students. This book uncovers some of the reasons behind the elevated attrition rates in the field of education through a long-term study of beginning teachers in one urban school district. Drawing upon research conducted over a seven-year period, this book sheds light upon the role that teachers’ intentions play in shaping their later career paths. It also shares the deeply personal and professional journeys of teachers who stayed, teachers who shifted into education-related positions, and teachers who left the field altogether. Through eight in-depth case studies, this book clarifies the factors influencing teachers’ career paths and depicts the toll that teacher attrition takes on the teachers themselves. Finally, it makes an argument for placing teachers’ voices clearly at their center of their own career development as a way to enhance autonomy, satisfaction, and ultimately career longevity.
Writing with at-Risk Youth
Authors: Gold Richard
Published: February 2025

This book describes a specific program for teaching and mentoring expressive writing by at-risk youth—a program that can generate transformative change in the teens, and generate significant new satisfactions for you. When young people write personally and creatively, it helps them to overcome challenges in their lives. They feel better, think more clearly, are more self-confident, and are better able to relate to others, including their helpers. This personal creative process is enriching and enlivening for everyone. It brings emotional clarity and meaning to everyone. It brings closeness, in addition to learning and growth.Welcome to the Pongo Teen Writing Method.
Professional Development Schools
Authors: Ferrara JoAnne
Published: February 2025

This book is intended as a guide for practitioners interested in forming alliances within their community to support teacher and student success. Under the umbrella of a professional development school (PDS), school principals willing to engage in this type of partnership have access to a framework for school renewal. Within this school/university framework lie four critical factors that transform the ways in which teachers’ teach and schools’ function. The professional development school model takes a holistic approach to revitalizing schools by sharing knowledge, resources, practices, and the collaborative efforts of P-12 educators and the higher education community. Through the collective wisdom of P-12 and university educators, PDSs provide a new way to think about teaching and a rich environment for learning.
Navigating the Doctoral Journey
Authors: Rockinson-Szapkiw Amanda J. , Spaulding Lucinda S.
Published: February 2025

This co-edited book provides doctoral candidates with a practical, cross-discipline handbook for successfully navigating the doctoral process – from initial program selection to the final dissertation defense and preparing for the faculty interview. Invited chapters from established higher education experts cover topics ranging from university and program selection, preparing for comprehensive exams and dissertation research, self-care and self-management strategies, and recommendations for maintaining personal and professional support systems.

Each chapter includes strategies for success and practical tips, including how to create a study guide for the comprehensive examination, how to create a professional support group, how to talk to your family about the doctoral process, how to select and work with a chair and committee, how to identify an appropriate research design, how to navigate the IRB process, and how to master the research and writing process.
Internships for Today's World
Authors: McLachlan Joan E. , Hess Patricia
Published: February 2025

Educators and employers are increasingly concerned that too many young people do not have the skills needed to succeed as they enter the world of work and higher education. A well-structured, robust internship can help students build those critical work and life skills. Under the protective umbrella of their school students are able to explore and test out potential careers, develop real life, transferrable skills, apply their knowledge in the real world, strengthen relationships with adults and gain a clearer vision of career and educational opportunities. Until now, not much has been available to guide the internship development process. This book is a resource providing the tools needed to develop a quality internship program — linking classroom learning to the real world.

The authors describe practical, field-tested practices, implementation guidelines developed through research, best practices, and all other elements necessary for a quality internship program in high schools and community colleges, from start-up to sustainability. Internships for Today's World is for all those who are concerned today’s young people need a way to develop the skills that will help them succeed in the future.
Latino K-12 Schools
Authors: Valverde Leonard A.
Published: February 2025

This book is a comprehensive guide for educators and policy makers who are ready to create schools for Latinos (particularly Mexican Americans), such that students will be successful in learning and achieving in K-12 grades and college and help to advance society in the 21st century. The contents address how to redefine schools for a new century and goes well beyond school reform. It speaks to educators on adopting a positive mindset, one that sees Latinos with assets, not deficits and on expanding the school’s purpose to serve not just students but the local community. The author also emphasizes how to gain better understanding about Latino students and families, to lose stereotypic thinking, to engage families and local community resources in a more productive way, to gather information and help evaluate school/program effectiveness (and not just testing students on standardized test), and how schools can help themselves develop much needed financial and human resources.
Supporting Inclusion
Authors: Andreasen Faith Edmonds
Published: February 2025

Supporting Inclusion: School Administrators’ Perspectives and Practices provides significant insights that arm the reader with a variety of ideas and easy-to-implement applicable strategies gleaned from knowledgeable contemporaries. This book details various approaches taken by administrators as they transitioned their schools from a segregated resource environment to an inclusive framework. From elementary to high school, administrators in both large and small school districts describe approaches that best suited their populations’ needs.

While transitioning to inclusion, administrators created structures that maximized staff talent and encouraged faculty buy-in. Challenges included calendaring collaboration time, providing inclusion and co-teaching training, properly mentoring first year teachers, securing expert ancillary staff, retraining paraprofessionals from resource to inclusive supporting roles, procuring appropriate technology and supplemental resources, and presenting strategies to accommodate behaviorally challenged students. Programing often required shifting populations and leveling classes. Ultimately, administrators established and sustained inclusive classrooms with a good deal of success.
Teaching Math, Science, and Technology in Schools Today
Authors: Adams Dennis , Hamm Mary
Published: February 2025

Teaching Math, Science, and Technology in Schools Today: Guidelines for Engaging Both Eager and Reluctant Learners offers unique, engaging, and thought-provoking ideas. The activities open imaginative doors to learning and provide opportunities for all learners. It surveys today’s most important trends and dilemmas while explaining how collaboration and critical thinking can be translated into fresh classroom practices. Questions, engagement, and curiosity are viewed as natural partners for mathematical problem solving, scientific inquiry, and learning about technology. Like the Common Core State Standards, the book builds on the social nature of learning to provide suggestions for both eager and reluctant learners. The overall goal of the book is to deepen the collective conversation, challenge thinking, and provide some up-to-date tools for teachers so they can help reverse the steady erosion of math, science, and technology understanding in the general population.
Inventing Imaginary Worlds
Authors: Root-Bernstein Michele
Published: February 2025

How can parents, educators, business leaders and policy makers nurture creativity, prepare for inventiveness and stimulate innovation? One compelling answer, this book argues, lies in fostering the invention of imaginary worlds, a.k.a. worldplay. First emerging in middle childhood, this complex form of make-believe draws lifelong energy from the fruitful combustions of play, imagination and creativity.

Unfortunately, trends in modern life conspire to break down the synergies of creative play with imaginary worlds. Unstructured playtime in childhood has all but disappeared. Invent-it-yourself make-believe places have all but succumbed in adolescence to ready-made computer games. Adults are discouraged from playing as a waste of time with no relevance to the workplace. Narrow notions of creativity exile the fictive imagination to fantasy arts.

And yet, as Michele Root-Bernstein demonstrates by means of historical inquiry, quantitative study and contemporary interview, spontaneous worldplay in childhood develops creative potential, and strategic worldplay in adulthood inspires innovations in the sciences and social sciences as well as the arts and literature. Inventing imaginary worlds develops the skills society needs for inventing the future.

For more on Inventing Imaginary Worlds, check out: www.inventingimaginaryworlds.com
Common Core State Standards for Grade 6
Authors: Manville Michelle
Published: February 2025

Common Core State Standards for Grade 6: Language Arts Instructional Strategies and Activities is designed to help teachers address Common Core standards using research-based, effective instructional strategies in combination with ready-to-use activities. These strategies include identifying similarities and differences, writing summaries and taking notes, creating non-linguistic representations, and suggestions for homework and practice. There are a variety of suggested texts as well as identified text exemplars that can easily be used with the strategies and activities.
Leading, Teaching, and Learning the Common Core Standards
Authors: Taylor Rosemarye T. , Watson Rebecca , Nutta Joyce
Published: February 2025

Leading, Teaching, and Learning is a resource for teachers taking action on Common Core State Standards to enhance student learning. Each chapter addresses various disciplines and grade levels with concrete examples. Chapters focus on research-based instruction, academic language development, thinking and complexity, English learners, non-proficient readers, rigor, and collaboration for ongoing professional capacity building.
Reclaiming the Teaching Profession
Authors: Hatch J. Amos
Published: February 2025

Reclaiming the Teaching Profession gives educators (especially teachers and future teachers) and their allies a clear overview of the massive effort to dismantle public education in the United States, which includes a direct attack on teachers. The book details, and provides a systematic critique of, the shaky assumptions at the foundation of the market-based reform initiatives that dominate the contemporary education scene. It names and exposes the motives and methods of the powerful philanthropists, politicians, business moguls, and education entrepreneurs who are behind the reform movement. It provides counter narratives that public school advocates can use to talk back to those who would destroy the teaching profession and public education. It includes examples of successful acts of resistance and identifies resources for challenging reformers’ taken for granted primacy in the education debate. It concludes with strategies educators can use to “speak truth to power,” reclaim their professional status, and reshape the education landscape in ways that serve all of America’s children and preserve our democracy.
Reflectivity and Cultivating Student Learning
Authors: Pultorak Edward G.
Published: February 2025

Many educator preparation programs have a teacher reflection component and/or model; however, the current available literature provides little information regarding reflection’s impact on teacher performance and student learning. Reflectivity and Cultivating Student Learning includes theory, research, and practice appropriate for teacher educators, teacher candidates, classroom teachers, school administrators, and educational researchers. This text will be useful for teacher education programs, graduate programs in education, and professional development for educators.

The goal of this book is to substantiate the knowledge, skills, and dispositions that have been used to establish teacher reflectivity as a foundation of teacher education and to advance the acquisition, applications, and appreciation of teacher reflectivity as a critical aspect of professional growth and development. Pultorak and his contributors enrich the literature and provide greater clarity regarding reflectivity’s impact on student learning in our global society.
Working in Class
Authors: Hurst Allison L. , Nenga Sandi Kawecka
Published: February 2025

More students today are financing college through debt, but the burdens of debt are not equally shared. The least privileged students are those most encumbered and the least able to repay. All of this has implications for those who work in academia, especially those who are themselves from less advantaged backgrounds. Warnock argues that it is difficult to reconcile the goals of facilitating upward mobility for students from similar backgrounds while being aware that the goals of many colleges and universities stand in contrast to the recruitment and support of these students. This, combined with the fact that campuses are increasingly reliant on adjunct labor, makes it difficult for the contemporary tenure-track or tenured working-class academic to reconcile his or her position in the academy.
Digital Writing for English Language Learners
Authors: Alrubail Rusul
Published: February 2025

Digital Writing for English Language learners looks at practical ways educators can implement the use of technology in their English and Language Arts classroom for English Language Learners. The book provides a variety of classroom activities and assignments that can be completed with English Language Learners using social media and other digital writing tools. The book also looks at creating a culture that fosters the necessary conditions for student voice to thrive in an English Language Learners’ classroom.
Multicultural Literature in the Content Areas
Authors: Scott Lakia M. , Purdum-Cassidy Barbara
Published: February 2025

Today’s public schools represent a demographic of students that are more diverse than ever before. In turn, culturally responsive and affirming teaching practices should mirror the academic, social, and cultural needs of an ever-increasing population of diverse students. Through multicultural education students can discover the ways they are shaped by their own culture, as well as learn more about others. Multicultural education practices provide mutually beneficial dialogue between cultures, and the pedagogical practices increase learning outcomes for not just the ethnically and racially diverse, but all students who are participatory in the content. This book provides educational stakeholders with culturally relevant and affirming techniques for utilizing multicultural literature as a pedagogical tool in social studies, mathematics, science, and reading. Each chapter provides a brief summary about the selected multicultural text and also contains an instructional strategy to be used. Following this, an inquiry-based lesson is provided with supplementary materials and resources that allow for K-12 differentiation.
Implicit Bias
Authors: Bouley Theresa M. , Reinking Anni K.
Published: February 2025

Educator implicit bias is often experienced by students of varying identities as microaggressions. In this book the authors define implicit bias and microaggressions, identify ways students of varying identities such as race, gender/LGBTQ+, religion, socioeconomic, ability, linguistic and family dynamics, experience microaggressions in schools, and offer an educator’s guide to using culturally responsive teaching as an antidote to microaggressions. We also provide specific ways to interrupt microaggressions in schools.
Odious Caribbean Women and the Palpable Aesthetics of Transgression
Authors: Francis Gladys M.
Published: February 2025

Odious Caribbean Women and the Palpable Aesthetics of Transgression examines the methods through which the works of French Caribbean women resist hedonistic conceptions of pleasure, “art for art’s sake” aestheticism, and commodification through representations of “uglified” spaces, transgressive “deglamorified” women’s bodies in pain and explicit corporeal and sexual behaviors. Gladys M. Francis offers an original approach through her reading together of the literary, visual, and performing arts (as well as traditional Caribbean dance, music, and oral practices) to arrive at a transregional (trans-Caribbean and transatlantic), trans-genre (with regard to forms of text), and transdisciplinary conversation in Francophone studies, postcolonial studies, and cultural studies. This interweaving is illustrated through the artistic engagements of artists such as Ina Césaire, Maryse Condé, Sylvaine Dampierre, Fabienne Kanor, Lénablou, Béatrice Mélina, Gisèle Pineau, Simone Schwarz-Bart, and Miriam Warner-Vieyra. How can we investigate, theoretically or critically, the aesthetically unpleasing found in depictions of odious female protagonists or female performers? What is the aesthetic value of transgressional women’s bodies? This book presents novel tools to understand how these women artists mark and re-instate embodied trauma, survival, and resistance into history. It posits that cultural performances can disrupt a culture-as-text ethnocentrism, for, these works provide the means to expose the tangible aesthetics through which the body becomes an archive that bears the psychological, physical and structural suffering. This project also demonstrates the ways through which the corporeal realm offered by these transgressive works (through explicit female perspectives on sex, love, and gender) challenges our moral sensibilities, works to sabotage the voyeuristic gaze, and stimulates a new methodology for reading the women’s body. It focuses on the complex layers of identity formation and bodily representations with respect to issues of sex, consumerism, commodification, violence, gender and women studies, and ethics and moral issues.
Violence Against Women in Peace and War
Authors: Holt Maria
Published: February 2025

Violence Against Women in Peace and War: Cases from the Middle East explores violence against women in the Middle East. Through a narrative research approach, Maria Holt compares a range of settings and experiences, arguing that (1) violence against women tends to increase during periods of conflict; (2) such practices are legitimized by an already existing environment in which violence against women is tolerated; (3) women are building strategies, both at local and regional levels, to combat and eliminate violence, thus enabling them to play a more constructive role in processes of conflict resolution and post-conflict reconstruction; and (4) the greater the commitment by public authorities to creating sound local frameworks to address violence against women the stronger will be Arab women’s ability to resist conflict.
Race Unequals
Authors: McMurtry-Chubb Teri A.
Published: February 2025

Race Unequals: Overseer Contracts, White Masculinities, and the Formation of Managerial Identity in the Plantation Economy is a re-imagining of the plantation not as Black and White, but in shades of White male identity. Through an examination of employment contracts between plantation owners and their overseers, and the web of public and private law that surrounded them, this book challenges notions of a monolithic White male identity in the antebellum South. It considers how race provided White men access to the land and enslaved labor that were foundational to the plantation economy, but how the wealthiest of those men used contracts, public law, and plantation management schemes to limit the access points by which overseers, the first managerial class in the United States, could achieve upward mobility as both White people and as men. In navigating the legal and social parameters of their employment contracts, overseers negotiated a white masculinity that formed their managerial identity. This managerial identity carried the imprint of white supremacy necessary to preserve inequities on the plantation, and perhaps in our modern workplaces as well.
Perspective Chapter: Charge Transport in Organic Semiconductors – Fundamentals and Improvement Methods
Authors: Urbančič Jurij
Published: February 2025

Understanding the movement of charge carriers in organic semiconductors is essential for optimizing the performance of organic electronic devices. This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of charge transport in organic semiconductors, explaining the underlying mechanisms and discussing various transport models employed to describe mobility—the speed at which charge carriers move in response to an electric field. Furthermore, this chapter delves into the diverse methods employed to improve charge carrier mobility in organic semiconductors, such as blending the organic semiconductor with high-mobility two-dimensional material and interface engineering. Hence, this chapter presents an overview of the theoretical aspects of charge transport and various strategies for improving mobility, offering tools and insights that can contribute to the future development of organic electronic devices with enhanced performance and functionality.
Postoperative Care
Authors: Disha Visar
Published: February 2025

The topic of “Postoperative Care” focuses on the essential medical practices and protocols followed after a surgical procedure to ensure patient recovery and minimize complications. This chapter will explore various aspects of postoperative care, including pain management, wound care, monitoring vital signs, and preventing infections. It will also address the psychological aspects of recovery, patient education, and rehabilitation strategies to promote healing and improve long-term outcomes. The scope of the chapter covers both immediate postoperative interventions and extended care practices, highlighting their importance in reducing morbidity and mortality. Furthermore, it will discuss the role of healthcare providers in ensuring successful patient recovery post-surgery.
Advanced Strategy and Future Perspectives in Drug Delivery System
Authors: Umamaheswari Appavoo , Puratchikody Ayarivan , Lakshmana Prabu Sakthivel , Thirumurugan Rathinasabapathy
Published: February 2025

One of the main issues with the drug delivery system is delivering the drug to specific target site with anticipated concentration to produce a desired therapeutic potential of the drug. The major drawbacks in the conventional dosage forms are lack of targeted drug delivery, selectivity, non-specific distribution, poor bioavailability, frequent dosage regimen, side effects, first-pass metabolism, solubility for poorly soluble drugs, inability to cross biological barriers, gastrointestinal irritation, drug interaction, and effectiveness. Recent advancements in molecular pharmacology and the drug action in the targeted sites for particular diseases have made a new revolution to develop different novel drug delivery systems. These novel drug delivery systems significantly increase the drug delivery, thus exploiting therapeutic effect and reducing the accumulation of drugs in the off target site. Different novel drug delivery systems include microemulsion and microsphers; nanodrug delivery systems include nanoparticles, nanogels, nanoemulsion, nanosuspension, nanotubes, and dendrimers; and vesicular system includes liposomes, lipospheres, niosomes, phytosomes, transfersomes, ethosomes, vesosomes, herbosomes, solid lipid nanoparticles, and so on. Parameters such as particle size, shape, solubility, surface morphology, charge, solubility, biocompatibility, biodegradability, and drug release play a significant role to deliver the drug to the target site with the desired concentration. This chapter outlines the discovery of new drug molecule, drug development process, limitations of conventional dosage form, current drug delivery system, application of nanoparticles in disease diagnosis, treatment of different diseases like cancer, and regulatory challenges. Further application of artificial intelligence in drug delivery has been outlined as future perspectives in drug delivery system.
Automotive Radar Systems: Architecture, Signal Processing, and Future Perspectives
Authors: Fei Tai
Published: February 2025

This chapter provides an overview of automotive radar technology, emphasizing its role in advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) through real-time measurements of range, angle, and velocity. We summarize the evolution of radar waveforms—such as frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW), phase-modulated continuous wave (PMCW), orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), and phase-coded-FMCW (PC-FMCW)—and their signal-processing techniques for range-Doppler estimation and angle-of-arrival determination. Challenges in urban scenarios, such as the need for 4D sensing (range, velocity, azimuth, and elevation) and rising computational demands on radar sensors, are addressed. We also discuss the emergence of machine learning in radar perception and concerns over mutual interference in dense environments. The chapter concludes by exploring advances in radar hardware and algorithms, emphasizing real-time capability, interference mitigation, and progress toward higher autonomy.
Creativity, Resilience, and Mental Health: A Conceptual – Theoretical Study
Authors: Barlach Lisete
Published: February 2025

Well-known and widespread mental health problems, such as depression and suicide, more and more present in the contemporaneous scenario, are analyzed from a theoretical perspective, investigating the foundations of mental health through the lens of Donald Winnicott, Hector Fiorini, Jean Piaget, Csikszentmihalyi, and Fritz Perls, scholars who establish important relations between well-being and creativity as a way of overcoming adversities, solving problems, discovering new possibilities of facing old problems, and allowing energy flow. Creativity is understood as an antidote to the various kinds of compulsive disorders and obsessive behaviors of contemporaneity. Results of the present study indicate that, instead of associating creativity with madness, new avenues open up for understanding creativity as a key element of mental health.
AFLAREA VIITOAREI MESERII – O PRACTICĂ DE INTEGRARE SOCIALĂ A PRUNCULUI
Authors:   Institutul de Filologie Română „Alexandru Philippide”, Academia Română, Hulubaș Adina
Published: February 2025

Once the baby turs one, it is customary in the North-Eastern part of Romania to present her/him with a selection of objects that are symbolic for different occupations. This postliminal rite is strikingy similar with Asian childbirth customs and speaks about the social perception of certain jobs. However, the future is influenced by the choice of certain tools that are believed to assure a wealthy life, while other symbols are rejected or dismissed in time. The paper is based on data from The Folklore Archive of Moldavia and Bucovina and connects the theme of occupational folklore with that of childbirth practices, as found both in villages and towns in the last 50 years. The divination is meant to welcome the new member of the community, under the magic protection of the Godparents.
Elsevier's new text mining initiative is a step sideways
Authors: Willighagen Egon
Published: February 2025

Elsevier’s new ideas on text mining are getting a lot attention now. Sadly, they get it wrong, again. On the bright side, all other publishers, which are expected to follow this year, can learn from this mistake. Because if done right, the publishers can even help forward science, despite crippling progress. That sound harsh, and surely they have done a lot of good for science. In fact, we would not be where we are now without the publishers.
Slow publishing innovation: SMILES in ACS journals
Authors: Willighagen Egon
Published: February 2025

Elsevier is not the only publisher with a large innovation inertia. In fact, I think many large organizations do, particularly if there are too many interdependencies, causing too long lines. Greg Laundrum made me aware that one American Chemical Society journal is now going to encourage (not require) machine readable forms of chemical structures to be included in their flagship. The reasoning by Gilson

et al.

is balanced.
Beilstein journals contain Bioschemas
Authors: Willighagen Egon
Published: February 2025

Two weeks ago, the Beilstein Institute announced Bioschemas support in their journals: The idea is far from new and has been around for two decades. But the two Beilstein journals (both diamond Open Access), actually integrated into their active publishing model. That has been trialed and put in action before.
Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Antibiotic Use in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Desease (COPD)
Authors: Pameswari Puspa , Aria Mimi , Zuhriah Aminah
Published: February 2025

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a disease with airway limitations that are not completely reversible due to harmful substances or gases. The most common cause of acute exacerbations of COPD is bacterial infection, so treatment that can be done is to use antibiotics. Ineffective drug therapy will affect the effectiveness and costs incurred by patients. The purpose of this study is to find out how cost-effective and antibiotic treatment are in patients with acute exacerbations of COPD. This study uses an observational descriptive method with retrospective data collection based on medical record data and the cost of using antibiotics for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) acute exacerbations of hospitalization at hospitals. Dr. M. Djamil Padang in 2019-2021. The calculation result with the lowest CER was the combination of levofloxacin and ceftriaxone of Rp. 323.6 and an outcome value of 100%. It can be concluded that the most effective use of antibiotic therapy models in COPD patients with acute exacerbations is the combination of levofloxacin and ceftriaxone.
THE ROLE OF AI IN PREDICTING MENTAL HEALTH DISORDERS: A CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY PERSPECTIVE
Authors: Dr U.G.Lashari  , Somia Shabbir  , Dr Tazeem Shahbaz  , Hajra Waheed kayani
Published: February 2025

Introduction/Importance of Study: Artificial Intelligence (AI) has recently become a powerful tool for different disciplines including healthcare. One of the new possibilities it opens up in clinical psychology is its ability to forecast mental health disorders. This paper aims to discover the healthcare professionals, artificial intelligence specialists, and psychologists’ perceptions about the use of AI in the forecast of mental health disorders.
 Novelty Statement: This study aims to evaluate the current EU professional awareness, efficacy impression, and ethical and regulatory standpoint required for AI application on mental health prediction forecasts efficiently in a quantitative manner.
Material and Methods: The study design employed was cross-sectional in nature and data was gathered from 250 professionals with the use of a structured questionnaire instrument. The survey included questions about participants’ awareness of AI, its efficiency in their workplaces, their concerns about privacy and ethical issues as well as their opinion about strict regulation in this sphere. Data analysis tools that were used included descriptive statistics, correlation analysis as well as regression models.
Results and Discussion: A moderate level of awareness of AI is realized through low awareness of AI in mental health. A total of 11 participants were interviewed, self has been noted to have positive views about the use of AI but there is concern about privacy, trust, and the ethical use of artificial intelligence in diagnosing mental health disorders. A majority viewed that regulation on the use of AI in this area should be enhanced. What these results indicate is that although there might be numerous possibilities for having AI, there are crucial areas of concern in terms of trust, privacy, and accuracy.
Conclusion: The integration of AI into mental health has the benefit of reaching a large number of people, yet, the barriers need to be resolved, in terms of ethical issues, implementation of a clearer and transparent approach to be established, and trust from mental health professionals.
On the Impact of Taobao's Big Data Push on Teenage Users' Consumption Behavior
Authors: Chen Xinyu
Published: February 2025

With the rapid development of Internet technology in recent years, the technology of big data has become more and more widespread in the application of e-commerce. Besides, with the widespread popularity of smartphones, consumers are able to access e-commerce platforms anytime and anywhere, which also generates a large volume of user data and transaction behaviour information. In China, Taobao, as one of the largest e-commerce platforms in the country, has made use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technology to allow the platform to accurately profile users, personalised recommendations and other functions. The youth group, as an important part of the market consumer group, has a strong desire to buy. And their behavioural characteristics in online shopping are unique, which also includes their attention to various interactive software pushes when using mobile phones. This paper investigates the impact of Taobao's big data push on the consumption behaviour of teenage users. The study finds that Taobao's big data push significantly impacts teenage consumers' behavior.
THE RELEVANCE OF TAKLIK TALAK IN THE CONTEXT OF MODERN FAMILY AND MARRIAGE
Authors: Afadi Ahmad Alfin , Novita Sari
Published: February 2025

Family and marriage are two important institutions in society that have experienced significant transformation along with the times and social changes that have occurred. Nowadays, an interesting phenomenon has emerged, namely taklik talak in the context of family and marriage. This phenomenon raises questions about the relevance of divorce in today's family and marriage life considering that the settlement procedure is the same as divorce. This research uses normative research which analyzes based on statutory regulations. Taklik talak, as a practice that regulates divorce in Islamic society, is an interesting topic to research in the context of today's families and marriages. In an era where gender roles and power dynamics in husband and wife relationships are often in the spotlight, it is important to reveal how taklik talak can influence modern family dynamics. The results of this research show that divorce taklik is no longer relevant, but premarital and postmarital education is more appropriate as a preventive measure to avoid something undesirable. Thus, it is hoped that this research can provide a deeper understanding of how the divorce agreement applies to family and marriage dynamics today.
Efectos adversos de AINES a nivel gástrico [Adverse effects of NSAID at the gastric level]
Authors: Echeverria-Chávez Gabriela Mónica , Pinzon-Quezada Katherine Yamileth , Ezcurdia-Barzaga Manuel Conrado
Published: February 2025

Objetivo: analizar los efectos adversos de AINES a nivel gástrico. Método: descriptivo observacional en 33 personas. Resultados y Conclusión: Los resultados de la encuesta indican que un 38.3% de los participantes identificaron correctamente la úlcera gástrica como la principal complicación gastrointestinal asociada al uso prolongado de AINES. Este resultado es consistente con la literatura médica citada, la cual indica la importancia de implementar medidas preventivas, como el uso de protectores gástricos y la supervisión médica, para minimizar los efectos contrarios.
Influencia de la desnutrición sobre el desarrollo cognitivo en estudiantes infantes [Influence of malnutrition on cognitive development in infant students]
Authors: Mera-Santos Jenniffer Elizabeth , Guaman-Chisaguano Víctor Alfonso , Verdugo-Guilcaso Kimberly Nayely , Urgiles-Jaramillo María Fernanda
Published: February 2025

Objetivo: analizar la influencia de la desnutrición sobre el desarrollo cognitivo en estudiantes infantes. Método: Revisión sistemática en 15 articulos científicos. Resultados y Conclusión: La evidencia revisada destaca que la desnutrición afecta procesos neurobiológicos esenciales, como la mielinización y la sinaptogénesis, además de estar asociada con alteraciones en la microbiota intestinal, la salud muscular y el sistema inmunológico, lo que agrava su impacto en el desarrollo cerebral.
Enhanced Adsorption Capacity of Zeolite through Intercalation with Calcium Carbonate of Batissa Violacea Celebensis Shell Waste for Removing Detergent Waste
Authors: Haerunnisah W. O. , Suhardiman R. , Wahyu  , Ahmad L. O.
Published: February 2025

Zeolites possess pores or layers that can be filled with other molecules, thereby enhancing their acidity, thermal capacity, and surface tension. This, in turn, improves their efficacy in adsorbing organic waste. The main objective of this study is to investigate the material characteristics of ZAA-CaCO3 and its performance in adsorbing detergent waste. The research encompasses several stages, including the preparation of the shell of Biavalvia violacea celebensis waste, natural zeolite preparation, the intercalation process, material characterization, and measurement of adsorption capacity. XRD diffraction analysis revealed that the highest intensity of CaCO3 was observed at angles of 2Ө: 29.4o, 37.4o, and 51.9o. The results of infrared spectroscopy analysis indicated that the chemical activation spectra of ZAA-CaCO3 and ZAA-CaCO3 with a 300oC calcination were similar, except for absorptions at wave numbers 1386 cm-1, 1417 cm-1, 1635 cm-1, 1997 cm-1, and 2359 cm-1, which indicated the presence of carbonate groups of calcium carbonate. Furthermore, morphological analysis using SEM revealed a significant difference between Zeolite Nature, Zeolite Natural Active, and ZAA-CaCO3. The highest percentage of adsorption was observed with ZAA-CaCO3 material at a ratio of 2:1 and a contact time of 120 minutes, resulting in an adsorption capacity of 89.67%.
Concept Development through Social Media: Remembering, Understanding and Applying
Authors: Ullah Kifayat , Shehzad Saqib , Ali Iftikhar
Published: February 2025

The study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of social media in enhancing concept clarity (lower-order thinking skills) at the university level in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The objectives of the study were to explore the effectiveness of social media in enhancing an individual's ability to remember concepts, to describe the effect of social media on developing an individual's ability to understand concepts, to investigate the effectiveness of social media in enhancing an individual's ability to apply concepts. The interview research method was applied to collect qualitative data from the respondents. The study population comprises teachers from the Department of Education at public, private, and women's sector universities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. A purposive sampling technique was used to select the sample. Ten professors were nominated for interviews to collect data. Keeping in view the findings of the study, it was concluded that employing various social media tools in various ways—such as lectures, maps, diagrams, movies, relevant films, news, information, and books—is a useful technique to improve a person's capacity to define concepts, share, recall, and evaluate information. The majority of respondents responded that social media apps allow people to change, select, and apply knowledge in novel, ever-evolving contexts.