bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Prenatal Nicotine Exposure Raises Male Blood Pressure via FTO-Mediated NOX2/ROS Signaling
Authors: Liu Bailin , Xia Liang , Li Yong , Jiang Siyi , Yu Wansu , Zhang Lubo , Shao Xuesi M. , Xu Zhice , Xiao Daliao
Published: October 2023

BACKGROUND:

Cigarette smoking/nicotine exposure in pregnancy shows an increased risk of hypertension in offspring, but the mechanisms are unclear. This study tested the hypothesis that m6A RNA hypomethylation epigenetically regulates vascular NOX (NADPH oxidase) and reactive oxygen species production, contributing to the fetal programming of a hypertensive phenotype in nicotine-exposed offspring.

METHODS:

Pregnant rats were exposed to episodic chronic intermittent nicotine aerosol (CINA) or saline aerosol control from gestational day 4 to day 21, and experiments were performed in 6-month–old adult offspring.

RESULTS:

Antenatal CINA exposure augmented Ang II (angiotensin II)–stimulated blood pressure response in male, but not female offspring. Moreover, CINA increased vascular NOX2 expression and superoxide production exclusively in male offspring. Inhibition of NOX2 with gp91ds-tat, both ex vivo and in vivo, mitigated the CINA-induced elevation in superoxide production and blood pressure response. Notably, CINA enhanced the expression of vascular m6A demethylase FTO (fat mass and obesity-associated protein), while reducing the total vascular m6A abundance and specific m6A methylation of the NOX2 gene. Additionally, ex vivo inhibition of FTO with FB23-2 attenuated CINA-induced increases in vascular NOX2 expression. In vitro experiments using human umbilical vein endothelial cells demonstrated that nicotine dose-dependently upregulated FTO and NOX2 protein abundance, which were reversed by treatment with the FTO inhibitor FB23-2 or FTO knockdown using siRNAs.

CONCLUSIONS:

This study uncovers a new mechanism: m6A demethylase FTO-mediated epigenetic upregulation of vascular NOX2 signaling in CINA-induced hypertensive phenotype. This insight could lead to a therapeutic target for preventing and treating developmental hypertension programming.
Standard Versus Individualized Blood Pressure Targets During Thrombectomy: A Randomized Controlled Pilot Trial
Authors: Espelund Ulrick S. , Valentin Jan B. , Eriksen Christian F. , Koch Klaus U. , Johnsen Søren P. , Blauenfeldt Rolf A. , Speiser Lasse , Simonsen Claus Z. , Rasmussen Mads
Published: October 2023

Background

The optimal blood pressure management strategy in patients undergoing endovascular therapy for acute ischemic stroke is unknown. This pilot study aimed to assess the feasibility of a standard versus individualized blood pressure management strategy during endovascular therapy.

Methods

This randomized controlled pilot trial included adult patients with acute ischemic stroke with large‐vessel occlusion in the anterior circulation undergoing endovascular therapy. Patients were randomized to either standard (mean arterial blood pressure [MABP] targeted between 70 and 90 mm Hg) or individualized (MABP targeted ±10% of a baseline value measured in the neurointerventional suite) blood pressure targets until reperfusion or removal of groin sheath. The main outcome was the modified Rankin Scale score at 90 days. Secondary outcomes included feasibility outcomes, 90‐day dichotomized modified Rankin Scale score (0–2 versus 3–6), and reperfusion rates.

Results

Between April 2021 and February 2022, 60 patients (median [interquartile range] age, 76 [66–84] years) were randomly assigned to standard (n=30) or individualized (n=30) blood pressure targets. Median (interquartile range) National institutes of Health Stroke Scale score was 15 (10–18). Mean (SD) MABP, mean (SD) systolic blood pressure, and median (interquartile range) cardiac output were significantly higher in the individualized group compared with the standard group (MABP: 94 [9] versus 88 [9] mm Hg;
P
=0.012; systolic blood pressure: 149 [21] versus 139 [17] mm Hg;
P
=0.032; and cardiac output: 5.82 [4.22–7.23] versus 4.35 [3.73–5.1] L/min;
P
=0.02). The odds ratio for improved outcome in the individualized group was 1.37 (95% CI, 0.56–3.36). The relative risk for improved dichotomized outcome in the individualized group was 1.31 (95% CI, 0.87–1.98). Full reperfusion rates were comparable between the standard and individualized groups (90% versus 93%;
P
=0.64). The median percentage of time outside the MABP targets was 54.3% in the standard group versus 61.4% in the individual group (
P
=0.30) and did not meet the feasibility target. Recruitment rate, data completeness, and safety were within feasibility limits.

Conclusions

The feasibility criteria were not met in this study because of difficulties in achieving the desired blood pressure targets. These findings do not support continuing with a large trial using the current protocol.
Cerebellar Neuromodulation Impacts Reading Fluency in Young Adults
Authors: Lee Marissa M. , McGrath Lauren M. , Stoodley Catherine J.
Published: October 2023

The cerebellum is traditionally associated with the control of coordinated movement, but ample evidence suggests that the cerebellum also supports cognitive processing. Consistent with this, right-lateralized posterolateral cerebellar regions are engaged during a range of reading and reading-related tasks, but the specific role of the cerebellum during reading tasks is not clear. Based on the cerebellar contribution to automatizing movement, it has been hypothesized that the cerebellum is specifically involved in rapid, fluent reading. We aimed to determine whether the right posterolateral cerebellum is a specific modulator of reading fluency or whether cerebellar modulation is broader, also impacting reading accuracy, rapid automatized naming, and general processing speed. To do this, we examined the effect of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) targeting the right posterolateral cerebellum (lobules VI/VII) on single-word reading fluency, reading accuracy, rapid automatized naming, and processing speed. Young adults with typical reading development (n = 25; 15 female sex assigned at birth, 10 male sex assigned at birth, aged 18–28 years [M = 19.92 ± 2.04 years]) completed the reading and cognitive measures after 20 min of 2 mA anodal (excitatory), cathodal (inhibitory), or sham tDCS in a within-subjects design. Linear mixed effects models indicated that cathodal tDCS decreased single-word reading fluency scores (d = −0.36, p < 0.05) but did not significantly affect single-word reading accuracy, rapid automatized naming, or general processing speed measures. Our results suggest that the right posterolateral cerebellum is involved in reading fluency, consistent with a broader role of the cerebellum in fast, fluent cognition.
Transpositions: Painting and the Phenomenological Fragments of the Unrecognizable
Authors: Vallega Alejandro A.
Published: October 2023

For Anselm Kiefer, his painting shows that, that something exists “shows that there is also nothingness.” The moment of visibility is also the moment of our exposure in/with/through nothing (in a gerundive sense) elemental in the happening of the visible. Painting bears ways of exposing the becoming of the visible and ultimately of consciousness, both sensible and intellectual, in/through/with emptying and nothing, i.e., in the happening of the seer and the seen, in that coming into being of existing, we are exposed to the insight that “there is also nothingness.” The paper offers a series of transpositions, a series of ways of experiencing visibility and vision found in looking at specific images and paintings. The transpositions expose us to blindness, emptying, gaps, and loss in the happening of the visible, which, in displacing the certainty of rational subjective seeing/consciousness, lead to the quickening of vision and the visible anew.
Missionary Linguistics and the Protestant Policies for Missionary (Re)translations (English into Judeo-Spanish) in the Nineteenth Century
Authors: Martín-González Daniel
Published: October 2023

Missionary Linguistics attempts to analyze texts either written or (re)translated by missionaries, especially those produced by Spanish and Portuguese ministers in Latin America and Asia. However, some more specific case studies have been taken for granted, such as the case of the Scottish Protestant missionaries who wanted to convert Sephardic Jews in Constantinople in the nineteenth century. This article aims to illustrate the origin of the re(translation) policies of Protestant missionaries, such as those of the Free Church of Scotland mission in the nineteenth century. Moreover, we will describe the theoretical basis of Missionary Linguistics and the existing link between this innovative and modern branch of linguistics and Colonial Linguistics, thus showing common grounds as well as a way in which both could be combined into a single research field.
Integrating Pentecostal Healing and Western Medicine: A Case Study
Authors: Tangen Karl Inge
Published: October 2023

Medical missions are criticized for having a secularizing effect. Progressive Pentecostals who combine prayer and Western medicine represent one possible solution to this problem. This article explores whether Western medicine and Pentecostal-charismatic healing practices can be sustainably integrated by offering a case study of the medical missiology of Osvald Orlien. The article shows that Orlien’s model provides a theological conception of holistic health, a fusion of Pentecostalism and the African worldview, and the formation of a Pentecostal theology of medical science that affirms natural laws and human reason. Orlien offered a holistic theology of healing and an account of moral virtues that could be intelligibly defended. He encountered opposition from both Pentecostals who rejected Western medicine and rationalistic skeptics who refused Pentecostal healing practices. The case study also identifies key factors contributing to sustainable, institutional integration of medicine and charismatic practices in the Congolese context.
Mission as Hospitality with Refugees and Other Migrants: Exploring Ross Langmead’s “Guests and Hosts” in Australian Churches
Authors: Cronshaw Darren , Hyun Hanna , Laughlin Peter , Olorunnisola Titus S. , Parker Stephen
Published: October 2023

This article explores the “mission of God” and its relationship with refugees and migrants in Australia. At its best, this mission is experienced as hospitality to, by, and with people of cultural diversity. Ross Langmead (2014) called for a theology of mission as an expression of divine hospitality to those marginalized and forcefully displaced, and recalled the significance of the cultural diversity that the Bible celebrates. By hospitably serving and learning from refugees and migrants, Australian local churches function as both guests and hosts. Langmead suggested this hospitality has ten dimensions including advocacy, meals, mutual learning, and “openness to a transforming divine presence” (2014:39ff). It is this last dimension that invites reflection as to how all ten may be more broadly applied. This article is a conversation on the experience of Australian churches at large in giving and receiving hospitality with refugees and other migrants. The conversation demonstrates the value of practicing hospitality for the sake of mutual learning and shared mission amongst the global diaspora in the Australian context.
Frameworks in Historiography: Explanation, Scenarios, and Futures
Authors: Virmajoki Veli
Published: October 2023

In this paper, I analyze how frameworks shape historiographical explanations. I argue that, in order to identify a sequence of events as relevant to a historical outcome, assumptions about the workings of the relevant domain have to be made. By extending Lakatosian considerations, I argue that these assumptions are provided by a framework that contains a set of factors and intertwined principles that (supposedly) govern how a historical phenomenon works. I connect frameworks with a counterfactual account of historical explanation. Frameworks enable us to explain the past by providing a backbone of explanatory patterns of counterfactual dependency. I conclude by noting that both counterfactual scenarios and scenarios of the future require frameworks and, therefore, historiographical explanation generates a set of possible futures. Analyzing these possible futures enables us to reveal the theoretical commitments of historiography.
A Manuscript Witness of Cultural Activity in Mongol Baghdad
Authors: De Nicola Bruno
Published: October 2023

This article focuses on MS Leiden Or. 95, which contains a version of the Ḥall mushkilāt al-Ishārāt by Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (d. 672/1273), copied apparently in 1272 CE. This article explores the paratextual evidence present in the manuscript in order to reconstruct the history of the book and investigate aspects of cultural life in Mongol and post-Mongol Baghdad. It is an attempt, based on manuscript evidence, to contribute to the broader discussion on the impact that the Mongol invasions had on the cultural life of the Middle East in general and the city of Baghdad in particular. The analysis of the colophon, ownership marks, reading certificates, and annotations in this codex offer a particular case study of aspects of production, distribution, and consumption of knowledge in Ilkhanid Baghdad.
‘Comrade’: The Liberation Roots of the Militarisation of Politics in Zimbabwe, 1960s–1979
Authors: Ndawana Enock
Published: October 2023

This article examines the development of militarisation in the liberation movements from the 1960s to 1979. It argues that the militarisation of politics and the state that would dominate Zimbabwe in the post-colonial period has its roots in both the Rhodesian state and the liberation movements. It asserts that the Zimbabwean state was militarised at birth primarily because the liberation movements had the military dominating politics, a process that was also, though variably, happening in the Rhodesian state. The article concludes that the militarisation phenomenon that dominates Zimbabwean politics and state today can only be disentangled when the forces that generated it are properly understood and situated in their context.
Cybersecurity Law and Regulation in China: Securing the Smart State
Authors: Creemers Rogier
Published: October 2023

Cybersecurity has become a key regulatory area in China’s rapidly digitizing society, economy, and state. The leadership deems it critical in providing adequate security guarantees for the realization of the ambitious “informatization” policy, symbolized by the passing of the Cybersecurity Law in 2016. Cybersecurity has also become integrated with overall national security, at a time when Chinese policy has become increasingly securitized. What, then, does this mean in practice? How do authorities conceive of cybersecurity and attempt to retrofit regulatory frameworks into an already well-established digital environment. This paper reviews the various components of the cybersecurity regime established by the Cybersecurity Law. It discusses how external circumstances have facilitated or obstructed the advance of regulation and implementation and demonstrates how cybersecurity is embedded in the broader processes of reform led by the Chinese Communist Party.
Smart Governance in China’s Political-Legal System
Authors: Papagianneas Straton
Published: October 2023

The belief in quantitative indicators based on standardized data as an effective tool has become more entrenched than ever before, in both public and corporate governance, because of a drive to achieve more efficiency and accountability. The power of automated computation systems and the ubiquitous availability of big data have magnified the potential and capacities for quantification. The People’s Republic of China (prc) has enthusiastically embraced these advanced technologies. The rapid digitization and automation of social governance in China, called “smart governance,” entail new approaches to social and political control, driven by innovations in algorithmic systems, big data analytics, and artificial intelligence. This article seeks to reveal the ideological foundations of the prc’s push for the digitization and automation of social governance. Drawing on international scholarship on Chinese Marxism and Leninism, it argues that the positivist organizational and ideological principles of Marxism-Leninism help explain why technology and automation are embraced so enthusiastically by the Chinese party-state: they provide a way to achieve the dream of rational Marxist governance. Through an empirical analysis of 120 articles from 2014 to 2021, this article illustrates that these ideas are, or may be, a vital part of shaping academic discourse around smart governance in China today. An analysis of Chinese academic discourse is an essential part of understanding the ideological foundations of Chinese Communist Party (ccp) governance and statecraft and how these commitments shape the embrace and deployment of smart technologies. The way in which scholars discuss the transformative power of smart technologies demonstrates a similar ideological understanding of social governance.
Basket Case: Reform and China’s Social Credit Law
Authors: Knight Adam
Published: October 2023

The social credit system (scs) has become a cornerstone of China’s drive toward informatization in pursuit of its governance goals. Its definition and scope, two decades in the making, have evolved dramatically over time, however. What began as a financial tool for the stimulation of market-based activity has been applied in a broader regulatory context as well as in the propagation of a state-arbitered moral-legal agenda. Layered on top of these sometimes conflicting ambitions has been a persistent tension in central-local implementation, further complicating rollout of the system. Domestic criticism of the scs in policy and academic circles has led to a clamor for reform, culminating in the publication of a number of clarificatory documents, including a draft version of a Social Credit Law in November 2022. This article provides a genealogy of this new law, exploring the origins and evolution of the scs and its governing legal logic.
Everyday Democracy and Civic Agriculture
Authors: Lee WanJu
Published: October 2023

This article develops the concept of “everyday democracy” by analyzing how a community-supported agriculture organization in Taiwan (CSA-TWN) practices economic democracy. First, it illustrates how democracy is learned and practiced in daily interactions with the logics of “equality” and “collective decision-making”. Second, it argues that organizations such as CSA-TWN, which operate based on “relationships” and “common values,” need to develop their own democratic mechanisms to ensure consistency of actions and values, which can be achieved through formal and informal conversations. Finally, this article suggests that the informal caring work within CSA-TWN is important as it facilitates the exchange of diverse opinions and emotions, which helps to address conflicts and problems that arise and to sustain the organization’s operations. In the face of contemporary market-based agriculture’s dilemmas, the case of CSA-TWN provides concrete examples of innovative practices that offer alternative forms of economic democracy and institutional design.
The Social Participation Practice Process of University and Community Collaboration to Promote Local Development in Taichung City
Authors: Sung Wei-Ying
Published: October 2023

Wuqi District is located along the coastline of Taichung City. In the past, fishing was the main industry. However, the region now faces issues such as population outflow and aging. Although resources such as the Taichung Harbor Transformation Plan, the Mitsui Outlet Mall, and the Farglory Group Township Project have been developed in recent years, this has also impacted Wuqi’s community and residents’ lives. Therefore, constructing a suitable social practice model in Wuqi, one based on the local cultural background, is important for further assisting local development. Hungkuang University, located near Wuqi district, has been actively promoting social responsibility in recent years and has launched the Local Care Project for the Old Town of Wuqi District, aiming to assist local development. This article assesses the driving process and challenges for this development through participatory observation and interviews, and aims to propose ways to promote social responsibility in the future.
Benefitting or suffering from a paradoxical leader? A self-regulation perspective
Authors: Fürstenberg Nils , Booth Jonathan E , Alfes Kerstin
Published: October 2023

Why do followers’ reactions to perceived paradoxical leader behavior (PLB) differ? To answer this question, we draw from self-regulation theory and argue that making sense of a paradoxical leader’s seemingly contradictory behavior can pose a challenge for followers and requires specific cognitive traits and abilities that enable them to navigate such complex and dynamic environments. We propose that followers who lack these cognitive traits and related abilities find it more difficult to make sense of and navigate their paradoxical leader’s behavior, thereby perceiving them as behaviorally unpredictable. This, in turn, impairs followers’ self-regulation when working with such leaders, and leads to lower well-being. Conversely, followers endowed with appropriate cognitive traits can make sense of PLB and thrive in these environments. To test our propositions, we conducted two multi-wave field studies. In Study 1, we examine the role of followers’ trait cognitive flexibility in interpreting PLB; whereas Study 2 explores the role of followers’ trait self-regulation. The findings from these studies support our hypotheses, with an important implication: the efficacy of PLB may not only solely depend on a leader’s ability to enact these behaviors but also on their followers’ ability to interpret and make sense of them.
Composite laminates reinforced by vertically aligned carbon nanotubes: Detailed manufacturing process, from nanotubes transfer to composite consolidation
Authors: Le Anh Tuan , Govignon Quentin , Rivallant Samuel , Cutard Thierry
Published: October 2023

Nano-constituent incorporation into composites has been extensively studied in the literature due to its improvement in static and dynamic mechanical properties, as well as its prevention from interlaminar crack initiation and propagation. This work introduces a detailed manufacturing process of nano-engineered composite laminates, from impregnation to consolidation, without damaging the initial morphology of carbon nanotubes transferred on prepreg interfaces. Based on prepreg and vertically aligned carbon nanotubes (VACNTs) synthesized on an aluminium alloy (Al) substrate, the impregnation step allows for the transfer of VACNTs onto the prepreg surface through partial resin-rising capillarity. The Al alloy substrate is then removed from the VACNTs through a separation step, ensuring highly effective and repeatable transfer with more than 80% VACNTs transferred onto the prepreg surface. This paper provides insight into the impregnation and transfer processes and guides the choice of process parameters to ensure minimal VACNTs buckling during the consolidation of the hybrid composites at high pressure in an autoclave.
Factors Influencing Attitudes Towards Safer Supply Programs for People Who Use Drugs: Findings From an Atlantic Canadian Province
Authors: Thornton Adrienne N. , MacQuarrie Amy L. , Brunelle Caroline
Published: October 2023

Safer supply programs (SSPs) are harm reduction services where people who use drugs can access regulated pharmaceutical drugs (e.g., hydromorphone). Public attitudes, and factors that influence attitudes towards SSPs must be considered as they impact policy and funding decisions. A total of 384 participants were recruited from the community ( n = 160, 41.7%) and an Atlantic Canadian University ( n = 224, 58.3%) to complete an online survey. The majority of the sample was supportive of SSPs ( n = 316, 82.3%). Being of European origin, a younger age, identifying as female, displaying higher levels of Openness to Experience, and reporting less stigma towards people who use drugs were predictive of more positive attitudes towards SSPs. Openness to Experience mediated the relationship between stigma levels and attitudes towards SSPs. The findings of the current study suggest that when developing public awareness campaigns, considering the impact of demographic and psychological factors is important.
Radio What's New? Someone Still Loves You: The Impact of Listening to Prison Radio
Authors: Einat Tomer , Nagar Maayan
Published: October 2023

This study examines the impact of listening to prison radio on the well-being of inmates. Its main quantitative findings are that listening to the radio had no significant impact on inmates’ anxiety, anger, emotional distress, or self-esteem. The qualitative results found that listening to the radio has a positive impact on inmates’ well-being, their outlook, the atmosphere of the prison, and peer relationships. We conclude that the practice of prison radio reflects sophisticated prison administration, reducing feelings of hostility and anger on the part of the inmates and promoting trust among inmates and between them and the staff.
The “Pains of Employment”? Connecting Air and Sound Quality to Correctional Officer Experiences of Health and Wellness in Prison Space
Authors: Turner Jennifer , Ricciardelli Rosemary , Gacek James
Published: October 2023

This article highlights Canadian federal correctional officers’ (COs) sensory engagements with their workplace to reveal how, in particular, air quality and sound quality generate physical feelings that create health and wellness concerns. These “pains of employment” support calls to improve prison space. However, these sensations conflate with perceptions of space, which infer that prisoners, not infrastructure, create poor environments. Such perceptions seemingly influence COs’ approaches to prisoner management. Accordingly, the physical quality of prison air and sound not only shapes CO constructions of health and wellness, but also has the potential to influence how they discharge their role.
Towards Conceptualisation of Safe, Inclusive and Accessible Classrooms
Authors: Wagh Anurekha Chari
Published: October 2023

The paper situates classrooms within Higher Education institutions as central to the learning process. Despite this, engagement with classroom spaces is much ignored, with the exception of scholars engaging with feminist pedagogy. Such engagement perceives classrooms as sites of consciousness-raising and thus calls for efforts by the teachers to shape the classrooms into a safe, inclusive and self-affirming space. It is a recognised fact that to create such classroom spaces which are non-judgemental, inclusive and affirming, where students’ and teachers’ identities in relation to their caste, gender, sexuality, religion, class, ethnicity etc, choices are respected needs sustained collaborative efforts between teachers and students. This article argues that the efforts to create such classroom spaces within university structures involve strategic changes in both the teaching and learning practices, involving syllabus framing, reading materials and engagement with students and teachers. The paper is based on qualitative exploratory analysis of a diverse set of students’ responses towards creating ‘safe classrooms spaces’ within university structures. It aims to make an effort towards conceptualising and identifying the parameters of a safe, inclusive and accessible classroom.
Gender Sensitisation for School Teachers: Agents of Change in the Classroom
Authors: Rayaprol Aparna , Raman Usha , Farooqui Salma A. , Joshi Aishwarya
Published: October 2023

This article focuses on the role that teachers play in the gender socialisation of children in schools and how a change in teachers through gender sensitisation training is imperative to bring about larger gender equality in society. Educational institutions are among the primary traditional agencies of socialisation. Teachers are important members of both the school and the community and play a major role in shaping the attitudes and ideologies of children—and through them, their parents. The school as an institution has been a major site where one learns to be patriarchal or show an attitude of male domination. Teachers have the advantage of being outside of the family and are often role models for children. As teachers themselves are the products of traditional gender stereotypes and hierarchies, they may form stereotypes that affect the ways in which children grow up. Girls and women may also hold gender stereotypes, so female teachers may not escape the danger of falling into such thinking. In doing so, they often do not realise what impact they can have on children. School teachers are the vehicles of change, and every generation has a different kind of bond with the teacher. The role of teachers in enabling change is immense and it is useful to take advantage of this situation to move ahead. Often, teachers are women—especially at the primary-school level—as teaching young children is considered an extension of childcare. Care occupations have been extremely gendered and underpaid and teaching school children is seen as an extension of care. This article draws from and reflects on the impact of teacher training workshops conducted among primary school teachers in a low-income area in Hyderabad. Many of the teachers and students in these schools are both socio-economically and culturally marginalised. This article thus focuses on bringing about transformation among marginalised communities.
Distal duodenal web with malrotation: An unusual finding
Authors: Suresh Greeshma , Pandey Vaibhav , Nandan Ruchira , Kachhap Seth
Published: October 2023

The most common site of the congenital duodenal web is the second part. Web distal to the second part of the duodenum is rare. It mimics the windsock deformity. Diagnosis may be missed if accompanying malrotation is present. We hereby report two cases of distal duodenal webs associated with malrotation and challenges in their diagnosis and management.
Social justice and public policy: Learning from school and counseling psychologists
Authors: Winter Laura Anne , Wood Maureen , Shriberg David
Published: October 2023

For applied psychologists, the goal is to promote positive outcomes among the individuals and groups they serve. Psychological practice takes place within a real-world context, including societal conditions that both harm and support children. Within school and counseling psychology, growing recognition of the impact of society on children has led to efforts to identify social justice as a key framework and set of strategies. Despite the obvious impact of public policy on the lives of children, there is very limited research on pathways and experiences of counseling and school psychologists who are involved in public policy efforts in their capacity as psychologists. This study addresses this gap, interviewing eighteen individuals across the United Kingdom and United States. Key findings include the importance of cultural responsiveness, professional development opportunities, and building and sustaining relationships. Several implications for future research and practice are provided, highlighting the need for multidisciplinary collaboration among those engaged in public policy and social justice efforts.
Adopting Public Relations-Like Strategies to Promote Labour Feminism in Finland, 1965–1975
Authors: Kurvinen Heidi
Published: October 2023

When public relations as a field professionalized in Finland in the 1960s, it had knock-on effects beyond the corporate world. As an example of this, I analyse various public relations-like strategies adopted by a party political women's organization, the Finnish Women's Democratic League. I show that as a radical left organization, the Finnish Women's Democratic League began to value media visibility in the mid-1960s, but it also continued to use more traditional communication forms, such as leaflets and workplace visits, to spread its ideological message. The changes of emphasis between various forms of communication were affected by the politicization of Finnish society, which caused tensions between the bourgeois dominant public and the ‘people's democratic’ counterpublic. My analysis is based on a close reading of minutes of Finnish Women's Democratic League meetings, press releases and other archival material, as well as Pippuri, the organization's internal magazine, and Uusi Nainen, a commercial women's magazine published by the organization .
When the Vote is Not the Only Factor: (Re)thinking Electoral Corruption in Nineteenth-Century Europe from the Electors’ Perspective
Authors: Luján Oriol
Published: October 2023

Practices labelled as corrupt in nineteenth-century European elections are generally conceived either as a form of domination where the candidates and their agents use exclusive resources for personal gain or a means of transaction between candidates and voters, on the assumption that candidates deploy corrupt practices in order to perusade voters. Consequently, electoral corruption in the nineteenth century is considered a tool that limits the participation of enfranchised citizens, whose conception of corruption is largely uncultivated. This study challenges this notion and demonstrates how corrupt practices by electors in societies where freedom was not guaranteed, did not restrain but instead extended the possibilities of political participation. The novelty of this study is based on integrating research focused on politicization beyond the elite and the new history of corruption, using Great Britain, France, and Spain as case studies. This integrated process found that corruption was used by electors to overturn unfavourable results, thus providing a platform for participation beyond voting.
Power-Based Typology of Marketing Systems: Foundation for Alternative Marketing Theory in the Post-Capitalist Marketing Era
Authors: Kelleci Alpaslan
Published: October 2023

To date, orthodox marketing has regarded markets and marketing systems as static and mechanistic rather than dynamic and emergent under the aegis of neoclassical economics. Nevertheless, today, as we transition to a post-industrial era, multiple marketing systems coexist to create consumer satisfaction. This paper, synthesizing Follett's power dichotomy with Alderson's systems approach, aims to typologize marketing systems from a political economic paradigm, which stresses the importance of power phenomena in developing an alternative marketing theory. The present paper also aims to contribute to theory from a higher-order perspective by integrating various phenomena (i.e., marketing systems and power), which have previously been addressed in a piecemeal fashion across diverse domains. The author proposes the “power-with oriented marketing system” as the ideal marketing system, which aims to facilitate resource transfers and the fair distribution of co-created value in a prosumption disposed, post-capitalist marketing era.
Du ministère à la classe. Enquêter sur le partenariat en éducation par une analyse multiniveau qualitative
Authors: Jacquot Alicia
Published: October 2023

Cet article s’intéresse à la mise en place d’une démarche d’analyse multiniveau qualitative, pour analyser les rapports entre deux mondes sociaux (Éducation nationale et éducation populaire) dans un dispositif de lutte contre le décrochage scolaire (atelier relais). Tout d’abord, en nous intéressant à la méthodologie mise en place dans la recherche, puis en cernant les avantages et inconvénients d’une telle démarche, nous montrons de quelle manière l’analyse multiniveau est nécessaire pour comprendre la complexité des rapports sociaux et leurs effets sur les acteurs et actrices institutionnel·les, organisationnel·les et opérationnel·les du dispositif.
Hybrid representative sampling of social media
Authors: Beauvais Taylor
Published: October 2023

Social media communities are understudied due to the difficulty of obtaining data with any amount of generalizability. This research proposes a method of hybrid probability sampling of social media ecosystems (collections of communities) using network theory, stratified sampling methods, theoretical saturation, and widely available social media activity statistics. Because of the unique venue of research, these methods create an opt-in sample, where every member of a community is given an equal chance to participate. The proposed methods were then used to obtain a sample representative of a digital political ecosystem with a population size of 8 million. The results illuminate stark polarization resulting from algorithmic opinion aggregation, with implications in online extremism, media literacy, demographic representation in public discourse, and more.
Reflecting on ICU patient’s dignity using Taylor’s Emancipatory Reflection Model
Authors: Zhuang Zexiang , Zeng Li
Published: October 2023

Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patients not only require life-sustaining treatments but also the preservation of their psychological well-being and dignity, and ICU nurses face heavy work pressure, focusing more on life-sustaining treatments for patients, while the patient’s psychological experiences are often overlooked. This article aims to explore the issue of nurse-led patient dignity preservation in the ICU from China. Reflection is a process of deep thinking and examining one’s actions, experiences, perspectives, or emotions. It involves retrospectively reviewing, analyzing, and evaluating past events to gain insights, understanding, and personal growth. Through reflection, individuals can consider whether their actions align with their values and goals and whether they can learn valuable lessons from them. This article discusses the preservation of patient dignity in the ICU from China based on Taylor’s Emancipatory Reflection Model, which involves four steps: constructing, deconstructing, confronting, and reconstructing. The process of reflection incorporates theories such as Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, Comfort Theory, and the style of Paternalistic Decision-making. This study is of great significance in enhancing Chinese nurse's attention to patient dignity, improving the inpatient experience of ICU patients, and enhancing the quality of nursing practice by critically examining current nursing practices in China and providing improvement recommendations.
Cities fight for autonomy: A view from an ongoing protest in Israel
Authors: Avni Nufar
Published: October 2023

In this commentary, I use the current protest movement in Israel as an entry point to discuss urban autonomy and social protest in an age of growing polarization between progressive cities and reactionary states. While the nationwide protest is not explicitly framed in urban versus national terms, it has a clear urban dimension. Tel-Aviv-Jaffa is not only the place where the protest movement is the strongest, but the municipality also leverages the protest to demand enhanced autonomy against the right-wing government’s illiberal agendas. I suggest that viewing urban protest through an urban autonomy lens is useful to fully unpack the current wave of protest and situate it within the larger political processes that shape it.
Searching for a New Pathway Affecting New Venture Digitalization in SMEs
Authors: Chin Tay Lee , Amy Yeo Chu May , Tan Houng Chien , Abina Babatunde Musiliu
Published: October 2023

Previous studies on new venture digitalization have claimed that digitalization is becoming more important for new ventures’ survival. However, it is unclear how factors such as digital strategy, organization’s bricolage behaviour, financial literacy and organization’s IT capabilities can influence the adoption of new venture digitalization and affect small and medium enterprises’ (SMEs) specific business activities. This study is aimed at filling the gap in the literature by creating an understanding of how businesses can utilize their IT capabilities to combine resources towards achieving optimal new venture digitalization. Using gender and educational level as moderators, we examine the effect of organization’s IT capabilities, digital strategy, financial literacy and organization’s bricolage behaviour on new venture digitalization. We find that digital strategy, organizational bricolage behaviour and organization’s IT capabilities have a significant effect on new venture digitalization. Furthermore, digital transformation strengthens SMEs’ ability and flexibility to address main business issues. However, financial literacy has no significant effect on SME digitalization. Also, the gender and educational level of SME entrepreneurs seemed not to be influenced by financial literacy and the adoption of digitalization. These findings increase our understanding of how digital strategy, organization’s bricolage behaviour, financial literacy and organization’s IT capabilities can influence the adoption of new venture digitalization.
Leveraging Online Teaching and Learning to Foster Critical Global Citizenship Education: Higher Education Faculty’s Perceptions and Practices from Japan
Authors: Bosio Emiliano
Published: October 2023

This study investigates how eight higher education (HE) faculties located in Japan perceive and implement Global Citizenship Education (GCE) as a critically oriented pedagogy in the online course ‘Perspectives on Global Citizenship Education’. The main instruments of the study were questionnaires and interviews. The data collected were scrutinised with the use of the grounded theory and constant comparative method. Four notions of GCE surfaced from the data. According to the HE faculty, a critically oriented GCE should: (a) develop students’ empathetic identification, (b) cultivate students’ critical agency, (c) foster students’ self-confidence and inclusive mindset and (d) encourage students’ community participation. Building on the findings, this article concludes by advancing a proposal for a critical pedagogical framework for GCE online teaching and learning in Japanese HE.
Understanding Sub-State’s Agency in Regionalism: The Case of Yunnan in Bangladesh–China–India–Myanmar Initiative
Authors: Singh Naina
Published: October 2023

Regionalism constitutes an essential unit to understanding the nature and evolution of multi-actor-dominated contemporary international relations. The ‘subnational turn’ in the regional interactions recognizes the rising role of sub-state actors such as provinces in the ‘construction’ and ‘performance’ of the ‘regionness’ to access the developmental benefits of regional and globalized capital. This paper further enriches this insight by focusing on the interaction of two components, that is, the sub-regionalism and the agency of sub-state units. It focuses on China’s Yunnan province outreach in the context of Bangladesh–China–India–Myanmar (BCIM) regionalization to critically reflect on the ‘transitioning’ agency of sub-state actors from imagining to implementing regionalism. Utilizing the analytical frameworks within paradiplomacy literature, the article emphasizes that sub-governments are substantive forces, ushering dynamic economic, political, and cultural international interactions. But, simultaneously, their power to invent and (re)define international standing is linked to larger scales of center and national. The sub-national lens on BCIM magnifies the opportunities and limitations at Yunnan’s disposal and identifies its agency as an ‘initiator’ and a ‘channel’ in the BCIM practice.
Independence of Axioms in Ranking Opportunity Sets Taking into Account Similarity Relations Induced by Money-metric Utility Functions
Authors: Vázquez Carmen
Published: October 2023

The objective of this work is to prove the independence of the axioms that characterise rules for ranking opportunity sets: the preference for diversity ordering, the cardinality-first ordering, and the preference-first ordering. The proof of the independence of axioms reinforces the value of the characterisation, since if there were axioms where a consequence of others, they should be eliminated from said characterisation.

JEL: D0, D9
To Assess Students’ Self-Awareness in Moral Education in China: Classroom Assessment Tool Design and Use
Authors: Li Kun Yan
Published: October 2023

Although the comprehensive application of various assessment methods is emphasized in the curriculum reform, the old traditional assessment mode is deeply rooted in the minds of most moral teachers, so the current teaching assessment still tends to be single. Through the pilot study in grade 1 of a middle school in Hangzhou, China, it is found that the self-awareness of middle school students has a strong correlation with gender, class cadre tenure, family background, and achievement, and there are some problems in the process of middle school students’ self-assessment Angle is single, self-assessment is lower than others’ assessment. Teachers should use reflective tools to improve teaching, adjust students’ psychology, strengthen communication between home and school, expand the influence of moral education, realize the integration of teaching, learning, and assessment, and make moral education classroom truly full of life vitality.
A Multimodal Social Signal Processing Approach to Team Interactions
Authors: Lehmann-Willenbrock Nale , Hung Hayley
Published: October 2023

Social signal processing develops automated approaches to detect, analyze, and synthesize social signals in human–human as well as human–machine interactions by means of machine learning and sensor data processing. Most works analyze individual or dyadic behavior, while the analysis of group or team interactions remains limited. We present a case study of an interdisciplinary work process for social signal processing that can develop automatized measures of complex team interaction dynamics, using team task and social cohesion as an example. In a field sample of 25 real project team meetings, we obtained sensor data from cameras, microphones, and a smart ID badge measuring acceleration. We demonstrate how fine-grained behavioral expressions of task and social cohesion in team meetings can be extracted and processed from sensor data by capturing dyadic coordination patterns that are then aggregated to the team level. The extracted patterns act as proxies for behavioral synchrony and mimicry of speech and body behavior which map onto verbal expressions of task and social cohesion in the observed team meetings. We reflect on opportunities for future interdisciplinary or collaboration that can move beyond a simple producer–consumer model.